Sean is BACK! DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER (1971) - Movie Reaction - FIRST TIME WATCHING
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Loved the first half, wasn’t the biggest fan of the second half
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Starring:
Sean Connery, Jill St. John, Charles Grat, Lana Wood, Jimmy Dean, and Bruce Cabot
Written by:
Ian Fleming, Tom Mankiewicz, and Richard Maibaum
Directed by:
Guy Hamilton
Such a great theme song!!! I enjoyed this instalment of Bond but something about it didn't give it the same kick as some of the others. It was super cool to see Sean back as Bond but there were moments where it felt like he was just doing it for money. Overall though a fun movie with some really cool action!!
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After poor box office for OHMSS, they backed up a truck of money to Connery. As for Never Say Never Again, I liked it more than Moore's Octopussy, released at the same time. (Both did well financially). Just having Connery back made up for any other issue. And Barbara Carrera!
He was doing it just for the money. Which he donated to charity.
Lots of people seem to hate Diamonds are forever, but it's one of my favourites. That being said, the oil rig sequence is a bit of a let down. Looking forward to the Moore era.
It’s one of my faves.
Mine too
I simply HATED the Moore movies. That's when I stopped going to Bond movies, until the Dalton films. Moore was too silly and nice. Watered-down Bond. Hardly ever made use of his license to kill.
Sean Connery donated his salary from Diamonds are Forever to the Scottish International Education Trust, a charity he founded and a Guinnes World Record in those years.
Welcome to the Cartoon Era of Bond.
This movie is embarrassingly bad, especially following OHMSS.
spot the mistake. When the car goes on 2 wheels down the alley it comes out the other side on the other 2 wheels.
its a great movie but there are tons of mistakes.
That's not a mistake it's just very clever driving!
Earlier in the parking lot chase sequence, a ramp that wasn’t there is suddenly there.
How and why Sir Sean Connery came back is kinda complex and beyond the comment section to really do the subject justice. There are plenty of video essays out there on the subject if you're interested.
Fun Fact: During a late 1990s interview, Bruce Glover recalled that he and Putter Smith had Sir Sean Connery convinced that the two were actually openly homosexual. Glover added that a few years later while on an airline flight he was caught red-handed by Connery flirting with a female flight attendant.
Bonus Fact: Because of Sir Sean Connery's high fee, the special effects budget was significantly scaled back. Connery was reportedly paid $1.25M to return as James Bond, a figure unheard of in those days.
Along the same lines, Elizabeth Taylor was the first person to be guaranteed a minimum salary of $1 million to star in a film. With all of the extras in her contract, she ultimately received $7 million for her part in Cleopatra (1963). When that amount was combined with the huge cost of the production, 20th Century Fox nearly went bankrupt. If anyone is interested and can find a copy of the 2000 documentary, Cleopatra: The Film That Changed Hollywood, it's well worth a viewing.
I believe that Diamonds Are Forever follows up You Only Live Twice & ignores On Her Majesty's Secret service because it starts with Bond looking for Blofeld at what looks like somewhere in Asia.
Oh that is totally possible I never even thought that this film was ignoring OHMSS
huh i always assumed it resumed some time later with bond seeking out Blofeld after the assasination of his wife
Some critics call Diamonds Are Forever the “unofficial first Roger Moore Bond movie," even though Moore wouldn't make his debut until the next film, Live And Let Die. Diamonds Are Forever does contain many tropes that would become common during the Moore era, such as the opening titles with the signature “open palms" intro, designed by Marvin Hamlich.
Blofeld was played by the same actor who played Henderson in You Only Live Twice. It was a strange choice.
Charles Gray.
I would love to see what Diamonds Are Forever would have been if Lazenby continued the role of James Bond
If Lazenby was in D.A.F. or Connery in O.H.M.S.S. would have been a revenge film.
I had the great pleasure last week here in the UK of meeting the actress Trina Parks who plays Thumper. She is as beautiful now as she was then. She had nothing but nice things to say about filming this sequence and Sean connery.
Leonardo dicaprio once owned the house where Bambi and thumper were keeping Walter white hostage.
Staring the most Beautiful of all the Bond Girls "Jill St. John"
Jill was the girlfriend of United States Secretary of State Henry Kissinger at the time of this movie, if memory serves.
@@billolsen4360Really??? I did not know that!!!
You're a cutie
willard white house is not a set but a real house the Elrod House in palm springs.
