FROM RUSSIA, WITH LOVE is giving JAMES BOND some fun gadgets. 

THIS

Very much so!

Yes,yes we are!

Can't wait.

Fun Trivia Fact - the studio, United Artists, wanted the producers to have the character's name changed to 'Kitty' instead in post-production with voiceover dubs (because the studio feared that they might have gotten negative backlash in the world press due to the original name of the character - however history shows, just the opposite actually happened, where everyone worldwide got chuckles out of the name instead), actress Honor Blackman & the producers themselves rightly said no to any change to the character's name and also felt a change would have been a disservice to Bond author Ian Fleming, who has just passed away after principal photography filming ended. Good call on their part 👍

Mrs Bigglesworth right? Female cat? Or did I hear wrong?

Oh Behave!

"No, Mini Me don't gnaw on kitty! We don't eat Mini Mr. Bigglesworth. We just pet him and stroke him and love him."

Shhh !

And his son Pedro Armendariz Jr. is in Licence to Kill. He’s billed in the opening credits with Wayne Newton, but only has two scenes.

That’s very sad yet edifying and uplifting to know.

This film doesn’t _introduce_ Q as he’s in the first one. It’s just that Major Boothroyd (Q’s real name) is played by a different actor in _Dr. No_ so this is only the introduction of Desmond Llewelyn in the role Maj. Boothroyd/Q.

And the target in The Sting and a German tank commander in Battle Of The Bulge...

If you've never seen the original Taking of Pelham 123 it's a must see. He's a fantastic villain in that and the movie moves like gangbusters with this great blaring horn-section score. It's also pretty funny.

@@PeterEvansPeteTakesPictures He's certainly a hell of a lot better than 120 mins of Travolta SHOUTING

@@wembleyford Amen to that 🙏 my friend ...

@@PeterEvansPeteTakesPictures Yep, Walter Matthau is also great as the put-upon transit cop. No reason at all to bother with the inferior Travolta remake.

He is called 'Number One' after all

Petting cats is the symbol of a bad guy, check.

The Godfather

​@@scbeachblonde8836 and the claw from inspector gadget. And John Arbuckle. I know we dont see him as an evil character in the comics, bur just trust me on this one

Attention to detail is one of the excellent things about the classic, proper Bond, films. My personal favorite is the double doors, with air gap and padding between them, for M's office to ensure nothing is overheard in the outer office where Moneypenny has her desk.

True.

Do svidaniya, or does it not? 😂

@@Fast_Eddy_Magic Do svidaniya, or do not svidaniya. There is no try svidaniya

More importantly: What, if any, and if not, how much?

@@RicardoRandom691 Well done!

👍🏼 Robert Shaw

Excellent actor who was also in The Deep, Battle of Britain, and so many other great movies. He could play a villain as easily as a hero.

@@sreggird60 one of my Shaw faves is The Taking of Pelham 123.

He was also in 'The Sting'.

The Deep and Guns of Navarrone

? - (James Bond fans know who this is) is the head criminal mastermind/Number One of S.P.E.C.T.R.E. I am getting Dr. Claw from Inspector Gadget vibes. ;-)

@@MLJ7956 You mean Dr Claw has head of S.P.E.C.T.R.E vibes... 🤣🤣

​@@nralbers- that's it 😂

His face will not be shown until many films into the Bond franchise

@@alexius23 - 5th film is when ' the head S.P.E.C.T.R.E. mastermind' is finally first revealed in 'You Only Live Twice'...and Ashleigh may recognize the famous actor playing him too 🎃.

Definitely

Also, it features a character named Pussy Galore and does so with a completely straight face

"you expect me to talk?" "no..i expect you to die.." 😆

I think it's clear that Goldfinger is the best...but I never thought that Bond-films need to have one highlighted. All the films (the real ones written by Fleming, not the modern woke fake ones) create the whole story of Bond and they're all great.

Thunderball right after it is also amazingly good.

Pussy Galore needs a proper study.

Funny she should be mentioned, as she was the wife of the composer.

Her version of Mac the Knife was iconic 😊😊😊😊😊

Also, speaking of Austin Powers...Rosa Klein is the model for Frau Farbissina.

