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Summary: Never Say Never Again (1983)
Review: The Origins of 007`s arch-nemeis Ernst Stavro Blofeld, and his organization SPECTRE (the Special Executive for Conterintelligence Terrorism Revenge and Extortion) were in a committee (that included James Bond creator Ian Fleming, Jack Whittingham and a man named Kevin McClory) working on a srcipt starring James Bond way back in 1958 I believe it was. Anyway, Fleming found the committee to be relatively useless,left, and then wrote the novel Thunderball, which introduced Blofeld and SPECTRE in to the novels. Shortly afterwards, producers Albert R. Broccoli and his pal Harry Saltzman wanted to start a series of Bond films. Kevin McClory felt he had originated Blofeld and SPECTRE and some of Thunderball`s story line and that Fleming had
stolen the ideas from him. And Kevin wasn`t about to let Thunderball go to the screen without him. The legal battles that went one are to complicated, but what came out of this was: Fleming would retain the literary rights to one Enrst Stavro Blofeld and SPECTRE, while McClory would retain the screen rights. Albert and Harry were free to film a filmed version of Thunderball as long as McClory was the producer. In addition, McClory was allowed to produce his own remake of the story, just as long as he didn`t start production until after 1975. The legal battles are also the reason why Blofeld doesn`t appear in any of the films after Diamonds are Forever was released in 1971 (except as an unnamed character in the pre-credits seqeunce of For Your Eyes Only, Broccoli`s good riddance to whole damn mess). Never Say Never Again is McClory`s remake of Thunderball.
And unfortunately, he did`nt have the rights to any of the series
trademarks, though, so unfortunately, you will not hear the immortal James Bond theme or see the famous gunbarrel opening. McClory obtained Sean Connery for the role of agent 007, who vowed that after Diamonds Are Forever he would NEVER play Bond AGAIN (hence the title of this movie). The cast for the film is absolutely wonderful, except Kim Basinger is not good as Domino, (Claude Auger played a much better Domino in Thunderball). I tell you, this film is awesome, it`s a hell of a lot better then the different but good Octopussy which was released in the same year. And that flawed ending, is okay.
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Summary: This Moive Stinks
Review: The resons this moive stinks 1. Sean Connery is way to old.
2.This is not like TunderBall shusss. So I gave This moive 1 star. BEWARE JAMES BOND FANS.
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Summary: A fair look at Bond's new mission
Review: James Bond is on a diet in The Bahamas for drinking to many dry Martinis,On his vacation he meets a strange family of a brother who wants to send nuclear missilles to the states. Bond has to fight off the henchmen before he gets to a man with two unidentacle eyes to kill. A good James Bond film only you may want to see thunderball first.
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Summary: Some people can't tell the difference, Heres the Flops
Review: It's too bad that this movie isn't very foreign, It takes place in foreign places, But it just seems a little close to home, The normal James Bond movies seem to stretch very far & wide, From Russia With Love, is about as foreign as a James Bond film can get, Goldfinger stays close to home, But at least the actors were foreign, The things that bring the best out of the James Bond movies is there foreign-ness,
Never Say Never Again, has many American Icons in extremely foreign roles,
like Kim Basinger, who looks like she's crying throughout the entire movie, I think it's because she discovered that she was not in a real James Bond movie, after she signed the contract,
British comedy actor Rowen Atkinson plays 007's contact in the movie, He is most known for his roles in Mr. Bean & Black-Adder,
But he does not seem very foreign, because he's known in America,Max von Sydow, plays Blofeld, who is normally bald, (Exept in Diamonds Are Forever) At the time he was more known in America than Kim Basinger was,
I think the sets are way to small, This movie is a remake of Thunderball, beacause the Producer owned the rights to the story,
