Mickle On "Bond" Movies

I have never gone to a movie theatre to see a James Bond Film, ever! But now a tv channel here (free to view) is playing 20 James Bond films over consecutive Saturday Evenings, so I've been popping in to see what I never missed.

I can't remember who played Bond in the first one up, but it did instill an understanding of the formula in my mind. Second (or was it third?) was a Pierce Brosnan Bond - the one where the huge great dish shaped aerial comes up out of the sea next to the "baddies' island, and it was good/okay viewing.

GoldFinger with utterly lovely Sean Connery came next - I agree that it is a classic and a "Top Bond Fillum".

A week later ......... my sense of humour was tickled, thankfully, because there is nowt else to recommend Roger Moore and "For Your Eyes Only" unless you're a student studying the cold war, bad movie stereotypes and beyond. You could tell the "baddies" were Soviet Russians because their characters:

1 - all spoke English with "Hollywood" Russian accents
2 - all wore "those" fur hats
3 - continually referred to each other as "Comrade" (in an almost joyous tone
compared to the delivery of the rest of their lines)
4 - appeared in every outdoor "baddie land" scene with snow laying all about, at
least knee deep

This was followed by a Timothy Dalton Bond. I quite enjoyed his dark broodiness and inability to smile - maybe we saw a glimmer of a smile or was that indigestion? And - No, I can't remember the plot at all - was there a plot?

A couple more have shown. This just past Saturday was "Tomorrow Never Dies", with dear Pierce again. Progress -the English and the Russians had top Military bods together (!Cold war over!) in the very control room where all the "goodies" see it all going belly-up. Now, naturally, the Chinese are blamed, however it seems is all down to a major, nasty baddie - a Media Mogul.!!!!

So far my fav and bestest Bond Actor is, and will ever be Sean Connery - if only they'd let him speak with his natural Scots accent, he'd have been even sexier.

My own No. 2, from what I've seen with my "partial" watching is unsmiling, brooding (or is he desparately trying to remember his lines without it showing on his face) Tim Dalton.

So there is room for Daniel Craig - or is he Craig Daniel??? - to step in, with his 21st century version.

The bestest part of watching Bond films on TV = as the music speeds up in tempo for exciting bits so does my knitting speed up in pace, yet not a wrong stitch from Mickle so far. The dark pink/maroon stole made great progress on Saturday night.

And whatever may happen in the latest Bond ..... Zebbycat snoozles on the beddybize........ and Zebby sends happy snoozles and I wish happy times for the coming week, xxxx and zzzz