Not only is he a smokin' pile of hottitude, he seems to have a functioning brain in his head. Hot, articulate and confident. A lethal combination indeed.

Deadly.

I don't know the first Bond I saw. I've never, to the best of my knowledge, seen one in the theatre. (My parents only ever went to see SciFi movies, and theatres are a habit I didn't really get into until about a decade ago.)

I know it was Moore, though.

The one I remember most clearly, possibly because I also owned the book, was Goldfinger.

I've seen every Bond movie in the theatre since I was about...10, I guess. It's a thing. I don't even question it--in fact, I pause whenever someone points out it's not automatic for them.

I've seen all the older ones more than once, and also read all the books--though that was way long ago. Maybe I should give that a shot again. Not like I have anything else to do.

I cannot get over how great I thought the parkour scene was. Just so educational about the character, and so few action scenes bother to shoot for more than shock or tittilation.

Mads Mikkelsen makes me laugh, because I'd only heard of him from fangirls getting me to put his picture up. He's just so not at all attractive in the movie.

I have finally seen True Romance. It was way different from what I thought it would be. I thought it was more of a Natural Born Killers thing, when it was actually...pretty sweet. And hot damn, what a fucking cast. Geez. Gary Oldman really is one of those chameleon actors, isn't he? Also, I couldn't figure out who the fuck Val Kilmer played, so I checked IMDb. Heh.

Also, I couldn't figure out who the fuck Val Kilmer played, so I checked IMDb. Heh.

I had this same problem the first time I saw this movie, but I saw it in the theater and stayed through the credits, so I had my answer pretty quickly, but it was still a surprising moment.

I saw the credits and still didn't get it. I was like, "Who the fuck is Mentor ?"

Is that how it's listed? Huh. Maybe we just figured it out suddenly or something.

That's probably it. IMDb is less subtle.

The Hotel of Ice! is real, actually. Which doesn't make it any less cartoonish.

The first Bond I saw was Moonraker, in the theater. I couldn't figure out why I was supposed to like Bond films from that example. Nothing I've seen since has changed that, except for most of Goldeneye and a few (but not all) of the Conneries.

I wish Sean Bean hadn't been in Goldeneye, because he really should have been Bond. Of course, I still think he should also have been Aragorn (nothing against Viggo, who is a cool person and fun actor, but Bean is the Aragorn and Bond in my head).

Sean Bean was excellent in Goldeneye, but I also loved many other things about that movie (the Russian gangster, the love interest, and especially Alan Cumming as the twitchy techie Boris).

When I first heard the casting for LotR, I was surprised to hear that Bean was playing Boromir and not Aragorn (the animated LotR had left me with the image of Boromir-as-hulking-Viking in my head, and Bean is too small to be hulking), but he was so damn good in the role that I changed my mind after seeing FotR for the first time.

Though I think Live and Let Die was the first Bond movie I saw, actually. In the theater.

Hey, me too. I knew Moore from THE SAINT on TV so I recoginzed him immediately.

My strongest recollection is of the 7-Up guy in witch doctor getup laughing on the cowcatcher of a moving train.

That, the guy with the hook-hand coming after Bond on the same train, and Yaphet Kotto blowing up real good were what made an impression on me.