Ranking James Bond Films: #14 – “Thunderball” (1965)
The fourth Bond movie in four years, Thunderball starts to show the straining wrinkles that would plague overstuffed Bond movies set to come in the future.
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The fourth Bond movie in four years, Thunderball starts to show the straining wrinkles that would plague overstuffed Bond movies set to come in the future.
You thought that Sean Connery was done? Nope. He is back. This man gets many sendoffs, but his last is perhaps his best.
Roger Moore knew he was too old to play Bond, but dammit if he didn’t give it one final go.
Diamonds Are Forever won’t stick in your memory forever, but it’ll occupy two hours and give you a bit of a callback to the better bits of Connery as Bond, even if it doesn’t reach the potential peak.
There is an argument that the song Live And Let Die by Paul McCartney and The Wings is the greatest Bond theme song ever, but you can’t make that case for the movie.
And yes, I know this is three straight Brosnan films in a row. That says something, doesn’t it?
Die Another Day was the first Bond movie I ever saw…and nostalgia doesn’t hold up.
I’m terribly sorry, but Denise Richards drains the swamp with her role in The World Is Not Enough.
Quantum Of Solace is beyond a stepdown from Craig’s debut film, Casino Royale.
Alright, we have our first bad Sean Connery James Bond movie. It has happened.
Rather than staying the course and touching up smaller cracks from a solid reboot, director John Glen and Dalton decided to take another sharp turn with License To Kill.
It’s bad. It’s really bad. It is the worst.
Over the next few weeks, I will release my rankings of the movies. Come the end of this journey, there will be a massive post with all my thoughts wrapped into one.
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