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Octopussy (Patreon)

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Octopussy | Canadian First Time Watching | Movie Reaction | Movie Review | Movie Commentary

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Forkbeard83 (edited)

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2026-09-05 05:00 From last Bond video, Best and worst themes. Best - Chris Cornell, You Know My Name (Casino Royale) Ah-Ha - Living Daylights Duran Duran - View To A Kill Worst Madonna, Die Another Day Jack Black & Alicia Keys (Quantum of Solice) Lulu - Mam With The Golden Gun
2026-08-09 12:05 From last Bond video, Best and worst themes. Best - Chris Cornell, You Know My Name (Casino Royale) Ah-Ha - Living Daylights Duran Duran - View To A Kill Worst Madonna, Die Another Day Jack White & Alicia Keys (Quantum of Solice) Lulu - Mam With The Golden Gun

From last Bond video, Best and worst themes. Best - Chris Cornell, You Know My Name (Casino Royale) Ah-Ha - Living Daylights Duran Duran - View To A Kill Worst Madonna, Die Another Day Jack White & Alicia Keys (Quantum of Solice) Lulu - Mam With The Golden Gun

OddThomas

Of all the films that came out in 1983, this is one of them. Thankfully the next few are GREAT.

Ryan O'Neill

Unpopular opinion: I fucking love this movie and it would crack my top 10 Bond movies. Despite some of the ridiculous gags that shouldn't have made it into the movie, this has a really cool cold war plot that very much captures the essence of Fleming. I've always thought that about the films John Glen directed. I know a few other hardcore Bond fans that love it for the same reason and it is worth noting that, upon release, it actually received positive reviews from the most famous critics at the time, like Siskel, Ebert and Vincent Canby. Honestly, if it weren't for the title and the handful of really outlandish moments, this movie would have a far stronger reputation. The plot and some of the action is genuinely great, especially that opening. I'll even kinda defend the clown suit in the sense that it creates this really macabre image during a pretty tense sequence. An almost Hitchcockian one, dare I say.

Shadow Zane

That notification was... Surprising to say the least lol

Matt O'Keefe

Only one more Rogwr Moore Bond. Then 2 Timothy Dalton Bonds. I like A View To A Kill. Have not seen it in a long time. The Timothy Dalton Bonds are pretty good. License To Kill of course is dark.

Darren Harrison (edited)

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2026-09-05 05:00 I haven’t listened to the reaction yet, but I think of all the Bond movies this was one where you had to live in the 1980s to fully appreciate it. Some examples are: - The tennis jokes are because Bond’s contact in India was played by a world famous tennis player. - The “Si-ttt” command to the tiger was a reference to TV dog trainer Barbara Wodehouse who used to instruct dog owners to have their dogs sit with that long t on the end. There are many more but I fear pretty much all of them will be over the heads of George and Simone
2026-08-09 12:43 I haven’t listened to the reaction yet, but I think of all the Bond movies this was one where you had to live in the 1980s to fully appreciate it. Some examples are: - The tennis jokes are because Bond’s contact in India was played by a world famous tennis player. - The “Si-ttt” command to the tiger was a reference to TV dog trainer Barbara Woodhouse who used to instruct dog owners to have their dogs sit with that long t on the end. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Woodhouse There are many more but I fear pretty much all of them will be over the heads of George and Simone

I haven’t listened to the reaction yet, but I think of all the Bond movies this was one where you had to live in the 1980s to fully appreciate it. Some examples are: - The tennis jokes are because Bond’s contact in India was played by a world famous tennis player. - The “Si-ttt” command to the tiger was a reference to TV dog trainer Barbara Woodhouse who used to instruct dog owners to have their dogs sit with that long t on the end. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Woodhouse There are many more but I fear pretty much all of them will be over the heads of George and Simone

Matt88g

The title makes me think of clerks 2 “interspecies erotica”

Cc Decc

So if George believes in complete free will, that means that he has absolutely no excuse and has to be held completely responsible for trying to combine Roger Moore's name and the name of this movie into a bad pun, right? There is a reason deniability was invented. SMH.

