1. Live and Let Die
2. Goldfinger
3. Nobody Does It Better
4. We Have All The Time In The World
5. You Only Live Twice

Bond, like any self-renewing cultural artifact, reflects the times he's in.  Swinging, glam, bloodthirsty, hammy, sci-fi, gritty, deconstructive, self-parodying - there's a Core Bond that always remains the same, but everything around it changes.

Bond, like any self-renewing cultural artifact, reflects the times he's in.  Swinging, glam, bloodthirsty, hammy, sci-fi, gritty, deconstructive, self-parodying - there's a Core Bond that always remains the same, but everything around it changes.

@Ayatollah: The movie is not great…but Sophie Marceau is pretty much a perfect Bond villain/Bond girl hybrid.

@Ayatollah: The movie is not great…but Sophie Marceau is pretty much a perfect Bond villain/Bond girl hybrid.

Any marathon of those 'meteor' movies should always end with Melancholia.

Any marathon of those 'meteor' movies should always end with Melancholia.

I enjoyed Mars Attacks!, while fully recognizing it's a total mess - it should've been a mean-spirited Airplane for stoners, but has too many draggy scenes of respectable actors hamming it up egregiously where it should have more rapid-fire sight gags.  It's still perfectly good to have on in the background/catch…

I enjoyed Mars Attacks!, while fully recognizing it's a total mess - it should've been a mean-spirited Airplane for stoners, but has too many draggy scenes of respectable actors hamming it up egregiously where it should have more rapid-fire sight gags.  It's still perfectly good to have on in the background/catch…

…on acid.

…on acid.

Yeah - for wanted fugitives, running from teleporting, mind-reading, surveillance-heavy overlords, they seem awfully cozy.

Yeah - for wanted fugitives, running from teleporting, mind-reading, surveillance-heavy overlords, they seem awfully cozy.

The wormhole device did flash greenred as it turned on - so if it had blown up, it would've gone redredred.

The wormhole device did flash greenred as it turned on - so if it had blown up, it would've gone redredred.

This is it - now everything is in focus.  The bomb has been dropped; our leads are at odds, whether they know it or not, and the rippling waves of what went down in this episode will be felt til perhaps even the very end.  In a real sense, the stakes are even higher now than when the season started.

This is it - now everything is in focus.  The bomb has been dropped; our leads are at odds, whether they know it or not, and the rippling waves of what went down in this episode will be felt til perhaps even the very end.  In a real sense, the stakes are even higher now than when the season started.

Implanting enhancements, ones that very probably will alter both body and mind, is not something that happens without repercussions.  Note that he decides to use the tech after the Observer 'taunts' him about how his emotional state - rage, grief, desperation - weaken him, allowing him to make irrational judgements. …

Implanting enhancements, ones that very probably will alter both body and mind, is not something that happens without repercussions.  Note that he decides to use the tech after the Observer 'taunts' him about how his emotional state - rage, grief, desperation - weaken him, allowing him to make irrational judgements. …

I'm extremely loath to hand out propers to the likes of Katy Perry, but that Jane-hair is fucking boss. 
…So I'll kudo her stylist instead.  Great job, KP's stylist!