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[Time Agent]

After really thinking about, i'm shocked. The first and only Bond film I have seen in a theater is Quantum of Solace! Oh wow, I was a Bond fan long before QoS was released.....I guess for some reason I didn't watch any of the others in theaters.

[john.steed]

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 : )

YOLT was my second Bond film and my reaction to the scale was the same as yours. It was this film that made me a Bond fan. YOLT was the first film that I watched right after I bought a wide-screen TV and it is the Bond film that i would most like to watch on the big screen again.

My first Bond film was On Her Majesty's Secret Service which I saw on first run during Christmas vacation 1969 having tagged along with my older brother and his friend.

Edited by john.steed, 18 July 2010 - 01:25 PM.

[Aces High]

'Live And Let Die' while on holiday in Great Yarmouth,nearly didn't though as the cinema was also showing'The Sound of Music' & the decision was that me being 9y.o would not sit still for 3hrs...& they were right.

[Jeff007]

DOCTOR NO - 1963

I think we have a winner

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

Yes, exactly.

[ConnerysToupee1983]

The first Bond I REMEMBER seeing in the theaters was Goldeneye. I'm 25 so it came out right around my Tenth birthday. As a boy who had grown up with Bond practically as a second father, it was (and still is) one of the finest times I ever had at the cinema. I love Goldeneye dearly to this day and it is my second favorite Bond film. Also, I suppose Pierce will always have a special place in my heart too, because of it.

On a side note my father says I went to A View to a Kill (the year of my birth), The Living Daylights and License to Kill. I dont doubt him, but of course I don't recall seeing those then.

[Guy Haines]

OHMSS, at the Portland cinema in my home town, sometime in 1970. I'd seen bits of it - mainly the stock car chase and the Bond/Blofeld chase at the end - on TV and thought "I've got to see the rest of this". I'm very glad I did. I managed to see the Connery Bonds within a year or two - the cinema ran them as double bills (very often during school holidays - the manager of the Portland wasn't daft!), and my school chums and I would emerge, four hours later, bleary eyed but satisfied.

Happy days!

[john.steed]

OHMSS, at the Portland cinema in my home town, sometime in 1970. I'd seen bits of it - mainly the stock car chase and the Bond/Blofeld chase at the end - on TV and thought "I've got to see the rest of this". I'm very glad I did. I managed to see the Connery Bonds within a year or two - the cinema ran them as double bills (very often during school holidays - the manager of the Portland wasn't daft!), and my school chums and I would emerge, four hours later, bleary eyed but satisfied.

Happy days!

Ahh, the old 007 double-bills! As I wrote a couple of days ago, I first saw OHMMS and then I saw YOLT soon thereafter. Well, when I saw YOLT, it was part of a double feature with Thunderball. I think that I stayed after TB to catch YOLT a second time. That happened duing a school break, and then, at the next break, there was a Doctor No/From Russia with Love double feature, which I, of course, caught.

As you said, Happy Days.

[Goldfinger007]

The first Bond film I saw in theaters was TOMORROW NEVER DIES in December of 1997.

It's kind of funny actually .... I was 10 years old back then...I remember that it was the winter holidays and that both TOMORROW NEVER DIES and TITANIC were playing in theaters. So, my family and I were standing in front of the cinema marquee and my parents ask me something like "Should we see TITANIC? Do you want to see it?"...and I remember turning around severely disgusted and answering them "Heck no! I want to see TOMORROW NEVER DIES!".

By that time I had already fallen in love with the GOLDENEYE N64 game and had watched GOLDENEYE on VHS a couple of times, so by the time TOMORROW NEVER DIES opened in theaters I was eager to watch my second Bond film, this time in a movie theater. Just how they're meant to be seen.

Needless to say, my 10 year old self was blown away by TOMORROW NEVER DIES. The film cemented my love for Bond and I have been a fan ever since. 13 years and counting...

[Chicago103]

I am 29 years old and the first one I saw in a theater was Goldeneye when I was 14 or had just turned 15. I guess my parents thought I was too young when The Living Daylights and License to Kill were out even by then I had already been introduced to Bond through the movies on television. I made my parents rent the two Dalton films around 1992 though. I have seen every films since Goldeneye in theaters as well.

