Pros and Cons: License to Kill

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  • Matt SMatt S Oh Cult Voodoo ShopPosts: 6,616MI6 Agent
    Dalton's performance is a big pro for me.

    One of the biggest cons for me is Dalton's awful wardrobe. His suits fit even worse than the Skyfall suits being at least a full size too large, and the style is awful. It's typical late 80s/early 90: large shoulders, low button stance, low gorge. Many of the trousers throughout the film have triple reverse pleats. The colours of all of Dalton's clothes are pure Fleming, but the styles are not something an English gentleman would wear. He is dressed like a Florida playboy.
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  • chrisisallchrisisall Western Mass, USAPosts: 9,062MI6 Agent
    DUDES! This new member popped up at the MI6 site with loads of behind the scenes pictures from Licence To Kill (he was an extra in the Florida scenes), check it out:
    http://www.mi6community.com/index.php?p=/discussion/11614/tons-of-never-before-seen-on-set-photos-from-licence-to-kill-shot-in-key-west-1988/p1
    Dalton & Connery rule. Brozz was cool.
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  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy Behind you !Posts: 63,792MI6 Agent
    http://www.ajb007.co.uk/post/732857/#p732857
    Check out post 178, as always Moore Than had the scoop. :))
    But brilliant photos and a great story of his time on location. -{
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  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 38,077Chief of Staff
    Higgins wrote:
    Barbel wrote:
    A well-balanced view, Higgins, kudos.

    You know, Barbel,

    it may look like my posts are just right out of my head, but these are actually result of week-long reflexions, yoga-lessons, cross-checks long-life experience and extraordinary intelligence!

    It's a pretty complex process until AJB gets the honor to be blessed with my brilliance :D

    :)) I do appreciate all of what you say, and it's clear that you haven't given a knee-jerk response but have distinguished the good points and the bad as you see them.
  • chrisisallchrisisall Western Mass, USAPosts: 9,062MI6 Agent
    Thunderpussy wrote:
    as always Moore Than had the scoop. :))
    :v I'll have my revenge...
    Dalton & Connery rule. Brozz was cool.
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  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy Behind you !Posts: 63,792MI6 Agent
    .... In this life or the next ! :D

    Higgins being all sensible, was that an early April fool ? ;)
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  • chrisisallchrisisall Western Mass, USAPosts: 9,062MI6 Agent
    Thunderpussy wrote:
    Higgins being all sensible, was that an early April fool ? ;)
    Of course. :))
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  • Smithers500Smithers500 Spectre IslandPosts: 1,347MI6 Agent
    Cons;

    Lupe and her love for James
    Della and her lust for James - she fancies him more than Leiter!
    Wedding party music and dad-dancing by the pool
    Dirty love music and the corny bar room brawl
    "Things were about to turn Nast-ay"
    End title music
    Winking fish, yes I said winking!

    Pros;

    Everything else especially Sanchez
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  • SpoffSpoff Posts: 244MI6 Agent
    Smithers500 wrote:
    Winking fish, yes I said winking!

    Oh yeah, I forgot about that, that is a con.
  • AlphaOmegaSinAlphaOmegaSin EnglandPosts: 10,926MI6 Agent
    The winking Fish is something that's never really bothered me :)
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  • chrisisallchrisisall Western Mass, USAPosts: 9,062MI6 Agent
    Forget the poolside ceramic, THIS was worse IMO
    neversayneveragain-wink.jpg
    :))
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  • HigginsHiggins GermanyPosts: 16,619MI6 Agent
    yep! -{
    President of the 'Misty Eyes Club'.
    Dalton - the weak and weepy Bond!
  • AlphaOmegaSinAlphaOmegaSin EnglandPosts: 10,926MI6 Agent
    :)) :))
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  • BlackleiterBlackleiter Washington, DCPosts: 5,615MI6 Agent
    Smithers500 wrote:
    End title music

    You mean "If You Ask Me To" by Patti LaBelle? That's a lovely song!
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  • BlackleiterBlackleiter Washington, DCPosts: 5,615MI6 Agent
    chrisisall wrote:
    Forget the poolside ceramic, THIS was worse IMO
    neversayneveragain-wink.jpg
    :))

    Even I can't forgive that one! :#
    "Felix Leiter, a brother from Langley."
  • chrisisallchrisisall Western Mass, USAPosts: 9,062MI6 Agent
    Blackleiter wrote:

