Watched it last night and let my kids watch…the action scenes only
I gave that a watch recently, and it struck me how aged it is. Still like it, of course.
The rest of the film when they’re older? How did they like the action?
GE has indeed aged poorly, largely I think due to the score. When I watch GE and TND back to back, I sometimes think that these two films could be six years apart. If you told me GE was released in 1993 and TND in 1999, I’d believe you.
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They loved it!!
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Anytime they show a computer screen. That never ages well, but especially in GE.
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The films whole plot hinges on the fall of the Soviet Union, it will always exist purely in the early 90’s. Pointing out the computers are dated is like complaining about the use of an abacus rather than a calculator in Peaky Blinders.
I actually never mind something that dates a film - and I wonder why so many people consider that a downside.
Every piece of art can only be proof of the time in which they are made. Why does one need the illusion that any art was made yesterday?
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I think it more just comes from the fact that, for the most part, the Bond films have done a good job of not making mention to specific dates to allow them to not be tied to a specific time period. A few films have broken this mold: Goldeneye with its fall of the Soviet Union straddling plotline, Die Another Day with its references for the Sydney Olympics, FYEO dates OHMSS to 1969, The World Is Not Enough mentions the new millennium, and Casino Royale dates The ELLIPSIS text to July 2006. I’m sure there others but I’m not going to recap them all.
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All Bond films are clearly a product of their time - and they couldn’t be anything else.
In fact, I love that particular time capsule-quality of this series a lot. The same story re-imagined through the lens of “today”.
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Yes, not to mention the producers’ mantra of starting the plot with the question, “What’s the number 1 current danger in the world?” and then taking it from there.
And yes, I am bracing myself for someone pointing out that there was no actual danger of global genocide at the hands of fishman or spaceman in the late 70s! But other than those 2, they have pretty much stuck to this rule. And those 2 late 70s entries are arguably the most of their time of the lot for a whole variety of other reasons than the plot!
Actually please recap them all…could be a whole new thread! 
Absolutely. And it is the only franchise with that " problem ". Nothing else lasted even as half as 60 years or has 25 films to choose…
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Well said. Every generation gets ‘their’ Bond.
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Well a number of the pre-Brosnan films specifically reference the Soviet Union and the communist East-bloc, so those would be dated to pre-1990: DN, FRWL, YOLT, DAF, TSWLM, MR, FYEO, OP, AVTAK, TLD. Really forward thinking on ol’ Cubby’s part to not make the Russians the primary villains of his films. Skyfall specifically mentions the handover of Hong Kong, but that was years before the story, Die Another Day references it too. I believe there is also an indirect reference to 9/11 in Die Another Day, while Casino Royale has a direct reference. I believe Spectre lists Bond as having been placed with his foster family in 1983. I can’t think of any others off the top of my head (probably a result of having been sick the last several days) others can fill in more if they want to.
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Nice work, theSpectre.
FYEO also features Margaret Thatcher as the British PM, effectively date-stamping it.
Goldfinger references the Beatles being current.
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o.k., but Mr. Spock hasn´t 25 films, so i´m half right…
Watched a bit of OHMSS earlier yesterday, the film ages like fine wine. Like others in this forum I watch it annually this time of year.
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No, Star Trek has 13 films, 14th and, potentially 15th, on the way, 8 tv series and even more commissioned.
They all also have that quality of being a time capsule for when they were made.
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The Man with the Golden Gun has the energy crisis sub-plot.
Octopussy has a joke reference to a famous British dog trainer.
And of course, TND has … newspapers!
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