Tom Jones signing Thuderball is so awesome.

@blofeld39

2 ай бұрын

Don't underrated Dionne Warwick singing "Mr. Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang", either...

@doughbafett

2 ай бұрын

You mean "ThunderbAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAALLLLLLL!!!"?

@richardb6260

2 ай бұрын

It was originally supposed to be Mr. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang by Dion Warwick. But the Goldfinger theme was such a hit that the producers decided they wanted the title in the song. However much of Barry's score is still based on MKKBB. Check out Johnny Cash's proposed Thunderball theme (it's on KZread). It would have been great if Thunderball was a Wild Wild West movie.

@JOSH-lw2jv

2 ай бұрын

⁠​⁠@@richardb6260 You would think someone had told Johnny Cash that *"Thunderball"* wasn't a cowboy-themed film. "Boy, I really hope somebody got fired for that blunder."

@usascorpio

Ай бұрын

- and STILL kickin' it at 83. He just sang at the D-Day service in France.

"women falling in love with him over getting mail" then immediately after "he be wearing some short shorts, I love it" Ashley in full thirst mode

@mattpobursky850

2 ай бұрын

Ashely's thirst is at Level 10 and I'm here for it. 😆

@Pikachu132

2 ай бұрын

Can't say the movie isn't realistic.

@robertsmith3883

2 ай бұрын

I'm literally related to Claudine Auger who plays Domino in Thunderball

@hanbill

2 ай бұрын

@@robertsmith3883 if you see her, tell her she has a charm of 100 women

@JPSE57

Ай бұрын

The joke in the 70s was that women would start ovulating just hearing Sean Connery's voice.

Side benefit of watching the Connery Bonds is you'll get "Archer." One of the funniest shows ever.

@Jacob_Junge

2 ай бұрын

Well, he doesn't like to invite that comparison, but yeah, basically.

@tooluser

2 ай бұрын

Good Lord I'd loose my shit if Ashlee ever reacted to Archer. it's the one thing that may get me to become a patron.

@TurnAGundam

2 ай бұрын

@@tooluser Agreed, I'd *also* become a patron if she were ever to react to "The Transformers: The Movie" from 1986, "Titan AE" or "The Iron Giant." Also "Treasure Planet." 😁

@BadwolfRuin

2 ай бұрын

@@TurnAGundam Treasure Planet is by my brother and my opinion the most underrated Disney movie. Also was just talking about Titan AE with him a few days ago! 🤣

@butnooneshome

2 ай бұрын

Phrasing …

"Oh, this is the guy who made the Car!" And you better get used to him sticking around this Series. :D

@TarossBlackburn

2 ай бұрын

17 movies and all. Salute to Mr Llwellyn.

@keithdean9149

2 ай бұрын

"OH, Grow up 007."

@richardb6260

2 ай бұрын

He lasted longer than any of the other actors. He made it through five different Bonds.

@scottlyttle5586

2 ай бұрын

@@richardb6260 and his replacement is on par as well!

@richardb6260

2 ай бұрын

@@scottlyttle5586 I wish they'd carried him over to the Craig films along with Judi Dench. He should have had a few more appearances as Q.

"I hear Y'all have an opening over at Spectre..." Don't take it - they have a really crappy retirement plan.

@ravissary79

2 ай бұрын

Amd their HR department... oof.

@paulsander5433

2 ай бұрын

Yeah, in the Blade Runner sense.

@BarryHart-xo1oy

2 ай бұрын

Very true.

@larrybremer4930

2 ай бұрын

what do you mean? you are retired with no worries at all!

@henderson023

2 ай бұрын

Retirement? What's that?

Just to clarify - Domino's brother was not killed on the plane, that was the imposter pretending to be her brother. Her brother was killed in England, and Bond found his body.

@Rocket1377

2 ай бұрын

I thought that was obvious. We literally saw the imposter shoot him and take his place.

@enfynet

Ай бұрын

​@@Rocket1377she even saw the ambulance leaving

Before they invented the SCUBA gear (Self Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus, actually invented by Jacques Cousteau), there was a device called a rebreather. It had limited oxygen and didn't give off bubbles...you exhaled the gas back into a chemical compound that took out the CO2, but it was only good for limited times before the chemicals became full of CO2 and it only worked at limited depths. You were breathing the limited oxygen over and over...that's why they called it a rebreather.

@danmonges1539

2 ай бұрын

Still in use today! And popular for certain military and espionage missions where the telltale bubbles of normal equipment could be trouble. Also used for certain underwater wildlife encounters, especially photography, where the noise and bubbles of SCUBA equipment don't let you get close to some creatures..

