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Miscellaneous / Verschiedenes » alt.fan.james-bond » First Bond Film You Saw.....
First Bond Film You Saw..... [message #240635] Mo, 20 März 2006 04:05
Will Traynor  
What was the first Bond film you saw and where did you see it? Movies,
Drive-in, DVD? Mine was LALD at the drive-in with parents. I remember it was
part of a double feature with some Planet of the Apes movie, lol
Re: First Bond Film You Saw..... [message #240639 ] Mo, 20 März 2006 05:21
JHause  
Will wrote:
> What was the first Bond film you saw and where did you see it? Movies,
> Drive-in, DVD? Mine was LALD at the drive-in with parents. I remember it was
> part of a double feature with some Planet of the Apes movie, lol

Thunderball, YOLT re-release at a drive-in with my dad. The first movie
I remember seeing, period.
Re: First Bond Film You Saw..... [message #240647 ] Mo, 20 März 2006 09:26
Duggy  
Will wrote:
> What was the first Bond film you saw and where did you see it? Movies,
> Drive-in, DVD? Mine was LALD at the drive-in with parents.

Something on TV... but before I was able to go to school (I remember
because I got cranky that I couldn't watch another Bond film later
because I had school the next day...)

So... sometime before 1977... but I can't give you more than that.

I do have an early memory of the Bond Jet Pack in Thunderball...
whether that's from the first, the one I couldn't watch or a later
memory I can't say.

===
= DUG.
===
Re: First Bond Film You Saw..... [message #240649 ] Mo, 20 März 2006 11:09
Sean Black  
In article <iN-dnTxq3-jtgYPZnZ2dnUVZ_sSdnZ2d [at] comcast.com>, Will
<willt65 [at] comcast.net> writes
>What was the first Bond film you saw and where did you see it? Movies,
>Drive-in, DVD? Mine was LALD at the drive-in with parents. I remember it was
>part of a double feature with some Planet of the Apes movie, lol
>
>
Double-bill of FRWL and DAF at the cinema.
--
Sean Black
Re: First Bond Film You Saw..... [message #240650 ] Mo, 20 März 2006 11:27
David A McIntee  
"Will" <willt65 [at] comcast.net> wrote in message
news:iN-dnTxq3-jtgYPZnZ2dnUVZ_sSdnZ2d [at] comcast.com...
> What was the first Bond film you saw and where did you see it?

Goldfinger, I think, on TV.

At the cinema- TSWLM

--
Redemption 07 - B5 B7 and Beyond, 23-25 February 2007.
http://www.smof.com/redemption

"In the ghetto, washing non colourfast cottons at 60 degrees could cost you
your life." [Ali G]

Book At Bedtime: Comrades Of War (Sven Hassel)

http://lonemagpie.livejournal.com
Re: First Bond Film You Saw..... [message #240652 ] Mo, 20 März 2006 11:43
phil.gerrard1  
On TV: I think either DN or GF, or, if not, whichever Bond film was on
ITV on Christmas day 1980. I'd seen a lot of clips from Bond films on
TV before I ever saw one of the movies in its entirety, which may be
one reason that my memory's a little foggy here.

In the cinema: a double-bill of FYEO and MR. Must've been FYEO's
second run, which would probably make the date late 1981.

Best

Phil
Re: First Bond Film You Saw..... [message #240654 ] Mo, 20 März 2006 12:36
David A McIntee  
"phil.gerrard [at] ntlworld.com" <phil.gerrard1 [at] ntlworld.com> wrote in message
news:1142851383.722542.318480 [at] u72g2000cwu.googlegroups.com...
> On TV: I think either DN or GF, or, if not, whichever Bond film was on
> ITV on Christmas day 1980.

According to
http://tv.cream.org/specialassignments/films/christmas/index .html
that would be TMWTGG, at ten past six.

--
Redemption 07 - B5 B7 and Beyond, 23-25 February 2007.
http://www.smof.com/redemption

"In the ghetto, washing non colourfast cottons at 60 degrees could cost you
your life." [Ali G]

Book At Bedtime: Comrades Of War (Sven Hassel)

http://lonemagpie.livejournal.com
Re: First Bond Film You Saw..... [message #240656 ] Mo, 20 März 2006 13:17
phil.gerrard1  
David wrote:

> > On TV: I think either DN or GF, or, if not, whichever Bond film was on
> > ITV on Christmas day 1980.
>
> According to
> http://tv.cream.org/specialassignments/films/christmas/index .html
> that would be TMWTGG, at ten past six.

