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"Don't worry, I'll tell the chef ": Thunderball Appreciation & Discussion
I sat down to watch TB on Sunday after trying for ages to watch it,and my 11 year old daughter came in and started watching it with me.
She was entranced by it,having only seen the 2 Craig films and maybe 2 of Brosnan's all the way through.
Knowing the complexity of TB i was surprised she got it all but she did and we had some lovely chats during it as well,including some laugh out loud moments for her (she loved "I don't know,could it be the front door bell ?!" and the one above ,"Don't worry,i'll tell the chef ")
This also for me was the most enjoyment i have had watching a Bond film for ages and i really really enjoyed TB this time round,even the underwater fights just seemed so much more enjoyable,all the individual battles etc.
So,this thread is for my newly found appreciation for TB and the fact that it has now jumped from #7 to #3 on my list !!
If this thread has been done before then i apologise,but little moments like this,and having quality time with my daughter,don't come often enough, so hats off to THUNDERBALL.
She was entranced by it,having only seen the 2 Craig films and maybe 2 of Brosnan's all the way through.
Knowing the complexity of TB i was surprised she got it all but she did and we had some lovely chats during it as well,including some laugh out loud moments for her (she loved "I don't know,could it be the front door bell ?!" and the one above ,"Don't worry,i'll tell the chef ")
This also for me was the most enjoyment i have had watching a Bond film for ages and i really really enjoyed TB this time round,even the underwater fights just seemed so much more enjoyable,all the individual battles etc.
So,this thread is for my newly found appreciation for TB and the fact that it has now jumped from #7 to #3 on my list !!
If this thread has been done before then i apologise,but little moments like this,and having quality time with my daughter,don't come often enough, so hats off to THUNDERBALL.
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Glad to read of your enjoyment of TB, barryt007. :)
For me, TB is THE ultimate Bond film. Other 007 films may have stronger storylines and certainly more recent ones have more updated technology and special effects, but TB just oozes classic Bond at the apex of the character's popularity and cinematic influnce. Connery in his 4th go round is his most superconfident ever in the role before boredom and/or weight gain would show while Misses Paluzzi, Auger, Beswick and Peters help make for the most impressive gallery of Bond girls to appear in a single Bond film. It's also the only Bond film in the series to combine the classic and classy style of Terence Young with the big-budget/Panavision epic style we'd become accustomed to later. It's my favorite series entry.
joking.
Thunderball is great. I showed my 6 year old son the PTS just this past weekend because he started talking about jet packs. THe only Bond movie he has seen all the way though (with his eyes covered during a few scenes) is MR.
It's a great fricking movie, around #6 for me on my current list. It's Bond and Connery at their peak, everything the next film (23) should be. High stakes, tough villians that don't pull any punches and have incredible reasources with which to bring to bear against Bond, I mean, you really feel like he is out of his league and only his brains and training and bravery allow him to over come them.
I can't see how any Bond fan doesn't think TB is flat out awesome.
I absolutely love Thunderball, and always have. It's consistently been at #2 in my past rankings. There is nothing I don't enjoy about the film. It ranks in the top tier of Bond films that I never get tired of and enjoy watching every time. And to quote The_Reaper
As people have said above, it looks classy and has several classic scenes, aswell as characters like Largo and Fiona so there is plenty to rave about.
Like it or not though, some people hate it.
On the old site you had a limited amount of space you could use for a thread title,so,as i copied and pasted it here,it remained the same.
Now extended to the full word !
Having said that, it's one of the Bonds I go back to time and time again.
Now I'd rank TB as one of my firm favourites easily outdoing the likes of the over rated GF.
I loved your story Bazza of sitting down with your daughter to watch Bond. It just makes the whole experience so much more enjoyable. Like passing on the Bond torch.
I too recently had a similar experience, I think even with TB, but certainly with TSWLM. Foxtel in Australia had a Bondathon last month, and mini benny and myself watched a few together.
Thunderball has all the right ingredients that made Bond. Girls, gadgets and hugely entertaining. Always re-watchable, quotable and enjoyable.
Here comes the biggest Bond of all.
Untill Bond reached his All Time High. ;-)
So many wonderful things, most especially the absolutely amazing dialogue. THIS is how humour should be done in a Bond film, not the junior school level double entendres of the Moore years or Christmas jokes.
Unfortunately the slow pacing really hurts it for me. I read where someone who saw it in the theatre when it first came out said that the underwater cinematography was so amazing at the time that the audience wanted to "drink it all in" (pun intended). So to the initial audiences those sequences didn't seem slow or boring at all.
Still, a great film and a great Bond film.
I think they are quite spooky in atmosphere ,and ConneryBond's one-liners are brilliant here..
Its #5 on my list.
Woman: What is that ?
Bond : I dont know...could it be the front door bell ?
Just cracks me up every time..Connery is the ultimate cool (apart from the rack) in this film...hence #5..
Sean is in top form here and at his best.
Thunderball ranked as my number one Bond for decades, and is still very close,
TB is slated for its slow underwater scenes and ending.
The underwater scenes,i think,in 1965 ,deserve respect...the ending,i admit,is shit...hence it isnt going to knock QOS at #4 off its perch but it needs to be careful as OP is #6 right behind it,and i am emotionally linked to that film.
Exactly,we are talking 1965 here......and its loyal to much of the novel,and had the,pardon the pun,spectre ,of McClory hanging over it,so i think it was a brilliant job,and my ranking of it shows it..
Add to it,Van Nutter's Felix,which is the closest to Fleming's and the exotic scenery etc and its not hard to see how this film is so brilliant.
That's exactly how I feel to. I enjoy the tussle on board the Disco Volante a lot more than most.
timdalton007