@macmcleod1188

2 ай бұрын

Also the tiny devices in the movie didn't actually work. After seeing them an engineer who had been trying to make such devices contact with the director excitedly asking him how he had solved the problem and the director said we didn't, the devices don't work. Basically a lot of holding your breath pretending that they work. Classic movie Magic

@richdurbin6146

2 ай бұрын

The US Navy still uses rebreathers for fighting fires. They’re less likely to snag on things when you move around a smoke filled compartment.

@butnooneshome

2 ай бұрын

Rebreathers also dramatically extend the possible dive time. With normal SCUBA tanks, every exhaled breath is lost into the water. A rebreather captures the ‘used’ gasses and scrubs out the CO2 so it can be used again. It also enables different mixes of oxygen and nitrogen to be used at the point oxygen becomes toxic due to partial pressures.

"... and if you're a returner, i have a cat hair stuck on my lip" 🤣 thanks ashleigh, you are priceless - no wonder i enjoy your videos so much

The actress (Martine Beswick) playing the girl in the boat also played one of the gypsy girl fighters in 'From Russia with Love

The line he said was "See you later... irrigator" because he was in the Irrigation room.

@BarryHart-xo1oy

2 ай бұрын

That’s goofy.

The biggest underwater sequence ever filmed. Hasn't been topped yet.

@jchen3

2 ай бұрын

no respect for Top Secret

@richardb6260

2 ай бұрын

@@jchen3 great scene. But a few people in an underwater western bar pales in comparison to dozens of divers and a variety of underwater propulsion vehicles. Not to mention real sharks.

@creech54

2 ай бұрын

Underwater fight choreography was by Ricou Browning, who is most famous for playing the Creature from the Black Lagoon in the underwater scenes in all 3 movies and for creating the TV series "Flipper".

@Avatar2312

2 ай бұрын

That goes - I think - to "The Abyss" depending on which metric you use

@richardb6260

2 ай бұрын

@@Avatar2312 The Abyss is great. But it was a controlled environment, not the ocean. It also didn't involve nearly the amount of people on screen. I said biggest. Not most complicated or technically impressive. The Deep has some impressive underwater sequences. But they are nowhere near as big in scope.

As others have said on the other Bond reactions, the thing to remember is these films were spectacles for their time. A lot of the stuff they did (like an underwater fight-scene) was very new and very novel, so the film-makers wanted to get their money's worth out of the scene... so any unique element of the film usually went on for as long as they could AFFORD for it to go on. That being said, these scenes DO drag at points, it's more just to explain why they were so frequent. They had something cool to play around with and often just said 'screw it, make it the focal point of the movie'.

@Thundarr100

2 ай бұрын

So, in other words, pretty much the way it is now with CGI. Especially since Star Wars Episode I.

@bjgandalf69

2 ай бұрын

The editing and pacing of the 3rd act final battle drags a bit much for me as well and is one of the reasons I prefer NSNA to this film.

@blofeld39

2 ай бұрын

Nowadays, I think they would've cut it to the bone.

@phila3884

Ай бұрын

I used to fast forward through the underwater scenes. Then, with a fresh coffee in me, I actually paid attention. From a stunt-man/director point of view, the amount of action and real danger in those stunts is truly amazing, for then and now. I urge everyone to watch it again.

@johnsperry9494

Ай бұрын

Lloyd Bridges had done dozens of underwater fight scenes long berfore this movie was made. I loved Sea Hunt.

Ashleigh, one of the first things they teach you when you learn to scuba dive is how to clear the water out of your mask, just in case you get it knocked off.

What I loved and still love about the Bond movies is something that must have been even 10x better for people back in the 60's and that is seeing so many amazing places and things in each movie, exotic beaches, incredible vehicles, villain lairs, spy gadgets, etc. Being a little boy in 1965 watching the new Bond movie as soon as it came out must have been one of the highlights of the year, older brothers and dads had the added bonus of every movie featuring at least one beautiful woman.

@ajivins1

2 ай бұрын

They were expensive holidays for people who couldn't afford them, with a great soundtrack!

@BarryHart-xo1oy

2 ай бұрын

Very true.

@richardb6260

2 ай бұрын

At least where I grew up, the Bond films were not considered appropriate for children. The level of sex and violence, while tame today, was excessive compared to TV at the time where you couldn't show a married couple in the same bed. The only Bond film I was able to see was the 1967 spoof Casino Royale. The first official Bond film I saw was On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969) and a friend's father had to accompany us. It's strange considering all the James Bond toys marketed to children. No problem seeing Diamonds Are Forever in 1971.

