>is a car salesman literally who in Australia
>somehow catches wind of a Bond audition happening
>He goes to it and scams the producers by lying to them about acting credits
>gets anxious and admits he lied but the director laughs at his face and tells him he's going to cast him purely out of how ballsy he was
>he gets the role, movie makes a lot of money
>Is offered 1 million in advance and a 7 movie deal
>turns it down because they wouldn't let him have a beard in the premiere red carpet
Has there ever been a more bizarre story in Hollywood history?
Lazenby is based, no two ways about it. OHMSS top 5 Bond movie ez
I've never understood the boner for Lazenby. The movie is good but Lazenby was fricking terrible as a frontman.
It’s my 3rd favorite bond film
The rest are just flicks
Post your ranking NOW.
People who say this just get off on praising it because of it's underdog status
Nah, there are no Bond films. They are only movies at most.
All of them are films. Top of the line entertainment.
Ohmss is good but Lazenby is the worst part of it, worse than Craig and therefore the worst bond
Nah, as bad as Lazenby was, he still ON PAPER had some Bond characteristics. Craig is the worst. He is a miscast, short, blonde and ugly with no charisma and destroyed the character and spit on his grave for 15 years.
Nah, Craig acts circles around Lazenby and was better looking as Bond
The madman.
>You gave me the best gift....a future.
>then the ending happens
This was way too heavy for a Bond movie. What the frick were they thinking? How did 60's boomers react to this?
His reaction to her dead is even more heavy. He knew that something like this would happenned to her because guys like him do not get happy endings.
I love how Bond sneers "Blodfeld!" before getting into the car ready to give chase; it's as though he is aware of his own seeming immortality but has is shattered when he discovers that Tracy is not.
>it's as though he is aware of his own seeming immortality
He doesn't care. He started caring about such things when he found the courage to settle down. And even then only when it concerns others.
>How did 60's boomers react to this?
my mom said she left the theater crying hysterically
I'm still curious how Connery would have changed his version of Bond to work in this much more serious story.
Connery was an excellent dramatic actor and his Bond was what OHMSS needed. The whole story is written for his version, anyway. Him being older helps as he finally sheds the bachelor persona and falls in love only for it to be torn from him. Connery would have made DAF more hard edged and a revenge flick like a Bronson movie instead of the course correction campy nonsense it ended up being due to Lazenby existing. It would have been absolutely kino and with those 8 movies under his belt, Connery would have an iron legacy as Bond. End the DAF movie with him finally killing Blofeld and moving on despite this tragedy. Then hand it to Moore to lighten things up until Moonraker and then give it to Dalton from FYEO. The better timeline..
Preach!
sounds exactly something Bond would do
Connery was incredibly bored by Thunderball, unless he was willing to put new energy into the role I honestly don't think he'd have been a better choice.
i love the cutting of this scene, and I don't think Connery could have done the wide-eyed helplessness as well as Lazenby
>tfw Dalton was offered OHMSS but turned it down because he felt he was too young
>he looked like this
OHMSS with Dalton would have been the best Bond movie of all time and indisputably so.
we need to get to that timeline
In a better world, he'd take over after Connery and continue either until the end of the 80's or give it over to Brosnan to do a couple in the 80's but I'd prefer if he had the 70's and 80's all to himself. Would have possibly surpassed Connery as the definitive James Bond.
No, Dalton was right. He WAS too young then. Bond should be in his 30s
Dalton never looked 'in his 20s'. He could easily have played older. Pic related is him around 24.
Ignore me, I'm moronic.
Dalton was wasted on those 2 subpar movies. I wish we got to see more
better than any Craigslop
He made two of the best and most CINEMA movies of the Bond franchise. Stop going off on YouTube rankings made by Bond grifters and watch them with an open mind.
License to Kill is more an extended episode of Miami Vice than a Bond movie. The Living Daylights is classic 007, though.
kino.
That was him at 22 and he looked like a fricking father of four. He could have done it. Go watch a movie he did around that time. He absolutely should have played Bond.
Christ how on earth does one have such god tier genetics.
>Connery would have made DAF more hard edged and a revenge flick like a Bronson movie instead of the course correction campy nonsense it ended up being due to Lazenby existing.
That's what I don't get, however. He had an opportunity to revise his portrayal of the character in the immediate post-tragedy movie yet he just carried on as usual.
