Grace Jones Steals a Movie - View to a Kill (1985) || From Rewatch with Love Ep16
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- It's got Duran Duran, it's got Grace Jones, it's got an aging MI6... but how is Roger Moore's last Bond? Let's find out!
Episode 16 - A View to a Kill (1985)
Graham & Matt are here to talk about the first blockbuster film franchise! It's Bond... James Bond, as we lead up to the release of the 25th Bond movie, with this rewatch podcast full of our thoughts on the series and plenty of trivia!
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A fun thing about this movie is that it kinda gets a pseudo-sequel in a Bond video game, Everything or Nothing. The villain in that game, Nikolai Diavolo (played by Willem Dafoe!) is mentioned as being one of Zorin's students.
Brosnan's Bond fires off a nice quip when he learns of that connection: "Yes, we once played bridge together. He lost."
I crack up every time Graham describes the physically intimate interludes as "do a sex."
It cracks me up that these podcasts have started to be longer than the actual films themselves.
One of the things in the opening credits which I find really pleasing is that the title name is revealed in time with the lyrics. It’s a small thing and really simple but it makes me happy!
When I was young (and my heart was an open book) I was given the video game adaptation of this film. On tape cassette. It took three lifetimes to load, and promptly farted itself to death once I got to the loading screen. Not joking; it made an excruciating BRAAAAHNNNNhjghfhffg noise and died. Ahh, memories ...
"Zorin has no concern for workplace safety."
Wow, the Elon Musk comparisons really are apt.
Yeah. Elon thinks wearing a mask is ludicrous. Wonder if he think the same when it comes to Grimes and their newborn son??!!? (Rhetorical)
@@Luvie1980 citation? I remember him tweeting that the panic was dumb, months ago. But more recently, he's been wearing a mask..?
I honestly wish they would make a less silly, more realistic Moonraker remake where the main villain is a thinly veiled Elon Musk expy.
@@simonbrunner3062 that's kinda the plot of the old James Bond game Nightfire.
Rest In Peace Tanya Roberts. You may have just been the cutest and innocent Bond girl out of all of them. RIP.
As far as General Gogol is concerned, I like to imagine that with his character, the Moore Bond movies tell a much larger narrative of progressively friendlier relations between Britain and Soviet Russia, and in that respect the inclusion of the KGB in this film makes a lot of sense to me. What started out as an "if we must" level of co-operation towards a shared goal in The Spy Who Loved Me develops further and further, with increasing familiarity, until General Gogol is ultimately arresting many of Bond's bad guys for him and handing out awards from the Soviets for his work.
Very goo d point. Also, casting Walter Gottel was a smart move. He projects cool intelligence and a mixture of threat and warmth.
It’s just too bad Walter Gottel got sick and could only have a cameo at the end of The Living Daylights. He was supposed to be the main KGB ally in that movie but John Rhys Davies ended up replacing him as General Pushkin. That movie would’ve been a great way to wrap up that character arc through the series. Even with Pushkin The Living Daylights effectively wraps up the Cold War for the Bond franchise.
@@spencerkindra8822 Man, Gogol as an ally in that movie would have made it even better.
@@TheWAYF I agree that Gogol in front of Bond's gun would have delivered a greater dramatic impact but that would have meant no John Rhys-Davies !
@@TheWAYF For sure. John Rhys Davies is great as Pushkin but since we'd never met him before, M sending Bond to kill him just doesn't have the same impact. I'm sure Graham and Matt will discuss it when they talk about The Living Daylights.
When I first saw this in the theatre and California Girls started playing i sank into my seat in embarrassment .
Felt the same way when I saw this in the theater in 1985. The scene made me cringe
@Hey I was only giving orders this comment made me sink into my seat in embarrassment
The commentary on the opening scene makes me very glad but also disappointed there was no Bond movie where people in production had the thought "you know, skateboarding is neat." Because now I'm imagining Dalton's Bond doing a skateboarding scene for some reason with a bunch of ramps and grinding in somewhere with hills, idk Lisbon? sure Lisbon is fun, and Tony Hawk is the stuntman. And it sounds terribly silly but I also kind of want it just to see how it ends up looking.
And the opening theme would be by Goldfinger, of course.
As a huge Duran Duran fan, I LOVE the story about the bassist telling Albert R. Broccoli to get a real band! I thought he was just being rude, and arguably he still is, but it makes so much sense when James Bond has been nothing but ballads for the last several films.
Did you hear the latest Bond song ? BLEEEEECH !!!!
"French upstart!" - an indignant woman
"Please, Madame, I beg you! BELGIAN upstart!" - Poirot
At the end of the series, I'd love to have a ranking of Henchmen and Bond Girls.
