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Especially as they're supposed to be from Hong Kong! :))
Exactly but in EON's defence ninjas will always be cool, if not always appropriate
https://www.mi6community.com/discussion/2422/anyone-else-collect-the-bond-vhs-tapes#latest
When I said copies, I meant originals.
I also remember the OHMSS VHS version which had the entire Lazenby in the Gumbold lawyers office in Switzerland scene removed.
I wasn't contradicting you, I was just remembering that the early 'big box' VHS videos had something with them where you couldn't copy them. If you hired Rambo, Rocky or A View to a Kill from the video shop, there was some weird thing that screwed with the contrast.
I never knew that. I do remember trying to copy from VHS to VHS but cannot remember what the quality was like now. Pretty poor from what I recall.
And yes, I remember the Gumbold's safe bit being missing from OHMSS.
Also, when Licence to Kill (to keep the thread on track) came out on DVD, I was surprised to see quite a few longer scenes to what I remembered on the VHS and cinema versions. Notably the pressure tank Krest scene, Heller's death and Bond hanging over the crusher.
There was a way to go around that by taping over an opening in the cassette.
Perhaps you re right, but I do know I pulled some trick to copy VHS tapes. It s just so long ago, I can t recall for sure.
Probably the most notable aspect of this film is the sense of danger and adrenaline it had, that hadn't been felt in the franchise for a while, at least to that extent. Bond is up to some serious trouble and mischief in this one.
That's right. You could record over a pre-recorded VHS by taping over the tab, just like you could with audio cassette tapes.
What I'm talking about is if you went into a video shop and rented, say, A View to a Kill in the late eighties, and tried to record it using two video machines, the copy would have a big problem with the contrast moving around every few seconds or so. It would keep varying so it was a distraction to the film.
But if you bought A View to a Kill when it eventually came on sale, in record shops and the like, you could tape off it then and not have the same problem.
This is how I got my first Bond movie collection. I'd rent the ones that they sold in the shops, (I'm thinking this would be about 1990), and copy them.
Edit -
Here's the first set of Bond VHS videos that you could buy properly in the UK. They had grey covers.
These could be copied successfully if you had two videos, so that's how I got my collection on VHS. They were £14.99 each according to the site I got this picture from, and came out in 1987 according to the same site.
Add to that an absolutely stellar villain in Robert David and, for my money, one of the absolute best Bond girls in Carey Lowell, along with Michael Kamen's underrated score and some wonderful action sequences, Licence to Kill has everything anyone could want from a Bond film and then some.
What you're describing is Macrovision. I once bought a little black box that was designed to overcome this but it didn't always work. I'm so glad VHS is dead.
It's always stayed in my top 5 and never budged. To me it delivers everything (although a Barry score would have made it even better), and shows that the writers can conjure up a script that feels very much like Fleming, even if it's not adapted directly from a novel (I know certain scenes and characters were, but still).
Dalton delivers the ultimate Fleming Bond characterisation in this one, which surpasses anything before it, and has still yet to be beaten.
+1
If John Barry had scored it, I think it could even topple my beloved OHMSS as no. 1!
Which pulls the cord for him. ;)
Exactly!!!! A Barry score is what I wanted. Although, I'm slowly starting to warmup to Michael Kamen's score....I listen to tracks like Escape From WaveKrest/Felix's Files & Licence Revoked very much these days.
I really love Dalton's Bond electric seriousness as always.
Yeah. There's a distinctive feel to Kamen's Bond theme.
Hahahaha brilliant
And why does a fish wink at the end?
Strange oddities, but I'd take them any day over Felix dying, Bond begging for mercy over his daughter, becoming bizarrely out-of-character chatty with long lost brother Blofeld, or being blown to smithereens in the final act.
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How have we managed to go from @mtm making a joke to you two moaning about NTTD. In a thread that has nothing to do with it. Again.
Sorry we hurt your forum, mister.