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From: Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net>
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Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2025-01-18 (Saturday)
Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2025 21:35:23 -0800
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On 1/21/2025 7:52 PM, Arthur Lipscomb wrote:
> On 1/21/2025 6:27 PM, Dimensional Traveler wrote:
>> On 1/21/2025 10:34 AM, Adam H. Kerman wrote:
>>> Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:
>>>> On 1/19/2025 12:14 PM, anim8rfsk wrote:
>>>>> Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:
>>>>>> On 1/19/2025 9:10 AM, Ian J. Ball wrote:
>>>
>>>>>>> What did you watch?
>>>
>>>>>> 'The Spy Who Loved Me'.  Did you know that Roger Moore was Eon's 
>>>>>> first
>>>>>> choice for Bond back before 'Dr. No'?  But he was unavailable until
>>>>>> 'Live and Let Die'.
>>>
>>>>> Lucky thing or they probably wouldn’t have had a franchise.
>>>
>>>> Dunno.  Personally I prefer the Moore Bonds to Connery Bonds.
>>>
>>> You need to re-watch Dr. No, then. Connery is playing James Bond the
>>> cold-hearted bastard created by Ian Fleming.
>>
>> Already watched 'Dr. No' a few weeks ago when I started working thru 
>> the box set.  I still say that _I_ prefer Moore to Connery as Bond.  
>> What you like is up to you.
>>
> 
> I think a lot of it depends on which Bond someone grew up watching 
> first.  I grew up with Roger Moore as Bond so he's my favorite.  At 
> least between Moore and Connery, I prefer Moore.  But I suspect for 
> people who grew up with Connery as their first Bond, they prefer him. 
> And I imagine something similar with the later Bonds as well.

With the first few Connery Bonds the advertising material used a pose 
from 'Dr. No'.  It is Connery hunched over, knees bent, holding his gun 
low and close to his waist with a bent elbow.  It strikes me as one of 
the most idiotic and unflattering poses I've ever seen.

That alone is enough to insure Connery will never be my favorite Bond.  :P

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