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As many of you may know, the title sequences for From Russia with Love and Goldfinger were designed by Robert Brownjohn. In contrast with Maurice Binder, Brownjohn's sequences were simple and straightforward: a naked woman with the movie credits projected onto her (gold painted or not) body. Goldfinger also included visuals from the movie.

Of course, the producers went back to Binder until the '90s, but, what if Brownjohn had stayed? Some of my thoughts:

Thunderball - Probably a model in a bikini sprayed with water.

You Only Live Twice - Probably a Japanese model in a kimono or kimino-like lingerie.

On Her Majesty's Secret Service - What do we think, a model in a snowsuit,

I have separate sets of links customized for each device I use, and deliberately do not turn on Sync so that it doesn't get messed up. Please please stop automatically turning on sync and messing up my links on both devices/browsers wasting my time like this!

This might not be the most groundbreaking of observations, but I think there has to be some realization of the difference here between Amazon getting the Bond rights versus Disney --- or another film studio like Universal or Paramount, for that matter. The other corporations have studio heads, but none of them are the company in the way that Bezos is with Amazon. So I think the better way to think about this is less a big corporation buying Bond, and more the Bond rights going from one closely held family to another.

Sure, he's not going to micromanage the property, but, realistically, if you were a billionaire and just bought the Bond rights, wouldn't you do stuff like (a) personally p

It took longer than I had expected, but I finally rewatched Diamonds are Forever. And once I sat down and watched the movie uninterrupted for the first time in a few years, the basic story wasn't that bad. In fact, I'd say it was a "decent story executed poorly," all other things being equal. Add a few million to the stunt and effects budget, get Connery some red bull, and cut out the 70's camp humor, and I think it could have been an Octopussy or Tomorrow Never Dies level thriller.

Yes, yes, the camp is what makes it a unique Bond film. I guess I remember the plot also being a mess, and was surprised that the skeleton of the plot is actually pretty good. I'd be fine with a futur

All,

I see that the IE200's are listed on Amazon for $120. Although I'm aware of other brands and IEM's recommended here and elsewhere, many of them also have noise cancelling or are wireless, and therefore also more expensive.

At that price point, are there any other IEM's (wired is fine, no noise-cancelling required) that are competitive in terms of sound quality that I should be considering? I have no strong opinions about "tonal balance" but it would primarily be for music listening in an office/home office environment and generally would prefer "accurate/neutral" out of the box. TIA.

Folks,

Just starting the rabbit hole of research here. I see that the ELAC Debut series speakers are typically highly recommended for their budget class, but, I usually see the 6/6.2 recommended, not the 5/5.2.

Are the 5/5.2's just not as good and the price difference isn't worth it? Is there a technical reason (size, possibly) the 6's are recommended over the 5's? Or is it just selection bias and either are pretty good?

Admitting I didn't see what was posted since earlier in the day, maybe it degenerated into a flame war, and admitting I can't control if people delete their own posts, I hoped it would stay up.

Partly, to be sure, as a Dalton fan and wannabe Fleming purist, I was eager to argue in favor of Dalton.

But, primarily, it's not like u/Maleficent-Item4833 had no good points --- it was a reasonable explanation of their views, one that went against the grain respectfully, I thought, and triggered some good discussion over a controversial topic. Overall I'd rather see more discussions like that (as opposed to the umpteenth "when will Bond 26 get released").

Just my two cents.

It took me way too long to realize this, but (with caveats) five of the six actors' Bond debuts begin with an MI6 agent getting killed (or at least, appearing to) on screen, usually jumpstarting the plot.

Dr. No - Strangways and his secretary are killed by Dr. No. Bond is sent to investigate.

Live and Let Die - The three MI6 agents are killed by Kananga. Bond is sent to investigate.

The Living Daylights - 004 is killed by Koskov and Whitaker. Bond is eventually sent to retaliate.

GoldenEye - 006 is "killed" by Ourumov. (caveat one)

Casino Royale - Dryden is killed by James Bond! (caveat two)

On Her Majesty's Secret Service is the only debut Bond movie that does not hav

Not like, every day, but for sporadic trips into D.C. or whatnot --- anyone been towed or seeing reports of towing? Or is the mall parking lot reasonable safe for a few hours here and there?

Most searches for USB charging port have to do with the port not charging. Unfortunately my problem may be more advanced: I have no problem plugging it into a cord and it will charge, but, it has spontaneously stopped connecting to a PC and engaging in file transfer. I've tried three different cords, two different machines, restarting the devices, flipping around the cords, etc.

Is it the case that the USB-C port on the phone can be not dirty enough to charge, but too dirty to file transfer? Is there some obscure setting on the phone I'm not aware of?

Thanks in advance.

I have a Wave Radio/CD player that, after some research, I have concluded has the dead capacitor problem --- that is, although the unit displays the clock, whenever I try and turn on the radio/aux/CD, the unit dies and resets. My research suggests this is one of the models where the capacitors on the circuit board have died, so the unit cannot get that extra power spike to start the various features.

I am unfortunately not tech savvy (or have the time or wish to invest in the repair tools) enough to consider replacing the capacitors on the board. I know theoretically Bose has a repair/service option, but, considering it's something like a 12 year old unit, is there any scenario where this