2:12 "A real woman wouldn't open a car door, therefore it's a man in disguise"... that's a gag i would expect in an Austin Powers movie...but here it is, in a proper James Bond movie... i can't believe it. Boy oh boy Fantastic work BanyaBat!!! Your editing is on point (Gungan Parade lol) Also Hideo Kojima definitely saw this movie way too often... explains his love for the Fulton Recovery System (that skyhook thing)
The irony is the film slows to a crawl when Bond arrives at the primary location of the story, The Bahamas. The audience is already far ahead of Bond at that point, we know how the bombs were abducted and where they are. You can't have the viewer this far ahead of the hero, both parties need to be on the journey at the same time. What also doesn't help is Largo is a boring antagonist. He is really just a jumped up heavy in a villain's role. Fiona Valope is really the one that keeps the film going and when she dies, it's a struggle to finish the film. I don't want to hate this film because it's peak 60's style Bond but it's such an inept thriller.
It actually can work if you use it like Hitchcock and play into the dramatic irony of knowing more than the lead character unfortunately this movie isn’t conscience of this or isn’t concerned with it
Exactly! The whole gimmick of us being ahead of Bond was done better in From Russia With Love! This film is so boring and by the time Bond and Domino are hooked on the plane, you feel soggy and you realized only 2 hours have passed, although it feels like 2 and a half...
I like the scene where he puts the hat on the hat stand. You can see he was gonna throw it and was disappointed when it was so close to him. Right next to the door where realistically it would be.
4:35 I love that even as Bond is rushing to the passenger's seat, he quickly opens the driver's side door for the woman as he passes by it. Maintaining that "only a man can open a car door" continuity.
@@Ladoga753 It's arbitrary and silly. Imagine if it extended to other parts of life: no woman can go through a doorway if a man doesn't open it for her. Or, no woman can have a drink unless a man raises the cup to her lips. Or, no woman can have a poo unless a man lifts the toilet lid for her.
@@ThreadBomb Nobody said a woman CAN'T do it except you, you deranged freak. It's just courteous to do so. Good god, talk to a woman that isn't your fucking mum.
@@JG-tr8ph It was once thought courteous to do so, but even then it was ridiculous to anyone with eyes to see. Women standing by a car door, having to wait for someone to open the door for them, for fear of being "unfeminine".
This film reminds me of my favourite mystery science theatre joke. Exasperated Tom Servo: "You know I've heard if you film underwater scenes in slow motion you can actually go back in time"
I love how Bond puts on a helmet to use the jetpack, because 'elf and safety, but in doing so fails to put a safe distance between himself and henchmen shooting at him.
@@BanyaBat Same here! I've also started listening the podcast after seeing your cuts, and it's oh so much nicer to watch it with a video editing. Specially such great editing. I imagine RLM stuff generates more views but I love this shit. Thank you.
Watched this after all the RLM vids with no knowledge of classic Bond movies, what podcast this was and I laughed my ass off. The editing is top stuff and I'd be glad to see more
Probably the best Bond movie of them all. The best performance from the best Bond actor, the best scary henchman, the best locations, the best Blofeld and Spectre, gave us the template for the Bond credits, the best villain lair outside of YOLT, incredible stunt with the jetpack and a fantastic pre-title sequence, great villain and the funniest wittiest script of them all. Just the perfect Bond.
I watched Thunderball again for the first time in 30 years and found I quite liked it - more than I remembered. It does have a lot of weird filmmaking choices that kill the pacing and action. I like the underwater fight scenes though - I never understood what the problem is with them. It’s different, there’s some tension. I’m more disappointed by the strange speed up film elements, particularly the ridiculous Disco Volante fight at the end.
I am glad to encounter someone else who thinks that Thunderball is boring. Never Say Never Again gets put down a lot, but it is a better telling of the same story.
@Randy White just finished watching it, and ya there is a lot of scuba underwater footage which isn't exactly the most exciting or fun thing to watch. Sure it's interesting to see for a bit but also the villain isn't as compelling as say in goldfinger or From Russia. My personal fav is skyfall but I'm going through them all now.
I am constantly jealous of these guys abilities to remember a film in such detail without reading from a script recap that they wrote. I've seen films dozens of times and don't have this level of recall.
I remember being shocked to know this was the most successful bond movie (when adjusted for inflation), and i remember it being such a drag when i finally watched it. Great video!
I can't for the life of me understand what audiences saw here. When I am in the rare mood to watch Thunderball, I always skip the procedure of the bomb removal from the Vulcan bomber.
