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[DaveBond21]

Die Another Day. I was 13 and remembered my friend acting immature and covering his eyes during the sex scene with Jinx and I had to fool him by saying: "What are you doing? James Bond dies in this scene!"

The franchise almost died with that scene.

[bondrules]

A View To A Kill, 1985. I'm not over 30 for nothing.

[jrcjohnny99]

LALD-Diamonds double bill in 74 (I think); I was just 5 and barely remember it tho my older Brother confirms we went...
After that, it was TSWLM and then MR; thats when I entered Bondmania....

[Gogol Pushkin]

Tomorrow Never Dies when I was thirteen. Loved it, having grown up watching the movies on television and video, sitting in a darkened theatre, a giant screen and the gunbarrel appearing and the blood falling down the screen, it was amazing, and it's still one of my favourite movies of the series.

[Glenn]

Never Say Never Again in 1983.

The first ófficial Bond film would have been A View to a Kill in 1985

[DamnCoffee]

My first was Die Another Day, on my 12th Birthday. I loved it. It was highly enjoyable. I still do really, it's utterly bonkers, but still a largely entertaining film.

Then, Casino Royale in '06 and Quantum of Solace in '08.

[Gogol Pushkin]

My first was Die Another Day, on my 12th Birthday. I loved it. It was highly enjoyable. I still do really, it's utterly bonkers, but still a largely entertaining film.

Then, Casino Royale in '06 and Quantum of Solace in '08.

There is something special about the first one you seen on the big screen, isn't there. I don't know, but it feels like you carry it with you, and love it, regardless of what everyone else says.

[Mr Twilight]

The memory is a bit vague but i believe it was The Spy who loved me in 1977-78. It was a James Bond festival at the local cinema and I was 11-12 years old. My uncle was working at the cinema and he let me and a friend in even if we was underaged. The day after we went to see The Man with the golden gun for my last money. By then I was stuck in the Bond world...and still is.

[DamnCoffee]

My first was Die Another Day, on my 12th Birthday. I loved it. It was highly enjoyable. I still do really, it's utterly bonkers, but still a largely entertaining film.

Then, Casino Royale in '06 and Quantum of Solace in '08.

There is something special about the first one you seen on the big screen, isn't there. I don't know, but it feels like you carry it with you, and love it, regardless of what everyone else says.

Pretty much. I've always had a soft spot for Die Another Day, but I haven't made it public up until now. I do understand all the criticism it gets, though. It doesn't actually deserve to be defended, either. I know it's an awful film. It's just, I can't help enjoying it. It doesn't hold a candle to any of the 60's Bond films, but I still rank it pretty high up there, just for the fact that it's entertained me for all these years, and still does.

[BoogieBond]

Moonraker. 5 Years old. PTS. Awesome. Pretty much hooked me from that moment on.
Remember watching Spy the next week(on a double bill) and from that moment I highly anticipated every 2 years when a Bond film would be out.

[DaveBond21]

My first was Die Another Day, on my 12th Birthday. I loved it. It was highly enjoyable. I still do really, it's utterly bonkers, but still a largely entertaining film.

Then, Casino Royale in '06 and Quantum of Solace in '08.

There is something special about the first one you seen on the big screen, isn't there. I don't know, but it feels like you carry it with you, and love it, regardless of what everyone else says.

Pretty much. I've always had a soft spot for Die Another Day, but I haven't made it public up until now. I do understand all the criticism it gets, though. It doesn't actually deserve to be defended, either. I know it's an awful film. It's just, I can't help enjoying it. It doesn't hold a candle to any of the 60's Bond films, but I still rank it pretty high up there, just for the fact that it's entertained me for all these years, and still does.

Yeah, there is always something special about your first cinematic Bond. For me, it was NSNA. The first official Bond I saw as The Living Daylights.

[Lucky]

The first Bond film I saw in theaters was Goldeneye. I was 10.

[Aris007]

I'm proud to say it was Casino Royale, when I was 14! Magnificent!

[Colombo]

It was a "You Only Live Twice" Re-screening in the Eighties. Would have been around 8 at the time & saw it with my dad (who introduced me to the incredible world of 007 with a taped off tv DAF).

The Scale of YOLT just Wowed me at the time (and still does). So much so that Sean Connery's disinterest in the role didn't even register (and sometimes still doesn't!)