Kickinthescience

I knew Simone would express all kinds of faces during the discussion of how did they come up with Octopussy and the meaning

Cc Decc

Also should do Never Say Never Again. Actually should be next actually.

Matt O'Keefe

Will they watch that is a question.

Mandi

So, the “Si-T!” that Bond does is a reference to Barbara Woodhouse, who was a British lady with a incredibly popular dog training show. In the 80’s She also coined the term “Walkies!”lol

OddThomas

At 1:25:00 there's a weird noise on the audio, like a demented chicken. Just fyi.

John

I like your list, though I enjoy the Jack Black and Alicia Keys more, I would add SkyFall to the Best list, with The Writing on the wall and Golden Eye

OddThomas

The stunts in Licence to Kill are INSANE

John

I have not seen a View to a Kill, is it well received? I really enjoy the Dalton movies

OddThomas

View is 80s cheese, but it's good cheese

Matt O'Keefe

Louis Jourdan just makes me think of Swamp Thing.

Simon

“I know! He’s gonna put it in the cannon!”….Simone, it’s a detonator for a nuclear bomb, I don’t think that cannon would help much lol

Russell Massey

The 'Sit!' joke with the tiger was a reference to a hugely popular 80s British TV show where Barbara Woodhouse trained dogs. It has not aged well - or indeed, at all.

Spacedone

I agree that this movie is weirdly disjointed. I enjoy the whole Soviet plot side of it as it feels like the more grounded Bond that the series was moving into but almost everything that happens in India is a bit boring and silly (even if it's beautifully shot). The Soviet part of the plot is weirdly similar to two later non-Bond movies (both of them involving Pierce Brosnan) that I kinda love, 1987's Michael Caine spy thriller 'The Fourth Protocol' and 1993's much cheaper TV movie 'Death Train', which has a ridiculously stacked cast with Brosnan, Patrick Stewart, Christopher Lee and Ted Levine (and also Clarke Peters from The Wire).

ShōNuff3K

George was thinking too small about getting back behind the camera (during watch along chat) Christopher Nolan wants to give a rookie cinematographer a shot at shooting a short film... George says no? Simone gets offered a chance to become the face of Tim Hortons in an ad campaign... Simone says no?

I Want A Hypothalamus For Christmas

Either we have free will, or we don't. There is no way of knowing which is the case. So if I believe in free will, then either: I have by a pure flip of the coin happened to have chosen correctly, or I was predestined to be wrong. If I don't believe in free will, then either: I have freely chosen to be wrong, or I'm right but I can't be very smug about it because I'm supposed to be. And even if I do have free will and freely choose to believe that I do, that still does nothing about everything happening in the Universe that has nothing to do with me, including everybody else's free will. The only thing I can see that has any strategic value is to not waste my time worrying about it.

I Want A Hypothalamus For Christmas

My favorite has always been "Live and Let Die." I played it over and over when I was a kid. Nobody said anything, but I probably annoyed the hell out of everyone.

ben smith

Licence to kill is very underrated, quite a unique entry in the series

ben smith

A View to a Kill is ok, generally good fun, and it has Christopher Walken.

Brandon

Much like with 'For Your Eyes Only', I didn't remember a single thing about this movie except the title and scenes set at a circus. I'm glad to hear you'll do a reaction to 'Never Say Never Again', since it's another Bond I haven't seen it since I was a kid. Keep in mind that it is actually a second adaptation of Thunderball. The choice of actor they got to play Blofeld was perfect! The Dalton Bonds are kind of a soft reboot, but they still treat the previous adventures as canon, iirc. They drop the campier elements of the Moore era and play it straight like Fleming's novels.

Brandon

Grace Jones is WONDERFUL in A View to a Kill. I've always loved how eccentric she is.

