Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-11-29 (Friday)

Arthur Lipscomb <arthur@alum.calberkeley.org> wrote:

On 11/30/2024 8:28 AM, Adam H. Kerman wrote:

Ian J. Ball <ijball@mac.invalid> wrote:

I saw part of "The Living Daylights" with Timothy Dalton, which I had
never watched before, on Pluto's "007" channel.

Why not watch the whole movie? This was made either during or after
MGM's 27th bankruptcy. Despite the studio bleeding cash they scraped
together 98 cents. I think they made something decently entertaining.
Spending more money on a James Bond movie doesn't make it entertaining.

This was, technically, Dalton's only Bond flick.

What, does License (note the proper American spelling) to Kill not exist
to you?  :-P

As I said, its villain wasn't a Bond villain, but I enjoy the movie.

The movie never found its audience despite a summer release, so later
Bond movies got switched back to a Christmas release. It had a
notoriously awful marketing campaign. Nevertheless, the American versus
British spelling of "Licence" was blamed for keeping Americans out of
theaters.

I still wanted another TImothy Dalton movie.