| Darwinianevolution said: I just saw "For Your Eyes Only". Or how it was probably conceived "The Bond crew take a Mediterranean trip". But first, the beginning... why that opening? It starts with Bond visiting the grave of his deceased wife, then he's called in for a supposed emergency and, once he goes in an helicopter, it turns out that Blofeld has boobytrapped the vehicle and is planning to kill Bond! But after a couple of attempts, Bond recovers control over the helicopter, snatches Blofeld and throws him into a factory chimney! Soooo... he's dead then? Just like that? The one villain Bond hates the most, taunting him the day he decided to go to his wife's grave, dead by Blofeld's own hand, just died in the opening scene of a movie unrelated to him? And considering the bad blood between the two, the "fight" scene left a lot to be desired. Leaving the "not killing Bond when having a clear chance" cliché aside, Blofeld did all of that operation alone, without a single bodyguard in sight to protect him in case Bond got free. Which, considering he's chairbound and carried no weapons on his chair, he probably should have. Also, I was expecting Blofeld to taunt Bond with the death of his wife, but he didn't. And Bond decided to kill him by throwing him into a chimney after a joking oneliner feels off considering he's the man who caused him so much grief. And in the end, this opening is completely pointless, because it has no bearing on the rest of the flick. Overall, this is a mediocre movie, even if it gets better and better as the flick continues. A solid 6/10. Seriously, what was the point of the opening... |
There was a film rights issue, essentially Kevin McIlroy owned the rights to Thunderball and thus allowed him to make a new version of it after 10 years, thus we got Never Say Never Again. I believe this allowed him access to Blofeld and SPECTRE as well. As a result Eon decided to finish off the character for good in the most humiliating way possible.
In the 90's McIlroy was going to make a third Thunderball titled Warhead 2000AD though I think 'Flogging a Dead Horse' may have been more apt.
He tried again in the 2000's as well as trying to do Casino Royal but then lost the case with his Sony backers. Eon then got all the rights back in the mid 2000's. Hence SPECTRE returning and the retconning of La Shriffe, Silva and Greene as being backed by SPECTRE.
I enjoyed the film, but yeah the opening is bad.