I'm 100% certain that TMWTGG wasn't the first Bond film I saw, so I
must be out by one year, making the first Bond film I saw on television
DN in Christmas 1981. That may mean that my first experience of a Bond
film was seeing FYEO in the cinema, and while I did catch the
re-release where it was double-billed with MR, I'm now increasingly
convinced I must have seen it on its first release as well, since I
remember buying a few magazines for their FYEO coverage.

Great link, David - many thanks for helping to jog my memory!

Best

Phil
Re: First Bond Film You Saw..... [message #240657 ] Mo, 20 März 2006 13:24
phil.gerrard1  
<Vince mode on>

Of course, that makes CR my personal 25th Anniversary Bond movie.
Cool.

<Vince mode off>

Phil
Re: First Bond Film You Saw..... [message #240661 ] Mo, 20 März 2006 14:24
mlawrenc  
I was 12 years old when I saw DAF upon its release at the Gateway
Theatre Pittsburgh PA in 1971. Alas its long gone sniff sniff.

GF on ABC TV shortly before that.

Regards,
Matt

Favorite line:

James Bond: I tend to notice little things like that... whether a
girl's a red-head or a blonde.
Tiffany Case: And which do you prefer?
James Bond: Oh, either, provided the collars match the cuffs.
Re: First Bond Film You Saw..... [message #240664 ] Mo, 20 März 2006 15:01
Will Traynor  
"phil.gerrard [at] ntlworld.com" <phil.gerrard1 [at] ntlworld.com> wrote in message
news:1142851383.722542.318480 [at] u72g2000cwu.googlegroups.com...
> On TV: I think either DN or GF, or, if not, whichever Bond film was on
> ITV on Christmas day 1980. I'd seen a lot of clips from Bond films on
> TV before I ever saw one of the movies in its entirety, which may be
> one reason that my memory's a little foggy here.
>
> In the cinema: a double-bill of FYEO and MR. Must've been FYEO's
> second run, which would probably make the date late 1981.
>
> Best
>
> Phil
>

In 1977, I can distinctly remember a friend of mine looking in the newspaper
for movie to see. He came up with TSWLM, but I declined, lol. I wasn't into
Bond until I saw MR at the cinema. Then, I was hooked. I remember that movie
being a blockbuster at the time and everyone in their early/mid teens loved
it, because of the cool gadgets and stunts.
Re: First Bond Film You Saw..... [message #240668 ] Mo, 20 März 2006 15:39
James Hunter  
OHMSS & DAF, double-feature re-release (in that order) in the ol' moving
picture house!
Re: First Bond Film You Saw..... [message #240684 ] Mo, 20 März 2006 17:50
Tony Borgosano  
"Will" <willt65 [at] comcast.net> wrote in message
news:iN-dnTxq3-jtgYPZnZ2dnUVZ_sSdnZ2d [at] comcast.com...
> What was the first Bond film you saw and where did you see it? Movies,
> Drive-in, DVD? Mine was LALD at the drive-in with parents. I remember it
was
> part of a double feature with some Planet of the Apes movie, lol
> ------------------------------------------------------------ --------------
--------
GF - Music Hall Theatre in Boston, Ma. The cartoon was "The Pink Phink."

Tony Borgosano
--
"I hope we're going to have some gratuitous sex and violence."
Re: First Bond Film You Saw..... [message #240685 ] Mo, 20 März 2006 18:18
Paul Clarke  
Will wrote:
> What was the first Bond film you saw and where did you see it? Movies,
> Drive-in, DVD? Mine was LALD at the drive-in with parents. I remember it was
> part of a double feature with some Planet of the Apes movie, lol
>
>

"Moonraker", in 1979, at the Odeon Cinema in Newport, Wales (no longer a
cinema, alas).