SMERSH actually existed from 1943-1946. Ian Fleming liked to use it in his early Bond books.

Had me too.

Eddie Money?

I think Ashleigh adjusted for inflation. Our money is more pennies than money these days. 😆

Yeah, once it gets to Goldfinger, he's basically an action movie superhero.

Plus Grant was going to win, but Bond found a sore spot (“what lunatic asylum did they get you out of”), which caused the bad guy to go off-plan and make emotional, ego-driven choices.

Yeah, It is one of my favs too. And I'm into the Timothy Dalton movies, specially License to Kill. Another great movie, with a uncharismatic bond, is On Her Majesty's Secret Service. It is the only movie that has real character development for Bond (not accounting for the reboot Cassino Royale and later movies) and the rematch with Blofeld, the return of Spectre. Best screenplay of all bond movies.

I agree. This is also my favorite 007 movie for this very reason. It is a bit more action than a straight spy movie, but it doesn't cross the line into techno-thriller (let alone the exaggerated sort that the Bond movies later became).

@@alexandretorres5087 Lazenby isn't *that* bad. He was pretty good in the 1972 giallo "Who Saw Her Die?"

And she dares to groan at dad jokes.

A comment from someone with exquisite taste in plots, cinema and women? I must be dreaming! Well, at least I am not alone in my Ivory tower...

AR- 7 was replacement Air crew survival gun, the AR-5.

The original designation was the AR-7. The AR stood for Armalite Rifle, the same manufacturer of the AR-15 rifles. The rifle was created as a survival rifle for pilots who have been shot down behind enemy lines both for protection and killing game to eat.

I have one, it is the AR-7.

Corny because people in the 40s 50s 60s were corny

@ReactDG-rk4im or Austin Powers

It's part of the appeal

​​@ReactDG-rk4imdude, the lazenby films are so much more corny and ridiculous. I'm honestly worried they alone might put Ashley off from finishing the franchise.

James Bond was obviously an influence on the style of quip that Arnie became known for. Just imagine Sean Connery saying "Let off some steam, Bennett"!

Including the venerable Aston Martin DB5!

Especially during the Rodger Moore era

Yes, they're slightly missing from the more recent ones

All the women: "Dad jokes? More like Daddy jokes".

I'd recommend she watch OUR MAN FLYNT first - and then watch HUDSON HAWK.

I'd watch James Colburn's 'Flint' spy movies AND Dean Martin's 'Matt Helm' before Austin Powers!!! That's right, I've never watched a Mike Meyers film! Any of them! I draw the line at 'SOPHOMORIC' and BELOW!!! Some movies are just a waste of time, effort, and film!! And I DON'T have to watch something to know it's 'NOT FUNNY'!! Just READ the reviews! Or ask any member of it's target audience...10 yr olds!!? For my money, a movie has to have some level of sophistication. Peace out...

And Matt Helm with Dean Martin But Our Man Flint was more of a parody like Austin Powers will Matt Helm was parallel/ American cousin.

@@macmcleod1188 I know. That's why, I referred to it as a contemporary spoof.

@@macmcleod1188 Some of the James Bond knock-offs, did a better job of capturing the psychedelic/groovy style of the late 1960's than the Bond movies did, so were also big influences on the Austin Powers movies.

"An elegant sport for a more civilized age"

Ashleigh, I highly recommend the short series "The Queen's Gambit". Chess is the centerpiece of the story, but it's really not about chess, it's about how childhood trauma affects a person. Only 7 episodes!

Also chess is very common in Russia and eastern Europe, they dominated chess in that time (until deep blue made it uncool). The chess play was misdirection to the audience think "they are communists"

@@deepermind4884 As soon as Ashleigh said that in the reaction, I wanted to come down here and say "You'd better watch The Queen's Gambit now!"

Ashleigh would probably like speed chess, no waiting around there!

Ashleigh, please, please stick with the Bond movies. They improve, but the first ones are what, 60 years old and it does show.

​@@user-wk8so9xr6sFrom Russia With Love is considered the best by many, including me. But I do love all the Bond movies.

