11 Things You Learn Rewatching Octopussy

10. "All Time High" Is A Boring & Unfortunately-Titled Bond Theme

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Even some of the very worst Bond themes are at least more memorable than Octopussy's utterly forgettable title song, "All Time High", as performed by Rita Coolidge.

Bond songs have been historically cheesy, but that's often not a bad thing. Here, though, more than a dozen movies into the franchise, it aches somewhat of self-parody and feels like Coolidge attempting to ape Shirley Bassey's fine work on prior films.

It also isn't easy to ignore the tragic irony of the song's title, considering that many view both the song and the movie as a whole as a low-point for Bond.

And it probably doesn't help that the movie's title sequence is also one of the series' dullest, and can't even be enlivened by a parade of nude women. For shame.

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