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It's an actor fault for me. Hedison is given less to do in LALD than all the others except Terry and maybe Lord, yet I think he was just as fantastic there as he was in LTK.
Personally I wouldn't call Hedison a great actor. He has some good moments but there are times in LTK when his peformance is questionable.
He is 1000x better than Terry though (jesus he was bad).
I think LTK is a solid film (I enjoyed it the last time I re-watched it) but not as good as some fans say. It's too brutal and "American thriller" like.
What's wrong with Jack Lord's version of Felix? He's calm, cool, collected, relatively useful, and fits Fleming's description of the character as well as anybody.
I think it gets far too much credit as it is. There is nothing special about this movie that makes it a 007 movie. The year it got released had less gnereic actioners than LTK.
And Miami Vice had done the drugsangle better, more stylish and better camerawork and music.
I think the Q scenes in LTK were mostly a mistake. They undermine the serious tone that the film tries to keep going. It's never a good thing to have Bond go out on a serious vendetta using... explosive toothpaste? Being helped by Q dressed as a local peasant mopping the street with a broomstick with a hidden mike? As if LTK's universe accidentally collided with that of CR67. I love LTK, minus the Q scenes.
I love the Q scenes. It's good to see him and Bond spend time with each other and have a non-adversarial relationship, and I also like that it keeps us within the Bond universe. That's the thing, to me, about Licence to Kill. It takes place in a different, grittier sort of place, but it's still definitely identifiable as the Bond universe.
That's actually an interesting parallel between Licence to Kill and Skyfall. LTK keeps the structure of Bond, but it changes the people and location, whereas SF changes the structure but keeps the same kinds of people and locations.
I must admit its difficult to imagine the Q of Thunderball eventually deciding to "drop round" while on leave. Maybe age softened him a bit.
In reality Q probably wouldn't risk his job to help a rogue agent. The scenes were more fan service.
B-)
I agree. I always felt Q was there because he had to be there. It would have been more interesting to see him, I don't know, giving equipment to the station agents to capture Bond, or something of the sort.
Honestly without Q the movie wouldnt feel like a Bond Film- i think Q helped Bond in more ways than one- if anything it improves the relationship between the two charaters in a film where Bond has gone renegade and is alone- he is the person to never give up on him and so yeah i find that heartwarming in LTK
When Bond was rebooted back in 2005/6 The Producers wanted to go back to Fleming's Bond
In Reality they shifted far away with it
i mean the race change of Moneypenny and Felix Leiter (Not being Racist but the books state that both Moneypenny and Felix (who should have been texian) are Cacuasian and the physical description of Bond...
Fleming's Bond has less to do with physical appearance than the way the characters are portrayed. I don't even see the big deal about recasting characters to actors of different races (although I'm befuddled by the people who claim it's racist to oppose casting a black actor in an originally white role, and then turn around and claim it's racist to cast a white actor in an originally black role).
Winner of the Wizard's post of the day award.
Where would that go on the shelf? Next to the Razzies?
1. Licence To Kill is by far my favourite Bond film. Dalton is the best Bond. Pam is by far one of my favourite Bond girls (Vesper takes that spot). Love the Bond going rogue idea. Q makes one of his best appearances (His best is the Q Branch scene in TLD). Lupe is well used. Krest's death still astounds me.Etc.Etc.ETC. Best Bond.
2. I like DAF, TMWTGG, MR, and QOS (a little bit).
3. I feel Sean Connery is a bit overrated.
4. Brosnan kinda killed Bond for me at some moments
5. I hate FYEO because it's slow, lame music (I usually love Bill Conti), Delicatessen in stainless steel, etc.
But my absolute most controversial opinion is...
6. I bloody hate GOLDENEYE! Hate villains, hate the girls, lame plot, hate Brosnan, Sean Bean did nothing for me, I have several other rants but I'm trying to keep this PG! I'm sorry Calvin Dyson! This is just a horrible film!
Well... Au Revoir
agree with 1, definitely. LTK is not my favorite but in my top 5 (ahead of GF!!)
Also Brosnan killed Bond for me at times, too.
It's an ok scene but do you REALLY think it beats the one in GF, or even the very first one in FRWL?
If you do that certainly is controversial. For me Caroline "Wooden Schoolgirl Imitator" Bliss ruins that sequence (sorry I'm sure she's a nice lady in real life but I can't stand her Moneypenny).
On a similar note, a potentially controversial opinion of mine - I would have no problem with a black 007, so long as the move was made for the right reasons (i.e. they found a great actor for the part who happened to be black, rather than casting an actor just because he is black).
Here we go again. Religion last week, black Bond this week - it's always fun to revisit these topics and see how long it takes for them to descend into acrimony.
More importantly, I don't think Craig is anything like Fleming's Bond. His character is nothing more than a blatant rip-off of Jason Bourne, imco.
@majorDSmythe that is rather controversial, but I do agree, albeit with both feet dragging. The whole Bourne trilogy were actually very refreshing & original movies something the Bond franchise lacks currently.
I do recognise some of your points in this argument.