I preferred our Roger. He was beamed into the living rooms of the world at least once a week for years in the 50s, 60s and early 70s. Ivanhoe, The Alaskans, Maverick, The Saint, The Persuaders. He was the literally the world's biggest TV star. Whereas you had to pay to see Connery in the cinema once a year, if that in the 60s. Moore was one of us, personable, humourous. Connery not so much.
This is a perfect example of how essential the Bond music is to the character. Take it away & even with Connery the result is so less than. I’d love it if someone could restore the whole movie. As a “demonstration” perhaps …
I don't see why the producers could not buy into the rights so it was included in the 'series'. It would follow-on nicely from DAF. The beginning up to the point where the girl whom he was 'rescuing' could be turned into a pre-credit sequence.
This really feels like a classic Bond movie. If only Kevin McClory and EON Productions worked together on this instead of in competition with each other.
but kevin mcclory was an asshole. his claims about creating bond when the reality was that he and jack harrington gave ian fleming a few drunken ideas for "thunderball" since fleming had been writing the james bond stuff already. mcclory got greedy and EON had to stop him and they succeeded. if there's a tombstone for mcclory, i would gladly take a shit on it.
This shows how underrated great music is with movies. I think many people dont realize a reason why they love Star Wars, Back to the Future etc…may be bc they have incredible scores (on top of other factors)
It has always been a treat to watch a Bond movie and we never get tired of repeat watch. Conceptualization, dramatics, visualization and top it all execution is always flawless.
I keep watching this and genius! Man, I'd love to see the whole film redone. I did like the Never Say Never Again song kept in and, if the entire movie were done, I'd keep the tango music. This is just fantastic!
An interesting fact I read of is that despite Sean Connery starred in Never Say Never Again, the rivaling EON movie Octopussy with Roger Moore of the same year 1983 was in the end more successful at the box office, except in some countries as Italy. Maybe the Italians liked the more macho style of Sean Connery better? Who knows. Certainly the EON movie profited of the much better music by John Barry, one of my favourite composers of all time. And Octopussy's title song All Time High is extremely beautiful.
I think I read that this was actually quite successful though, which surprised me because it was godawful. I think this is the one where Connery donated his whole salary to the scottish trust though.
It’s amazing how much adding the John Barry music makes it feel more like a Bond film. The NSNA theme song still isn’t that good, but you were unfortunately limited there. Great job!
I just re-cut this whole film adding back in the Barry scores and other Bond music. If you're interested, I'll be announcing soon where it can be seen online.
If the film was edited and scored like this, it would've gone down as one of the best Bond films of all. That's how much difference the score makes. I still enjoyed the film, but this edit gave it the classic Bond feel that was missing.
I recently re-cut "Never Say Never Again" and now have previews available to view... with a way to watch/download my re-cut online, for free , which you will find in the comments section below. After you've watched the fully re-cut film please leave a comment to let me and others know what you thought of my work. If there's anything you didn't like, I'd like to hear about it, as I appreciate constructive criticism. Thanks!
I just re-cut this whole film adding back in the Barry scores and other Bond music. If you're interested, I'll be announcing soon where it can be seen online.
Nice job! All you did, though, was make me thirsty for the whole thing! We owned a movie theatre when this - and the Moore film - came out. Always a Michel Legrande fan, I HATED this film's score. I've wanted to re-do the entire film for years, but it would, indeed, be a difficult task. Instead, I've planned to begin work this summer on a complete re-edit of Disney's 1981 DRAGONSLAYER, which, in addition to getting re-cut (beginning with the virgin sacrifice, for instance), will have an entirely new audio track, including dialogue, sound effects, and music. It's wonderful how modern technology lets us do what would have been IMPOSSIBLE when these films first came out. Thanks!
i remember a fanedit called "Never say McClory again" which recut and rescored the entire movie with an EON Style soundtrack and an alternate titel song.
