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[Righty007]

The first Bond film I ever saw in theater was Die Another Day (I have only been a Bond fan since 2001). I saw it with my dad on November 22, 2002, the day it came out in America. So, what is the first Bond film you saw in theater, who did u see it with and was it a wonderful experience?

[SirMiles83]

Goldeneye. I am 19 and started being a Bond addict after LTK. My dad introduced me to Bond when I was a kid, and the first Bond film I ever saw was TSWLM.

[BONDFINESSE 007]

AVTAK AT THE AGE OF 18

[Tedley King]

I've been a fan as long as I can remember, my father and eldest brother bring me up on it. I was just under age to see GE, which disappointed me, then when TND came out, my father worked so couldn't take me, my mother wasn't a fan and my brother's forgot about me, so I didn't get to see it. But when TWINE came out I inspired my mother to make a family outing of it, so we saw it. This was when I was about 14.

[Killmaster]

Goldfinger, during its original US release. I was about 13. I remember being totally blown away by it and hooked for life. (Up until then, the only grown up movies I was allowed to see had John Wayne or Doris Day in them.) It was several years later before I was able to see Dr No and From Russia With Love on a drive-in double-bill. (Yep... I'm an old guy!) My daughters, now 24 and 16, have watched Bond films with me whenever they were on TV, since they were in diapers. I've even gotten my wife to see each new Bond film as soon as they are released.

[sausagebrigade]

The World is Not Enough, at the age 14. The cinema was nearly empty, BTW, which was somewhat telling.

[ChandlerBing]

The Living Daylights. I wore out the tape soundtrack, had to wait until 1998 to get the expanded CD for it. Now, neither is that big a deal. I haven't seen the movie in a long time. I think I rented it from Netflix a few years ago on DVD so I could watch the extras and watch it with the commentary. The CD I don't drag out that much.

[zencat]

The Spy Who Loved Me, summer of '77, I was 12.

It blew my mind!

[Dr Noah]

Octopussy, in 1983.

[JackChase007]

Tomorrow Never Dies (that's the first one that I can recall - my father told me years ago that we had went to see the Dalton films at the local drive-in when I was a child).

[jwheels]

Tomorrow Never Dies, with my dad. It's interesting that alot of us here has gone with our fathers for our fist experience with Bond. Also, the first Bond book I owned, The Man with the Golden Gun, was my father's. I just think it's interesting.

[delfloria]

Killmaster,

Just so you don't feel alone, I saw Goldfinger at the Chinese in Hollywood in 64' when I was 13 and have been a Bond fan ever since. Married but No kids though, and still live the Bond life style as much as I can. My wife refuses to be done in by Blofeld and Irma Bunt and I recently sold my Aston Martin DB-5. I must be slowing down.

[Robinson]

Moonraker back in '79. I was 10. I think I hung around the theater and saw it a second time.

And I had no idea that there were previous Bond films made until I saw GF on cable. later that year.

[Killmaster]

Del Floria... Thank God, I thought I was the only oldtimer in this wild group of children. I'm afraid that the closest I've gotten to the Bond lifestyle is a 2003 Mustang with a "007 B JB" license plate.

By the way, I like the reference to my favorite TV spies of the 60's, Napoleon and Illya. (For all of you youngsters... they're the Men from U.N.C.L.E.)

[Scottlee]

The Living Daylights (1987). My gran took me as a birthday present.

[Bryce (003)]

The Spy Who Loved Me (Still my "most watched" Bond - 500+ ) - Summer of '77...

Were there any other films that summer?

[Righty007]

Originally posted by Bryce (003)
The Spy Who Loved Me (Still my "most watched" Bond - 500+ ) - Summer of '77...

Were there any other films that summer?

I believe Star Wars also came out in the summer of '77.

[Wade]

It was "Diamonds Are Forever," in 1971. I just remember being blown away by it, as a 14-year-old kid, having never seen a movie like it. Of course, I am jaded now, being a old man, but there are days when I wish that I could once again be as awed by the sound of the atmospheric music of John Barry as Sean Connery unhooked a mountaineering clasp and hung out over the city of Las Vegas. I was hooked.

