Proper Parenting - 007 Style

[UNCLEagent]

As you may know, my family and I visited the Piz Gloria in the spring of 2004/ (http://www.geocities.com/agent4uncle/007trip/). My son still raves about the trip and he already has plans for going back as soon as I can muster more funding.

Today is the first real snow day we have had in the past few years, here in downtown Portland. Schools are closed, I am calling in and the first thing my son exclaims as he is bolting down the stairs?

"I'm going outside to recreate a scene from On Her Majesty's Secret Service!!!!!!!!"

Almost as classic as the time when he was only three, when he turned every head within earshot down the aisles of Home Depot, breaking out into verse "G-o-o-o-oldfinger. He's the man... the man with the M-i-i-i-das touch.... A spider's touch....Such a co-o-o-ld finger...."

The kid's okay. :)

[Daltons Chin Dimple]

One day he will rebel, some time after his 13th birthday you will come home and find him watching <gasp> "In Like Flint" and loving it.

[UNCLEagent]

Well, we both enjoy watching the exploits of Derek Flint together.

But I draw the line at white polyester stretch slacks!

[Daltons Chin Dimple]

If, at any point, you find him in bed with a Jason Bourne DVD then I am afraid it will have to be the orphanarium for him !

[UNCLEagent]

LOL - I did think the first Bourne film was okay (hardly memorable or worthy of all the hype)

I haven't yet seen the second.

It is the Mission:Impossible films I find most offensive. When he saw MI3 with me in the theaters, he turned to me and said "It's not really that bad. Too bad it is nothing like the TV show where they actually trick the bad guys instead of blowing everything up."

Right now I am refueling our flame-thrower so that I can join him for his OHMSS re-creation outside. I myself totally dig belly-sliding in the middle of the street with a machine-gun, just like Bond in the movie.

Damn SUV almost mucked it all up last time I tried it....

[BeauButabi]

Today is the first real snow day we have had in the past few years, here in downtown Portland.
W00T!!!!!!!!11 :cool:

[Boromir006]

Too bad it is nothing like the TV show where they actually trick the bad guys instead of blowing everything up.That is probably the best assessment of the shortcomings of the M:I movie franchise I've ever seen.

The first twenty minutes of the first movie are the only time it remotely resembles Mission: Impossible. Then it becomes Tom Cruise: Super Spy.

[Daltons Chin Dimple]

I dunno, MI:I and M:III both had there elements of that. MI:II was Woo popping his load and Cruise greedily lapping it up.

[Martini97]

M:III was the most watchable of the film series IMO. However, My mother (who is not a James Bond fan at all) said Casino Royale '06 is the better film simply because the actor looks like rough touch agent. (And she's a Mission Impossible fan) Quote my mother after seeing Casino Royale: "That is one tough James Bond, boy that man can run". Don't you just love mothers?