Live and Let Die
Added 2022-08-21 04:01:00 +0000 UTCCheckmates! Presenting this year’s March Madness winner: the James Bond films starring Sir Roger Moore. Griff, David, and Ben kick off the new commentary series with 1973’s Live and Let Die. Topics include: the best Bond songs, a fear of sharks, Tee Hee’s robot arm, local possums, the career of Geoffrey Holder, and more!
Movie starts at...12:18
Comments
Relistening to this in the hellscape that is 2025, wondering: will Spielberg finally get to make a Bond film?
Scott Marshall
2025-03-03 19:34:06 +0000 UTCWhat I heard, Ben: She just picked the lover’s cardigan.
Tony Jennaway
2023-06-07 06:14:12 +0000 UTCthe best bond themes are all from brosnan tbh
Austin McDougle
2022-11-04 02:19:18 +0000 UTCDavid is so right about the Lazenby movie. That thing slaps on every level
Josh Burcham
2022-09-01 16:54:19 +0000 UTCDudes rock
Étienne Fillion-Sauvé
2022-09-01 04:16:37 +0000 UTCWe agree with David about FROM RUSSIA - it’s my favorite Connery. I confess that the Bond I’ve seen more than any other is THUNDERBALL.
Dean Eaton
2022-08-30 18:32:58 +0000 UTCThis is my favorite Bond movie.
Adam
2022-08-29 20:47:11 +0000 UTCCasino royale IS the BEST
Jack o Diamonds
2022-08-29 18:35:47 +0000 UTCY’all gonna have to talk about cannonball run, and Hal needham and how smoky and the b was inspired by the Moore bonds! whoo! 70s!
Jack o Diamonds
2022-08-29 18:35:11 +0000 UTCDavid, you are correct in saying "From Russia with Love" is the best Bond movie.
JS
2022-08-28 01:53:47 +0000 UTCWow, speaking of racist Sheriffs, Griffin is really trying to police the possum presence in Brooklyn bars. I think it might be time for someone to watch Zootopia again!
Nicole Journal
2022-08-25 15:03:27 +0000 UTCDiamonds Are Forever was Connery’s last OFFICIAL Bond film. Never Say Never Again wasn’t made by Eon studios or produced by the Broccolis. So it does and it doesn’t count as a Bond film.
Spencer Kindra
2022-08-25 05:08:48 +0000 UTCI'm pretty sure that David says that Diamonds are forever is Connery's last bond film and I had to question whether "Never Say Never Again" was a weird fever dream I had. It kind of is.
Max
2022-08-24 14:03:32 +0000 UTC13 Days of 007 on TBS? My dad and I watched James Bond movies in the 90s this way.
JS
2022-08-24 00:14:54 +0000 UTCHas anyone watched these since they were 12? This should be fascinating. 😂
Chris Fyvie
2022-08-23 21:58:16 +0000 UTCI love that Ben has "spent time in Florida"
Billnetherlands
2022-08-23 21:30:59 +0000 UTCI can't believe it took them this many episodes before they finally got to breaking down the Wacky Races teams.
Chris Hubbard
2022-08-23 21:15:25 +0000 UTClol. "James Bond is the ultimate honky"
Billnetherlands
2022-08-22 22:00:32 +0000 UTCMoore is my favorite Bond. Make Bond fun again!
Sarah Palmer
2022-08-22 17:58:42 +0000 UTCNoooo all of the Moore Bonds are leaving Prime at the end of the month
Omeed
2022-08-22 17:53:23 +0000 UTCAs a KJB patron I feel like I'm really well prepared for these commentaries let's gooooo
Lenny
2022-08-22 15:34:47 +0000 UTCSECRET AGENT?!?? On WHOSE SIDE?!? Comedy sherif fucks, the two friends are wrong
Nicholas Ouchie
2022-08-22 15:27:52 +0000 UTCThis was already a top-tier commentary AND THEN David starts reading the descriptions of all of the Wacky Racers which rocketed it into Top 5 territory.
Tobey
2022-08-22 11:55:48 +0000 UTCDavid did you get the Last Action Hero steelbook??
Colin
2022-08-22 07:09:49 +0000 UTC“James Bond shoots toward the reader.” —Hosley, Ben Hosley
Tom Lowery
2022-08-22 06:34:34 +0000 UTCSorry, I will never ever get over “I loved Wacky Racists.”
John Halski
2022-08-22 06:02:55 +0000 UTCThey trash View to a Kill so much, but as an ‘82 baby it was my jam, killer set pieces and Walken is at a 10
Will Rogers
2022-08-22 02:55:50 +0000 UTCGreat trivia. Didn’t he compose the theme for Jason Lives, which opens with Jason doing a parody of the gun barrel sequence?
