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Live and Let Die of a Mysterious Sexually Transmitted Disease
We watched Live and Let Die this weekend on ABC. The reasons were twofold: I wanted to see the young Jane Seymour and I wanted to see previews for MDs.
Mmmm, James Bond.
Yes, I am not exactly what you would call a James Bond fan. In fact, I see absolutely no value in the movies and can't understand why people like them, except possibly because they're so stupid they're kitschy.
I've never seen a James Bond movie I liked. And yet somehow this one managed to be worse than any I've ever seen. It doesn't have Sean Connery's very strangely slurred Scottish accent - it had a disgustingly tanned Roger Moore. It seemed like James Bond got plunked down in the middle of a 1970s blaxploitation film. The movie seemed to be trying to spread the idea that all black people are involved a giant evil heroin-selling conspiracy. I kept expecting Foxxy Cleopatra to show up with some of her classic dialogue ("I'm Foxxy Cleopatra. And I'm alllllll woman") and fine acting skills. I'm sure she wouldn't have stuck out, since none of the dialogue made any sense at all anyway.
The only highlights of the film were Jane Seymour wearing a peacock-style chair (I think you have to see it to understand) and the same preview for MDs, repeated twice. And, of course, the always popular attraction of adding bits of dialogue to the film about how all of the characters are getting STDs from James Bond. He is a skanky man-whore.
What is the attraction in James Bond movies?
srah - Monday, 29 July 2002 - 10:34 AM
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Bond is the epitome of what every small boy wants to be when he grows up - drive fast cars, date fast women, and have loads of cool gadgets. So that's why small boys watch Bond.
Adult males watch Bond to try remind themselves of the time when they really believed they would grow up and life would be full of fast cars and beautiful women.