Mike MacColin

When I was a kid, once I got so scared by a James Bond film that I had my mim check under my bed for hidden bombs. At that point my parents decided I was too young to watch them. I would only be old enough if I started finding them funny. So much for Bond films being allowed to have humor in them... Even the serious ones!

REDR58

This is one of my favorite Bond movies. Moore is my favorite Bond because he’s the one I grew up with.

SbE

This movie was released in 1983, The original IT 1990. However, the book IT came in 1986, so any inspiration with the clown would've been the other way.

Darren Harrison

NO. Do not watch "Never Say Never Again". Really, Barbara Carrera is the only reason to watch it. It has none of the Bond trademarks because it was made by a rival production company that held the film rights to six Bond scripts that were written in the 1950s. After the planned 1950s movie fell through, Ian Fleming reworked them into his novel "Thunderball". His collaborators, who had worked with him on the drafts for several months, sued, alleging he stole their ideas (including SPECTRE and Blofeld). Regarding "Octopussy". As I mentioned in another comment, you really needed to be around in the 1980s to get some of the cultural jokes. Vijay was played by a famous tennis player who was recognizable in 1983, and the Barbara Wodehouse reference. As expected, neither Simone or George caught the references. The backstory Octopussy tells Bond is actually the narrative of Ian Fleming's short story. In the short story, Bond hunts Smythe to Sri Lanka. Aside from the legal wrangling over SPECTRE and Blofeld, I think that the main villain would not be Blofeld's daughter. This storyline was in the John Gardner novel "For Special Services," which was published in 1982. I personally like the notion George and Simone came up with, but legally they couldn't. As George mentioned, things we have today were treated as science fiction back in the 1980s. I think the camera watch existed, but it was not widespread. I remember breakfast TV hosts oo'ing and ahh'ing over one a couple of years later. The stunt work was insane. The same team behind the pre-credits scene in "Moonraker" (where Bond fought the villain for the parachute) was brought on to film the plane sequences. My aunt and uncle took my cousin and I to see this at the cinema and I was the only one to laugh at Bond in an ape costume look at his watch. My aunt shhh'd me. I feel vindicated decades later that George and Simone laughed. Unfortunately, George and Simone talked over the "Octopussy, Octopussy" line at the end. The way Khan pronounces it is priceless. Again, I plead. Do not do a reaction to "Never Say Never Again."

REDR58

The “blunderbuss” that used by Gobinda (Indian actor Kabir Bedi) is simply a Remington SPR220 twin barrel shotgun with a large, fluted piece of metal on its end. The entire purpose of blunderbuss’ barrel is to more easily load shot into the end of the barrel, including bits of scrap metal or even nails or other various hard pieces of material. It was used as a close-in weapon and predates shotguns, which also scatter their shot, particularly if the end of the barrel is cut off (sawn-off shotgun): https://youtu.be/UFZ6OybqWBU?is=TKjEO5GrLrvr6eK2

Darren Harrison

I agree. I was the perfect age. I was 11 when this movie came out in the cinema.

megamoo chilli

The jewelry plot and the bomb plot to feel too separate and jammed together. I always remember this movie for the one scene where he swaps the egg. As a kid I missed it. Watching it now its glaringly obvious. George and Simone, and people seeing for the first time I guess, react to the name, but I don't remember it being a big issue back then. Much like the list of racial stereotypes and Bond yet again ignoring consent. Nowadays its problematic and they wouldn't casually put it in a movie unless it was the main point.

Matt Blanchette

Wouldn't mind dipping into "Never Say Never Again" for a week to see how alternate-reality Sean Connery Bond fares with you... :-P

Matt Blanchette

George saying the mustache making Roger Moore look like Clouseau is WAAAAY more appropriate than he knows, considering the film Moore ducked in to play a part in during a film break from "Octopussy"... X-D

Darren Harrison

Yes, He played an uncredited cameo as Inspector Clouseau at the end of "Curse of the Pink Panther". He had been a friend of Peter Sellers and agreed to do it rather than allow a lesser actor who had never known him to do it to mock Sellers.