Connery and Moore, JAMES BOND MOVIES 🎥, videos on TV ,no one can make movies like this JAMES BOND, movies, videos the BEST with wonderful pictures, songs, music and scenery, AWESOME, ZIKHOMO
Connery actually looked better in this movie than he did 12 years earlier in DAF. He aged badly between 1967 and 1971. In DAF, he looked 55 when he was only 40-41 when he filmed it.
You nailed it. The problem in the original movie was that the action sequence was not choreographed with the song. It is actually a brilliant song - especially the chorus "To get mixed up with a man who says never...". Also the choice of vocalist was not the best - not the right one for the song.
While I didn't find NSNA bad like everyone says it definitely was missing the Bond charm. This is perfect, if we had an EON edited Bond adventure with John Barry music, Title Card, and an opening gunbarrel it'd certainly work better. Even if someone Iike Marvin Hamlisch came along from Spy to do the music it would've been so much better. Bravo
AGREED! I recently re-cut "Never Say Never Again" and now have previews available to view... with a way to watch/download my re-cut online, for free , which you will find in the comments section below. After you've watched the fully re-cut film please leave a comment to let me and others know what you thought of my work. If there's anything you didn't like, I'd like to hear about it, as I appreciate constructive criticism. Thanks!
This is a great version but the original intro for this film is just as good in its own way too. This is the only Bond that Kevin McClory could redo and I'd say he succeeded in doing it well and making it distinguished as the "unofficial Bond film" in the franchise.
Despite this not being an "official" Bond film and having a relatively small budget, its production quality was better than the Dalton Bond films, which looked like they were made on one take, on video, and on borrowed Aaron Spelling production sets.
I like Michel Legrand's musical scores anyway, but the experiment works surprisingly well - which makes me wonder whose music was being hummed when the editing was being done Now do Octopussy to the music of Michel Legrand and see if that works too.
I get why they couldn't infringe on the music and visual copyright of the Eon Productions, but it would have been nice for them to come up with something more stylish on their own. What's great about how you've edited this is that it's clear the problem wasn't Kirchner's direction or camerawork, which are stylized enough and a bit closer to the 60s Bonds than in the Moore films, but the rest of the trappings.
That was really good. That pre title opening was supposed to be Bond racing against a ticking clock, but they put the song over it instead. Which some of the writers were not happy about. So this is closer to the original vision the writers Dick Clement and his writing partner (who I can't remember his name) had.
@Stefano Pavone thanks, I couldn't remember the other guys name. I don't think they are actually credited on the movie at all or as writers. I saw them in a documentary where they said the first 40 minutes of the film are theres.
I was totally on board for this, it’s actually some thing that I had wondered about an awful lot: Richard and re-score of the movie to fit the style of the main series, and it was great. Then it kind of all fell apart for me with the terrible theme song. I have no idea what to do about that. Well, no feasible idea anyway. I guess if I had the time and money I would hire a band to do a somewhat more period-Appropriate cover version. Maybe that British Blondie tribute band they’re actually really really good. That’s all a daydream though, no way I would have the money or they would have the time. But the bottom line is that you did a brilliant job here, excepting the one part that probably can’t be fixed, so: well done!
@@sethflix will do. Myself, I always toyed with the idea of using “The Rhythm Divine” by Yellow as a replacement bond theme. Shirley Bassey does the guest vocals for it, and it’s clear that was the kind of vibe they were going for. Worth a listen.
Kim Basinger que aparicion con Sean Connery en su última película como 007. Buena música y presentación en 1983. Ricardo Alegria Zambrano Popayan cauca Colombia .
This is pretty good done in the opening Broccoli style. Sean actually buried the hatchet when Albert died. So who knows? Maybe now they would allow the original Bond music? As long as they get some of the profits from the film. Personally I had nothing against Roger moore? He was a good Bond to me ,and he was a cool guy.