@dtz1000

23 күн бұрын

​@@richardb6260 Where did you grow up? Iran?

@richardb6260

23 күн бұрын

@@dtz1000 pre-1969, the movie ratings were G, M (Mature Audiences), R, and X. Goldfinger was rated M. In 1969, M would become GP (general audiences, parental guidance suggested) and few years later, GP became the more familiar PG. But, at the time, M was not considered something you could send a carload of 8 year olds to see by themselves. Young kids were generally limited to G rated films. My older brother saw the early Bond films, But I didn't. When the early Connery films started to air on network in the early 70s, they cut out a lot. Particularly with From Russia With Love. I didn't know how much until they came out on home video.

That scene when he gives her the shoes in the bathtub never fails to crack me up. The way she grabs them so sarcastically (and her facial expression) is priceless.

When you take your scuba lessons, you'll learn how to clear water from your mask underwater. Pretty easy once you know how.

@MusikCassette

2 ай бұрын

37:50

@joes2514

2 ай бұрын

Press the top of your mask against your forehead with a finger or two and breathe out your nose. The air being blown into your mask forces the water out the bottom. Helps if you tilt your head slightly back so the part under your nose is the lowest part.

@dokidaddy1056

Ай бұрын

Mix that with Skydiving too though, live Ashleigh mentioned... That chute doesn't open at the right time, hitting water would be about the same as hitting concrete. I think regular Scuba might be safer.

@MusikCassette

Ай бұрын

@@dokidaddy1056 JST checkout the timestamp for context

This is actually one of my favorite Bond films

@dingokidneys

2 ай бұрын

It was so good, they made it again as "Never say never again" - with Connery.

To get the shot of Bond in the pool with the sharks glass partitions were set up in the pool (only after Sean Connery said it was, "Not bloody likely," that he was getting in the pool.) but the partitions were only four feet high and one of the sharks swam over onto Connery's side of the pool and production designer Ken Adam said, "I never saw Sean get out of the water so fast "

It's funny how surprised Ashleigh is by the Skyhook at the end. It was featured (and fully explained) in The Dark Knight, which she's watched.

The sky hook at the end was also preformed in the Dark Night movie when Batman goes to Hong Kong to get Cho

References for a future watching of Austin Powers: The bad guy with a patch in his eye, the killing in the chair in the spectre reunion, the cat...

@laraq07

2 ай бұрын

And the names of the bad girls like Alotta Fagina. :)

@michaelplowman8674

2 ай бұрын

I am burned very, very badly. Could someone bring me some ointment?

In case no one has mentioned it... The "device" he used in the water was simply a bucket with a glass bottom. Often, the surface of the water distorts/reflects light and makes it difficult to see more than a few feet down. Putting the bucket into the water lets you get past the reflective surface and see deeper. As long as the water is clear enough.

The British frigate seen at 38:03 is HMS Rothesay. I was one of her first ship's company when we took her from the builders at Scotstoun, Glasgow in 1960.

_"Quintin Tarantio has entered the chat"_ had me belly laughing 😂

Fun fact: The singer of the title theme tune, Tom Jones, apparently passed out while belting out that last long note of the song.

@cnault3244

2 ай бұрын

One of the artists they approached for creating/performing the title song for this film was Johnny Cash. They recorded his song but decided to go with the Tom Jones song instead... I think they made the right choice, but decide for yourselves. This link has Mr. Cash's version used in the opening credits: kzread.info/dash/bejne/e2F1sJemeqmXY6Q.html

@isabelsilva62023

2 ай бұрын

@johnfitzgeraldarias4336 Actually no, that was Dame Shirley Bassey while singing the final note in "Goldfinger", the then unknown Jimmy Page was a session musician for the recording and he talked about that.

@BarryHart-xo1oy

2 ай бұрын

Wow,that’s dedication.

@stephenolan5539

2 ай бұрын

When Weird Al sang, Spy Hard, it was planned for him to hold the last note as long as he could then extend it digitally later. But he was able to hold the note as long as needed. They did have to fake his head exploding.

"That's a pretty car" It's a Ford Thunderbird 😎

Conch is a giant sea snail. Its shells are the ones the size of 2 hands. Conch chowder is spicy, very tasty, and like raw oysters has a reputation for being a male enhancement.

@seaspike40

2 ай бұрын

Conch fritters are also great. Think hush puppies, but with more spices and ingredients. Both are traditional dishes in the Bahamas.

