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[DieAnotherDay57]

I thaught it was an ok bond movie. The only real problem with it was seeing 007 in Las Vegas. I thaught that that location was a bad choice but its stile a preety good 007 flick.

[Righty007]

I give it a 8/10.

[ChandlerBing]

I give it a 7/10. Bond was there before Danny Ocean, depending on how you want to look at it.

[Doubleshot]

5/10

[kevrichardson]

Loved it as a kid/preteen . Still enjoy it since it has a great title song . Connery was a sleepwalker !

[mrmoon]

Diamonds Are Forever has always been a favourite of mine, i love the novel and the film, the film is so 'kitsch' it's brilliant. It's a little gem, with a great title and 'the' best theme song of the series. I could go into more detail but it's late lol - ill dig up an old thread which i seem to remember pitted Diamonds Are Forever against You Only Live Twice and struck up some great arguments for both.

[BONDFINESSE 007]

well to me the title song is very good (another of my fav. bond songs) but i just dont like to see bond fat old and out of shape, sean should have put in some time in the gym before he did this film.

i have to give it a 5

[Fraternal]

I give it a 7 out of 10, it is an above average film, always has been a joy to watch. Mr. Wint and Mr. Kidd are just perfect, and how can you not like the name 'Plenty O'Toole'.

[doublenoughtspy]

Negative infinity out of 10. I hate this film with every fiber of my being.

Bad locations, lame stunts, boring women (a friend pointed out that Jill St John was the first "trashy" Bond girl - a disturbing trend), a fat and bored Connery in incredibly lame outfits, Blofeld - Bond's arch enemy and the man who killed Tracy - is treated as a cartoon in drag.

Entertainment Weekly called this "The first Roger Moore film" - once again showing how Roger gets the blame for the 70s Bond mistakes and low points - when in fact it was this film that heralded them all and set the style and tone.

Thank goodness Connery came back for NSNA.

[Dr Noah]

8/10. One of the best Bond movies and certainly one of the most entertaining.

[YOLT]

It is comic in some ways, but also it is very silly in so many ways, ı cant rate it but its Connerys worst.

[General Koskov]

Ah yes, Mr Moon, my 'Which is better: YOLT or DAF?' thread. I'm still undecided, but they both rate about a 4 out of 10.

[Jriv71]

Originally posted by doublenoughtspy
Negative infinity out of 10.  I hate this film with every fiber of my being...

I was gonna try and say something clever, but I don't have to now. "NEGATIVE INFINITY OUT OF TEN!" I can't top that.

I hated Fat Connery, I hated grey Connery, but I could've dealt with all of that, including Pink-shirt Connery, if they'd actually put him on a vendetta against the man who killed George's wife. (I mean, his wife--his wife.) The sloppy-fat-grey thing actually works for a man who is despondent about the loss of his wife, but now has a chance for revenge.

Instead, that piss-poor, B.S. script amplified Connery mailing it in. They could have kept in a few more elements of the novel, throw in Blofeld, since they screwed up the whole order of the books, and dropped the slapstick sh**. Die-hard Connery fans rip Roger Moore (sometimes) but Moore never, ever did anything remotely this bad, or comical. I mean, contrast it with Tracy's death (sticking to the novel) which preceded it, and you can see why there's such divisiveness with this movie. You either love it or hate it. Let's just say, I hope it's not in the next box set.

[CommanderBond]

5/10

[Qwerty]

Oh, this one is always moving in my rating of it. It's very exciting, however, the plot and certain characters cannot make up for it all of the time. Overall, either a 7 or 8 out of 10.

[Gumbold's_Safe]

I always enjoyed the kitsch value of DAF, plus Wint/Kidd and the screenplay is quite witty and literate. Plus, Barry's score is one of my top 3 favorite Bond scores ever.

[Genrewriter]

7/10 only because the first hour is quite good, the next half hour is so-so but the film is done in by the last 30 minutes which almost always put me to sleep.

[Oddfeld]

1/10.

And that was for the elevator fight.

[Von Hammerstein]

Diamonds Are Forever has a warm spot in my heart probably because it was the first Bond film I ever saw in the theatres. But aside from that it was pure 007, from the manhunt in the precredits, especially Bond's banter "There's something I'd like you to get off your chest." before strangling the girl with her bikini top. Blofeld "Making mudpies 007?", Bond's ingenious moustrap device that clamps the SPECTRE guard's fingers when he tries to get Bond's gun. Then of course there's Kidd and Wint, no incredible strength, no steel rimmed bowler, no shiny metal teeth or hook hand, just pure sophiticated menace sprinkled with a dash of kink(for the times). Charles Gray was the archtypical Bond villian with a space based weapon and the right mixutre of civility and savagery.
And lets not forget Jill St John and:
"Hi I'm Plenty"
"But of course you are."
One of Connery's finest Bond lines.

Fun for the whole family.

[DLibrasnow]

I think Diamonds Are Forever is the weakest Connery entry in the series. He simply looked terrible (and actually a lot better 12 years later in Never Say Never Again) and it was all very bland and slow.
Connery really seemed very bored with the part. On the plus side though I do love the title song.

I give it 5/10.

[Turn]

Originally posted by Von Hammerstein
Diamonds Are Forever has a warm spot in my heart probably because it was the first Bond film I ever saw in the theatres. But aside from that it was pure 007, from the manhunt in the precredits, especially Bond's banter "There's something I'd like you to get off your chest." before strangling the girl with her bikini top. Blofeld "Making mudpies 007?", Bond's ingenious moustrap device that clamps the SPECTRE guard's fingers when he tries to get Bond's gun. Then of course there's Kidd and Wint, no incredible strength, no steel rimmed bowler, no shiny metal teeth or hook hand, just pure sophiticated menace sprinkled with a dash of kink(for the times). Charles Gray was the archtypical Bond villian with a space based weapon and the right mixutre of civility and savagery.
And lets not forget Jill St John and:
"Hi I'm Plenty"
"But of course you are."
One of Connery's finest Bond lines.

Fun for the whole family.

Same here, itwas my first new Bond film in the theater. I saw some of the earlier ones on rereleases, but this was the first brand new one for me on its first run.

So many impressions were made from that film, I still think the script is one of the wittiest in the series and I can't help but count it as one of my favorites, although to look at it in a lot of ways would be to recognize it's a mess. But I don't wanna.

[Qwerty]

Excellent song! Anything Bond associated with Shirley Bassey can be considered magnificent. I also really like the main-title sequence. VERY dark, with light green shadows pacing through and the occasional dimaond and cat, it's pretty good.

[jwheels]

I give it about a 2/10. I watch it the least. Can never really get into it. The only part of the movie I like is the elevater flight.

[freemo]

(No longer giving ratings)/10

Pure entertainment, impossible to tire of. Bright, glamourous showpiece of a film. Bambi, Thumper, Wint, Kidd, Shady Tree, Wilard Whyte; the films players are a fasinating collection of colourful oddballs, and the dialouge snaps, crackles, and pops as if it were my breakfast ceral. Where else would you see an elevator fight, gangsters, a fortune in diamonds, a pink tie, a mud bath and a moon buggy all in the same film?

[Tarl_Cabot]

6/10

I miss Laz already.