I watched Swindle with Tomas Milian,
not as good as the Cop in Blue Jeans
[quote=âchuck connors brother, post:5081, topic:372â]I watched Swindle with Tomas Milian,
not as good as the Cop in Blue Jeans[/quote]Cop in blue jeans os the original and best out of the Nico Giraldi movies in my opinion but Swindle is still enjoyable, Hit Squad is another good one and has the added bonus of Lilli Carati :-*
A Return to Salemâs Lot.
Got the chance to view this one again and I may be one of the few who prefer this to the first film. Some inventive ideas going on, like the vampires feeding from living cows. Samuel Fuller is good as the grumpy old man.
DallâArdenne allâinferno/The Dirty Heroes (1967, A. Margheriti) tonight
An Italian war movie (macaroni combat) set in Holland and Belgium, so I canât wait (actually I just watched the first twenty minutes)
We had a bit of Bond for family film night yesterday.
Thunderball was viewed and thoroughly enjoyed by all. As much for the âspot the Austin Powers momentsâ as anything else I think. This is actually one of my favourite Bonds though. Anything that features both Lucianna Paluzzi and Martine Beswick canât be bad in my book.
And Claudine Auger.
Where was Martine Beswick?
Indeed 
She was Bondâs assistant in Nassau, Paula Caplan, who winds up getting captured by Paluzzi and taking cyanide under interogation. A tragic waste 
[quote=âPhil H, post:5085, topic:372â]We had a bit of Bond for family film night yesterday.
Thunderball was viewed and thoroughly enjoyed by all. As much for the âspot the Austin Powers momentsâ as anything else I think. This is actually one of my favourite Bonds though. Anything that features both Lucianna Paluzzi and Martine Beswick canât be bad in my book.[/quote]
The opening is great, one of the best of all Bond openings, but like many others, I thought the under water scenes were slowing the whole thing down. Somehow the film loses steam during the second half.
Gonna go and watch the last 40 minutes of the extended version of El Puro (started it last night but got too tired).
Watching BLACK BELT JONES at the moment , about half way through, man i love this film, iâm glad Warner finally issued it on dvd. 8)
Just viewed a sleazy crime film with Helmut Berger (who always keeps me watching) called The Tunnel with alot of drug abuse. Music by The Pretenders.
So time for something differentâŚThe House That Dripped Blood with Cushing and Lee.
I think Thunderball is the best of the Connery Bonds. Better directed and from a modern point of view better looking than Goldfinger. both have also the best dialogues of the Connery films, but here is Goldfinger the winner of the 2.
Re Thunderball:
I think Goldfinger is the best Bond, as itâs the most stylish. Thunderball has dated more (in the jetpack scene itâs pretty obvious that itâs a dummy wearing it).
Yeah, the jetpack is one of the dated moments.
On the other hand, the underwater final is still pretty good all these years on.
Watched BLACK BELT JONES, i still love it after all these years
Ha! The jetpack scene is neither dated nor was it performed by a dummy
This machine existed for real and was developed for use by the US Army in the early 1960s
Here is a documentary clip of the jetpack
[quote=âLindberg, post:5099, topic:372â]Ha! The jetpack scene is neither dated nor was it performed by a dummy
This machine existed for real and was developed for use by the US Army in the early 1960s
Here is a documentary clip of the jetpack
[url]1966 Rocket Belt - YouTube
Thanks Lindberg. Wonderful!
Always loved the scene, good to know there was such a thing as this device
Interesting subject: the Bonds dated.
I think most of them are, and it doesnât necessarily harm them. The first four or five movies, usually considered to be the quintessential Bond movies by fans, seem to have dated the most. I still like Goldfinger to a certain degree, but it very much feels like an old movie. Acually it often feels more like a fifties than a sixties movie. The same goes for Dr. No.