That red mustang at 4:23 going into the alley on its right side wheels and coming out on its left side wheels pretty much sums up this movie. However as always I appreciate your perspective and would look forward to your take on The Quiet Earth 1985, you know, when you have a moment. Cheers!
My favourite Bond movie. Because when I was underage and trying to get into pubs, I had a fake birth certificate made that said "Peter Franks". No idea why the Franks character stuck with me enough to break licensing laws, but it obviously did.
In my top 5 Bond movie list. This film is FUN because it doesn`t take itself too seriously. Just a good time with fun situations, excellent one liners, Vegas at it`s tackiest and two LGBT hitmen that are a hoot. Bond even gets to have some fun with Blofeld while he keeps swinging the crane with his mini sub into the oil rig`s wall. I give it 3 and a half stars out of four.
''Diamonds Are Forever'' is a sequel of ''You Only Live Twice''. In the first scene after gunbarrel, Bond is still in Japan looking for Blofeld, only as the head of a global criminal organization. There is no reference to Tracy, to his marriage, and there is no Draco and Irma Bunt. Connery here is aged and heavier, but if D.A.F. was a revenge film is perfect, as Bond after Tracy's death. The film has similar style with ''Live and Let die'' and ''The Man with the Golden Gun''.
@@StamFine The original plan was to hold back Tracy's death and put it as the pre-credit scene of DAF, but when it was clear they were done with Lazenby, they put it back in OHMSS
I liked this one more than most Bond fans. Gray makes an engaging Blofeld, St. John owns every scene she’s in, and having a gay pair of thugs was inspired. Only the special effects fell short.
Great take on this film. You avoided most of the cliched remarks. I find Diamonds very watchable but uninspired. That’s not bad in my book, because many of the later films are cringe inducing at times. Apart from the tame ending, I think the biggest problem is that it is set mainly in the US. Goldfinger does the same, but it contrasts nicely with Switzerland (or Bavaria, or wherever it’s meant to be). Plus Fort Knox is such an unusual location it doesn’t matter that it’s the US. They do similar in Diamonds with the space research center, but Las Vegas just makes the film look too much like many other films.
There was a black & white TV movie where a different actor played James Bond. He was the actor from that Twilight Zone episode Stopover in a Small Town or something like that. I only saw it once (decades ago) and have little memory of it. I'm pretty sure he played him as Ameeican. But it'd be great if you reviewed that one with your wonderful wit and insightfulness.
In my head canon, Blofeld had a little daughter and every time he escapes without the cat, he brings a new one home and has to make up a story about why Mr. Sniffles looks different again.
Lol . . . You hit the nail on the head. 😜 On Australian TV the 70's Bond films were shown a lot in the Eighties. 👍 🇦🇺 I have always liked Diamonds are Forever as it was the beginning of the camp James Bond films. The 1970's were garish and vulgar and began with Hiippie Movement and ended with t he Village People, ABBA and KISS. How could you make a serious Bond film ? Even Clint eastwood (who WAS supposed to take over from Scene Connery) tried. Dirty Harry was a masterpiece followed by the god awful Magnum Force and the flaccid The Enforcer. You can now see how James Bond blended into the Seventies way better than its competitor's. People criticise the Roger Moore films apart from the two Seventies 'bookends' i.e. Live and Let Die and the Spy Who Loved Me, the latter being both filmed and released in the very late 70's . . . .
2:47 the painting of Jim Carrey is ahead of its time. Or is that Gopher from The Live Boat? 😁 The Bambi and Thumper scenes were the best in a film that felt Plenty O'Tooled out... 🤣 Connery handles the dialogue well, but the movie feels fairly bland overall. Despite inspiration from Goldfinger, it felt uninspired and playing too much into 70s fads than trying to have staying power... ...Moore's casting was as inspired as his fresh take to ensure Bond's continuation. From the humor to even cold blooded killing, nobody does it better than Moore. Even if he felt Bond wouldn't kill like that, he did it and did it compellingly. And only often enough that the viewer appreciates the moment that much more.
I was about to comment on how Stefanie Powers always looked like a 30 year old 🙃 Jill St. John was 31 when this movie was released and she's not Stefanie Powers mother - they're almost the same age. I kinda like this movie except for the moon buggy chase scene which is ridicules. I almost never watch this movie tho so apparently a part of me don't care for it. I grew up on this movie so I guess it's memories and melancholy preventing me from hating it.
One odd coincidence in real life. Lana Wood played Plenty O'Toole who drowned in the movie. Her more famous sister, Natalie Wood drowned in real life. Natalie Wood was married to actor Robert Wagner. Wagner would later marry Jill St. John who played Tiffany Case.
I am part of the "worst film in the entire series" crowd. I might even take Casino Roayle '67 over it. Not only does it utterly fail to capitalize on the ending of its immediate predecesor, but it's a tacky piece of garbage in its own right.
Sean Connery’s worst Bond by far, good for his Scottish Educational Trust, and Mr Broccoli’s bank account. Connery made a deal with United Artists to finance two other films of his choice. One was “The Offence” - good performance by Connery in a box-office bomb. I don’t think the other film was ever made. Thanks to the same mediocre director and writers, this Vegas-based cartoon set the stage for the crapola to follow, with Roger Moore prancing through with a parody of James Bond. It boggles my mind, to this day, that we went from the best Bond film, “On Her Majesty’s Secret Service” to this dreck, with Connery looking old enough to be George Lazenby’s father!
What a ridiculous review. The film is vintage Bond. And you are wrong about Connery abilities with the humour. It was there from the very beginning. No one can deliver a one-liner like him. Bond's wit and irony is at its strongest when Connery plays him.
It’s a shame that it turned out such an abomination. It had such a lovely theme sequence, and a dark progenitor of a novel - but I think it is the second worst next to Die Another Day.
