5:19 Can’t overlook the late great Patrick Macnee, a super-spy in his own right in the British TV series “The Avengers.” Also used extensively in the 80s and 90s as a quintessentially British voice actor.
Even today it's still played in stores, heard it a few times and I always look around to see if anyone is bobbing their heads too, lol. But I wouldn't be surprised if this song and Live and Let Die are the most commercially accessible and played Bond songs.
People give this Bond a very bad rating but to be fair this one is a guilty pleasure for me. Moore did really show his age at this stage and said in later interviews was glad to be rid of the role as he felt like a dirty old man. Overall Moore's performance as Bond was very memorable but a change was definitely needed.
Patrick Macnee, who played Tibbet, was John Steed in the hugely popular British Spy series "The Avengers" in the 1960s. So its a fun nod to have him in a Bond film. His co-star in "The Avengers" was the great Diana Rigg aka Tracy Bond.
Seems strange to see him without a bowler hat. Patrick MacNee was suave, and brought a certain credibility to his roles. He was in the original Battlestar Galactica too.
And his co-star before Diana Rigg in "The Avengers" was Honor Blackman aka Pussy Galore. There is a little inside joke in The Avengers after Honor Blackman left the series when John Steed (Patrick Macnee) gets a Christmas Card from Cathy Gale (Honor Blackman), and he wonders what she is doing in Fort Knox. And Joanna Lumley had a small role in On Her Majesty's Secret Service before she was Patrick Macnees co-star in "The New Avengers"
@@Jameson_Visual_Arts_Studios Thank you. Funnily enough when it came to Honor Blackmans last episode it sort of meta referenced her forthcoming role in Goldfinger. Then later in season 4 of the avengers in "too many Christmas trees" steed received a Christmas card from Cathy gale then said "what's she doing in fortknox?" Also in the Saint episode "luella", David Hedison aka Felix Leiter appeared and an old woman asked the Saint that's she was excited to be working with James Bond. This was in 1964. Bizzare just sums up the world of 007.
While not a great James Bond film, but it's not a bad movie overall. I give it a passable 7.5/10 score. Fun Fact: Although only appearing briefly, this movie is Dolph Lundgren's first on-screen role, playing General Gogol's KGB bodyguard Venz. He landed the position because he was dating Grace Jones at the time of filming, and was conveniently on-set when director John Glen realized he quickly needed someone to fill in as a simple gun-wielding bodyguard.
It’s too bad you missed one of the greatest inside jokes of the film. Patrick Macnee, who played Tibbett I. The movie, played the leading role of British agent John Steed in the long running 1960s television spy series “The Avengers” along with Honor Blackman (who played Pussy Galore in Goldfinger) and Diana Rigg (who played Bond’s wife Tracy in On Her Majesty’s Secret Service). Knowing these connections and history really adds a lot to the experience of this movie.
Sir Tibbett is played by Patrick McNee. He was John Steed in the classic British sci-fi adventure spy series “The Avengers”. Highly recommended if you’ve never seen it. The best seasons of the show are when he’s partnered with Emma Peel as played by the legendary Diana Rigg. This movie was also Dolph Lundgren’s first role. He was a KGB agent.
I agree, I find it a fun nostalgic Bond. By no means is it critically a good movie or one of my favorite bond films. But it is one I can always watch to enjoy. There are several Bonds I have to force myself to watch, but this one I’ve seen many times. Though, I will admit I think childhood nostalgia for 80s California, Duran Duran and Christopher Walken as the villain play a big part.
I can’t wait for you to watch the dalton films and they are more serious and people didn’t like it because they were too use to the campy bond style then more serious but these 2 movies are highly underrated bond films especially the second one which is my top 5 favorite bond films
Love these Shan, glad you're going to be doing the unofficial films as well. I hope these include the original film version of Casino Royale, a childhood favorite. That one will blow your mind!
This one is a guilty pleasure. It's not the greatest, but I have always loved it! Especially the theme by Duran Duran...it was a MONSTER hit for weeks when it hit the charts in 1985. - Tanya Roberts, who played Stacy Sutton, was one of the ladies on 'Charlie's Angels' for it's last season. in the early 1980's. Afterwards she did a few films, none really successful...'The Beastmaster' with Marc Singer which is a cult classic, and 'Sheena, Queen of the Jungle' for which she won the Razzie for Worst Actress. Her last big role was playing Midge Pinciotti, mother to Laura Prepon's character on 'That 70's Show'. She died a little over a year ago on January 4, 2021. - Grace Jones (May Day) was a pop star before this film. She was kind of an influence for a lot of acts since the 1980s including Lady Gaga, Rihanna, Annie Lennox, etc. She was in a few films like 'Conan the Destroyer' with Arnold Schwarzeneggar, and a horror film called 'Vamp'. - Patrick Macnee (Tibbit) was one of the major spies of the spy genre boom of the 1960s. He is best known for his portrayal as John Steed in the BBC series 'The Avengers'...among his partners during the series were Pussy Galore (aka Honor Blackman as Cathy Gale) and Countess Teresa di Vincenzo aka Tracy Bond (aka Dame Diana Rigg as Mrs. Emma Peel). The difference with Steed and Bond was...Steed almost never used a gun. And in a bit of comedy, when Moore takes the umbrella from Macnee while he is carrying the luggage...it's a tip of the bowler hat to Macnee's Steed. Steed always wore a bowler hat and carried an umbrella as a walking stick (that sometimes had a sword inside). - David Yip (CIA agent Chuck Lee) is actually British, and he had a small role as Indy's friend who is killed at Club Obi-Wan in the opening scene of 'Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom'. - Alison Doody (Jenny Flex, one of the Zorin girls) never did a lot as an actress, but her biggest role was as Dr. Elsa Schneider in 'Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade'. - In a "blink and you'll miss him" role, during the KGB meeting between Gogol and Zorin, one of the KGB guards is Dolph Lundgren, who was Grace Jones's real life boyfriend at the time. This was before he played Soviet boxer Ivan Drago in 'Rocky IV' with Sylvester Stallone or played He-Man in 'Masters of the Universe' opposite Frank Langella as Skeletor.