It's interesting how this film has such a poor reputation nowadays. Actually, I'm still waiting for the perfect James Bond film...but I don't think it'll happen during my lifetime. They always manage to get something wrong.
"That ain't no woman, that's a man, man!" ...and so Thunderball became a little more entertaining to me. Thuderball may not have been that good a film but it's still at very least the equal of anything the most recent, and last, Bond has been in.
Remember the spoof film staring David Niven , Casino Royal , made more money than 007 You Only Live Twice in 1967 ! You are looking at films with a 21 st Century perspective.
Glad you continued these. Could not agree more, along with No Time To Die and The World Is Not Enough, Thunderball is amongst my most boring Bond films. That Fawlty Towers bit just had me pissing with laughter, along with Bond and watersports.
@@EdBern It excels at almost everything. Best henchman in the series, best locations, the best performance of the best Bond, one of the best title sequences. It's easily one of the very best.
Thunderballs underwater scenes are so well written in the book because you have bonds thoughts as the action is happening, and without that the sequences feel really bland
ARE YOU SERIOUS? THUNDERBALL: IS THE BEST CLASSIC BOND MOVIE OF ALL TIME: hERE IS WHY: In Dr No, Connery is still experimenting with the role and he is great but yet a bit stiff. In From Russia with Love he explores more the "dark" side of the character. In Goldfinger he adds more charm and "witticism" and completes the formula. But in Thunderball he IS James Bond and the formula is perfected. Connery's performance on this is truly unique. He shows the greatest confidence ever. His style, his movements, the way he speaks, his one-liners, his demeanor and even the way he looks, everything that was built in the previous 3 films, reach perfection. He is "dark" and gritty and at the same time charming and stylish. He looks tough and ruthless which at the same time combines with incredible humor and unsurpassed style. And he obviously enjoys playing the character more than ever, either before or after. It is also an axcellent spy and action movie. The plot is simple but realistically believable. And for the first time it focuses on Bond himself and not the vilain. The action scenes are great. The gadjets are believable (the jet-pack was real in the beginning). When he gets to the Bahamas Bond is unstopable: He first gets in contact the sister of Dervall. Then through her he discovers Largo. Then he is spying into his house. Then he is diving under his boat to find out where the bombs are, He takes pictures, he fights, he gets attacked with grenades. Then he tries to seduce Fiona and find out more. He is captured and manages resoursefully to escape but gets wounded. He gets surrounded but manages to escape again by killing her. Then he disguise him self as an enemy diver and finds out where the bombs are hidden underwater. He gets attacked again and escapes. He notifies where the bombs are to the Parachute Special Forces. He then enters into the underwater battle him self. He heroically stops Largo to escape by fighting till the end inside the boat. Where in all that something boring"? The underwater shooting and especially the underwater battle was a revolutionary achievement for the time and a unique sample of cinematography for 1965! The crisp underwater photography is excellently choreographing so many divers under the water at the same time. I agree that It's an achievement that is often under appreciated. Such a complicated action scene has never been replicated in any other movie since. It isn't an underwater fight between a couple of divers. It is a full scale battle of epic proportions. This was the first Bond movie that truly felt of epic scale and I love it. It is also the ultimate "escapism" movie. Beautiful exotic places, wonderful scenery and landscapes, incomparable lifestyle, amazing women (Fiona Volpe is an amazing femme fatale and Domino one of the hottest Bondgirls). it is even considered alongside with Goldfinger a "fashion icon" movie! So initially in Goldfinger but mainly in Thunderball, Connery' Bond reaches the fine line of perfection, as he becomes at the same time tough and refined, stylish and ruthless, a real killer with a sense of humor, who lives on the edge and therefore enjoys every minute of his life as if it were his last. Goldfinger at 85% and Thunderball at 100%, are the timeless epitome of the James Bond movies, before Connery got tired of the role in You Only Live Twice and before the production turned to a more comic version (parody-spoof) of Bond, with Diamonds Are Forever and the Roger Moore era. Also Thunderball is historically extremely significant for the franchise that we love: It broke the smashing box office records. It is to this date the highest grossing Bond movie of all time (inflation counted). If Goldifinger created the "Bondmania", then Thunderball made it into a high fever. The flms remarkable achievements transformed James Bond from a popular fictional hero, into a phenomenon in cinema history
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I think Largo is pretty cool as the villain;... ...the piratical eye-patch, the white tux, the 'Disco Volante' & his pad, 'Palmira'... ...pure '60s cool posing!