My personal favourite Sean Connery Bond film It's the undersea battle

The yoinking at the end was a real thing. My Dad did it many times in Vietnam, you could extract people from overgrown jungly areas without having to land a plane or a helicopter anywhere. They’d evacuate wounded men that way some times. He said it was great fun. 😊

@captmurdock

2 ай бұрын

Yes, but there is no way Bond would have been able to hold onto Domino. He would have been yanked straight up before he moved a foot laterally -- that was the advantage of the skyhook. As you said, great for extraction from overgrown jungly areas.

@damiannieman2870

2 ай бұрын

And Nolan used it in THE DARK KNIGHT to great efeect where Fox even mentions the name SKYHOOK.

@GabrielGonzalez-ky2qc

2 ай бұрын

Salute and thanks to your dad

@robertneblett4477

Ай бұрын

They did it in the John Wayne movie “The Green Berets”.

The boat explosion at the end turned out to be WAY more powerful than the production team meant it to be - when they returned to the nearby town afterwards, they found that the shockwave from it had accidentally shattered all the windows. Like, ALL of them. Also, this film came out right after filming underwater had been invented, which is why they utilised it so much - it was this cool new thing they could do, and they wanted to dazzle the audience with it. As per usual they took it too far, but still. That's also the case for the jetpack at the beginning, which was a real thing (though it wasn't very practical - it used a ton of fuel and didn't go very far). Bond films always used the latest, greatest technologies, as you'll see in the next one.

@user-wk8so9xr6s

2 ай бұрын

I think the balloon rope airplane yank -thing at the end is a real thing from cold war era. Does anybody know it's name? Ashleigh, please please carry on with the Bonds. You've now reached the point where they slowly start to improve, but there's quite a few not so brilliant yet to come.

@regould221

Ай бұрын

​@user-wk8so9xr6s the balloon rope thing was real. Note one person was killed in testing because the yank up broke the person's neck.

@wilfriedklaebe

Ай бұрын

@@user-wk8so9xr6s "Fulton surface-to-air recovery system", see Wikipedia.

@ 37.55, when James removes the mask from the dead diver and puts it on, all you do to clear the mask from the water inside is to turn your head to the side and blow air out of your nose. That will clear the water out of the mask and you will be able to see. We trained doing that on our dive team. It works.

He didn’t say “ see you later alligator”. He said “see you later irrigator”. The sign above the door said irrigation room.

My favourite Bond battle is this underwater one.

@steffenjachnow8176

2 ай бұрын

Mine is the one in the upcomming "You Only Live Twice" when they are storming the villains secret lair.

@keithdean9149

2 ай бұрын

I'm still a little partial to the one in space.

@ghostwolf1435

2 ай бұрын

@@steffenjachnow8176same

@Avatar2312

2 ай бұрын

@@keithdean9149 I loved it as a child and space nerd, but as soon as I got a bit older I always had in my mind how many combatants they had to cram into the cargohold of a single orbiter (with space suits and manned maneuvering units) to have so many fighting at all the locations at once. So I go with "You only live twice" and "The spy who loved me"

My favorite Bond theme is Nancy Sinatra's "You Only Live Twice"!

Riding the momentum built up by Goldfinger, Thunderball was actually the biggest money maker of the Connery films.

@SirHilaryManfat

2 ай бұрын

Adjusted for inflation it's still the second biggest, behind Skyfall.

Sean Connery remade Thunderball as Never Say Never Again after a 12 year break from playing James Bond.

@OroborusFMA

2 ай бұрын

Horrible remake.

@couch.patati-patata

2 ай бұрын

Fatima Blush is in it. She gave James Bond the greatest rapture.

@jvonschantz

2 ай бұрын

And Roger Moore with Moonraker

@maxducoudray

2 ай бұрын

It’s terrible.

@scotthewitt258

2 ай бұрын

Wasn't Never Say Never Again based somewhat on a different version of the script? Which is why there were slight changes? Besides, of course, technology changing and advancing?

The horniness in these movies comes from James Bond being a "Sensualist". When you can die at any second of every day - you look for fun every second you can find it because it could be your last.

@jculver1674

2 ай бұрын

And also, the Swinging 60s.

@MrTickleTrunk

2 ай бұрын

@@jculver1674 Ohhhh yes. Books were also written Late 50s, early 60s.😁

@MrRezRising

2 ай бұрын

Also, sweet sweet lead paint chips. The 20th century was wild.

@MrTickleTrunk

2 ай бұрын

@@MrRezRising Mmmmm paint chips

@wembleyford

2 ай бұрын

Mostly Ian Flemmng's wet dream about what his life could/should have been like when he was an intelligence officer in the 40s.