Maybe it’s just me but any time James Bond comes to America, it SUCKS lol. It just seems sooo bland and boring. This movie and A View To A Kill are the two that come to mind. Maybe it’s because there’s nothing exotic about Las Vegas and San Fransisco but yeah, it’s just meh. Stick to the rest of the world, 007 lol
Edit: I just remembered Live and Let Die. That one was okay. The NY scenes were meh except for the blaxploitation vibe. And the action scenes in the bayou setting later in the movie made up for it too
All the old bond movies are childhood gems back when movies had some soul. I liked the Roger Moore Bonds with the humor and great chase scenes.
I love that my dad introduced me and my brother to James Bond. He started us off with Moore first and because we liked him so much he introduced us to Connery soon afterwards. Recently my dad bought me the entire Bond collection on Blu-ray and I love it!
I don’t know if Ollie will like them or not, but I am looking forward to revisiting the fun of the Moore era in the upcoming videos. (And I bet he will like Dalton’s more serious tone, later.)
The old movies were fun escapades. Now it is like they want to punish you for being a Bond fan,
Hearing you say that you think the action in this movie is better than in OHMSS literally made my heart hurt. In your defense, the elevator fight scene was pretty good, Everything else, though? Yikes! Some of the worst action in the entire series, imo.
The car chase and moon buggy chase barely have any energy whatsoever to them. It seems they tried to play those sequences for laughs, but even that doesn't work. And don't even get me started on the action climax. It's so incredibly bad and a huge step backwards from OHMSS and YOLT.
Yeah, it felt as if they were trying to do something as big as the finales of the last three EON Bond films, but they seemed to be doing it on a budget more akin to that of Goldfinger's last act. The next two Bond films wisely scaled back their climaxes to fit with the tighter budget.
@@MAMoreno Exactly. There's also this story about a gigantic explosion that was supposed to happen on the oil rig accidentally going off before they rolled the cameras. Which must've been devastating. There was originally also a chase planned, where Bond would go after Blofeld in his sub and they would end up brutally fighting in a salt mine. Got cut out of the script due to time and budget constraints.
Honestly, Connery getting this ridiculous amount of money really hurt the production.
Diamonds has a great titles song, some creepy gay henchmen and the best joke in the series. Apart from a few Barry motifs and a few bits from Ken Adam it doesn't have much else unless you're into overweight Connery, Blofeld in drag and some of the dullest action in the series. FYI.. in real life Sean did handle those coconuts
If "blue" is the only color you associate with Diamonds, then you need to expand your Palate to Pink.... specifically The Pink Panther series with Peter Sellers....
Honestly this one isn't great, Connery wasn't really interested in the role anymore and it showed. The best thing about this film is, now that it's done, one of my personal favourites is up next week. Roger Moore's first (and one of his best), 'Live And let Die'
I love Goldfinger. I love Live and Let Die. But this is still my favorite.
Did you spot the two bloopers? What did you think of the way they "fixed" the second one?
Maybe it’s not as big of a deal to the younger generation but Mr. Wint and Mr. Kidd were some of the first gay characters in a major motion picture. There were others before that seem obvious when looked at today but were dancing around the Hayes code. The ending of Some Like it Hot comes to mind. To be fair these two dance around it a little too but they’re way more obvious. Holding hands after killing the dentist and Mr. Wint shooting daggers with his eyes at Mr. Kidd thinking Tiffany Case was attractive . . . for a lady. Unfortunately they also became part of a Hollywood pattern that a character can seem to be gay as long as they’re evil and get killed. Anyhoo not sure if they were too subtle for you to figure out or it was just a meh, seen it. Also you didn’t pick up on Willard Whyte clearly being a fictional Howard Hughes. A recluse who no one has seen in years. One who owns Las Vegas casinos and aerospace companies among others nationwide. On the DVD extras Jimmy Dean expressed some concern he was playing a Howard Hughes figure since he was performing at the time in a Hughes owned casino. He took the risk because Jimmy Dean Sausage was a financial success. Howard Hughes allegedly loved the film screening it several times over and over.
RolyPolyOllie: "Why did Sean Connery come back?"
The O'Jays: "Money money money money...money!"
(To be fair, he didn't spend it on himself.)
Diamonds are forever is good for a laugh at best, at worst it is a very bland and unremarkable bond film especially for Connery who looked like he aged 20 years since You Only Live Twice. He did it for the money nothing more and it shows. I think had he done On Her Majesty’s Secret Service instead of this one it would’ve been a better way for him to go out.
😂 Willard White is based on Howard Hughes.
