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Its not until i post it..................
YES!!!!! I used to do that to people trying to cut me off. Damn I even used to do that when I was 10 just because I thought it was funny.
Okay popping in some Timmy D. My go-to Tim....................
LICENCE TO KILL
Gunbarrel- stays in the middle after swerving so it can open on the plane.
Already there is a sense of foreboding danger. Something bad is going t happen.
It did. We don't have a director for B25.
That's okay all is well and Bond is on the case.
Nope. He's slacking off and going to a wedding.
I'm glad Hedison replaced John Terry for this one. Otherwise we wouldn't care when he gets eaten by the shark later.
Where's Mr Furley, Jack and Janet?
I remember Good Morning America doing a segment on the PTS. Tim was interviewed by Joel Siegel. I wish I still had the tape. This is hard to believe, but Tim's hair looked great in this interview. Tousled in the front and texturized. Not combed down flat like in the film. Nowhere in the film does it look quite like it did behind the scenes there. Believe it or not.
Titles!!!!
Great song, IMO. But odd it's truncated.
The shot of Diana Lee Hsu was a vivid Maurice Binder red in the cinema. The Blu ray captures that well.
I imagine Binder put this together at the last minute. Still I love it.
Lupe likes to stay up all night watching westerns and reading magazines. I used to do that when I was younger; stay up until 5 or 6 in the morning watching Hammer horror films.
If I wasn't spoken for I'd give Lupe a call, she how she feels about '40's film noir.
Tim is intense in this scene, and looks tough. He squints his eyes a lot.
Little known fact: Tim has always been a big fan of Clint Eastwood. His side burns are very Dirty Harry. If I didn't know that Tim based his Bond on the novels, I'd say he's paging small tribute to Clint with his performance in this film.
Some of his lines he speaks in an Eastwood teeth gritting tone. "LEAD or SIL ver." almost sounds like:
"Maybe your ASS is in a RINGer".
I'm probably reading too much into it.
I love the Barrelhead Bar scene actually. It's funny.
ROAD HOUSE all the way.
I could see Eastwood saying "HE's HAD ENOUGH RUN the tab."
A couple years after LTK came out, I had a VHS copy playing. Actually recorded from cable since I wanted a back up to my CBS/Fox tape.
My television was a 1985 RCA model. Actually, the same television Andreas Katsulas has when Harrison Ford breaks into his apartment in THE FUGITIVE. Great TV. I believe it was a 25 inch. Maybe 27?
The picture/sound adjustment knobs were behind a panel just above the screen.
The picture looked okay. Flesh tones alright but the red in the film was a bit dark.
My dad was in a band and the drummer came by as this scene was playing and said: "James is looking a bit washed out. I can fix that for you." I hesitantly said "okay" and let him fool with the knobs. The brightness, tint, color level and sharpness. All tweaked ever so slightly. The blue sunrise behind Bond started to look life-like. The sharpness knob was very delicate. Turned too much the picture would look grainy, so he raised it a titch.
It looked better. The tint was spot on. However, it wasn't until the casino scene that I really noticed an improvement. As the camera pans up on Talisa her red dress fills the screen for a moment. In the cinema that red was rich and deep. Same with the gunbarrel blood. Finally my home video copy was looking like that now.
We get to the elevator/Pam scene and her purple dress really popped.
As dark as LTK is, the casino scenes provided that old school Bond glamour.
That started my obsession with the color timing on the Bond films.
For years, anytime I'd go to someone's house, if their TV looked like crap I'd adjust for them. So many people get used to their television screens looking a certain way not noticing when the colors are all wrong.
Today with hi definition TV's and flat screens it's not as much of an issue. Most look pretty damn good. It's the DVD and Blu-ray transfers that often tamper with a film's original colors.
I remember years ago when a local station would play some of those old serials at 3 in the morning. Great fun to watch in the middle of the night. Double breasted suits, fedoras, revolvers, stunts and fight scenes. Also reliable B movie actors like Tris Coffin. Great stuff.
Bond and Sanchez duke it out on the back of the truck. I love the shot of the truck plummeting off the cliff and Pam flies by.
All in all a great viewing a LTK.
This is definitely a Bond that's fun to watch in the middle of the night after everyone else has gone to bed.
LTK is a great late-night Bond film. It’s a pretty great one in general too; it was one of my first ones so it has some nostalgic value for me.
According to John Glen in his book, Binder was always late with his titles! I really like these credits for LTK, better than the rather lazy ones for TLD! And i love Gladys Knight song!
The Blu-ray looks a bit nicer. The cinema prints had more grain and dirt. Even Gene Siskel in his review commented on how dirty the film looked compared to other Bonds. The color timing on the title shot with the woman's face on the side of the screen was brighter in the cinema- more bluish hue. The shot of Sharkey coming through the trap door was extremely grainy in the cinema.
Certain shots in LTK had vivid colors. The Blu-ray does get some of the red levels right: the gunbarrel blood, Diana Lee Hsu in the titles and Lupe's dress. As they leave the black jack table and move to the bar her dress really popped in the cinema, as does the woman's dress in the background. Sanchez's silver striped shirt really stood out in the cinema as well.
