Thunderball

[Tim Hall]

The first Bond film I saw at the pictures. It's on ITV4 now. Yes, Connery is Bond, but goodness me, that's a hairy chest.

Mrs. Hall does not approve.

[rogerzilla]

I have never seen it all the way through, so I've set the DVD recorder.  I remember the dodgy speeded-up film bit at the end, with the ship and the rear-projected rocks 

[bobb]

I did an essay on Thunderball* as part of my English Lit GCSE 

*The book, obviously

[Eccentrica Gallumbits]

ITV4 are doing a Connery as Bond season. It started the other night with Dr No.

[numbnuts]

I went to the première with my parents to see that

[LEE]

I went to the première with my parents to see that

Having just seen it I'd like to know something.

Were audiences back then convinced by the terrible effects?

As Roger mentions above, the rear-projection is awful and, by far the worst crime you can commit as a film-maker, the action scenes are speeded up to a stupidly obvious level.  It always makes a film look rather "Benny Hill" as a 100 ton boat suddenly start sdoing 200knots and turning quicker than a house-fly.

Bond could have also considered some longer shorts but they weren't as bad as his powder-blue towelling "Baby-Grow" in Goldfinger.

[numbnuts]

It is the only movie I have been to see where the audience clapped after each action scenes.
How we got to go was some of the movie was shot at Southampton docks and one of the actors can't remember now got a large splinter in his hand and was take the the hospital and he handed out a load of free tickets to the nurses including my mother.
There was a group to start with followed by Roy Castle did a turn as well before the film, it was a great evening.

[bobb]

Having just seen it I'd like to know something.

Were audiences back then convinced by the terrible effects?

I imagine they just accepted them in the same way we accepted rubbish effects in say the 80s. They're only rubbish by todays standards.

I doubt when all films were black and white people thought "This is rubbish! It's not even in colour!"

[mrcharly-YHT]

I went to the première with my parents to see that

Having just seen it I'd like to know something.

Were audiences back then convinced by the terrible effects?

Cutting edge effects, back then . . .

I fairly recently re-watched 'Highlander'. What a terrible mistake. I remembered dramatic realistic sword fights. What I re-watched was one step above children hitting each other with brooms while someone off-camera shouted "clang clang" out of sync with the swords actually hitting on-another.

[LEE]

I went to the première with my parents to see that

Having just seen it I'd like to know something.

Were audiences back then convinced by the terrible effects?

Cutting edge effects, back then . . .

I fairly recently re-watched 'Highlander'. What a terrible mistake.

I watched "Highlander".  What a terrible mistake.

[Eccentrica Gallumbits]

I love Highlander.

[rogerzilla]

The worst effect of all time is in the BBC's adaptation of "The Box of Delights", when Kay jumps into King Arthur's Camp on a pony.  Quantel Paintbox was the cutting edge in 1984.  Jump to about 1'10" (the usual URL hack doesn't work on this link for some reason).

http://www.youtube.com/user/lcult#p/c/AC64586E57FA7811/3/BjTVqy0RcOY#t=1m10s

Oddly, the bluescreen bits in a later episode, when they're on the model boat, are reasonably good.

[Jacomus]

The first Bond film I saw at the pictures. It's on ITV4 now. Yes, Connery is Bond, but goodness me, that's a hairy chest.

Mrs. Hall does not approve.

That is how a mans chest is supposed to look!

[Pancho]

+1 Jacomus.

It's just how real men look!