Even by today’s standards, an underwater fight scene like Thunderball‘s may not have come out as good as it did – certainly not without CGI. They nailed it!
In Diamonds Are Forever, this throwaway exchange between Bond, posing as Peter Franks, and one of the goons transporting his “brother’s” corpse to a funeral home neatly captures one of the movie’s biggest character dynamics. Here’s Bond, an elite international secret agent, surrounded by a collection of dimwitted criminals who seem hopelessly outmatched. Diamonds Are…