Though I enjoyed it a fair bit at the time (while wincing at some of the
silly humour), MR is now one of my least favourite Bond films.
Re: First Bond Film You Saw..... [message #240705 ] Di, 21 März 2006 00:38
gerard.morvan  
"Will" <willt65 [at] comcast.net> a écrit dans le message de news:
iN-dnTxq3-jtgYPZnZ2dnUVZ_sSdnZ2d [at] comcast.com...
> What was the first Bond film you saw and where did you see it? Movies,
> Drive-in, DVD? Mine was LALD at the drive-in with parents. I remember it
> was part of a double feature with some Planet of the Apes movie, lol
>
TMWTGG. In the french cinema l'Aiglon in West Berlin.

Gérard Morvan

"Kentoc'h Mervel!"
Re: First Bond Film You Saw..... [message #240706 ] Di, 21 März 2006 00:50
Will Traynor  
"Paul Clarke" <jim_caerleon [at] hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:StBTf.7420$A4.2367 [at] clgrps12...
> Will wrote:
>> What was the first Bond film you saw and where did you see it? Movies,
>> Drive-in, DVD? Mine was LALD at the drive-in with parents. I remember it
>> was part of a double feature with some Planet of the Apes movie, lol
>
> "Moonraker", in 1979, at the Odeon Cinema in Newport, Wales (no longer a
> cinema, alas).
>
> Though I enjoyed it a fair bit at the time (while wincing at some of the
> silly humour), MR is now one of my least favourite Bond films.

I guess I was pretty naive with Bond movies at the time, because my friends
and I were ecstatic about the movie. Now, of course, it's simply good
escapism but not one of my favorite Bond films. Funny what age does to
people ;-)
Re: First Bond Film You Saw..... [message #240709 ] Di, 21 März 2006 01:37
phil.gerrard1  
Paul, then Will:

> > "Moonraker", in 1979, at the Odeon Cinema in Newport, Wales (no longer a
> > cinema, alas).
> >
> > Though I enjoyed it a fair bit at the time (while wincing at some of the
> > silly humour), MR is now one of my least favourite Bond films.
>
> I guess I was pretty naive with Bond movies at the time, because my friends
> and I were ecstatic about the movie. Now, of course, it's simply good
> escapism but not one of my favorite Bond films. Funny what age does to
> people ;-)

Does anybody have any links to contemporary reviews of MR? I'd be
interested to see how critics responded in 1979, and EOFFTV
(http://www.eofftv.com/) doesn't appear to have a 'Press' section for
this movie. It seems to me that MR is now widely regarded as a low
point in the series by long-term fans, but the external reviews as
collated by IMDB and Rotten Tomatoes come up with a suprising number of
positive responses, even from within the last few years:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079574/externalreviews

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1014217-moonraker/

Best

Phil
Re: First Bond Film You Saw..... [message #240711 ] Di, 21 März 2006 01:51
Mac  
phil.gerrard [at] ntlworld.com wrote:
> Does anybody have any links to contemporary reviews of MR? I'd be
> interested to see how critics responded in 1979, and EOFFTV
> (http://www.eofftv.com/) doesn't appear to have a 'Press' section for
> this movie. It seems to me that MR is now widely regarded as a low
> point in the series by long-term fans, but the external reviews as
> collated by IMDB and Rotten Tomatoes come up with a suprising number
> of positive responses, even from within the last few years:

"Producer Albert R Broccoli and director Lewis Gilbert seemed to be
strapped of fresh thrills...falling back of formulas that worked in the
past. As usual, however, they've come up with a wowser of an
opening, but deja vu sets in quickly after Roger Moore goes after a
missing spaceship."
--Variety

"MOONRAKER...has tremendous space shuttle hardware, a metal
city in the heavens controlled by evil billionaire Drax (Michael Londsdale,
wasted for the umpteenth time), the inexplicably up-and-coming
Lois Chiles as a CIA helpmeet to Roger Moore's handsome Plastic
Man 007, and a laugh or two more in Christopher Wood's script than
the last one...brought the house down at a packed press show."
--New Statesman

"Moonraker is possible the best novel from the original quintet but
this extravagant, imaginatively undernourished film bears little
resemblance to it...There's the usual stunning pre-credit sequence,
after which everything is a let-down: undertaker jokes, hot and cold
running sexual innuendo, and yet another scrap on a cable car. The
chief innovation, and possible miscalculation, in producer Cubby
Broccoli's artful package is having the villainous Jaws find true love
with a myopic, homely blonde."
--The Guardian
--
--Mac

