You Only Live Twice Still Masterpiece, Declares Former 11-Year-Old boy

The Simpsons last night referenced You Only Live Twice (in one of those weird boomerang plots that the writers come up with when they don’t have enough material for one episode) with a hollow volcano from where Mr. Burns was trying to launch a missile. My brother, Rodger, and I were nudging each other at Speed Racer during the ninja attack, when an assassin tries to drip some poison down a string into the sleeping mouth of one of Speed’s relatives. Some ninja movie fans claim that poisoned string bit was stolen from this 1962 Japanese movie,  which still seems like the cleverest way of killing a character this side of dropping henbane into their ear while they nap. And I should repeat Pauline Kael’s comment that the opening sequence of YOLT was better than 2001; obviously this film needs the Criterion Collection treatment, with bearded scholars explaining the subtle depths missed by contemporary critics…. 

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