LTK is NOT Miami Vice
Higgins
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Have just been watching TBE analysis of LTK and besides the praise for the main actor, I agree with much which has been said by J. Darlington.
However, I am tired of the repeated verdict, that with LTK Bond went Miami Vice.
Yes, the movie feels cheap, more like a tv show, the music is very american ( but a pure insult compared to the brilliant MV scores), locations have been in Florida, but that‘s more or less it!
In MV, the heroes and villains are driving around in amazing cars, Dalton‘s rental was probably the most mousey in the series.
MV featured top-of-the line clothing, Dalton
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I admire Carey Lowell a lot and her portrait in LTK, she‘s nothing like the ladies in MV.
In MV, the end was often not „happy“, with LTK, they even went as far as making Leiter cheerful
I‘ll watch LTK pretty soon again and am sure that I‘ll discover more blatant contraries that show, that LTK is not Bond going MV.
However, I am tired of the repeated verdict, that with LTK Bond went Miami Vice.
Yes, the movie feels cheap, more like a tv show, the music is very american ( but a pure insult compared to the brilliant MV scores), locations have been in Florida, but that‘s more or less it!
In MV, the heroes and villains are driving around in amazing cars, Dalton‘s rental was probably the most mousey in the series.
MV featured top-of-the line clothing, Dalton
)I admire Carey Lowell a lot and her portrait in LTK, she‘s nothing like the ladies in MV.
In MV, the end was often not „happy“, with LTK, they even went as far as making Leiter cheerful
I‘ll watch LTK pretty soon again and am sure that I‘ll discover more blatant contraries that show, that LTK is not Bond going MV.
President of the 'Misty Eyes Club'.
Dalton - the weak and weepy Bond!
Dalton - the weak and weepy Bond!
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iconic show. Just because a film shares locations and a few other points like Drug dealers
etc doesn't make it a copy.
For example TLD has many similarities with Carry On Spying, yet I've never thought, that
one was a copy of the other
1) Don Johnson's Crockett Character has better dress sense than Dalton's Bond in LTK
2) Would have loved to have seen James Bond driving either the Ferrari Daytona or Testarossa in LTK.
3) In LTK would MVs Elvis The Alligator have attacked Felix?
4) One for the Ladies only, who's better looking Timothy Dalton or Don Johnson?
then of course it turns out to be a defense of Miami Vice!!!
awesome
I have no opinion, never saw the show, didn't watch teevee in the 80s.
I have seen Johnson's later show where Cheech Marin played a cop, thought that was good, but mostly because of the casting of Cheech in such an unlikely role.
Was Miami Vice the same sorta thing or completely different?
When MV came up, suddenly all of the previous detective shows looked old, grey and boring.
You should give it a try. At least the first 3 seasons where great!
Dalton - the weak and weepy Bond!
I'm guessing you'd also recommend the original Magnum PI? I never saw that one either.
Seriously made it through an entire decade not watching any television. until subversive underground heroes Matt Groening and David Lynch got their own teevee shows, then the evil addictive medium lured me in again!
-Casino Royale, Ian Fleming
Definitely not.
I‘d put Magnum into the ‚old school‘ detective series category and it‘s still my favorite show. I often wonder, if it would be still like that if the makers would not have put Higgins (who was the real star imo) next to him.
However Miami Vice was revolutionary in so many aspects and I love the series very much as well.
Dalton - the weak and weepy Bond!
Personally I would say Dalton but they are chalk and cheese. I did find Don Johnson very attractive back in the day though.
Here's a bit of trivia though ... did you know Benicio Del Toro was in an episode of MV?
Here's a link to some of the stars who appeared in MV. Some very interesting names. Anyone remember Ben Stiller?
https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/53279/27-actors-who-got-their-starts-miami-vice
Lady Rose, that linked is interesting but very sloppy.
Phil Collins (admitted, he was a Star back then already) dominantly featured one episode and a very young and cute Melanie Griffith was the leading lady in another one for example.
Dalton - the weak and weepy Bond!
Don't be so picky!
Miami Vice was outlandish but...real, in many ways. It was groundbreaking for the fact it brought to the spotlight issues too touchy for the 80s like wife beating, rape, suicide or homosexuality. Licence to Kill made no attempts to be groundbreaking in its own way, though it's a great inspired by attempt, just like Vice ultimately was from Scarface...to much greater success in being original and owning it.
Though Bond was set in largely what the Vice squad was running around in those days, Bond takes much of the decadence of the 80s and amplifies on that while Miami Vice was anything but, from the endless amounts of 80s exotics from 911 Turbos to Countach...the lavish clothes, the Ken Adam style houses, the color schemes, the parties...just about anything Bond had it has.
And that's my biggest complaint with Licence To Kill. Bond brought an air of glamour to the cinema that Miami Vice did for television.
And as far as I can remember, violence in Vice happened for a reason...even if some of it was purely cheesy with modern eyes...
If we actually take the time and look at what Vice offered, what Bond took and how both compared there's no competition as much as it pains me to say.
Though I will admit, Sanchez would've been a much more memorable Calderone. He'd have been right at home with the Vice boys.
This is the moment where Bond realised it wasn't a trend setter anymore, imo. Yeah, sure Indy pushed it to get better on Octopussy but that was it. Moonraker is hardly the same because it adopts it and makes it something new. This is a world where Bond never dipped his toes at and wasn't meant to.
All things considered, they did try. I still love Licence To Kill for what it is...and it pushed me to watch Vice, so that's not half bad.
...and...while not being a lady, Crockett with the Ferraris would win in a Wolf of Wall Street sort of way if Crockett or Bond were my thing in that sort of comparison...which they're not. Lol.
You are safe. You are still the moron like you always have been :v
Dalton - the weak and weepy Bond!
Thank God for that. Don’t want to reach the high levels of moron that you’ve attained.
Dalton - the weak and weepy Bond!