![]() ![]() As much as Connery and his Bond aggravate me at times, they’re familiar and a fair bit predictable. You Only Live Twice is the next Bond film on my roster and the second to last Sean Connery film with Eon Productions. And that’s a problem when your film has the same names and characters as those from a popular franchise, and viewers can barely make the connection between the satire and its source. The characters are mostly unrecognizable, like this is supposed to be satire, a parody of Fleming’s work in the same way that the later Austin Powers films were, but the connection is flimsy. ![]() It certainly only paid the barest of homages to Ian Fleming’s original story for Casino Royale, with Bond going up against Le Chiffre and his gambling addiction. Normally, I try to give a quick blurb about the plot before tearing the film to shreds but I’m honestly not sure what the film was about this time around. ![]() Now, I really have a dark and often uncomfortable sense of humor, but there were parts of the film where I couldn’t even make that obviously fake laugh of discomfort as I watched it. It was misogynistic, racist, creepy, and just plain rude. The plot – as it existed – was disjointed and ridiculous with the whole main thread was derailed with a third of the film to go. ![]()
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