    Even I can't forgive that one! :#
    :)) -{
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  • HigginsHiggins GermanyPosts: 16,619MI6 Agent
    edited April 2015
    LTK is probably NOT one of the best movies from the entire series
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    Dalton - the weak and weepy Bond!
  • AlphaOmegaSinAlphaOmegaSin EnglandPosts: 10,926MI6 Agent
    I would disagree with you there Higgy :v
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  • 002002 New ZealandPosts: 558MI6 Agent
    Cons:
    It doesn't have Daniel Craig or Sean Connery (or, for that matter, George Lazenby)

    Pros:
    Felix Leiter disagrees with something that ate him (how I've waited for that scene!)
    Q has his finest moment
    Anthony Zerbe goes POP!
  • AlphaOmegaSinAlphaOmegaSin EnglandPosts: 10,926MI6 Agent
    The Novelisation by J Gardner is also very good -{
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  • HigginsHiggins GermanyPosts: 16,619MI6 Agent
    chrisisall wrote:
    DUDES! This new member popped up at the MI6 site with loads of behind the scenes pictures from Licence To Kill (he was an extra in the Florida scenes), check it out:
    http://www.mi6community.com/index.php?p=/discussion/11614/tons-of-never-before-seen-on-set-photos-from-licence-to-kill-shot-in-key-west-1988/p1

    I've just revisited this old thread.
    Doesn't Dalton look a bit like Brosnan with bad clothing in this shot?

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  • Timothy DaltonTimothy Dalton Posts: 14MI6 Agent
    Licence To Kill is so 80s it hurts. Our hero is a renegade that is forced to "turn in his badge", the bad guy is a South American drug lord named Sanchez, and Bond feeds some dude to sharks. Bond basically becomes a badass cop from Miami Vice.

    The only negatives were the two Bond girls, and the fact that the theme song wasn't 80s synth pop like The Living Daylights.

    I love this movie.
  • chrisisallchrisisall Western Mass, USAPosts: 9,062MI6 Agent
    Best underwater scenes of the entire series.
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  • HigginsHiggins GermanyPosts: 16,619MI6 Agent
    Really??

    I found them pretty cheap-looking compared to what we get in TSWLM FYEO and TB
    These Subs looked pathetic and shameful, too.
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  • chrisisallchrisisall Western Mass, USAPosts: 9,062MI6 Agent
    Higgins wrote:
    Really??
    Yes really.
    I found them pretty cheap-looking compared to what we get in TSWLM FYEO and TB
    These Subs looked pathetic and shameful, too.
    LTK's underwater scenes were not ridiculously staged, poorly paced, or bloated. -{
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  • HigginsHiggins GermanyPosts: 16,619MI6 Agent
    chrisisall wrote:
    LTK's underwater scenes were not ridiculously staged, poorly paced, or bloated. -{

    You may be the only one with that opinion.I find LTK's particularly poorly paced and plain boring!
    I disagree with the first 2 at least - can't find any "bloating" in the others....
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  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy Behind you !Posts: 63,792MI6 Agent
    I have to agree with Higgins here ( although not that LTK's underwater
    sequences looked cheap) TB, TSWLM and FYEO had fantastic underwater
    Scenes, TB being a movie epic ! -{
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  • chrisisallchrisisall Western Mass, USAPosts: 9,062MI6 Agent
    Higgins wrote:
    You may be the only one with that opinion.
    I'm not. I've heard this opinion voiced by others. Admittedly they were not members of the Misty-Eyed Club...
    :))
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  • chrisisallchrisisall Western Mass, USAPosts: 9,062MI6 Agent
    Thunderpussy wrote:
    TB, TSWLM and FYEO had fantastic underwater
    Scenes, TB being a movie epic ! -{
    TB was epic, but endless in the underwater department; LTK was short & sweet.
    TSWLM was a bit OTT: LTK was thoroughly believable.
    FYEO had an extremely slow pace & REALLY phony bubbles; LTK was fast & real.
    Dalton & Connery rule. Brozz was cool.
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  • Absolutely_CartAbsolutely_Cart NJ/NYC, United StatesPosts: 1,740MI6 Agent
    LTK I think did feel a bit generic in the first 30 minutes but after that it paced very well.
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