The Living Daylights - tonight

chrisisall

I *just* finished watching a clean Lowry DVD of it minutes ago.
First viewing of it in years.

Wow, it was great. Dalton was SO much better in the role than I remembered.
The movie combined some of the more fantastic elements from the film series with the REAL character from the novels IMO. Nice blend.

Cinematography & music were top notch. Story was well written, if a little too easily wrapped up.

It wasn't in my top 5 Bond movies before tonight- now it is. Solidly.

Excuse me while I go shed some tears that Timothy didn't do more Bond flicks....

Higgins

chrisisall wrote:

Excuse me while I go shed some tears that Timothy didn't do more Bond flicks....

Well, he definitely did - onscreen

Thunderpussy

Dalton was a Great Bond. -{

chrisisall

Thunderpussy wrote:

Dalton was a Great Bond. -{

Bondtoys seems to disagree.
In fact, back in 1987 I found his Bond too emotional, being used to the cool surface of Connery & even Moore.
I have since reconsidered. -{

Thunderpussy

The thing you have to understand about Bondtoys is, like the girl who always complains
about a certain boy. He's secretly a Big Fan. )
I always liked Dalton as Bond thought he got closer to the Bond of the novels than any
other actor, Although many will disagree with me.
His only fault IMHO was he moved stiffly in the fights, didn't have the ease of movement
that Connery had.

Higgins

;% yes and no!

I am a big fan of yours, TP but I'll always complain about you.

Things with Dalton are different. I did not like him much in the 80s, I always thought, that he looks like a bookkeeper and not like an agent, but over the years, I have gotten more and more embarrassed about his winey performance.
It affects me physically to see him acting like a shy schoolboy pretending to be cool