IMHO, Roger Moore was much too old to portray the 007 character again but I still loved this movie just the same, as Moore was always my favorite Bond. Christopher Walken always makes the perfect psychotic villain, and the ever beautiful Tanya Roberts and Grace Jones were the perfect Bond girls. Sadly, the vast majority of those who appeared in this film are now gone :>\
Duran Duran did the title song which was brilliant! You should watch the music video for A View to a Kill and comment on that. They did a great job of stringing bits of the movie to make a story for the video.
while I understand the reasoning behind casting the aging Roger Moore in Octopussy (bad time to change Bonds when competing against another Bond film starring Sean Connery... despite it being terrible, lol), I have no idea what the thought process was behind keeping the even more visibly aging Roger Moore in the role in this film. Perhaps their alternate choices weren't available at the time? *shrug* While Moore looked of comparable age to Maud Adams' Octopussy, he looked WAY too old for Tanya Roberts as Stacey LOL
Next up is the short Dalton era. I honestly liked his version of Bond more than Moore's style. Harsher in tone, with more emotion shown. It's too bad he didn't have a couple more movies as Bond.
Roger Moore had lots of health issues that plagued him all his life and nearly died as a small child. He wrote about many of them in a autobiography before he died.
You have to admire that obstructive cop's tenacity and commitment to his job, even if he was trying to arrest bond. :D Also, Grace Jones did a great job as Mayday, very underrated villain-turned-hero. I had a crush on her when i was a kid. :D
By using Beach Boys music they meant to relate snowboarding with surfing. I always related it more to skateboarding, but then I guess one might relate skateboarding with surfing. As a skier I remember seeing the scene and thinking that someone will turn that into a real sport, not realizing that snowboards were already being made.
Duran Duran's "A View To A Kill" is the only Bond theme to hit #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the US. BTW, the Beach Boys song at the beginning of the movie was "California Girls."
This is a highly underrated Bond film. It takes a much more "older British gentleman superspy" approach to Bond which was perfect with Roger Moore's age. The film is far from perfect but its been in my top ten since I first watched the series at nine years old. Zorin is a top 5 Bond villain, the song is top 3, and Grace Jones is iconic as she always is. Maybe not Moore's best performance (Spy Who Loved Me and For Your Eyes Only have that) but still, not nearly as bad as people make it out to be.
This is also Lois Maxwell's final film as Miss Moneypenny. The actor playing Tibbett was Patrick Macnee who was also a very well known actor best known for playing John Steed in the 60s British spy show "The Avengers" which also starred two Bond women Honor Blackman who was the first female sidekick and then famously Diana Rigg as Miss Emma Peel. This was also Dolph Lundgren's first film even though his scene was brief he was also married to Gracie Jones at that time.
This was the last and final Bond movie to have Roger Moore as he was pushing 57 to play 007. David Bowie and Sting were considered for the role of Max Zorin, before Christopher Walken was cast. Also RIP Tanya Roberts who passed away last year from Kidney cancer
Great music from John Barry and Duran Duran and a completely misused Christopher Walken. That's about it. The rest of the movie, sadly, is forgettable. But you're in luck! The next Bond film is awesome. Really, really good. In Octopussy, they knew how to age Roger Moore correctly, so you didn't feel the age gap between Roger and his leading ladies. Maud Adams was a great love interest for Moore and they had great chemistry. Here, it's Stacy Sutton, whose job is to be a really annoying but photogenic damsel in distress and make Bond look like he's robbing the cradle. After going to the trouble of showing us in For Your Eyes Only that Bond draws the line with women and girls who are too young for him (Bibi), they flip that script and now a geriatric Bond is wooing some 20something girl who is just there to be someone for James Bond to rescue. And at this point, a retirement home 007 isn't believable enough to pull that off. There are things to like here, though, from Christopher Walken to the soundtrack and I didn't mind Mayday all that much, even if her character's bad-ass mystique is totally ruined in the last 10 minutes. It's too bad, given some of the great things in this movie that they couldn't put together a decent script and recast Bond in 1985 rather than 1987. But again, don't worry, the next one is an absolute classic, more in the Daniel Craig mould. If anything, Living Daylights is the Casino Royale of its time. So good.
_AVTAK_ is a Bond movie filmed like an episode of _Dynasty_ but in 1985, it was enthralling. Moore's Bond films were in regular rotation on network TV and, as a kid, his advanced age in _AVTAK_ was a non-issue - he was simply my Bond. After three middling Moore entries. director John Glen would soon outdo himself in spectacular fashion & deliver - not just one of the best Bond films ever made - but one of the best Action films of the 1980s..
This was my first in-theater Bond film, so no matter what flaws it has, it's always got a table reserved in my heart. Walken is exceptional. The female Russian agent Pola was originally written for Barbara Bach to reprise her role as Agent XXX, it's a real shame that didn't work out.
Behind General Gogol, Dolph Lundgren (Ivan Draco) was acting as a KGB security agent. It was his first appearance in a movie. It was his connexion with Grace Jones that let him begin his career as an actor. He lived in couple with her for about four years.
One thing as for as the villian's plot is that this film was made in 1985, keep in mind that the idea of the computer and the microchip really only entered the public consciousness in the previous 3 or 4 years, with the advent of the home computer.
I never liked Rodger Moore as James Bond. Having said that, he's really good in pretty much anything else he was in, especially the "Saint" TV show. Oh, and speaking of "Duran Duran", you should watch Barbarella. That's where the name come from. It's a crazy movie from the '60's with a half dressed, young Jane Fonda.