James Bond movies generally suck, there's only a handful that are any good - I always remember Thunderball being one of them. Bearing in mind I've not seen a bond film since a couple of years after that first Craig one came out which everyone told me was so good and gritty - I turned it off before the end because it was toss - so it must be nearly twenty years! The only decent ones were Dr. No, Thunderball, maybe From Russia With Love, Licence To Kill, The Spy Who Loved Me (purely for nostalgic reasons from when I was 7) and the Lazenby one was alright. It's embarrassing when I hear people gushing over the "New Bond" being gritty or realistic or "the best since Connery" - at least most of the Connery one's were watchable... except possibly You Only Live Twice!
I really tried to enjoy thunderball but I really wasn’t engaged with the main plot and the underwater action sequence in the climax goes on for way too long.
I have to laugh because this film came to mind recently while watching a film with some underwater scenes. This and For Your Eyes Only slow to a snail's pace when the action moves underwater. I like the film, but I always felt the underwater sequences uninteresting and too drawn out,.
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I appreciate that you've started to annotate all the obscure U.K. pop.culture references.
Thanks, hope you're enjoying the new videos!
2:12 "A real woman wouldn't open a car door, therefore it's a man in disguise"... that's a gag i would expect in an Austin Powers movie...but here it is, in a proper James Bond movie... i can't believe it. Boy oh boy
Fantastic work BanyaBat!!! Your editing is on point (Gungan Parade lol)
Also Hideo Kojima definitely saw this movie way too often... explains his love for the Fulton Recovery System (that skyhook thing)
The irony is the film slows to a crawl when Bond arrives at the primary location of the story, The Bahamas. The audience is already far ahead of Bond at that point, we know how the bombs were abducted and where they are. You can't have the viewer this far ahead of the hero, both parties need to be on the journey at the same time. What also doesn't help is Largo is a boring antagonist. He is really just a jumped up heavy in a villain's role. Fiona Valope is really the one that keeps the film going and when she dies, it's a struggle to finish the film. I don't want to hate this film because it's peak 60's style Bond but it's such an inept thriller.
It actually can work if you use it like Hitchcock and play into the dramatic irony of knowing more than the lead character unfortunately this movie isn’t conscience of this or isn’t concerned with it
Exactly! The whole gimmick of us being ahead of Bond was done better in From Russia With Love!
This film is so boring and by the time Bond and Domino are hooked on the plane, you feel soggy and you realized only 2 hours have passed, although it feels like 2 and a half...
I like the scene where he puts the hat on the hat stand. You can see he was gonna throw it and was disappointed when it was so close to him. Right next to the door where realistically it would be.
It's not a important scene at all but I actually like it.
4:35
I love that even as Bond is rushing to the passenger's seat, he quickly opens the driver's side door for the woman as he passes by it. Maintaining that "only a man can open a car door" continuity.
Dont be silly. Its just manners.
@@Ladoga753 It's arbitrary and silly. Imagine if it extended to other parts of life: no woman can go through a doorway if a man doesn't open it for her. Or, no woman can have a drink unless a man raises the cup to her lips. Or, no woman can have a poo unless a man lifts the toilet lid for her.
@@ThreadBomb Nobody said a woman CAN'T do it except you, you deranged freak.
It's just courteous to do so. Good god, talk to a woman that isn't your fucking mum.
@@JG-tr8ph It was once thought courteous to do so, but even then it was ridiculous to anyone with eyes to see. Women standing by a car door, having to wait for someone to open the door for them, for fear of being "unfeminine".
@@Ladoga753 There’s a difference between opening a door for someone and thinking “That’s not a woman because they opened the door for themselves"
This film reminds me of my favourite mystery science theatre joke. Exasperated Tom Servo: "You know I've heard if you film underwater scenes in slow motion you can actually go back in time"
Thunderball is the best Connery Bond movie, so you take that back! Wait, pretty much everything you said was true. Never mind.
I love how Bond puts on a helmet to use the jetpack, because 'elf and safety, but in doing so fails to put a safe distance between himself and henchmen shooting at him.
No matter how you present it, the jetpack looks incredibly lame.
“You Only Live Twice” has the BEST shoe sounds. It’s the ultimate 60’s foley
Foley?
@@teslawolverine7009 Foley: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foley_(filmmaking)
Like some tap dancing.
@@teslawolverine7009Its when they create sound effects for movies or shows I believe
"Remote controlled secretary groping device" holy shit I spit out my drink at that point
Thank you so much for making these, started listening to the podcast because of you.