●●● Evidently, Der Great Scot wanted John Barry to do the score, but John's professional allegiance and loyalty to Cubby Broccoli ultimately won out. ●●●● 👏 Nice re-edit, tho 👏
I enjoyed this movie more than Octopussy which came out the same year and crazily made more money than this did and this was the better movie it was really fun and entertaining.
Finally with Michel Legrand a lively music which is not the simple remix of previous films. Leave the photocopying of sheet music to the incompetent, the elderly, or shopkeeper John Williams.
this is a pretty amazing cut lol great job!, just wish i could find the whole movie rescored, tried looking but havent found a good one yet, (and the ''never say Clory again'' one is still so low dvd quality) as the original score is just mostly terrible lol. the tango song is probably the highlight if you ask me lol. but great job :D
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The score of this film was always a problem so this is much better .
Exactly. Michel Legrand's score and the godawful song from Lani Hall are just terrible and the two worst things about this movie in general.
Well that god awful song was also composed by Legrand so it's no wonder it stinks as much as his score .
@@alucard624 Pity they rejected the Phyllis Hyman rendition. That sounds so much better.
Absolutely.
Eon Films owned the copyright
Eon now owns the right to this film. They should release a legit Eon-ized edition.
EON is struggling to release more than one Bond Film every five years..
How are they supposed to manage this impossible task? 😅
The best Bond ever the late Sir Sean Connery ,it was awesome to have him return one last time as 007 .he will be missed .R.I.P
It was awful. The original idea for this film is Bond fans wet dream. Laser mechanical sharks, a lair under the State of Liberty... .crazy
I preferred our Roger. He was beamed into the living rooms of the world at least once a week for years in the 50s, 60s and early 70s. Ivanhoe, The Alaskans, Maverick, The Saint, The Persuaders. He was the literally the world's biggest TV star. Whereas you had to pay to see Connery in the cinema once a year, if that in the 60s. Moore was one of us, personable, humourous. Connery not so much.
TD. Was the best.
This is a perfect example of how essential the Bond music is to the character. Take it away & even with Connery the result is so less than.
I’d love it if someone could restore the whole movie. As a “demonstration” perhaps …
With on that 100%.
You mean the whole score?
For some reason when you said that I had an image of Mr. Bean in "License to Kill"?
I don't see why the producers could not buy into the rights so it was included in the 'series'. It would follow-on nicely from DAF. The beginning up to the point where the girl whom he was 'rescuing' could be turned into a pre-credit sequence.
You sir! Are genius. Thank you so very very much. I really wish I could put this in front of the DVD copy I have
Thanks so much! Glad you liked it!
This really feels like a classic Bond movie. If only Kevin McClory and EON Productions worked together on this instead of in competition with each other.
Why would EON remake Thunderball 20 years later?
but kevin mcclory was an asshole. his claims about creating bond when the reality was that he and jack harrington gave ian fleming a few drunken ideas for "thunderball" since fleming had been writing the james bond stuff already. mcclory got greedy and EON had to stop him and they succeeded. if there's a tombstone for mcclory, i would gladly take a shit on it.
@@BretuLauk $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
Using the thunder ball opening for this is a nice touch
This shows how underrated great music is with movies. I think many people dont realize a reason why they love Star Wars, Back to the Future etc…may be bc they have incredible scores (on top of other factors)
@@sethflix ok sounds good!
Saw the original in the theaters back in the fall of 1983. I like your version so much better. Ah what could have been. Keep up the good work.
This film score needed the John Barry flavor.
My God... Octopussy's opening music was awesome!!!
I already like this better than the actual movie!
It has always been a treat to watch a Bond movie and we never get tired of repeat watch. Conceptualization, dramatics, visualization and top it all execution is always flawless.
I keep watching this and genius! Man, I'd love to see the whole film redone. I did like the Never Say Never Again song kept in and, if the entire movie were done, I'd keep the tango music. This is just fantastic!
