35mm Bond Special On Sky Movies

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Anyone seen the 35mm Bond special on Sky Movies? Two so called Bond addicts discussing the Bond films in depth. One is the News Of The World critic and the other writes junior Bond novels. Most of the time these two are talking rubbish and dont know what they are on about. Firstly they completely slagged off On Her Majestys Secret Service saying "it didnt work" and George Lazenby's acting in the final scene was a joke. Any true Bond fan knows that OHMSS did work and has stood the test of time as a brilliant Bond film. Then they discussed the Dalton films and said it was very PC. Bond wasnt allowed to smoke or drink. Wrong! Dalton actually did smoke in his films as he was trying to portray how Fleming wrote the character. So next time maybe they should get someone in who knows what they are talking about!
 
I did see some parts of it and I thought the junior bond writer (Charlie Higson) made some interesting points. He didn't claim to have an encyclopaedic knowledge of Bond but at least had some degree of intelligence.

The guy from the News of the World was a fool, classic example of someone who knew very little trying to sound like he knew everything. Like when he said the Brosnan bonRAB started off very serious with Goldeneye?!?!?!??!? Goldeneye is an action-driven spoof with xenia onatopp and innuendo to the hilt.

I would have to side with them about OHMSS to an extent. Its a film that divides opinion right down the middle. Lazenby couldn't really act, though he didn't do as bad a job in the final scene as they made out.
 
I can cofirm that the drop in quality that viewers got when Goldfinger was shown in HD by Sky is not replicated on the Bluray.

I guess Sky got an early unfinished restoration as the "Bond Will Return OHMSS" only ever seen on the 1964 cinema run was shown on Sky but the Bluray has the traditional reminder that Thunderball is next.
 
You wonder why they couldn't get some real Bond experts or fans to talk about these things - that Dalton slip is ridiculous, he was famously the last Bond to smoke, and was he trying to make him more gritty and like the book. I suppose the shag count was down from Moore, but then the Bond of the books didn't actually end up with as many women as people think anyway.

It's like that programme they made about Bond with David Walliams a few years back, and the Joanna Lumley/Fleming programme more recently (although to be fair she was a Bond girl). They obviously think people won't be interested unless it has 'names' attached to it.
 
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