The James Bond Rewatch: Current Movie - SPECTRE

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Thunderball
The opening fight scene with Bouvar is woeful, how many items of furniture do they throw each other through? Just when you think it can’t get any worse, he’s escaping with a jetpack and shooting water out the back of his DB5.
Theme tune by Tom Jones is pretty unmemorable. Bond’s mishap with the orthopaedic machine like something out of a Carry On film.
But… Despite my early concerns it starts to pick up. Largo is a good villain, kudos to him getting his hands dirty and carrying tasks himself rather than sending in lackeys. Feeding a henchman to the sharks 😊
Locations are nice and the diving scenes are something new.
It does run on abit though – 130 mins but it never feels like its dragging.
Domino is my favourite Bond girl so far.
A weak start but afterwards was very enjoyable.
8/10

You Only Live Twice
Good them tune from Nancy Sinatra.
Bond’s fake death was handled well, wasn’t too ridiculous, even if I did groan at the ‘it’s what he would have wanted’ line.
The autogyro scene is great, most audacious stunt sequence yet.
The sets are a real highlight here, Bloefeld’s lair is immense.
I remember this being my favourite Bond as a kid but watching now its certainly the weakest so far. The ending set piece battle is great but totally OTT. The whole film really suffers from the amount of parodying its had over the years, but I suppose as result you could claim along with Goldfinger it’s the ultimate Bond film for that reason.
Hardest to score so far, I enjoy parts more than other films but is so bad in parts that I’m swinging between 4 and 8.
I’ll have to say 6/10 and I think I'm being on the generous side.