Reviews of Dr. No (1962) and related work
- Spin-off: From Russia with Love (1963)
- Spin-off: Goldfinger (1964)
- Spin-off: Thunderball (1965)
- Spin-off: You Only Live Twice (1967)
- Spin-off: On Her Majesty’s Secret Service (1969)
- Spin-off: Diamonds Are Forever (1971)
- Spin-off: Live and Let Die (1973)
- Spin-off: The Man with the Golden Gun (1974)
- Spin-off: The Spy Who Loved Me (1977)
- Spin-off: Moonraker (1979)
- Spin-off: Octopussy (1983)
- Spin-off: Never Say Never Again (1983)
- Spin-off: A View to a Kill (1985)
- Spin-off: Licence to Kill (1989)
- Spin-off: GoldenEye (1995)
- Spin-off: Tomorrow Never Dies (1997)
- Spin-off: Casino Royale (2006)
Dr. No (1962
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Pulp superspy thriller. Sean Connery as James Bond.
References here: The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1963).
‣ From Russia with Love (1963)
Sean Connery as James Bond.
moving picture spin-off fiction
‣ Goldfinger (1964)
Sean Connery as James Bond. Seeing this as a child, I did not reflect on the rape culture expressed in Bond’s “conquest” of a clearly unwilling Pussy Galore by violence.
References here: “Our Man Bashir” (1995).
moving picture spin-off fiction
‣ Thunderball (1965)
Sean Connery as James Bond.
moving picture spin-off fiction
‣ You Only Live Twice (1967)
Sean Connery as James Bond.
moving picture spin-off fiction
‣ On Her Majesty’s Secret Service (1969)
moving picture spin-off fiction
‣ Diamonds Are Forever (1971)
Sean Connery as James Bond.
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‣ Live and Let Die (1973)
Roger Moore as James Bond.
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‣ The Man with the Golden Gun (1974)
Roger Moore as James Bond, in the least bloody Bond movie as of 2021, which is a plus.
moving picture spin-off fiction
‣ The Spy Who Loved Me (1977)
Roger Moore as James Bond. This is the way to do pulp superagents.
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‣ Moonraker (1979)
Roger Moore as James Bond. Kitsch.
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‣ Octopussy (1983)
Roger Moore as James Bond. The name, at least, is hard to beat.
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‣ Never Say Never Again (1983)
Seen in 2014.
Sean Connery as James Bond. The writing of Blush is moronic, but the hideous racism of the auction at Palmyra—no connection to the Syrian Palmyra—tops it off nicely.
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‣ A View to a Kill (1985)
Roger Moore as James Bond.
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‣ Licence to Kill (1989)
Timothy Dalton as James Bond. Politically docile genre meltdown.
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‣ GoldenEye (1995)
Pierce Brosnan as James Bond.
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‣ Tomorrow Never Dies (1997)
Seen in 2021.
A media mogul manufactures high tensions between the UK and mainland China.
Pierce Brosnan as James Bond.
The expected amount of product placement includes an Ericsson phone remote-controlling a BMW. When I first saw this movie in 2021, I was working for Tele Radio and had recently tried controlling a driverless Volvo truck remotely with EXSTER. This made the late-1990s technothriller especially cute, but the fridge-stuffing is distasteful and Jonathan Pryce’s villain—though he prefigures the post-Soviet conspiracism that would engulf the US five years later—is too crude a caricature of Pulitzer and Hearst 100 years before. Vincent Schiavelli is funny in his evil bit part as a professional fridge-stuffer and professor of forensic medicine.
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‣ Casino Royale (2006)
Seen in 2013.
Daniel Craig as James Bond. A good deal less cartoonish than most of its predecessors, but no less obsessed with gadgets and hysterical masculinity. Boring poker sequences and overblown action set pieces.