Darren Harrison

Not an adaptation of "Thunderball". They had the rights to six drafts of a shelved Bond movie written over several months in the 1950s, which Fleming used as the basis for his novel "Thunderball." This allowed the makers of "Never Say Never Again" to use names and characters from those drafts, including "Fatima Blush".

Ian Tellam

Jack White surely? :p

Ian Tellam

I can't really remember how good it is - but it's memorable for Christopher Walken, Grace Jones and a great theme tune.

Brandon

That sounds like one hell of a technicality. Everywhere I've ever looked cites it as an adaptation of Thunderball, while acknowledging that the novel was in turn based on an original story by Kevin McClory, Jack Whittingham and Fleming himself.

Marcus Hicks

Damn, you guys are really powering through the Moore era Bond movies. Just one more to go......are you planning on rewatching Goldeneye, now that you have the full context, or will you skip over it?

Marcus Hicks

Despite the ludicrous title, I absolutely love this movie. The plots of this movie, and the previous entry, really do well to portray the tensions of the late Cold War era.

Richard Pearce

Maud Adams was also in The Man With The Golden Gun bond girl that got shot at the sumo

Marcus Hicks

I read IT in 1988. Truly King's Magnum Opus.

Marcus Hicks

It all made sense to me. The Circus Troupe were using their circus to smuggle jewelry, and then Khan dupes them by replacing the smuggled jewels with the nuclear device on behalf of the deranged Soviet general.

REDR58

Yeah, it's funny that George thought she resembles Geena Davis yet completely forgot about her appearance in TMWTGG! To be fair, the character is killed off early in that movie.

REDR58

Until the Craig era, I had never seen a Bond movie in a theater. I first saw the Bond movies during their frequent showings of the TBS network's frequent Bond Marathons during the early 1990s and almost exclusively watched the Moore movies as the Connery ones didn't hold my interest back then. I also would rarely see them start to finish, typically coming into a movie after it had started, or watching just part of it before going off to do something else. So my early history with Bond movies was nothing but bits and pieces all jammed together, until years later when I had enough patience and time (I was just finishing high school and starting college in the mid 1990s) to watch them beginning to end. So disjointed elements of some of the movies of this era don't really bother me. Still, the clown thing is just too silly. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bv3hkIzOPk8

REDR58

Also, not an explosive detonator, but rather just a timer as we see the pins spring out uselessly, after the timer expires, presumably to trigger the actual detonator inside the bomb casing.

REDR58

The Acrostar Bede BD-5J jet that Bond flies is a real aircraft, marketed as a kit plane for home builders and first flown with a propeller instead of a jet engine, but there were jet-powered variant as seen in the movie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5v5ng56mpMM There are some scenes using models, however. For some reason, however, the jet seems to create yet another "Stuka" dive bomber siren sound as it descends to the hangar before flying through it! The same dive bomber siren sound is heard twice more at the end of the movie with Kamal Khan's Beechcraft C-45H Expeditor airplane. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Evi8YYDywL4 A red laser is used to project the various images on the bodies of the models during the opening title sequence. I suspect that was the first time many people had seen such an effect like that. Smithers, who is tailing Khan's car after the auction in his black cab, is played by the late Jeremy Bulloch who played Smithers in "For Your Eyes Only" and most famously, Boba Fett in The Empire Strikes Back (also a quick cameo as the Imperial Officer who grabs Princess Leia near the end of TESB) and Return of the Jedi, though as different actor's voice was used. Swedish actor Kristina Wayborn plays Magda, Octopussy's right-hand woman. George, this is not the first time female nudity is shown in a Bond movie outside of the title sequences. There was brief nudity in From Russia With Love, The Spy Who Loved Me, Moonraker and one or two others. The manic General Orlov is played by English actor Steven Berkoff who was a detective in A Clockwork Orange, the main villain Victor Maitland in Beverly Hills Cop and the lawyer Dirch Frode in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.