That I know! 🙂👍🏻
American actor John Gavin was first signed to play Bond in this movie before Connery was reluctantly persuaded by the head of United Artists to come back one more time. Gavin did receive a payment and gracefully bowed out. FYI-the “goop” in the pre-credits sequence the guy with the gun was in was actually mashed potatoes. The car chase in Vegas down the alley proved to be an editing nightmare because they realized afterwards the car went up on one set of wheels and came out on the other. A quick shot had to be inserted tilting Bond and Tiffany back and forth to try to explain the change. You’re right about Connery’s return. He didn’t want to come back to the role and did it for the money only. Many elaborate story ideas had been pitched but were tossed due to the amount paid to Connery. The continuation from the previous film was dumped because Lazenby didn’t return. At that time, and for years to come, OHMSS was treated as if it never happened. It was almost never shown on TV and was treated as the bastard child of the series until decades later.
Yep money was the only reason Sean Connery came back to the role as he has been trying to distance himself from James Bond.
This is the beginning of campy era Bond.
Mr. Wind and Mr. Kidd I thought were great villains the first gay characters in a Bond movie.
There's no real continuity or canon in James Bond films except the Craig films because as you realise by now each movie are self contained different missions while in the Craig era their continuous.
The next Bond movie Connery does in not official to the franchise as neither Albert Broccoli or MGM had any part of.
I have Blofeld’s cat! It’s called a Chinchilla Persian, it’s also a breed made famous for being on the cans and bags of Fancy Feast cat food. These are really affectionate cats and they love to sleep on your lap. It’s also a big breed, and my male weighs 20 lbs.
The actor who plays Blofeld in this movie is English character actor Charles Grey.
He did a lot of television and film work, but he’s also famous for being the narrator in “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” who dances to the “Time Warp” song on his desk. Whenever he would appear onscreen people in the audience would yell out “Where’s your fucking neck?”.
A coupla cast notes: Mr. Wint is George McFly's dad, Bert Saxby rescued Fay Wray from a big ape, Willard Whyte made sausage, and Blofeld taught us the Time Warp.
Diamonds Are Forever was Bruce Cabot’s last film before his death in 1972.
This movie is definitely one of the all time cringe 007 films! Laughably bad!
George Lazenby was offered a multi-picture deal to play Bond, but his agent told him it would be better to negotiate salary on a per movie basis. Obviously this was a mistake. Well thought out review, young man! You bring up a lot of good points. You should do Casablanca if you haven't seen it already.
Yeah. Shirley Bassey sang 3 James Bond title songs("Goldfinger," "Diamonds are Forever" and "Moonraker")...and almost a 4th as the original title for "Thunderball" was almost "Mr Kiss, Kiss, Bang, Bang," but they change it to Tom Jones' "Thunderball." No other singing artist did more than one theme songs.
During the recording of Thunderball, Tom Jones actually fainted in the recording booth after singing the song's final, high note.
That's Shirley Bassey!!!
mr kidd and mr wint maybe the first gay characters in any movie.
Far from it, study film history. See Rope (1948), or Strangers On A Train (1951), by Hitchcock. Reflections In A Golden Eye (1967), by John Huston. Too many to list.
Perhaps the 1st openly gay. However Klebb in From Russia with Love makes a pass at ... forgot her name!
@@Peter-tg1kk I did a quick google and got this: "Brock Peters played one of the first expressly homosexual characters in an American film in The Pawnbroker in 1964." Before that, lots of gay characters that were super obvious as far back as the 30's, they just don't mention being gay in the movie. Klebb is a good example.
What exactly makes them homosexuals? (They really don't seem very gay, they were rather droll)
This was the first Bond movie I saw as a kid. My brothers friends rented a few of them. I saw the second half of OHMSS, then this one. I was hooked from that moment. And then they had rented For Your Eyes Only. My mind was blown!!! In a few days I'll be in LA to see A-ha in concert, and yes, they will be performing The Living Daylights.
There's a very famous deleted scene where Sammy Davis Jr as himself comments on Bond being overdressed in the Whyte House casino
I know i'm in the minority but i really like this one. My order of Sean Connery Bond's is:
Goldfinger
You Only Live Twice
Diamonds Are Forever
Thunderball
Dr. No
From Russia With Love
Never Say Never Again
While I can't agree with you on the action, I totally agree on the music. Barry did an outstanding job with the score and the title song by Shirley Bassey is one of the best of the series. I actually think Connery is having a lot of fun here. Sure, it was just a paycheck for him, but he had fun working for that paycheck and I think it comes across in his performance.