[MovieManOO7]

My first Bond experience was in 1988 when I saw, now how's this for irony, NEVER SAY NEVER AGAIN on TV in Florida. True it was a non-canon Bond but it was Sean Connery and I guess that's why I've always pictured Connery as Bond. Since I didn't have cable and it didn't play Bond films on broadcast TV (at least, not that often), I didn't see another Bond film again for a few years (save NSNA which I grew tired of fairly quickly - I used to watch only up to the end of the motorcycle chase. Then it got boring.). Now since the Bond franchise had been put on hiatus for about six years, I never really pursued watching anymore but then around 1995 with the release of GOLDENEYE my interest rose again. It was also around this time that I moved to New York and my love for classic film ignited. I was watching everything from Charlie Chaplin to THE PINK PANTHER to CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND.
After watching THE PINK PANTHER, I began to admire David Niven and started watching a bunch of his films. I saw THE BISHOP'S WIFE which introduced me to Cary Grant. Then I came upon a little film called CASINO ROYALE which I immediately thought was a James Bond film starring David Niven! I was disappointed when it turned out to be a spoof (although, I must admit I loved the first 20 minutes with Niven's exploits as Bond!).
Then I saw a film called ESCAPE TO ATHENA starring David Niven, Telly Savalas, and Roger Moore. The film was silly (I much more preferred Niven in THE GUNS OF NAVARONE) but Moore did catch my eye but not too much. Next I stumbled across a little film called THE SEA WOLVES once again with Niven costarring with Gregory Peck and Moore. This time, I liked Moore (whom I also caught later playing Clouseau in THE CURSE OF THE PINK PANTHER - a horrid non-Sellers PANTHER film but Moore was brilliant in his five minute climatic cameo - as was Niven in his last film). I looked up Moore's film mini-biography at the library and discovered that he had played Bond as well.
So I decided to give the series a chance. I knew that DR. NO was the first Bond film so I rented it and THUNDERBALL (thinking it was the second Bond film). I liked DN but TB didn't really wet my appetite too much (except for the beautiful Claudine Auger of course). Then I rented FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE and GOLDFINGER - I was hooked! I loved FRWL and GF was awesome as well. YOLT was good too. I was also going to rent DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER that day but I noticed a film called ON HER MAJESTY'S SECRET SERVICE which was labeled the sixth Bond film. Someone passed by and told me it's not an official Bond film because Bond got married in it. I paid no attention (thank God!) and I rented it and DAF. I was shocked at the differences between the films but I actually liked DAF better (now I think DAF is the worst in the series).
Finally the day came when I was going to experience the Moore films - but the store was missing THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN GUN, FOR YOUR EYES ONLY, and A VIEW TO A KILL. I was disappointed but I rented LIVE AND LET DIE (which I didn't like), THE SPY WHO LOVED ME (which I loved!), MOONRAKER (STAR WARS anyone?), and OCTOPUSSY (which I also loved - it was my favorite back then).
Then I discovered that Timothy Dalton (whom I had seen in THE ROCKETEER years earlier) had also played Bond and I watched THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS (which I hated then and love now) and LICENCE TO KILL (which I hated then although I think it's OK now). I then found another video store which had TMWTGG and FYEO and watched both of those - I loved FYEO! By this time TOMORROW NEVER DIES had come out to theatres. I rented GOLDENEYE (which I hated at first and liked later) but I was determined to see AVTAK before I saw a Bond film at the cinema. A few months later, I moved to another part of NY where I found a store that had AVTAK. Although I enjoyed it a little more than I would have if I hadn't searched for it, I didn't like it too much but it wasn't as terrible as some people say (although it's nearly at the bottom of my list). Around this time TND had come out on video but I was disappointed with it. The ending seemed too much like DIE HARD rather then Bondian.
The very next Bond film, THE WORLD IS NOT ENOUGH, was the first one I saw in the theatres opening day in New York - and I loved it! Strangely enough, I also saw DIE ANOTHER DAY opening day but now I'm back in Florida!

[Canada]

TLD '87 opening Night!

[Righty007]

Casino Royale will be my second Bond theater experience.

[Qwerty]

Will be my third.

[Kristatos]

My first Bond Film in Cinema was TMWTGG. I was 11 Years old and it inspired me much, despite this Film is nowadays at the End of the List.
My Fandom career began with MR, this was the first one i awaited.

[Mark_Hazard]

Killmaster and delfloria,

I'm another old un, having persuaded my dad to take me to see Goldfinger on its UK release, and again getting him to take me to see Dr No and FRWL on their re-issues, have seen them all on the big screen ever since. Had read most of the books by then too, thanks to a couple my dad had and a kindly librarian who issued grown-up books on a kids ticket.

[ComplimentsOfSharky]

Casino Royale will be my second Bond theater experience.

Ditto, DAD was my first in the theater.

[Agent 76]

Tomorrow Never Dies, was my first Bond movie in the cinema.

[JtB6100]

My first Bond film was Die Another Day i have seen other films but Die Another Day is definetly my favourtie film aswell.

[Sun Tzu]

The World Is Not Enough, which I saw for my 11th birthday several days after it came out.

[GreggAllinson]

A View to a Kill with both my parents and- I assume- my brother ('though I don't remember him going with us). And somehow I eventually became a Bond fan...

[robinhood]

That wouldve been Tommorow Never Dies, which I saw just as my initial pubescent interest in James Bond had already started a few months earlier with GoldenEye the game and renting the movie. From there, it was on to a year or so of nothing but complete bondage, and it was good.