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get a nasty death :)
That and Greene getting the oil can to drink.
The two films have a lot of similarities.
;)
One more. :(
Morphine is a wonderful drug... ;)
Sadly there are side-effects. Life's a bitch.
I can see where you’re coming from, but that’s what I love about it. The cynical, weary Bond we were introduced to in TLD goes off the rails so hard that he storms into another genre (a very 80s action film, complete with Micheal Kamen score) looking for revenge. Loved it.
Plus it does have its roots in Fleming, there’s a lot of the LALD novel in there. And while I agree on the lack of 60s chic, I don’t think that’s a bad thing. The lack of style suited the story imo, and I’ve always thought that there still enough old school Bond elements there (Q, a proper gunbarrel, that pyramid base) for it to still feel like a Bond film, despite the way it leaps into uncharted, nasty, brutal territory.
Adore them both!
When 007 magazine got some early photos of a very beaten up Bond ( plus a sneak of the start of the truck action!) I was thinking " this is going to be different type of Bond movie!"
Then all the brouhaha about the certificate, I was really stoked.
Loved it from that first viewing in Summer '89, love it even more now!
It has a story with a beginning, middle and an end, which gets progressively exciting as it gets to the finale, unlike a lot of Bonds!
A fantastic villain ( deservedly winning our recent poll!) A scary henchman in Dario, Carey Lowell a gorgeous Bond girl, stylishly directed by Glen, and some of the best action sequences in the series, underrated theme song by Gladys Knight, Michael Kamens score is not quite up to the standard of everything else, but he does do a great gunbarrel!
LTK is still underappreciated by most, but will always hold a position in my top 3.
Oh, did i mention Timothy Dalton is an awesome James Bond in it?
Understandable mate, but the sublime OHMSS is my number 1! ( and to think Dalton could have starred in that!!)
There is a case to be made that OHMSS is the best Bond movie that has ever or will ever be made. But Dalton is my #1 Bond.
Then saving up the $89.95 to buy the CBS/Fox Home Video VHS version that was released January 4th, 1990.
It's a superb Bond film.
That's right!! $70 - $90 for a movie on VHS back then!
We were so badly used....
Oh man. I paid good allowance money on expensive VHS copies back then. I dropped another pile of cash for the DVD SE box, and I transferred hard-earned paycheck money for the BR box. I don't even want to add the numbers up. Point is, I really feel used in that sense. And it won't be the last time, I'm sure.
$70-90! That's insane!
But I guess nowadays they're selling 4Ks for $30-40 and purely digital copies for $20, whereas some Blu-rays you can get for $5. It's all relative.