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Summary: THUNNNNNNNNNNNNDDDDDAAAAAAABBBBAAAAL sucked!
Review: I hated this movie. I hated this movie. Did I mention I hated this movie. Sean Connery looked half-asleep in this absolutly no action very graphic ending movie. Even for the 1960s the special effects stunck. The ending sequence where Largo has a harpoon in his back the boat looks like it's going about 500 mph. The only cool parts were where the Disco Vilante blows up by hittig a rock and, where the motorcycle fires a missle at the blue ford w/ Bond's DB5 nearby. I hated this movie.
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Summary: sea hunt with a really big budget!
Review: Rank 13 of 23. Loosely based on what I thought was the best of the fleming novels, it borrowed the coral dragging scene that actually appeared in the Dr No book. What was stunning was that the underwater photography was so enthralling that, that words were not necessary. This lack of dialog was so totally unique in an action film. But the hit show "sea Hunt" was successful doing the same thing. This plot was done again, re-written slightly in Never Say Never Again.
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Summary: Classic Bond At Its Best!
Review: I found this movie to be essentially perfect Bond. By Thunderball, the producers had made the Bond Formula. One of the ingredients in this formula was the Pre-Credits Sequence. In Thunderball, it was one of the best. A perfect blend of action (the fight) and gadgets (Rocket Pack). Then, we fly in to the first Maurice Binder titles. It complements perfectly with the music and the underwater theme. Then we are treated to 2 hours of perfection. The plot has some great action without going way over the top and becoming cartoonish like some of the more recent bonds. It starts when SPECTRE has a plan to hijack a warplane carrying two atomic bombs and hold NATO for ransom. Bond is assigned to Nassau and quickly gets drawn into the world of SPECTRE. With the help of Domino, a beautiful girl whose brother was killed as a result of SPECTRE's misdoings, Bond gets the villain cornered on a boat... You'll have to see it to find out! The girls, for one, Claudine Auger as Domino Derval was perfectly cast. She had the essence of a Bond Beauty, and she was very memorable. But the best girl was Luciana Palluzzi as Fiona Volpe. This sexy and dangerous Redhead is my favourite Bond girl. I loved the scene in the hotel when Bond is captured. She was imitatated in the next Bond, You Only Live Twice, but was never matched. One of the great Bond villains, Adolfo Celi as Emilio Largo, better known as Number Two. He was threatening and cool, a great combination. The locales were nothing short of stunning. From Shrublands to France, from Florida to Nassau, this Bond delivers! And Sean Connery at his best. Even he says this was his best performance! And I agree. The action is perfectly balanced in this movie, allowing strong character and plot development. This is the best Bond.
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Summary: Good, but not better than Goldfinger
Review: Ok, I thought that Thunderball would be better then Goldfinger and in some places of the movie it is. The action is really hiped up, and many shots were very well done, but all in all, this movie kinnda falls short. The plot is great, but it was great 40 yrs ago when Nukes were still a new and horrible thing. Not saying that nukes arent scary, but they were alot more in that time period. Then the plot moves kinnda slow. Lots of one liners by connery, and in some places it doesent feel like a bond movie but just mindless oneliners and babble. The villin is ok, but just not the best. The bond girls were fine lookin, but there parts were not scripted well. Thunderball is good, dont get me wrong, but Dr.No is really outdated, and that movie is still considered one of the best bonds ever. Thunderball just doesent have the timeless feeling to it like Dr.No,FRWL,Goldfinger,TSWLM,FYEO,TLD,& GE have. It just feels like they were picking up with what Goldfinger had left over. But its better than many others in the series.
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Summary: Big but not excessive
Review: The fourth adventure in the Bond series, and the one that was the biggest worldwide smash, to this day ($427,000,000 in the US alone, adjusted for inflation). Dealing with Bond's attempts to recapture two stolen nuclear devices before the evil organization SPECTRE uses them, this is the first film in the series that seems to really divide the fanbase as to its merits. To a lot of people, it's overblown and slow-moving, especially since a lot of the climactic action takes place underwater, and that can be very tiring. Others think it's a great example of the 60's Bond, with a great Connery performance. I fall into the latter camp. I concede the fact that the movie runs a little long and the water scenes are slow, but I like the fact that the Bond series was on top after Goldfinger, and this film reflects that. It shows the swagger of a cast and crew that knew they were the best and wanted to give the best: the sets are bigger and grander, there are crazier and different gadgets, and the situation is more dire if Bond doesn't succeed. This is a stylish movie, with great sets and beautiful Bahaman locations. Not to mention Claudine Auger and Lucianna Paluzzi, two of the most captivating Bond girls ever. One of the best.
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Summary: Best Bond Yet!
Review: I think that Thunderball was the best bond yet because the battle scenes are realistic and the villains are awesome. The harpoon battle at the end is really cool also.The plot and gadgets were really cool. See this movie you won't regret it!
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Summary: the ULTIMATE Bond Movie!
