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[ACE]

That Dalton guy sucked big time.
Where were the jokes?
The hot ladies?
The super gadgets?
The big bases?
I couldn't follow what the hell was going on.

That blonde piece wasn't the only one shooting blanks.
Think the Bondmakers were too!

[Michigansoftball#1]

ouch

[ACE]

Yeah, and who goes to EuroDisney in a tux?

[Qwerty]

It's a terrific film. A quick pace and the dark mood and tension of the film works. Plus there's John Barry's terrific score.

[doublenoughtspy]

Just for that ACE, I won't let you try on Dalton's leather jacket. Cough. WHICH I OWN. cough.

Nanner nanner.

[ACE]

Call that music? I think it's a drum machine gone on the rampage!

[ACE]

Just for that ACE, I won't let you try on Dalton's leather jacket.  Cough. WHICH I OWN. cough.

Nanner nanner.

Now you've made me like Renfield (Tom Waits) in Bram Stoker's Dracula:

Reaches out to DoubleNoughtSpy: "Oh, master, the jacket, master!"

It IS a handsome piece of clothing, isn't it?

Edited by ACE, 02 September 2005 - 03:02 PM.

[ComplimentsOfSharky]

Just for that ACE, I won't let you try on Dalton's leather jacket.  Cough. WHICH I OWN. cough.

Nanner nanner.

The Living Daylights should be, at least, in everyone's top 5 Bond films. It's got great pacing beginning to end. Decent villians (could've been improved upon). A classic manipulated damsel in distress type Bond girl. A great performance by Dalton. A great title song and a good score. Wonderful gadgets and car. And humor? Come on, sliding down the alps in a cello case - 'we've nothing to declare!' I laugh out loud every time.

So, uh.....when can I come over.

[ACE]

Yeah, and the crappy fight on the cargo net - fake mountains.
That model plane they fall out of when the net first goes over - sheesh!

And the scene where he punches that Commie in the hotel room. I thought he was his pal in the previous movie.

What do you get Dalton for Christmas?
A joke book!

[tonymascia1]

ACE feeling feisty today...

Despite quibbles I've heard (e.g., Dalton not being "Mr. Laffs", Maryam D'Abo not being "gorgeous" [just check out her Playboy layout to refute that], etc.), The Living Daylights is a soild film and a great adventure.

If only Timothy Dalton enjoyed the publicity machine...

[zencat]

ACE? Is this really you?

[ACE]

Maryam D'Abo not being "gorgeous" [just check out her Playboy layout to refute that], etc.),

Yeah, but she didn't pour champagne on 'em in the movie? eh?

ACE? Is this really you?

Yeah, Zee, iddiz. And that's the question Bond fans asked when they first saw this POS.

ACE

[Bond_Bishop]

I think The Living Daylights is a very good film and is easily one of my top ten. It has a dark and moody atmosphere and an excellent soundtrack by John Barry.

[Mister Asterix]

Does anyone else HATE The Living Daylights?

[mra]Nope. I believe you

[spynovelfan]

ACE, I have a tip for you: stay off the benzedrine for a bit, alright?

[ACE]

Long as you stay off the opium.

Perhaps you haven't seen the same movie as me.

Dud lines galore: "Amazing this modern safety glass"
Bad special effects: Back projection, model mountains
Fake locations: Afgahnistan does not have palm trees
Bad sets: Jack Wade's villa would have been Dr No's porch
Rehash aplenty: parachute over cliff - SWLM
Aston Martin - GF
Dalton - Lazenby
Necros - Grant
Whitaker - Orlov
Koskov - Kamal Khan
Bond isn't even in the best fight in the film - the kitchen fight
And the best thing in the film isn't even in the film - magic carpet ride

May be I'm the only true Bond fan on this site....

[Bondesque]

I agree with ace with regard to TLD score...an all time low for Barry but better then Goldeneye..the worst score of all time.

As far as where is ranks as a film my opinion is somewhere in the middle. Laughable villians, a pretty girl who could be sexy to save her life. Zero sexual chemistry between herself and Dalton (although Dalton had that problem with all his Bond girls).

Dalton was a frustrating Bond. In TLD he looked the best he ever did as Bond.

