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I would rather see the finale with Barry's This Never Happened to the Other Fellow score, also used for the bob sleigh finale, as the music is far more sophisticated imo.
And Joseph Wiseman does not really have metal hands.
Go ahead, destroy the fantasy.
Next they'll be telling us Santa isn't real! ;)
You consider Largo more menacing than Auric Goldfinger and Connery overrated? Wow!
But it's still Bond (Connery) at his absolute slickest and has a great script. Those two elements are rare in a Bondfilm t.b.h and that puts TB firmly in my top 5.
Funny how different things are perceived. To the best of my knowledge not even the producers considered him dangerous enough. Hell, they even had him wear the eyepatch just to have him look a little more sinister. Sure he gets his hands dirty,but that doesn't equal a menacing aura. To me Gerd Frobes performance had not been equaled until Philip Seymour Hoffman starred in MI 3.
Lots of fun and a huge scope that was contained by a good story, not like later on when the story was so big it got away from the filmmakers. The underwater stuff still impresses me to this day. Bond was rarely better.
Not only do I agree with that, I would state that at the time it was a pretty amazing achievement to depict so much of the story underwater.
"That gun looks more fitting for a woman."/"Do you know much about guns, Mr. Bond?"/"No, I know a little about women."
"Some men don't like to be driven."/"No, some men just don't like to be taken for a ride."
:))
Still makes me chuckle.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/06/movies/homevideo/shaken-stirred-and-elementary-sherlock-holmes-and-thunderball.html?ref=arts&_r=0
It does have some slow scenes, such as the camourflaging of the Vulcan bomber (there really wasn't a need to show every peg being hammered into the seabed.
BUT..........overall it was fantastic film, and you have to put the film into context of where the world was at, during the mid-sixties.
The film makers obviously after the success of GF, could only go in one direction, and that was to make the next film even more spectacular..............and the public were craving for this.............you only have to look at the admission figures, particularly in North America, which totally dwarf those attained by more recent Bond films (inc. SF), to realise, what a phenomenem this film was.
TB during its theatrical run in 1966...........having Sean Connery at his Bond best, and a great underwater fight scene, must of been quite special to of seen, all those years ago.
WHY ?
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