OHMSS is probably my favourite Bond film, but I also regard it as one of my favourite Christmas films. In a similar vein to Die Hard it's an action film set at Christmas (most of it). I always love sticking it on over the holidays. Anyone else do this?
shareThis is my favorite Bond film, and is also a great Christmas film for me (along with Die Hard as you mentioned, and Reindeer Games). I think part of the reason I enjoy it at Christmas time more then any other, is TBS used to run Bond marathons mostly in November and December in the late 90's, right when I got into Bond. So for me, I saw nearly all of them during the Christmas season.
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Yes, it's the Christmas Bond. Die Hard, and The Lion in Winter are my non-traditional Christmas movies.
The Lion in Winter especially when it shows how messed up a family can be over the holidays.
Undoubtedly, always gets me in the Christmas mood.
shareIt definitely is very wintry. I watched it tonight and it was fitting
HO, HO, HO, MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE
I saw it on release in 1969 AT Christmas. Not on Christmas Day, but a few days before. The movie has Christmas scenes, and all that snow and skiing, and it was RELEASED at Christmas so...yes.
Interesting, though:
I think the producers alternated Bond movies in the 60's and early seventies. Some got Christmas time releases, some got summer releases:
Goldfinger: Christmas.
Thunderball: Christmas (then in re-release in summer when its beach scenes were more "relevant.")
You Only Live Twice: Summer.
OHMSS: Christmas
Diamonds Are Forever: Christmas
Live and Let Die: Summer.
The Man With the Golden Gun: Christmas
The Spy Who Loved Me: Summer.
...then Bond stayed a summer release for many years, and now seems to have come back (in the Craig years) as a Thanksgiving-Christmas corridor series.
Not only do I watch it every Christmas, it is my favorite Bond movie. I also can't imagine any other actor protraying so well as Lazenby in this film.
Me too! I agree with the previous poster about the TBS marathons. When I was a kid that was how I got to see all the Bond films. Now it is a tradition for me to watch most of them once a year around Thanksgiving or Christmas. It is too bad the TV marathon is not a set thing any more. It bounces around from channel to channel and I do not think anyone has booked all the films for some time.
shareIt's nice to know that I'm not the only one who feels this way. For some reason I've always associated Bond films more with the Christmas season than at any other time and OHMSS is a perfect example of why. For me this ranks right up there with It's a Wonderful Life, Miracle on 34th St., White Christmas and Scrooge as required Christmas viewing. I might even end up watching it tonight!
shareHa - watching right now and just thought I'd check the board to find if this thread would be here!
It's a Christmas Eve tradition in our house - watch this every year after the kids have been packed off to bed, and before the "big man" comes and works his magic ;-)
Merry Bond-mas everyone!
Sounds like the best Christmas Eve ever. I usually watch it around Dec 10th. Gets me in the mood. I got the VHS as a present early December 1999 so brings back great memories. Really wish Lazenby had done more, even though I love Moore and most of his films (A view to a kill and Octopussy are a bit meh).
shareYes, I purposely don't look at it all year until Christmas. This is one of the best in the series. I like the song "Do You Know How Christmas Trees Are Grown" by Nina.
shareThanks for this! I love this tune, and the specific moment when Tracy skates up to Bond at the ice rink with this playing is the highlight of the film for me - I had no idea what it was called though, nor that it was a John Barry composition!
Full version here...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZewG-NUJ7M
Not really. i like my Christmas films to have something to do with Christmas. Also to have upbeat endings, not depressing ones like this.
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