Rolling Obituary Thread: 2017

my favourite Bond

RIP

Actress Dina Merrill, 93.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/dina-merrill-dead-butterfield-8-operation-petticoat-actress-was-93-978723

Apocryphal: Moore once said that he “only had three expressions as Bond: right eyebrow raised, left eyebrow raised and eyebrows crossed when grabbed by Jaws.”

I loved Octopussy for giving the franchise the delirious trashing it tot deserved at that point. Unfortunately, it continued.

also why do you crazy ppl hate Sean Connery?

Kinda love how that first/main response to the Ken Shabby tweet is from Vijay Armitraj, his Octopussy costar. (Underrated film all in all. For Your Eyes Only remains my favorite of his run but there are some surprisingly effective moments throughout Octopussy, pretty nearly pulling off a have-its-cake/eat-it-too per Morbs's comment.)

I don't think anyone hates sean connery except for the fact he's a wife-beater

... and a Scottish Nationalist who doesn't live in Scotland because he doesn't want to pay tax there... also Rangers.

Also LXG.

... and a Scottish Nationalist who doesn't live in Scotland because he doesn't want to pay tax there... also Rangers.

― Punnet of the Grapes (Tom D.), Tuesday, May 23, 2017 10:49 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalinl

that too though i thought a scot should bring that up not a sassenach like myself

also why do you crazy ppl hate Sean Connery?

sir billi was such a bitter disappointment

yeah, i was keeping it to onscreen stuff but of course i knew the police would appear thx stevie & Tom

007 might be a lousy husband too -- at least it seems more likely than his being a bored twit

Oh right. Isn't Connery generally considered the canonical best Bond?

I mean I don't see any hate for his Bond performances here so I don't know

he is.

Lazenby iirc - but increasingly "who gives a shit?"

also an acceptable answer tbf

bond was a lousy husband yes

i found him alright tbh

all his ex-wives are dead, no?

just me and chinavision left

Better watch your step imo (reveals gun within bunch of flowers)

bond a terrible man for subjecting his wives to the dutch oven treatment iirc

the late mrs bond (tracy):
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-eT0QouAn0Dc/TVyVA6ghcNI/AAAAAAAAArM/8J2RNVnoeQY/s1600/1.jpg

just me and chinavision chauvinism left. Connery is an asshole.

Ian Fleming was an asshole

pablo picasso was never called an asshole

just me and (-chinavision-) chauvinism left. Connery is an asshole.

Jeez whatever happened to not speaking ill of the dead

anyone who says roger moore is the best bond needs to stfu

Picasso was the worst asshole of them all iirc

Mark s is correct that there are no good bonds

the bond movies are bobbins but shir sean is the best bond

picasso was not a very good Bond

shoulda been Blofeld

He was dece in The Spanish Spy Who Painted A Lot

xp

Sort-of underrated Moore performance: ffolkes

Totally underrated Moore performance: The Cannonball Run

live and les demoiselles
man with the golden guernica

The Saint getting slept on ITT.

You all need to watch 'North Sea Hijack' (released as 'ffolkes' in the US).

"The Man Who Haunted Himself" was one of his more interesting movies.

Totally underrated Moore performance: The Cannonball Run

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, May 24, 2017 5:51 PM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

^^^this

https://songbook1.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/1967_casino-royale_ursula-andress_6.jpg

^^^^ actual best Bond

[joeks, that movie is UNWATCHABLE]

i watched it once

its funniest line is Woody Allen saying "I have a low threshhold of death."

One of the 007s from that movie also died this month - Daliah Lavi - aka The Detainer in the film. She and Roger Moore had birthdays two days apart (not the same year).

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Damn. Author Denis Johnson, 67.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/denis-johnson-author-of-jesus-son-dead-at-67/2017/05/26/dc00ccc0-420b-11e7-b29f-f40ffced2ddb_story.html

bummer. I gave him a ride to the airport once. He talked about movies the whole trip.

Zbigniew Brzeniski!

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/26/us/zbigniew-brzezinski-dead-national-security-adviser-to-carter.html?action=Click&contentCollection=BreakingNews&contentID=65359133&pgtype=article

Probably the hardest name to spell of any famous person