I was pretty tired and hung over the other day, so I thought I'd throw on a movie that wouldn't take too much effort to watch. I went with Thunderball because it had been ages since I'd seen any of the classic James Bond films and though I'd seen Thunderball before, all I could remember from the movie was that it had sharks in it. So yeah, SPECTRE steals some nukes, Bond sleeps with every woman with a speaking role in the film, there's a scene with a jet pack, lots of underwater fighting, the aforementioned sharks, and the guy who played Felix Leiter looked very much like a young Clint Eastwood. Sean "You're The Man Now Dog" Connery is in top form as Bond and the movie makes a point to put him in a lot of familiar places (casinos, beaches, bedrooms, secret lairs), almost making Thunderball a "greatest hits" of Bond locales and cliches. In the end, it's a Connery-era Bond flick, which means it's awesome. Rating: Way better than Moonraker%
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Isn't saying something is better than Moonraker kind of like kicking a paraplegic? It's not like that's a hard bar to jump.
That said, Connery Bond = awesome.
I don't know, I thought Woody Allen was a pretty good Bond in the original Casino Royale. Well...maybe not, but you can't beat a Bond movie with Ursula Andress and an all-star cast that includes Orson Welles, David Niven, Peter Sellers, Charles Boyer, John Huston, Jacqueline Bisset, and Deborah Kerr.
@ Belabras
Sure, Moonraker is an easy target, but when I first searched the site to see if there were any other James Bond reviews Moonraker was the only one that came up.
Also, I really didn't want to have to give Thunderball a real grade. As much as I love the James Bond films, they are kinda formulaic and usually border on absurdity.
True, and those goes twice for the Roger Moore years.
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