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If the secret agent has theme music, he's no longer a secret. One quibble with the plot: How does Bond know that there are piranha in the koi pond? The kill quip works because we know, but how did he know?

I saw "You Only Live Twice" in Japan and I remember being disappointed by the typical Hollywood depiction of Japan, not much different films like "Sayonara" and "My Geisha Boy." My interest in 007 and spies waned immediately afterward.

You need to mention Marty McFly’s grandfather…

I worked with George Martin a few times back in the day. Lovely bloke and talented producer and arranger. I do find his score for Live and Let Die a bit flimsy and repetitive though. He shows his lack of experience in the genre as he tends to compose pieces and then fit them in and reuse them rather than compose a continuous evolving score that adapts to every moment and mood change. The stings he uses are sometimes a bit dated and basic and there is an obvious contrast to the quality of John Barry's work. It does have some good moments but is obviously not in the same league as many of the other films. The score isn't the only thing that's flimsy in this film. The set design often looks cheap and the direction is also a bit clunky, old fashioned and lacking dynamism. Apart from the speedboat sequence the film is also lacking in good action set pieces and some of the acting is criminally bad (I'm looking at you Rosie). I think the titles song and voodoo iconography are remembered fondly with this one but on close inspection it is objectively one of the weaker entries in the series.

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AA brought me here. This reminds me that I wasted my time voting for Boris all those years ago.

You never heard of the amazing Samurai television series? That was the intro of Ninja to western pop media.

Matt Helm is worth a revisit. If they stick closer to the novels.

Saw the film and couldn't stop laughing!!!

Remade in 1977 as The Spy Who Loved Me.

This is a great Bond movie and the biggest missed opportunity of the series. This would have been one of the best movies if Sean Connery starred in it. Connery wanted to do a movie like this. It is almost unforgivable that he was not in it. Lazenby did alright but Connery and Diana Rigg together would be gold.

On Her Majesty's Secret Service was a great movie but would be one the best if Connery starred in it. Diamonds was the precursor to the Roger Moore era which 1970s audiences wanted. Sean Connery was the first to play Moore's bond in Diamonds.

I disagree that this movie was grounded in reality. Far from reality, the movie shows a space arm grab a rocket in outer space really? There is no way Blofeld could launch a rocket from inside a volcano no matter how impressive the set. Why didn't the female villan kill Bond on the boat? Why destroy a perfectly good airplane? Finally there is no way Little Nellie could be weighted down with guns and shoot down planes.

I see some inconsistencies here. In this vidoe you criticize the poster for fishing for examples to prove a point but then in other videos you do the same. The left lies? Sure. So does the right. Shall we both go looking for examples of the dregs, as you call them? Feels like a very dishonest argument you are trying to make. Does the left get to dismiss their fringe as well? You dismiss the right wing fringe here as not indictive of the whole. Same for the left?

Has anyone ever commented on McClory's producer credit appearing square in the middle of a swimmer's arse during the title song? Nice one Cubby 😁

Your Carl is solid.

I was already a nerd when I watched Cosmos, so he didn't introduce me to Science, but Sagan did introduce me to the first great music I'd ever heard, and that changed my life.

I miss Carl. I miss someone who looked up in wonder, telling us of the greatness we can aspire to. Instead of men who look down on us, and tell us how small we are.

Nailed the John Hurt.

Yeah, that Walken needs work.

As a dedicated fan of the Halloween franchise, your Pleasence needs work. Caine's spot on, though.

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Starmer always seems have a speech impediment, like he's slightly deaf! Mind you, that would explain a lot, he is after all a cloth eared muppet!

An interesting, if in places over-intellectualized, analysis. I would expand on a couple of the points made: 1) the series had made a very deliberate choice for spectacle over characterization, to this film's great detriment, and 2) Connery was by this point barely on speaking terms with the producers, largely over money, but also because he had grown tired of the mechanics of fame, as the video notes. The next film (OHMSS) would be much better in terms of quality, but would not make nearly as much money. This in turn led to the mess that was DAF.

I subscribed when you said fahrenheit !!!

I watched your video and then went on to read all 12 of the novels. Thank you for that!

