Episode 4: Thunderball
Added 2021-03-30 23:08:45 +0000 UTCFriend of the show and host of Trashfuture, Masters of Our Domain, and Тумач, Milo Edwards joins the gang for a deep dive into Thunderball.
Can Bond save the day as a sicilian man steals two nuclear bombs?
Is a shark pool an effective way to dispose of henchmen?
Why would a health spa have a machine that wiggles you to death?
All these answers and more, maybe.
You can find Milo at https://twitter.com/Milo_Edwards
Comments
I watched this movie a couple days ago, and I just wanna say I can't believe you missed the part where Domino is swimming in Largo's pool in a one-piece swimsuit, leaves to get dressed for lunch and comes back wearing a bikini. That honestly felt like something out of a parody.
Dana Himrich
2021-07-03 21:44:30 +0000 UTCMilo? Hyped af =D
DukeNukem64x
2021-04-17 07:00:23 +0000 UTCInvented in 1981 by Sir Emily Trans of Bridgnorth, Shropshire.
2021-04-13 04:42:23 +0000 UTC"This was before being trans was invented" fucking creased me :D
Dani Gould
2021-04-10 11:43:38 +0000 UTC"We received a transmission from Station L: Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch" "Sorry, sir, I was flirting with Moneypenny, what did you say?" ".... go to these coordinates."
Dani Gould
2021-04-09 12:42:50 +0000 UTC"Bond, we're sending you to Station M: Moose Jaw."
FortressPlotter
2021-04-02 16:46:19 +0000 UTCThe Spy with a Cold Nose - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDdBlMCE9M0 Never had a disc release as far as I can tell, so VHS quality is the best you'll get for now
Ignatius
2021-04-01 04:48:25 +0000 UTCNo Thunderball episode would be complete without the Ron Barassi theme song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXwS9J_ijg8
SpookyPenguin
2021-03-31 22:24:17 +0000 UTCAs far as I'm concerned, Vargas is an asexual icon
2021-03-31 19:46:18 +0000 UTCA few suggestions for bonus episode material: Modesty Blaise - the character, not the complete failure of a film. Or maybe both. A Dandy in Aspic - a spy film shot in Berlin in 1967, starring Laurence Harvey who was evidently offered the role of Bond. although that may be apocryphal. He did play the lead in The Spy with a Cold Nose, a Bond parody that I have never been able to find. Harry Palmer - supposedly the mundane anti-Bond. That definition alone should be grist for the mill.
Teaflax
2021-03-31 16:23:29 +0000 UTCI hoped that one of you to accidentally had rewatched the 1983 masterpiece "Never Say Never Again" instead of "Thunderball" and constantly be confused by the small differences and how Sean Connery looks kind of old.
Sonja
2021-03-31 15:48:34 +0000 UTCI think it's supposed to imply that the only thing he gets off on is murdering people, in which case I guess you could do some joke on straight edge razor.
Teaflax
2021-03-31 15:14:35 +0000 UTCMister Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (not just Kiss Kiss Bang Bang) is the best Bond theme bar none, even in the inferior Dionne Warwick version (Dame Shirley, of course, delivers the definitive interpretation). Also worth noting is that Tom Jones does something really weird in the chorus of Thunderball; he hangs on the n, rather than the preceding vowel. This is an odd way to approach the timing of any word as a singer. In fact, I struggle to think of any other example of an accomplished singer extending a consonant like that.
Teaflax
2021-03-31 15:12:29 +0000 UTCJohannes Bonk
Stiltpuppy
2021-03-31 05:10:39 +0000 UTCThe Johnny Cash theme actually ties in to the plot, instead of just randomly wedging the word Thunderball into the lyrics.
Brian Danger Hicks
2021-03-31 02:10:04 +0000 UTCVargos was in the seminal 80s hardcore band Minor Threat; ‘don’t smoke, don’t drink, don’t fuck’ https://youtu.be/Gx6_wrFZcu0
Bart Howe
2021-03-31 01:40:17 +0000 UTCI need a card that says "Certified Hauntologist" that I can wave around and confuse people with
Paintmekala
2021-03-31 00:57:39 +0000 UTC
