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  • ToTheRightToTheRight
    edited January 2017 Posts: 15,870
    Two Timothys in two days.
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
    Posts: 15,870
    Another great screening of LTK, btw.
    Next Bond I'll watch may be a Sean film. Possibly tomorrow or the next day time permitting.
  • BondJasonBond006BondJasonBond006 on fb and ajb
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    <font size=5>LICENCE</font>

    <font size=7>TO</font>

    <font size=6>KILL</font>

    PART II

    Dalton is on fire in this one, he is the most ruthless of all the Bonds.
    How he disposes of Killifer, Krest, Dario and Sanchez is brutal, relentless, merciless...in one word BOND.
    I wish we would have gotten a Bond since half as ruthless...

    Uncle Q and cousin Pam:
     Q really worked well with Dalton and Daltonbond is the one Q liked and cared for the most. Q in the field has never worked better than in LTK.
    "We must be related" - The interaction between Pam and Q is priceless.

    Pam Bouvier:
    Overall she might not belong into a Top 10 main Bond girls but not compared to others, Pam Bouvier indeed is perfect in LTK and the kind of Bond girl that isn't just for show and decoration. Lowell also has a great sense of comedic timing in her acting.
    Needless to say her purple sparkling tight fit dress is out of this world.

    Overall Timothy Dalton is the most complete Bond with only two films which is astonishing. No other two Bond films back to back have created such a complete picture.
    You get about everything in the Dalton films that makes the cinematic Bond.

    -Bond on snow
    -Bond on water
    -Bond under water
    -Bond on planes
    -Bond on boats
    -Bond in an Aston Martin
    -Bond in exotic locations
    -Bond in cold towns
    -Bond against the KGB
    -Bond against rutheless business men/criminals
    -Bond ordering Martini, shaken not stirred
    -Bond parachuting
    -Bond killing ruthlessly
    -Bond in a casino playing cards
    -Bond dressed up
    -Bond dressed casual
    -Bond in camouflage
    -Bond keeping the main girl
    -Bond doing the secondary girls
    -Bond avenging
    -Bond toting a machine gun
    -Bond in car chases, involving boats, planes
    -Bond in romantic settings
    -Bond threatening women
    -Bond saving women
    -Bond in a tux
    -Bond climbing buildings
    the list is even incomplete

    all the others needed at least four movies to give us all of that and never with two back to back. You can even omit the more historical items like the KGB and it will still stand.

    Yes I am a Daltonite, a Dalton fanboy, but there's a reason based on the two films he made.

    BY THE WAY:
    Sanchez playing the James Bond theme with his machine gun :)) I wish they had this kind of humour nowadays

    This is as badass as it gets with Bond, nothing else compares:

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  • Agent_99Agent_99 enjoys a spirited ride as much as the next girl
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    I was also in a LTK mood last night!

    - Bond still smokes in this one. In two movies' time, he'll be scolding Russian mooks for endangering their health.

    - Something I never noticed before: Bond dropping the title of a Hemingway novel, while at the Hemingway house. He does read a book occasionally!

    - The mere fact that she can fly a plane makes Pam one of my favourite Bond girls. The short hair helps, too.

    - Something else I never noticed before: Pam trying the Martini she ordered for Bond and discovering that it tastes really horrible.

    - Bond leaping into the pool and pulling Pam in after him is one of my top sexiest Bond moments, if not the top.

    - Oh God though I'd forgotten the winking fish eye WHY.
  • ClarkDevlinClarkDevlin Martinis, Girls and Guns
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    Same. It just made the movie look dated. And those bleeps and game graphics just screamed too trendy 80s.
  • MurdockMurdock The minus world
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    Not to mention the old BSG Cylon voice. :))
  • ClarkDevlinClarkDevlin Martinis, Girls and Guns
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    It eliminates the class of the high life society off the scene.
  • ClarkDevlinClarkDevlin Martinis, Girls and Guns
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    That's why these sorts of things explicitly shown in the 80s really makes me not to visit the period in cinema form or animation form whatsoever that much. But, there are many good things within that era too. Some of the action films churned out of Schwarzenegger/Stallone's credibility are guilty pleasures of mine.
  • ClarkDevlinClarkDevlin Martinis, Girls and Guns
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    I actually agree. Cinema has never been the same since the sixties.
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
    Posts: 15,870
    TOMORROW NEVER DIES
    PTS- one of the best! A great opening!
    I dig Pierce's leather jacket here............I should try and find one like that.
  • barryt007barryt007
    Posts: 19,339
    Agreed,i love that PTS ..it's great to see Judi Dench,Geoffery Palmer and Julian Fellows (the creator of Downton Abbey later) together .
    Shame Palmer and Fellows weren't used more,same with Michael Kitchen as Tanner.
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
    Posts: 15,870
    barryt007 wrote: »
    Agreed,i love that PTS ..it's great to see Judi Dench,Geoffery Palmer and Julian Fellows (the creator of Downton Abbey later) together .
    Shame Palmer and Fellows weren't used more,same with Michael Kitchen as Tanner.