I can understand why Connery became pissed off with EON . The producers were greedy and insisted on churning out Bond movies every year without resting him and then Lazenby comes along with a strong Aussie accent and they cannot give him the time to aquire a convincing English accent . They dubbed him with George Baker's snobbish and annoying voice and the image of Lazenby didn't match the vocals and that is what ruined his 9n screen performance,

Chichester didn’t stop a few times. He stopped once in Australia.

The narration and analysis in this video is ignorant HOGWASH. The writers of the video got it all wrong with all the recurrent characters in the show. The main theme of the entire series was all but missed by this video. Here's what it was: Tremendous irony. Not only was Kimble falsely accused and convicted of a heinous crime that made him into a monster by murdering his wife, in reality he was exactly the opposite. He was a saintly man that lived ONLY to help others in need. Every single episode describes how he helped strangers or saved their lives even though it endangered him by almost getting caught. Although he was adamantly pursuing the one-armed man who killed his wife in order to clear his name, he put the lives of others before his own if need be. In the series, he even saved Gerard's life no less than four times!

I never thought Donald Pleasence, as great an actor as he was, was very convincing as the villain in this movie. My vote for most convincing villain in any Bond movie is No. 1 in Thunderball: you never see him and he has a voice that seems to come from the grave. All other Bond villains, with the possible exception of Auric Goldfinger, are like cartoons, in my opinion.

आप जिन उपन्यासों की बात कर रहे हैं, वे मूल निवासियों के प्रति अत्यंत संरक्षणात्मक हैं तथा औपनिवेशिक अहंकार से भरे हैं। कोई भी नैतिक व्यक्ति उन्हें अस्वीकार्य पाएगा।

I fully agree, its a tired stereotype that sean would do better - George adds humor/uniqueness/charisma and emotion that sean likely wouldnt have (not that he couldnt be great if it was his best effort)

Everything on TV and social media is fake for the most part. Its all about views and ratings.

OHMSS aged better than DAF

Read and audio booked every one multiple times. My favourites fluctuate daily but Great Game prolly takes it. I have read up on every event and character afterwards. I wish Bush and Blair had read the first book. I have never hated any character in books or movies more than Elphinstone. Harry felt the same.

Good show

Tiger is my least favourite.

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The camera work for this film was done by Freddie Young, not Freddie Francis, whose very existence as a cinematographer in 1967 has no record.

What about the 2000 reboot series with Tim Daily. It lasted only one season and was never a ratings success but worth an honorable mention in a video like this.

In the early 1980th the german musician Udo Lindenberg sang a song named "Dr. Kimbel auf der Flucht" where he describes the plans of rich people to survive a nuclear war on some lonely islands far away from USA and West-Europe.

12 to 14 in years, then & it was the first time I saw young Kurt Russell in a roll, thanks for the memories. Canadians watched this too with great enjoyment.🤩

Another unusual feature about the series finale was that it didn't air until late August of '67, months after what would have been the usual end date for season 4 -- letting the fans' anticipation build over the summer -- but still prior to the start of the fall TV schedule, so there was even less competition than usual. That scheduling was part of what made it such a viewing event.

(20:03) Not to mention the fact that, in the movie version, it looks like the 'one-armed man' had two arms. (Edit: As one would expect from a killer for hire.)

The narrator gets the year of the movie version's release right at 0:09 -- 1993 -- though he later (15:38 and 16:20) misstates it as 1994.

Dam thats good

Reminds me of me 😢

Interesting/informative/entertaining. Although I vagely remember that series. I became reacquainted with those episodes years later thru reruns-!!!🤗.OK-!!!. The $64K question is-???🤔.. This would take a vote with audience participating. Whom is your favorite portrayed one arm man-???🤔. Carl Raisch (TV) series/Andreas Katsulas (Movie )... I cast my vote to 1-armed (TV) series actor Carl Raisch-!!! 🤗.

They show a scene of Earl Holliman known for playing in Police Women with Angie Dickinson. I’m retired but I owned a Veterinary Hospital in a medium sized city. My receptionist advised me there was a man at front desk wanted to talk to me. I knew who he was immediately, he wanted my help with a spay and neuter program called ‘Actors and others for Animals’ I did participate in the program!

I would diagnose Lt Gerald with obsessive compulsive disorder because nothing matters to him except finding Dr Kimble. There was once when he was supposed to go camping with his son but a Kimble report came in so he had to go find Kimble!