• http://s1267.photobucket.com/albums/jj547/RunningCorners/?action=view&current=ill-ki-on-your-lunch-if-i-want.gif

• Yeah, I prefer goldentusk's theme.

• <i>so eager to get to its punchline that it failed to perform adequate setup.</i> I hate when that happens.  So embarrassing.

• I'd buy that for a dollar. I always liked Diamonds Are Forever too.

• FUCK YEAH!!!  :D 

• People were too distracted seeing Rassilon and Prince Baron playing James Bond to pay attention to all the work he put into his performance. ;)

• Oh YOLT is clearly the superior film.  In fact when I was younger it was one of my favorite ones.  Now though, noticing those things I mentioned above is part of the fun.  Also, I just realized I meant to type "Japanese wedding" in the last sentence.  

• I will personally ski on the lunch of anyone who dislikes this video.

• It may be silly, but it's a better CLASS of silly. Lol-racism included. Volcano Lair trumps Moon Base every time, and Ninja Rocket Cigarettes are vastly superior to wrist-mounted dart guns.

• Where can we see your carefully thought out humorous videos? I have a video with a muppet talking in a funny voice. It has no setup or punchline. No concept really either. CURSES.

• YOLT does have a lot of  mostly unintentional silliness.  There's the bouncing dead bodies in the finale.  There's the cheezy fight scene at the dock were Bond tries to shoot two guys about 5 feet away and misses, or when you clearly see that his punches don't even touch the badguys. (however in all honesty this scene has one of my favorite Bond songs)  My favorite is when Bond disguises himself as a Japanese man by putting on a Spock wig and squinting a little bit.  At the Japanese he was a foot taller than everyone else!  

• From Russia with Love, Goldfinger, You Only Live Twice, On Her Majesty's Secret Service, Live and Let Die, The Spy Who Loved Me, Octopussy (alternatively For Your Eyes Only), The Living Daylights, Licence To Kill, Goldeneye, The World is Not Enough, Casino Royale... That's as good as a "Best Of" list that I can think off. The rest is a matter of personal taste, but any one of these films is a good place to start.

• Oh You Only Live Twice is a FAR batter movie, hands down. It just has a much higher WTF ratio. Jaws gets... a girlfriend? Venetian Gondola speedboats? Double taking pigeons? Musical passwords based on the Close Encounters of the Third Kind alien theme? Doctor Holly GOODHEAD? Secretary torn apart by guard dogs? Zero-G boning? Just.. wut? Though I will give it credit for the opening sequence where Bond skydives without a parachute, some twenty years before Point Break. That bit was cool.

• Wow. Bond IS a dick, isn't he?

• Dalton was made for Bond. It's just unfortunate he came in at a time when Eon and MGM weren't quite sure what to do with the character post the fall of the cold war. But even with his two movies, he still made his mark as any of them.

• GALLIFREY RISES!!!

• +1,000,000

• Moonraker is a total snooze until they get to space, which is only the last 20 mins or so of the movie.

• Makes me want to watch Archer...

• Eight hundred and thirty-nine!

• No argument here, I just favor Connery.

• You Only Live Twice is over the top yes, but completely ludicrous? Moonraker owns that particular accolade.

• Oh God, you sound like Marc Forster.

• Dalton is my favourite Bond hands down. Craig was good in Casino Royale, Connery is definitive, Moore was my childhood, Lazenby was underated, Brosnan was solid. Dalton was a better class of thug, just like the Bond Flemming wrote.

• Rather reminds me of the totally awesome "Something of Boris" from a few years back.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjjWMqHvLcw 

• Static, not Stirred.

• I'd go with Dave Vanian.

• Go with From Russia with Love of you want to see one of the true classics. If you want something completely over the top and utterly ludicrous, go with You Only Live Twice.

• I liked both videos aside from a tiny issue in each case - the James Bond video has legit complaints but points them in the wrong direction (a fictional character) where the Link Pawn video was so eager to get to its punchline that it failed to perform adequate setup. _ Both would have been so much better if a little more thought had gone into them.

