The next Bond film is one of my favourites. I sometimes wonder how much of my interest in Japan can be traced back from this thing, as flawed as it is.
It contains pretty much everything I associate with Bond films, even now: gadgetry, exotic travel and an overly ornate lair. This really is one of the solidly great Bond films, even though they try to make Connery look Japanese, with rather predictable results.
Will I be let down by YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE? Let's see.
— Yeah nah🐀 (@captainfez) September 18, 2016
No lie, I do love this opening sequence. THE FRONT IS OPENING UP. I REPEAT! THE FRONT IS OPENING UP!
— Yeah nah🐀 (@captainfez) September 18, 2016
So this is what, the third Felix Leiter of the series so far? Are they chucking them out with the sets after production ends?
— Yeah nah🐀 (@captainfez) September 18, 2016
Fuck knows why they no longer conduct international talks under enormous geodesic domes. Adds a little something to the posturing process.
— Yeah nah🐀 (@captainfez) September 18, 2016
Holy shit, Bond's post-coital conversation is dire. Mind you, the girl's a me-love-you-long-time stereotype, so I suppose it evens out.
— Yeah nah🐀 (@captainfez) September 18, 2016
Presenting T.J. Eckleburg's Hong Kong branch. pic.twitter.com/6VZSkJiJnj
— Yeah nah🐀 (@captainfez) September 18, 2016
Definitely one of the better themes, too.
— Yeah nah🐀 (@captainfez) September 18, 2016
I wonder if burial at sea is the standard way one enters a submarine?
— Yeah nah🐀 (@captainfez) September 18, 2016
MONEYPENNY YOU CAN DO MUCH BETTER.
— Yeah nah🐀 (@captainfez) September 18, 2016
For someone who apparently got a first in Oriental Languages at Cambridge, Bond's Japanese pronunciation is worse than mine. VICTORY.
— Yeah nah🐀 (@captainfez) September 18, 2016
Man, I really have to see some sumo sometime. ONE DAY I'll actually be there in season.
— Yeah nah🐀 (@captainfez) September 18, 2016
Any movie is improved by the addition of neckless thesp Charles Gray.
— Yeah nah🐀 (@captainfez) September 18, 2016
Bond pursuit mode: jump shoeless through paper screens. Shoes will magically appear later on. Q's best work.
— Yeah nah🐀 (@captainfez) September 18, 2016
Apparently the face mask he took off the assassin has gaijin-cloaking technology attached. Size? Complexion? Clothes? ALL FINE.
— Yeah nah🐀 (@captainfez) September 18, 2016
Mental note: stay in that hotel that's meant to be an industrial manufacturing concern.
— Yeah nah🐀 (@captainfez) September 18, 2016
These two-tone brogues could be the best thing Bond's worn in five movies.
— Yeah nah🐀 (@captainfez) September 18, 2016
Designer's thoughts on Tanaka's office: yeah, but what if we had people enter by slippery-dip?
— Yeah nah🐀 (@captainfez) September 18, 2016
"For a European you are exceptionally cultivated." This meeting with Tanaka is a series of ICE BURNS.
— Yeah nah🐀 (@captainfez) September 18, 2016
Understandable, given that the next scene reveals that he has a soapland in his house.
— Yeah nah🐀 (@captainfez) September 18, 2016
They must have napalmed Connery's back, because his legs are so hairy it looks like he's wearing fur pants.
— Yeah nah🐀 (@captainfez) September 18, 2016
Well, we made it almost halfway before an Asian character had to say the phrase "ah so".
— Yeah nah🐀 (@captainfez) September 18, 2016
However, the same guy got to end a business meeting with the phrase "Kill him!" so I guess he's living the dream there.
— Yeah nah🐀 (@captainfez) September 18, 2016
From the Hotel New Otani -> Meiji Jingu -> Middle of Nowhere in under two minutes? That convertible is MAGIC.
— Yeah nah🐀 (@captainfez) September 18, 2016
I love that the guy behind the wheel of the car being airlifted is still trying to drive away. pic.twitter.com/R1Qb9cri5M
— Yeah nah🐀 (@captainfez) September 18, 2016
All ships are now required to have a stogie-smoking hardarse as a captain. Monkey wrench optional.