And while the script isn't very good in terms of the story, it does have some a-level dialogues. Those are brilliantly written.
1wwtom
Still one of my Fav Bond films. I like the scenes of old Downtown LV and in the 1st part of the chase with the Mustang Mach 1 you can see where the Plaza was being built then at the end of Fremont St. The hotel where James does his mountaineering was the old Hilton hotel & casino where Elvis made his home for many years. It's still there under a different name. The Circus Circus is still there and they used to have the performers overhead but not sure if they still do. Willard Whyte is an obvious take off of Howard Hughes who lived there and bought up many properties back in his time. No matter what others say, to me it's still a Fun Flick.
If you're confused about Plenty ending up dead and why her corpse is floating in Tiffany's pool, I can explain. In a deleted scene, after she's thrown into the pool, she comes back to the apartment, only to find Bond and Tiffany in bed, and she takes something. While this part of was filmed and has since been released to the public, another scene where Mr. Kidd and Mr. Wint kill her when they mistake her for Tiffany wasn't filmed because it dawned on the film makers that this would create a continuity error.
There are good points, but this might be my least favorite of the earlier Bond films. Lackluster Connery. Painfully 70’s. And way too American! Great score by Barry is a given, ditto the Bassey song.
david picker head of united artists made sean connery an offer he couldn't refuse $1.25 million dollars an unheard of price to pay an actor for one film (which he used to launch a trust fund in scotland) financing for 2 films $10,000 a day if it went over schedule and a % of the profits to come back as 007
John Barry's music score was recycled in the 1978 martial arts movie Last Fist of Fury.
Interesting that all references to the gay element were cut or avoided, which is very significant and worth mentioning. You're obviously afraid of the possibility of offending anyone which shows what a terrifying world we live in now. I wouldn't be your generation if you paid me.
I just twigged your tree joke.
I'll leaf now...
Great title song. Mediocre movie. I agree with Ollie that the movie started out well and then fizzled out and dragged along to the end.
I love diamonds are fover it is my seventh favourite James bond film
Sir Sean Connery demanded and was given a colossal sum at the time to play James Bond again.
He gave away all the money he received to set an Educational Trust up in Scotland to provide grants for education.
Connery refused a bigger sum to return in ''Live And Let Die''.
do some reviews shirtless
You like a good car chase? Blues Brothers. The final car chase is probably the best ever. There's a good one through a shopping centre earlier on too.
This and the original, 1974 Gone In Sixty Seconds Eleanor car chase.
after goldfinger this is my favorite bond picture.
I didn’t say this on OHMSS but my brother-in-law comes from a family of old Scotland Yard cops. His Dad is an oldskool james bond fan and is part of an old English Bond fan society. It’s a massive, world-wide thing. He told me that even though individuals have different favorites and different reasons for liking the different Bonds and movies that the generally agreed upon opinion is that George Lazenby was the best Bond. He’s the smartest and the toughest. The only problem was that he only did one, although that might be the blessing because he didn’t get to taint Bond with any mistakes in a second film.
At the time spy spoofs were popular and this film tries to be in that vein and it doesn't work and Connery seems to be rolling his eyes throughout. A revenge film would have been much better and Tracy's death isn't even mentioned in this film because they got mostly silly than the serioys!-leaning of OHMSS. The next many Bond films revert to a more comic book Bond than Ian Fleming's griity espionage novels ever were. Good reaction. I agree with all your points.
My favorite Sean Connery movie is The Man Who Would Be King. I highly recommend it for a future reaction video.
Something you should know about the Bond movie Connery did in the 80s: It's not a part of the official series. In fact, it's a remake of Thunderball done by someone who was involved in a legal battle with the producers of the Bond films for many years. It's also just not the best film in general. So I'll let you decide, if you wanna watch it.
I mean, if the goal is to dodge all of the terrible Connery comeback Bond films, it's already too late.
@@MAMoreno True, but he actually enjoyed this one...so what the hell do I know!?
Diamonds are forever is the First Dark Bond Movie serieasly 😂
1:11 Connery was paid a fortune to return when the studio demanded he be brought back regardless of what it cost. Plus his career wasn't exactly going great after he quit the role, so he was willing to come back and do one more.
It's a shame they didn't do a followup to OHMSS and instead tried to recreate the success of Goldfinger(the original concept for the villain was Goldfinger's twin brother). This is one of the worst entries in the series and felt like a Roger Moore movie featuring Connery(who was fat and bored).
Yay youre upto the Moore era, personally my fave.