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Summary: U Only Live Twice w/ 4 stars
Review: I couldn't give this film 5 stars because of Sean Connery's half asleep looking performance (again). At the end of the movie was probobly the largest gunfight in Bond history. The gunfight was Japanese Secret Survice Agents/Ninjas vs. Blofeld's guards. I spotted one mess up in the fight. If u watched "the making of YOLT" you'll know that one stuntman (ninja) broke his ankle when he landed inside the crater. In the movie one of Blofeld's guards shot a grenade at the ninja that broke his ankle. Some bad editing work there.
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Summary: YOU ONLY GET TO STAR IN SEVEN BOND FILMS
Review: You only live twice is the beginning of the end for Sean Connery as Bond. Coming off of Thunderball, which was hugely successful, You only Live twice is a movie that is widely acknowledged as a huge disappointment. The villains were old,weak,and frail and the special effects were cheesy as all hell. Donald Pleasance is a great actor, and i love him in Halloween and Escape from New york, but he does not put up a great fight with Bond. i do like the part where he is about to kill Bond and then shoots Osato, that shows his intensity. Little Nellie should never have been in this film. I think that if Connery were still interested in being Bond, then this film would be a lot better. Roald Dahl's story is far-fetched. There is some good action at the end, but it is really too short. The villain does not die, this has never happened before in a Bond film and is a mistake. The volcano is a great set! This movie is mediocre, but better than Connery's next two attempts-Diamonds are Forever and Never say Never Again, which were DOWNRIGHT AWFUL. Connery is not the best bond because Timothy Dalton is a much better actor and Dalton actually cared for and read Ian Fleming's work. Timothy was Bond to do the character justice, not to get a HUGE paycheck for making a crappy movie like Brosnan, Connery, and Moore like to do.
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Summary: James in Japan
Review: Here James travels to Japan, where he learns how to be a bit of a ninja, courtesy of Tiger Tanaka, the head of the Japanese Secret Service. Tiger is sad that he didn't get his latch his mitts onto James when he was 12, so he could teach him how to draw his gonads up inside his body (a really nifty ninja trick, apparently). James' mission: to off the Evil Villain Shatterhead, and his wife (described by Tanaka as "to ugly to live"). Shatterhand has built what I can only describe as a Garden of Death, which kills anyone who enters it. Not only a Mad Scientist, but a Mad Gardener! Along the way James encounters a cutie named Kissy Suzuki (what is that, a girl's pink motor scooter?), a cute name and not nearly as ridiculous as, um, Miss Galore. Thrown in some volcanoes, hissing lakes of boiling mud, some sharks, some piranha and you have an enjoyable Bond novel. Good stuff. Fleming is a natural-born writer, although he does go over the top a bit with Shatterhand clanking around his garden in full Japanese armor. Still, this is fun stuff, and if you're a fan of James Bond (and who isn't) this is one novel that you shouldn't miss.
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Summary: The First Valley Of Bond!
Review: The biggest problem with "You Only Live Twice" is that with Sean Connery wanting badly out of his 007 contract, his performance here is insipid and uninspired. As a result the film suffers in ways that its predecessors did not. Saddled with a mediocre screenplay, this is the weakest entry of the Connery era. Though its production is certainly of an epic nature, it simply lacks the entertaining quality of previous efforts. Not all is a misfire in this film however. There are certainly some impressive action set pieces, the best being the autogyro/helicopter dogfight. The locations are certainly exotic as practically the entire film takes place in Japan, and production Designer Ken Adam's set for Blofeld's Volcano lair is arguably the most fantanstic in the entire series. Lord knows "Austin Powers" borrowed a lot from this movie, including the physical blueprint of everyone's favorite megalomaniac of the absurd, Dr. Evil. Unfortunately the DVD, though packed with a few goodies, is also a bit of a disappointment as it lacks the number of extras that lesser films like "Live And Let Die" and "The Man With The Golden Gun" don't. We expect more from these DVD's, and certainly from Sean Connery.
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Summary: one of the best connery films!
Review: I really don't see why people think this film is bad it's GREAT!
Donald Plesance is my favorite blofeld, the song is brilliant and the movie is packed with action. The plot would have been better if blofeld wanted to start something diffrent to war which shows that this film has a weak plot. There's also not many gadgets in it just a cigarette with a rocket in it and that's all i can think of. But every time i see this movie i really dont dislike it so i wont say it's bad for the rest of my life.The only other films i like better than this are Dr. No, Live And Let Die and A View To A Kill (my favourite) this is my second favourite connery film.
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Summary: "YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE, MR. BOND."