— Yeah nah🐀 (@captainfez) September 18, 2016
The amount of people Bond shoots at compared with the number he actually hits should be an item of concern for M, really.
— Yeah nah🐀 (@captainfez) September 18, 2016
Then after ten minutes of evasions and beatdowns? Knocked out from behind because fuck checking for enemies when shooting your cuffs.
— Yeah nah🐀 (@captainfez) September 18, 2016
I appreciate torturers who dress for both the Oscars and evisceration. pic.twitter.com/67jZFZbdbC
— Yeah nah🐀 (@captainfez) September 18, 2016
THE DRESS HAD A ZIP. WHY DID YOU HAVE TO CUT IT OPEN YOU OBNOXIOUS HAIRPIECE?
— Yeah nah🐀 (@captainfez) September 18, 2016
I'm not certain I'd place much trust in a helicopter that came out of some luggage.
— Yeah nah🐀 (@captainfez) September 18, 2016
Oh for the days when one could bring heat-seeking missiles through customs. You can't even bring already-opened water through these days.
— Yeah nah🐀 (@captainfez) September 18, 2016
Thanks for describing your air battle as if it were a teenager fighting off lechers, Bond. Real insight into your character there.
— Yeah nah🐀 (@captainfez) September 18, 2016
RADAR BLACKOUT IS NOW COMPLETE. WHY CAN NOBODY IN THE NEARBY VILLAGE HEAR THESE ANNOUNCEMENTS IN ENGLISH?
— Yeah nah🐀 (@captainfez) September 18, 2016
This rocket totally has a Thunderbirds vibe. I wonder if Blofeld is really working for Brains?
— Yeah nah🐀 (@captainfez) September 18, 2016
It'd make sense. Looks like Blofeld and International Rescue have the same interior decorator.
— Yeah nah🐀 (@captainfez) September 18, 2016
It takes a certain type of attention to detail to ensure your hollowed volcano contains a piranha deathpool.
— Yeah nah🐀 (@captainfez) September 18, 2016
Tanaka levels up by unveiling a ninja training facility in a castle. Bond arrives wearing sandals 'cause that's all he's got.
— Yeah nah🐀 (@captainfez) September 18, 2016
CIGARETTE ROCKET. I wonder if they come in menthol?
— Yeah nah🐀 (@captainfez) September 18, 2016
Japanese cosmetic surgeons, pictured in their traditional bra-and-panties uniform. pic.twitter.com/MppPER0du1
— Yeah nah🐀 (@captainfez) September 18, 2016
Even by Connery's standards, this wig is dreadful. He looks like Ernie in a yukata.
— Yeah nah🐀 (@captainfez) September 18, 2016
Part of this Secret Ninja Training just involved a fat bloke punching a watermelon. I reckon that's another ancient skill I'd be OK at.
— Yeah nah🐀 (@captainfez) September 18, 2016
The look on Bond's face when he realises the false wife doesn't want to bone him? PRICELESS.
— Yeah nah🐀 (@captainfez) September 18, 2016
If in doubt, use the knee suction caps.
— Yeah nah🐀 (@captainfez) September 18, 2016
I think the weedy metal golfball monorail is my favourite lair monorail.
— Yeah nah🐀 (@captainfez) September 18, 2016
Blofeld has the face only a squidlike criminal enterprise could love.
— Yeah nah🐀 (@captainfez) September 18, 2016
OK, so the pre-attack arrival of the ninjas is still pretty cool.
— Yeah nah🐀 (@captainfez) September 18, 2016
They really didn't think of Blofeld's cat while recording this battle scene. That dude is FREAKING OUT.
— Yeah nah🐀 (@captainfez) September 18, 2016
So, some stock footage eruption and some Moneypenny snark to end. Not bad. Next, Lazenby.
— Yeah nah🐀 (@captainfez) September 18, 2016
Favourite thing from the movie? This delicious typography. Flare Gothic, apparently. pic.twitter.com/z4ao4EGLD5
— Yeah nah🐀 (@captainfez) September 18, 2016
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