But if you compare all the sets in Thunderball, To the sets in this one, You'll notice that they're about 3 times smaller, The one where Blofeld is meeting with his council is "tiny", Largo, "What in the world" he has 2 eyes, In Thunderball he had an Eyepatch, Which is definatly a great trademark in the normal James Bond Series, & who the heck is this "Goon" that try's to kill 007 in the rehab, Im sure if it happened in real life, Plenty of people would notice, One of the sad things is about all the extra's, I mentioned earlier in this review that Kim Basinger is looks like shes Crying throughout the whole movie, Because she probably did not know this was a fake Bond movie until after she signed the contract,
There is an unusual amount of Extra's in the movie, Probly because they may have thought the same thing,
If I was offered a part in a movie, I would not like to be a character that gets "killed off", But in a James Bond movie, theres an exeption, But in a Fake James Bond movie "no way" I would not take any part offered to me, Even a part where my character lives, I also would not like to see a sequel, According to a recent Tonight Show monologue, Jay said that their may be a sequel to this movie starring Sean Connery,
One of the few good things about this movie is that the regular James Bond movie that came out in the same year (Octopussy, starring Roger Moore) made more money in the Box Office than Never Say Never Again did, I give this movie Zero stars, If the sequel is less of a flop, I will watch it,
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Summary: Not as bad as You Only Live Twice, but thats not saying much
Review: This movie (a Warner bros picture and not officially a part of the James Bond series) is a turkey! My god, can Connery get much older looking? The simple fact that this is a remake of Thunderball is enough reason to stay away. It's better than You Only Live Twice, but thats not saying much. The video game sequence for world domination is incredibly stupid. Connery should have stayed retired, stayed out of the Arcades and out of Octopussy's wake(a hit Bond film released the same year). STAY AWAY FROM THIS ONE... you've been warned.
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Summary: Bond purists and fanatics - we know what you think already
Review: This film is simply the last Connery Bond film, unofficial or not, trademark opening sequence or not, it's still the last Bond film Connery made. For that reason alone I bought it, and for [the price] it was well worth it, considering the ridiculous price of most Bond DVD's. It's an entertaining movie, period. I fail to see any problems with the acting at all, ecspecially compared to the Moore films and campy, but unbelieveably great, 60's Connery films. The DVD is of very average quality with no real extras, but very adequate, ecspecially if you have good software to run it on a PC system or home entertainment system. I thought NSNA was one of the most humorous Bond films and didn't really think of Thunderball too much at all through the entire thing. Thunderball is in it's own class, and gave me an entirely different feel and experience. For those that are "offended" by this "unofficial" film, that's too bad, I really don't put that much emotion into the Bond series, they are all tacky, campy and silly in one way or another while at the same time being highly entertaining and stylish, as well as classics in their own right. I'm simply not going to sit here and yell and scream about all of the geeky drawbacks over a[n inexpensive] DVD, it's really not that bad at all and the cast is great as well as the intrigue and plot twists. Forgive me, I like James Bond movies, I love Connery, and I even liked Lazenby and Moore in his early roles. As such I enjoyed this film and probably never would've purchased it on DVD if it were priced like the others.
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Summary: Cracked me up, Almost as good as Austin Powers
Review: Sean Connery decides to insult the character that made him famous by making a spoof of the existing Bond series, It contains all the opposites from a James Bond movie, like
Poverty stricken civilization
Video games instaed of Black Jack
A truly un-diabolical villan played by Klaus Von-Hergersheimer,
Americans, playing the roles of foreigners, Not at all like the regular series. Here is some info on a real Bond Movie starring Pierce Brosnan,
I thought about this alot, I figured if you're insuting the Bond series by looking at Never Say Never Again, you don't deserve to see the secrets to the new one.
