Thunderball (Bond 4)

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James Bond's fourth adventure takes him to the Bahamas, where a NATO warplane with a nuclear payload has disappeared into the sea. Bond (Sean Connery) travels from a tiny health spa (where he tangles with a mechanized masseuse run amuck) to the casinos of Nassau and soon picks up the trail of SPECTRE's number-two man, Emilio Largo (Adolfo Celi), and his beautiful mistress, Domino (Claudine Auger), whom Bond soon seduces to his side. Equipped with more gadgets than ever, courtesy of the resourceful "Q" (Desmond Llewelyn), agent 007 escapes an ambush with a personal-size jet pack and takes to the water as he searches for the undersea plane, battles Largo's pet sharks, and finally leads the battle against Largo's scuba-equipped henchmen in a spectacular underwater climax. This thrilling Bond entry became Connery's most successful outing in the series and was remade in 1983 as Never Say Never Again, with Connery returning to the role after a 12-year hiatus. Tom Jones belts out the bold theme song to another classic Maurice Binder title sequence. --Sean Axmaker

I thought it took a while to get going, but once it did it had all the great lines that I enjoy from these films. I'm ranking it below the previous two films because I didn't think the story was as good and the bad guys were not as interesting.

Bond ranking so far:
Goldfinger
From Russia with Love
Thunderball
Dr. No

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I started rewatching all of these with my teenager from the very first. After about the 5th movie I had to stop. Were they great and classics? YES. But for me they just dont stand up very well. The action scenes even tthe cheesy fight scenes and special effects are so B quality I just cant stand it. LOL (I do realize for the time they were good)

Yes I'm spoiled by todays technology.
 
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I started rewatching all of these with my teenager from the very first. After about the 5th movie I had to stop. Were they great and classics? YES. But for me they just dont stand up very well. The action scenes even tthe cheesy fight scenes and special effects are so B quality I just cant stand it. LOL (I do realize for the time they were good)

Yes I'm spoiled by todays technology.

I know...the fight scenes are very cheesy indeed. The punches miss by a mile and the guys go flying backwards after getting hit.
 

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Did you guys see the deal Amazon had on the 50th anniversary set? All 22 films in Blu-Ray was $99. It is now back to $349.99

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Collectible box set featuring all 22 James Bond films on Blu-ray disc in one complete offering for the first time.

Collection includes all 22 James Bond feature films from Dr. No to Quantum of Solace and more than 130 hours of bonus features including never-before-seen content from the Bond archives, and more.

One disc of brand new bonus content approximately one hour in length.

9 titles available on Blu-ray for the first time ever: Goldeneye, Octopussy, The Spy Who Loved Me, You Only Live Twice, The Living Daylights, Tomorrow Never Dies, Diamonds are Forever, A View to a Kill and On Her Majesty’s Secret Service.

Box set includes an open slot for forthcoming James Bond film.
 
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