Bond- Thunderball

From Russia with Love (James Bond) [Blu-ray] Directed with consummate skill by Terence Young, the second James Bond spy thriller is considered by many fans to be the best of them all. Certainly Sean Connery was never better as the dashing Agent 007, whose latest mission takes him to Istanbul to retrieve a top-secret Russian...	Dr. No (James Bond) [Blu-ray] Released in 1962, this first James Bond movie remains one of the best, and serves as an entertaining reminder that the Bond series began (in keeping with Ian Fleming's novels) with a surprising lack of gadgetry and big-budget fireworks. Sean Connery was just 32 years old when he ...	Live and Let Die (James Bond) [Blu-ray] Roger Moore was introduced as James Bond in this 1973 action movie featuring secret agent 007. More self-consciously suave and formal than predecessor Sean Connery, he immediately reestablished Bond as an uncomplicated and wooden fellow for the feel-good '70s. This film also mark...	For Your Eyes Only (James Bond) [Blu-ray] After a ship sunk off the coast of Albania, the world's superpowers begin a feverish search for its valuable lost cargo: the powerful ATAC system, which will give its bearer unlimited control over Polaris nuclear submarines. As Bond joins the search, he suspects the suave Kristat...	Die Another Day (James Bond) [Blu-ray] The 20th James Bond adventure, Die Another Day succeeds on three important fronts: it avoids comparison to Austin Powers by keeping its cheesy humor in check, allows Halle Berry to be sexy and worthy of a spinoff franchise, and keeps pace with the technical wizardry that modern a...
Goldfinger (James Bond) [Blu-ray] Dry as ice, dripping with deadpan witticisms, only Sean Connery's Bond would dare disparage the Beatles, that other 1964 phenomenon. No one but Connery can believably seduce women so effortlessly, kill with almost as much ease, and then pull another bottle of Dom Perignon '53 out...	You Only Live Twice (James Bond) [Blu-ray] The film boasts the best of the Bond title songs (this one sung on a dreamy track by Nancy Sinatra), but the movie itself is one of the weaker ones of the Sean Connery phase of the 007 franchise. The story concerns an effort by the evil organization SPECTRE to start a world war,...	Diamonds Are Forever (James Bond) [Blu-ray] Sean Connery retired from the 007 franchise after You Only Live Twice (replaced by George Lazenby in the underrated and underperforming On Her Majesty's Secret Service) but was lured back for one last official appearance as James Bond in Diamonds Are Forever. He's in fine form--c...	Live Free or Die Hard [Blu-ray] 20th Century Live Free or Die Hard (Blu-ray) Twelve years after Die Hard with a Vengeance, the third and previous film in the Die Hard franchise, Live Free or Die Hard finds John McClane (Bruce Willis) a few years older, not any happier, and just as kick-ass as ever. Right after ...	Ice Age [Blu-ray] 20th Century Ice Age [Blu-ray] They came... they thawed... they conquered the hearts of audiences everywhere in the coolest animated adventure of all time! Heading south to avoid the bad case of global frostbite a group of migrating misfit creatures embark on a hilarious quest to...

And the Winner is-Thunderball!
Unquestionably the best film in the series. A plot that centers upon nuclear hijacking is more compelling, and even more contemporary in 2008 than it was when the film was originally released. Sean Connery is at his best. The film has just the right amount of gadgetry-miniaturized homing devices, etc, without bordering on the ridiculous. The locales are exotic. Italian actor Adolfo Celli is suberb as the cruel villian Largo. And what more can be said about redhead Lucianna Palluzzi! This is the James Bond film we watch at home all the time without ever tiring of it.

dvd queen
I bought this as a gift for my dad. we love the james bond movie collection.

Thunderball - with Sean Connery as James Bond
This now completes my James Bond trilogy of the Bond films with Sean Connery in Blu-Ray. Which includes Dr No, From Russia With Love, and Thunderball. These were what I consider 'the' Bond films, as Connery was, and will always be, James Bond. In Blu-Ray they are better than when I saw them at the theater when they were first released. Freaking awesome.

Still strong after 43 years
After the success of Goldfinger, considerable resources were used to produce the next James Bond film, Thunderball. I was in the 8th grade when the film was released in 1965 and there was tremendous cultural excitment arouind the film with magazines like GQ and Esquire promoting the film with flashy articles. Now seeing the film 43 years later I remember just what a good film Thunderball really is. Sean Connery will always be the perfect James Bond. In comparison to the thin fellows that played Bond in later films, Connery is a thick, muscular, masculine, hunk of muscle. This makes the fight scenes more realistic and less choreographed. He is paired with the villian Emilio Largo, played by Adolfo Celi, one of the few villians that is as smart, muscular, athletic, and talented as Bond. This makes for a more balanced struggle which engages the viewer a bit more than Bond's struggles with the obese Goldfinger or the anemic Dr. No. We also have the pleasure of James Bond meeting his match in the character of a female assassin, played perfectly by Luciana Paluzzi. She is extremely strong and athletic, beautiful and cunning. There is a wonderful scene where after making love she confronts Bond with her contempt, informing him that she is one girl who won't be transformed from evil to good through the love making of James Bond. The scene in which they dance in the Kiss Kiss club while assassins surround the dance floor and John Barry's score is at its best in reflecting island beat, is a total winner. The plot is a bit more complex in Thunderball with the villian Largo having multiple back up plans which Bond must uncover and then foil. Claudine Auger is incredibly beautiful as Domino, Largo's mistress who turns on her evil master through the influence of Bond. Thunderball is the finest of the Bond films where Sean Connery plays James Bond. It has held up to scrutiny after 43 years.

Goofy fun, but far from perfect.
This has a lot of memorable moments, even though the underwater sequences are overlong, but a good villain, great Bond girl, and of course Connery. See it.