• Again, it was the 80's interfering in what was otherwise two great installments in the franchise.  =P

• I actually liked Dalton's movies, far more than I expected to. But holy crap he had the worst wardrobe of all the Bonds, and that's a pretty big deal for me.

• Now we need a rendition about his nephew and how super rad and Xtreme he was... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvdA2F_ySEk

• No...I thought I was the only one...another Dalton fan.  Something spoken of only in legend. Until Casino Royale, Living Daylights was my favorite Bond film because Dalton was the closest at that point to capture the feel of Bond in the novels: A darker, more ruthless Bond who had class but at the end of the day, was a government hitman.

• No, there are subtleties.  Somewhere.  I'm sure of it. Oh god.  I'm discussing subtleties of satire with "James Bond's boner".  It's not even Friday. Gallen, who stirred your martini today?  Dissing both the Bond and Zelda videos?  All you need is a cat and you could be a Bond villain.

• True, but the Diamonds are Forever footage where he's just wearing a regular suit makes it funnier and doubles as a "I'm James Bond. And I can breathe in space." thing.

• I know next to nothing about James Bond, in fact I've never even watched a movie all the way through.  Even so I've watched this video 3 times.  I found it clever and catchy.  Thanks for sharing it Rob, now I actually want to watch one of the films.

• Disagree... Timothy Dalton was the Daniel Craig Bond, 20 years early.  Sure, his two installments have an 80's sensibility to them but still... the Character Dalton was trying to put up on the screen is what Craig is giving us today.

• Wait a minute... Jamey B recommended this? There is something fishy about this, but... what? *retreats to the Thinking Corner*

• Using my mighty powers, I will here once again liken James Bond to Batman in order to prove a point. Sean Connery is to James Bond as Adam West is to the Batman. Likewise, Daniel Craig is Christian Bale. One is campy and fun, the other is dark and chock ful of supposed realism. And all the other incarnations in between are worthless! :D

• Well... mainstream audiences know of Batman and his teachings, but only us nerds really take the time to commit and dedicate our lives to the Dark Knight and his plight. Amen

• ah, got it...and what you're doing is bitching and complaining. Right? Got it.

• Hilarious. Although I feel like it's my nerdy duty to note that the bit where he's singing about Bond being in outer space didn't actually show footage of Bond in space (that was Diamonds are Forever, rather than Moonraker). :)

• Fucking brilliant.

• I wouldn't call it satire, more like bitching and complaining in song form, satire has subtleties.

• The name is Bond. Ionic Bond.

• Aren't things like Batman "much closer to mainstream than nerdy"?

• It's satirizing the films, not the books.

• "I’m not a big Bond fan" Thanks for putting this first so I didn't have read the other three paragraphs.

• Josh Groban.

• I’m not a big Bond fan but I disagree in pinning all this on the "character" being a “bad character” as the problems pointed out by this song really take issue with the way movie sequels (and all associated elements) get progressively goofier and over the top simply because they are trying to emulate and "one up" memorable scenes of the previous movies until the whole series becomes an unintentional self parody - and by the time Brosnan showed up in the Bond films an intentional self parody. Specific to the Bond films the bad puns were the result of Hollywood writers attempting "dry British humor" action scenes ham handedly copied from whatever films were popular at the time and the constant to the point of baffling sex scenes were simple lowest common denominator production. _ The actual character as written in the books rarely shows up in the films - a tragic hero tormented by the memories of his failures. _ The score does perfectly fit the “make a quick buck” mentality of the people responsible for the films ‘60s through the ‘90s and I think the reboot gets it “more” right although I do wish the action sequences were shorter – shorter action sequences leave more room for plot development, allow for more tension to build and actually make the scenes better.

• That was damned awesome and should be the theme for the next Bond movie

• Either Cocker or one of the old school Divas like Shirley Bassey or Tina Turner

• For one brief, shining moment, everything in my life turned to utter peace & enlightenment. Thank you, Rob. Now, if we were to convince MGM to use an official version of this, who should sing it? First thoughts include Josh Homme, Dave Grohl, or Jarvis Cocker.

• Thank you for sharing this and making my life that much more complete.

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