28:40 "I've grown accustomed to your face" is a callout to "My Fair Lady" (also 'Pygmalion')

@robertneblett4477

Ай бұрын

I loved Pygmalion. My Fair Lady is ok but I’m just not that into musicals.

choking means something is lodged in your windpipe. Strangulation occurs when your breathing is cut off by some external force applying pressure to your throat in order to stop your breathing.

@PiraticalBob

2 ай бұрын

It's a bit more complicated than that. Both result from constriction of the throat, but a choke targets the windpipe/air supply, while a strangle targets the carotid arteries that carry blood to the brain.

Fun trivia: Every single Bond, from the first Ian Fleming novel to the most recent movie, all worked for Queen Elizabeth.

@wilfriedklaebe

Ай бұрын

But he's talking about "King and Country" all the time.

The "guy who made the car" is Q, the Quartermaster, I.E. the guy in charge of equipment

@eatsmylifeYT

2 ай бұрын

His real name is Major Boothroyd, which was mentioned in another Bond movie.

"You only live twice" is my fav, Volcanoes ninjas and rocket ships.(the true doctor evil experience)

Asleigh, this plane survived the water landing (controlled touchdown in water) like the airliner in _Sully_ movie using a belly landing & nose-up, easy throttle like a grass field landing-but on water....... called 'ditching at sea' in military.

The sea scenes were filmed in the Bahamas with the same company who made the TV series Flipper in the 1960's Ivan Tors was a guy who specialized in underwater movies in the 1960s making several really fun movies. But he had a couple of TV shows, Flipper among them. The sharks were very real and Connery almost got eaten by the one that dashed at him as he was getting out of the pool. That was too real. I loved this movie for the Vulcan. It wasn't a water plane obviously and the landing effects were mostly optical and photo superimposition. Just a huge set piece duplicating the plane in the water. They used the Vulcan as the primary British Strategic bomber till about 1982 when they were phased out after they were used in the Falklands War in the South Atlantic against Argentina. I hope you see You Only Live Twice Its James Bond in Japan and those guys really loved him over there. The Plots get more elaborate as they go along.

@ctmdarkonestm

2 ай бұрын

Vulcans are cool as heck, saw one flying when i was in the UK some years ago.

@timmooney7528

2 ай бұрын

Ivan Tors also created the series Sea Hunt starring Lloyd Bridges. On one episode Bridges' character recovered an atomic bomb from a crashed plane.

@ajivins1

2 ай бұрын

@@ctmdarkonestm Saw one take off in an almost vertical climb, mad!

@blofeld39

2 ай бұрын

The Vulcan prop was last seen rotting in Kevin McClory's overgrown backyard in the Bahamas in 1984.

@scottlyttle5586

2 ай бұрын

The Vulcan used in this movie for the flying scenes was a large scale model. I saw someone post the model recently.

The 'weird lookin' paddle thing' is so the croupier never actually touches the cards and can't be accused of cheating.

When Khruschev visited GB in 1956 ... MI6 tried to bug a Soviet battleship where Khruschev was staying. The Soviet underwater security terminated it. This story is inspired by that British failure. James Bond never fails ;-)

@MrHws5mp

2 ай бұрын

Yeah, look up Buster Crabb - the British swimmer who went missing in the vicinity of the Soviet cruiser. That's a WHOLE conspiracy/espionage rabbit hole to dive down...

@BarryHart-xo1oy

2 ай бұрын

Good to know.

All nuclear weapons have a very particular ignition sequence. Simply put they can't explode like a nuclear bomb unless it's through the correct procedure. You could in fact blow one up with another explosive and all you would do is scatter it's nuclear material in the local area.

@Caseytify

2 ай бұрын

It's almost impossible to set one off during a crash as well. They made the bombs so safe so aircrews wouldn't panic and jettison the warheads.

@alanholck7995

2 ай бұрын

Yes - things have to happen in precise order in millisecond intervals.

@SunshineLoLypops

2 ай бұрын

This has been mentioned in every movie she's watched with a nuke. She never reads the comments.

@macmcleod1188

2 ай бұрын

​@@SunshineLoLypopssure she does. You can see all the comments that have her personal heart on them. But does she read every comment? Of course not.

@SunshineLoLypops

2 ай бұрын

@@macmcleod1188 She only seems to read the comments by early access of patreons.

Okay, ladies - raise your hands: how many of you want a mink glove now? I don't want to say I'm old, but I saw Goldfinger and Thunderball in the theater WHEN THEY CAME OUT . . .

@rickcoona

2 ай бұрын

same... fun times

This is the second of my all-time top 5 Bond films, along with Goldfinger. I had a huge crush on Domino as a young boy.

