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Hey everyone, Ray, Steve and I had a great time recording COL Movies over the past 3 years. However, real life is unfortunately preventing us from continuing the show. Will COL Movies return? Perhaps, if three more movie loving bears would like to host. If you’re interested on joining as a host, please email me … Continue reading MOV135: End of Line →

The Nerdiness of the Bears shows up in it’s full glory on this reel of COL Movies.  While we chat about many movies, our primary focus are on Iron Man 3 and Star Trek Into Darkness.  Don’t worry we chat about what’s been out and coming out on this the 134th reel of COL Movies. … Continue reading MOV134: The Nerdiness of the Bears →

This month on COL Movies was kinda slow for the boys, but there were a plethora of new trailers. Jeff comments about it being the summer of metal men. All this and more on the 133rd reel of COL Movies. [display_podcast] Ray Available on Blu-Ray or Rental: The Boondock Saints [asa]B001AQT130[/asa] Evangelion 3.33 (japan only) … Continue reading MOV133: A Summer of Metal Men →

This month on COL Movies, At home we’ve watch Monsters Inc, End of Watch, Sinister, and Rise of the Guardians. In the Theater, we’re watching Oz: The Great and Powerful, Jack The Giant Slayer, and Warm Bodies. The boys also talk about the trailers for The Wolverine, World War Z, and The Conjuring. All this … Continue reading MOV132: We’ll See You At The Movies →

Bullet Spewing Boobs [display_podcast] Ray Available on Blu-Ray or Rental: Braveheart The Spy Who Loved Me The Fifth Element In Theaters Identity Thief Argo Coming Soon New Iron Man 3 trailer News Bullet spewing Boobs! New Star Wars Goodies! Steve Available on Blu-Ray or Rental: Madea’s Big Happy Family This Film Is Not Yet Rated … Continue reading MOV131: Bullet Spewing Boobs →

Jeff, Ray and Steve are back with a new format. Find out what the boys have been watching since November. Oh, and JJ Abrams is directing Star Wars now. [display_podcast] Steve Recent movies in the theaters: The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey Rise of the Guardians Recommendations for Streaming on Netflix or rental: One for the … Continue reading MOV130: A New Reel →

Jeff, Ray and Steve are back with a new format. Find out what the boys have been watching since November. Oh, and JJ Abrams is directing Star Wars now.

Steve

Recent movies in the theaters:

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

Rise of the Guardians

Recommendations for Streaming on Netflix or rental:

One for the Money

Mission Impossible – Ghost Protocol

Four Rooms

Ready to Wear (Pret-a-Porter)

The Bourne Legacy

Looking forward to seeing:

Hansel & Gretel – Witch Hunters – In Theaters Now!

Ray

News & Notes:

J.J. Abrams directing Star Wars.

Recent Movies in Theaters:

Life of Pi

Django Unchained

Available on Blu-Ray or Rental:

Finding Nemo (3D)

L.A. Confidential

American History X

Trailers for films coming soon!

Evil Dead (2013)

Star Trek Into Darkness

Jeff

Recently in Theaters:

Les Miserables

Available on Blu-Ray or Rental:

The Usual Suspects

The Running Man

The Godfather

Indiana Jones: The Complete Adventures Blu-Ray

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In this reel of COL Movies its a Spy Filled episode as we celebrate the return of the Bond Franchise and it’s 50th anniversary with not one, but two Bond films.. first up for the past it’s 1981’s Roger Moore helmed “For Your Eyes Only” And for the present we take a look at the … Continue reading MOV129: What Did You Expect, An Exploding Pen? →

In this reel of COL Movies its a Spy Filled episode as we celebrate the return of the Bond Franchise and it’s 50th anniversary with not one, but two Bond films.. first up for the past it’s 1981’s Roger Moore helmed “For Your Eyes Only” And for the present we take a look at the long awaited “Skyfall”. For the Future we are going to look at another film we have been hearing about for a long time. “World War Z” Set for release in Summer of 2013. All this plus some news about the Villain in the upcoming Thor Sequel on this the 129th Reel of COL Movies: “What did you expect, an exploding pen?”

News:

COL Movies on hiatus..

Villain for Thor Sequel revealed!

Positive reinforcement?

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The Past: For Your Eyes Only (1981)

Rotten Tomatoes 73% Fresh; 62% Audience

Director: John Glen

Starring: Roger Moore, Carole Bouquet, Topol

Trivia:

This was the first Bond film to be based on one of Ian Fleming’s short stories (instead of one of his novels). Interestingly, there are several scenes in this film lifted from other Fleming tales. Examples: The assault on the smugglers’ boat and warehouse is lifted intact from a short story entitled “Risico”, and the sequence featuring Bond and Melina being dragged through the coral is actually lifted from the climax from the book, “Live and Let Die”. The Identigraph appeared in slightly different form in the book, “Goldfinger”.

The title song is the first in the Bond series in which we see the person who is singing, in this case Sheena Easton. The song was a Top 10 hit in both the UK charts (#8) and US charts (#4, 25 July 1981). It received an Academy Award nomination for Best Song, and was featured in a song and dance number at the Oscars on 29 March 1982. It featured dancers dressed as villains and henchman such as Dr. No and Ernst Stavro Blofeld as well as the real Harold Sakata and real Richard Kiel reprising their roles as Oddjob and Jaws respectively. A dancer played James Bond and at the end of the sequence he took off in a rocket with Sheena Easton who had been singing the title song live. This was just one of a medley of five song and dance numbers for each Best Song nominee on the night and it also acted as a preamble to the presentation by Roger Moore of the Irving Thalberg Honorary Award to ‘Albert R Broccoli’ in honour of the James Bond movie series. Starting with this film and the rise of the MTV Generation, all Bond films have had music video tie-ins.

The voice of the Man in Wheelchair (unofficially Ernst Stavro Blofeld) in one of the movie’s trailers is different to the voice of the character in the actual movie.

Carole Bouquet had previously visited the set of Moonraker as the actress is French and interiors and some exteriors of that movie were filmed in Paris, France. She was remembered when it came to casting this movie. Two actors in the movie had previously appeared in the James Bond spoof Casino Royale. John Hollis (Bald Man in wheelchair aka unofficially Ernst Stavro Blofeld) played a monk whilst John Wells (Dennis Thatcher) was Q’s assistant Fordise.

The name of the underwater apparatus that confronts James Bond with a man inside whilst they were in the Neptune submarine is called a JIM Suit, named after its creator Jim Jarratt.

“For Your Eyes Only” was the first collection of Ian Fleming James Bond short stories and was first published on 11 April 1960. The collection was subtitled “Five Secret Occasions in the life of James Bond” and was the eighth James Bond book. It included the short stories “The Hildebrand Rarity”, “Quantum of Solace”, “From A View To A Kill”, “Risico” and “For Your Eyes Only”. These stories were originally conceived in the 1950s as scripts for a never-produced James Bond TV series. The last two of these provided material for the film along with some story elements fro[...]

After 5 weeks the band is finally back together on this the 128th reel of COL Movies. This week the boys get right into the swing of things by jumping to the past and examining Guy Richie’s. Snatch! For our exploration of the present we strap on some Iron Gauntlets to chop away at the … Continue reading MOV128: All Bets Are Off! →