I personally find The Living Daylights a lot more dated than Licence to Kill. Daylights was a contemporary Bond film, it was a little ahead of it's time. Licence to Kill was a totally different Bond film, more violent and didn't rely on technology much. Probably why I find the latter more modern.
It's more low key, hence the lack of gadgets. There really isn't anything to date it in the slightest, visually anyway.
I completely agree, and actually I consider LTK to have aged better than most Bond films, all things considered. The 60s Bonds glorified a level of machismo that seems totally alien nowadays (even if attitudes about gender roles still aren't much different in practice), while most of the 70s and 80s Bonds placed such a premium on wackiness and spectacle that they were destined to age quickly.
LTK escaped respectably unscathed by focusing on the character of Bond and how his sheer willpower could impose some measure of justice on the world. The only glaring exception to me is when Q shows up to display a bunch of tacky wannabe gadgets.
He's been there all day. He's planning a party for some Orientals tomorrow night." - Lupe Lamora
That was Lupe Lamora talking...a kept women who gets beat up regularly by her macho but yet appealing(He's rich and powerful and doesn't suffer fools glady, hence he gets lots of chics and would in 2010 as well) lover...not exactly the model of the progressive woman but...more realistic. PC didn't Latin America in 1989. I have no problem with this line...and I don't think she meant it as derogertory becasue she had no idea it was offensive to some people(who need an extra layer of skin).
I was about to post the exact same thing. This was a girl who blamed herself for being whipped.
And as for Truman Lodge, he spoke as many a money-grubbing businessman speaks even today, especially in private conversation (or in the middle of a fire).
But count me as one of those who's always been confused by why a term literally meaning "from the east" is intrinsically offensive, whereas calling an American a "Westerner" isn't. It has nothing to do with physical appearance, as other racial terminology does, and is simply based on geography -- presuming you consider the "center" to be somewhere between Europe and Asia, and maybe therein lies the offense?