There's a close up of Sanchez during the casino section as the reel changed. The print suddenly becomes more saturated with deeper hues. That reel change was present in all the VHS as well as the earlier DVD versions. Lowery seems to have evened the print quality out on the blu-ray.
Interesting. Thanks
Bond has a nice gray overcoat as he leaves Shrublands.
Here comes Fiona. I wonder if JBR found that exact spot the motorcycle sinks?
Bernard Lee remains the definitive M, IMO.
Hypothetically, if Eon were to do a hard re-boot after b25 would like a return to these characters. Sir Miles Messervy being M and Major Boothroyd, Q. Also casting physical appearances accordingly. I feel Mallory has more in common with Edward Fox's M than any other.
Domino!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Watched this quite recently actually. As summer winds down, this is one of my favorites to pop in this time of year.
Bond and Domino dance. I wonder if this location is still intact? Probably hard to find I imagine.
1965 must have been a fun year to be alive in. Everyone looks glamorous and classy. Today they'd all be wearing hoodies and Nassau tourist T shirts.
Bond changes back to his pink shirt and blue shorts before returning to his hotel. Implies he rented his tux and had to get it back before closing.
Actually these scenes were edited out of order, I believe so Leiter wouldn't look odd stalking Bond at the casino .
Quist gets killed. Some of the Lowery prints omit the blood apparently. Not sure why.
Bond wearing a straw hat. Robert Mitchum had one in CAPE FEAR.
I should buy one before the summer ends. Even Q has one.
I had recorded TB from the May 1986 airing and watched that copy a lot that summer of '88. I had a blue short sleeve shirt that kind of looked like Sean's.
Damn, I even had a thinning razor and would use it to try and taper my neck like Sean's (you need clippers for that).
The Connery Bonds has just been re-issued on VHS from MGM/US home video in fancy new artwork and transfers. My dad would go every weekend to a swap meet that was located in a closed drive in theater. That's where I started collected the Bonds on VHS. I already had OP from a few years before, and TLD. But these new versions were pretty cool. The first one I found was GOLDFINGER . The next weekend I got FRWL. It would be awhile before I got TB, though. So I had to live with the truncated television taping.
Bond gets shot in the leg here. This chase is one of my favorite scenes. Great Barry score. There's a Superman outfit and a dog taking a pee.
I love scenes like this where Bond is chased in a parade by Spectre.
Reminds me..............in a few days it will be time for my annual George Lazenby birthday OHMSS viewing! I may watch that this weekend, actually, since it will be my weekend off.
Now here's another location Bond swims up to that apparently is very much intact. I believe a big hotel is in the background now, though.
If Leiter returns in the next one, they should do that again-as a homage.
Yes!!!
Or maybe two actors can play him. He is black, no wait he is white, nope definitely black.
I would like to see Wright come back and have some good scenes with Craig. Something akin to the novels.
Underwater battle.
This has been a great viewing of TB. An excellent choice to watch for the end of summer.
FYEO tends to be my go-to autumn Bond film. I'm sure I'll be popping that one in the near future.
Quist's death is a great moment, by the way. The color of the water changing, the dreamy/creepy music, Largo kissing the ring and hinting at this perverse loyalty to SPECTRE, going beyond mere business.
From Quist's earlier scene, I also have Connery's "NOW MOVE!!!!!!1" burned into my mind. Surely his loudest line delivery as Bond?
Very cool part of the film, indeed. Elegant, but I find it also has this looming sense of danger. Largo's people hanging around the place, and the still-mysterious fellow with the shades (Leiter, of course).
I love Vargas' creepy smile when he stands up from the baccarat table.
SF's boat ride to the casino does give TB's a run for its money.
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You have very good memory in regards to your history with Bond, the tapes, the clothes.
The frozen earthquake bothers me most. At one point there was talk of removing the mirrored crew in TMWTGG dressing room fight. Glad they didn't. Actually the removal the of helicopter wires in FRWL and the plane wires in GF and TB I'd prefer they hadn't. Makes me fee like I'm not watching a "true" version of the film.
Generally, yes, though I’m a huge fan of Ridley Scott’s 2007 Final Cut of Blade Runner. It’s him presenting the film the way he had originally intended, without studio interference, and is simply a remarkable and incredible work of art.
And importantly, unlike Lucas and his precious Star Wars re-edits, all the various versions of Blade Runner are available for anyone to obtain and enjoy.
A good point. Having alternative versions is one thing. Erasing the original versions is something else.
I think we may have discussed this before @ToTheRight, but for which releases did they start removing these details?
The Lowery restorations of 2006 for the UE DVDs.
I do believe, though for some of the Blu-rays there have been improvements. The PTS of OHMSS looks far better on the Blu-ray than on the 2006 UE DVD.
Just had a thought, wouldn't it have been more dramatic if Bond and Volpe had gone to the dance before she revealed herself as a secret villain. Then as they are talking and dancing, Bond trying to find out what she knows, suddenly he notices largos men in the crowd. He continues to chat, not to startle Fiona, but gets more nervous as they begin to close in, like the sharks in Largos pool. Then a devilish bit of dialogue from Volpe and the penny drops! He was already captured!