He threw flowers,Ashleigh,as one puts flowers on graves 🎩

It is always fun to get your perspective on things that I never thought of watching these movies, like the clothes.

Fun fact: the actress (Martine Beswick) playing Paula, James's Nassau assistant, also was one of the fighting gypsy girls in From Russia With Love.

"She's just dead" makes me laugh every time.

The jet pack was a real design, used hydrogen peroxide + catalyst to make steam jets, but could only fly for like 90 seconds or so. The balloon airlift at the end was also a real technique and was also featured in a Christian Bale Batman movie.

@robertneblett4477

Ай бұрын

It was featured in the John Wayne movie “The Green Berets” long before that.

Im really glad you stuck with watching the rest of the Connery movies after Dr No. I think biggest hurdle people face watching an older movie like these is remebering to get into the right frame of mind, to expect them to be a little slower paced, not as fancy, and to remember the period they were filned in when things were culturally and socially different etc. I know you said you wouldnt watch Dr No again, but if you were to do so i would like to think you might like a little more after seeing the rest of the Connery movies and becoming more adjusted to that time period and its filming style.😁

With Tom Jones having fainted after recording the theme for this movie, they kind of referenced this later on for the theme of the spy parody "Spy Hard", which starred the late great Leslie Nielsen. The theme was performed by Weird Al Yankovic, and as he finishes, it shows his head "exploding".

The "I've grown accustomed to her face" comment was a reference to a song of that title from another popular movie of the '60's, "My Fair Lady"...

My favorite Bond movie! For some reason, I thought you were going to stop after Goldfinger so I'm so happy you did this one! For me, this is when they got everything figured out: the pacing, the gadgets, the humor, etc etc......plus sharks!!! I still can't tell you one thing about the plot!🤣

"faceless cat man" is played by the same actor as Professor Dent from Doctor No...at least until they reveal him in future movies.

@MLJ7956

2 ай бұрын

The next Connery Bond film, 'You Only Live Twice', the "faceless cat man" face is finally revealed (no spoilers) and that character would make a good 'HALLOWEEN' costume 😉😉😉

@ctmdarkonestm

2 ай бұрын

@@MLJ7956 i see what you did there

The cinematic rights for the book are a nightmare. The guy who wound up with them was prevented by the Bond people from trying to remake Thunderball for 20 years. Once the 20 years was up, he did just that, only this time he called it Never Say Never Again. Connery came back as Bond once more time, remaking his own movie.

@ThreadBomb

2 ай бұрын

Never Say Never Again is underrated due to loyalty to the 'official' franchise. I'd say it's actually a better movie than Thunderball.

@Rocket1377

2 ай бұрын

They were, but not anymore. Eon bought the rights, and now own both Thunderball and Never Say Never Again.

In my opinion Best bond, best action, best location, best Bond girl overall best film

Nice one Asleigh - your comments and quips are gold...🤣 Some clarification/info: 1. Nuclear bombs are not as fragile as people think. HUGE amounts of design work goes into making sure they're very hard to set off, and certainly won't explode from being kicked or dropped. Nukes aren't like regular explosive that's just "waiting for an excuse" to explode. In a nuke, a whole lot of very precise things have to happen in sequence, with millisecond timing, to get a nuclear explosion. The far more likely bad outcome is that _some_ of the explosives go off out of sequence and spread radioactive material around: the so-called "dirty bomb". Nukes have literally fallen out of crashing aircraft several times and not gone off. Two nukes fell out of a B-52 that blew up just off the Spanish coast and fell into such deep water that they needed a special minisub to get one of them back. The bombs in the movie would (presumably) be British WE.177 weapons: one version of that was specifically designed to work as a nuclear depth bomb, i.e. you deliberately drop it into the sea and it explodes as a pre-set depth in order to kill a submarine. Some tactical nukes are what's called "laydown" weapons: they're designed to be dropped from a plane, survive hitting the ground at 100+mph, wait for a short time delay (to let the plane get clear), then explode. 2. The warship (a real British Type 12 frigate) was leaning left because it was in a hard turn to our right. All ships do this, i.e. lean _out_ of a turn (the opposite of a motorbike). Ship designers have to take this into account, especially if the ships are fast because more speed = more lean. 3. The front end of Largo's yacht that split off and ran away wasn't just a speedboat, it was a hydrofoil. Hydrofoils look like speedboats, but they have underwater "wings" called "foils" that generate lift just like an aircraft's wing and lift the whole craft out of the water at high speed. This reduced drap, and thus enables them to go faster. The military have played around with this on-and-off for ages (mostly the Soviets), but they're always concluded that the downsides and cost make it not worth the trouble. The Soviets also built civilian hydrofoil ferries that were quite successful, and the principle's found success in sporting application like sailboards too. 4. The recovery by plane at the end is a real system called Skyhook. it's mostly used for picking up small cargo like mail, but it can and has been used for people. However for people, you really need a plane with a tail ramp so you can reel them in: I don't know how Bond got aboard that B-17 that doesn't have one! You can do it on land too, with a cable loop raised off the ground between two poles. A related system was used to recover film capsules dropped by spy satellites in the days before digital cameras were good enough. The capsule would re-enter the atmosphere, deploy a parachute, and then the plane (usually a C-119) would snatch it by the parachute lines.

