Bond, Ranked Bond: The Cold War’s Horniest Spy
Stray Thoughts / Spoilers
- Screenwriter Tom Mankiewicz wants you to think of the Black villains as surrogates for the Black Panthers.
- The Bond theme I’ve heard the most since it played on classic rock radio
- Why would M walk directly to the bedroom?
- The tarot card reading is somewhat on point
- No seriously, why can’t they keep a Felix for more than one movie?
- The dead taxi driver car stunts were tense!
- “For 20 bucks, I’ll take you to a Ku Klux Klan cookout.”
- Jane Seymour as Solitaire
- Bond pleads to Solitaire to fuck him, using a tarot deck of exclusively Lover cards to trick her and take her virginity
- A “holy shit!”
- Calling this a boat chase is generous. A couple of solid stunts, but it keeps going and going.
- You can see the buoys they placed for the stunt driver to hit the right trajectory
- Chekov’s magnetic watch
- Mr. Big inflated and exploded