The new James Bond movie Quantum of Solace(QOS) opened today. Leonita and I will probably watch a matinee tomorrow. I’m not a movie critic, but may attempt a review sometime over the weekend.
I have been a James Bond movie fan for years. Collected all the films first on VHS and then DVD. Can’t count the total amount of times I’ve seen any of the movies. It would be too many. Goldfinger(GF) was the best of the movies, with honorable mention going to From Russia with Love and On Her Majesty’s Secret Srevice. Die Another Day(DAD) or Moonraker(MR) was the worst. A View to a Kill(AVTAK) is a guilty pleasure IMHO.
I’ve been to a few of the locations seen in the movies. From Fisherman’s Wharf in AVTAK, to Hemmingway House in License to Kill(LTK), to The Prater Ferris Wheel in The Living Daylights(TLD), to The Peninsula Hotel seen in The Man with the Golden Gun.(TMWTGG) I’ve been fortunate enough to get around the world a few times.
Below I list my 10 favorite Bond movie quotes. Forgive me if my quotes are slightly off. I did them from memory if I couldn’t find them on the internet.
10- “I’ve taught you to love chickens, to love their flesh, their voice.”- Blofeld in OHMSS
9- “Forgive me, Father, for I have sinned.” James Bond in For Your Eyes Only
8- “Spare the rod, Spoil the child, huh?”- Marc Ange Draco in OHMSS
7- “He got the point.”- James Bond in Thunderball
6- “Shocking, positively shocking.”- James Bond in GF
5- “I didn’t know there was a pool down there.”- Gangster in Diamonds are Forever
4- “Unlike the Americans, we prefer not to get our bad news from CNN.” M in Goldeneye
3- “No Mr. Bond I expect you to die.”- Auric Goldfinger in GF
2- “Of course I’m carrying passengers. Distinguished members of the world press.”- Marc Ange Draco in OHMSS
and #1 is
“Hold on, you’re dead!” from TLD
#4, 3, 2 and 1 are definitely in order as I see them. #2 is a favorite of mine, James Bond with the help of his gangster father-in-law Marc Ange Draco are flying to Blofeld’s mountain top lair. The Swiss air force knows another about it and scrambles fighters. Draco’s line about the World press is how he blarneys his way through the situation.
I just love that line. TLD has a great opening sequence. A Double OO exercise at Gilbralter with a wild card being an assasain out to kill one or more of the agents. The bad guy is trying to get away in a land rover and James Bond runs after him. A soldier not knowing this was not a war game shoots bond with a paint ball but 007 pushes him aside before jumping on top of the land rover as it rides away. Then the soldier yells “Hold on you’re dead.”
Something about that line always makes me laugh. Use this post to talk QOS, James Bond movies in general, or what your favorite quote or scene from them is.
