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Never mind.

[Olaf]

No thread about Peter Lorre then.

[Heston]

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By the way, what's your favourite Bond song folks?

"View To A Kill" was pretty edgy, but I suppose I'll have to plump for "Live and Let Die."

[Howard Beale]

I was hoping it'd be another "Free CD Giveaway" thread.

[Heston]

I was hoping it'd be another "Free CD Giveaway" thread.

Pop Musik is one my favourite pop songs of all time, probably the second or third single I bought after New York Groove and Boys Keep Swinging.

[Olaf]

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By the way, what's your favourite Bond song folks?

"View To A Kill" was pretty edgy, but I suppose I'll have to plump for "Live and Let Die."

Those would probably be my choices, too.

So who's your favourite Bond girl? I used to have a bit of a crush on Jane Seymour.

[Heston]

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By the way, what's your favourite Bond song folks?

"View To A Kill" was pretty edgy, but I suppose I'll have to plump for "Live and Let Die."

Those would probably be my choices, too.

So who's your favourite Bond girl? I used to have a bit of a crush on Jane Seymour.

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[Purple Hayes]

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By the way, what's your favourite Bond song folks?

"View To A Kill" was pretty edgy, but I suppose I'll have to plump for "Live and Let Die."

Those would probably be my choices, too.

So who's your favourite Bond girl? I used to have a bit of a crush on Jane Seymour.

Madeline Smith....

[Silent Majority]

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By the way, what's your favourite Bond song folks?

"View To A Kill" was pretty edgy, but I suppose I'll have to plump for "Live and Let Die."

Theme tune included, there's no element of Goldfinger that doesn't plump one over every other entry in the series.

[Dr. Medulla]

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By the way, what's your favourite Bond song folks?

"View To A Kill" was pretty edgy, but I suppose I'll have to plump for "Live and Let Die."

Theme tune included, there's no element of Goldfinger that doesn't plump one over every other entry in the series.

Yeah, "Live and Let Die" is pretty damn cool, but "Goldfinger" is the one I think of when I think of Bond themes. Let me also take this opportunity to say again that the movies beat the fuck out of the novels in every way possible. I've read maybe the first half dozen of the novels, and they are incredibly awful. It's amazing that they sold well enough to generate interest in Hollywood to adapt them.

[Olaf]

Germans make great villains apparently.

[Dr. Medulla]

Germans make great villains apparently.

Hitler's one redeeming feature—he left behind a reliable go-to villain for some sixty years now.

[Silent Majority]

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By the way, what's your favourite Bond song folks?

"View To A Kill" was pretty edgy, but I suppose I'll have to plump for "Live and Let Die."

Theme tune included, there's no element of Goldfinger that doesn't plump one over every other entry in the series.

Yeah, "Live and Let Die" is pretty damn cool, but "Goldfinger" is the one I think of when I think of Bond themes. Let me also take this opportunity to say again that the movies beat the fuck out of the novels in every way possible. I've read maybe the first half dozen of the novels, and they are incredibly awful. It's amazing that they sold well enough to generate interest in Hollywood to adapt them.

I don't know. I think the novels have got some redeeming features if you meet them on their own racially patronising and snobbish terms. The films are certainly better.

[Dr. Medulla]

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By the way, what's your favourite Bond song folks?

"View To A Kill" was pretty edgy, but I suppose I'll have to plump for "Live and Let Die."

Theme tune included, there's no element of Goldfinger that doesn't plump one over every other entry in the series.

Yeah, "Live and Let Die" is pretty damn cool, but "Goldfinger" is the one I think of when I think of Bond themes. Let me also take this opportunity to say again that the movies beat the fuck out of the novels in every way possible. I've read maybe the first half dozen of the novels, and they are incredibly awful. It's amazing that they sold well enough to generate interest in Hollywood to adapt them.

I don't know. I think the novels have got some redeeming features if you meet them on their own racially patronising and snobbish terms. The films are certainly better.

I can accept them in the context of the time when they were written, but the writing and plotting is just plain dull. In Moonraker, for example, the set-up goes on and on and on about how Bond is assigned to find out how Drax is cheating at bridge. Only Bond is skilled enough at bridge to defeat Drax. Over and over and over. And then, ridiculously casually, it's revealed that Drax cheats by using a highly reflective cigarette case to see others' cards. All set-up and no pay-off. And that's how all the Bond novels that I've read have been—ridiculous but compelling spy premises with awful follow through.

[Silent Majority]

I can accept them in the context of the time when they were written, but the writing and plotting is just plain dull. In Moonraker, for example, the set-up goes on and on and on about how Bond is assigned to find out how Drax is cheating at bridge. Only Bond is skilled enough at bridge to defeat Drax. Over and over and over. And then, ridiculously casually, it's revealed that Drax cheats by using a highly reflective cigarette case to see others' cards. All set-up and no pay-off. And that's how all the Bond novels that I've read have been—ridiculous but compelling spy premises with awful follow through.

I tend to think of them as like the blues, or Wodehouse. Everything sounds the same, but the details change and you're getting under the skin of a character (very different from the action Bond of the films who was essentially made by Connery) who's obsessed with tiny details and very, very occasionally shoots people on his travelogue adventures. It's less about that Drax cheats at bridge, but about how the villain's described.