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James Bond (Pierce Brosnan) with his virtual reality training exercise glasses in Die Another Day (2002)

Check the replay

This training scene from Die Another Day (2002) was pretty sweet. Not often do we get insight into 007’s training regimen, but here the audience is immersed in it perfectly. I remember thinking this was a dream sequence when I saw it in the theater, and aside from the jarring image of a dead Moneypenny at her desk with a gunshot wound to the head, I knew it was a farce when Bond’s bullet hit M’s hostage-taker’s arm and did no damage.

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Desmond Llewelyn as Q and John Cleese as R in The World Is Not Enough (1999)

Now watch closely please, 007…

“The right arm goes in the right sleeve, thus, and the left arm in the left sleeve, thus. Now…note closely please – pockets, poppers and zipper. Take the lower part of the zipper, and insert it into the appropriate…”

Desmond Llewelyn as Q and John Cleese as R in The World Is Not Enough (1999)

Oh, pull the tag!

Frasier & 007

Bond. Frasier Bond.

Frasier & 007

Looking at some random Bond movie clips yesterday, I saw two things that reminded me of the 90’s NBC sitcom Frasier, starring Kelsey Grammer and David Hyde Pierce.

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