One of Christopher Walken's girls in this film (blonde girl named 'Jenny Flex') was played by the Irish actress Alison Doody (yes, Doody) who later also played Dr. Elsa Schneider in 'Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade', ironically next to another Bond, Sean Connery.
SHAN - Mayday , Zorins girlfriend is played by Model GRACE Jones, and later Laura Sutton is played by Tanya Robrets of CONAN. also, Paterick Macnee played the voice of KITT on Knight Rider TV series,
I appreciate how General Gogol ties together The Spy Who Loved Me, For Your Eyes Only, Octopussy, and A View to a Kill into a loose story arc for Moore's Bond, culminating here with the KGB chief awarding his sometimes-ally, sometimes-foe 007 with the Order of Lenin. (Gogol briefly appears in Moonraker and The Living Daylights as well, but those one-scene cameos have no impact on their respective films.) The general doesn't offer as much cohesion to the Moore era as Blofeld did to the Connery/Lazenby era, but he does offer just enough continuity to make all of these entries feel relevant to the larger franchise. As for A View to a Kill itself, I'd regard it as one of the worst Bond films, but at least it has Walken and Jones going for it. It really is just a half-hearted remake of Goldfinger, though.
My movie going experience with View To A Kill's debut(which I unequivocally hated) was loads of fun otherwise; especially since virtually the entire audience was not onboard from almost the beginning. By the time Tanya Roberts character(who died earlier this month at age 65)was dangling over a burning elevator screaming: Help me, James! everyone as a whole started shouting: Let her die! I think part of my problem wasn't growing up with Connery as Bond; it was a matter of seeing Roger Moore first as Simon Templar in The Saint tv series. Somehow his patter never seemed to fit for Her Majesty's Secret Service. Good luck with the Timothy Dalton films; they are interesting additions to the franchise.
Roger Moore was my Bond, too, and why I thought the movie franchise was lame. Timothy Dalton was a change I appreciated, but not everyone did. Years later, Dalton played an interesting antagonist in The Rocketeer, a movie you need to see.
I liked Timothy Dalton's version of Bond too, Desmond Llewelyn who played Q said the Dalton's Bond came the closest to Ian Fleming's idea of the Bond character.
I was watching a James Bond documentary on BBC America and they were interviewing Robert Davi who plays the bad guy in License to Kill and he said that Albert Broccoli told him that Sean Connery didn't make it big as Bond until he did Goldfinger, his 3rd movie and the sad thing is that Timothy Dalton never got a chance to do his 3rd movie.
It’s nice to see you so enthusiastic about General Gogol. You’re undercounting, though - this was the character’s fifth appearance! And not his last, I’m happy to say. Also, I don’t know whether anyone else has pointed this out, but did you notice that the same actor - Walter Gotell - played another role in ‘From Russia With Love?’ He’s the agent who runs the S.P.E.C.T.R.E. training facility.
A Christopher Walken movie you really should see, if you haven’t already, is “Brainstorm” with Louise Fletcher and Natalie Wood. It was Natalie’s last movie before her untimely death. It’s an absolutely excellent movie.
Any chance of watching some Silent FRITZ LANG & ALFRED HITCHCOCK films ? I would be interested in seeing your views on the developing technology of film through their eyes
Seen this one before, pretty good. I highly recommend 1974's The Tamarind Seed, directed by Blake Edwards. It stars Julie Andrews and Omar Sharif and has ties to James Bond. Stay safe👍
This was Gogol's fifth appearance in a row. The Bond theme only appears once outside the gunbarrel and the main theme is a reworking of the OHMSS theme.
I wonder if they have removed the tow line from when May Day pushes the RR into the lake. I failed to spot it in the theatre, but it did show up on my VHS copy. Yes, I'm old.
Portions of the golden gate scene was shot on location on the bridge. I like this movie but it is not the top. Get ready for a very different bond with Dalton.
What the Cop wanted to say to say to James Bond if he actually knew who he was. Cop: And i'm Dick Tracy! Your still under arrest! James: What? I am a secret service. Cop: I know who you are Bond! James: Why are you arresting me then? Cop: Because you have ruined everyone's lives since 1962 and I waited a long time to arrest the legendary 007.
This movie was better than it should have been considering Moore's age. Looking forward to seeing your review of The Living Daylights, I think you'll like Dalton as Bond.
I love this movie. I know it's not the best, but this movie has a special place in my heart. It was the second Bond movie that I watched as a kid, remember watching it with my father and loving it :)
This was the first Bond film I saw wherein I knew I was watching a James Bond movie. The theme song blew me away. While it may be a bit high on the ridiculous scale, this was the one that made me a fan of Bond. Edit: this theme song is actually my favorite (narrowly).
It's so much fun seeing Tanya Roberts and Grace Jones in this film. The living daylights is one of my favorite Bond films. License to Kill not so much.
I like License to Kill more as a film, with its plot structure and overall presentation,... but it wasn't really a "James Bond" film. The Living Daylights however is totally Bond, and a whole lot of fun as such. So I'd say I prefer The Living Daylights as a Bond but I prefer License to Kill as a film ... if that makes sense
Next stop: Timothy Dalton, a good Bond with only 2 movies, the first is very good and the second is perhaps one of the rarest and most different in the saga, in my opinion, it doesn't look like a Bond movie, but it's still decent , and has a third act with one of the best action scenes in the entire saga, a chase with 5 Kenworth trucks, really impressive.
I actually really love the score for this one. I think it's one of Barry's best (and most of his are great). The Living Daylights might have my favourite Bond score, and it would be the last for Barry.
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5:08 the black woman in red playing _May Day_ is actress/singer American Jamaican Grace Jones. You will see her also as a warrior in Arnold Schwarzenegger's Conan The Destroyer. Back then rumors said Grace Jones and Arnold Schwarzenegger were lovers.