Well, she did have big tits....
Re: First Bond Film You Saw..... [message #240713 ] Di, 21 März 2006 02:01
Will Traynor  
"Mac" <see.mac [at] SPAMLESSvirgin.net> wrote in message
news:48910kFiqtkiU1 [at] individual.net...
> phil.gerrard [at] ntlworld.com wrote:
>> Does anybody have any links to contemporary reviews of MR? I'd be
>> interested to see how critics responded in 1979, and EOFFTV
>> (http://www.eofftv.com/) doesn't appear to have a 'Press' section for
>> this movie. It seems to me that MR is now widely regarded as a low
>> point in the series by long-term fans, but the external reviews as
>> collated by IMDB and Rotten Tomatoes come up with a suprising number
>> of positive responses, even from within the last few years:
>
> "Producer Albert R Broccoli and director Lewis Gilbert seemed to be
> strapped of fresh thrills...falling back of formulas that worked in the
> past. As usual, however, they've come up with a wowser of an
> opening, but deja vu sets in quickly after Roger Moore goes after a
> missing spaceship."
> --Variety
>
> "MOONRAKER...has tremendous space shuttle hardware, a metal
> city in the heavens controlled by evil billionaire Drax (Michael
> Londsdale,
> wasted for the umpteenth time), the inexplicably up-and-coming
> Lois Chiles as a CIA helpmeet to Roger Moore's handsome Plastic
> Man 007, and a laugh or two more in Christopher Wood's script than
> the last one...brought the house down at a packed press show."
> --New Statesman
>
> "Moonraker is possible the best novel from the original quintet but
> this extravagant, imaginatively undernourished film bears little
> resemblance to it...There's the usual stunning pre-credit sequence,
> after which everything is a let-down: undertaker jokes, hot and cold
> running sexual innuendo, and yet another scrap on a cable car. The
> chief innovation, and possible miscalculation, in producer Cubby
> Broccoli's artful package is having the villainous Jaws find true love
> with a myopic, homely blonde."
> --The Guardian
> --
> --Mac
>
> Well, she did have big tits....
>
>
>

I couldn't get past her face......
Re: First Bond Film You Saw..... [message #240714 ] Di, 21 März 2006 02:05
phil.gerrard1  
Mac wrote:

> "Moonraker is possible the best novel from the original quintet but
> this extravagant, imaginatively undernourished film bears little
> resemblance to it...There's the usual stunning pre-credit sequence,
> after which everything is a let-down: undertaker jokes, hot and cold
> running sexual innuendo, and yet another scrap on a cable car. The
> chief innovation, and possible miscalculation, in producer Cubby
> Broccoli's artful package is having the villainous Jaws find true love
> with a myopic, homely blonde."
> --The Guardian

Many, many thanks for this. Was this Derek Malcolm?

> Well, she did have big tits....

If it was Malcolm, he did once announce in the 'Guardian's pages that
he was a bum man rather than a tit man, which he put down to his
public-school education. This would explain why he missed Dolly's more
obvious attractions, but moreover would fall under the category of 'too
much information'.

Best

Phil
Re: First Bond Film You Saw..... [message #240719 ] Di, 21 März 2006 02:31
Mac  
phil.gerrard [at] ntlworld.com wrote:

> Many, many thanks for this. Was this Derek Malcolm?

I don't rightly know, sir. Don't think so.
--
--Mac
Re: First Bond Film You Saw..... [message #240723 ] Di, 21 März 2006 02:41
phil.gerrard1  
Mac wrote:

> > Many, many thanks for this. Was this Derek Malcolm?
>
> I don't rightly know, sir. Don't think so.

Dammit, man, I rely on you for this kind of stuff - and no
correspondent of mine is going to be a nineteenth-century bootblack!

Best

Phil
Re: First Bond Film You Saw..... [message #240729 ] Di, 21 März 2006 03:08
GSHATTERHAND  
GF, at the time it was released, at the Riverside Theater on Lorain
Avenue in Cleveland, Ohio. Had to talk my mother into letting me go in
spite of "Pussy Galore."

The site of the Riverside Theater is now a Walgreen's Drug Store. And
me mum is playing her golden harp. Hopefully not in the same band with
Auric.
Re: First Bond Film You Saw..... [message #240735 ] Di, 21 März 2006 03:53
mlawrenc  
>Does anybody have any links to contemporary reviews of MR?

