April 2009

  • 10 Best Beauties Bedded by Bond

    By roskopp on 4/28/09 7:33am
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    Nothing wrong with a bit of alliteration so join me as we check out the 10 Best Beauties Bedded by Bond. Incidentally there have been 83 Bond girls in the film series although 007 hasn’t managed to get his leg over with all of them. You tend to think of suggestive names when you think of Bond girls but most of them had pretty dull monikers. The most innuendo packed were Pussy Galore, Plenty O’Toole and Holly Goodhead. Anyway here are the top ten in chronological order.

    Honey RyderHoney RyderUrsula Andress as Honey Ryder
    The entrance of Ursula Andress in Dr. No has gone down as an iconic moment in cinema history. It is also perhaps the ultimate Bond girl moment. Clad in a skimpy white bikini she rises from the ocean and sings to herself as Bond spies on her and drools. It takes him until the end of the movie to seduce her in a boat as the credits roll.

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  • Thunderball

    By roskopp on 4/14/09 3:50am
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    Thunderball was released in 1965 and broke box office records at the time. Sean Connery appeared as Bond in his fourth outing and was charged with recovering two stolen nuclear missiles which were being ransomed by the evil organisation SPECTRE. It featured some classic Bond moments but it also caused a legal battle and was remade as Never Say Never Again in 1983.

    The film opens with Bond uncovering the fake funeral of a SPECTRE agent and then having a fistfight with the evil transvestite which is strangely comical to behold. He escapes the scene with the help of a jetpack which was the height of cool technology at the time. He then skips into his rigged Aston Martin DB5 in a very memorable Bond opening sequence.

    The film is an extremely odd mixture of rather ridiculous scenes like the opening fight and great moments like the scene which treats us to an inside view of SPECTRE.

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  • You Only Live Twice

    By roskopp on 4/6/09 5:41am
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    You Only Live Twice posterYou Only Live Twice was released in 1967 and it was the fifth Bond film to hit cinema screens. Once again Sean Connery played Bond, although he took some persuading this time. Rather bizarrely the screenplay was penned by Roald Dahl. The film saw Bond tangling with his ultimate villainous opponent, Blofeld, played by Donald Pleasance and the action took place with a Japanese backdrop.

    The film actually started in space with a US space craft being eaten by a UFO which turns out to be a SPECTRE rocket. MI6 trace the space craft to Japan and send Bond to investigate. A Soviet space craft is also eaten and a world war looms as Bond races to uncover the evil mastermind Blofeld and foil his scheme. There are some great moments in this outing and some deeply cheesy scenes as well.

    This is the first Bond film that reveals Blofeld fully; his face was never revealed in previous films.

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  • Henchmen: Tee Hee Johnson

    By roskopp on 4/1/09 11:28pm
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    Tee Hee Johnson played Julius HarrisTee Hee Johnson has to be my favourite name for a Bond baddie henchman. He worked for Mr. Big (Kananga) in Live and Let Die as the head henchman. He was a big scary looking gangster with a metal arm and a pincer for a hand.

    He appeared to be the right hand man or bodyguard of Mr. Big and was always hanging around in the background whether his employer was portraying Mr. Big or Kananga. The name Tee Hee refers to his habit of giggling at inappropriate moments, something which seems to irritate Bond. He tangles with the agent a couple of times during the film. The first time they meet the tarot reading Solitaire warns Tee Hee that Bond is armed and dangerous. He grabs the gun and showing off the formidable strength of his metal claw he bends it back on itself. At the next meeting Tee Hee tries to strand Bond at a crocodile farm.

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