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[The*SPY*]

Other than the original release of a Bond movie, what movies have you been fortunate enough to see on the big screen?

 

My first was in college when TMWTGG played at our College Union.  This was 1983/1984.  Since then I have seen several older movies at The Dryden Theatre in Rochester, NY, a theatre of the George Eastman House that shows older movies.  I saw FRWL in 2001, a GF/YOLT double feature in 2010 and DN in a 50th year release in 2013.

 

Unfortunately in 1996, Cornell University had a showing of OHMSS and YOLT which I did not find out about until a few days after the event.

 

The one thing that I noticed was how beautiful those early 60's movies look on a big screen.  I saw details that I never noticed and it was like watching the movie for the first time.  Also, you really can see what quality EON put into their movies at the time!

[tdalton]

I got to see Goldfinger at a weekly university screening back in either 2003 or 2004.  It wasn't a big cinema screen, but a much larger screen than anyone would be able to get in their own home theater.  

[SecretAgentFan]

Thankfully, I grew up during a time in which Bond films were re-released in cinemas as festival months, starting with DR.NO and going through the whole library up to the latest film.

 

My first Bond film was TSWLM during its initial run.  After that, I urged my father who also liked Bond, to take me to those Bond festivals so I could catch up with every movie that went before, seeing them all on the big screen.

 

Great times, indeed.

[tdalton]

Thankfully, I grew up during a time in which Bond films were re-released in cinemas as festival months, starting with DR.NO and going through the whole library up to the latest film.

 

My first Bond film was TSWLM during its initial run.  After that, I urged my father who also liked Bond, to take me to those Bond festivals so I could catch up with every movie that went before, seeing them all on the big screen.

 

Great times, indeed.

 

I wish that theaters would still do these kinds of things.  I'd love to see some of the early Connery films as well as the Dalton films on the big screen.

[When In Egypt]

Since 2006 I've been lucky enough to see Dr. No, From Russia With Love, Goldfinger, On Her Majesty's Secret Service, The Spy Who Loved Me and For Your Eyes Only at the cinema.  

 

I've got six more to go before I've seen all of them on the big screen!

[ChickenStu]

I reckon it would be awesome to re-release Moonraker in 3D. 

[Matt_13]

Still waiting for Casino Royale to get an IMAX re-release.

[sharpshooter]

I reckon it would be awesome to re-release Moonraker in 3D. 

Now that would be a spectacle.

[plankattack]

First Bond in the cinema was LALD on it's original release. Been lucky enough to have seen them all on the big screen except DN. Caught them on double/triple bills that were big in 70s-80s in the UK, as well as a couple at a NFT retrospective. I still haven't invested in the Blu-Rays (no doubt by the time I get round to it there'll be a new technology about to replace it!), and to be honest, I'd probably rather do that on a good big-screen TV then see a print in a cinema. Heresy, perhaps.....

[ChickenStu]

Seen Goldeneye, Tomorrow Never Dies, The World Is Not Enough, Die Another Day, Casino Royale, Quantum Of Solace and Skyfall on the big screen.

[Satorious]

Went to a Bond-fest season in Oxford last year! https://www.facebook...151327812336237

 

Naturally caught up with a few earlier ones I'd never seen on the big-screen before (plus a couple of welcome returns). Biggest revelation was OHMSS. Easily the most impressive on the big screen. Oddly Goldfinger whilst having a great atmosphere in the cinema with fans was by far the most disappointing. (and would have preferred FRWL or TB myself). Won some tickets to the Bond car exhibition in Beauleigh also, so all in all - a brilliant week!

[Professor Pi]

Spy Who Loved Me was the first big screen Bond I saw in 1977.

 

Then the next year I was lucky enough to catch the first eight as double features over a month at a revival film theater.

 

Moonraker through Licence to Kill were again big screen releases.

 

And then in 1992 the same theater, Bijou Cinemas in Hermosa Beach (now gone), did a Bond festival again from Dr. No through Never Say Never Again (this was doubled with CR'67).  OHMSS and FYEO were also a double bill, the rest in chronological pairs every Sunday.  This was the only time I saw The Man with the Golden Gun on the big screen.  So I've been fortunate enough to see every Bond film in the theater. (CR the only time not on opening day/weekend.)

 

While film festivals seem a thing of the past, hopefully we might get a Daniel Craig Bond marathon leading into Bond 24 (Thor, Avengers, Lord of the Rings, Hobbit franchises have all done this.) 

Edited by Professor Pi, 02 March 2014 - 05:32 PM.

[Grard Bond]

In the first half of the eighties I saw Dr. No, FRWL and Goldfinger as rereleases in the theaters in The Netherlands.

 

Also in 2006 they rereleased YOLT, Golden Gun and TSWLM, but unfortunately I found out too late.