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Ultimate Flint Collection (Our Man Flint / In Like Flint)
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Disc 1: **Our Man Flint- Widescreen Feature *Commentary by Film Historians Eddie Friedfeld & Lee Pfeiffer *Theatrical Trailer *Fox Flix: In Like Flint Fathom Modesty Blaise Disc 2: **In Like Flint-Widescreen Feature *Commentary by Eddie Friedfeld & Lee Pfeiffer *Theatrical Trailer *Fox Flix: In Like Flint Fathom Modesty Blaise Disc 3: **Special Features Disc includes: *Dead On Target-TV Movie *The Musician's Magician *Future Perfect *Spy School *Spy Vogue *Feminine Wiles *In Like Flint - Puerto Rico Premiere *Spy-er-rama *A Gentleman's Game *Spy Style (6:46) *The Making of Bouillabaisse *Screen Tests: Gila Golan for Our Man Flint James Coburn & Gila Golan for Our Man Flint Deanna Lund for In Like Flint *Trailers: The Chairman The Quiller Memorandum Deadfall Peeper The Magus Beyond The Valley Of The Dolls
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There's really been only one rival to James Bond: Derek Flint. That's because of James Coburn's special brand of American cool. He's so cool, in fact, that he doesn't care to save the world. That is, until he's personally threatened. He's a true libertarian, with more gadgets and girls than Bond, but with none of his stress or responsibility. In Our Man Flint (1966), he's totally unflappable as he thwarts mad scientists who control the weather--and an island of pleasure drones. Lee J. Cobb costars as Flint's flustered superior, and Edward Mulhare plays a British nemesis with snob appeal. For fans of Austin Powers, incidentally, the funny-sounding phone comes from the Flint films. However, the best gadget remains the watch that enables Flint to feign death. There's a great Jerry Goldsmith score, too. There was bound to be a Flint sequel, and In Like Flint (1967) delivers the same kind of zany fun as its predecessor. Flint is recruited once again by Lee J. Cobb to be the government's top secret agent, this time to solve a mishap involving the President. Turns out, the Chief Executive has been replaced by an evil duplicate. The new plan for world domination involves feminine aggression, and Flint, with his overpowering charisma, is just the man to turn the hostile forces around. In Like Flint is still over the top, but some of the novelty has worn off, and it doesn't have quite the same edge as the original. Even Jerry Goldsmith's score is a bit more subdued. But the film still has James Coburn and that funny phone. --Bill Desowitz
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Ultimate Flint Collection (Our Man Flint / In Like Flint)
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User Comments About Ultimate Flint Collection (Our Man Flint / In Like Flint)
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No way. Waste of time and money. It was compared to a Bond movie. Poor acting, poor plots.
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Fans Will Love This, Others Beware
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. They're not very funny or exiting. It was nonsense like this that helped secure the Bond franchise's dominance. These pictures make an episode of I Dream Of Jeannie look edgy by comparison. Coburn is okay, but the silly (and similar) plots of these features are hokey and dated.
Indeed, there are action scenes that are so weak that, even though it's clear Coburn is performing the stunt work, they're so indifferently filmed you can't really enjoy it.
This is boomer nostalgia dressed up as though it had some kind of cultural or entertainment merit, both of which it lacks.
All that said, the DVD set is nicely restored and the commentary is engaging, if at times infuriating in the guys' hyping of the pictures.
Sorry, but the two pictures in this series simply aren't very good.
The pilot for a Flint TV show included here is unwatchable.
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Sit back and watch the number of customers who find this review unhelpful climb like the national debt.
(That and the fact that the airbrained, sex kittens in Flint's harem make the women in the Bond pictures look like the faculty of M.I.T).
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Always a good Saturday veg on the couch laugh. This is classic. Tongue in cheek and delicious.
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If you're a fan of the 'spy genre' and you've never seen these films, you owe it to yourself to check them out, and if you remember them fondly, your collection is incomplete without them. The fight scenes are awesome because some may not know this, Coburn was a Martial Arts pupil of Bruce Lee. Growing up, Flint gave me two things that I will always be grateful for, one, a love & appreciation for Bouillabaisse and a philosophy regarding women. When asked what attributed to his success with women he said, "Simple, I don't compete with them.". How can you parody a parody." Derek Flint does just that, and to coin a phrase; Nobody did it better. As a matter of fact a spokesman for the Bond films once said when asked about Bond's competition, "James Bond is a parody.
James Coburn is super slick, super cool, and is the best send up of 007 ever put on film. Thank you so much Amazon for making these DVD's available. Both these offerings are a gem. They have a great pace that lends well to the globe trotting. Of the two films I've always felt the first one was the better but lets face it, two Flints are better than one. I've been waiting for the Ultimate Flint Collection for some time now. Ultimate Flint Collection (Our Man Flint / In Like Flint).
Being a parody the films are absurd in a fun sort of way.
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