The storyline was very convoluted.

I would give it a C+

[tonymascia1]

ACE,

You're a good man, but we need you to come back to us...

I KNEW too many viewings of "Operation Kid Brother/OK Connery" would do this to you...

[Michigansoftball#1]

[quote name='ACE' date='2 September 2005 - 12:47']
Perhaps you haven't seen the same movie as me.

Dud lines galore: "Amazing this modern safety glass"
Bad special effects: Back projection, model mountains
Fake locations: Afgahnistan does not have palm trees
Bad sets: Jack Wade's villa would have been Dr No's porch
Rehash aplenty: parachute over cliff - SWLM

Edited by Michigansoftball#1, 02 September 2005 - 03:55 PM.

[ACE]

I KNEW too many viewings of "Operation Kid Brother/OK Connery" would do this to you...

I'm here, I'm alive and I can see it clearly. OKB is miles more entertaining than this attempt at worthiness.

OKB - chocolate cake
TLB - brussels sprouts

I bet the same people that like TLD diss MWGG...

[Loomis]

I, too, hate THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS.

For setting the bar so high that none of the subsequent films has equalled it.

[ACE]

I, too, hate THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS.

For setting the bar so high that none of the subsequent films has equalled it.

Wisenheimer, huh?

You ker-racy?

Even Nick Nack couldn't limbo dance under the TLD bar!

Edited by ACE, 02 September 2005 - 04:11 PM.

[Mister Asterix]

Rehash aplenty: parachute over cliff - SWLM
                Aston Martin - GF
                Dalton - Lazenby
                Necros - Grant
                Whitaker - Orlov
                Koskov - Kamal Khan

[mra]Those aren

[ACE]

ACE (Turns and looks at camera): "Ever felt like Bond fighting those guys on Kobe dock?!"

Besides, TLD did very poorly in America, commercially. When you account for inflation, even the other fella beat him. Killed the series for 6 years.
And anyway, since when did Barnd listen to classical music. Fleming's Bond would have hated going to concerts even if he was banging the bird.

Fleming's Bond was enthusiastic not dull and closed off. Did Dalton ever read any Fleming?

And it was nothing like the short story. That was set in Berlin.

And that tacked on ending, with Kamran Shah busting into the concert - so silly.

And that new Moneypenny - where is she now? Barry Manilow my !

Edited by ACE, 03 September 2005 - 05:15 PM.

[Loomis]

I, too, hate THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS.

For setting the bar so high that none of the subsequent films has equalled it.

Wisenheimer, huh?

You ker-racy?

Even Nick Nack couldn't limbo dance under the TLD bar!

Well, of course, THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS isn't as good as THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN GUN, but then no Bond film is.

[ACE]

I, too, hate THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS.

For setting the bar so high that none of the subsequent films has equalled it.

Wisenheimer, huh?

You ker-racy?

Even Nick Nack couldn't limbo dance under the TLD bar!

Well, of course, THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS isn't as good as THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN GUN, but then no Bond film is.

Phew, Loomis, you were persuaded right?!
Glad you came round to my way of thinking.

[ComplimentsOfSharky]

I don't think he was...Loomis just really loves TMWTGG.

[Loomis]

Well, I never said THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS was the best Bond film, or even one of the best. I simply said that none of the subsequent entries in the series has matched it. If you like (and I know you don't, ACE), it's "the last really good one". But the best of all-time (for me, at least, and probably three or four other fanatics scattered around the world) is THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN GUN.

[ACE]

Yes, but do you disagree with any of my criticisms of TLD?

I like MWGG, think it's severly underrated.

But this POS?! C'marn, gimme a break!

[Loomis]

Yes, but do you disagree with any of my criticisms of TLD?

Not completely. There are grains of truth in most of them (Dalton had no sense of humour, plot hard to follow, etc.), but, still, THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS is surely very, very far from being a "POS". What I will say, though, is that it's a tad overrated in Bond fandom, and it's also an acquired taste (took me a few viewings to start enjoying it).

But it's still better than LICENCE TO KILL, GOLDENEYE, TOMORROW NEVER DIES, THE WORLD IS NOT ENOUGH and DIE ANOTHER DAY.