Likewise
That's fantastic to hear, glad you're enjoying them!
@@BanyaBat Are you doing all the james Bond films?
@@BanyaBat Same here! I've also started listening the podcast after seeing your cuts, and it's oh so much nicer to watch it with a video editing. Specially such great editing. I imagine RLM stuff generates more views but I love this shit. Thank you.
it is one of my recurring nightmares to be attacked by a back-projection version of myself
I like the fight on the speedboat where it suddenly turns into a Benny Hill sketch.
That bit with Specter sabotaging Basil's gourmet night made my week. Keep the reviews coming!
Thanks!
Being pumped by a ghost is a definite "Me-Boo" lawsuit.
Watched this after all the RLM vids with no knowledge of classic Bond movies, what podcast this was and I laughed my ass off. The editing is top stuff and I'd be glad to see more
Slight correction: it's the world's BEST boring action movie. It is quite boring, but it's also quite good. Lots of action films are boring and shite.
I’m giving banyabats other content a shot cause I like your RLM edits. As someone who likes visuals references, you came from heaven.
Watched this with my grandma recently and we both wanted to know what happened to the other guy at the end when they’re skyhooked out lol
Probably the best Bond movie of them all. The best performance from the best Bond actor, the best scary henchman, the best locations, the best Blofeld and Spectre, gave us the template for the Bond credits, the best villain lair outside of YOLT, incredible stunt with the jetpack and a fantastic pre-title sequence, great villain and the funniest wittiest script of them all.
Just the perfect Bond.
I watched Thunderball again for the first time in 30 years and found I quite liked it - more than I remembered. It does have a lot of weird filmmaking choices that kill the pacing and action. I like the underwater fight scenes though - I never understood what the problem is with them. It’s different, there’s some tension. I’m more disappointed by the strange speed up film elements, particularly the ridiculous Disco Volante fight at the end.
5:12 I love this nostalgic overlay so much
12:36 Holy shit I forgot how much I love her rack! She's the best thing in this bore fest
Great video. Really enjoying these Bond videos.
Good to hear it!
I am glad to encounter someone else who thinks that Thunderball is boring. Never Say Never Again gets put down a lot, but it is a better telling of the same story.
I think Thunderball is the better film but Never Say Never Again featured a vastly superior antagonist.
@@ricardocantoral7672 no point in remaking thunderbore but never music is shitty
@Randy White just finished watching it, and ya there is a lot of scuba underwater footage which isn't exactly the most exciting or fun thing to watch. Sure it's interesting to see for a bit but also the villain isn't as compelling as say in goldfinger or From Russia. My personal fav is skyfall but I'm going through them all now.
You spoil us with these video's miseur
Monsieur Bond
I personally like the remake much more than this film for a variety of reasons...mostly due to the self awareness of Connery's age.
14:53 "Don't leave me hanging on the telephone"
Oh thankfully it's with the guy whose funny and has a great laugh and not the Hyena kid.
Fantastic job with these
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I am constantly jealous of these guys abilities to remember a film in such detail without reading from a script recap that they wrote. I've seen films dozens of times and don't have this level of recall.
Lost it at R2-MeToo. Brilliant.
Probably your best work yet. The Q Branch Fondlebot/Sheffield sequence was truly inspired.
Thanks very much, I appreciate hearing that!
I remember being shocked to know this was the most successful bond movie (when adjusted for inflation), and i remember it being such a drag when i finally watched it. Great video!
I can't for the life of me understand what audiences saw here. When I am in the rare mood to watch Thunderball, I always skip the procedure of the bomb removal from the Vulcan bomber.
@@nickc127 True. This was the height of Bond mania so audiences were going to flock to a Bond movie regardless of it's quality.
Because it came out after Goldfinger, same reason Resident Evil 5 is the highest selling RE game.
It's interesting how this film has such a poor reputation nowadays. Actually, I'm still waiting for the perfect James Bond film...but I don't think it'll happen during my lifetime. They always manage to get something wrong.
There are great Bond films in my book but they were made decades ago and the books were better.
1969’s “On Her Majesty’s Secret Service” isn’t perfect, but it comes close.
Goldfinger
Surfshark add was pure poetry 👌🏻
"From Sheffield?"
Brilliant.
I can't believe this movie predicted Klaus Schwab
"That ain't no woman, that's a man, man!" ...and so Thunderball became a little more entertaining to me.
Thuderball may not have been that good a film but it's still at very least the equal of anything the most recent, and last, Bond has been in.