There was a song called NEVER SAY NEVER by Romeo Void from the early 80s' that would fit in at the casino arcade scene.
What I liked best about Never Say Never Again was that we got another Bond Film Starring Sean Connery.
An interesting fact I read of is that despite Sean Connery starred in Never Say Never Again, the rivaling EON movie Octopussy with Roger Moore of the same year 1983 was in the end more successful at the box office, except in some countries as Italy. Maybe the Italians liked the more macho style of Sean Connery better? Who knows. Certainly the EON movie profited of the much better music by John Barry, one of my favourite composers of all time. And Octopussy's title song All Time High is extremely beautiful.
I think I read that this was actually quite successful though, which surprised me because it was godawful. I think this is the one where Connery donated his whole salary to the scottish trust though.
I don't think this is one of the better Bonds, but I do consider it way better than the loathsome "Octopussy."
Great job. This shows how much editing and sound can make or break a scene.
I love you use Ocotopussy's soundtrack as it was the bond film this was competing against.
Connery was a great actor. His 007 is still legendary.🌹
Although I love the original with the song, you did great job with this Score!
What an improvement! If it only had been like this
Bravo! This goes straight into my "RUclips Keepers" file.
It’s amazing how much adding the John Barry music makes it feel more like a Bond film.
The NSNA theme song still isn’t that good, but you were unfortunately limited there. Great job!
I just re-cut this whole film adding back in the Barry scores and other Bond music. If you're interested, I'll be announcing soon where it can be seen online.
The Octopussy score fits quite well 👍🏻
If the film was edited and scored like this, it would've gone down as one of the best Bond films of all. That's how much difference the score makes. I still enjoyed the film, but this edit gave it the classic Bond feel that was missing.
when many of the die hard Connery / bond admirers were just glad to see the original big screen 007'
back in action
I loved this intro.That’s the way it should be done.Thanks.
Glad you liked it!
I recently re-cut "Never Say Never Again" and now have previews available to view... with a way to watch/download my re-cut online, for free , which you will find in the comments section below. After you've watched the fully re-cut film please leave a comment to let me and others know what you thought of my work. If there's anything you didn't like, I'd like to hear about it, as I appreciate constructive criticism. Thanks!
I just re-cut this whole film adding back in the Barry scores and other Bond music. If you're interested, I'll be announcing soon where it can be seen online.
It's weird, but this is the version of Thunderball I grew up with. Now that I'm old enough to know better, I'm glad there are edits like this.
Nice job! All you did, though, was make me thirsty for the whole thing!
We owned a movie theatre when this - and the Moore film - came out. Always a Michel Legrande fan, I HATED this film's score. I've wanted to re-do the entire film for years, but it would, indeed, be a difficult task. Instead, I've planned to begin work this summer on a complete re-edit of Disney's 1981 DRAGONSLAYER, which, in addition to getting re-cut (beginning with the virgin sacrifice, for instance), will have an entirely new audio track, including dialogue, sound effects, and music.
It's wonderful how modern technology lets us do what would have been IMPOSSIBLE when these films first came out.
Thanks!
I like this alternative opening for the movie, even though the production company is different from the usual one.
Beautiful remix ... It put The Bondness back into 007 😆🙏👍
I'm probably one of the few people who likes Lani Hall's song... And Herb Alpert's trumpet solo is sheer class!
Nah, I'm good.@@sethflix
i remember a fanedit called "Never say McClory again" which recut and rescored the entire movie with an EON Style soundtrack and an alternate titel song.