It was more the producers not wanting to deal with the elephant in the room with regards to Blofeld killing Bond's wife. It was a major game changer character-wise and the only real pay-off one could do was have Blofeld killed off by Bond and they wanted to keep Blofeld around, even though DAF was the last film before legal shit basically took Spectre and Blofeld off the table from the franchise*,
*During the Moore years, they tried to wrap up the entire plot thread of OHMSS and Blofeld killing Bond's wife by having an extended cold opening to one of the Moore films, where a character who is only seen from behind that is explictly supposed to be Blofeld, but who's name is never stated/face never shown, kidnaps Moore at his wife's grave to torture/kill him. Moore ends up escaping and through various plot contrivances, Not-Blofeld is thrown to his death from a helicopter at the end of the cold opening, giving Bond his revenge at long last and permanently killing Blofeld off.
For Your Eyes Only, I think.
Was the best part of the movie
True
Lazenby behaving himself and staying for DaF would have been better than what we got also. Feels bad to be in the 3rd best timeline.
What's the first best?
>they went from this to Diamonds Are Forever
Jesus
I like the theory that Bond is a code name and Lazenby and Dalton are the same guy but the rest are different
Lazenby did say "this never happened to the other fellow"
I hate that scene so fricking much.
He was obviously talking about 006.
Damn, Pierce was such an excellent James Bond. The franchise died when they replaced him.
Sounds like fricking with him for basically conning them into getting the role.
They were so good together. I would have wanted a prequel with Sean Bean and Pierce Brosnan.
I've thought the exact same thing, glad it wasn't just me
That doesn't make sense
Moore literally put flowers on Tracey's grave
>we have all the time in the world
I was teared up watching this scene. I think that's probably the most cruel thing that can ever happen to a man. If you read the novels, it hits even harder the way Fleming describes the scenery around them while this happened. A life ended, another destroyed but the world keeps on turning, uncaring of the tragedy that just happened.
Ohmss may not be best Bond movie, but is certainly best movie from Bond series. Its music, cinematography, is top notch
Yikes... this desperately needs some poat-production color grading...
How much money are you still in debt from film school
It looks great you tactless hipster homosexual
Diana Rigg had some nice legs.
What is it about a shapely female leg that pleases me so much?
Neuron activation. It's like asking why you like breathing.
I don't like breathing.
Perhaps you're a heterosexual. Seems unlikely, though.
Bullshitting his way into becoming Bond is the most Bond-like thing any of the actors have done
Becoming Bond these days is very calculated. It's the reason why I can't see Eon choosing a black actor any time soon.
It's not though. It's whoever Barbara gets wet for and should he basically prostitute himself out to her, he gets the part. That's why a groomed twink like AtJ is the frontrunner and most likely the new Bond.
>That's why a groomed twink like AtJ is the frontrunner and most likely the new Bond.
Anya-Taylor Joy?
Would she make a good Bond girl? For what role? KGB ballerina assassin?
Brilliant art curator who gets involved with a series of forged paintings.
Sectoid-human hybrids start looking better and better.
>nuCom
Never reply to me again.
I wanna bite those thighs
Losing appreciation of strong yet feminine women like this is one of the many signs that the dominant culture is unwell.
Are we talking about Barbara here?
Just her general demeanour and such. Not her alleged morals, as described by a poster above, or personality.
You don't know her though. How did you surmise this?
From the article excerpt.
Just makes her sound like a Karen and doubt it's true. Even so, it's only because she's a nepo baby who can fire anyone on a whim.
>Karen
Go back
I'll admit that was ill advised and you're right to call me out on it but I felt like since we all know what it means and that she fits the criteria might as well use that term.
>nuspeak
Shoo, shoo.
Did you guys know he voiced pic related in Batman Beyond?
>We got up there at eight in the morning, I insisted he was on set, I sat him in the car and made him rehearse and rehearse all day long, and I broke him down until he was absolutely exhausted, and by the time we shot it at five o'clock, he was exhausted, and that's how I got the performance. He thought that was me being unpleasant to him, but I couldn't say, "Now, listen George, I'm going to do this because it's the best way to get you to react." Maybe I did things like that all the way through, because I knew how to get emotions out of him, but he didn't seem to think that that was fair.
IIRC the director didn't like Lazenby at all because of him being a complete amateur, this definitely just sounds like he was fricking with him
This. Lazenby was male model with a single chocolate commercial under his belt, and was pissed that the director and cast were ignoring his notes … as if he knew anything to begin with.
> Rigg was also quoted as saying, "I can no longer cater for his obsession with himself. He is utterly, unbelievably ... bloody impossible."
