JAMES Bond used to be the hottest film franchise around, but the fact that the "Austin Powers" secret agent spoof films have become hits in their own right has gotten some people worried. They fret that Agent 007's movies may no longer be taken as seriously as they used to be by action-film fans. What is the score on James Bond after Austin Powers has spoofed him to kingdom come?

Some observers believe that Mike Myers' Austin Powers movies have blown the wind out of James Bond's sails, but others crack that few people took the Bond movies seriously in the first place, so what was there to worry about?

For his part, current James Bond player Pierce Brosnan chooses to be upbeat about the whole deal. "I think the 'Austin Powers' movies even enhance our films," he says with a confident grin. He explains that the Austin Powers films create greater awareness of the James Bond movies that they poke fun at.

Myers agrees. He points out that his movies are friendly rather than sour satires of the original. Also remember that this isn't the first time that Agent 007 has been satirized onscreen. James Coburn had his "Our Man Flynt" spoof series, and other actors have also gotten in on the fun. Goodness, even our Dolphy once did his own "James Bandong" series of secret-agent spoofs.

To really settle the score, we'll have to wait until after Brosnan's third James Bond starrer, "The World Is Not Enough," is shown. If it doesn't make as much as the second "Austin Powers" movie, then he'll really have reason to worry. If not, not!

Some movie dialogue is so bad that it's inadvertently funny. Some "best of the worst" examples through the years:

From "The Greatest Story Ever Told":

Jesus: What is your name, my friend?

James the Younger: James. Little James. They call me "little" because I'm the youngest. What is your name?

Jesus: Jesus.

James: Ah, that's a good name!

Jesus: Thank you.

John Travolta to Lily Tomlin in "Moment by Moment": I've had it with cheap sex. It leaves me feeling cheap!

Young man trying to seduce Loni Anderson in "Three on a Date": You have a very soft body.

Anderson: Soft? I work out two hours a day to keep it firm!

Young Man: You have a very soft skin over a very firm body!

Nicolas Cage waxing philosophical in "Zandalee": Without creativity, without life, then you are truly unable to go straight up the Devil's behind, look him right in the face, smile, and survive!

Tyrone Power in "The Razor's Edge": The dead look so terribly dead when they're dead!

Love scene to end all love scenes in "North West Mounted Police":

Robert Preston: You're the sweetest poison that ever got into a man's blood! I love you! I want you! Listen, you little wildcat, you're the only real thing that's ever happened to me. And nobody, nothing could ever make me let you go.

Paulette Goddard: I love you so terrible bad, I feel good. My heart sings like a bird!

Clint Eastwood as a cool-talking deejay in "Play Misty for Me": Men have destroyed the roads of wonder and their cities squat like black toads. In the orchards of life, nothing is clean or real as a girl, naked to love or be a man with!

Doctor examining a victim in "The Monster of Piedras Blancas": Oh, he'll be all right. He's got a bad blow on the head, suffering from shock, mashed hands. But I can't find much other damage.

Secretary in "Phantom of the Opera": Mr. Pleyel's been murdered! Get a doctor! Quickly!

"The Bell of Silence" will be performed anew this month at the Cuneta Astrodome. On Sept. 10 and 11, the values-promoting musical will be viewed by thousands of schoolchildren. The musical is about a village boy named Habi Tabi and a loving girl named Zyra who are sent by God to ring the bell of silence, and thus vanquish all evil.

"It shares a touching message of love, peace and hope in an apathetic world very similar to ours," says producer-director Carlos Atayde.