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Thunderball

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A criminal organization has obtained two nuclear bombs and are asking for a 100 million pound ransom in the form of diamonds in seven days or they will use the weapons. The secret service sends James Bond to the Bahamas to once again save the world. From TMDB

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  • Miss Machete, Pumpkin Spice Cannibal @miss-machete.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 1, 2026

    If you're wondering, "Does Shark Club have a secret first movie not on the list, in case people arrive early?" Well, that's very specific, but yes. It is, of course, Thunderball (1965). Hey, it's on Netflix, and Bond fights sharks in it. Fight me lol.

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  • George Hahn @georgehahn.comBluesky · Feb 14, 2025

    Tonight’s movie: “Thunderball” (1965), directed by Terence Young

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  • Aura @aurahack.caBluesky · May 28, 2025

    watched Thunderball, found out it's the most successful bond film to this day

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  • Matt Bishop 🏳️‍🌈 🏁 @thebishf1.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 26, 2025

    If you’re a Brit, around my age (62), a petrolhead, a bit of a movie buff, & relaxing at home this chilly Sunday evening, you’re watching #Thunderball (’65) on ITV4 - right? Everyone knows the Aston Martin DB5. #AnorakFact: the car that goes up in flames is a Ford Fairlane.

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  • Skip Bolden 💙🎬🎞️ @skipbolden.bsky.socialBluesky · May 21, 2026

    Original artwork by Frank McCarthy for the James Bond movie poster, Thunderball (1965).

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  • Skip Bolden 💙🎬🎞️ @skipbolden.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 4, 2026

    Original artwork for James Bond film Thunderball (1965) by Robert McGinnis

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  • GeekTyrant @geektyrant.comBluesky · Dec 22, 2024

    🎉 THUNDERBALL shot into theaters 59-years ago The underwater scenes were so complex that specialist divers and choreographers were hired, making them some of the most intricate in the series. These sequences also made it one of the most dangerous Bond films to shoot, with numerous safety challenges

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  • Skip Bolden 💙🎬🎞️ @skipbolden.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 23, 2026

    Original artwork for James Bond film Thunderball (1965) by Robert McGinnis.

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  • Chris Weston @westonfront.bsky.socialBluesky · May 15, 2026

    Frank McCarthy's prelim and finished art for the "Thunderball" movie poster.

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  • Skip Bolden 💙🎬🎞️ @skipbolden.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 27, 2025

    Original artwork by Frank McCarthy for the James Bond movie poster, Thunderball (1965).

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  • Skip Bolden 💙🎬🎞️ @skipbolden.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 6, 2025

    Original artwork by Frank McCarthy for the James Bond movie poster, Thunderball (1965)

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  • Skip Bolden 💙🎬🎞️ @skipbolden.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 27, 2025

    Original artwork by Frank McCarthy for the James Bond movie poster, Thunderball (1965)

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  • Spiteful Matt @realmfresh.bsky.socialBluesky · May 5, 2026

    Day 4 of watching every Bond movie until the new game comes out #NowWatching Thunderball

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  • Onyx Omen @onyxomen.bsky.socialBluesky · May 7, 2026

    Continuing the Bond rewatch with tonight's movie: Thunderball (1965) Director: Terence Young Starring: Sean Connery, Claudine Auger, Adolfo Celi, Luciana Paluzzi, Rik Van Nutter, Bernard Lee.

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  • Dagwood222 @[email protected]Lemmy · Sep 3, 2024

    Look at 99% of media before 2001 AD. White male hero. Star Trek TOS was a giant ground breaker showing Uhura, but all the real critical leaders were males. Think on this; the James Bond movie Thunderball has a scene that's pretty much rape; they were selling little kids' toys based on that movie. There's a John Wayne movie where Wayne throws someone else's kid into a river to teach the boy how to get over his fear of water. This is what these young men and their fathers consume. And Trump…

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  • Colin Smith @colinsmith.bsky.socialBluesky · May 18, 2025

    Promo photo for 1965’s James Bond movie “Thunderball” featuring Sean Connery & Claudine Auger looking as cool as cool can be.

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  • Colin Smith @colinsmith.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 24, 2025

    Fabulous Japanese movie poster for the 1974 rerelease of “Thunderball”.

