On another Bond note

[annathepiper]

While working on paying a few bills and then on being too damned distracted by LJ amusements to eke out more than the usual night's quota on Queen of Souls, I rewatched Goldeneye tonight. I have many fond memories of that movie coming out, for lo, great was my Brosnan-fangirly glee that he had finally achieved the role of Bond.

I gotta say, after seeing Casino Royale, it's rather amazing how cheesier Goldeneye comes out. Brosnan's still fun, but during that scene in the pool all I could think of was Daniel Craig coming up out of the waves and how infinitely better he looked in his swimtrunks. And as much as I liked Judi Dench's shiny new M at the time, I love her so very much more in the new movie.

I am bemused though, because the line I thought I'd remembered her delivering about wanting Bond to take his ego out of the equation was not in fact in Goldeneye. Now I'm wondering where the heck I've heard or read the line before, because hearing it in Casino Royale was definitely a moment of deja vu.

Oh, and one more thing--I hadn't realized before that Goldeneye is full of future mutants, with both Alan "I may be inVEENCible but I have not yet learned how to teleport" Cumming (Nightcrawler) and Famke "Later I'll kill you with my mind, but right now I'll just kill you with my thighs" Janssen (Phoenix). I had totally forgotten about this until tonight's watching. And while I think I remember Famke's former stint as a Bond girl being mentioned when the first X-Men movie came out, I totally did not realize that Nightcrawler had also been in Goldeneye until spazzkat pegged him.

Comments

[lethendy.livejournal.com]

Aaaah, Goldeneye....full of cheese, but also Sean Bean :) He looks so good in all black. And who else could survive being shot in the head at close range with just a few measly scars down the side of their face? Incredible.

[annathepiper]

Totally! Not to mention surviving falling right down off the antenna onto the satellite dish, a fall which surely must have broken every bone in his body, and yet he woke up in time to see the flaming satellite plunging down on him. ;)

[lethendy.livejournal.com]

Oooh, I forgot the flaming satellite. See, Yorkshiremen are made of strong stuff - it takes more than a fall (or a close-range bullet) to kill them ;)

[annathepiper]

And apparently it takes multiple orcish arrows to kill 'em, too! This was also the first time I'd gone back and watched that movie since seeing Mr. Bean be Boromir, as well!

[lethendy.livejournal.com]

Boromir = The Human Pincushion. Not Seanie's most ignoble death though: that would be reserved for The Field when he was chased off a cliff by a herd of cows :s

[annathepiper]

Bwahahahaa! Yes, I heard tell of the Death By Cows from framlingem, I believe it was. At some point, I shall have to witness this!

[annathepiper]

I'm thinkin' I need me a Bond marathon too. I've watched only a small scattering of pre-Brosnan Bonds, but of those, Goldfinger is hands down the coolest. Cheesy as all hell, sure, but still. ;)

I don't think I've seen more than fragments of any of the Moores. I may have seen both of the Daltons--I remember the cello-playing girl in The Living Daylights--but it's been long enough that I pretty much don't remember them. Ditto for Lazenby. And I'm pretty sure I've seen Dr. No and some of the other Connery Bonds, but as Goldfinger is the only one we own, it's the only one I clearly remember.

But god yes, some of the lines Bond flings out. *chortle* Another reason I'm loving Mr. Craig so much. He also uses some pretty cheesy lines, but he also realizes they're cheesy. ;) And very specifically snickers at them.

[mizkit.livejournal.com]

Now I'm wondering where the heck I've heard or read the line before, because hearing it in Casino Royale was definitely a moment of deja vu.

It was in the trailers for the movie. Would that have done it?

[annathepiper]

I remembered it was in the trailers, yeah, and am wondering if that was it!