| Number of women he has sex with: 3 | |
| 1 | Woman at casino in beginning of movie |
| 2 | Spy woman in the middle |
| 3 | Honey Ryder |
This is Connery's most famous Bond movie. Dr. No is the brilliant son of a German Missionary and a woman of good moral ethics. He wanted to be recognized or employed by the east or west, but both the US and Soviet Union rejected him. His ego hurt, he set out to destroy them both. He sets up shop on Crab-key Island, near Jamaica, which happens to have lots of radioactive stuff. During his research on this island he loses both of his hands, and designs/builds bionic replacements which are very strong but inflexible.
His ultimate plan is to launch a missile(?) at a US satellite launch rocket. Knowing that the American's are watching him and his island, he hires someone to steal the CIA's files on himself. This leads to the killing of a British spy (poising as a diplomat) and his secretary. When the diplomat's communication with intelligence central is broken, James Bond is sent in to investigate. Before going, he's dissed by M who wants him to turn in his license to kill if he doesn't stop carrying around his Beretta.
Bond meets an agent of the CIA and his henchmen (including a very racial stereotypical Hollywood black guy named Catro). Bond and Catro go to Dr. No's island. They find a beautiful blonde named Honey Ryder who's diving for shells. She mentions that she believes that No killed her father. Catro gets killed by a flame shooting tank that the natives think is a dragon. Bond and the girl get captured and put into a hotel like prison. They drink drugged coffee and wake up. They have dinner with Dr. No. They get sent back to jail, separated. Bond realizes that the electrified bars across the ventilation shaft are easily kicked in. He escapes, finds No's main control room. He poses as the henchman responsible for maintaining the nuclear reactor. He causes a reactor meltdown just in time to foil No's plans. He and No struggle while everyone else flees (the reactor's gonna blow!). No falls into a radioactive pool and can't get out because his hands aren't flexible enough to grab a pole. The place blows up.
Bond and Honey Ryder commandeer a power boat. After escaping, Bond checks the oil and realizes they're out of gas. They have sex. Sooner or later, the American CIA agent from before appears with a Navy boat. They start towing the boat with Bond and Honey back to Jamaica. Bond releases the rope towing them and they start having sex again.
Rating (Rhonda): 7.5
Overall, I like Sean Connery's Bond much more than Roger Moore's. Connery definitely has the ruthless qualities that make Bond dangerous, and I thought he showed a suave nature at times too. The development of Dr. No's character was lacking, though. And, the fight scene was very disappointing. The abscence of Q really takes away from the Bond character. Without his gadgets, he is less eclectic and enigmatic.
Rating (Peter): 6.5
Plot was a little simplistic. Dr. No was defeated way too quickly; it was almost embarrasing, in that respect, it reminds me of The World Is Not Enough. The entire movie focuses on the henchmen, while the main villian, a colorful character is undeveloped and ignored. Connery is an uncooth brawler whose big pickup line is 'Hey, baby'. Most people will barf when they read this, but Brosnan IS Bond. Connery simply plays Bond, and this movie prooves it. A big long in places, a few funny car chase scenes, very little fighting. It kept me entertained, but is not the stuff of legends.
Memorable moments:
| Number of women he has sex with: 3 | |
| 1 | Woman at casino in beginning of movie |
| 2 | Spy woman in the middle |
| 3 | Honey Ryder |
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The movie opens up with two American astonauts aboard an orbital spacecraft. One of them goes out for a spacewalk. Suddenly, a huge spaceship that looks like a giant alligator pops up from nowhere and swallows the American spacecraft. The guy taking the spacewalk has his lifeline cut and he floats away. Poor guy.
At some kind of conference, the Americans, Soviets and English are debating. The American dude accuses the Soviets for the tragedy. The Soviets reply with how their country is peace loving and wouldn't do that sort of thing. The English guy takes the side of the Soviets and points out that the unidentified flying alligator was tracked and landed somewhere near the Sea of Japan. The American guy is doubtful and says that they have another space launch coming up and that if the Soviets did this again, it would be an act of war.
We see Bond in bed with an Asian woman, and he asks "Why do Asian women taste different?". She makes some comment about 'tasting better' and he says "no, not better, different. Like peking duck compared to Russian caviar". She gets up, flips a switch and the bed he's lying in swings up into the wall and 2 men enter the room with machine guns. They put a dozen rounds into the bed and leave. A few minutes later, the police arrive. The inspector pulls the bed down and we see Bond laying dead on bloody sheets. He's dead!