Nah, the bond girl label is kinda reductive, or gets tied up defining what makes a bond girl, etc.
I propose, for the rewatch with love awards/ranking:
Best supporting characters
Best opposing characters
Favourite gadget/vehicles
Favourite sets
Funniest moment
The Bond moment of all Bond moments
@@FFKonokoThey are called Bond girls and they defined by their sex appeal and screen presence.
@@FFKonoko do all the Felixes count as their own character? (I would suppose so)
I'd rather not see a rankling of women like that.
Plus, we all know May Day would win top Bond girl and top henchman.
The phrase "from a view to a kill", as used in the song Do You Ken John Peel, means "from the moment the hunters spot the fox till the hounds run it down and rear it apart". It's the title of James Bond short story about enemy agents stalking and killing dispatch riders. The forcing of the phrase into this film is, well, forced.
A lot of Bond movies have really incomprehensible or random names.
@@Yora21 So much so that when they were translated to other languages a few of the titles got swapped around or replaced entirely and nobody cared. In Sweden, 'License to Kill" ran in to the trouble that that the translation of that phrase had already been used for the translation of "Doctor No", for example.
@@havcola6983 The German title for Thunderball is Fireball. Still no relation to the story, but at least its a word that makes sense.
For your Eyes Only is "On a deadly Mission".
View to a Kill is "In the Face of Death".
The Living Daylights "The Breath of Death".
License to Kill is "License to Kill", though in German "death" and "kill" come from the same root.
Extremely creative there.
Though I heard Danish movie releases are notorious for ridiculous titles that have nothing to do with the original title or the plot of the movie. And everything ends with "...of Evil!"
John Peel was one of the few parts of the 80's that I really loved.
They obviously thought that the in-flight villain to henchman "Go out and get him!" "Do what!?" exchange from Octopussy was worth reprising.
I really enjoy the positivity that Graham and Matt have with this movie. Honestly, it made me look back on it with more fondness (and also giving Grace Jones the respect she deserves).
That being said, this is my least favorite Roger Moore Bond film. But I am honestly glad that people are enjoying it. Excited to see how varied everyone's listings are by the end of the run.
Having never seen this movie, based purely off of this summary, this is my favorite Bond movie
Christopher Walken’s subtle facial expression when Bond says "Doctor Mortan will be proud of his creation" while they’re in city hall always makes me laugh. Bond says that to Stacy and Zorin has this look as if to say “well I wouldn’t say-yeah you’re right. Anyway, time to die.” And his laugh at the end of the movie as he’s about to fall off the Golden Gate Bridge is fucking great. 😂
I love that in retrospect, most of Zorin's plan is basically fracking
Right??
Couldn't be anything further from fracking.
@@ricardocantoral7672 the end result is different, but the process of shoving water in a hole to break the rock is very similar
@@jonw1599 I suppose but I confess that saying such things gets on my nerves because it spreads mendacities about fracking. There is already too much misinformation out there.
Me as a kid: "Haha, no way pumping water into an oil well would cause earthquakes, this movie is unbelievable."
Me today: "OMG, this movie called it on fracking!"
Another Avengers/Bond alumnus is Joanna Lumley, from the 70's re-boot, The New Avengers. She played one of Blofeld's Angels of Death in OHMSS.
first off, ENGAGE.
second, Matt G is such a great third member of this podcast, in a similar role to Beej in Sidewalk Slam
It's a small touch, but a nice bit of verisimilitude that Zorin is using ANFO for his scheme. ANFO is a mining explosive, it's used to blast open the walls of quarries. A mining concern buying ludicrous quantities of industry standard explosives would barely raise an eyebrow. Also, to judge by the way the detonator sinks into the bags of ANFO, there have to be at least several layers of the stuff, which would put my eyeballing at easily several hundred bags. Hell, given how it slopes up the sides, it may broach 1000 bags, but let's just run with 500. Assuming each bag is about 18x36x3, that would put it at about 1 million cubic inches of ANFO. At a bulk density of 840 kg/m3 (apologies for the mixed units), that's over 30,000 lbs of ANFO. The Mythbusters cement truck shenanigans were only 850 lbs of ANFO.
Not to be morbid, but how does it compare to the recent Beirut explosion? (That being the largest detonation of conventional explosives I've heard of.)
@@Voidhawk42 as near as I can tell, ANFO yields slightly less than a ton of TNT power equivalent per ton of explosive, each ton of ANFO yielding about 0.85 tons of equivalent TNT. So 30,000 lbs would be 15 tons of ANFO with a yield of 12.75 tons of TNT. The Beirut explosion, despite being a less efficient ammonium nitrate decomposition instead of an ANFO detonation, yielded about 1,120 tons to TNT due to sheer volume.
