My reconciliation with 'Thunderball'

When I began to delve deeply into the world of James Bond in my childhood, I found Thunderball extremely boring and uninteresting. Twenty years ago, while I was waiting for The World Is Not Enough to premiere in my country in December, I began to rent or buy all of the old Bond movies in VHS, watching them with my dad. I began with Roger Moore: The Man With The Golden Gun, Live And Let Die and Moonraker in that order, followed by The Living Daylights.My nine-year-old self poppe...