So now Bond is wrapped in a ceremonial shroud aboard some big Naval vessel with the Union Jack drapped around him. They give him a burial at sea along with a 21 gun salute. The body goes into the water. We see two divers approach the falling body and haul it into the airlock of a waiting submarine. They cut the shroud open, and there's Bond with an underwater breating apparatus. He faked his own death. M and Money Penny are there, and comment that Bond's faked death will take his enemys' attention off him, at least for a while. M explains what happened in orbit to Bond, and assigns Bond the task of finding out what and who kidnapped (or destroyed) the American spacecraft before war breaks out between the USA and USSR. He is supposed to meet a contact working for a Mr. Henderson at a sumo wrestling match. (What is the significance of Mr. Henderson?). Money Penny chooses the signal to identify the contact with that Bond is sure to remember: "I love you". She offers Bond a book on "instant Japanese", but Bond says that he "took first" in Japanese at Cambridge.
Bond straps on scuba equipment and gets shot out of the torpedo tube (after all, why use the airlock when you can be shot out the torpedo tube?). Anyway, he finds his way to Tokyo. He's followed as he enters the Sumo wrestling match. A lovely Japanese woman sits down next to him and they flirt a little bit. Bond finally looks at her straight on and says "I Love You". It turns out she's the contact.
She takes him to Mr. Henderson. Bond whacks Henderson mercessly in the leg with a wooden cane!! Henderson smiles, and apparently, one of his legs is wooden; Bond was just taking a precaution. Henderson tells Bond that a chemical manufacturer is a business interest that Bond should look into. He's about to say more, but then offers Bond a drink -- a dry martini, stirred, not shaken. This is a big mistake because the next instant he's dead with a knife in the back. Bond sees an assassin running away, catches him and beats the living daylights out of him. Bond sees a man in the driver's seat of a getaway car. So he puts on the clothes of the unconsciouss assassin, walks to the car and pretends he's the assissin (but wounded). The two of them drive to Osaka Chemical. Bond has a run in with a Sumo wrestler but manages to escape with documents he filched from a safe.
He eventually meets with the head of the Japanese intelligence agency, whom friends call Tiger. Tiger suggests that Bond should dress up like a Japanese man and take a Japanese wife (who will be a Japanese agent) as a cover. He mentions that his wife is as 'ugly as a pig'. Bond will see her for the first time at the wedding. We keep seeing ugly women (and Bond's face is funny to watch). But a beautiful woman walks by, and it turns out to be his bride.
They discover that a woman sailed in a cavern located on one of the nearby islands, but came back dead. They go to the island and discover that a `water' filled inactive volcano is actually a dead volcano with a sheet metal bottom that looks like water. Bingo! Bond instructs his wife to go back to Tiger and get help.
The metal pulls back to reveal an entryway, and a helicoptor comes out. Bond takes this opportunity to enter.
The firing power inside my crater is enough to annihilate a small army. You can watch it all on TV. It's the last program you're
likely to see. - Blofeld
Well, if I'm gonna be forced to watch television, may I smoke? - Bond
Yes. Give him his cigarettes. It won't be the nicotine that kills you, Mr. Bond. - Blofeld
James Bond, allow me to introduce myself. I am Ernst Stavro Blofeld. They told me you were assassinated in Hong Kong. - Blofeld
Yes, this is my second life. - Bond
You only live twice, Mr. Bond. - Blofeld
Rating (Rhonda):
Rating (Peter):
Memorable moments:
| Number of women he has sex with: 4 | |
| 1 | Countess Theresa (his wife) |
| 2 | Blonde alergy with curly blonde hair with lipstick |
| 3 | Brunette alergy girl with nail file |
| 3 | Asian alergy girl |
The movie opens up with Bond living life away from M, on a long term mission in Italy to find infamous Bond villain Blofeld. While on his mission, Bond bumps into and saves a female stranger twice, once on the beach and once in the casino. She repays him by inviting him to her room later that evening (wink wink). When Bond gets to her room, there's a man is waiting in the bedroom, waiting to clobber Bond. After a pretty good fight, Bond clocks the dude, but later gets beaten up and kidnapped by some other ruffians.
Bond is taken to the office of the head of the largest international criminal organization (except for SPECTRE). The man turns out to be the father of the woman that Bond saved twice. The father noted that he was aware of how wonderful he had treated the daughter (her name turns out to be Countess Theresa; I guess the father is a European Count) and tells Bond that Theresa is unruly and self destructive. The father says that she "needs a man to make love to her and dominate her". He says that Bond is the right man and wants Bond to marry his daughter. They make a deal--Bond marries the daughter, and the father gives him a million pounds and tells him the location of a lawyer who knows the whereabouts of Blofield. Bond ends up really falling in love with her. She's really the only woman that Bond will ever truly love.