Connery and Moore, JAMES BOND MOVIES 🎥, videos on TV ,no one can make movies like this JAMES BOND, movies, videos the BEST with wonderful pictures, songs, music and scenery, AWESOME, ZIKHOMO
1:48 Shattered both the window and his ankles at the same time 😄🤣😂
Connery actually looked better in this movie than he did 12 years earlier in DAF. He aged badly between 1967 and 1971. In DAF, he looked 55 when he was only 40-41 when he filmed it.
oh my god sweet relief i have the never say never theme
You nailed it. The problem in the original movie was that the action sequence was not choreographed with the song. It is actually a brilliant song - especially the chorus "To get mixed up with a man who says never...". Also the choice of vocalist was not the best - not the right one for the song.
Well done! Superb work. 💪🏼👊🏻
Bond movies are d best
Do a longer version of this film
GREAT re-edit!!
This was fantastic...it seems odd that the actual film wasn't THIS
This is brilliant!
While I didn't find NSNA bad like everyone says it definitely was missing the Bond charm. This is perfect, if we had an EON edited Bond adventure with John Barry music, Title Card, and an opening gunbarrel it'd certainly work better.
Even if someone Iike Marvin Hamlisch came along from Spy to do the music it would've been so much better.
Bravo
AGREED! I recently re-cut "Never Say Never Again" and now have previews available to view... with a way to watch/download my re-cut online, for free , which you will find in the comments section below. After you've watched the fully re-cut film please leave a comment to let me and others know what you thought of my work. If there's anything you didn't like, I'd like to hear about it, as I appreciate constructive criticism. Thanks!
This is a great version but the original intro for this film is just as good in its own way too. This is the only Bond that Kevin McClory could redo and I'd say he succeeded in doing it well and making it distinguished as the "unofficial Bond film" in the franchise.
Despite this not being an "official" Bond film and having a relatively small budget, its production quality was better than the Dalton Bond films, which looked like they were made on one take, on video, and on borrowed Aaron Spelling production sets.
Definite improvement, although EON had their original edit. It was called "Thunderball".
Fantastic!
Now re-do the whole movie!
(Easy for me to say)
Even this couldn't save that film.
Sean connery is the best bond 007
Great !..this is how this movie should start...
Alternative title: It was so nice, we made it twice.
This is amazing!! Iv always had an issue with the score in this movie,please do the whole movie for me,its soooo much better
Thanks! I’ve rescored the Never Say Never Again motorcycle chase scene with John Barry’s music from A View To Kill. Coming to this channel in March!
Finally someone who uses the original Connery gun barrel footage and not that shite Dalton gun barrel with Connery's head that everyone reposts
02:31
Sean Connery: Usually we do the poking scene at the end, is this the poking seen?
Director: Uh.. yeah?
Thank you again and again
There are also two videos on this channel of Dr.Evil as Blofeld in "Thunderball" and "You Only Live Twice", which you might enjoy!
A little bit of Spies Like Us on the radio with Soulfinger, and the View To A Kill soundtrack as intro. Brilliantly done I must say...
Thanks!
@@retro-edits you must admit, Connery looks better and healthier in this then he did in Diamonds Are Forever.... 12 years earlier
Director went from. Star Wars franchise to an alternate James Bond film.
Finally, somebody got it right. Well done😎🖖
I like Michel Legrand's musical scores anyway, but the experiment works surprisingly well - which makes me wonder whose music was being hummed when the editing was being done
Now do Octopussy to the music of Michel Legrand and see if that works too.
Before Assassins Creed, there was Sean Connery as Bond.
James Bond... 🙂
That's so great, thanks!
Brilliant!!
Nice Job. Are you watching MGM!
I get why they couldn't infringe on the music and visual copyright of the Eon Productions, but it would have been nice for them to come up with something more stylish on their own. What's great about how you've edited this is that it's clear the problem wasn't Kirchner's direction or camerawork, which are stylized enough and a bit closer to the 60s Bonds than in the Moore films, but the rest of the trappings.
When the technology's good enough I want to watch OHMSS starring Sean and DAF starring George.
This is so much better. (I still love this movie, though.)
