As you (should) know, Bond 22, Quantum of Solace, is coming out this November 14th. In honor of this momentous occasion, I have decided to spend a little time each week digging into my James Bond DVD collection and talking about the best and worst of the series up until now. I also like to compare the movies to the source material, when it exists. I find all of this very entertaining, but if you don’t, the scroll button is still right over there. >>>>>

“For Your Eyes Only” has one of the strangest opening title sequences of any film, ever. It certainly wins the prize for Bond movies. While standing at his wife’s grave, something that hasn’t been referenced through the entire Roger Moore as Bond canon, he is picked up my a remotely-controlled helicopter. Controlled by Blofeld. But we can’t see his face, because none of the previous Blofelds showed up, I guess. He’s in a motorized wheelchair this time, and Bond drops him down a smokestack while he vainly promises to give Bond “a delicatessan in stainless steel.”

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