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[Professor Dent]

John Berry did an excellent job on the score, one of the best scores in the franchise. The track "Capsule in Space" is haunting.

I like the soundtrack a lot as well & that helps me to overlook some of the movies flaws. Plus, the volcano set is one of those classic Ken Adam sets that's been used in countless parodies over the years.

[PrinceKamalKhan]

Its tied with DAF as my least favorite Connery movie. Its just too silly, and is even worse after watching the Austin Powers movies, which spoof this movie more then any other.

Really? I think the Austin Powers movies make You Only Live Twice even more fun to watch to see where Mike Myers got his ideas from.

I like the movie. Yes, it's got its parts where its silly (Bond becoming Japanese comes to mind more than anything), but I'll say for the most part its just fun to watch. I'm particularly fond of the rooftop fight scene at the Kobe Docks. When the camera pans out to the helicopter shot and shows Connery fighting all those thugs, it's almost epic.

John Berry did an excellent job on the score, one of the best scores in the franchise. The track "Capsule in Space" is haunting.

Agreed. YOLT is a very fun underrated Bond film. True, a more accurate title for the film would be "Dr. No in Japan" rather than "Ian Fleming's You Only Live Twice" and Connery does look bored but it's still a larger-than-life fun film. Also, it amuses me when some fans criticize You Only Live Twice but praise The Spy Who Loved Me and/or Tomorrow Never Dies when it's so obvious that TSWLM and TND crib so heavily from YOLT.

[Safari Suit]

Yeah, I've never got why people get put off things after they've seen them parodied.

[PrinceKamalKhan]

Yeah, I've never got why people get put off things after they've seen them parodied.

Exactly. I saw the original Bride of Frankenstein after I saw Young Frankenstein and it only made me love it more. I adore [i]High Anxiety and the Hitchcock films it lampoons. [i]Airport[i] movies are even funnier after one sees [i]Airplane!.

[DaveBond21]

Yes, I am one of those who enjoys TSWLM and TND more than YOLT, because I think they do the same story better than YOLT.

[Brian Flagg]

Yeah, I've never got why people get put off things after they've seen them parodied.

I have no problem with it, but I, for one am glad that I saw the Bond movies years and years before the Austin Powers things came out. On a side note: the Austin Powers movies are IMO a missed opportunity to bring back that 1960s-style movie (and the great clothes, too), but Myers pandered to the masses and ddidn't put in the detail and references that could have made the Powers franchise great. Instead of all of the unfunny bathroom humor and idiotic cameos (Tom Cruise, Kevin Spacey, et al.)

[Safari Suit]

I think a more niche film along the lines of the AP films would be great; but it has to be said the pandering obviously worked. The amount of money those last two made was insane.

Edited by Safari Suit, 17 January 2007 - 09:05 AM.