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1 hour ago, TheDude391 said:

I love everything in it minus the underwater sequences, they're unbearable in their length.

Not sure which version you folks have watched...but for numerous versions released on home video through the years, the whole underwater climax did not even have MUSIC!!  😂  That's the way I think I first saw it when I was younger, on TV..and yep, it was tough to get through even then!  A lot of the rest of the picture works, but for me, yeah, Thunderball was never one of my personal favorites, disagreeing with the majority of Bond fan-ship.

 

And check out this nugget from the James Bond wiki!!

  • Thunderball was delayed from an October 1965 release to December 1965. Peter Hunt stated this was due to the film running long; Variety reported the runtime to be four and half hours.

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I watched all the '60s ones save for Thunderball (which I chose to skip) for the first time this week. (Had never seen a pre-'95 Bond before.) Wasn't totally into any of them from start to finish - Casino Royale is likely to remain my favorite - but You Only Live Twice was the most enjoyable on account of it's got the best ratio of action to wheel-spinning. From Russia with Love and OHMSS have higher highs though, the former in the train section, the latter in the photography - that's one beautiful-looking movie - and most of the second half (from when Bond first escapes the institute until the very end). Wish they'd spent more time being that engaging. Dr. No is pleasantly low-key (until the island at least) and I like Connery the best in it, Goldfinger didn't do much for me esp. considering its reputation but its iconic moments do deliver.

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I've never seen any Bond film until now and I finished up the Craig titles last night (I'll try and get through all the other ones this month). So I was told that all these Bond movies were basically trend chasers and followed whatever was popular at the time and like...I'm still kind of amazed by this? Because basically each Craig iteration so different from one another and each feel like a time capsule for the year they came out. Even Quantum on the basis that it was a victim of the Writer's Strike, because of how weird the script for that movie was. I guess the next Bond movie will be about Twitch or whatever lmao

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1 minute ago, Eric and the Ten Rings said:

I've never seen any Bond film until now and I finished up the Craig titles last night (I'll try and get through all the other ones this month). So I was told that all these Bond movies were basically trend chasers and followed whatever was popular at the time and like...I'm still kind of amazed by this? Because basically each Craig iteration so different from one another and each feel like a time capsule for the year they came out. Even Quantum on the basis that it was a victim of the Writer's Strike, because of how weird the script for that movie was. I guess the next Bond movie will be about Twitch or whatever lmao

Based on some of what I've read and seen in the trailers, I think the new Bond will be a time capsule for the year it came out but for completely unintentional and unforseen reasons.

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30 minutes ago, Eric and the Ten Rings said:

I've never seen any Bond film until now and I finished up the Craig titles last night (I'll try and get through all the other ones this month). So I was told that all these Bond movies were basically trend chasers and followed whatever was popular at the time and like...I'm still kind of amazed by this? Because basically each Craig iteration so different from one another and each feel like a time capsule for the year they came out. Even Quantum on the basis that it was a victim of the Writer's Strike, because of how weird the script for that movie was. I guess the next Bond movie will be about Twitch or whatever lmao

The most noticeable one is for Moonraker, the film prior says “Bond will return in For Your Eyes Only”. Then Star Wars was a big hit so they did Bond in space instead. 

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5 hours ago, Eric and the Ten Rings said:

Controversial take, but I actually didn't mind the serialization of Quantum? The death of Vesper obviously took a toll on Bond, and a lot of Bond's arc is about this and I think they did an okay job in that department. Doesn't save the movie, but I think the serialized format in that respect wasn't a bad thing.

 

Spectre's attempt at an MCU "everything is connected" however was dumb as a brick and I have no clue what Eon was thinking.

I AM THE CAUSE OF ALL YOUR PAIN still haunts me to this day. Especially because Fast & Furious did it a couple of years later with Charlize Theron. Dumbest shit any ongoing movie series can make when there is literally nothing building to that in previous entries.

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36 minutes ago, lorddemaxus said:

Based on some of what I've read and seen in the trailers, I think the new Bond will be a time capsule for the year it came out but for completely unintentional and unforseen reasons.

SPILL THE BEANS

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I think Lorddemaxus is talking about Rami Malek’s character’s plan to kill people with a deadly virus.

 

Not sure if it’s confirmed, but it heavily hints at that being his plan in the trailer.

 

Awwwww shit.

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36 minutes ago, CJ Sarandos said:

I AM THE CAUSE OF ALL YOUR PAIN still haunts me to this day. Especially because Fast & Furious did it a couple of years later with Charlize Theron. Dumbest shit any ongoing movie series can make when there is literally nothing building to that in previous entries.

They also pulled a Khan in Star Trek Into Darkness by withholding Blofeld's name for no reason. Like they already had the two dumb twists with "I am your long-lost adoptive brother out for revenge" and "I caused everything bad that's ever happened to you," but then they had to tack on the whole "oh by the way, I go by Blofeld now," even though it has zero bearing on the plot.

 

Like, if they just called him Blofeld from the start, the twists later would actually make it matter somewhat.

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Tickets are on sale in the UK at Cineworld for those interested, just grabbed my IMAX tickets for the late show on Friday night. There’s midnight screenings on the Wednesday night/Thursday morning too (I don’t think I’d be able to handle going to work after a midnight screening anymore, so Friday will have to do 😂).

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42 minutes ago, SnokesLegs said:

Tickets are on sale in the UK at Cineworld for those interested, just grabbed my IMAX tickets for the late show on Friday night. There’s midnight screenings on the Wednesday night/Thursday morning too (I don’t think I’d be able to handle going to work after a midnight screening anymore, so Friday will have to do 😂).

Typically my local is one of the only ones not online yet 😑

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5 hours ago, Eric and the Ten Rings said:

I've never seen any Bond film until now and I finished up the Craig titles last night (I'll try and get through all the other ones this month). So I was told that all these Bond movies were basically trend chasers and followed whatever was popular at the time and like...I'm still kind of amazed by this? Because basically each Craig iteration so different from one another and each feel like a time capsule for the year they came out. Even Quantum on the basis that it was a victim of the Writer's Strike, because of how weird the script for that movie was. I guess the next Bond movie will be about Twitch or whatever lmao

That's been going on with Bond since the Connery days, From Russia With Love is fairly Hitchcockian and even rips off one of his iconic movie scenes. Still, overall I think the first five Connery movies are pretty cohesive and seem like a "set" even without being heavily interconnected.

 

The Roger Moore years really chased trends, he's not a natural fit for a blacksploitation story but it was popular when he was starting out as Bond.

 

Just hoping No Time To Die is worth the wait...

 

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8 hours ago, Eric and the Ten Rings said:

. So I was told that all these Bond movies were basically trend chasers and followed whatever was popular at the time and like...I'm still kind of amazed by this? Because basically each Craig iteration so different from one another and each feel like a time capsule for the year they came out. Even Quantum on the basis that it was a victim of the Writer's Strike, because of how weird the script for that movie was. I guess the next Bond movie will be about Twitch or whatever lmao

Not sure I ever heard it (maybe during debate about the Bourne and Batman Begin influencing Casino Royale versus Bond influencing the future), but that combined with how long the series went on does make it an nice time capsule entity, like the tree rings on the tree stump of cinema history.

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