Though it turns out to all be slightly moot anyway, since Zorin’s plan of flooding the mines would render his explosives useless. ANFO is almost completely soluble in water and would be readily dissolved beneath an entire mine’s worth of water.
This also begs Graham's question "Why have dynamite on the blimp"! Dynamite is unstable in comparison- you can accidentally set it off much easier than ANFO- which I guess is why it's at least show to be in a safe.
@@THESP-rz3hg it’s actually a good reason to have dynamite. ANFO is so stable that it requires a primary detonation to set it off, you can’t just use a fuse or flame. Dynamite would be a viable backup in case the main detonator explosive didn’t work. Though as to how it would get from blimp to mine is an exercise left to the reader.
Some fun Bay Area things I noticed while watching....
1) The Fisherman’s Warf scene was shot before they installed docks for the sea lions at pier 39.
2) The hotel in which Bond bathes with the Russian agent is in SF’s Japantown mall. And is a hotel you can stay at.
3) The Sutton house is the Dunsmuir Historic Estate in Oakland, CA. The Oakland zoo is actually on the other side of that hill (sort of, explaining geography is difficult)
4) The lefty o'doul or king street drawbridge featured in the car chase has been under renovation for the last 2 years. I doubt they’d film that scene now because all those pier buildings were torn down to build Pac Bell park now called Oracle Park home of the San Francisco Giants. (Which I assume would just the area too busy)
5) Notice, that City Hall has a “state office” or “office of the state” sign. State offices would actually be in Sacramento, California’s Capital.
And Graham already mentioned San Andreas Reservoir/lake. You may unsubscribe to Bay Area facts now. Haha. 😋
By FAR the best James Bond commentaries out there. Great work guys! Cannot wait for the Dalton, Brosnan, Craig years.
Scarpine: "Are you enjoying yourself"
Bond: "sometimes, I come here to think..."
Honestly, most of this film didn't do much for me. BUT! That last scene with Mayday pretty much cemented Mayday as my favorite Bond villain henchwoman of all time. Just, what a badass!
I will always remember Patrick Bauchau
from playing Sydney in The Pretender TV Series.
THAT'S where I remember him from!
I love how they don't event try to hide the stunt-double in the roofless car.
Also, after it's cut in half you can sometimes see what looks like tiny little shopping cart wheels at the back.
I never even noticed the obvious shots of Roger Moore's younger stunt doubles in this movie until Calvin Dyson brought it up. It's just really bad. You could have a drinking game of "Spot the stunt double" with A View to a Kill.
Yeees, the weekly relief from my sorrows under uncle Graham's soothing voice, I have waited impatiently for this
Me too 🤗
A Blimp doesn't have to use roads btw - If that distance was as the crow flies then at 50 miles an hour that Blimp could travel the 19 miles to the Golden Gate Bridge in 23 minutes.
Still a long time to hold yourself up
It's not beyond reason to imagine he has some kind of super-fast Blimp.
@@DanAvenell Blimp go fast juice at work, same stuff Zorin gives the horses
Stacy Sutton’s house looks like the same house used as the funeral home in the movie, “Phantasm.” Also, I think David Bowie was one of the people name dropped for the role of Max Zorin, which also could have been awesome since he and Grace Jones are probably the two most unusually stunning looking people IMO.
Achille is the dead giveaway that we are are doing a Poirot riff. "Achille" was Hercule's canonical (fake) smarter brother. He invented him during one case when he had to be 2 places at once (Agatha Christie was obviously taking the piss out of Conan Doyle and Mycroft Holmes).
You guys were incredibly gentle toward this one. I recently listened to the "How Did This Get Made"/"James Bonding" joint podcast about this entry, and I thought they were incredibly harsh. I'm in the middle. I find this outlandish (even on the sliding scale that defines the Roger Moore years) but highly watchable.
My personal theory is that Moore just didn’t want Octopussy to be his last Bond movie. I would have made the same decision if I was in his shoes.
@jamesadamsfl Maybe, but that film really was an all-time high. The action and set pieces are so imaginative in that one.
Still one I watch to this day.
THIS one…no.
@@emilymcplugger To each their own. And I can't deny that the fights and stunts in Octopussy were on more often than they were not. As ridiculous as the fight with the assassins in Octopussy's room was, it was fun.
He only came back for that one because Never Say Never Again was coming out, and Cubby Broccoli was afraid that a movie starring a new Bond wouldn’t perform better than the one with a returning Sean Connery. So Roger came back as a personal favor.
@@zacharylewis2802 By all accounts, Moore was a pretty nice guy.