Phil,

Not contemporary but...

http://www.agonybooth.com/moonraker/

Gotta love their choice of pics for Rog and Dr. Goodhead...


Regards,
Matt
Re: First Bond Film You Saw..... [message #240739 ] Di, 21 März 2006 10:47
phil.gerrard1  
Matt wrote:

> http://www.agonybooth.com/moonraker/
>
> Gotta love their choice of pics for Rog and Dr. Goodhead...

Heh. Good stuff, although it's ironic that they should say of Moore
'you know he's not even going to get his hair mussed' when MR is the
one film where he indisputably does...

Best

Phil
Re: First Bond Film You Saw..... [message #240747 ] Di, 21 März 2006 13:36
Tom Zielinski  
"phil.gerrard [at] ntlworld.com" <phil.gerrard1 [at] ntlworld.com> wrote in message
news:1142903124.852435.10560 [at] v46g2000cwv.googlegroups.com...
> Mac wrote:
>
>> "Moonraker is possible the best novel from the original quintet but
>> this extravagant, imaginatively undernourished film bears little
>> resemblance to it...There's the usual stunning pre-credit sequence,
>> after which everything is a let-down: undertaker jokes, hot and cold
>> running sexual innuendo, and yet another scrap on a cable car. The
>> chief innovation, and possible miscalculation, in producer Cubby
>> Broccoli's artful package is having the villainous Jaws find true love
>> with a myopic, homely blonde."
>> --The Guardian
>
> Many, many thanks for this. Was this Derek Malcolm?
>
>> Well, she did have big tits....
>
> If it was Malcolm, he did once announce in the 'Guardian's pages that
> he was a bum man rather than a tit man, which he put down to his
> public-school education.


He meant what by this? Private school students prefer tits? How is that?



Tom Zielinski
"...Bond's eyes narrowed. He knew, at some point, he would have to slay this
particular dragon. He settled back in his chair, removing a Morlands' three
ring special from the gunmetal cigarette case. As he waited for the
delicious Balkan/Turkish blend to take effect on his lungs, he reflected
that he was a bum man himself..."
Re: First Bond Film You Saw..... [message #240750 ] Di, 21 März 2006 13:52
phil.gerrard1  
Tom wrote:

> > If it was Malcolm, he did once announce in the 'Guardian's pages that
> > he was a bum man rather than a tit man, which he put down to his
> > public-school education.
>
> He meant what by this? Private school students prefer tits? How is that?

Ah. I forgot to mention that one of the wonders of British English is
that 'public school' in fact means private school, ie fee-paying. What
you'd call a 'public school' is what we'd call a 'state school'. It's
wonderfully nonsensical.

What Malcolm meant, I think, was that single-sex boarding schools are
notorious hotbeds of, um, curiosity and experimentation among teenage
boys, and that his preference for derrieres might in some way have been
influenced by this.

Best

Phil
Re: First Bond Film You Saw..... [message #240751 ] Di, 21 März 2006 14:00
Tom Zielinski  
"phil.gerrard [at] ntlworld.com" <phil.gerrard1 [at] ntlworld.com> wrote in message
news:1142945544.031309.272110 [at] j33g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> Tom wrote:
>
>> > If it was Malcolm, he did once announce in the 'Guardian's pages that
>> > he was a bum man rather than a tit man, which he put down to his
>> > public-school education.
>>
>> He meant what by this? Private school students prefer tits? How is
>> that?
>
> Ah. I forgot to mention that one of the wonders of British English is
> that 'public school' in fact means private school, ie fee-paying. What
> you'd call a 'public school' is what we'd call a 'state school'. It's
> wonderfully nonsensical.


LOL! Indeed.


> What Malcolm meant, I think, was that single-sex boarding schools are
> notorious hotbeds of, um, curiosity and experimentation among teenage
> boys, and that his preference for derrieres might in some way have been
> influenced by this.


Yikes!



