6.40
Like all of the Connery Bonds so far, there is fun action and spy gadget scenes. Bond uses a whole couch as a weapon for one fight and there is an impressive (for the era) helicopter combat scene. The setup, premise and storyline of this one started out being intriguing to me.
But like clockwork, there is some problematic and misogynistic stuff you kinda gotta gloss over, and YOLT is set primarily in Japan. So ya that adds a new problematic element.
Here is my list of that stuff, don’t forget to gloss over it:
- Bond makes a very rude comment to a woman who is giving him a bath and a massage
- He just forces himself on every woman within 3 seconds of meeting them
- there is a “plot” point where he has to get married to keep a disguise. And Bond is so disgusted at this he is just moping the whole time. And he and the Japanese MI6 guy just keep saying the girl has the face of a pig
- and then he has to “become Japanese” for some reason. And he does that by getting bad eye prosthetic surgery and putting on a black wig. Then he train in ninja martial arts
But the bad guy had these rail car transport things that looked just like the ones Syndrome had on his island. So that was awesome.
Sports comp: Dwight Powell
6.40
Like all of the Connery Bonds so far, there is fun action and spy gadget scenes. Bond uses a whole couch as a weapon for one fight and there is an impressive (for the era) helicopter combat scene. The setup, premise and storyline of this one started out being intriguing to me.
But like clockwork, there is some problematic and misogynistic stuff you kinda gotta gloss over, and YOLT is set primarily in Japan. So ya that adds a new problematic element.
Here is my list of that stuff, don’t forget to gloss over it:
- Bond makes a very rude comment to a woman who is giving him a bath and a massage
- He just forces himself on every woman within 3 seconds of meeting them
- there is a “plot” point where he has to get married to keep a disguise. And Bond is so disgusted at this he is just moping the whole time. And he and the Japanese MI6 guy just keep saying the girl has the face of a pig
- and then he has to “become Japanese” for some reason. And he does that by getting bad eye prosthetic surgery and putting on a black wig. Then he train in ninja martial arts
But the bad guy had these rail car transport things that looked just like the ones Syndrome had on his island. So that was awesome.
Sports comp: Dwight Powell
