AJB live commentary on LTK

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  • Shady TreeShady Tree London, UKPosts: 2,965MI6 Agent
    Number24 wrote:
    Yes, that's much better. But what's PDQ.

    It's an abbreviation for 'pretty damned quick' which was fashionable at the time.
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  • Asp9mmAsp9mm Over the Hills and Far Away.Posts: 7,483MI6 Agent
    Shady Tree wrote:
    Number24 wrote:
    Yes, that's much better. But what's PDQ.

    It's an abbreviation for 'pretty damned quick' which was fashionable at the time.

    Which in itself cane from the first Retail credit card machines which were supplied by and labelled PDQ. PDQ machines as they were known. And so someone coined them Pretty Damned Quick machines as the money came out of your account way faster than any other method at the time.
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  • Number24Number24 NorwayPosts: 21,703MI6 Agent
    Thanks. Now I can use the expression in a sentence: I think they should get a new script done and hire the next Bond actor PDQ.
  • Shady TreeShady Tree London, UKPosts: 2,965MI6 Agent
    Higgins wrote:
    Shady Tree wrote:
    The guy has been grieving and suffering, but he's hearing from his old friend, he's recovering physically and the news is that Sanchez and his cartel have been destroyed. Surely he can be allowed a few moments of lighter mood. His ongoing grief can be taken as read. Besides, the film-makers needed briefly to 're-set' Bond's world to normality for the sake of the franchise, restoring Bond to his job with the Secret Service but also positioning the Leiter character in a token scene for possible re-use in the future.

    Sorry, I don‘t agree at all.
    Even I was in the Secret Service professionally, someone has raped and killed my wife and tortured me with a shark that makes me lose half of my body, I wouldn‘t pop a beer and laugh to celebrate when hearing that the bastard was dead.

    One other thought... Perhaps we ought to remember that this is the same Felix who was prepared to risk missing his wedding altogether, at the drop of a top hat, all for the chance that "We just might catch the bastard." If he'd had his priorities straight, he could have delegated the job to Hawkins and the DEA and carried on straight to church. And then, during his own wedding reception, he's seen taking time out to file his report and have a business meeting with Pam. I'm not suggesting that his love for Della isn't profound or that his grief at her loss isn't devastating, but it's not altogether inconsistent with his character that he should be talking a little shop with Bond, on the phone, some time after the tragedy, and trying to be a little upbeat about the outcome for Bond. The sort of dialogue which Gardner added to the phone call in the novelisation may well have been considered too ponderous for the end of the movie - involving, as it does, an allusion to Bond's loss of Tracy, further to the one the movie had already afforded us earlier on ("He was married once... but it was a long time ago.")
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  • HigginsHiggins GermanyPosts: 16,618MI6 Agent
    Sorry, but explaining something that does not look right by all means by something else, that does not look right is not making it any better.

    Putting his professional priorities over the upcoming wedding ceremony was done just for dramatic entertainment purposes.
    Taking the rape and loss of his wife thru the villain and having been almost killed by the villain would have set Leiter into a different mood, no matter where his professional priorities are. It just doesn‘t make sense and it kind of tasteless ( just like Mathis‘s dumping imo).
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  • Number24Number24 NorwayPosts: 21,703MI6 Agent
    I fear tonight will be one of those times where everyone agrees on the quality of the movie, much like when we watched DAD or OHMSS. Don't you agree, Higgins? :)
  • HigginsHiggins GermanyPosts: 16,618MI6 Agent
    3 minutes until the countdown starts
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  • HigginsHiggins GermanyPosts: 16,618MI6 Agent
    Number24 wrote:
    I fear tonight will be one of those times where everyone agrees on the quality of the movie, much like when we watched DAD or OHMSS. Don't you agree, Higgins? :)

    As I‘ve said many times before, I like LTK much more than TLD.
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  • HigginsHiggins GermanyPosts: 16,618MI6 Agent
    1 minute

    Time reference:

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  • Number24Number24 NorwayPosts: 21,703MI6 Agent
    Isn't it ten minutes left?
  • HigginsHiggins GermanyPosts: 16,618MI6 Agent
    19:00 GMT.

    Please get your disks out, start the player and get done with the menus.

    Pause right in front of the gunbarrel.

    We play the movie at 19:10 GMT precisely
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  • Shady TreeShady Tree London, UKPosts: 2,965MI6 Agent
    Ready to go here...
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  • HigginsHiggins GermanyPosts: 16,618MI6 Agent
    7 minutes left!

    We start directly in front of the gunbarrel
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  • HigginsHiggins GermanyPosts: 16,618MI6 Agent
    There is the UA logo after the MGM lion
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  • Shady TreeShady Tree London, UKPosts: 2,965MI6 Agent
    Is Barbel around for this one?
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  • HigginsHiggins GermanyPosts: 16,618MI6 Agent
    I hope so.
    He wouldn‘t miss the chance to bash Michael Kamen
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  • HigginsHiggins GermanyPosts: 16,618MI6 Agent
    3 minutes, gents!
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  • HigginsHiggins GermanyPosts: 16,618MI6 Agent
    1 minute to go!
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  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 36,053Chief of Staff
    I'm here.
  • HigginsHiggins GermanyPosts: 16,618MI6 Agent
    Love the aerial shorts over Key West!
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  • Shady TreeShady Tree London, UKPosts: 2,965MI6 Agent
    Liking Kamen's rearrangement of the gunbarrel opening fanfare...
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  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 36,053Chief of Staff
    MGW "If they hurry..."
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 36,053Chief of Staff
    I’m ok with Hedison back as Leiter, but why isn’t the 3rd guy called Quarrel? The film already is using bits of LALD
  • HigginsHiggins GermanyPosts: 16,618MI6 Agent
    Thank god, it‘s the last time that we see Dalton in the iris....
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  • Number24Number24 NorwayPosts: 21,703MI6 Agent
    The music for the gunbarrel wouldn't fit most (all?) other Bond Movies, but it's perfect for this one.
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 36,053Chief of Staff
    Gymkata wrote:
    Everyone ready for the return of special agents Johnson and Johnson (no relation)?

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    Live And Let Die Hard?

    Another Way To Die Hard?

    Die Hard Another Day?

    I'll stop now...
  • Shady TreeShady Tree London, UKPosts: 2,965MI6 Agent
    edited May 2020
    Benicio Del Toro is scary from the get-go...
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  • Number24Number24 NorwayPosts: 21,703MI6 Agent
    A very strong villan's introduction :007)
  • Shady TreeShady Tree London, UKPosts: 2,965MI6 Agent
    Barbel wrote:
    Gymkata wrote:
    Everyone ready for the return of special agents Johnson and Johnson (no relation)?

    DirtyWildGuanaco-size_restricted.gif

    Live And Let Die Hard?

    Another Way To Die Hard?

    Die Hard Another Day?

    I'll stop now...

    No Time To Die Hard...
    Critics and material I don't need. I haven't changed my act in 53 years.
  • HigginsHiggins GermanyPosts: 16,618MI6 Agent
    If the helicopter wasn‘t there the entire sequence would look terribly cheap
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