Apr 9 *
For all things related
To refresh myself I'm gonna watch them all in order
6/10 Dr No (1962) - Connery the big wuss, you can see plainly with the trantula scene its not crawling on him, but a plate of glass. Bond gets his comrade killed by having the bright idea of attacking a tank with a couple of hand pistols. It was night, they could of just hid in the dark. He saves the day by causing a nuclear meltdown. I'm sure the people of Jamaica applauded him on the way out, thank you for irradiating the islands. Still whilst nothing special ok opening, What they got right was the theme tune & the opening credits.
Ursula Andress 8/10
Dr No 3/10 oh no his metal hands were his downfall, useful for crushing cans though
6/10 From Russia with Love (1963) - Pretty boring and was gonna rate it 6/10 but the boat stunt scene brought it up a point. Bond was actually pretty incompetent throughtout most of the film, something that got removed later on in the series. Actually decided nah 6/10 is more honest
Daniela Bianchi 8/10
Grant 6/10 bested James but no real personality, I love the pre 1970s male strongmans body, which consits of someone with no real muscles just holding in their stomach and puffing out their chest
7/10 Goldfinger (1964) - The first film to really show gadgets & a decent car. Btw Goldfinger had the most obvious earpiece when he was playing that cargame, how did he explain that away. The last 30 mins didn't make sense at all, pure stupidity, Sure its a film thus don't overthink but it was stretching the bounds of implausibility.
Shirley Eaton 8/10, Tania Mallet 7/10 Honor Blackman 7/10
Oddjob 8/10 Goldfinger 9/10 (Obviously the inspiration for hogans heroes)
6/10 Thunderball (1965) - I'm not sure you could land a plane on water like that, so much that could of gone wrong just land it on the very close island. The dubbing was done well, I assume they spoke in english. Very nice underwater fight. For all their wealth & power you'ld think Spectre would just make their own bomb. At over 2 hours its too long. The fast forward footage at the end is like WTF. also what about the other dude that escaped from the boat they just left him in the ocean.
Claudine Auger 7/10 Luciana Paluzzi 6/10
Emilio Largo 7/10
5/10 You Only Live Twice (1967) - For a minute there I thought he done his own stunt but rewinding I see what happened. A couple of very abrupt scene changes also a lot of bad writing in this.
Scores very high on the racist & sexist scale. I was embarassed watching bond when they tried to disguise him as a japanese man, nearly as bad as when john wayne portrayed gengis khan. Bond was meant to have all his chest hair etc shaved but hes as hairy as ever later on when he removes his shirt.
Karin Dor 6/10 Akiko Wakabayashi 6/10 Mie Hama 5/10
Donald Pleasance 7/10
6/10 On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969) - They often have inappropriate noises, a fav are bullets richochetting off metal in the woods or car wheels squealing like they're doing burnouts on a road, but they're on grass, here the burn outs are happening on a sand beach. Oddly the aussie actor sorta looks like an ozzie mate of mine, wearing same clothes also, I'll have to ask him if it was an influence, the actors wasn't that bad. pretty weak and fill of filler and not really a bond film as theres a genuine love interest. FFS we don't want 'grown up' stories, bond is all about trashy BS. pretty lame effort saved by the ending and the cablecar scene.
Diana Rigg 8/10
Telly Savalas 8/10 pains me to say but better than pleasance
To refresh myself I'm gonna watch them all in order
6/10 Dr No (1962) - Connery the big wuss, you can see plainly with the trantula scene its not crawling on him, but a plate of glass. Bond gets his comrade killed by having the bright idea of attacking a tank with a couple of hand pistols. It was night, they could of just hid in the dark. He saves the day by causing a nuclear meltdown. I'm sure the people of Jamaica applauded him on the way out, thank you for irradiating the islands. Still whilst nothing special ok opening, What they got right was the theme tune & the opening credits.
Ursula Andress 8/10
Dr No 3/10 oh no his metal hands were his downfall, useful for crushing cans though
6/10 From Russia with Love (1963) - Pretty boring and was gonna rate it 6/10 but the boat stunt scene brought it up a point. Bond was actually pretty incompetent throughtout most of the film, something that got removed later on in the series. Actually decided nah 6/10 is more honest
Daniela Bianchi 8/10
Grant 6/10 bested James but no real personality, I love the pre 1970s male strongmans body, which consits of someone with no real muscles just holding in their stomach and puffing out their chest
7/10 Goldfinger (1964) - The first film to really show gadgets & a decent car. Btw Goldfinger had the most obvious earpiece when he was playing that cargame, how did he explain that away. The last 30 mins didn't make sense at all, pure stupidity, Sure its a film thus don't overthink but it was stretching the bounds of implausibility.
Shirley Eaton 8/10, Tania Mallet 7/10 Honor Blackman 7/10
Oddjob 8/10 Goldfinger 9/10 (Obviously the inspiration for hogans heroes)
6/10 Thunderball (1965) - I'm not sure you could land a plane on water like that, so much that could of gone wrong just land it on the very close island. The dubbing was done well, I assume they spoke in english. Very nice underwater fight. For all their wealth & power you'ld think Spectre would just make their own bomb. At over 2 hours its too long. The fast forward footage at the end is like WTF. also what about the other dude that escaped from the boat they just left him in the ocean.
Claudine Auger 7/10 Luciana Paluzzi 6/10
Emilio Largo 7/10
5/10 You Only Live Twice (1967) - For a minute there I thought he done his own stunt but rewinding I see what happened. A couple of very abrupt scene changes also a lot of bad writing in this.
Scores very high on the racist & sexist scale. I was embarassed watching bond when they tried to disguise him as a japanese man, nearly as bad as when john wayne portrayed gengis khan. Bond was meant to have all his chest hair etc shaved but hes as hairy as ever later on when he removes his shirt.
Karin Dor 6/10 Akiko Wakabayashi 6/10 Mie Hama 5/10
Donald Pleasance 7/10
6/10 On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969) - They often have inappropriate noises, a fav are bullets richochetting off metal in the woods or car wheels squealing like they're doing burnouts on a road, but they're on grass, here the burn outs are happening on a sand beach. Oddly the aussie actor sorta looks like an ozzie mate of mine, wearing same clothes also, I'll have to ask him if it was an influence, the actors wasn't that bad. pretty weak and fill of filler and not really a bond film as theres a genuine love interest. FFS we don't want 'grown up' stories, bond is all about trashy BS. pretty lame effort saved by the ending and the cablecar scene.
Diana Rigg 8/10
Telly Savalas 8/10 pains me to say but better than pleasance