Tiago Augusto Souza Barreiro
2022-08-22 02:53:58 +0000 UTCIt’s just so funny that this movie goes with blaxploitation, because if you asked me to draw a picture of a capital-h “Honky” I’d draw roger moore
Gwen “Zootown” Nicholson
2022-08-22 02:18:55 +0000 UTCThe idea that someone could watch The Kingsmen at that point in Matthew Vaughn’s career and think he is the next Paul Verhoeven and playing “twelve-dimensional chess” 😂
j0hnb0t
2022-08-22 01:23:40 +0000 UTCI’m pretty sure it’s from the poster for Ace Ventura 2. It may also be in the movie, but I’ve never actually seen it
Alex London
2022-08-21 23:55:27 +0000 UTCwas the crocodile waterskiiing memory perhaps a misremembered Ace Rimmer sequence from Red Dwarf?
Seán Óg Murphy
2022-08-21 23:16:22 +0000 UTCLooking forward to this series as someone who feels like a Bond expert merely through listening to the James Bonding podcast (but who hasn’t seen all that many of the movies). Also “Adam Driver’s upset” made me laugh like an idiot.
Richard Copping
2022-08-21 22:51:01 +0000 UTCGreat bit from Ben about the gun barrel sequence being written out in the Fleming novels
Michael Hashizume
2022-08-21 20:07:40 +0000 UTCAlice Cooper was approached for a Bond theme that was rejected and ended up on his album "Muscle of Love"
Billnetherlands
2022-08-21 19:29:10 +0000 UTCThank you David for confirming that from Russia With Love is the best Connery film!
Jake Gittes
2022-08-21 19:13:10 +0000 UTCJust a correction; Sam Smith gets referred to here as “he” when Sam now identifies as “they/them”. I’m sure this wasn’t intentional, but just for future reference.
Edward Savoy
2022-08-21 18:50:24 +0000 UTCNot quite. That scene takes place in Russia, but Corrine works for the Canadian government.
Murpheus
2022-08-21 15:25:41 +0000 UTCI have to say I'm delighted by this. I mean, these films are wildly sexist, possibly racist etc but equally I grew up with these Moore Bond films. Yup, I'm old. So I'm looking forward to revisiting these guilty pleasures!
Damimoon Sunbeam
2022-08-21 14:51:15 +0000 UTCBond was in Canada briefly in the last scene of Quantum of Solace. He was unmasking Vesper’a boyfriend Yussef, who was honeypotting another intelligence officer, Corrine.
Tiago Augusto Souza Barreiro
2022-08-21 14:49:50 +0000 UTCDavid describing British good looks around the 34 minute mark. Gold.
Jamesdillenbeck
2022-08-21 14:09:15 +0000 UTCAllegedly Danny Boyle left No Time To Die because he didn’t want Bond to die at the end, and Craig did.
Tiago Augusto Souza Barreiro
2022-08-21 14:05:07 +0000 UTCJust watched it for the first time last month (on Criterion Channel right now) and it blew my mind. I'd never heard of it before and I was like "how have I not watched this 100 times in my life already?" It is maybe 20 minutes too long, but Lemmon, Wood and Peter Falk are all amazing. It's a live action cartoon, and just a delight.
Graig Kent
2022-08-21 13:33:54 +0000 UTCThe Great Race (1965) starring Jack Lemmon, Tony Curtis, and Natalie Wood is a great Wacky Races prototype. Lemmon is basically Snidely Whiplash, complete with a villainous mustache, and Curtis and Wood are essentially Peter Perfect and Penelope Pitstop. Not sure if it holds up but I remember it being fun.
Eric Wilkinson
2022-08-21 13:11:28 +0000 UTCBen-iversal Exports
Kevin Meiners
2022-08-21 10:28:19 +0000 UTCHow do you move, are you tired, do you need a glass of water? 🤣
Michelle Lehner
2022-08-21 10:18:33 +0000 UTC“7up feels earthier”?
j0hnb0t
2022-08-21 07:30:09 +0000 UTCThere is a live-action adaptation of Wacky Races, but it’s a car commercial. Still pretty fun: https://youtu.be/A2apYrKvgLw
Ian
2022-08-21 07:27:19 +0000 UTC"Oh shit, Tee Hee might be choppin off a fingy!" - Our Finest Film Critic
Jordan B. Anderson
2022-08-21 06:17:24 +0000 UTC“Handsome, But Not Sexy”: David Explains the English
Rad Rodge
2022-08-21 04:42:03 +0000 UTCGreat Wings song; huge influence on The Beatles.
Jordan B. Anderson
2022-08-21 04:05:10 +0000 UTC
