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Skyfall.
Indeed, a no-brainer surely?
It's not one of my favorites by a long shot, but I've never not been entertained by YOLT.
As there were only 16 months between the openings of TB and YOLT.............and to think todays film makers complain if they don't get at least 3 years in between films.
:-??
No.........actually YOLT was released in April 1967................though i do believe the film wasn't released in North America until June 1967.
You are mistaking it for Casino Royale.
Yes.......you are right it was actually June 1967. :)
Shame that spoof CR was ever made............and i believe it did hurt YOLT's BO a little bit.
:)>-
But as a story . . . meh. And Bond pretending to be Japanese? Oh dear.
I pretty much agree with this
The special effects obviously date badly, but that's an occupational hazard for the Bond franchise, being the sort of film that is expected to be cutting edge and push the boundaries in that regard, but today's cutting edge is often tomorrows cheese
Most Bond films have a few dodgy moments, like the Connery dressing up as Japanese
Craig's movies are supposed to be more gritty and realistic, but then they give us the Austrian airplane scene... it's all part of the fun
Plus they quickly identified this man as an imposter but not Bond come back from the dead.They knew Bond by rep, but with no actual experience of him they wouldn't necessarily recognize him the same way their sharper Chief might.
Anyway that's what I think, plus Helga just wanted to boink/interrogate, and then kill this handsome spy person or whoever he might be.Osato also just wanted whoever this guy was to be dead.
He didn't seem to care who he was.
I think it hangs together OK.
When I heard YOLT was getting 4k digital treatment at 2012 Tiff Bond festival, I practically did cartwheels, and boy did it look good from start to finish.
Way more excited for that than even my first viewing of SF, and certainly not my 2nd viewing, as the first viewing didn't exactly bowl me over.
A bit on the thin side but I'll grudgingly give it you. They do say 'all the newspapers' so perhaps the ones they read didn't have it as front page with a picture hence they don't recognise him?
As an aside it's embarrassingly sloppy spy craft from Bond to go for a meeting at Osato Chemicals the day after he's killed several of their employees. There's not going to be one security guard who remembers him or any security tapes?
Would you be better getting Tiger to send one of his agents?
However, I must admit that recently it has grown on me for a few reasons. I've learned to appreciate Pleasence after having seen him in Halloween. Telly Savalas is still my favourite of Blofeld's faces but Pleasence comes in second.
The girls, Aki and Kissy, might not be the world's biggest beauties but their characters are far more competent than you might give them credit for. Also Aki's final moments are definitely chilly. I still like Karin Dor's femme fatale better though.
But the best characters here are the allies, Tetsuro Tamba and Charles Gray both do wonderfully well and they would both make my top 10 favourite allies.
James Bond's disguise is still rather poor I must admit but the film makes up for that in atmosphere. Ever since I became a fan of Italian horror I quite love the 'style over substance' approach and YOLT is certainly a good example of that. The music, the cinematograhpy, the sets, it's all wonderful and it makes for a great Bond adventure.
For me, every episode of the sixties is classic Bond. I love them all.
I just love the unashamed machismo of the 60's Bond's. We need to get that back. Just class all round imho.
YOLT the book had a great story following OHMSS. They fucked it up so bad. I still can't believe cubby and company went this route. Why? Just to take advantage of the audience in Japan? You still would of had that audience 2 years later anyways
Brozza not getting another film and YOLT bigger mistakes than the slide whistle, double take pigeon and everything in DAD? Sorry I'm not having that.
I should have said IMO.
That's a defence?
I take the Double take pigeon over empty streets in Rome, empty train in Morocco and empty 9Eyes building 30 minutes before going on line.
As for the slide whistle it is always mentioned by people that fail to recognize that the stunt was more brilliant than anything SF & SP had to offer, and not even CGI either.
Brosnan should have had his FYEO before they rolled out CR.
And YOLT while I prefer the book, is still a highly original movie whose budget shows on the screen and Connery is still brilliant. Too be honest so are the women and the finale makes sense compared to the recent 007 outings.
Wanna bet nobody will be talking about is several decades later? >:)
Not me.
All I heard was the bloody repeated theme from SF
There's a musical flourish (I hate to use a word flourish that implies some sort of creativity when describing Newman's shoddy SP score but it's the best word I can think of right now) when the helicopter does one of its loops that sort of follows the same melody as the slide whistle in TMWTGG but it's not actually played on a slide whistle.
It only lasts a few seconds and then Tom is straight back to ripping off SF.
Oh and to answer the topic of the thread. No it's a classic and should be viewed and interpreted as from the time period it was made.