Tag: Thunderball
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Never Say Urine Specimen Again
From the infamous urine specimen fight onward, Never Say Never Again well, never, quite regains its footing. The gag feels oddly desperate for a Bond movie, especially one already fighting an uphill battle as an unofficial entry in the series.… Read More →
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Thunderball is the perfect codename movie title
As I have mentioned before, I have a soft spot for Bond films with titles that feel like mission codenames or entirely invented words. Goldfinger and GoldenEye are strong, but Thunderball remains my favorite in this category. There’s something refreshing… Read More →
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Bond 26: Kite dancing in a hurricane?
To borrow Mr. White’s vivid phrasing from Spectre, the state of Bond 26 feels precarious at best. The usual speculation over casting has been amplified by a deeper uncertainty, with Amazon now steering the franchise and the longest gap between… Read More →
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Well, can’t win them all
In Thunderball, Bond concedes to Fiona Volpe’s premise that his vanity and ego normally send women swooning, but not in her case. Fiona Volpe treats the encounter as a calculated move rather than a romantic encounter. Even after their night… Read More →
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What if the villain has already won?
It’s a premise the Bond series has never fully embraced, and that alone makes it intriguing. Imagine Goldfinger starting with Fort Knox already irradiated, or Thunderball starting after a nuclear catastrophe. Instead of stopping disaster, Bond is forced to confront… Read More →
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Handle like eggs
This moniker on the atomic bombs in Thunderball may be humorous, but it’s apparently rooted in real-world terminology. The phrase has been used in avionics, including by the Royal Air Force, as a straightforward directive to emphasize extreme care in… Read More →
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Thunderball’s Ladislav Kutze is an enigma
Among the Bond series’ many memorable characters, Ladislav Kutze from Thunderball stands out as one of its most quietly compelling yet least recognizable. Introduced as an unassuming minor physicist in Emilio Largo’s operation, he undergoes a striking moral shift once… Read More →
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The Thunderball score is intoxicating
There’s something genuinely intoxicating about the Thunderball score that other Bond movies have never quite replicated. Even when the movie’s pacing starts to drag or the plot gets a bit murky, John Barry’s music acts as this incredible, seductive tether… Read More →
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Quantum Of Solace should’ve just been Quantum
Quantum of Solace is a needlessly overthought title that would have been stronger and cleaner had it simply been Quantum. The added “of Solace” feels less like meaningful thematic depth and more like an attempt to dress up a word… Read More →
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I think that man’s waving at you
This brief, easily overlooked line from Thunderball comes during the Junkanoo parade, when a puzzled Domino Derval notices someone trying rather frantically to flag down Bond. The moment has always struck me as oddly staged. Rather than having Felix Leiter… Read More →
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