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James Bond, The Spy Who Killed Me
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29-12-2019 3:49pm#1A few minutes ago, I was just sitting down to watch a good old-fashioned Bond phillum on RTE, as you do over the festive season, when the presenter suddenly takes me aback by introducing it as 'The Spy Who Killed Me'!
Surely anyone who doesn't live under a rock knows the name of the movie?
Or do they do this kind of thing on purpose (I don't normally watch much TV these days), just to keep the viewing audience on their toes and stop the boredom creeping in over the holidays, or to see how many phone in complaining of substandard service..?
Baffling
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Sounds like a bit of a ‘You had one job!’ moment, and they fumbled it, morto for ‘em :pac:
Speaking of Christmas films, I was looking forward to seeing E.T. again, until I realised it was only an advertisement for Sky with the original actor who played Elliot
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Hamsterchops wrote: »Talking of creeping in......
I notice the use of 'The Holidays' creeping in :cool:
A shorthand for 'in between Christmas and the New Year.'
And to think I was alluded to as being paranoid about political correctness on here just a few days ago!!
Edit: BTW, I'd forgotten how hilarious this movie is in its un-PCness of the period... when invited to spend the night with an Egyptian concubine, Bond concludes "When in Egypt, one should delve deeply into its treasures".
The Bond movies from that era are full of this kind of thing in the scripts, absolutely priceless. (Or I'm very easily amused, which is a cheery thought!)0 -
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paleoperson wrote: »uh huh... yet you're making a thread mocking people who don't know the name of a 1963 movie that's often on tv.
Lol who pished in your leftover turkey and sprouts??
First, I didn't make a thread to mock anyone, I made what I thought would be a lighthearted thread about the incompetence of an anonymous RTE presenter to get one simple thing he is paid to do right, namely introducing a movie using its actual title! Not exactly brain-surgery-complicated, I would have thought.
Second, this movie (like the others from the same canon) is on RTE pretty much every Christmas/Easter time, so no matter if it's from 1963 or 1903, I would have expected that anyone announcing it while living in Ireland, would not only know its title, but be heartily sick of it by this point! The fact that it is not the case, I find bemusing - and amusing.
But there, your sour response has just made me elaborate on all this which should be an entertaining given, and sour the thread as a consequence. Enjoy.0 -
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JohnnyFlash wrote: »Extremely poor quality rant.
Well at least it's kept the thread going some way beyond expected!
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paleoperson wrote: »seenitall you're not making any sense, snap out of it and cop on.
It's actually you who ruined what could be a semi-humourous story with your chip-shoulder.
There's no humourous story without a humorous element in it, paleo. Which is someone's professional incompetence in this case.
Are you our clueless announcer by any chance?
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