Tom Zielinski
"...Bond's eyes narrowed. He knew, at some point, he would have to slay this
particular dragon. He settled back in his chair, removing a Morlands' three
ring special from the gunmetal cigarette case. As he waited for the
delicious Balkan/Turkish blend to take effect on his lungs, he reflected
that he was SURE his own single-sex school experience had nothing to do with
his being a bum man..."
Re: First Bond Film You Saw..... [message #240753 ] Di, 21 März 2006 14:49
Mac  
Tom Zielinski wrote:
> Tom Zielinski
> "...Bond's eyes narrowed. He knew, at some point, he would have to
> slay this particular dragon. He settled back in his chair, removing
> a Morlands' three ring special from the gunmetal cigarette case. As
> he waited for the delicious Balkan/Turkish blend to take effect on
> his lungs, he reflected that he was SURE his own single-sex school
> experience had nothing to do with his being a bum man..."

Perhaps now is an appropriate time to assure us (and yourself) you're
rampantly heterosexual...?
--
--Mac
Re: First Bond Film You Saw..... [message #240757 ] Di, 21 März 2006 16:08
Paul Clarke  
phil.gerrard [at] ntlworld.com wrote:
> Paul, then Will:
>
>
>>>"Moonraker", in 1979, at the Odeon Cinema in Newport, Wales (no longer a
>>>cinema, alas).
>>>
>>>Though I enjoyed it a fair bit at the time (while wincing at some of the
>>>silly humour), MR is now one of my least favourite Bond films.
>>
>>I guess I was pretty naive with Bond movies at the time, because my friends
>>and I were ecstatic about the movie. Now, of course, it's simply good
>>escapism but not one of my favorite Bond films. Funny what age does to
>>people ;-)
>
>
> Does anybody have any links to contemporary reviews of MR? I'd be
> interested to see how critics responded in 1979,

I don't have any links, but I recall reading a review of it in the Daily
Express that commented on Moore 'sleepwalking through his latest Bond
film' and pretty much dismissing the film.
Re: First Bond Film You Saw..... [message #240763 ] Di, 21 März 2006 18:16
Draugnar  
OHMSS on ABC I believe.

Draugnar
Re: First Bond Film You Saw..... [message #240766 ] Di, 21 März 2006 18:42
Mark  
December 1965, Thunderball, at the Paramount Theater in Ashland, KY,
with my parents. It is still there, but is now an entertainment venue
for concerts and plays. It was restored to some of its previous
grandeur, but I miss watching movies from the balcony, where one could
throw popcorn on the ushers.
Re: First Bond Film You Saw..... [message #240768 ] Di, 21 März 2006 19:07
Tom Zielinski  
"Mark" <trustmeimalawyer2 [at] yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:1142962953.297629.190940 [at] z34g2000cwc.googlegroups.com...
> December 1965, Thunderball, at the Paramount Theater in Ashland, KY,
> with my parents. It is still there, but is now an entertainment venue
> for concerts and plays. It was restored to some of its previous
> grandeur, but I miss watching movies from the balcony, where one could
> throw popcorn on the ushers.


That was *you*?!

Bastard...

;)




Tom Zielinski
"...Bond's eyes narrowed. He knew, at some point, he would have to slay this
particular dragon. He settled back in his chair, removing a Morlands' three
ring special from the gunmetal cigarette case. As he waited for the
delicious Balkan/Turkish blend to take effect on his lungs, he reflected
that ju-ju-bees could really hurt..."
Re: First Bond Film You Saw..... [message #240772 ] Di, 21 März 2006 20:58
ahk  
phil.gerrard1 [at] ntlworld.com wrote:

>Ah. I forgot to mention that one of the wonders of British English is
>that 'public school' in fact means private school, ie fee-paying.

I thought that had to do with the educable public, the children of the
peerage, being able to attend such schools while the unwashed masses were
expected to receive no education at all.

>What you'd call a 'public school' is what we'd call a 'state school'.

I thought those were "council schools", schools run by the municipal
council. I take it you don't have school districts. What is the
difference?

>What Malcolm meant, I think, was that single-sex boarding schools are . . .

I had a feeling I knew what he meant but didn't wish to think about it for
too long.
Re: First Bond Film You Saw..... [message #240778 ] Di, 21 März 2006 21:55
phil.gerrard1  
Adam wrote:

> I thought that had to do with the educable public, the children of the
> peerage, being able to attend such schools while the unwashed masses were
> expected to receive no education at all.

I'd never thought of that, and I think you may be right.

> >What you'd call a 'public school' is what we'd call a 'state school'.
>
> I thought those were "council schools", schools run by the municipal
> council. I take it you don't have school districts. What is the
> difference?

