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User Reviews for: Thunderball

$hubes
6/10  2 years ago
Well, again, it **is** considerably dated but I thought it was still watchable…until the closing boat scene when I lost it and actually started laughing out loud. At one point in the movie, Bond looks at the yacht owned by Largo (the villain) and comments (to Largo), _"She looks fast; I'll bet she'll do 10 knots easy, eh?"_ To which Largo replies quite proudly, _"Actually she'll do closer to 20 knots."_ In nautical terms, "20 knots" is roughly the equivalent of 23mph…if you watch the closing of this movie, it looks like this yacht is doing more like 93mph than 23. LOL The "speed ramping" technique that was used (similar technique but without such a dramatic effect was used with the girl driving the Mustang at 90 - 100mph on a single-lane road through the countryside) to make the yacht look like its throttle was locked wide open as the yacht careened across the waves at seemingly mach speeds was enough to break the suspense of what was going to happen and the whole film became laughable at that point…so much so that it effectively kind of ended the movie for me. I sat through the remaining few minutes, of course, but by that time I was pretty much "done" with whatever was going to happen, it had become so silly. We're talking the old "Batman" TV show silly: pretty much everything except "Bat Copter" and "Shark Repellant Bat Spray" and "BIFF! ZOWIE! POW! BAM! OOF!" All that aside (although, seriously, as amusing as it was, it **did** kind of ruin the whole movie for me) I still thought this was a watchable movie. Granted, it's very outdated and some of the "gadgets" that Q provides Bond with - and the silly dialogue between them - are almost as bad as the aforementioned "Shark Repellant". (You have to watch the scene to appreciate that. https://youtu.be/QnFOs7QlJSI ) And my how the times have changed: back then, Bond was considered quite the "ladies' man" but some of the stuff he pulled in these older movies would - by today's standards - literally get him sent to a prison here in the US for "sexual assault". Nothing short of forcing himself on some of his female counterparts, seriously. And while I realize these movies are almost 60 years old, it _is_ still a bit disconcerting watching a man force a woman - while she's struggling and resisting - to succumb to his own desires while he forces his lips onto hers. My how times have changed… It was still fun to watch; I hope the entire James Bond collection will stay on Amazon Prime long enough for me to watch the entire collection this time.
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