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  • Ryanmiller70 @[email protected]Lemmy · Oct 27, 2025

    Looking for some 60s film recommendations. I've been getting more and more into films from the 60s with it being one of my favorite decades for movies. I've only seen around 30 films from the decade so I'll give my top and bottom 5 to help a bit. Top 5: 1. Psycho by Alfred Hitchcock 2. Sound of Music by Robert Wise 3. Harakiri by Masaki Kobayashi 4. The Trial by Orson Welles 5. West Side Story by Jerome Robbins and Robert Wise Bottom 5: 1. Blood of Dracula's Castle by Al Adamson 2. You…

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  • Corey Atad @coreyatad.comBluesky · Oct 4, 2025

    Thunderball is a great movie to get high to. the colours are wild. the vibes are divine. and the underwater scenes are beautifully chill.

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  • BAJA BLAST BLAINE @shrekromancer.gayBluesky · Apr 25, 2025

    (putting on a James Bond movie at a party) anyway here's Thunderball

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  • Neil S. Bulk @nsbulk.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 24, 2025

    I was just a guest on a podcast discussing the James Bond film "Thunderball." I let my guard down and got a little passionate about the movie. It should be posted in a few days. I apologize in advance for my bad language.

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  • Film Noir Foundation @noirfoundation.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 25, 2025

    Eddie Muller's schedule for #TCMFF Day 2, Friday, April 25: 9:00 AM @chinesetheatres.bsky.social House 1 Eddie will be introducing the James Bond film THUNDERBALL (1965) with special guest Luciana Paluzzi who is perhaps best known for playing SPECTRE assassin Fiona Volpe. @eddiemuller.bsky.social

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  • Patch Zircher @patrickzircher.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 13, 2026

    Latest read (audio), Thunderball (1961) by Ian Fleming; 9th in the series, a solid entry. More grounded and direct than the movie though still an archetype of a men's adventure story. It's women, drinks, danger, & cigarettes. The stuff the dreams of the mid 20th century male were made of. #BookSky

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  • trslim @[email protected]Lemmy · Sep 4, 2025

    007 Goldfinger is very overrated.. As the title says, I do not care much for 007 Goldfinger. It's not awful, better than like Thunderball, but it's a very strange film. It's got this weird car crusher scene, James does like nothing in the third act, and he's a freakin creep. I mean, more than usual. He gets so freaking lucky, again, more than usual. I do like Goldfinger as a villian, and Oddjob is pretty cool. But I just think this movie has a very weird tone and at the same time, is kind of…

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  • James alt @gymbrohimbo.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 30, 2025

    For all my bond fan oomfs im going to a screening of Thunderball tonight in a movie theater and im vvv excited

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  • Oonagh @okeating.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 4, 2025

    "And when there was only one set of footprints, Lord?" "That, my child, was when I was using the jet pack from Thunderball that I got in a film studio auction."

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  • The Great PumpKen 🎃 @pizzahimbo.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 13, 2025

    This reminds me of how Johnny Cash submitted a song--and a pretty dang good one--for the movie Thunderball, and they ended up going with a mostly boring song by Tom Jones instead. When a living legend is offering their services and they're doing their best work, maybe don't second-guess it?

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  • Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 29, 2026

    You’d think retaining the rights to Thunderball would be an open goal for fixing the dullest Bond movie, showing Eon how it’s done. But they decided to honour the original by being slightly less interesting than mouthwash.

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  • DeeEm @deeemceeem.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 12, 2025

    #BondSoundsTOP25 #MusicChallenge I'm posting my 3rd choice early because I've just read that Johnny Cash died OTD in 2003... Johnny Cash - Thunderball (written for the film but not used) youtu.be/Tx-x-sGk9oI?...

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  • 🏳️‍⚧️🔞 Eris, A Shibari Wooloo @awetwooloo.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 26, 2026

    Thunderball is a movie that dares ask: "70% of earth is covered in water. What if 70% of our movie was, too?". The result is a boring, albeit campy, mess

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  • Bex @wordofgreen.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 27, 2025

    Skipping ahead in my Bond movie journey to Goldeneye because I'm nostalgic for the first one I ever saw, and because I won't get Thunderball from the library for a few days. This is one of those movies that always makes me feel like I'm 10 y/o and sitting on the floor of my basement eating Skittles.