These days 'state school' seems to be the preferred term, and I haven't
heard the phrase 'council school' recently - this is probably because
local councils have far fewer powers than they used to in matters of
education, and, well, just about everything else, really.

Best

Phil
Re: First Bond Film You Saw..... [message #240787 ] Mi, 22 März 2006 01:36
ahk  
phil.gerrard1 [at] ntlworld.com wrote:
>Adam wrote:
>>Phil wrote:

>>>What you'd call a 'public school' is what we'd call a 'state school'.

>>I thought those were "council schools", schools run by the municipal
>>council. I take it you don't have school districts. What is the
>>difference?

>These days 'state school' seems to be the preferred term, and I haven't
>heard the phrase 'council school' recently - this is probably because
>local councils have far fewer powers than they used to in matters of
>education, and, well, just about everything else, really.

Goodness. I didn't know your national civil service had taken over primary
and secondary education as well. Thanks.
Re: First Bond Film You Saw..... [message #240791 ] Mi, 22 März 2006 02:08
phil.gerrard1  
Adam wrote:

> Goodness. I didn't know your national civil service had taken over primary
> and secondary education as well. Thanks.

By no means do you want to get me started on the shifts in balance
between regional and national political bodies in the UK. Within days
you'd be checking out Scojo's* posts so that you could read something
less single-minded and obsessive.

Best

Phil

(*Big face + strong jawline = masculinity = Bond. Sign my Robert Z'Dar
for Bond petition now!)
Re: First Bond Film You Saw..... [message #240797 ] Mi, 22 März 2006 02:55
Mike Feeney  
> What was the first Bond film you saw and where did you see
> it? Movies, Drive-in, DVD? Mine was LALD at the drive-in
> with parents. I remember it was part of a double feature
> with some Planet of the Apes movie, lol
>

"Tonight, on the abc Sunday night movie... < cue James Bond
theme tune >"

Back in the early 1970's, ABC television in the U.S. would
air a movie every Sunday night. And occasionally one of the
Bond films would be rotated into the schedule. I recall
seeing FRWL, GF, DAF, LALD, TMWTGG, YOLT, and OHMSS (the
re-edited two-part version) all on the ABC sunday night
movie. By my best recollection, this would have been
between 1974 and 1978. I specifically recall DAF being
aired opposite THE SIX MILLION DOLLAR MAN which was my
favorite tv show at the time (my family did not own a VCR
yet , if they were even widely available circa 1975?).

Then, in 1979, I saw my first Bond film in the theater:
Moonraker. Loved it. Still do.

--Mike
Re: First Bond Film You Saw..... [message #242516 ] Mi, 22 März 2006 15:35
James Hunter  
"Mike Feeney" <moonraker79 [at] excite.comPLICATE> wrote in message
news:442164af.6fc.41 [at] news2...

<snip>

> "Tonight, on the abc Sunday night movie... < cue James Bond
> theme tune >"
>
> Back in the early 1970's, ABC television in the U.S. would
> air a movie every Sunday night. And occasionally one of the
> Bond films would be rotated into the schedule.
>

Ohhh...yes, the memories.... My mother and sister would love to watch
figure skating(*shudder*), which meant that on the weekend if there was
figure skating (*shudder*) on TV, they would own the set. But if on Sunday
night there was the ol' <cue James Bond theme tune >, then my Dad and I
owned the set.

On a personal and sentimental note, the last thing I was able to do for my
Alzheimer's-stricken father before he passed away was play him
"Thunderball." He may not have had much left of this world, but my memory
of the way his face lit up when the Bond theme played and the figure
strolled into the gunbarrel view continues to make me happy to this day.

Thank you, Mike. Long live "Moonraker."
Re: First Bond Film You Saw..... [message #242520 ] Mi, 22 März 2006 15:52
Mac  
James Hunter wrote:


> Ohhh...yes, the memories.... My mother and sister would love to watch
> figure skating(*shudder*), which meant that on the weekend if there
> was figure skating (*shudder*) on TV, they would own the set. But if
> on Sunday night there was the ol' <cue James Bond theme tune >, then
> my Dad and I owned the set.

Did you call a truce when FOR YOUR EYES ONLY came on?

Hey, everyone's a winner.... :)
--
--Mac
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