"Your enthusiasm for water sports" certainly has… other connotations nowadays.

Thunderball would not be the last James Bond movie to feature extensive underwater sequences. The Spy Who Loved Me and For Your Eyes Only would as well.

@NevTheDeranged

2 ай бұрын

Pretty sure Bond has whatever the British equivalent of SEAL training is, so it makes sense he'd do a lot of underwater work.

@SirHilaryManfat

2 ай бұрын

Not forgetting the great underwater scene in Licence to Kill, courtesy of Sharkey!

I love how, as the Bond series continues, 007 & Q act more and more like an old squabbling married couple with each other.

The yellow stuff being trailed during the underwater fight was shark repellent. It was developed by the US Navy for use by airmen downed at sea. It didn't work very well and became known as Yum Yum Yellow.

This film had several proposed military transport devices, such as the jetpack, the underwater scooter and the air hoist. Some of them were even used in real life later.

My favorite of all the Bonds. My heart still beats a little faster when I see Domino. 😍

Fun fact, the CIA actually contacted the film people about making them the little breathing device James used, but it was just a prop and not functional. Pretty good prop!

You said, 'finally a woman who's not a damsel in distress', but Pussy Galore was pretty much the one who saved the day in Goldfinger x) Also, Tatiana was a damsel in distress, but she still shot Rosa Klebb and saved Bond

@Rocket1377

2 ай бұрын

Even Honey Ryder could take care of herself. She killed a man who took advantage of her, and carried a knife to protect her. The idea that Bond girls are helpless is simply not true.

19:10 "Oh, This Is The Guy Who Made The Car" Yep, that's Q, he makes all of the special equipment that James Bond uses

@rmhartman

2 ай бұрын

... for a very long time.

@Thundarr100

2 ай бұрын

And then when John Cleese takes over the role during the Pierce Brosnan years, we learn that "Q" is in fact short for "Quartermaster".

@karlsmith2570

2 ай бұрын

@@Thundarr100 I didn't realize that "Q" was short for "Quartermaster"

@paulsander5433

2 ай бұрын

@@karlsmith2570 Desmond's character was also identified as Major Boothroyd on several occasions.

@Thundarr100

2 ай бұрын

@@karlsmith2570 Most people aren't.

The weird card game Bond play is called "Baccarat." And it is a bit lite Blackjack. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baccarat

15:28 Okay, you know what chowder is, it’s a soup. Conch is a type of sea snail that has a very distinctive shell. You would recognize a conch shell because it’s usually somewhat large and often people collect them. The flesh of the conch is often cooked and eaten, such as in a chowder, or it’s also used as fish bait.

@rickcoona

2 ай бұрын

and is very popular in Southern Florida

@karlmortoniv2951

2 ай бұрын

I had conch chowder in the Caymans years ago. Damn’ tasty. 😋

@PiraticalBob

2 ай бұрын

Conchs also produce pink pearls on rare occasions - - they are beautiful and quite costly, much more so than pearls from oysters.

@randybass8842

Ай бұрын

Honey (Ursala Andress) was collecting conch shells in Dr. No.

Before computer generated effects, before digital backgrounds, you had some of best practical effects, stunts, model work, and location shooting in the Bond franchise.

Cool trivia- the US military contacted the producers to find out where they got the little portable breathing equipment, only to be told they were just props, o such thing existed and there was crew nearby with standard scuba tanks.

The next Connery bond, You Only Live Twice is a lot of fun.

@ghostwolf1435

2 ай бұрын

Yup Big Fun

4:01 "Hey, It's Faceless Cat Man" Yes, Ashleigh, his name is Blofeld

@keithdean9149

2 ай бұрын

I think they finally show his face when you get to "On Her Majesty's Secret Service."

@rubensalvador9422

2 ай бұрын

And shortly he will have the ever-changing faces for every coming movie. ;)

@richardb6260

2 ай бұрын

​@@keithdean9149we finally see him in the next one, You Only Live Twice. He well look very familiar to fans of a certain series of spy spoofs.

