Diamonds Are Forever (1971)

“I was thinking back to my first interactions with the James Bond franchise, and I landed on For Your Eyes Only from 1981, which was made all the more memorable because Mad Magazine crafted a spoof of it shortly thereafter, which I had committed to memory. The double entendre went way over my little brain, but I soaked up the action, gadgets, and globe trekking. That, and Bond, James Bond was smooth as glass in the midst of chaos, which made him even more cool.

All of that is a roundabout way to say that Diamonds Are Forever wasn't really on my radar, other than maybe the song, and some clips on various James Bond highlight reels over the years.

On a first viewing, having watched about a dozen other Bond spectacles, was that this one felt a bit campy. Connery's Bond is T” read more

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