For Your Eyes Only
Added 2022-10-11 04:01:00 +0000 UTCIt's back to basics Bond with this next entry in the Moore commentary series, 1981’s For Your Eyes Only. Topics include: train sounds, the IRREPLACEABLE character Luigi Ferrara, a shirtless Charles Dance, Topol running the table on the character Tevye in Fiddler on the Roof and more!
Movie starts at...6:06
Comments
was quite sad at the time they missed the guy who plays prologue Blofeld is Lobot (thought that would be catnip for them), but glad it finally came up in the Superman 2 episode
Jon Ryves
2025-07-13 14:19:55 +0000 UTCI love Sheena Easton's bond theme (sad it doesn't do anything for them), but it's SO '80s with the reverb and the synths. This is one of those bond themes I crank on Spotify, just like that. I like that it's less of a formulaic bond song with more focus on the vocal melody and just a sweeter vibe, it's a soaring love song after all. I'm not saying it's Nobody Does It Better quality, but it's the same idea, a love song and not a sinister song with a big orchestral section. P.S. This is definitely the second-best Moore bond, after the Spy Who Loved Me.
Hendrix
2024-04-25 17:35:17 +0000 UTCLate to the party, but as for the question, “has anyone had sex in a bobsled?”, of course. It’s the name of my favorite porn, “ Cool Cummings.”
Ryan Foulk
2023-11-02 20:00:09 +0000 UTCDefinitely the best Moore Bond - always has been
Dan!Dan!Dan!
2022-11-03 12:01:50 +0000 UTCI agree, and it always has been the fave (the only one we owned on vhs when I was a kid of the Moore's)
Nikki Lev
2022-10-30 06:07:27 +0000 UTCSo I have to say…unpopular opinion I guess…this has been my favorite of the Moore Bonds so far.
Brandon Skidmore
2022-10-22 02:47:28 +0000 UTCThe last time Tracy got brought up in the franchise was after Felix and Della’s wedding in Licence To Kill. Felix says to Della about Bond “he was married once but that was along time ago.” There are possible references to her in GoldenEye and TWINE but they’re vague and could be referring to other women. I have a theory that LTK was supposed to be the last movie where the actor is playing the same Bond who first appeared in Dr. No and the next movie was going to be a reboot but there’s a lot of evidence disproving that haha.
Spencer Kindra
2022-10-17 10:23:44 +0000 UTCAlright but no one is discussing Ben’s rejection of visiting the Goldeneye house in Jamaica and I’ve replayed that part about 6x
Chas
2022-10-16 03:52:10 +0000 UTCStill laughing over the biathlon tangent that devolved into a discussion of how wild multi-discipline sporting competitions are. But can't believe they missed the PENTATHALON! With fencing, running, shooting, riding, and swimming it's the most epic AND has the best origin story - skills needed by a 19th century soldier trapped behind enemy lines. Barry Lyndon eat your heart out.
Nicole Journal
2022-10-15 15:44:06 +0000 UTCThe whole car chase scene early in the movie does in fact take place in Spain. But it was shot it Corfu, thus that is why it looks like Greece.
Neil
2022-10-15 01:30:11 +0000 UTCI had so much fun listening to this episode while watching the movie. I know there are better Bond movies but this one has been my favorite for as long as I can remember. Love the ongoing theme of birds interacting with people in the Moore movies.
Nate Liles
2022-10-13 18:55:12 +0000 UTCIt is grounded, albeit only by the standards of the Moore-era Bond films…
MoCoSwede
2022-10-12 21:16:10 +0000 UTCSo we are DEFINITELY getting a VHS Great Train Journeys of Great Britain commentary bonus episode. This is all I can think about.
Bern Roche Farrelly
2022-10-12 12:45:12 +0000 UTCIn surprised the boys have never brought up the movie Sanctum 3D. A 3D underwater drama produced by James Cameron. Could have made a decent bonus ep.