[copperhead1]

Goldfinger....but wait! I'm not that old....I saw it as part of a double feature in a drive-in theatre 10 YEARS after it was first released!

[Aris007]

Damn! It's 15 years since GE was released! It looks still so new! If you look at the computers they use though!

[DamnCoffee]

I love GoldenEye a lot, but I feel like it's dated terribly. I feel that Tomorrow Never Dies is the better looking of all Brosnans movies.

[sharpshooter]

I love GoldenEye a lot, but I feel like it's dated terribly. I feel that Tomorrow Never Dies is the better looking of all Brosnans movies.

I agree. I increasingly find myself liking Tomorrow Never Dies the most these days. Back in the day, it was GoldenEye and that was that.

[Aris007]

I love GoldenEye a lot, but I feel like it's dated terribly. I feel that Tomorrow Never Dies is the better looking of all Brosnans movies.

Oh, no doubt about that! Tomorrow Never Dies is by far, in my opinion, the best of the Brosnan pictures.

[mrsbonds_ppk]

The first Bond film I saw in theaters was Die Another Day in Nov. 2002 even though I was a Bond fan since the age of 10 when GoldenEye 64 came out and seeing Bond movies on tv. I had just turned 17 years old that month and I remember seeing it with my family and we absolutely loved it. Great experience. I'm almost 25 years old now lol.

[DR76]

"LIVE AND LET DIE" was the first Bond movie I ever saw in the theaters. I was in grade school at the time.

[Baccarat]

Moonraker. 11 years old. It was incredible. I am a little less enthusiastic now, but I still have genuine affection for it. I thought Michel Lonsdale made a great Bond villain then and I still do. Perhaps the most accomplished actor ever to play opposite 007. And I completely fancied Lois Chiles.

Edited by Baccarat, 06 October 2010 - 09:26 PM.

[krypt]

Live and Let Die for me

[Nicolas Suszczyk]

Tomorrow Never Dies, some weeks after I saw GoldenEye on TV.

[Goodnight]

The first one I saw in the cinema was TWINE.

[GUY007]

It was "A View to a Kill. I saw it january 28 1986. That was the day Challenger exploded.
I find that it is a good movie. Tanya Roberts is an attractive Bond Girl, Christopher Walken and Patrick Mc Nee are good actors
The title song by Duran Duran is my favorite. And de music by John Barry is excellent.

[Liparus]

It was "A View to a Kill. I saw it january 28 1986. That was the day Challenger exploded.

Hopefully you didn't see Moonraker this day.

[00 Brosnan]

It might have been Tomorrow Never Dies, but I definitely remember seeing The World is Not Enough in theaters. I didn't get into James Bond movies until 1997 when GoldenEye for the N64 came out.

[SPECTRE ASSASSIN]

"Die Another Day" when I was 15. Naively I thought this was the best out there. Apparantly the movie's awfulness messed up my senses.

I actually received 2 free tickets to see it from Circuit City because I purchased the DVD "James Bond" collection Vol. 1 or whatever Vol. It was. So that's my only consolation.

[Goodnight]

"Die Another Day" when I was 15. Naively I thought this was the best out there. Apparantly the movie's awfulness messed up my senses.

I know how you feel. I was 13 when I saw DAD, for actually quite a long time, I not only thought it was the best Bond film ever, I thought it was the best film ever.

But I was only 13.

The first one I saw in the cinema was TWINE when I was 11 with my mum and dad, that night I dreamt that I was in the film, that's when I knew I'd be a Bond fan.

[Virgosy]

The first one I saw in the cinema was TWINE.

It's the first one that I saw too. I was seven years old but I still remember very well.

[SamuelKevlar]

TWINE for me as well. I was actually going to see TND in the cinema (everyone at school was doing it) but all the explosions and bullets in the trailers put my sensitive soul off the idea. I still prefer swordplay to gunplay to this day. By 1999 the N64 game and video had made me a Bond fan. And then DAD almost made me renounce my membership again.

[Rik]

I was 9 years old when I had my first cinematic experience of James Bond the year was 1987 and my Dad took me to see "The Living Daylights" I loved it and have been a devoted Bond fan ever since.

[Doctor No]

CR

[mttvolcano]

DAF or you only live twice. Despite the corny special effects, I still highly respect them because they introduced me to the series.