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Have you seen it though?
Because Babs or Daniel wasn't in charge... ;)
It's a rework/adaptation of LALD, where Felix also survives that ordeal too in the novel. Plus, Cubby had the good sense not to kill off any long term supporting characters of the franchise (not to mention the main lead himself) ;)
Obviously I understand that, it just doesn't really work all that well for the film. There's no story reason for him to survive, and if you're doing a revenge plot usually you have the goodie avenging his friend. They've added Della in because they didn't seem to want to kill Felix, and someone had to die to justify James going off the rails like that.
And then you end with that weird scene where he appears to be insanely happy given that his wife has just been raped and murdered and he's lost a leg.
It wouldn't have actually mattered though, it was 17 years before he turned up again. All of these smilies don't really work as sensible conversation.
Now they've killed off James Bond, nothing matters. Before NTTD, these people were part of an on-going series. Now, the franchise is a series of 'timelines', so they can kill off whoever they like and resurrect them ad infinitum.
Great, isn't it?
(See, I can do sarcasm too)
It's also, frankly, utterly bizarre to have Bond suggest that they go fishing when his friend lost that leg after being fed to a shark.
But we loved being able to own our favorite films. And laserdisc and CED discs were also out around those times to own, although a little less expensive.
I still remember in the summer of 1987 when K-Mart dropped some of the Moore CBS/Fox Bond films to a special price of $19.99 during one sale and my savings was blown. After that, my holiday presents were pretty well taken care of for the next year. No box sets until MGM/UA put one together around the time GE was released.
You could pick them up as 'ex rental' copies, but they were still pricey.
I'll see if I still have LTL later.
Licence to 'what'?
Laugh? Lose? Like? Lump? Loop? Lick? Lusk? Leave?
Licence To Lick sounds like a decent porn film ;)
<:-P
Maybe that’s what Bond did after Tracy died, which is why we have no mention of her in DAF...just fished those feelings away
Imagine if Felix suggested to Bond that they go and do some drive-by shootings to make themselves feel better after Tracy died.
I like it: Bond was getting his own back by tactlessly suggesting fishing :))
It's a shame that we didn't hear the rest of the conversation with Della after Bond leaves: "He was married once. But it was a long time ago. His wife was murdered on their wedding day in a revenge attack by a supervillain he'd just beaten. Good thing that sort of thing couldn't happen around here!"
I remember this VHS copy began with a Schweppes Bondian commercial starring John Cleese.
In addition, the during scene where Bond plants the explosive outside Sanchez's office window the LARKS logo was obscured on the cigarette package.
My first ever owned VHS tapes were Rocky III and Rocky IV (both in Warner Home Video covers) - Christmas gifts, year 1987 or 1988 I think.
The last viewing I had, it distracted me a lot how much it looks low budget, almost like a TV movie which is disappointing.
But there are moments I love in this film, the revenge for Sharky and Felix, the character of Sanchez and Dalton's performance. I'd say it's the first time we've seen Bond unhinged
But I will say...ninjas. It baffles me every time 😅
You couldn't copy them. There was something built in these rental video cassettes that meant if you hooked up two video recorders, the contrast would click in and out. It never happened with cheap store bought videos. When all the Bond films came out on proper saleable videos (with grey cover in the UK as I remember), I used to rent them from video shops and copy them, which you could never do successfully with the earlier eighties 'big box' videos.
I wonder if there's a Bond VHS thread on here? I love to see those old covers too.