Speaking of Robert Shaw, she should watch The Sting

YES, Deliver bikes in Japan use this to Deliver soba & Ramen to homes. the Counterbalance delivery bike is a JAPANESE invention. mostly mounted on Honda Super CUB bikes.

Good comment. When she said that all I thought was "physics". lol, glad to see I wasn't quite alone.

Some don't like It, but It has the great presence of Sir Christopher Lee who died not so long ago....or... did he ?🤫

But it was also a career killer in many cases with the exception of Jane Seymour, Halle Berry, Diana Rigg and Honor Blackman.

@@vetarlittorf1807 It wasn't a career killer as most Bond girls didn't have a career prior to Bond. The ones who did (and you forgot a bunch, like Michelle Yeoh, Eva Green, etc.) kept on making movies after Bond. For the others, well, since they're being cast primarily as eye-candy, it's not really a surprise if they don't have the acting chops required to make it long term.

Olga Kurylenko made movies before a after being a Bond girl too

@@vetarlittorf1807 to be honest Halle Berry always had a career before being a Bond girl. In fast I believe she was the only one with an Oscar before being a Bond girl

the problem is the first Bond Girl (Ursula Andress ended up in a ton of B-soft porn movies...

Personally, I love Moonraker as the most unashamedly silly movie in the series, while strangely being shockingly dark too

Octopussy has to be my fav.

Octopussy and Live & Let Die are my favourites

Octopussy and A View to a Kill

​@@weldonwin Love Moonraker and how it unabashedly embraces the tounge in cheek humor

agree - James Bond is about the fashion, cars, travel, sets, gadgets, sex and luxury of that specific time. Don't worry too much about the plot

He likes ....GOOOoooooold !

liked the Character KARIM , too bad his sons not in JB movies. better than Felix Lighter.

Felix Leiter is great. Especially the Dr. No version.

​@@vetarlittorf1807Leiters are OK, until they stop working (ho ho!)

Also keeps the nicotine smell off of the fingers

That, and to see if she'll do "2010: The Year We Make Contact" (1984).

Yeah, I’ve been hoping she would do 2010, elevated or not. Roy Schneider and James McEachin have some great politicsl dialog and Helen Mirren (1/2 russian) plays a great russian commander. Easier to digest than 2001.

@@johnbuchanon7717 OMG Helen Mirren in that flight suit and Russian accent, 16 year old me was completely smitten (and why not).

His voice is fantastic!

Flesh Gordon....wink wink.

If I recall correctly, they were also concocting fake missions to justify, in the mind of the Nazi high command, why the Allies had so much intelligence, when the real reason was that Turing, Welchman, etc., at Bletchley Park, had broken the Enigma and Lorenz ciphers, one of the biggest secrets of the 20th century.

Don't forget The Sting, ya folla?? Lol

Same here. It's a real movie, not a cartoon ending with a massive battle after two hours of skiing, scuba diving and gadgets!

And includes yet another James Bond: Timothy Dalton!

FLASH !!!!! Ahhhhhhh, Ahhhh !!!!

Watching Flash Gordon opens the doors for her to watch TED

@@darkchia00 another plus!

I had the Queen soundtrack on vinyl 😊💓

The actor who played Quint in Jaws and Grant in FRWL is Robert Shaw. Check out his IMDB, stared in many classics and died at 51, way too early.

@@brianknight7897 yes, I’m familiar with Mr. Shaw, but thank you for trying to enlighten me.

the Flintstones did it First w/ Madame YES.

"Shot" is my favorite clousseau movie. I'm not sure we're spelling it right... I have no CLUE, SO... there ya go.

@@markplott4820 🎶 The man called Flintstone 🎶 A whole animated feature film featuring Fred Flintstone and family in an exotic spy caper, that shows how pervasive the spy craze was becoming back then. It was released the same year as Our Man Flint starring James Coburn, another semi-parody of James Bond. Flint got a sequel and actually gets a mention in the Austin Powers films. Some of them were really terrible and have been completely forgotten. Dean Martin was Matt Helm, and Vincent Price was Dr Goldfoot (and the Bikini Machine).