Marcus Hicks

Not sure if anyone mentioned it, but the actor who played General Orlov also played Victor Maitland in Beverly Hills Cop. He does seem to enjoy playing villians.

sb

We call it Octocoochie where I'm from homie.

Jimazoid

Vijay Amritraj also had a small Cameo in Star Trek IV (The One with the Whales).

Els

I think you could edit about 5 minutes of stupid gags out and be left with a really good Bond movie. What George thinks of as "messy" I find just complex enough to be interesting.

Els

Absolutely this is the time to watch NEVER SAY NEVER AGAIN. Then you can compare the style of the established Bond franchise against the upstarts.

Phosphorus

What does it say about 2 cat owners speculating on the title of the movie by going back and forth between 8 cats and 8 of the other thing long before seeing the font on the poster and remembering that an octopus is the symbol of Spectre when watching a James Bond movie? (Even though in this instance there is essentially no connection between the two.) And the correct plural form of Octopus is debatable, isn't it? (My understanding: the "Latin" form is mistaken, but that doesn't make the "English" form automatically correct? And while the "Greek" form is hardly used, is "Octopus" as boths singular and plural that common a point of view?)

Els

Goldeneye belongs near the top, Spectre near the bottom. And Goldfinger is iconic. Nobody Does It Better is a great song but a lousy Bond theme.

Els

They gave it some badly needed shots of adrenaline with Grace Jones and Duran Duran.

Els

Disagree 100% about Never Say Never Again. True, it doesn't have Tarzan yells, gorilla suits, or clown costumes, but it has some sharp wit that the mainstream series was sadly lacking at this point. And how can you not be interested in seeing Sean Connery again? A gun barrel sequence does not a Bond movie make. Ian Fleming seemed to have a sloppy sense of intellectual property.

Els

I'm pretty sure when shooting Octopussy, they did not know whether Roger Moore would be coming back for the next film. And I conjecture that Lois Maxwell's scene was designed to serve as a farewell performance if need be. Good news is she comes back for the next one and gets some interesting stuff to do. The last cast member standing from Dr. No.

Philipp Roensch

Hilarious title, actually a better plot than the previous Moore's. The jokes and stereotypes are cringe as per usual, but there is much to love about the supporting characters. Agreed, a Bond showdown in the circus is wild. That works for a comedy, but not really with the world in peril stakes. This one isn't too bad, but I can't wait when you get to see Timothy Dalton.

Darren Harrison

I think Fleming was just naive. I personally enjoy “Never Say Never Again” more than some of the EON movies (largely on the performance of Barbara Carrera) but every time I see a reaction people place it at the bottom of their rankings.

Darren Harrison

My all-time favorite Bond theme is “Live and Let Die”

Matt Blanchette

The book "The Battle for Bond" by Robert Sellers will give you the full deets on the whole thing, and it's a DOOZY...

The Real Andrew Kim

to quote Peter Griffin, " You're all stupid, see they are gonna be looking for Army guys..." 😜

QuiGon

As someone who grew up with the more modern Bond movies (Brosnan and Craig) and only know get to know the old Bonds thanks to you guys I'm quite disturbed by how goofy some of these are, especially the Moore movies. They almost reach Austin Powers levels of goofyness. Can't wait to see how the Dalton movies are. From what I've heard I think they are more to my liking. And then of course I'm looking forward to see you guys watch the Brosnan Bonds that I grew up with 🙂

SnabbKassa

Since we have reached 1983, is Never Say Never Again going to be watched? Maybe not now, but after the Roger Moore era ends.

SnabbKassa

Yes, and she was the basis of Tracey Ullman's character in "Bart's Dog Gets an F"

REDR58

Sounds like they are going to watch it next, yes.

ArchjSM

This movie is a comedy. No one can convince me otherwise.

DonkyDave

Really hope you will resume the series, it would be great to catch up and finish off the whole James Bond series