I love this movie 🍿
Very good 👍🏻👍🏻
Thank you 👍
Really good
That was really good. That pre title opening was supposed to be Bond racing against a ticking clock, but they put the song over it instead. Which some of the writers were not happy about. So this is closer to the original vision the writers Dick Clement and his writing partner (who I can't remember his name) had.
@Stefano Pavone thanks, I couldn't remember the other guys name. I don't think they are actually credited on the movie at all or as writers. I saw them in a documentary where they said the first 40 minutes of the film are theres.
I was totally on board for this, it’s actually some thing that I had wondered about an awful lot: Richard and re-score of the movie to fit the style of the main series, and it was great. Then it kind of all fell apart for me with the terrible theme song. I have no idea what to do about that. Well, no feasible idea anyway. I guess if I had the time and money I would hire a band to do a somewhat more period-Appropriate cover version. Maybe that British Blondie tribute band they’re actually really really good. That’s all a daydream though, no way I would have the money or they would have the time.
But the bottom line is that you did a brilliant job here, excepting the one part that probably can’t be fixed, so: well done!
@@sethflix will do. Myself, I always toyed with the idea of using “The Rhythm Divine” by Yellow as a replacement bond theme. Shirley Bassey does the guest vocals for it, and it’s clear that was the kind of vibe they were going for. Worth a listen.
これ初めて観ましたけど「！！！」ってなりました！
公開当時は観た人たちで大騒ぎだったんだろうなあー。
Very good! It's a Real "Never Say Never Again"!
Kim Basinger que aparicion con Sean Connery en su última película como 007.
Buena música y presentación en 1983.
Ricardo Alegria Zambrano
Popayan cauca Colombia .
So much better!
This is pretty good done in the opening Broccoli style. Sean actually buried the hatchet when Albert died. So who knows? Maybe now they would allow the original Bond music? As long as they get some of the profits from the film. Personally I had nothing against Roger moore? He was a good Bond to me ,and he was a cool guy.
Excellent!
●●● Evidently, Der Great Scot wanted John Barry to do the score, but John's professional allegiance and loyalty to Cubby Broccoli ultimately won out. ●●●●
👏 Nice re-edit, tho 👏
Great job! I like your choices of music, tell me what is the piece of music that plays on the villian's cassette tape?
Soulfinger!
ruclips.net/video/BpI1fcJdFrA/видео.html you're welcome 🙂
it's from 1967, two yeras after Thunderball....
Calvin Dyson so needs to see this if he hasn't already!
Wasn't the EON version called Thunderball?
EON should definitely do a remix of the film in their style. They have the rights to it and they know bond fans will get it.
I will volunteer for that job right now.
I didn't know that. A modern Thunderball remake as a high octane thriller would be welcome.
1:35 I never noticed before, but that chessplayer who lost his white queen, what a dumb move that must have been. Was he on some kind of drugs? 😛
On second thought, maybe he took out black´s queen, but still, a very weird situation, for a chess game. We will never know who would have won... haha
ahhh sweet relief
I enjoyed this movie more than Octopussy which came out the same year and crazily made more money than this did and this was the better movie it was really fun and entertaining.
I like this version better
Should have used that song that wasn't used by Phyliss Hymann instead.
You can't beat the Joan Barry
Best James Bond
Finally with Michel Legrand a lively music which is not the simple remix of previous films. Leave the photocopying of sheet music to the incompetent, the elderly, or shopkeeper John Williams.
2:17 gnarly headbutt
02:00 My name is bond-age... James Bondage
Please do thewhole film...actually looks like a Bond film..great job
El mejor James Bond.
this is a pretty amazing cut lol great job!, just wish i could find the whole movie rescored, tried looking but havent found a good one yet, (and the ''never say Clory again'' one is still so low dvd quality) as the original score is just mostly terrible lol. the tango song is probably the highlight if you ask me lol. but great job :D
Future Bonds were not like Sean Connery. He was only one.
Tremendous!!!!
Connery at his fittest.