Remember the spoof film staring David Niven , Casino Royal , made more money than 007 You Only Live Twice in 1967 !
You are looking at films with a 21 st Century perspective.
Because it's the 21st century.
Oh dang, another one so soon. These are great!
Thanks!
Thank you for another fun commentary. These are finely ground crack
Thanks for watching!
Glad you continued these. Could not agree more, along with No Time To Die and The World Is Not Enough, Thunderball is amongst my most boring Bond films. That Fawlty Towers bit just had me pissing with laughter, along with Bond and watersports.
Jonny cash did a recording of the theme song however it wasn't used
These are great, thank you for compiling this
Glad you like them, Jared!
Great, instead of watching all the mid-tier bond films, I can just watch your videos! Thanks!
This isn't mid, it's one of the very best
@@TequilaToothpick No it's very mid tier.
@@EdBern It excels at almost everything. Best henchman in the series, best locations, the best performance of the best Bond, one of the best title sequences. It's easily one of the very best.
11:02 This is really bad, but also just as bad is when Bond forces himself on Pussy Galore in Goldfinger...
Two in one week! I salute you
Thunderballs underwater scenes are so well written in the book because you have bonds thoughts as the action is happening, and without that the sequences feel really bland
46:21 guy on the right, isn't that the guy bond killed with the harpoon gun who was following him around everywhere?
Not sure that liquid was water at the start and not sure those three guys lived past that flash of flame at the start of the credits.
I hate Bond but I love these commentaries
ARE YOU SERIOUS? THUNDERBALL: IS THE BEST CLASSIC BOND MOVIE OF ALL TIME: hERE IS WHY:
In Dr No, Connery is still experimenting with the role and he is great but yet a bit stiff. In From Russia with Love he explores more the "dark" side of the character. In Goldfinger he adds more charm and "witticism" and completes the formula. But in Thunderball he IS James Bond and the formula is perfected.
Connery's performance on this is truly unique. He shows the greatest confidence ever. His style, his movements, the way he speaks, his one-liners, his demeanor and even the way he looks, everything that was built in the previous 3 films, reach perfection. He is "dark" and gritty and at the same time charming and stylish. He looks tough and ruthless which at the same time combines with incredible humor and unsurpassed style. And he obviously enjoys playing the character more than ever, either before or after.
It is also an axcellent spy and action movie. The plot is simple but realistically believable. And for the first time it focuses on Bond himself and not the vilain. The action scenes are great. The gadjets are believable (the jet-pack was real in the beginning). When he gets to the Bahamas Bond is unstopable: He first gets in contact the sister of Dervall. Then through her he discovers Largo. Then he is spying into his house. Then he is diving under his boat to find out where the bombs are, He takes pictures, he fights, he gets attacked with grenades. Then he tries to seduce Fiona and find out more. He is captured and manages resoursefully to escape but gets wounded. He gets surrounded but manages to escape again by killing her. Then he disguise him self as an enemy diver and finds out where the bombs are hidden underwater. He gets attacked again and escapes. He notifies where the bombs are to the Parachute Special Forces. He then enters into the underwater battle him self. He heroically stops Largo to escape by fighting till the end inside the boat. Where in all that something boring"?
The underwater shooting and especially the underwater battle was a revolutionary achievement for the time and a unique sample of cinematography for 1965! The crisp underwater photography is excellently choreographing so many divers under the water at the same time. I agree that It's an achievement that is often under appreciated. Such a complicated action scene has never been replicated in any other movie since. It isn't an underwater fight between a couple of divers. It is a full scale battle of epic proportions. This was the first Bond movie that truly felt of epic scale and I love it.
It is also the ultimate "escapism" movie. Beautiful exotic places, wonderful scenery and landscapes, incomparable lifestyle, amazing women (Fiona Volpe is an amazing femme fatale and Domino one of the hottest Bondgirls). it is even considered alongside with Goldfinger a "fashion icon" movie!
So initially in Goldfinger but mainly in Thunderball, Connery' Bond reaches the fine line of perfection, as he becomes at the same time tough and refined, stylish and ruthless, a real killer with a sense of humor, who lives on the edge and therefore enjoys every minute of his life as if it were his last.
Goldfinger at 85% and Thunderball at 100%, are the timeless epitome of the James Bond movies, before Connery got tired of the role in You Only Live Twice and before the production turned to a more comic version (parody-spoof) of Bond, with Diamonds Are Forever and the Roger Moore era.