Bond Belongs on the Big Screen. The Small just doesn't do them justice...May he Return soon : )

[JimmyBond]

While I had been a Bond fan prior to this, my first Bond on the big screen was Goldeneye.

Seeing that gunbarrel pop across the theater screen that day was magical.

[Colossus]

Goldeneye also, even as a kid i remember the hubbub surrounding it was just like a fairytale or fantasy with a huge poster being draped over the 2nd floor side inside the theater.

[Gogol Pushkin]

While I had been a Bond fan prior to this, my first Bond on the big screen was Goldeneye.

Seeing that gunbarrel pop across the theater screen that day was magical.

Goldeneye also, even as a kid i remember the hubbub surrounding it was just like a fairytale or fantasy with a huge poster being draped over the 2nd floor side inside the theater.

I didn't get to see GoldenEye on the big screen. My parents promised me, but they never took me. Still to this day I'll never forgive them. I had to wait two years for TND before I got to see that gunbarrel on the big screen, and yes Jimmy Bond it truly is quite an experience seeing it on the big screen for the first time isn't it.

[AMC Hornet]

As I mentioned in another thread, I saw Diamonds Are Forever in December 1971 at the tender age of 12, and was hooked like a crackhead right from the start. Whenever I could scrounge up enough pocket money I would go back to the theatre like it was an illicit lover.

Later at the same theatre I saw a TB/YOLT double-bill, and was not disappointed. At a drive-in theatre I saw Dr. No and FRWL, but the people I was with wouldn't stay for Goldfinger (philistines!).

Back at my favorite indoor cinema I saw OHMSS and DAF back-to-back, shortly before the release of LALD.

CR '67 and Goldfinger I've only ever seen on TV. CR I don't care about, but I feel I've missed something by not seeing GF larger-than-life (maybe some day).

My son has watched all the movies on video with me, and I've taken him to see every new one from GoldenEye on.

I hadn't missed an opening night since 1973, until Casino Royale and Quantum of Solace, and I only missed those events because I was onstage myself (although I managed to work in a Bondlike move in the first play, and was wearing a tuxedo and swilling martinis in the second). I'm hoping for better luck when Bond 23 finally arrives.

[copperhead1]

The Living Daylights in 1987.

[elizabeth]

CR '06.

[Major Tallon]

Goldfinger, on its original release.

[FLEMINGFAN]

DOCTOR NO - 1963

[Janus Assassin]

Die Another Day when I was 14.. saw it with my dad. I loved it when it first came out.. but not so much anymore. But it still has a special place with me. I remember it feeling weird when Bond was in the helicopter on the way to Moon's base and I got this funny/happy feeling knowing that I'm watching a new Bond adventure.

[Jeff007]

DOCTOR NO - 1963

I think we have a winner

[Righty007]

I was about to reply to this thread until I realized I was the one who created it way back in 2003.

[coco1997]

The first Bond movie I saw in theaters was "The World Is Not Enough", New Year's Eve 1999.

[Conlazmoodalbrocra]

The World Is Not Enough. I was nine years old. I'd grown up watching Bond on VHS, so to experience 007 on the big screebn for the first time was incredible! I have to say that I loved The World Is Not Enough at the time, and it remained a favourite of mine for many years. I still enjoy it today, although I'd say it has slipped down my rankings quite a bit.

[hilly]

Summer 1977- The Spy Who Loved Me. I was nearly 9 and had seen Dr No and From Russia With Love on tv by this stage.
The cinema was showing the film pretty much non-stop and we missed the 1st half hour or so. We came in during the scenes at the Pyramids and I had NO idea what the hell was going on...but didn't really care as I got to see the Lotus and Jaws, (both of which I had seen clips of, on tv) so I was happy. We then stayed after the film had finished and watched the 1st half hour to catch up on what we'd missed. It was years later, when I finally saw the film from start to finish, that it all made sense! Every self-respecting 9yr old boy saw the film that summer and it always evokes a real sense of nostalgia for me whenever I watch it (which is quite a lot, as it's one of my favourites)
From then on I was well and truly hooked and have managed (bar Octopussy and Goldeneye) to see every subsequent Bond film at the cinema.

[Colossus]

DOCTOR NO - 1963

I think we have a winner

holy smokes. Unless someone actually saw it in Britain in 62.

[FLEMINGFAN]

DOCTOR NO - 1963

I think we have a winner

holy smokes. Unless someone actually saw it in Britain in 62.

I know....very old.
"Soon to be extinct."