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  • The Q Division Podcast @qdivisionpod.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 19, 2025

    Calling all frogmen, women & theys! This month we dive into the #JamesBond adventure #Thunderball (1965) with special agent @speakupjesse.bsky.social! Episode at the links or on any podcast app! 🍎: tinyurl.com/TQDThunderAp... 🟢: tinyurl.com/TQDThunderSp... 🏳️‍🌈: www.glitterjaw.com/the-q-division

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  • XEECEE @xeecee.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 26, 2025

    it's too bad that Never Say Never Again is basically relegated to fun fact status because it's pretty good. Great if you're grading on the Bond Movie Curve. Its biggest problem is that it doesn't have a John Barry score but it torpedoes Octopussy (and Thunderball, which it's a soft remake of)

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  • The Film ‘89 Podcast™️ @film89.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 17, 2025

    On Episode 143 of The #Film89Podcast, @skyemovies.bsky.social & Tony Stella celebrate the 60th anniversary of the fourth James Bond film, Thunderball (1965). www.film89.co.uk/the-film-89-... Available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Podomatic, GooglePlay, Amazon Music & more.

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  • Bex @wordofgreen.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 29, 2025

    Still waiting to get Thunderball from the library so tonight's movie is Tomorrow Never Dies. I don't remember this one very well but as a long time Michelle Yeoh fan girl I'm excited

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  • Bill Hunt @billhuntbits.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 10, 2025

    Bits #4K Review – @billhuntbits.bsky.social checks out Terence Young’s THUNDERBALL (1965) in #UltraHD from the 007: SEAN CONNERY 6-FILM COLLECTION! @thedigitalbits.bsky.social #JamesBond thedigitalbits.com/item/007-sea...

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  • Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 12, 2023

    that movie proved how much a Bond movie needs the Bond theme music to really work. Also I met the author of that screenplay (i.e. also the Thunderball screenplay) in Galway Ireland once.

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  • Onyx Omen @onyxomen.bsky.socialBluesky · May 8, 2026

    Happy #LetterboxdFriday! Here are this weeks #LastFourWatched. You're catching me at the beginning of a Bond retrospective. *Batman Begins *Thunderball *Goldfinger *Hellboy II HMU on Letterboxd: AKAStarlord for more. Or follow along for 'movie of the night'

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  • Spy Fi @spy-fi.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 2, 2025

    #BondSoundsTop25 #MusicChallenge Day 22: "Thunderball" – Tom Jones/John Barry From “Thunderball” (1965) A last minute change to the theme song. Only the 2nd Bond film I ever saw (TV as a kid) and it sticks with me. Tom Jones powerhouse delivery is just amazing. Welsh singers do Bond the best!

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  • Chris will ramble about movies @outtothemovies.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 24, 2026

    #LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched: 35mm Oscar winner The Lives of Others has big brother making Big Brother Cinema’s best use of orange in The Fifth Element Thunderball is James Bond’s Esther Williams film Oscar nominated A Single Life is no Retirement Plan #FilmSky

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  • Effy, Walker Among Sunflowers @mseffy.myatproto.socialBluesky · Jun 2, 2026

    It is also the case that book-Bond has essentially no encounters with femmes fatale (the Thunderball film invented Fiona Volpe). Instead, he keeps encountering antagonistic lesbians: Klebb, Bunt, Pussy Galore...

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  • 𝚂𝚎𝚌𝚘𝚗𝚍𝚊𝚛𝚢 𝙿𝚛𝚘𝚝𝚘𝚌𝚘𝚕 @2ndaryprotocol.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 23, 2025

    TRIVIA: 'Thunderball' is the only Bond movie where we get a glimpse of all 00 Agents in one shot. They are summoned to M's briefing, and 007 is the last to join in. He sits down in the only available chair, the seventh from the left. (IMDB) 🖤

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  • Bethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 16, 2025

    I’m finally watching all the Bond movies, I’m up to Thunderball. The fight in the opening scene is shot in the same room as half of the movie Amadeus

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  • ᴇᴍᴘᴇʀᴏʀ 帝 @[email protected]Lemmy · Mar 28, 2025

    James Bond Sean Connery 4K steelbook collection is up for preorder. > Sean Connery is often cited as the best actor to ever step into the shoes of James Bond. However, his films have never been released on 4K Blu-ray--only Daniel Craig's turn as Bond has received the 4K treatment. That's about to change, as the 007: James Bond Sean Connery 6-Film Collection (4K Blu-ray) is officially up for preorder ahead of its June 3 release date. If you're looking for a premium way to store and display the…

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  • NigelFrobisher @[email protected]Lemmy · Mar 11, 2025

    I like the idea that all Spider-man films are just remakes of the first Sam Raimi one, like that production company who only had the rights to make Bond as long as it was Thunderball.