I grew up with Roger Moore as James Bond. I had not seen the Sean Connery films until after seeing Timothy Dalton as Bond. I am one of the few that really liked Timothy Dalton as James Bond. But I like all the Bond films no matter who was playing Bond. :)
Moore agreed to do one last Bond movie, but he admitted in interviews that he was very uncomfortable with Tanya Roberts as the love interest, because Moore was older than her mother.....In other news -- if you haven't seen it, you should watch Walken in _"The Dogs of War"_ ...not a well-known movie today, but very much worth it.
@@k1productions87 I honestly don't know. The interview I saw was with Moore, about his total run as Bond, and I don't think they interviewed any of his Bond Girls.
@@TheMajorActual As long as she was okay with it, I would feel okay. I know some actors are forced to do things they don't like, so I just hope she wasn't. But then... he's still Sir Roger Moore. I know of girls in their 20s or 30s who would still gladly be with Sir Sean Connery, even at his present age :P
I would also like to point out that that stable and everything they described about it is 100% real! Also, the Eiffel Tower was off limits to filmmakers until this movie. One other point it wasn't until the Pierce Brosnan movies that the production crew realized that island of England was an exotic locale to the rest of the world.
When Roger Moore was being retired as 007, I always thought they should have cast Pierce Brosnan (Remington Steele) as the next Bond. They eventually did, but they lost so much time as the actor aged with Timothy Dalton in the lead. A real shame.
Agree that this is one of the weaker ones in the series, but rank Octopussy higher than this one. Could it be the locations? The humour? The stunts? Perhaps just the fact that Roger simply was a bit too old for the role, and that the script wasn't as exciting. The only time in the series history that the producers misjudged the age-thing when it comes to a Bond.
You really should watch Roger Moore's all time favourite of his performances (And probably mine tbh) in The Man who haunted himself, based on the novel I am Pelham. I can't stress this enough, it's sooooo good and largely unknown as far as I can tell. Like Man with the Golden Gun, this one had a weak plot etc, but the villains made them just that bit better than eg Octopussy. Oh and you mentioned the Henchman helping Bond? Jaws did remember? :) The next movie has the weakest villains yet it's one of my favourite Bond Movies
You missed a film. Never Say Never Again is what comes after Octopussy. It came out the same year as Octopussy and featured the final Sean Connery performance as James Bond. It's not an unofficial movie, and it's the same exact plot as Thunderball. It's the Kim Basinger as Bond girl installment and the actress that plays the villain was nominated for an Oscar for her awesome performance.
Although I like this movie much more than the execrable "Octopussy", I think the jarring insertion of "California Girls" in the pre-titles sequence may be the absolute nadir of Bond "humor", ruining what is otherwise a solid action scene. Grace Jones is without a doubt the most unsexy Bond girl of all time. (The things Bond does for England, indeed!) The actor playing Tibbett, of course, is the great Patrick Macnee, better known as John Steed in the classic and highly-recommended TV series "The Avengers" with Diana Rigg as Emma Peel. Again, I enjoyed your reaction very much.
Though I do love that particular cover of the song. It wasn't actually the Beach Boys, but Gidea Park, and at a faster beat than the original, which gives it that little extra something for me :P
I’m not sure if you noticed Dolph Lundgren as one of the henchman. He and Grace Jones were dating at the time and she actually helped get his career going. Not long after this, he played Ivan Drago in Rocky 4.
Like with "Man with the Golden Gun", the best things about "View to a Kill" are definitely the Villians. Walken is a lot of fun!
Kalfaktor: I agree 100%.Walken is THE BEST!!!
5:19 Can’t overlook the late great Patrick Macnee, a super-spy in his own right in the British TV series “The Avengers.” Also used extensively in the 80s and 90s as a quintessentially British voice actor.
The song 'A view to a kill' was a monster back in the day. It was everywhere.
There is an extended version available here on TH-cam.
Even today it's still played in stores, heard it a few times and I always look around to see if anyone is bobbing their heads too, lol. But I wouldn't be surprised if this song and Live and Let Die are the most commercially accessible and played Bond songs.
"Bon.... Simon... Le Bon"
Only Bond theme to hit #1 in the US, too.
People give this Bond a very bad rating but to be fair this one is a guilty pleasure for me. Moore did really show his age at this stage and said in later interviews was glad to be rid of the role as he felt like a dirty old man. Overall Moore's performance as Bond was very memorable but a change was definitely needed.
Grace Jones was a huge star at the time... Although a very "average" movie/Bond movie, the sacrifice from Mayday always touches me.
She does look like "maybe this wasn't a good idea" though
@@RideAcrossTheRiver Yeah, being Zorin's bitch was NOT a good idea for sure :).
Patrick Macnee, who played Tibbet, was John Steed in the hugely popular British Spy series "The Avengers" in the 1960s. So its a fun nod to have him in a Bond film. His co-star in "The Avengers" was the great Diana Rigg aka Tracy Bond.
Seems strange to see him without a bowler hat. Patrick MacNee was suave, and brought a certain credibility to his roles. He was in the original Battlestar Galactica too.
And his co-star before Diana Rigg in "The Avengers" was Honor Blackman aka Pussy Galore.
There is a little inside joke in The Avengers after Honor Blackman left the series when John Steed (Patrick Macnee) gets a Christmas Card from Cathy Gale (Honor Blackman), and he wonders what she is doing in Fort Knox.
And Joanna Lumley had a small role in On Her Majesty's Secret Service before she was Patrick Macnees co-star in "The New Avengers"
That's why I think when helping Tibet with the luggage Bond grabbed the umbrella as a nod to John Steeds iconic prop in the show.
There was a reboot film of The Avengers in 98 and guess who was the main villain in that film?
...Sir Sean Connery
@@Jameson_Visual_Arts_Studios Thank you. Funnily enough when it came to Honor Blackmans last episode it sort of meta referenced her forthcoming role in Goldfinger. Then later in season 4 of the avengers in "too many Christmas trees" steed received a Christmas card from Cathy gale then said "what's she doing in fortknox?" Also in the Saint episode "luella", David Hedison aka Felix Leiter appeared and an old woman asked the Saint that's she was excited to be working with James Bond. This was in 1964. Bizzare just sums up the world of 007.