Review: I can't understand why everyone always puts "YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE" down so much. It's not as exciting as some of the best Bond movies ("GOLDFINGER", "FOR YOUR EYES ONLY", "DIE ANOTHER DAY"), but it is entertaining in its own way. We finally get to see Blofeld, played brilliantly by the late Donald Pleasance. I wish he had more screen time though. It's funny how Charles Gray is in this movie and then he winds up playing Blofeld in "DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER." This isn't a bad movie. Not in my Top 5 favorite Bond movies, but it's entertaining. Plus the title song by Nancy Sinatra is #7 on my all time Bond song list. (Behind FOR YOUR EYES ONLY, DIE ANOTHER DAY, ALL TIME HIGH, A VIEW TO A KILL, NOBODY DOES IT BETTER and LIVE AND LET DIE.)
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Summary: James Bond finally meets Blofeld!
Review: When I first saw this movie, I knew that the face of Ernst Stavro Blofeld was going to be revealed sometime at the end. I had read it somewhere. But even though I knew this, his face was still a genuine shock to me: His scar makes him really scary!
The story is original and imaginative, and the volcano lair is spectacular. The idea of the "spacejackings" really blew away. Even today I consider this movie to be one of the best of the Connery era. The fact that its plot would later be copied in "The Spy Who Loved Me", and to some point in "Tomorrow Never Dies", proves that this is one of the best stories ever in a Bond film, even more if you have in mind that "The Spy Who Loved Me" is often regarded as the best Moore episode.
I strongly recommend it, especially if you have already watched "From Russia With Love" and "Thunderball", so that the revelation of Blofeld's mug is all the more dramatic.
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Summary: Kill Bond! Now!
Review: 4 star. Rank 8 of 23. Kill bond Now! The movie begins with bonds death, the second time in 5 films that they tried this one. This Bond entry featured an amazing running battle inside a volcano. The plot reminded me of the Fleming book Moonraker, but hughly and brilliantly re-written to reflect the technology and political realities of the time of the movie
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Summary: The Travelog Bond
Review: You Only Live Twice is the third book in a trilogy that concerns the Bond nemises Blofeld. It helps to have read Thunderball and On Her Majesty's Secret Service to really enjoy You Only Live Twice. A shorter form of the book was published in Playboy. This novel is padded with touristy information about Japan. Most of the book is about Bond's visiting and experiencing Japan. A few action scene are interpersed throughout. Bond, recoving from the loss of his wife, has his double 0 number removed and goes to Japan to trade secrets with the Japanese. But Bond doesn't have anything the Japanese want. Still, the Japanese will give Bond the information he wants if he will kill a man for them--a mysterious Dr. Shatterhand and his wife, who have planted a garden filled with poisonous plants and animals. It seems that certain Japanese folk have been going to the garden to commit suicide by eating the plants. Bond does not want to do this until he sees a picture of the strange Doctor. The ending in the garden is quite action packed, though I would have liked to have seen more. The ending offers a nice twist--Bond loses his memory and decides he must go to Russia. The Bond is the book reflects the Bond of the early James Bond movies. It was written after Dr. No had been filmed. This book has nothing in common with the movie version except for some of the characters and location.
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Summary: Flawed but Pretty Good
Review: You Only Live Twice had gone down as one of Connery's most criticized Bond flick, but it seemed to be a well-rounded Bond film, in that it involves the archetypal elements of a Bond adventure (i.e. espionage, action, solid fight sequences, suspense) blended with a good dose of science fiction. In some way, You Only Live Twice became the turning point of the James Bond series as well. The plot is more promising and more involving. A mysterious spacecraft captured one American capsule and a Soviet capsule and both countries are pointing fingers at each other. Remaining neutral, the British send Bond out into the field, who is "assassinated" to take a good deal of pressure off his shoulders. M assigns Bond to venture off to Japan to tag up with "Tiger" Tanaka to verify if this spacecraft hails from Japan and to halt it from launching and in essence, Bond and Tanaka are off to thwart World War III. There isn't much surprise that SPECTRE is responsible. With so much promise, this edition of Bond is somewhat of a flop. The dialogue is stale, the villains are just par for the course and the pace of the movie isn't very consistent. For example, there is a lot more urgency from start until the Soviet spacecraft is hijacked. Up until the climactic volcano battle, there isn't much purpose in the sequences. We are taken into an in-depth look of Japanese culture, whether it is the ninja fighting technique or the lifestyle of poor harbor residents and fishermen. It is there that the movie gets quirky, with the perfectly executed climax saving the latter part of the movie. However, the biggest flaw of the film is Connery's seemingly uninspired outing. He wasn't much in shape and he seemed to 'pooh-pooh' everything as if it were just another walk in the park. Without his passion and energy as 007, You Only Live Twice would be a disappointment, compared to the classic Bond flicks before it and after it. Despite all the negative aspects of the movie, You Only Live Twice, much like its predecessors does not disappoint in entertainment value and it was influential in virtually every aspect of the Bond series, which either flopped those movies (i.e. Tomorrow Never Dies, Moonraker) or made them into modern-day classics (i.e. The Spy Who Loved Me, Octopussy, Goldeneye).
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