I’m a little late to this reply, but ironically, I didn’t catch COVID until after my autumn trip to Canada.  So, it couldn’t have been my taste buds.

I’ve been to that McDonalds on the Champs Elysees.  Not to eat, but because as of 2008, it was one of the few places in the area where you could just walk in and use the toilet.

Was anyone else here particularly disturbed by the scene where the women gets sucked into the computer and transformed into an android?   I could never watch this scene as a kid.

While I understand some don’t like Octopussy, this is the first I’ve heard anyone complain about For Your Eyes Only.  In my mind, that’s the best of Moore’s Bond films.

From his perspective, it couldn’t even have been a shitty job.  He got to hang out in the Bahamas for awhile, doing a role that really didn’t require much of him.

Adult me is still quite fond of Maud Adams.  A Bond girl so sexy they used her twice.

Yeah, that opening teaser is one of the best.  It’s pretty ridiculous when you think about it, but it just hits all the beats perfectly.

I’ve always liked Octopussy. There’s the obvious reason- it was the first James Bond movie I ever saw, and the only point of comparison I had was Never Say Never Again. I recall either Showtime or Cinemax airing them back-to-back in a “Battle of the Bonds” and not having seen any others, I couldn’t understand why…

Another commonly mispronounced company name, although they may have accepted what people call them in the Anglosphere: Addidas (AH-DEE-dahs, not a-DEED-us).

I think part of this is a Vermont-specific issue, maybe even moreso a Burlington-specific issue.

To be fair, that statement came from one of the founders who no longer has any direct involvement in the company, even though his name and likeness are still used.

Unlike most Bond allies, his character actually survived in the movie. And he killed the main villain too.

Plus, Stoker’s Dracula isn’t even Romanian (or Wallachian), he’s from a Transylvanian Hungarian minority group.

I guess we’re excluding made-for-TV movies, because I remember seeing that 1970s BBC version of Dracula as a kid, and Louis Jourdan was absolutely terrifying in the title role.  He brought a kind of dispassionate cruelty to the role that you can also see when he played Kamal Khan in Octopussy.

Except, Kevin Bacon made his debut in Animal House.  Not a horror film, but he did get trampled and flattened by a panicked crowd.

I thought Mackey’s pharmacy where I lived growing up was surely the only pharmacy that would rent movies, but I guess I was completely wrong on that one.

I’m glad the article didn’t forget his “Snappy Answers to Stupid Questions”. Thanks to him, I added the word “Chutzpah” to my vocabulary at probably age 8 (although I surely pronounced it incorrectly), from his “Chutzpah Is...” series that appeared occasionally in MAD.

No Honeymoon in Vegas? That’s at least mid-level Nicholas Cage weird. May I remind you of this scene?

Yet another reason why this review feels like it was written from within a particular bubble.

And while it’s possible to quibble about the weirdly sci-fi mix of period signifiers (white boy afros exist beside cellphones),