Also he was, basically, a proto hippy poser who wanted to do “serious” work with Dennis Hopper. To be fair, Lazenby did somewhat later regret being such a jerk over the gig, had a mentalbreakdown, became an alcoholic, married a heiress and then pro tennis player Pam Shriver, so didn’t do too badly for himself
Once average Aussie shitposter
james bond is a power fantasy for beta cucks
Marvel movies are power fantasies for troons like you
Say that to my watch collection and not online and see what happens.
those are cool, they remind me of the ones on sale at walmart
They're all the same guy in the same continuity. Connery to Brosnan. Craig is Jason Bourne but called Bond to get people to watch his shit movies.
Know how we know that you are a beta without you saying that you are a beta?
the story behind quantum of solace.
Fassbender would be an amazing bond, but the british hate him because he's irish so i'll never happen.
He's too old anyway. Cavill is the best bet for fun and exciting Bond but he's not going to touch a franchise headed by a woman again.
>too old
bond is about 40, heading into 00 retirement age in the books.
Also Cavill is too fat to be bond.
>but the british hate him because he's irish so i'll never happen.
Who do you Brosnan is. He's more Irish than Fassbender.
brosnan is a scottish surname.
Brosnan is obviously Irish you fricking moron while no one thinks Fassbender is
brosnon is a scotch surname and he sounds english.
>he sounds english.
So does Fassbender. He loves larping as an Englishman.
...Wait until you find out about 'Connery'
>average 15 year old in 1950s
natty?
He looks very young for a Scottish shipyard worker.
It's gaelic, and both Ireland and Scotland are gaelic countries. Brosnan was born in Dublin and raised a Catholic.
just like your average scotsman.
Reminder that OHMSS is a Christmas film
Is that true? That’s awesome. Could even make a good movie.
Orson Welles also got his first theatrical roles by lying about past experience despite having just graduated from school and having no experience outside school plays
Guess I'm learning all kinds of fun facts today
They actually did but by the end it's just George regretting his life choices and crying a bit over the woman he let get away due to commiting to Bond and his eventual self sabotage when he had the world at his feet.
As I recall he employed some total moron pot head hippy as his agent
>Bond is finished don't sign the contract
So what do you have lined up for me?
>Lol nothing
He's been pissed ever since
I honestly would have killed the agent and then myself.
best bond movie btw
Jenny Agutter taught him on the job.
>tfw agutter will never teach you on the job
Whos that qt?
Filename...
Her name is filename?
>wears a toupee in your path
>car salesman
Well that explains it
>COMES THE MORNING AND THE HEADLIGHTS FADE AWAY
>HUNDRED THOUSAND CHANGES, EVERYTHING'S THE SAME
>Best bonds
1.Connery
2.Dalton
3.Brosnan
4.Moore
5.Lazenby
6.Craig
>Best films
The Spy Who Loved me
GoldenEye
The Living Daylights
OHMSS
From Russia With love
>Best theme songs
Nobody Does It Better
Live and Let die
Diamonds Are Forever
Thunderball
Tomorrow Never Dies
Pretty accurate to my tastes, but I would put some other songs (like the GoldenEye one)
Post your list then anon
GoldenEye
Nobody Does it Better
The World Is Not Enough
You Know My Name
Snake Eater
The Skiing scene was fricking awesome. Craig's in No Time to Cuck was fricking terrible. How do you frick up a skiing scene apart from all the shitty color grading these movies have
Eon isn't Hollywood, it's Pinewood.
Absolute mad lad. Also happens to be the best Bond in the best Bond movie.
Refer to
>boomers could just walk into an audition and bullshit their way to million dollar contracts in the 70s
well yeah boomers were ambitious and worked extremely hard. each successive generation has become more entitled, whiny, and just super homosexual in general
Am I the only one who finds the Sir Hillary Bray segment in OHMSS hilarious? The bizarre and humorous discussion vis-a-vis 'gold balls', the effete Bray being able to keep up with the girls' overt sexual innuendos instead of getting flustered like a normal man would,
Sounds like he just wanted the affirmation that he was handsome enough to become a bond actor if he wanted to. When he admitted to lying, he actually wanted an out. But then had to go trough with it. Then suddenly he was looking at an entire career as an actor, which isn't actually what he wanted. He made up the beard story to get out of it.
What a punk. He asks for a free sandwich, gets given a ticket for free gourmet meals for life, and throws the ticket out and says he only wanted the sandwich.