But im feeling generous today, feast your eyes below Latest news on Bond 20, no name yet, but here is the cast list JAMES BOND - Pierce Brosnan
Gala Brand - Rosamund Pike
Jinx - Halle Berry
Jack Wade - Joe Don Baker
Miss Moneypenny - Samantha Bond
M - Dame Judi Dench
Q - John Cleese
Tanner - Michael Kitchen
Nurse Warmflash - Serena Scott Thomas
Robinson - Colin Salmon
Admiral Roebuck - Geoffrey Palmer Some of the cast does not have confirmed roles Produced by Michael G Wilson & Barbara Broccoli
Music by David Arnold
Production Designer Peter Lamont
SFX supervisor Chris Corbould
Action Unit Director Vic Armstrong
Executive Producer Anthony Waye
Costumes By Lindy Hemming
Directed By Lee Tamahori Currently being made by EON productions, at Pinewood Studios in London
Will be released by Metro Goldwyn Mayer & United Artists
Christmas 2002
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Summary: Four Reasons To Own This "Unofficial" Bond Flick:
Review: 1.) Sean Connery's back in the role to which most people best associate him (would "Trainspotting" REALLY have been as good without the dialogue between Renton and Sick Boy in the park during the air rifle scene?)
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2.) Film and special effects technology finally had finally caught up with the series by the time this movie was made. As cool as Sean Connery was back in the shagadelic '60's, baby, the special effects in his movies were really second-rate. They may have been a step up from the Godzilla movies of the era, but not by much. The action in this movie seems to take place in real time rather than in a special effets lab.
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3.) The supporting cast are awesome...former Blaxploitation superstar Bernie Casey may be the best CIA Operative Felix Leiter there's ever been; Rowan Atkinson ("Mr. Bean", to most of us Americans) is good as the hopelessly up-tight Nigel Small-Fawcett, and does anyone really need to be told just how hot Kim Basinger and Barbara Carrera are as a "Bond Girl" double-barrelled blast?
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4.) THE PRICE!!! With all the other MGM/UA Bond films weighing in at [price](or more), only Ted Turner himself can afford to own them. This admitted re-make of "Thunderball" is not the best Bond movie out there...IMHO that distinction goes to "For Your Eyes Only" (sue me, I'm a hockey fan and I grew up during the Roger Moore years)...but for the price alone this is worth owning. True, the classic "James Bond Theme" is missing, and it is a bit tacky seeing the jet-setters in tuxedoes and evening gowns playing "Centipede" instead of baccarrat (sp?), but this DVD is the James Bond film anyone can own...and regardless of what shortcomings other reviewers have attributed this effort, none of them fall on Sean Connery's (ample-as-ever) shoulders; give it a shot (with a Walther PPK or a union jack fountain pen)!
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Summary: Say never.
Review: Given that this film tends to be overlooked by all and sundry, it's easy to bend too far backwards in finding things to praise - thus, the reviews here tend to be either 'this film was dire' or 'this is a flawed gem'. The reality is somewhere in between, and closer to the former opinion, sadly.
The biggest problem is that, despite the presence of Sean Connery and, at least nominally, M, Q, Blofeld and so forth, it doesn't really seem like a 'Bond Film'. There isn't a great deal of action, the film doesn't appear to have had much money spent on it (presumably most of the budget went towards Connery's salary), and as for Connery himself - he seems to have lost the 'edge' that he brought to his first stint as Bond. This version of the character seems too nice and cuddly, and it doesn't help that he gets to wear some terrible clothes (and what appears to be a toupee).
Particular mention must be made of the incidental music, which, curiously, is mostly light jazz / be-bop, even during the action sequences. It's terribly jarring and doesn't work at all, almost as if the producers were trying to evoke a 60's atmosphere, but in a really bad way.
More than this, the core problem - the one that kills 'Never Say Never Again' stone dead - is that this film was done with greater style and flair in 1965, as 'Thunderball'. There's no reason not to buy that, instead.
As for the DVD itself, you get the film and a box and the trailer.
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Summary: No extras, but Sean makes up for it...
Review: This DVD release is unusual in that it has no "extras" other than a Theatrical Trailer, but that's OK, because Sean Connery is back as Bond. Though not an "Official" Bond movie, and doesn't have the familar James Bond "Music", this movie is just fun entertainment. Connery looks better than Roger Moore did at this stage, and can still deliver the lines... Fatima Blush: "How clumsy of me, I've made you all wet." Bond: "Yes, but my Martini is still dry..." The print is good, and the sound quality is good for it's age. Hard to believe this movie is almost 20 years old.
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