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007 Words Only Review: Thunderball


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#1 Qwerty

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Posted 28 March 2005 - 04:21 PM

Sum up Thunderball in 007 words or less. Feel free to add in as many 007 Words Or Less reviews as you wish.

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Bond goes underwater, saves the world
Long and boring, film goes nowhere
Bond's best
Best leading ladies, fast action

#2 Harmsway

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Posted 28 March 2005 - 05:01 PM

Best Bond dialogue, sometimes slow but fun

#3 Qwerty

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Posted 28 March 2005 - 05:35 PM

Great villains and girls, best Connery film.
Exotic locations, great action scenes

#4 YOLT

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Posted 28 March 2005 - 07:40 PM

Boring underwater scenes but Connery is back!

#5 Mr. Somerset

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Posted 29 March 2005 - 08:43 AM

Claudine Auger makes Thunderball my favourite Bond.
Sean nearly stumbles in the gunbarrel sequence.
"No, I know a little about women."

#6 booyeah_

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Posted 30 March 2005 - 01:34 AM

Best Bond; Domino and Fiona steal show.

#7 Almadjian

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Posted 30 March 2005 - 07:52 AM

Best: villainess, car, location, gambling scene, ending.

Bond killed only one person until end.

Newer films eschew character development, purely spectacle.

#8 Skudor

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Posted 01 April 2005 - 02:39 PM

Connery = greatest Bond. Thunderball = greatest Connery film.

#9 Athena007

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Posted 03 April 2005 - 08:30 AM

Bores you with speed.

#10 Qwerty

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Posted 12 June 2006 - 08:47 PM

Fiona Volpe slightly better than Fatima Blush

The spectacle of 007 in one film

#11 Harmonica

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Posted 15 June 2006 - 04:02 PM

Best selection of Bond girls ever
A little slow but still classic
The underwater scenes aren't that bad
Sharks should've had laser beams on heads
Great villains: Largo, Blofeld, Fiona

#12 killkenny kid

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Posted 17 June 2006 - 02:43 AM

The Biggest Bond Yet.

#13 BondReader 007

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Posted 17 June 2006 - 03:15 AM

Bond, Bloefeld, Bombs, Babes, Battles = BEAUTIFUL.

#14 Tiin007

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Posted 18 June 2006 - 02:05 AM

The most water-oriented James Bond film.

#15 The Richmond Spy

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Posted 19 June 2006 - 06:37 PM

Definitely better than Never Say Never Again.

Volpe, why'd you have to be evil?

Pretty lame pre-title sequence, but good film.

#16 Strangelove

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Posted 15 July 2006 - 02:23 AM

Bond gets wet with Domino and Fiona.

#17 Double-Oh Agent

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Posted 17 July 2006 - 01:02 AM

1. Here comes the biggest Bond of all!
2. SPECTRE steals atomic bombs, threatens West.
3. Eye-patched villain, femme fatale threaten Bond.
4. I think he got the point.
5. Blofeld burgles, buries bombs among Bahamas bikinis.
6. Auger, Paluzzi, Peters, Beswick send pulses racing.
7. Jet pack, water fights, swimming with sharks.
8. Bondmania at its epic best.

#18 Thunderfinger

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Posted 17 July 2006 - 06:14 PM

This is when it started going downhill.

#19 Forward Look

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Posted 18 July 2006 - 06:52 AM

It's all in my sig line.

#20 Qwerty

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Posted 15 December 2006 - 09:30 PM

Excellent collection of villains

One of Barry's better Bond scores

#21 moorebond82

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Posted 15 December 2006 - 10:26 PM

Underwater excitement!

#22 bill007

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Posted 16 December 2006 - 01:08 AM

One of the best from Connery Row,
You Only Live Twice still to go.
Tom Jones sang us the title tune,
Ian Fleming left us much too soon.