Joshua Ochoa
2022-10-12 05:06:21 +0000 UTCI'm thinking part of that comes from how in the Moores, there's so many of these very isolated set pieces like the hockey stuff that are this huge change in location and focus and enemies but *only* for like 45 to 75 seconds, and then it will shock you how much it never happened. The gators in Live and Let Die are more fun but they're kinda this as well, a lot of other things kind of in that zone
Rad Rodge
2022-10-12 04:16:50 +0000 UTCI really hope Griffin, David and Ben see this comment before the next episode It was a missed opportunity that in the Austin Powers franchise that they never named a character Octo-gina.
John
2022-10-12 00:29:57 +0000 UTCDoug’s living up to his picture
Jack o Diamonds
2022-10-11 23:11:43 +0000 UTCAlso, this continues the Moore Bond tradition of having insanely impressive stunts treated with all the seriousness of a Saturday morning cartoon. I don't care that that's not really Moore hanging onto a helicopter over London in close proximity to several buildings; that is still like 2/3rds of the way to the MI: Fallout helicopter stuff, they did it in *1981*, and they burn it in the first scene like it's an afterthought.
Douglas Wykstra
2022-10-11 21:09:11 +0000 UTC*Bond kills Blofeld by picking up his wheelchair with a helicopter's landing gear and dropping him down a smokestack.* *15 minutes pass* "So yeah, this is one of the more grounded, realistic Bond films..."
Douglas Wykstra
2022-10-11 21:03:52 +0000 UTCSo much happens in these movies, and they all seem so long and boring. I feel like the best encapsulation of this is how there is a scene in which James Bond is attacked by three hockey players on an ice rink, he manages to incapacitate each of them, the final one by running into him with a Zamboni, and this all happens so fast that no one on the podcast even acknowledges it.
Douglas Wykstra
2022-10-11 21:01:33 +0000 UTCRelease the Bond rankings, David
Charlie Kessler
2022-10-11 20:14:07 +0000 UTCNobody Fiddles it Roofer hahahaha
Rad Rodge
2022-10-11 19:21:03 +0000 UTC“We should do all the Bonds” don’t toy with me
Charlie Kessler
2022-10-11 17:04:23 +0000 UTCI think my favorite part of this movie is when the "3D Identifier Computer" says at the bottom of the screen "This machine thanks you for your service! G O O D B Y E" Absolute bonkers shit.
Kerry Benton
2022-10-11 15:04:15 +0000 UTCEven if they haven't seen it, it's nice to hear someone talk about Thirteen Lives. Easily Ron Howards best film since Rush.
Elliot Adler
2022-10-11 14:36:37 +0000 UTCI would LOVE an Oops! All Trains episode where you watch and review the VHS train footage or talk about different NY/UK subway trains!
Allie (antlersantlers)
2022-10-11 14:05:28 +0000 UTCThe Countess (Cassandra Harris) was Pierce Brosnan's first wife. Sadly died from cancer, but there's that Bond connection. Brosnan would visit her on set, met Cubby and the seed for the future was planted.
Damimoon Sunbeam
2022-10-11 10:18:28 +0000 UTCThis definitely felt like the worst age gap…
Joshua Ochoa
2022-10-11 06:29:31 +0000 UTCYou could do a whole series of “Bond B-sides.” On Her Majesty’s Secret Service (gotta update that name now), Never Say Never Again, the episode of Climax! that adapts Casino Royale (Peter Lorre plays Le Chiffre), and The Rock (we all know who Sean Connery is really playing in that movie).
Ian
2022-10-11 06:02:56 +0000 UTCI have to take issue with the two friends’ statement that this is the first Moore film to acknowledge that Bond was once married- this fact is also brought up by Anya in The Spy Who Loved Me (in one of Moore’s better acted scenes).
MoCoSwede
2022-10-11 04:32:55 +0000 UTCNOBODY EYES IT ONLY-ER!
Jordan B. Anderson
2022-10-11 04:17:54 +0000 UTC
