I barely know the movie, but all this affection for it makes me think of something mentioned here (or on another thread?), and that's a SISKEL AND EBERT episode about the Bond movies. They were talking about who was the better Bond (meaning Connery vs. Moore), and one of them referred to Lazenby as simply "the answer to a trivia question," and the other agreed. Judging by this thread and other things, that's starting to seem like more of a minority opinion all the time.