You know, I know it was considered "great" and "revolutionary" for the time, but what always takes me out of the old Connery films was the editing. Not the time period, not the SFX - After all, I'm a TOS Trekkie who came of age in the 90's, so I'm not picky that way. I remember reading about how the editor liked to cut frames of film out during fight or fast moving scenes, and I find it really jarring. Everything else seems to stand the test of time...sure, clothing and set design are dated, but that's just period specific.
I do feel like the use of rear-screen projection can take you out of scenes sometimes - especially in OHMSS and Thunderball - but it's not nearly as bad as the editing.
Oh, and I'm sure it has something to do with the limitations of coloring at the time, but jeez, all the blood always looks like fire truck-red paint (a common problem at that time, though). Couldn't they have just used strawberry jelly or something?