While not a great James Bond film, but it's not a bad movie overall. I give it a passable 7.5/10 score.
Fun Fact: Although only appearing briefly, this movie is Dolph Lundgren's first on-screen role, playing General Gogol's KGB bodyguard Venz. He landed the position because he was dating Grace Jones at the time of filming, and was conveniently on-set when director John Glen realized he quickly needed someone to fill in as a simple gun-wielding bodyguard.
Yeah . all 1 freezed frame , of it...
This one is abit corny, but i love it! Cristopher Walken and a pretty cool soundtrack
One of my favorite James Bond movies with a great Duran Duran soundtrack. Rest in peace Roger Moor and Tanya Roberts.
It’s too bad you missed one of the greatest inside jokes of the film. Patrick Macnee, who played Tibbett I. The movie, played the leading role of British agent John Steed in the long running 1960s television spy series “The Avengers” along with Honor Blackman (who played Pussy Galore in Goldfinger) and Diana Rigg (who played Bond’s wife Tracy in On Her Majesty’s Secret Service). Knowing these connections and history really adds a lot to the experience of this movie.
Eyyyyyyyy based Shan. Now we get Mr Dalton! Can’t wait. And good job
Sir Tibbett is played by Patrick McNee. He was John Steed in the classic British sci-fi adventure spy series “The Avengers”. Highly recommended if you’ve never seen it. The best seasons of the show are when he’s partnered with Emma Peel as played by the legendary Diana Rigg.
This movie was also Dolph Lundgren’s first role. He was a KGB agent.
and who else but Emma Peel could be believable as Mrs. Theresa Bond?
I agree, I find it a fun nostalgic Bond. By no means is it critically a good movie or one of my favorite bond films. But it is one I can always watch to enjoy.
There are several Bonds I have to force myself to watch, but this one I’ve seen many times.
Though, I will admit I think childhood nostalgia for 80s California, Duran Duran and Christopher Walken as the villain play a big part.
Next up finally is the Dalton films, that will be a very shocking mood swerve.
I can’t wait for you to watch the dalton films and they are more serious and people didn’t like it because they were too use to the campy bond style then more serious but these 2 movies are highly underrated bond films especially the second one which is my top 5 favorite bond films
Love these Shan, glad you're going to be doing the unofficial films as well. I hope these include the original film version of Casino Royale, a childhood favorite. That one will blow your mind!
This one is a guilty pleasure. It's not the greatest, but I have always loved it! Especially the theme by Duran Duran...it was a MONSTER hit for weeks when it hit the charts in 1985.
- Tanya Roberts, who played Stacy Sutton, was one of the ladies on 'Charlie's Angels' for it's last season. in the early 1980's. Afterwards she did a few films, none really successful...'The Beastmaster' with Marc Singer which is a cult classic, and 'Sheena, Queen of the Jungle' for which she won the Razzie for Worst Actress. Her last big role was playing Midge Pinciotti, mother to Laura Prepon's character on 'That 70's Show'. She died a little over a year ago on January 4, 2021.
- Grace Jones (May Day) was a pop star before this film. She was kind of an influence for a lot of acts since the 1980s including Lady Gaga, Rihanna, Annie Lennox, etc. She was in a few films like 'Conan the Destroyer' with Arnold Schwarzeneggar, and a horror film called 'Vamp'.
- Patrick Macnee (Tibbit) was one of the major spies of the spy genre boom of the 1960s. He is best known for his portrayal as John Steed in the BBC series 'The Avengers'...among his partners during the series were Pussy Galore (aka Honor Blackman as Cathy Gale) and Countess Teresa di Vincenzo aka Tracy Bond (aka Dame Diana Rigg as Mrs. Emma Peel). The difference with Steed and Bond was...Steed almost never used a gun. And in a bit of comedy, when Moore takes the umbrella from Macnee while he is carrying the luggage...it's a tip of the bowler hat to Macnee's Steed. Steed always wore a bowler hat and carried an umbrella as a walking stick (that sometimes had a sword inside).
- David Yip (CIA agent Chuck Lee) is actually British, and he had a small role as Indy's friend who is killed at Club Obi-Wan in the opening scene of 'Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom'.
- Alison Doody (Jenny Flex, one of the Zorin girls) never did a lot as an actress, but her biggest role was as Dr. Elsa Schneider in 'Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade'.
- In a "blink and you'll miss him" role, during the KGB meeting between Gogol and Zorin, one of the KGB guards is Dolph Lundgren, who was Grace Jones's real life boyfriend at the time. This was before he played Soviet boxer Ivan Drago in 'Rocky IV' with Sylvester Stallone or played He-Man in 'Masters of the Universe' opposite Frank Langella as Skeletor.
IMHO, Roger Moore was much too old to portray the 007 character again but I still loved this movie just the same, as Moore was always my favorite Bond. Christopher Walken always makes the perfect psychotic villain, and the ever beautiful Tanya Roberts and Grace Jones were the perfect Bond girls. Sadly, the vast majority of those who appeared in this film are now gone :>\
Duran Duran did the title song which was brilliant! You should watch the music video for A View to a Kill and comment on that. They did a great job of stringing bits of the movie to make a story for the video.
while I understand the reasoning behind casting the aging Roger Moore in Octopussy (bad time to change Bonds when competing against another Bond film starring Sean Connery... despite it being terrible, lol), I have no idea what the thought process was behind keeping the even more visibly aging Roger Moore in the role in this film. Perhaps their alternate choices weren't available at the time? *shrug*
While Moore looked of comparable age to Maud Adams' Octopussy, he looked WAY too old for Tanya Roberts as Stacey LOL
Next up is the short Dalton era. I honestly liked his version of Bond more than Moore's style. Harsher in tone, with more emotion shown.