Yeah in the fist one Clouseau wasn’t even the main character, but Peter Sellers did such a good job that the rest are about Clouseau. “A Shot in the Dark” and “The Pink Panther Strikes Again” are really funny.

Well, til the Craig movies.

@@doughbafett I don’t count them, No Time to Die is not even Bond to me. Casino Royale was perfect, everything else had been path downhill

​@@CallOfCutie69- originally Sylvia Trench was supposed to be in even more Bond films as the recurring character and a big main role for her was slated for the 4th or 5th film (which were eventually Thunderball & You Only Live Twice) whereas she was supposed to be kidnapped by S.P.E.C.T.R.E. agents & Bond had to go rescue her. Shame that the original outline for her character was eventually scrapped. It did sound intriguing though. Oh well, the Connery Bond films that we got were very entertaining nonetheless.

Dr Craw?

Best name, for certain...but I'm partial to Dianna Rigg.

​@otherstar1 Too bad she was in the Lazenby one that everyone forgets. For those that don't know, Bond MARRIES her in that movie. The title is THUNDERBALL, isn't it?

@@lawr5764 It was "On Her Majesties Secret Service." Yeah, it's the one most forget, but I think it's highly under-rated and it's among my favorite Bond films.

​@@otherstar1Diana was my crush and I left the theatre in a bad mood after that ending! Daniela Bianchi Is a classy chick and did well for a model, but Dame Diana Rigg was a real actress, versatile, smart, funny and with exquisite RP diction, good singer too. Did I say crush ? Ok, It shows...

Timothy Dalton was a more serious Bond after Roger Moore, who kept Bond more grounded and semi-realistic in his era but still had enough of that playfulness to keep his two Bond films entertaining. Pierce Brosnan who came after Dalton was a mixture of all the Bond who came before (he had the suaveness of Connery, the romanticism of Lazenby, the campiness of Moore and the seriousness of Dalton and even a little bit of Remington Steele, the TV series he was known for, thrown in as well...yet Brosnan made his Bond tenure all uniquely his own). Lastly Daniel Craig, who came after Brosnan completely rebooted the franchise & was the most serious of them all (and his Bond films sadly misses some of the fun factor that was found in other Bond films, in my opinion). I only hope that any new Bond actor & Bond film (if the franchise is going to continue that is - the producers & the last film's director might have unintentionally/or intentionally depending on one's point of view, "shot themselves in the foot" with the ending of the last Bond film - no spoilers. It is possible that might have alienated a lot of long time die hard Bond fans worldwide with that ending. The producers & writers may have to course correct to keep the long time fandom happy and coming back - but that entire topic is for different discussion for another day), going forward, I hope that the producers & writers brings some of the fun back into Bond (that was greatly missed in Craig's era). The producers & all involved do have a tough job ahead of them that's for sure. Time will tell how the franchise shapes up in the years to come. Peace ✌️

@@MLJ7956 Nice write up! Lazenby and Craig are probably the closest to how Bond is in the Fleming books (though it's been awhile since I've read them), but I enjoy watching, and re-watching all of the Bond films no matter who is playing Bond.

Sixty. But, thanks for playing.

There are films that are 100 years old, and are amazing. 😂

I was born in 62 and now I’m 70!😲. Noooo!!!!! 😊

This needs to be the top comment as not a lot of people know this fact. 👍

As well as "The Sting".

@@joebalusikiii5811 And Taking of Pelham 123, a personal fave!

@@PeterEvansPeteTakesPictures don't forget "The Deep" with Nick Nolte & Jacqueline Bisset!

Flesh Gordon would be more interesting. Just sayin...

Daniela was the most beautiful Bond girl for those who value Classic features over other charms and for a fashion model she acted just fine. Comparisons with bona fide actresses like Dame Diana Rigg and others would be unfair. Best bad girl? Fatima Blush anyone?

I sorta OK with it too.

Robert Shaw. Also played the Panzer tanks commander in Battle of the Bulge.

Bond showed him the way to go home.

Actually the guy with the cat is technically played by two people, with the voice provided by actor Eric Pohlmann, while the body is actually played by Anthony Dawson, who portrayed Professor Dent in the previous film