Review: Never before or after has there been a Bond film as utterly perfect as Thunderball, the fourth masterpiece of the Bond series which is directed by Terence Young and stars Sean Connery. The movie is perfect. Everything shines. The directing is tense. The editing is fast and exciting. John Barry never made another score as great as the one here (On Her Majesty's Secret Service gets close comparision). Connery is at his best here. he's completely comfortable, yet not bored with the role, which which plague You Only Live Twice. This one has the best Bond girls, too. Fiona Volpe is a sexy, sinister, and dangerous bad girl, the best of the series. Claudine Auger is great. The underwater photagraphy is simply stuning! The movie doesn't bore me for a second (I may be the only one to say so, but I wasn't bored with all the underwater stuff). The movie is exciting, funny, thrilling, suspensful, and all around perfect. Well, I suppose nothing is perfect. there is some bad editing or obvious rear projection, but that's just dumb nit-picking, and overall, Thunderball offers the most satisfying of all the Bond classics. The same goes for the DVD. It's pretty much the same as the Laserdisk, only the Laserdisk was 100 dollars! This DVD is about 30 or less. The picture is stunning, and in my opinion, stands out as the best from the material in Box-set #1. The blue of the underwater scenes is rendered gorgeously, and there isn't any distracting grain. The film should only be viewed in widescreen (as well as almost all the other Bonds), and that's what the DVD has. Gorgeous. The sound is remastered and sounds fantastic. The special features are vast and interesting, and contain two of the best Bond documentarys ever, "The Making of Thunderball" and "The Thunderball Phenomenon." It should be noted that on the menu, there is a technical error. If you select "The Making of Thunderball," you get "The Thunderball Phenomenon" and vice versa. No big deal. There's also a short documentary about the different versions of this movie. Add two commentaries and a load of publicity materials and you have the best Bond DVD of all. If you can only own one Bond film on DVD, make this the one. If you can only own two, get this one and OHMYSS. However, you SHOULD buy them all. But, this is the ultimate one. See it.
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Summary: Thunderball: Bond submerged
Review: The first Bond screenplay, THUNDERBALL, while still a favourite of many, is somewhat of a disappointment following the classics DR. NO and FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE and the archetypal Bond film GOLDFINGER. The strength of the movie lies mainly in Connery's performance of Bond, which rescues the character somewhat from the script, and in its underwater scenes which dominate the action portion of the movie. The underwater filming was revolutionary for 1965, winning an Oscar, but is unlikely to wow modern viewers, with the exception of one scene; an excellently-choreographed pitched underwater battle. Lacking comedy, the dramatic urgency of the film isn't maintained either, partly because the tongue-in-cheek ride of GOLDFINGER instead stumbles here as we are introduced to a series of bland villains and undeveloped minor heroic characters. Rik Van Nutter's Felix Leiter is perhaps the most uninteresting rendition of the character ever. He doesn't foil Bond, he simply disappears, just as Claudine Auger's Bond girl Domino Derval wanders through the film, the first of a long list of forgettable leading conquests to come. THUNDERBALL introduces us to Bond as superhero. He's not yet perfectly competent in every regard, but he performs a number of impossible stunts and heals inhumanly fast. The more-realistic portrayals of the quick-witted spy of the first films is fading fast. What isn't fading is the constant dubbing and editing problems that plague the early films, although the special effects here are the best yet. THUNDERBALL also introduces us to a Bond that actively and obviously disrespects the women around him, at one point literally blackmailing an irrelevant-to-the-plot woman into his arms (Mollie Peters' Pat Fearing), a seduction which we are to believe she is later enthusiastic about. The DVD menu has returned to the irritating style of interface from DR. NO, which will make you want to quickly skip through to the film or to the many special features. Unlike the earlier "Special Editions", the music soundtrack is mixed surprisingly loud as compared to the dialogue tracks, which may inspire some annoying fiddling with the volume in the middle of watching the movie. THUNDERBALL relies heavily on Sean Connery's screen presence, and sfx tricks that have aged less gracefully than he has. That said, it's a ride that has been entertaining viewers for almost four decades now, and a fine classic Bond episode.
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Summary: ...AND HE STRIKES! LIKE THUNDERBALL!
Review: This is one of the most entertaining of the series, boasting a fantastic villain, gripping fight scenes, and a great performance by Connery. SPECTRE has launched its latest gambit in achieving global extortion and mass murder by hijacking two atom bombs. They will be both detonated in the US and England, unless both governments pay ransom. To see that doesn't happen, Bond traces the bombs to Nassau. Before long it becomes apparent that the sadistic Emilio Largo (SPECTRE's No. 2 man) is heading this devious plot. The acting is excellent in this film, and the villain is more intimidating than Goldfinger. This is without a doubt Bond at his best, so don't miss it!
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Summary: what sharp eyes youve got wait till you get to my teeth
Review: IT is another bond classic with sean connery.This one has Claudine (Auger) pronounced Oshay as Domino Derval who is Largo's(Adolfo Celi PRONOUNCED CHELLY)former lover. largo has a sexy henchwoman named Fiona Volpe played by Luchianna Paluzzi. That is what I say about this 5 star adventure.*****It is a really good one i gurantee.
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