After seeing DAF in December '71, I kept going back to the Odeon Morton Theatre for a 007 fix whenever I had enough pocket money. In the summer of '72 I caught Dr. No and FRWL at the drive-in, but the people I was with wouldn't stay for
Goldfinger. Arghh! That remains the only one I've ever only seen on TV. I went back to the Odeon for a double-bill of TB and YOLT, which just blew me away. Early in '73 the Odeon held another retrospective, and I cought OHMSS back-to-back with DAF.
Now Bond's Jonesing to kill Blofeld made sense!
A month or so later, while waiting for Burt Reynold's
White Lightning to start, I was treated to a trailer for LALD. Heaven! I must have seen WL three times, just for that trailer.
I was there for the second showing on the first day LALD opened. I sat through it twice. I learned that day the meaning of the word 'unreal.' For me LALD
was the summer of '73 - I sat through it twice on two later occasions. Eighteen months later I cut class to be first in line for TMWTGG. My brother, who'd turned his nose up at Roger Moore, declaring that the 'real' Bond era was over, showed up right behind me. GG really made my Christmas that year. I saw it five times. All I ever wanted after that was an AMC Hornet (YA THINK?) and a golden gun. I've had the former, much to my chagrin and regret, and next month I will finally have the latter (insert shameless plug for FactoryEnt here).
I was first in line for both the sneak preview and general release of TSWLM. Again, that was the summer of '77. A friend would drop by and say "what do you want to do today? Go see 'Spy?' and off we'd go. I forget how many times I saw it.
I saw MR three times the day it opened, but only because my girlfriend insisted. Twice would have been enough, but that didn't stop me going back throughout the summer.
I was there first day for FYEO too, but no-one was as impressed with it as they had been with MR. What did they expect, MR2? Where do you go after you've saved the entire world from a space-borne attack?
I won tickets to OP for answering a trivia question on the radio. I invited my dad and my brother to go with me, and much to my surprise my wife - who'd come to loathe anything I obsessed over, announced she wanted to go too. She accomppanied me to the first night of NSNA (I had press passes this time) but she wouldn't let me cut class from University to catch the first showing. I had to wait in the lobby while other people got to see it first. For someone with OC tendencies, this was torture.
I won tickets to AVTAK as well, and took my brother to see it opening day. By this time I was reluctantly agreeing that Roger's day was already over.
In 1995 I took my own son to see GoldenEye, at the tender age of 6 1/2. When I went to take him to see TWINE, he confessed that his friend's dad had taken him and his friend to see it already. When I moaned about the betrayal he said, "Dad,
you wouldn't have waited." I had to admit, he had a point.
Due to unavoidable duties I was unable to attend the premieres of CR and QoS, which is just as well. It's high time I stopped letting OC tendencies control my life (that doesn't stop me making multiple trips to the cineplex, though).
Edited by AMC Hornet, 14 November 2010 - 05:17 AM.