It's too bad he didn't have a couple more movies as Bond.
Hard for me you didn't noticed the originally Avenger ( not Marvel). I feel so old now.
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No, The Mythbusters tested trying to breath from a tire while underwater. They couldn't find a way to do it.
Roger Moore had lots of health issues that plagued him all his life and nearly died as a small child. He wrote about many of them in a autobiography before he died.
So excited for The Living Daylights! It’s a favourite - I love the Dalton films.
Mythbusters tried the breathing underwater from a tire. It doesn't work.
You have to admire that obstructive cop's tenacity and commitment to his job, even if he was trying to arrest bond. :D
Also, Grace Jones did a great job as Mayday, very underrated villain-turned-hero. I had a crush on her when i was a kid. :D
Best thing about this Bond film is it introduced snowboarding to a wide audience. We all saw that and said Whoa what was that?! Looks like fun!
That was a hallmark of Bond movies. They always wanted to include the new in thing. Next Bond movie will feature NFTs.
By using Beach Boys music they meant to relate snowboarding with surfing. I always related it more to skateboarding, but then I guess one might relate skateboarding with surfing.
As a skier I remember seeing the scene and thinking that someone will turn that into a real sport, not realizing that snowboards were already being made.
Duran Duran's "A View To A Kill" is the only Bond theme to hit #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the US.
BTW, the Beach Boys song at the beginning of the movie was "California Girls."
This is a highly underrated Bond film. It takes a much more "older British gentleman superspy" approach to Bond which was perfect with Roger Moore's age. The film is far from perfect but its been in my top ten since I first watched the series at nine years old. Zorin is a top 5 Bond villain, the song is top 3, and Grace Jones is iconic as she always is. Maybe not Moore's best performance (Spy Who Loved Me and For Your Eyes Only have that) but still, not nearly as bad as people make it out to be.
This is also Lois Maxwell's final film as Miss Moneypenny. The actor playing Tibbett was Patrick Macnee who was also a very well known actor best known for playing John Steed in the 60s British spy show "The Avengers" which also starred two Bond women Honor Blackman who was the first female sidekick and then famously Diana Rigg as Miss Emma Peel. This was also Dolph Lundgren's first film even though his scene was brief he was also married to Gracie Jones at that time.
I cannot wait until you get onto The Living Daylights! Dalton is the man!
This was the last and final Bond movie to have Roger Moore as he was pushing 57 to play 007.
David Bowie and Sting were considered for the role of Max Zorin, before Christopher Walken was cast.
Also RIP Tanya Roberts who passed away last year from Kidney cancer
Rutger Hauer was also considered to play Zorin
@@johnkennethwiseman682 Man, that would have been awesome! May he RIP.
Great music from John Barry and Duran Duran and a completely misused Christopher Walken. That's about it. The rest of the movie, sadly, is forgettable. But you're in luck! The next Bond film is awesome. Really, really good. In Octopussy, they knew how to age Roger Moore correctly, so you didn't feel the age gap between Roger and his leading ladies. Maud Adams was a great love interest for Moore and they had great chemistry. Here, it's Stacy Sutton, whose job is to be a really annoying but photogenic damsel in distress and make Bond look like he's robbing the cradle.
After going to the trouble of showing us in For Your Eyes Only that Bond draws the line with women and girls who are too young for him (Bibi), they flip that script and now a geriatric Bond is wooing some 20something girl who is just there to be someone for James Bond to rescue. And at this point, a retirement home 007 isn't believable enough to pull that off.
There are things to like here, though, from Christopher Walken to the soundtrack and I didn't mind Mayday all that much, even if her character's bad-ass mystique is totally ruined in the last 10 minutes. It's too bad, given some of the great things in this movie that they couldn't put together a decent script and recast Bond in 1985 rather than 1987. But again, don't worry, the next one is an absolute classic, more in the Daniel Craig mould. If anything, Living Daylights is the Casino Royale of its time. So good.
_AVTAK_ is a Bond movie filmed like an episode of _Dynasty_ but in 1985, it was enthralling. Moore's Bond films were in regular rotation on network TV and, as a kid, his advanced age in _AVTAK_ was a non-issue - he was simply my Bond.
After three middling Moore entries. director John Glen would soon outdo himself in spectacular fashion & deliver - not just one of the best Bond films ever made - but one of the best Action films of the 1980s..
I grew up watching Bond films from the Moore's Era. Yes, those movies are cheesy and over the top, but I still enjoy it.
This was my first in-theater Bond film, so no matter what flaws it has, it's always got a table reserved in my heart. Walken is exceptional. The female Russian agent Pola was originally written for Barbara Bach to reprise her role as Agent XXX, it's a real shame that didn't work out.
Behind General Gogol, Dolph Lundgren (Ivan Draco) was acting as a KGB security agent. It was his first appearance in a movie. It was his connexion with Grace Jones that let him begin his career as an actor. He lived in couple with her for about four years.
The official Duran Duran music video for the title song is worth a look. The way it ties in to the movie was quite new back then.
One thing as for as the villian's plot is that this film was made in 1985, keep in mind that the idea of the computer and the microchip really only entered the public consciousness in the previous 3 or 4 years, with the advent of the home computer.
I never liked Rodger Moore as James Bond. Having said that, he's really good in pretty much anything else he was in, especially the "Saint" TV show.
Oh, and speaking of "Duran Duran", you should watch Barbarella. That's where the name come from. It's a crazy movie from the '60's with a half dressed, young Jane Fonda.
and while you're at it, listen to Duran Duran's "Electric Barbarella" just to bring things full circle :P
@@k1productions87 Absolutely.
One of Christopher Walken's girls in this film (blonde girl named 'Jenny Flex') was played by the Irish actress Alison Doody (yes, Doody) who later also played Dr. Elsa Schneider in 'Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade', ironically next to another Bond, Sean Connery.
