Working two jobs — a full time Office job, and a part time Bookstore job — I don’t find myself with a lot of free time. So I tend to be constantly behind on watching movies (it’s rare indeed when I turn a Netflix around in less than two weeks, but I’m getting better). I am, indeed, very fortunate that my primary mode of transportation is the Metro, which allows for quite a bit of reading.

With my schedule the way it is, sometimes I start thinking about a movie I’m interested in watching again, and it takes a few weeks, or, let’s be honest here, a couple of months, before I actually get around to watching it. In this case, I’ve been thinking about watching TMWTGG for the last three or four months (probably about when I got around to hanging the poster).

Here’s the thing: I don’t like Roger Moore as James Bond. As a matter of fact, I think he’s a ridiculous James Bond. I think my left nut would be a better James Bond, and neither of my nuts is, in fact, English. I can’t stand six of the seven Moore films.

That said …

The Man With The Golden Gun is, I think, my favorite Bond film. At the very least, it’s my favorite pre-Craig Bond (I think Casino Royale has taken the lead). I’m not quite sure why I like TMWTGG quite so much, but I think it’s probably got something to do with the plot that isn’t so convoluted that you can watch it and still have a rough idea of what’s going on.

Here’s an interesting note: an adjunct professor at my alma mater is a huge fan of the Bond series, and owns one of the prop Golden Guns. (I don’t think it actually works).

Lastly, I found one of the movie’s trailers on YouTube. I’m really glad people started taking seriously the art of movie trailers, because this trailer is totally horrible. I mean, the audio alone — you can barely hear the narrator or the actors’ dialogue because the Bond theme is so loud:

Okay, that was almost lastly, and, because there’s no bad time for Goldentusk, enjoy: