I appreciate that you've started to annotate all the obscure U.K. pop.culture references.

I like the scene where he puts the hat on the hat stand. You can see he was gonna throw it and was disappointed when it was so close to him. Right next to the door where realistically it would be.

“You Only Live Twice” has the BEST shoe sounds. It’s the ultimate 60’s foley

Thunderball is the best Connery Bond movie, so you take that back! Wait, pretty much everything you said was true. Never mind.

I love how Bond puts on a helmet to use the jetpack, because 'elf and safety, but in doing so fails to put a safe distance between himself and henchmen shooting at him.

The irony is the film slows to a crawl when Bond arrives at the primary location of the story, The Bahamas. The audience is already far ahead of Bond at that point, we know how the bombs were abducted and where they are. You can't have the viewer this far ahead of the hero, both parties need to be on the journey at the same time. What also doesn't help is Largo is a boring antagonist. He is really just a jumped up heavy in a villain's role. Fiona Valope is really the one that keeps the film going and when she dies, it's a struggle to finish the film. I don't want to hate this film because it's peak 60's style Bond but it's such an inept thriller.

I watched Thunderball again for the first time in 30 years and found I quite liked it - more than I remembered. It does have a lot of weird filmmaking choices that kill the pacing and action. I like the underwater fight scenes though - I never understood what the problem is with them. It’s different, there’s some tension. I’m more disappointed by the strange speed up film elements, particularly the ridiculous Disco Volante fight at the end.

Thank you so much for making these, started listening to the podcast because of you.

2:12 "A real woman wouldn't open a car door, therefore it's a man in disguise"... that's a gag i would expect in an Austin Powers movie...but here it is, in a proper James Bond movie... i can't believe it. Boy oh boy Fantastic work BanyaBat!!! Your editing is on point (Gungan Parade lol) Also Hideo Kojima definitely saw this movie way too often... explains his love for the Fulton Recovery System (that skyhook thing)

it is one of my recurring nightmares to be attacked by a back-projection version of myself

4:35 I love that even as Bond is rushing to the passenger's seat, he quickly opens the driver's side door for the woman as he passes by it. Maintaining that "only a man can open a car door" continuity.

"Remote controlled secretary groping device" holy shit I spit out my drink at that point

I like the fight on the speedboat where it suddenly turns into a Benny Hill sketch.

That bit with Specter sabotaging Basil's gourmet night made my week. Keep the reviews coming!

Watched this with my grandma recently and we both wanted to know what happened to the other guy at the end when they’re skyhooked out lol

Being pumped by a ghost is a definite "Me-Boo" lawsuit.

Watched this after all the RLM vids with no knowledge of classic Bond movies, what podcast this was and I laughed my ass off. The editing is top stuff and I'd be glad to see more

5:12 I love this nostalgic overlay so much

Great video. Really enjoying these Bond videos.

I’m giving banyabats other content a shot cause I like your RLM edits. As someone who likes visuals references, you came from heaven.

You spoil us with these video's miseur

I can't believe this movie predicted Klaus Schwab

Fantastic job with these

Lost it at R2-MeToo. Brilliant.

Probably your best work yet. The Q Branch Fondlebot/Sheffield sequence was truly inspired.

14:53 "Don't leave me hanging on the telephone"

I am glad to encounter someone else who thinks that Thunderball is boring. Never Say Never Again gets put down a lot, but it is a better telling of the same story.

"From Sheffield?" Brilliant.

It's interesting how this film has such a poor reputation nowadays. Actually, I'm still waiting for the perfect James Bond film...but I don't think it'll happen during my lifetime. They always manage to get something wrong.

Surfshark add was pure poetry 👌🏻

Probably the best Bond movie of them all. The best performance from the best Bond actor, the best scary henchman, the best locations, the best Blofeld and Spectre, gave us the template for the Bond credits, the best villain lair outside of YOLT, incredible stunt with the jetpack and a fantastic pre-title sequence, great villain and the funniest wittiest script of them all. Just the perfect Bond.

Glad you continued these. Could not agree more, along with No Time To Die and The World Is Not Enough, Thunderball is amongst my most boring Bond films. That Fawlty Towers bit just had me pissing with laughter, along with Bond and watersports.

Oh dang, another one so soon. These are great!

12:36 Holy shit I forgot how much I love her rack! She's the best thing in this bore fest

Jonny cash did a recording of the theme song however it wasn't used

Thank you for another fun commentary. These are finely ground crack

These are great, thank you for compiling this

Slight correction: it's the world's BEST boring action movie. It is quite boring, but it's also quite good. Lots of action films are boring and shite.

Remember the spoof film staring David Niven , Casino Royal , made more money than 007 You Only Live Twice in 1967 ! You are looking at films with a 21 st Century perspective.

Thunderballs underwater scenes are so well written in the book because you have bonds thoughts as the action is happening, and without that the sequences feel really bland

i lost it at the "throwing the hat from sheffield" bit

I remember being shocked to know this was the most successful bond movie (when adjusted for inflation), and i remember it being such a drag when i finally watched it. Great video!

Two in one week! I salute you

Not sure that liquid was water at the start and not sure those three guys lived past that flash of flame at the start of the credits.

Great, instead of watching all the mid-tier bond films, I can just watch your videos! Thanks!

Spat my tea out at the mention of Domino doing an underwater tribute to Back to the Future lmfao!

Can you do more Red Letter Media commentary vids?

How about when Bond gives Domino the camera and tells her it’s a Geiger counter? Q told Bond that the watch was the Geiger counter, not the camera.

Thank You for uploading these! Absolutely pissing myself!

ARE YOU SERIOUS? THUNDERBALL: IS THE BEST CLASSIC BOND MOVIE OF ALL TIME: hERE IS WHY: In Dr No, Connery is still experimenting with the role and he is great but yet a bit stiff. In From Russia with Love he explores more the "dark" side of the character. In Goldfinger he adds more charm and "witticism" and completes the formula. But in Thunderball he IS James Bond and the formula is perfected. Connery's performance on this is truly unique. He shows the greatest confidence ever. His style, his movements, the way he speaks, his one-liners, his demeanor and even the way he looks, everything that was built in the previous 3 films, reach perfection. He is "dark" and gritty and at the same time charming and stylish. He looks tough and ruthless which at the same time combines with incredible humor and unsurpassed style. And he obviously enjoys playing the character more than ever, either before or after. It is also an axcellent spy and action movie. The plot is simple but realistically believable. And for the first time it focuses on Bond himself and not the vilain. The action scenes are great. The gadjets are believable (the jet-pack was real in the beginning). When he gets to the Bahamas Bond is unstopable: He first gets in contact the sister of Dervall. Then through her he discovers Largo. Then he is spying into his house. Then he is diving under his boat to find out where the bombs are, He takes pictures, he fights, he gets attacked with grenades. Then he tries to seduce Fiona and find out more. He is captured and manages resoursefully to escape but gets wounded. He gets surrounded but manages to escape again by killing her. Then he disguise him self as an enemy diver and finds out where the bombs are hidden underwater. He gets attacked again and escapes. He notifies where the bombs are to the Parachute Special Forces. He then enters into the underwater battle him self. He heroically stops Largo to escape by fighting till the end inside the boat. Where in all that something boring"? The underwater shooting and especially the underwater battle was a revolutionary achievement for the time and a unique sample of cinematography for 1965! The crisp underwater photography is excellently choreographing so many divers under the water at the same time. I agree that It's an achievement that is often under appreciated. Such a complicated action scene has never been replicated in any other movie since. It isn't an underwater fight between a couple of divers. It is a full scale battle of epic proportions. This was the first Bond movie that truly felt of epic scale and I love it. It is also the ultimate "escapism" movie. Beautiful exotic places, wonderful scenery and landscapes, incomparable lifestyle, amazing women (Fiona Volpe is an amazing femme fatale and Domino one of the hottest Bondgirls). it is even considered alongside with Goldfinger a "fashion icon" movie! So initially in Goldfinger but mainly in Thunderball, Connery' Bond reaches the fine line of perfection, as he becomes at the same time tough and refined, stylish and ruthless, a real killer with a sense of humor, who lives on the edge and therefore enjoys every minute of his life as if it were his last. Goldfinger at 85% and Thunderball at 100%, are the timeless epitome of the James Bond movies, before Connery got tired of the role in You Only Live Twice and before the production turned to a more comic version (parody-spoof) of Bond, with Diamonds Are Forever and the Roger Moore era. Also Thunderball is historically extremely significant for the franchise that we love: It broke the smashing box office records. It is to this date the highest grossing Bond movie of all time (inflation counted). If Goldifinger created the "Bondmania", then Thunderball made it into a high fever. The flms remarkable achievements transformed James Bond from a popular fictional hero, into a phenomenon in cinema history

Another one?! Awesome!

"The Torquay Operation" sounds like a jazz fusion band.

That Young Ones reference made me inflate with happiness. One of my all time favorite shows and criminally underrated and obscure.

Welcome back, champ

Lmao. I remember renting this. It was my first Bond movie. Impossibly boring underwater scenes.

46:21 guy on the right, isn't that the guy bond killed with the harpoon gun who was following him around everywhere?

Another excellent job - thanks

Just found this channel Love it Deep, detailed commentary is great

Yes!!!! I love you guys

"A man with crest hair" laughed my ass off!!!

These are wonderful! Thank you!

I used to find this one boring as a kid, but watching it recently I really enjoyed it.

You guys have rocking chemistry, looking forward to more in the future!

I am constantly jealous of these guys abilities to remember a film in such detail without reading from a script recap that they wrote. I've seen films dozens of times and don't have this level of recall.

great vid, but the r2#metoo meme killed me😂🤣

Amazing xD

great stuff - I love the R2-MeToo 🙂 a friend had one of those programmable "BigTrak" tank vehicles when I was a kid 😛

11:02 This is really bad, but also just as bad is when Bond forces himself on Pussy Galore in Goldfinger...

I’d say Valerian is a contender.

The only thing I like about Thunderball is the theme song.

Thunderball was just a paycheck for Connery.

Well that was fast. Great job. Appreciate the quick upload. Keep it up.

that hellboy reference is so good i cant stop laughing! 28:00

I like Thunderball. It's no From Russia With Love, but I prefer it to Goldfinger.

Actually there's 2 Thunderballs as one of the writers of the book claimed rights infractions and years later in 1983 Thunderball was remade as Never Say Never Again and was basically a garbage fire with a quite good Sean Connery performance with some surprising humour but was a bomb getting less money then the other bond movie that year octopussy.

This is brilliant

Top 10 Bond films for sure.

I really tried to enjoy thunderball but I really wasn’t engaged with the main plot and the underwater action sequence in the climax goes on for way too long.

this synposis is quite useful for me as I fell asleep somewhere in the underwater action climax in the third act

These are great!

The golden grotto had me in stitches

Please do Die Another Day next! 😀

As Sean enters the casino ,the blonde is Dale Winston's mum

Worst dialogue I’ve heard in a Bond film; “you need earmuffs when you listen to the BEATLES?”. That’s offensive bc it’s so off. I understand the time period and they couldn’t really switch it up, just excise the whole line.

The Bullseye reference would be better for Star Wars…. I’ve won a speedboat, but I live on Tatooine. As for Thunderball, it’s better than Never Say Never Again… not saying much.

#R2-MeToo - I died. Brilliant.

Lol, The Smurf who smurfed me

8:32 goddamn genius

I have to laugh because this film came to mind recently while watching a film with some underwater scenes. This and For Your Eyes Only slow to a snail's pace when the action moves underwater. I like the film, but I always felt the underwater sequences uninteresting and too drawn out,.

I disagree. Quantum of Solace fits the bill though

Scuba was new?

I personally like the remake much more than this film for a variety of reasons...mostly due to the self awareness of Connery's age.

It is my least favourite Bond film too. 'Boring' is an accurate description.

"That ain't no woman, that's a man, man!" ...and so Thunderball became a little more entertaining to me. Thuderball may not have been that good a film but it's still at very least the equal of anything the most recent, and last, Bond has been in.

I agree, It was on Amazon recently and yes it was so boring.

Woo!

Please do Goldeneye

#R2-MeToo is 😗👌

You're probably the only one in the world who thinks this movie is boring.

It is weird, bc I read this book, and the book is entertaining! But the movie is so much less engaging than the other early Connery flicks