SHAN - Mayday , Zorins girlfriend is played by Model GRACE Jones, and later Laura Sutton is played by Tanya Robrets of CONAN. also, Paterick Macnee played the voice of KITT on Knight Rider TV series,
I appreciate how General Gogol ties together The Spy Who Loved Me, For Your Eyes Only, Octopussy, and A View to a Kill into a loose story arc for Moore's Bond, culminating here with the KGB chief awarding his sometimes-ally, sometimes-foe 007 with the Order of Lenin. (Gogol briefly appears in Moonraker and The Living Daylights as well, but those one-scene cameos have no impact on their respective films.) The general doesn't offer as much cohesion to the Moore era as Blofeld did to the Connery/Lazenby era, but he does offer just enough continuity to make all of these entries feel relevant to the larger franchise.
As for A View to a Kill itself, I'd regard it as one of the worst Bond films, but at least it has Walken and Jones going for it. It really is just a half-hearted remake of Goldfinger, though.
My movie going experience with View To A Kill's debut(which I unequivocally hated) was loads of fun otherwise; especially since virtually the entire audience was not onboard from almost the beginning. By the time Tanya Roberts character(who died earlier this month at age 65)was dangling over a burning elevator screaming: Help me, James! everyone as a whole started shouting: Let her die! I think part of my problem wasn't growing up with Connery as Bond; it was a matter of seeing Roger Moore first as Simon Templar in The Saint tv series. Somehow his patter never seemed to fit for Her Majesty's Secret Service. Good luck with the Timothy Dalton films; they are interesting additions to the franchise.
Roger Moore was my Bond, too, and why I thought the movie franchise was lame. Timothy Dalton was a change I appreciated, but not everyone did. Years later, Dalton played an interesting antagonist in The Rocketeer, a movie you need to see.
I liked Timothy Dalton's version of Bond too, Desmond Llewelyn who played Q said the Dalton's Bond came the closest to Ian Fleming's idea of the Bond character.
I wasn't that keen on Dalton as Bond at the time for some reason but in retrospect I think he's one of the best Bonds.
I was watching a James Bond documentary on BBC America and they were interviewing Robert Davi who plays the bad guy in License to Kill and he said that Albert Broccoli told him that Sean Connery didn't make it big as Bond until he did Goldfinger, his 3rd movie and the sad thing is that Timothy Dalton never got a chance to do his 3rd movie.
Dalton's great in Hot Fuzz!
@@ajivins1 Oh yeah, he was so over the top sinister in that movie, it was hilarious.
It’s nice to see you so enthusiastic about General Gogol. You’re undercounting, though - this was the character’s fifth appearance! And not his last, I’m happy to say.
Also, I don’t know whether anyone else has pointed this out, but did you notice that the same actor - Walter Gotell - played another role in ‘From Russia With Love?’ He’s the agent who runs the S.P.E.C.T.R.E. training facility.
A Christopher Walken movie you really should see, if you haven’t already, is “Brainstorm” with Louise Fletcher and Natalie Wood. It was Natalie’s last movie before her untimely death. It’s an absolutely excellent movie.
Any chance of watching some Silent FRITZ LANG & ALFRED HITCHCOCK films ? I would be interested in seeing your views on the developing technology of film through their eyes
One of the worst Bond movies but one of the BEST TITLE SONGS!!
I would say i disagree...
This is my favorite more movie
I want to add...even though I think its one of the worst...I still own own it and will watch it anytime. LOL
Love the Duran Duran title song and John Barry's score.
Seen this one before, pretty good. I highly recommend 1974's The Tamarind Seed, directed by Blake Edwards. It stars Julie Andrews and Omar Sharif and has ties to James Bond. Stay safe👍
This was Gogol's fifth appearance in a row. The Bond theme only appears once outside the gunbarrel and the main theme is a reworking of the OHMSS theme.
AVTAK is basically just an updated Goldfinger. They just swapped out gold for silicon(microchips).
Not watched this review yet, will later. But I love this Bond film. I know I'm in the minority but I just wanted to show it some love.
I wonder if they have removed the tow line from when May Day pushes the RR into the lake. I failed to spot it in the theatre, but it did show up on my VHS copy. Yes, I'm old.
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English actor David Yip previously appeared as Wu Han in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984).
Roger Moore disapproved of Zorin just machine gunning everyone and he said this was his least favourite movie
how unbelievably hot was Tanya Roberts in this?
I love this movie i dont think its bad at all! Rooger is my favorite bond! ❤ also the theme for this one is top 5 best songs written for these movies
I honestly don't understand the dislike this one tends to get. Its my favorite Roger Moore Bond film.
Portions of the golden gate scene was shot on location on the bridge. I like this movie but it is not the top. Get ready for a very different bond with Dalton.
What the Cop wanted to say to say to James Bond if he actually knew who he was.
Cop: And i'm Dick Tracy! Your still under arrest!
James: What? I am a secret service.
Cop: I know who you are Bond!
James: Why are you arresting me then?
Cop: Because you have ruined everyone's lives since 1962 and I waited a long time to arrest the legendary 007.
10:47 and thus this scene here inspired the real life of facial recognition technology.
Fun fact: Everything or Nothing, the video game, is a loose sequel to A View to a Kill.
This movie was better than it should have been considering Moore's age. Looking forward to seeing your review of The Living Daylights, I think you'll like Dalton as Bond.
Stacey, played by Tanya Roberts was actually a Playboy Playmate and not an actress, just eye-candy.
Watch the video for the single by Duran Duran. It's great!
First bond movie I ever saw as a kid :) Great movie!
For some more great Walken movies please consider "At Close Range" (1986), "Suicide Kings (1997), and "Balls of Fury" (2007)
My favorite part of this movie when I was a kid were Zorin's airships, especially when Zorin's blimp inflated out of the shack.
