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I've seen very little james bond -- especially old james bond -- and I was just acquainted with the autogyro fight from you only live twice, which is maybe the single silliest thing I've ever seen in a movie
this is "8 year old kid pretending he's flying around in a cardboard box" levels of cool
I love how it has the classic Bond "if they just trusted in their disguise actually working (which it did) instead of trying to kill the guy who saw the disguise and fell for it, their whole plan would have worked" situation going on.
I watched them all in order last year and they are so goofy for so long
as a teen it never really sank in how much of the bit of austin powers is "we kind of just did a normal old bond film but because of The Changes In Society it's impossible to do that as anything but a parody"
I had to double check the quote and it turns out the first part of austin powers' "in japan men come first and women come second" "or sometimes not at all" is just directly from you only live twice
I'm very disappointed that this clip does not include the even sillier construction sequence before it
warning you ahead of time of the sean connery yellowface that is the last third of the movie
oh yeah no that's the first thing I found out about it and was why I was planning to stay away and be satisfied with just seeing the delightfully stupid autogyro fight
I think if you got something strong to imbibe and some friends to mst3k with it would be worth watching. There's an even stupider monorail, spacecraft vore, and an honestly pretty cool final action scene.
The thing the later Bond movies try so hard to bury about the series is that it's about having wacky adventures and hijinks. They gotta go back to being silly!