    Indeed. They might have made for a great "regular" cast as Geoffrey Keen, Walter Gotell, etc had years before. Great chemistry with Dench.
    Incidentally Fellowes had played Noel Coward in the Fleming bio pic Goldeneye. Would have been great to see more of him in Bond.
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
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    Danish lesson scene.
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
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    As solid as GE was, I may just like TND a tad more. This one is a lot of fun.
  • BAIN123BAIN123
    Posts: 11,189
    i love the sequence when Bond's jet takes off.
  • ClarkDevlinClarkDevlin Martinis, Girls and Guns
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    And Brosnan's daring "Go!" expression as he gives the plane a turbulence.
  • barryt007barryt007
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    I don't think TND has dated as much as GE....that's one reason.
  • ClarkDevlinClarkDevlin Martinis, Girls and Guns
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    Agreed. TND is a classic!
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
    Posts: 15,870
    BAIN123 wrote: »
    i love the sequence when Bond's jet takes off.
    Great Arnold cue there.

  • MurdockMurdock The minus world
    Posts: 16,335
    Which leads to my one of my favorite Arnold cues.
  • MurdockMurdock The minus world
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    Sadly it's Like Zimmer and Nolan. Can't have Mendes without Newman... :((
  • MurdockMurdock The minus world
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    As would I.
  • Creasy47Creasy47 In Cuba with Natalya.Moderator
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    During Shady Tree's act in DAF, it's always stood out to me how he stumbles over his words (or it's just some oddly edited camera cut) when he starts to say the line "Tryin' to find Willard Whyte is like tryin' to find a virgin in a maternity ward."
  • barryt007barryt007
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    Does he ? I will look out for that when I next watch it ...
  • Creasy47Creasy47 In Cuba with Natalya.Moderator
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    Yeah, it almost sounds like he was in the middle of saying the line, and then when the camera angle cuts, it cuts over it so he repeats the line once again.
  • barryt007barryt007
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    interesting..i thought I would have spotted that over the years...it does sound like a cut or an editing error more than Shady himself.
  • Creasy47Creasy47 In Cuba with Natalya.Moderator
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    barryt007 wrote: »
    interesting..i thought I would have spotted that over the years...it does sound like a cut or an editing error more than Shady himself.

    Agreed. I'm sure if he bungled his lines, they would've simply reshot the scene. Looks like an editing issue they had in post.
  • barryt007barryt007
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    But I will definitely look out for it...its due a watch soon.
  • Creasy47Creasy47 In Cuba with Natalya.Moderator
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    barryt007 wrote: »
    But I will definitely look out for it...its due a watch soon.

    It's always been an installment that I could leave or take, felt relatively so-so about it, but I've enjoyed it more in the last several years - it may not be jumping up in my rankings, of course, but my appreciation and enjoyment for it grows.
  • barryt007barryt007
    edited January 2017 Posts: 19,339
    Its a film that annoys me in parts,but like DAD and TMWTGG its great fun if you are feeling pissed off and want a light-hearted Bond romp,or had too many drinks and want to put on a non-thinking film,and it does have some great moments : The PTS (I realise im in the minority on that one),meeting with Tiffany in her apartment (some great one-liners),the Franks fight,meeting the 2 Blofelds,Wint and Kidd in EVERY scene they are in,the coffin in the funeral parlour etc...

    So its not my lowest ranked Bond or even 2nd lowest ranked..
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