When he gets back to England, M pulls him off the Blofield case because he's not making enough progress. Bond is infuriated that M would take him off the case, so asks Moneypenny to send his resignation. Instead, she submits a request for two weeks leave. Bond heads back to spend time with the Countess and her father after hearing that Blofeld has contacted an British University to research his family's "royal lineage." Bond travels to Switzerland, disguised as a homosexual University representative who specializes in royal lineage. It's cute to notice that the person Bond is pretending to be also has royal heritage and their motto is `The World Is Not Enough'. Bond arrives at Blofeld's headquarters in the Swiss Alps and finds that Blofeld runs an institute researching allergies, and all of his patients are beautiful women from all around the world with horrible allergies.
During the night Bond sleeps with three women, using the same "you're a picture in the firelight" line. They each comment that they thought he did not like women. He discovers that part of the treatment is a nightly hypnosis-brainwashing session. Blofeld discover's Bond's identity, and tells him of the master plan. The girls will release poison(?) in thier makeup kit which will make every living creature sterile if the world doesn't agree to Blofeld's demands. It turns out that the demands are pretty shocking; first, the world will pardon all of Blofeld's past crimes. Second, the world will recognize Blofeld's royal heritage.
Bond is locked in the machine room of a ski lift. He escapes and we're treated to a 15 minute ski chase scene (it's really long!). He finally makes it to a city and is rescued by Theresa. They hide out for awhile and are discovered by Blofeld's men again. We see another really, really long ski chase. Blofeld causes an avalanche which basically knocks out Bond and Theresa. Bond is left for dead but Theresa is taken back to the Swiss Alps head quarters; apparently, Blofeld is in love with her.
Bond finds out that the world is ready to meet Blofeld's demands instead of blowing him up, and is outraged. He turns to Theresa's father and they launch a 3 helicopter attack on the headquarters. The attack is successful but Blofeld escapes. Afterward, Bond and Theresa get married. In the last scene, they are going to their honeymoon (Moneypenny was crying at the wedding) and are attacked by Blofeld and the Frau Farbisino look-alike. They escape but Theresa is dead and Bond is close to a nervous breakdown. The movie ends.
We have all the time in the world. - Bond to his love Tracy Draco.
Rating (Rhonda): 9.0
Rating (Peter): 9.5
Memorable moments:
| Number of women he has sex with: 3 | |
| 1 | French woman in closet at the beginning |
| 2 | Rosie the black double agent |
| 3 | Solitaire the tarot reader. |
This is a quirky Bond flick. It's pretty wild hearing Sir Paul McCartney singing the intro music to Bond (Connery-Bond had called The Beatles `noise' in a previous episode. But this flick should be called Bond vs all the black people in the world. It's quite amazing. From New Orleans Dixieland bands going down the street, to fried catfish joints in upper Harlem to the all-black bar where Bond asks for a drink, and the list goes on and on. This flick could be considered racist by today's standards, I suppose, but perhaps a better statement would be that this Bond was filmed with the 70's were in full swing. You should see some of the fros!!
The absurdness of all the afros and 70's jive talk occludes the storyline, which definitely takes the backseat to the funeral processions and (way too long) boat chase scenes. The main bad guy, Knanga, sets up a humongous camoflaged poppy plant growing farm on the island of San Monique in the Carribean. His plan was to distribute 2 billion dollars worth of Heroin for free, to double the number of addicts and drive his competition out of business. Then his heroin would generate an enourmous profit.
But this is definitely Moore in his heyday. He's young, suave, tells really bad puns, fights well. This is a young Moore who fights with, say, judo, as opposed to the flying fists/boxing of Connery.
It's quite noticeable that there's no Q in this movie, but his name is mentioned "Q wants you to take care of that watch, Bond! You're costing the taxpayers too much money!"
Memorable moments:
Names is for tombstones, baby. Take this honky outside and waste him. - Mr. Big
He always had an inflated opinion of himself. - Bond after Mr. Big swallows a gas pellet and explodes
Rating (Rhonda): 7
This is by far the cheesiest Bond we have seen yet. There are two effects in particular that stand out: Bond using his aftershave like a blowtorch to kill the snake, and Bond killing Kananga by inflating him with air until he popped. Although Bond-like in nature, the effects were way over the top. However, I have to retract my prior criticism of Roger Moore. As a young man, he is everything Bond should be.
Rating (Peter):
Man with the Golden Gun is next.
This Bond places last on both our lists of Brosnan's Bond. A media tycoon, whose wife used to be Bond's lover, lies at the
heart of the plot. The media tycoon's goal was to provoke a war between China and Britain,
in order to scoop the story. The blond, German second man was creepy.
Bond has an Asian counterpart. They ride a motorcycle while handcuffed together
and are chased by a helicopter.
I do not remember a whole lot more about this one....
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