12 Things You Learn Rewatching You Only Live Twice

By Jack Pooley /

1. The Ending Is Actually Pretty Clever

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The movie ends with Bond and Kissy making out in a dinghy, as is basically the Bond movie tradition at this point. However, there's a fun little spanner thrown in the works, as just when Bond and Kissy look like they're about to get down to business, a gigantic submarine scoops them out of the water and interrupts their canoodling.

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Just as it seems that the movie's going to lazily repeat the same stale ending of most prior Bond flicks, 007 basically gets c***-blocked by Q (Desmond Llewelyn), Moneypenny (Lois Maxwell) and the collective British Secret Service aboard the sub. Marvellous.

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