A James Bond Conversation

Okay, so the movies we chose, funnily enough, the one I picked was because I wanted to because I'd never seen it before.

It was the one James Bond that was sort of elusive for me, which was On Her Majesty's Secret Service, released back in December of 1969.

Neither of us were born then.

Stars, sorry, George Lazenby, Diana Rigg, Telly Savalas, and Gabriel Ferzetti.

It was directed by Peter Hunt.

It is a little rundown of the IMDb summary here.

James Bond tracks down Blofeld to a remote Alpine hideaway while forming an unusually serious romantic connection with Tracy DeFesenzo? making the one of the most emotional and character-driven entries in the Bond series.

Okay, thanks, IMDb.

Fun fact, well, this is George's one and done when it came to James Bond.

So that makes it sort of an outlier from all the other James Bond movies.

What was your pick there, Kyle?

Well, when you said, yeah, Majesty's Secret Service, that is definitely an outlier Bond movie in a number of ways that I'm sure we'll get into.

So I thought, hey, why not pick another outlier Bond movie, which is License to Kill, released in 1989, starring Timothy Dalton as James Bond in that one, one of only two Bond movies that he made.

Also starring Carrie Lowell, Robert Davies, Talisa Soto, and a baby Benicio Del Toro.

Directed by a stalwart Bond director, John Glenn.

Summary, after a brutal attack on Felix Leiter, the CIA guy, James Bond goes rogue to take down a powerful drug lord, turning the mission into one of his most personal and revenge-driven adventures.

Fun fact, and I guess this kind of speaks to its outlier status as well.

License to Kill was the first James Bond movie that doesn't use a title from an Ian Fleming novel or short story.

Yeah.

Yeah, even though License to Kill is very much such a James Bond-y association with it, with the 007, it's weird that it wasn't.

Yeah, never a title of one of the books,

no.

Okay, so the movies we chose, funnily enough, the one I picked was because I wanted to because I'd never seen it before.

It was the one James Bond that was sort of elusive for me, which was On Her Majesty's Secret Service, released back in December of 1969.

Neither of us were born then.

Stars, sorry, George Lazenby, Diana Rigg, Telly Savalas, and Gabriel Ferzetti.

It was directed by Peter Hunt.

It is a little rundown of the IMDb summary here.

James Bond tracks down Blofeld to a remote Alpine hideaway while forming an unusually serious romantic connection with Tracy DeFesenzo? making the one of the most emotional and character-driven entries in the Bond series.

Okay, thanks, IMDb.

Fun fact, well, this is George's one and done when it came to James Bond.

So that makes it sort of an outlier from all the other James Bond movies.

What was your pick there, Kyle?

Well, when you said, yeah, Majesty's Secret Service, that is definitely an outlier Bond movie in a number of ways that I'm sure we'll get into.

So I thought, hey, why not pick another outlier Bond movie, which is License to Kill, released in 1989, starring Timothy Dalton as James Bond in that one, one of only two Bond movies that he made.

Also starring Carrie Lowell, Robert Davies, Talisa Soto, and a baby Benicio Del Toro.

Directed by a stalwart Bond director, John Glenn.

Summary, after a brutal attack on Felix Leiter, the CIA guy, James Bond goes rogue to take down a powerful drug lord, turning the mission into one of his most personal and revenge-driven adventures.

Fun fact, and I guess this kind of speaks to its outlier status as well.

License to Kill was the first James Bond movie that doesn't use a title from an Ian Fleming novel or short story.

Yeah.

Yeah, even though License to Kill is very much such a James Bond-y association with it, with the 007, it's weird that it wasn't.

Yeah, never a title of one of the books,

no.