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The opening sequence of The Living Daylights closely resembled some of your current favorite Battle Royale video games, including PUBG and Fortnite

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The opening sequence of The Living Daylights closely resembled some of your current favorite Battle Royale video games, including PUBG and Fortnite

The opening sequence of The Living Daylights (1987) closely resembled some of your current favorite Battle Royale video games, including PUBG and Fortnite

PUBG fans, see the same meme but with your game after the fold. 🙂

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Timothy Dalton as James Bond in...GoldenEye (1995)?!

Dalton Chasing the Ferrari

Timothy Dalton as James Bond in...GoldenEye (1995)?!

Timothy Dalton as James Bond in…GoldenEye (1995)?!

Timothy Dalton and Daniel Craig side by side as James Bond

Timothy Craig or Daniel Dalton?

Timothy Dalton and Daniel Craig side by side as James Bond

Timothy Dalton and Daniel Craig side by side as James Bond

Anyone else creeped out by these Bonds’ faces side by side?!

Sean Connery, George Lazenby, Roger Moore, Timothy Dalton, Pierce Brosnan and Daniel Craig as James Bond, 007

The 007 Lineup

Sean Connery, George Lazenby, Roger Moore, Timothy Dalton, Pierce Brosnan and Daniel Craig as James Bond, 007

Awesome drawing of all of the Bonds!

The 8 Bit James Bond actors, by Kristof Saelen

The 8 Bit James Bonds

The 8 Bit James Bond actors, by Kristof Saelen

The 8 Bit James Bond actors, by Kristof Saelen – from left to right: Sean Connery, George Lazenby, Roger Moore, Timothy Dalton, Pierce Brosnan and Daniel Craig

H/T Kristof Saelen

Kara Milovy (Maryam D'Abo) is impressed by James Bond's (Timothy Dalton) sound system in The Living Daylights (1987) ... (not really)

Rock out to A-ha

Kara Milovy (Maryam D'Abo) is impressed by James Bond's (Timothy Dalton) sound system in The Living Daylights (1987) ... (not really)

Kara Milovy (Maryam D’Abo) is impressed by James Bond’s (Timothy Dalton) sound system in The Living Daylights (1987) … (not really)

Bond fans are weary too, 007.

Goldenrant #001: History & Frequency

Bond fans are weary too, 007.

Bond fans are weary too, 007.

The Daniel Craig introspective James Bond should be over. We know where he came from. We know how he got here. Now let’s have a true, formulaic James Bond movie in the Craig era.

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James Bond (Timothy Dalton) begrudgingly packs Kara Milovy (Maryam D'Abo)'s cello into his Aston Martin in The Living Daylights (1987)

Why didn’t you learn the violin?

I’ve always loved Bond’s great cello case escape trick from The Living Daylights (1987). Although it would’ve been neat to hear Bond (Timothy Dalton) explain the game plan to Kara Milovy (Maryam d’Abo) in this scene (how did they time it so perfectly with the passing tram?), I overall enjoyed how it was filmed and how we the audience are let in on the ruse.

I particularly enjoy the surveyor’s satisfied face and gentle head nod when he witnesses Bond get into his car, only to have his day ruined when he realizes the “person” in the phone booth is an empty cello case clothed with a hat and coat.

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Sean Connery as James Bond in Dr. No (1962) and Sean Connery as James Bond and Jill St. John as Tiffany Case in Diamonds Are Forever (1971)

First & Last

The six actors that have portrayed 007 in the official movies have changed since their first and last on-screen appearances. Below, you can see each actor’s first and last appearances as James Bond.

Sean Connery as James Bond at the beginning of Dr. No (1962) and Sean Connery as James Bond and Jill St. John as Tiffany Case at the end of Diamonds Are Forever (1971)

Sean Connery as James Bond at the beginning of Dr. No (1962) and Sean Connery as James Bond and Jill St. John as Tiffany Case at the end of Diamonds Are Forever (1971)

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James Bond (Timothy Dalton) and Della Leiter (Priscilla Barnes) in Licence To KIll (1989)

I’ll do anything for a woman with a knife

This scene from Licence To Kill (1989) is easily the most bizarre and awkward of the Dalton era. On Della and Felix Leiter’s wedding day, Bond and Della cavort around the wedding reception in a drunken stupor, almost as if they’re the betrothed themselves.

It starts off innocently enough with them falling into the room with the wedding cake, but their subsequent kisses are most definitely *not* innocuous and not innocent pecks on the cheek. I’d argue they are almost passionate. Did Bond and Della have a previous fling?

Although I wasn’t married in the 1980’s when this movie was released, I’m a married American and I’ve never heard of the “custom” where the bride kisses the best man. Did I miss the memo on that? This does not sound like a great custom. Just weird.

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