Bought a Watch ;)

[Fox 6]

You should go to your local swimming pool just so you can tell time underwater.

[KillerGremlin]

Originally Posted by Fox 6

You should go to your local swimming pool just so you can tell time underwater.

Haha, don't think I won't do it .

I watched Goldfinger the other day...and at the beginning part where Bond gets out of the water and he checks the time on his Rolex Submariner...totally awesome.



How iconic is that? Bond totally iconized diver watches.

I was considering going with the black-faced model of the watch I ordered, but yellow just seems so modern and flashy...and I already have an all black watch. Black is definitely classic though.

[BreakABone]

Bond has iconized a lot of things.
Beautiful women. Fast cars. Expensive gadgets.

The life every guy wants to live.

But yeah he also has some pretty awesome watches (outside of the gadgets)

[KillerGremlin]

Originally Posted by BreakABone

Bond has iconized a lot of things.
Beautiful women. Fast cars. Expensive gadgets.

The life every guy wants to live.

He's a playboy...Fleming's Bond character was written when the iconic playboy ideal was rising. I wish I could have been around in the 60s, those seemed like a fun time to live.

[BreakABone]

Originally Posted by KillerGremlin

He's a playboy...Fleming's Bond character was written when the iconic playboy ideal was rising. I wish I could have been around in the 60s, those seemed like a fun time to live.

But you wouldn't know me.
So automatically drops the 60s to the post 85 era of suckitude.

and Fleming's Bond from what I understand is more Daniel Craig and less everyone else.

[KillerGremlin]

Originally Posted by BreakABone

But you wouldn't know me.
So automatically drops the 60s to the post 85 era of suckitude.

Don't worry, if I ever invent a "time machine" I'll invite you.

Originally Posted by BreakABone

and Fleming's Bond from what I understand is more Daniel Craig and less everyone else.

Fleming's Bond is introspective, compassionate, racist...and not nearly as interesting as cinema Bond. In my opinion, the better Bond films (From Russia With Love, Goldfinger, Goldeneye) surpass the books by quite a bit. Fleming's Bond actually is an interesting character, and you get to go inside Bond's head in the novels. But, I prefer the womanizing, cracking one-liners, super-hero-esque Bond that we see in the movies.

[BreakABone]

Originally Posted by KillerGremlin

Don't worry, if I ever invent a "time machine" I'll invite you.



Fleming's Bond is introspective, compassionate, racist...and not nearly as interesting as cinema Bond. In my opinion, the better Bond films (From Russia With Love, Goldfinger, Goldeneye) surpass the books by quite a bit. Fleming's Bond actually is an interesting character, and you get to go inside Bond's head in the novels. But, I prefer the womanizing, cracking one-liners, super-hero-esque Bond that we see in the movies.

I always wondered... is there ever a point where cinema Bond becomes the real Bond and book Bond becomes the basis.

I mean more people are familar with cinema Bond than book Bond, and would find the books to be a bit different than the movies. There are those who complain the movies are too different from the book, but in this case I think that the movies have outlasted the books make them more of the definitive version.

But alas, I am still awesome.