Damn if the song wasn't an absolute bop though.
The James Bond Film Discussion Thread (With Bonus Lazenby!)
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The irony of one of the weakest films having one of the best title tracks.
Brilliant video as well. "Bon, Simon Le Bon."
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The Durannies were dismissed at the time but this was a boy band who wrote their own songs, played their own instruments and came up with some absolute bangers. Leagues ahead of the New Kids On the Block type boy bands of dancing mannequins who came after them.
That was what I thought.
I like the song The Living Daylights but it's no View to a Kill. OTOH, I like the score to LD way better. It was Barry's best Bond since Moonraker. If he had to go out that was the way to do it.
The Living Daylights score is glorious.
Wow!!!I know she was playing young, but it always amuses me that there's less than 18 months in age between Carole Bouquet and Lynn-Holly Johnson!
Never would have guessed that...much less looked it up...I always thought that whole "relationship" was a little creepy...
So if they cast ATJ, will they just cast him opposite leading ladies two decades older than him?
Most Bond relationships are a trifle problematic given he's old enough to be most Bond girls' father!
Ironically the least creepy age disparities are probably in the Connery era, heck Honor Blackman is actually five or so years older than Sean. And Diana Rigg was slightly older than George, but near as I can figure it the closest in age Rog was to any of his leading ladies was 15 years (Elkland). The worst was Carole Bouquet (30 years!)
Even with Tim/Pierce/Daniel there's usually a good decade if not more between Bond and the girl outside of rare exceptions like Bellucci.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not sure kind of giant prude who insists all Bond girls must be within a few years age of Bond, but IMO they should aim to narrow the gap a smidgen.
Ironically the least creepy age disparities are probably in the Connery era, heck Honor Blackman is actually five or so years older than Sean. And Diana Rigg was slightly older than George, but near as I can figure it the closest in age Rog was to any of his leading ladies was 15 years (Elkland). The worst was Carole Bouquet (30 years!)
Even with Tim/Pierce/Daniel there's usually a good decade if not more between Bond and the girl outside of rare exceptions like Bellucci.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not sure kind of giant prude who insists all Bond girls must be within a few years age of Bond, but IMO they should aim to narrow the gap a smidgen.
even the first line of the main song "hey driver.. where we going?" is just lyrically great for a bond theme. even if its not my favorite bond song. *They should have went with the end-title song by Pretenders, "If There Was a Man" but they wanted to capture lightning in a bottle twice with another synthy pop band. Not that I'm complaining, they just went with the wrong one. Depeche Mode was asked several years too late when they turned EON down. They should have asked them then.
the perfect tune for quiet jogs and walkman garroting.
TLD isn't among my all-time favorite Bond films but the soundtrack is a banger for sure. Necros is one of the best 007 villain henchmen of the post-Roger Moore period and the milk bottle attack on the safe house is probably the best action sequence in the entire film, and certainly the best-scored.
Frankly, John Barry's final Bond soundtrack is a banger as a whole.
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