Also Thunderball is historically extremely significant for the franchise that we love: It broke the smashing box office records. It is to this date the highest grossing Bond movie of all time (inflation counted). If Goldifinger created the "Bondmania", then Thunderball made it into a high fever. The flms remarkable achievements transformed James Bond from a popular fictional hero, into a phenomenon in cinema history
i lost it at the "throwing the hat from sheffield" bit
liked and subscribed these are perfect for the gym
How about when Bond gives Domino the camera and tells her it’s a Geiger counter? Q told Bond that the watch was the Geiger counter, not the camera.
Well it's no wonder she got nabbed then, hey?
great stuff - I love the R2-MeToo 🙂
a friend had one of those programmable "BigTrak" tank vehicles when I was a kid 😛
The only thing I like about Thunderball is the theme song.
Another one?! Awesome!
Top 10 Bond films for sure.
Just found this channel
Love it
Deep, detailed commentary is great
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Thank You for uploading these! Absolutely pissing myself!
Thanks for watching!
"The Torquay Operation" sounds like a jazz fusion band.
There was a jazz fusion band that was based in Devon called The Limbic System. Your comment reminded me of them, so you're on to something there lol
Another excellent job - thanks
Thunderball was just a paycheck for Connery.
I thought his performance was actually well done and he was definitely at the peak of his looks.
Dimonds are forever was flat out a paycheck for connery
@@GrosvnerMcaffrey Technically not as he donated it
@@jamstonjulian6947 still was most of the films budget and besides charity donations help taxes as well
These are wonderful! Thank you!
Thanks for watching!
Can you do more Red Letter Media commentary vids?
Yes!!!! I love you guys
Welcome back, champ
That Young Ones reference made me inflate with happiness. One of my all time favorite shows and criminally underrated and obscure.
Spat my tea out at the mention of Domino doing an underwater tribute to Back to the Future lmfao!
This is brilliant
It is my least favourite Bond film too. 'Boring' is an accurate description.
I think Largo is pretty cool as the villain;... ...the piratical eye-patch, the white tux, the 'Disco Volante' & his pad, 'Palmira'... ...pure '60s cool posing!
Well that was fast. Great job. Appreciate the quick upload. Keep it up.
Thanks for watching them!
You guys have rocking chemistry, looking forward to more in the future!
Lmao. I remember renting this. It was my first Bond movie. Impossibly boring underwater scenes.
#R2-MeToo - I died. Brilliant.
I’d say Valerian is a contender.
James Bond movies generally suck, there's only a handful that are any good - I always remember Thunderball being one of them. Bearing in mind I've not seen a bond film since a couple of years after that first Craig one came out which everyone told me was so good and gritty - I turned it off before the end because it was toss - so it must be nearly twenty years! The only decent ones were Dr. No, Thunderball, maybe From Russia With Love, Licence To Kill, The Spy Who Loved Me (purely for nostalgic reasons from when I was 7) and the Lazenby one was alright.
It's embarrassing when I hear people gushing over the "New Bond" being gritty or realistic or "the best since Connery" - at least most of the Connery one's were watchable... except possibly You Only Live Twice!
I agree, It was on Amazon recently and yes it was so boring.
I like Thunderball. It's no From Russia With Love, but I prefer it to Goldfinger.
Same.
LOL
this synposis is quite useful for me as I fell asleep somewhere in the underwater action climax in the third act
"A man with crest hair" laughed my ass off!!!
I really tried to enjoy thunderball but I really wasn’t engaged with the main plot and the underwater action sequence in the climax goes on for way too long.
that hellboy reference is so good i cant stop laughing! 28:00
The Citizen Kane of thrilling slow-motion underwater action scenes
I thought it was boring as a kid. As an adult this is fucking awesome.
Please do Die Another Day next! 😀
These are great!
I have to laugh because this film came to mind recently while watching a film with some underwater scenes. This and For Your Eyes Only slow to a snail's pace when the action moves underwater. I like the film, but I always felt the underwater sequences uninteresting and too drawn out,.
I disagree. Quantum of Solace fits the bill though
8:32 goddamn genius
Bless you, sir
Amazing xD
As Sean enters the casino ,the blonde is Dale Winston's mum
#R2-MeToo is 😗👌
Gentlemen open doors for ladies because it is polite and refined, not because women are weak and incapable.
It is weird, bc I read this book, and the book is entertaining! But the movie is so much less engaging than the other early Connery flicks
Scuba was new?
Yes,no, sort of. The system they're using there was only 20 years old and not yet the pastime of carribean tourists.
Lol, The Smurf who smurfed me