YMMV / Kill James Bond!

• Broken Base: While the hosts often have minor disagreements the episode on First Blood had an unsually intense argument between November and Abigail regarding Rambo and Sylvester Stallone' s performance. November highlighted the politics of the movie (which she strongly disagreed with) and found Stallone awful. Abigail, though conceding the political argument found Stallone's performance and characterisation of Rambo very powerful and impressive.
• Ensemble Dark Horse: Before George Lazenby "Said Some Shit" the hosts were more in favor of him and his Bond than any of the other actors or portrayals, loving the audacity of how he got the role and of leaving after making one film and believing him and his Bond to be kinder and more humane.
• Designated Hero: The hosts love to point out when Bond, or any other protagonist, is quite unheroic or performing criminal acts (such as shoving a child off a boat). Special mention goes to Inspector Fan Sing-Ling of The Man from Hong Kong, who brings a violence and intensity that would be appropriate to stopping a world-ending threat to a movie where the villain's entire plan is "sell heroin", and who kills a lot of people in the process.
• Harsher in Hindsight:
  • The episode on "A Queen's Ransom" begins with November requesting that the listeners put the hosts' positive comments about actor George Lazenby in the proper historical context of "us recording this several days ago," due to Lazenby making homophobic and misogynistic comments (otherwise refered to as him having "Said Some Shit") during a live interview literally the day after the episode was recorded. This incident also lead November to jokingly(?) announce "the institution of a new format" known as The Misandry Hour, which "starts now and does not end."
    November: The lesson I would draw from this is to "Trust no Bond," and especially to trust no male actor working in the '60s. We apologize in advance for all of the nice things that we said about a man who we believed—falsely, it seems—to be basically okay. We hope you're still able to enjoy the episode, and thank you for your patience.
  • The No Time to Die live show includes a bit where the hosts wonder why spy films often have characters drown and/or show their corpses sinking off into water. The episode was recorded two days before the controversial series finale of Killing Eve, in which main character Villanelle dies in exactly this way as a Sudden Downer Ending.
  • A bit in one episode where Abigail complains about November's partner Sophie From Mars^note her name was bleeped in the episode but she owned up to it on twitter vaping in her house, and November insists that "she's not my girlfriend, she just puts cigarettes out on me" was recorded a few weeks before November publicly cut ties with Sophie for various consent violations including one that gave her cigarette burns.
• Narm: In Patriot Games, Harrison Ford's grave, anguished "They had to take out her spleen" was very funny to November.
• Narm Charm: In contrast, Abi felt the heartbreak of the scene and said that as someone with young relatives she understood how upsetting it would be to have one of them hurt in that way, leading November to quip "Maybe there's just something wrong with me."
• Heartwarming Moments: In the bonus episode on OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies, Abi mentions a terrible Francophile ex and her lingering sense of unease at hearing a lot of spoken French which initially gave her trouble starting the film, but also that actually watching a French film that made her laugh helped banish that unease and create new memories.
• He Really Can Act: Derogatively.
  • Cop Land had a Sylvester Stallone playing a flawed, sympathetic Token Good Cop who'd destroyed his own dreams in helping someone else. Unlike Abigail, November hadn't thought Stallone was acting well in First Blood and actually believed he couldn't act at all. Seeing his Freddy made her and Devon all the more frustrated by his acting in the Rambo sequels.
  • The hosts all adore Zardoz and are very impressed with Sean Connery's acting in it, finding it quite nuanced and lamenting that he hadn't brought anything on this level to the Bond films.
• Sequelitis: Frequently the three enjoy the first installment of a movie series but find its sequels execrable. They genuinely liked The Bourne Identity, felt the first Austin Powers at least had some good moments, and they were divided on First Blood but despised the sequels.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character: The hosts all believe that the villain of Skyfall, who has very clear parallels to the Bond of Die Another Day - he was a favored agent of M's, he was captured and M made no effort to retrieve him, he was expected to kill himself and tried - should have been played by Piers Brosnan. And also not just dove off into being evil, but that's a complaint they often have about villains who raise good points which are not addressed.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot: That the Status Quo Is God for the Bond franchise - and therefore continuity is limited and Bond can't meaningfully change or gain or lose anything, so the impact of various major events is lessened and limited - is the cause of a great deal of frustration.
  • The hosts all loved the first Bourne movie and found it genuinely good and compelling even if it was also great fodder for riffing. Jason Bourne's vulnerability and revulsion towards his old life conflicted with the movie's framing of said old life as being Really Cool but it still ended with him walking away. Unfortunately, there were sequels.
• Took the Bad Film Seriously: Abi was delighted at the effort that Ron Perlman put into the film The Name of the Rose - he wasn't given much of a script, so to play a character who spoke erratically in several languages, he got copies of the book The Name of the Rose in several languages and pieced together his own dialogue. Even if the movie is bad, Abi says, putting that kind of work in can make an actor shine and stand out, and hopefully get cast elsewhere.
• Trans Audience Interpretation: The hosts are always on the lookout for trans interpretations and point these out, generally as a joke. All medicines are estradiol, all Magic Plastic Surgery is facial feminization surgery, any therapist asks "Do you imagine yourself as [blank] when you masturbate?", etc. One Running Gag is that all films are either about being transgender, or about 9/11.

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