Movie Review: Thunderball

Wikipedia Plot: SPECTRE operative Emilio Largo devises a plan to hold NATO to ransom by hijacking two atomic bombs from a RAF Avro Vulcan bomber during a training exercise. While staying at the Shrublands health resort, SPECTRE operative Count Lippe has French Air Force pilot François Derval murdered and replaced…

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Movie Review: Goldfinger

Wikipedia plot: MI6 Agent James Bond destroys a drug laboratory and electrocutes an unnamed antagonist in the bath in Latin America. Bond then heads to Miami Beach, where his superior M via CIA agent Felix Leiter directs Bond to observe bullion dealer Auric Goldfinger at the hotel in Miami Beach.…

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Movie Review: From Russia With Love

It’s been a long time since I saw this one.  Wikipedia summary it is.  Followed by my thoughts. International criminal organisation SPECTRE seeks revenge against MI6 agent James Bond for the death of their agent Dr. No in Jamaica.[Notes 1] SPECTRE’s chief planner, Czechoslovak chess grandmaster Kronsteen, devises a plan…

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Movie Review: Dr. No

Movie plot from Wikipedia because they remember stuff I don’t.  My thoughts follow in bullet points.  It’s been a while since I’ve seen this one. John Strangways, the Station Chief of MI6 in Jamaica, is murdered, along with his secretary Mary, by a trio of assassins before his home is…

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Ranking James Bond Songs

Dr. No would be higher in the rankings and further down this list if it didn’t get so disjointed at the end. So much autotune. It’s Tom Jones being Tom Jones.  STRUTS!  Ugh. It’s no “Take On Me.” We sound like every other 80s band. Crooner. Another crooner. We are…

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