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| CATEGORY: | Video |
| DIRECTOR: | Guy Hamilton |
| THEATRICAL RELEASE DATE: | 17 December, 1971 |
| MANUFACTURER: | MGM (Video & DVD) |
| MPAA RATING: | PG (Parental Guidance Suggested) |
| FEATURES: | Closed-captioned, Color, Original recording reissued, NTSC |
| TYPE: | Action / Adventure, Feature Film-action/Adventure, Movie |
| MEDIA: | VHS Tape |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
| UPC: | 027616273239 |
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Customer Reviews of Diamonds are Forever
Not like a Roger Moore bond movie at all Is DAF. It is much better scripted and directed than any of Moore's Bond films. And the direction is impeccable here. The sinful gay couple of Wint and Kidd are actually bisexual and gay. One of them (with glasses) admits he finds Tiffany Case attractive on the plane. Some would argue he's only saying that to harass the other guy but I buy it as his attraction to the opposite sex after all. One more thing if very good and sexy Lana Wood couldn't have made it as Plenty O'Toole how about Shirley Bassey herself in that role. Bassey's a very attractive lady and I go for her myself. Seriously I do.
SEAN CONNERY IS JAMES BOND ----- BUT ......
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>In 1971, Sean Connery returned after a short hiatus for a sixth go at being the Earth's most sensational Secret Agent of all time. Ian Fleming's character and the world he created for him, as well as Sean Connery's supreme interpretations of Bond in five earlier Bond features, gave us great expectations for "Diamonds Are Forever", the latest and probably last time we'd see the real Bond in action. [He did return in 1982 for "NEVER SAY NEVER AGAIN".]
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>The self-deprecating campiness that was to become overused and over-the-top in the James Bond features that followed [starring Roger Moore] began here. "Diamonds are Forever" is hampered by a muddled script with a plot that incoherently juggles a diamond smuggling caper, an attempt to ransom the world with an exotic outer-space weapon [idea used earlier in "You Only Live Twice"), and the return of the infamous Blofeld. As if that's not enough, the dialogue really goes over-the-top with countless painful puns, and corny, hackneyed one-liners.
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>WANT MORE - PLOT SPOILERS ABOUND BELOW - AVOID READING IF YOU HAVE NOT SEEN THE FILM
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>There is also a painful vulgarity that was never present in any of the earlier Bond features no matter what his leading ladies were called or what was implied occurred between them. His villians, all full of pathos [like Dr. No and Goldfinger] in earlier Bonds, now seemed to melt into muddled and merged personalities that seemed more "BOND-ESQUE" than BOND. In essence, characters such as Wint and Mr. Kidd seemed more suited to Austin Powers than James Bond. Jill St. John, playing Tiffany Case, just lounged about almost naked for the sake of it. When Bond's world exists without the proper motivations, we have a crude and vulgar portrait of fiction that is in no way compelling.
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>Many people can easily recollect where they were and what they were doing and even thinking when the first men walked on the moon, when President Kennedy was assassinated, and when Pearl Harbor was attacked. Like many of my generation, I can recall the first two, but I also recall my special "Loge" reserved tickets to see the local premieres of Dr. No - 1962, From Russia With Love - 1963, and Goldfinger - 1964. At the time, these films excited the world and really shocked people with just how influential they were on a very visceral basis. Goldfinger, for me, is definitely one of the ten best films ever made and Dr. No is probably the best low-budget movie of all time!
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>------------GREAT EXPECTATIONS!!!
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>With this in one's mind, a fairly adequate and less thrilling version of Sean Connery in his stellar role as James Bond is as big a disappointment for many fans as a year without Christmas. Or, in cinematic terms, how about "Star Trek: The Motion Picture"?!
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>I am always ready for another showing of any Sean-Connery-starring-as-James-Bond feature. However, "Diamonds are Forever" is probably the one I would pick to see last.
Eh...mediocre, at best...and Connery's worst Bond effort
"Diamonds are Forever" marked the lethargic end to Connery's presentation of the Bond character; after leaving for one picture (the solid Lazenby effort), Connery returned to take part in a less-than-stellar production that lacked everything that made the earlier entries in the series so wonderful; charm, charisma, a good-looking Bond girl, humor, etc...you name it, "Diamonds are Forever" just doesn't have it, generally speaking. There are a couple of fun scenes (e.g. the driving-the-car-through-the-pedestrian-walkway-scene), but I can ultimately recommend the picture only to Bond and Connery die-hards. The series improved with the next Bond release, "Live and Let Die," the first Roger Moore effort.