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You Only Live Twice is my least favourite Bond film. IMHO the story is just too cheesy. I actually think Moonraker has a better story than this one. I know logic is hardly a feature of Bond films, but this one is just ridiculous.
Come on, why would Blofeld bother launching manned space ships to capture another one in orbit! You not only have the massive problems and cost associated with manned space flight, but you then have to hold the prisoners when they get back.
It would be far simpler, cheaper and far more logical for Blofeld to simply fire missiles into orbit. It would have the exact same effect as capturing them (because both powers thought their space ships had been destroyed) with far less cost, effort, people, etc...
Basically, my problem with YOLT is that even if you assume a criminal organisation is capable of the things SPECTRE does in YOLT, there is no need for them to do it. A missile would do the job just as easily and with much less effort.
At least in Moonraker there is a reason to take people into orbit. The villan plans to make the surface of the Earth uninhabitable to humans with a nerve agent. Although it is a very weak reason and virtually impossible, I still think it makes more sense than YOLT.
Then there is the part where Bond "transforms" into a Japanese peasant. I mean, it's so obvious that he's not Japanese. This is yet another area where YOLT pushes it too far.
Good Bond films stretch the limits of plausibility but not too far. YOLT not only stretches the limits, it completely shatters them into absolute stupidity.
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Basically I think Roald Dahl should have stuck to writing kids fantasies. This is where this movie belongs. However, the film is still entertaining if you ignore the complete stupidity of the story and it does have the best Bond ever. Therefore I'll rate it 5/10
You Only Live Twice is my least favourite Bond film. IMHO the story is just too cheesy. I actually think Moonraker has a better story than this one. I know logic is hardly a feature of Bond films, but this one is just ridiculous.
Come on, why would Blofeld bother launching manned space ships to capture another one in orbit! You not only have the massive problems and cost associated with manned space flight, but you then have to hold the prisoners when they get back.
It would be far simpler, cheaper and far more logical for Blofeld to simply fire missiles into orbit. It would have the exact same effect as capturing them (because both powers thought their space ships had been destroyed) with far less cost, effort, people, etc...
Basically, my problem with YOLT is that even if you assume a criminal organisation is capable of the things SPECTRE does in YOLT, there is no need for them to do it. A missile would do the job just as easily and with much less effort.
At least in Moonraker there is a reason to take people into orbit. The villan plans to make the surface of the Earth uninhabitable to humans with a nerve agent. Although it is a very weak reason and virtually impossible, I still think it makes more sense than YOLT.
Then there is the part where Bond "transforms" into a Japanese peasant. I mean, it's so obvious that he's not Japanese. This is yet another area where YOLT pushes it too far.
Good Bond films stretch the limits of plausibility but not too far. YOLT not only stretches the limits, it completely shatters them into absolute stupidity.
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Basically I think Roald Dahl should have stuck to writing kids fantasies. This is where this movie belongs. However, the film is still entertaining if you ignore the complete stupidity of the story and it does have the best Bond ever. Therefore I'll rate it 5/10