@clarencewalker3925

2 ай бұрын

Ernst Stavro Blofeld.

@fuseblower8128

2 ай бұрын

@@keithdean9149 One earlier. They show him on the next one : "You only live Twice".

"are we about to have an epic underwater battle?" Yes. Yes we are.

The jet pack was a real thing. The only authorized pilot doubled for Connery. Q was played by Desmond Llewelyn, RIP

"James Bonds Bulge" Somewhere, one of your fans who is a musician just yelled out to their roommate 'Oi!! I've got a great name for the band!'

Keep watching them .My Fav is Live and let Die thats a fun one

24:42 The Paloma actress also played one of the gypsy girls who fought for their lives in From Russia with Love.

@karlmortoniv2951

2 ай бұрын

Her name is Martine Beswick and she was spectacular in Hammer’s “Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde” a few years later. 🥰

This one is one of my favourite 007's. You Only Live Twice us as well.

One of the things you learn in SCUBA certification is how to clear your mask while underwater. Basically, you press it tight against your forehead. Look up slightly. Then open the bottom and breathe out. The air bubbles get trapped in the mask and displace the water.

The first high budget Bond film. Tom Jones sang the theme song said very much the same thing about the content of the song. He was told not to worry about it. Just to "Sing the Hell out of it." The card game they are playing is baccarat.

@rickcoona

2 ай бұрын

also known as *Blackjack For Morons* as it was invented for imbicilic French royals

Yeah, this is like, 4 Hollywood film making generations ago. Writing and editing and effects have gotten a lot better since then, but it's still entertaining lol

This is the first Bond film in which Sean Connery did the gun barrel opening sequence. The first three were done by stuntman Bob Simmons.

The people who parachuted into the water are US Navy Frogmen/Underwater Demolition Teams who are the forerunners of the US Navy SEALS. Nuclear weapons are pretty safe until you arm them. They’re designed to withstand severe shocks and fires. There about 6 nuclear bombs the US has lost over the last 60 yrs and none of them have exploded. The ballon retrieval at the end of the movie is the Fulton recovery system. The US military used the system from the 1960’s into the late 1980’s, with a lot of use during the Vietnam war.

Well I don't wanna give too much away, but in the next movie "You Only Lve Twice" James goes under cover and wears a disguise that let's just say would NOT go over well with audiences today.

@Britcarjunkie

2 ай бұрын

Audiences today have no sense of humor, and no backnone.

I am glad Ashleigh's seeing the growth of James Bond sets and gadgets. Audiences can only appreciate these later ones by seeing these first ones.

When Bond walks into the meeting room with M, the men in the semi-circle of chairs whose faces you never see are the other "00" agents. You might catch a glimpse of the side of the face of the agent sitting beside Bond, but it's really brief.

As a kid "Thunderball" was one of my fav JB films. "Never Say Never Again" was a "Thunderball" remake in the 80s, I think.

The original song for the movie was supposed to be 'Mr Kiss Kiss Bang Bang', sung by Dione Warwick. It was a late decision to replace it with 'Thunderball' by Tom Jones (who fainted holding the last note).

"See you later... irrigator."

Ashley you can clear a mask of water while you are underwater. You just look up and blow bubbles into it. Pushes the water out and replaces it with air.

The underwater sequences were filmed by the late Ricou Browning. He played "The Creature from the Black Lagoon." He also invented the first underwater camera.

The most expensive Connery Bond movie. Yellow Submarine hadn’t come out. But Help was out with its own Bondian spoof. Goldfinger n Thunderball’s theme songs were the best! If Bond could sing, it would sound like Tom Jones.

You Only Live Twice - great title song! Sung By Nancy Sinatra. Screenplay by Roald Dahl!

@keithdean9149

2 ай бұрын

Favorite James Bond themes Live and Let Die Goldfinger For Your Eyes Only Nobody Does it Better (The Spy Who Loved Me) Thunderball

@por1821

2 ай бұрын

​@@keithdean9149 Some great songs! Really put you in the mood for something exciting! I really like We Got All The Time In The World too... so beautiful & poignant.

The setting and water theme made it one of my favorite Bond films.

Filming fact: the production designer had a friend in the U.S. military who hooked him up with a new rocket fuel that would be used to blow up Largo’s full sized boat at the end. But no one had ever used this fuel before for a movie stunt so they didn’t know how much to use. Suffice it to say they used too much which blew the huge yacht to small pieces which rained down on the production crew narrowly missing them. It also blew out windows in the town of Nassau 30 miles away! It’s a hilarious story that is on the “Making of Thuderball” documentary.