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Post by RiP, IMDb on Apr 15, 2020 22:14:56 GMT
Diamonds are (NOT) Forever (1971)!!
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Post by moviemouth on Apr 15, 2020 22:15:40 GMT
NAY
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Post by RiP, IMDb on Apr 15, 2020 22:17:04 GMT
What do YOU think of me adding (NOT) to the title?
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Post by moviemouth on Apr 15, 2020 22:17:37 GMT
What do YOU think of me adding (NOT) to the title?
I don't think anything of it.
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Post by RiP, IMDb on Apr 15, 2020 22:19:55 GMT
What do YOU think of me adding (NOT) to the title?
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Post by FridayOnElmStreet on Apr 15, 2020 22:32:14 GMT
Meh. Second least favorite Bond film. Not good but not awful. A 5/10.
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Post by politicidal on Apr 15, 2020 22:32:29 GMT
Nay with a capital "N".
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Post by alpha128 on Apr 15, 2020 22:44:07 GMT
Not as good as any of Connery's previous Bonds, and a big step down from OHMSS. But I still kind of like it, so Yay.
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Post by movielover on Apr 15, 2020 22:46:30 GMT
Yay for me as well. It's a fun movie.
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Post by Catman on Apr 15, 2020 22:58:25 GMT
Jimmy Dean, Jill St. John, and a freaking cool house.
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Post by ck100 on Apr 15, 2020 23:15:57 GMT
It has its flaws, but I still find it to be a fun ride as long as you go along with it.
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Post by jcush on Apr 15, 2020 23:48:30 GMT
In the last few days I rewatched the first 7 Bond movies. I've always found DAF to be entertaining, but after watching it yesterday I think it doesn't really fit with the other Connery Bond's, so I'll go with meh.
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Post by Ass_E9 on Apr 15, 2020 23:51:55 GMT
I forget which assassin David Crosby played.
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Post by darksidebeadle on Apr 15, 2020 23:57:12 GMT
Nay
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Post by vegalyra on Apr 16, 2020 2:16:16 GMT
Not a good one. The ending attack sequence on the oil rig was pretty cool though. Bond in a Mustang is kind of weird though. The moon buggy thing was pretty dumb as well.
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Post by Anonymous Andy on Apr 16, 2020 17:46:02 GMT
Yay
It's a total pisstake compared to OHMSS, but is a pretty fun romp in its own right. Beautiful women, pun-dealing villains and Sean Connery giving zero fucks makes for a good time.
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Post by hitchcockthelegend on Apr 16, 2020 23:35:14 GMT
Nay
With George Lazenby withdrawing from the franchise after just the one film, off to massage his ego and take further bad advice from those around him, Albert R. Broccoli & Harry Saltzman set about making Bond sustainable box office in the 1970s. American actor John Gavin (Psycho/Spartacus) had signed on to fill the tuxedo, but armed with wads of cash the producers managed to entice Connery back to the role he had previously fell out of love with. Helped, too, that Connery's post Bond movies, his last outing had been You Only Live Twice in 1967, had hardly set the box office alight. It seemed a long shot, but Connery stunned the movie world by agreeing to once again play the role that many would come to know him for.
Back came Connery, back came director Guy Hamilton and back came Shirley Bassey to sing the title song (a true Bond classic it proved to be as well), these were reassuring signs, as was having Blofeld remain on villain duties. However, stung by the criticism of Lazenby's humanesque On Her Majesty's Secret Service, and the drop in box office profits compared to Connery's latter Bond films, the makers decided to play this Bond as fantastique, something that would define Bond until Timothy Dalton tried something different at the end of the 1980s. Roger Moore would replace Connery as Bond two years later and it's widely thought that his arrival as 007 ushered in the "ridiculous" era of overt humour, preposterous sight gags and cartoonish escapades, not so, it began with Connery's Diamonds Are Forever. The moment Bond drives a Ford Mustang on two wheels, all bets were off in the franchise.
Artistically "Diamonds" is a disappointing movie, fun for sure, but the screenplay refuses to let the film take itself seriously. It's often camp and the picture lacks dramatic thrust and spectacular action, with the finale a rather tepid affair. Connery's presence gives the film some warmth, but his charisma and vocal delivery can't detract from the fact he looks to be doing it purely for the money. His weight, like his hair colour, fluctuates, and much of the vibrancy of his 60s Bond portrayals had disappeared. Charles Gray turns in the worst Blofeld of them all, saddled with a screenplay that has him cloning and cross dressing, Gray has Blofeld as charming and wry, gone is the menace and machismo so wonderfully portrayed by Pleasence and Savalas respectively in the previous two Bond movies. Felix Leiter in Norman Burton's hands has been reduced to being a bit of a doofus, the baddies are either too fey or over the top, while Jill St John's main Bond girl, Tiffany Case, descends from being a steely femme at the beginning, to a voluptuous caricature.
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Post by Archelaus on Apr 16, 2020 23:48:42 GMT
Meh. It's a disappointing follow-up to On Her Majesty's Secret Service. hitchcockthelegend describes my complaints against the film perfectly. It's too camp for my taste, but I do love Shirley Bassey's theme song. |
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