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  • Andrew Bartram 🎞️ ✝️📷 @warboyssnapper.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 4, 2026

    Watching “Thunderball” - who knew you could take pictures in the dark with infra red film ……. Must try that sometime ……

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  • Cassandra Cain 🦇 @dailycasscain.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 2, 2026

    *looks around since he knows his Kong friend would laugh manically at me liking a Kong movie* Villain is probably a Time Lord/the Master. Has a bunch of minions, better spy ship than Largo from Thunderball, banters with a Bond Girl, huge flashy villain lair, and King Kong is James Bond.

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  • Trevor A. Branch @trevorabranch.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 14, 2026

    A personal shark pool is literally the premise of the billionaire villain on the James Bond film "Thunderball" (now on Netflix).

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  • ℬℯ𝓃𝓃𝓎𝓌𝒾𝓈ℯ 🎈 @crimsonjacklives.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 26, 2026

    NW: #NeverSayNeverAgain The Thunderball remake commits the same sin of slow underwater sequences but makes up for it with some great casting in its villains, actually acknowledging the passing of time, and Sean Connery has top notch wig game. #FilmSky #MovieSky #JamesBond #007

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  • Sierk @sierkulator.monsterBluesky · Sep 18, 2025

    #BondSoundsTOP25 #MusicChallenge #MusicSky 9 of 25 | not ranked "Thunderball" by Mr. Bungle (from "Rough Remixes 1989", 1991) A cover of the main theme of the 1965 "Thunderball" film, originally by Tom Jones. #AlternativeRock #NoiseRock

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  • DoctorTheopolis @drzaiusbaltar.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 14, 2026

    French actress and model Claudine Auger (1941-2019) as Domino Vitali in the James Bond film Thunderball (1965). She became the first French "Bond girl".

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  • DarkLonelyWater @darklonelywater.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 13, 2025

    Off to Riverside Studios tomorrow for a 60th anniversary screening of Thunderball (with Martine Beswick Q&A). If my jetpack isn't working, I'll probably get the tube.

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  • FatGayFriend @fatgayfriend.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 6, 2024

    The Bond rewatch has hit Thunderball, a film about how great underwater cameras are these days.

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  • TheRealMattC @therealmattc.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 13, 2025

    Been burning through the Sean Connery Bonds in that new 4K set and I'm very happy with the new transfers. I'm on Thunderball, one of my favorites, but each movie has had a "holy shit" moment in regards to the quality. This is the first movie in the set to be consistently gorgeous.

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  • dwayneadd.bsky.social @dwayneadd.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 23, 2025

    All of this underwater action reminds me that Ricou Browning is credited as having choreographed the battle scene in the 1965 Bond film "Thunderball" #Svengoolie #TheCreatureFromTheBlackLagoon

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  • Jack @wakeupangry.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 13, 2025

    “Tank Force!” (1958) was directed by Terence Young (who directed several James Bond films) and featured Luciana Paluzzi (and Italian actress famous for being in “Thunderball”). It was a British film initially released as “No Time to Die” which is the name of the last Bond film. Thanks brain.

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  • Bill Mudron @mudron.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 3, 2026

    As shocked as I was in the quality drop-off from Goldfinger to Thunderball, I was equally surprised by the bounce back with You Only Live Twice. For a movie where Bond has to disguise himself “as an Asian”, it’s surprisingly respectful of Japanese culture? #LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched

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  • Sirius Hauser - 🔥Pyromancer VTuber🔥 @siriushauservt.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 10, 2025

    Thunderball was my first James Bond movie, but I didn't quite follow it as thoroughly due to being a little kid at the time. It came as part of a package deal that my dad picked up at the video store along with Spy Hard XD

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  • Dan Sheehan @dansheehan.memyon.orgBluesky · Dec 29, 2024

    Dec 29. 1965: THUNDERBALL premiers in the UK. The 4th Bond film and the third to be scored by John Barry. The title track was composed by Barry and Don Black (lyrics), and sung by Tom Jones. It was actually a replacement for the original title song, "Mr. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang." 1/5 #filmsky #moviesky

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  • POCGamer aka PanzerLion! @pocgamer.comBluesky · Aug 28, 2026

    More movies with underwater scenes: Thunderball, a Connery Bond film that literally ends with a massive scuba spear gun battle! Underwater! Aliens meets Cthulhu meets the Abyss! The Abyss! Deep Star Six! Deep Blue Sea!

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