Amph 60+ Years of James Bond 007

Right? The QOS wardrobe in general is the best.

But the casual stuff is best.

Steve McQueen-esque in Italy - shawl cardigan, poplin shirt, Levi's STA-Press jeans, and brown suede desert boots from Churches (Ryder III):



Barracuda jacket, midnight blue polo, jeans, brown chukkas:



Which to me is a more classic look than the Skyfall one. But also, I mean, this:

 

Bond also wears a variation of the climax outfit with cream jeans in Haiti that looks even a little bit better.

 

My favourite is Bond's suit in the final scene of Casino Royale. The entire outfit.

I also like the entire outfit from the final scene in Quantum Of Solace - the tie especially.

 

Yes but it suffers an unforgivable faux pas - Bond is wearing brown suede shoes, but a black belt.


The intent was to tie the black polo shirt (in CR and at the end of QoS, it's midnight blue) and the black adidas jacket, but he gets the jacket later so it's a stretch. Really, though, they'd have been better off going a brown belt.

They do it again here, which makes no sense but you barely see it and this is actually probably the easiest Bond outfit to pull off:



Tom Ford Aviator glasses, 7FAM jeans, Tom Ford Polo, Church Ryder III boots, Omega Seamaster Planet Ocean.

 

Rog used to do catalogue work for jumpers



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I think that says it all, really.

 

It's clearly his audition shot for Rupert.

 

I would normally dismiss that photo, but wasn't Moore decked out in a banana robe in his very first Bond scene? With a "JB" emblazoned?

Just picture a Dr. No-era Connery sucker-punching that twerp and throwing him in the water.

 

I think to be fair to Roger Moore, that picture shows more range than his entire Bond career.

 

No. All I can think of are his god-awful Dad puns with a ***t eating grin while wearing a yellow cardigan.

 

yes but you're a Melbournite hipster, so...

 

Sean Connery, on the other hand, never put a foot wrong sartorially...

 

On a related subject, the other day I tried watching the purported Moore-apex, The Spy Who Loved Me, and couldn't enjoy it. All the great sets were undermined by dull heroines and villains, lousy music, and Roger Moore. It has to be the most overrated Bond movie ever. And what was with that grating "Nobody Does It Better" end-credits reprise? Sounded like something out of a Mel Brooks movie!

 

I might be dropping into Oscar Hunt this weekend...

 

You're an Oscar Hunt.

 

........what....does....that even.....

 

We haven't even gotten to the safari suits yet .

 

Speaking of questionable Bond outfits, who's idea was it to put Connery in this?:

 

For any Bond collectors...

Daniel Craig's personal Aston Martin (a 2014 ‘Centenary Edition’ Vanquish Numbered 007) is going to be sold at auction:

https://www.christies.com/lotfinder...onal-aston-martin-a-2014-6137941-details.aspx

 

For any Bond collectors with a spare $600,000 USD.

 

I'll be pretty disappointed if @Ender Sai doesn't submit a bid for that car.

Also:
Bond 25 unlikely to make November 2019 release date, according to Variety

 

Timothy Dalton has revealed the real reason he turned down a third James Bond film in 1995

It would have been interesting to see how different things may have been if Dalton had stayed in the role. I thought both of his movies were better than all the Pierce Brosnan movies that came out after they changed actors. I still don't really know how much of that is on Brosnan and how much is on the writers, etc. And then further down the road, of course, is the fact that Daniel Craig's casting was partially a sign that they wanted to shift tone after the Brosnan era too, so that could have also been different if Dalton had stayed longer.

 

Yeah I think Dalton made the right call though. His two films are such solid entries and they proved you can tell a proper, serious Bond story without 80 year old rapists in safari jackets, or dandies in Italian suits. You don't get a CR or QOS without a LTK, in my view, and given how much I love these three films I'll always defend and appreciate the Dalton era.

Plus, arguably, Living Daylights is the last of the Old School of Bond films, and damned near perfect.

 

I totally agree on The Living Daylights...

 

I don't get how you could not like Licence to Kill. The only negative thing I can say is, if you head to Ibrahim Mustafa's page (theartofibrahimmoustafa.blogspot.com/) he has these nice posters he's drawn for each film (I've used Skyfall and CR as phone backgrounds) but he stuffed LTK up by spelling it License to Kill. The film was marketed under the British spelling in the US.

That's the only drawback.