I love this movie. I know it's not the best, but this movie has a special place in my heart. It was the second Bond movie that I watched as a kid, remember watching it with my father and loving it :)
First Bond movie I ever saw in a theater. Walken made a good movie great for me.
This was the first Bond film I saw wherein I knew I was watching a James Bond movie. The theme song blew me away. While it may be a bit high on the ridiculous scale, this was the one that made me a fan of Bond.
Edit: this theme song is actually my favorite (narrowly).
It's so much fun seeing Tanya Roberts and Grace Jones in this film. The living daylights is one of my favorite Bond films. License to Kill not so much.
I like License to Kill more as a film, with its plot structure and overall presentation,... but it wasn't really a "James Bond" film. The Living Daylights however is totally Bond, and a whole lot of fun as such.
So I'd say I prefer The Living Daylights as a Bond
but I prefer License to Kill as a film
... if that makes sense
it's a shame that Tanya Roberts (the lead Bond girl) died at such a early age.
Next stop: Timothy Dalton, a good Bond with only 2 movies, the first is very good and the second is perhaps one of the rarest and most different in the saga, in my opinion, it doesn't look like a Bond movie, but it's still decent , and has a third act with one of the best action scenes in the entire saga, a chase with 5 Kenworth trucks, really impressive.
This movie bored The Living Daylights out of me.
Thanks for the video!! See you later!! Stay safe.😉
I actually really love the score for this one. I think it's one of Barry's best (and most of his are great). The Living Daylights might have my favourite Bond score, and it would be the last for Barry.
5:08 the black woman in red playing _May Day_ is actress/singer American Jamaican Grace Jones. You will see her also as a warrior in Arnold Schwarzenegger's Conan The Destroyer. Back then rumors said Grace Jones and Arnold Schwarzenegger were lovers.
I grew up with Roger Moore as James Bond. I had not seen the Sean Connery films until after seeing Timothy Dalton as Bond.
I am one of the few that really liked Timothy Dalton as James Bond. But I like all the Bond films no matter who was playing Bond. :)
Spot on take. Can't wait to see what you think of Tim Dalton.
The theme was the best part of the movie. Seeing some location filming in San Francisco was cool, too.
Moore agreed to do one last Bond movie, but he admitted in interviews that he was very uncomfortable with Tanya Roberts as the love interest, because Moore was older than her mother.....In other news -- if you haven't seen it, you should watch Walken in _"The Dogs of War"_ ...not a well-known movie today, but very much worth it.
But how did Tanya feel about it?
@@k1productions87 I honestly don't know. The interview I saw was with Moore, about his total run as Bond, and I don't think they interviewed any of his Bond Girls.
@@TheMajorActual As long as she was okay with it, I would feel okay. I know some actors are forced to do things they don't like, so I just hope she wasn't. But then... he's still Sir Roger Moore. I know of girls in their 20s or 30s who would still gladly be with Sir Sean Connery, even at his present age :P
I would also like to point out that that stable and everything they described about it is 100% real! Also, the Eiffel Tower was off limits to filmmakers until this movie.
One other point it wasn't until the Pierce Brosnan movies that the production crew realized that island of England was an exotic locale to the rest of the world.
When Roger Moore was being retired as 007, I always thought they should have cast Pierce Brosnan (Remington Steele) as the next Bond. They eventually did, but they lost so much time as the actor aged with Timothy Dalton in the lead. A real shame.
He almost became Bond at this time,but he was bound contactually to his TV show,Remington Steele,so couldn't do it.
3:25 this dangerous snowboard & ski stunts were only from the '80s, I don't quite remember follow ups to these in '90s films.
interesting fact: Christopher Walken played 2 villain roles with the name Max, Max Zorin in James Bond and Max Shreck in Batman Returns
This is the first Bond movie that I saw in theaters.
Never Say Never Again (1983) 👍👍👍
Agree that this is one of the weaker ones in the series, but rank Octopussy higher than this one. Could it be the locations? The humour? The stunts? Perhaps just the fact that Roger simply was a bit too old for the role, and that the script wasn't as exciting. The only time in the series history that the producers misjudged the age-thing when it comes to a Bond.
You really should watch Roger Moore's all time favourite of his performances (And probably mine tbh) in The Man who haunted himself, based on the novel I am Pelham. I can't stress this enough, it's sooooo good and largely unknown as far as I can tell.
Like Man with the Golden Gun, this one had a weak plot etc, but the villains made them just that bit better than eg Octopussy.
Oh and you mentioned the Henchman helping Bond? Jaws did remember? :)
The next movie has the weakest villains yet it's one of my favourite Bond Movies
First, and maybe only, Bond theme that made No1 in the US charts
You missed a film. Never Say Never Again is what comes after Octopussy. It came out the same year as Octopussy and featured the final Sean Connery performance as James Bond. It's not an unofficial movie, and it's the same exact plot as Thunderball. It's the Kim Basinger as Bond girl installment and the actress that plays the villain was nominated for an Oscar for her awesome performance.
Although I like this movie much more than the execrable "Octopussy", I think the jarring insertion of "California Girls" in the pre-titles sequence may be the absolute nadir of Bond "humor", ruining what is otherwise a solid action scene. Grace Jones is without a doubt the most unsexy Bond girl of all time. (The things Bond does for England, indeed!) The actor playing Tibbett, of course, is the great Patrick Macnee, better known as John Steed in the classic and highly-recommended TV series "The Avengers" with Diana Rigg as Emma Peel. Again, I enjoyed your reaction very much.
Though I do love that particular cover of the song. It wasn't actually the Beach Boys, but Gidea Park, and at a faster beat than the original, which gives it that little extra something for me :P
Two of the best coming up next!
I’m not sure if you noticed Dolph Lundgren as one of the henchman. He and Grace Jones were dating at the time and she actually helped get his career going. Not long after this, he played Ivan Drago in Rocky 4.
I think Dalton is fantastic...
there she is the legend grace jones