I’ll add to this, Timothy Dalton’s version of Bond in The Living Daylights is the best Bond, with Daniel Craig’s Casino Royale version a close second. A cunning and vicious spy who puts the job first and everything else second; light on gadgets and heavy on skill.
Unfortunately, License to Kill tried to revert back to a more Roger Moore campy version of Bond from the more serious portrayal in The Living Daylights and that kinda ruined Bond for a while.
Timothy Dalton is my favourite bond because he's a Git, much more in keeping with the books.
I remember watching an interview with the guy who played Q, Desmond Llewelyn (1963 until his death in 1999), and he said Timothy Dalton was his favorite Bond; that he was the most book accurate version.
Dalton’s Bond was a lady’s man but only because it was a tool of the trade, not an ego driven or self-serving trait like previous Bond’s had wielded it.
100% agree. Living Daylights is in my top 3 bond films, while licence to kill is in my bottom 3. I would have loved to see a Dalton GoldenEye though.
I rank The Living Daylights and License To Kill the same way.
A Dalton led GoldenEye would be one of the first movies I track down if I ever find myself in a slightly different universe to our own where all those “almost happened” movies ended up being made. Like Tom Selleck as Indiana Jones in Raiders of the Lost Ark, Eric Stoltz as Marty McFly in Back to the Future, Jerry Smith in Cloud Atlas or a Stanley Kubrick directed A.I.
I sometimes think how fun it would be to have access to a Multiverse Video Store. It would exist outside of all the different universes but have all the movies that were never made, or were made differently.
I don’t want to jump between universes and get involved in all that hijinks, but a video store that stocks its shelves from all universes would be fun to explore.
Truth!
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these double negative community are a confuse
Only because they cut the top off the Toyota 2000GT in "You Only Live Twice".
I get that it made sense in the context of the movie, but Bond can't drive a Japanese car! It's like renting a Ford Galaxy in Diamond's are Forever. It's just...wrong...
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