Before the podcast began, and taking into consideration that I had not seen the majority of the Bond films in years, my top three bond films if you had asked me were 1) Live and Let Die 2) Casino Royale (2006 version, because I didn't even know about the the 60's version) and 3) A View to a Kill. I have also been keeping a spreadsheet going for the podcast and my current top 3 are 1) OHMSS 2) Live and Let Die 2) For Your Eyes Only, but I predict that Casino Royal will make the top 3, since a lot of people consider it their favorite. I still really like A View to a Kill, but more in a fun watch sort of way. Christopher Walken is definitely a big part of it, and did a phenomenal job.
One thing about Tanya Roberts' big role as Midge in That 70's Show was that in the episode where she and her husband renew their wedding vows, her three bridesmaids are all past Bond girls : Maud Adams( Octopussy and the Man with the Golden Gun) Kristina Wayborn (Octopussy) and Barbara Carrera (Never Say Never Again). I even recently went through all of That 70's show and I didn't even notice it. I'm so mad at myself, but the reference still remains my favorite from the show.
That’s an amazing note!
12:43 The inventor of Snowboarding also invented dabbing, apparently. :)
Also, no one mentioned that Grace Jones just straight up bench pressed a guy.
I was beginning to think my Monday would never get started. Best part of the day begins now!
Sutton house location is the Dunsmuir house in Oakland, CA. This was also in Phantasm and Burnt Offerings.
I’m glad someone mentioned it. And lake San Andreas is on the other side of the bay where zorin’s mine is located (geographically in the movie).
Has one of the best scores in a Bond film, the track "He's Dangerous"
3 pm (refresh subscription page)... 3:05 (refresh subscription page)... 3:15 (refresh subscription page)... 3:20 (refresh subscription page)... 3:25 (refresh subscription page)... 3:29 (refresh subscription page)... YES Finally!
Yeah they were a bit late with the upload. Canadian thanksgiving!
@@Luvie1980 they have spoiled us with early uploads.
Just wanna say I'm loving this series despite not even really a fan of James Bond, but I'd literally listen to Graham talk about dryer lint.
I'm always surprised when I get to the end of one of these and realize that we're only ranking the Pre-Title, the Title Song, and the Movie as a Whole, but not rating the Title Sequences themselves. Especially since Graham has such strong opinions about them.
I kinda loop them into my rankings, I think. Intentionally or not 😄
...I thought you two did an excellent job with this critique... I strongly recommend you get ...The book...I'LL NEVER WRITE MY MEMOIRS... BY GRACE JONES...it's AMAZING.. and she EXPLAINS A lot about the movie..and her involvement... her hopes..aspirations... and fears...and motivations about her role...
Had no idea you guys existed. Glad I get to hear people talk about the James Bond movies for hours!! :)
Welcome!
Please have a look around; you're quite likely to enjoy something else they've done.
Most of the fans of the loadingreadyrun channel got lured here by one thing that neatly aligned with their interests, then found something else they liked, and eventually wound up watching lots of stuff they do.
For anyone wondering, rock salt in shotgun shells is a hillbilly solution to non-lethal rounds for scaring off animals and such. Source: am descended from hillbillies.
All I know about rock salt comes from kill bill. Suddenly it makes more sense. Thanks!
Monday afternoon, is still Monday
In the same scene that Maude Adams is in the background, Will Ferrell also makes an appearence!
This movie's villain makes me hope that, eventually, there's a spin off of this series where Graham and Matt go through the Bond Video games. Christopher Walken's quirks in this movie are really close to Willem Dafoe's in Everything or Nothing.
I am hoping for at least one Austin Powers special episode.
That was intentional - Willem Defoe's character from EoN (see what they did there with the initials?) is explicitly stated to have been Zorin's protégé.
Finally! Couldn’t wait any longer :)
To clear up the “Why are Soviets in San Francisco?” question...There was actually a Soviet embassy in San Francisco in 1985.
I'm really looking forward to The Living Daylights and License to Kill. I think they're both extremely solid James Bond movies and honestly if you asked me who my favourite Bond is I'd be tossing up between Dalton and Brosnen
Yes! Time to be engaged and time to engage in the formula!
I wanna see the outtakes of that iceberg submarine bumping into other icebergs. “Pardon me. Sorry. But it’s quite difficult to see where I’m... oh, sorry.”
Mayday joins Jaws and Oddjob as "Henchmen more interesting than the villains so they get to be playable in Goldeneye 007"
love these !!! keep em coming
Great review. Great to see the A View to a Kill theme song get a lot of love. That song rules.
20 minutes to midnight still technically counts as Monday evening supposedly. Thanks CZcams, it would have been nice to be awake on Tuesday.
cant wait for the next 2, timothy dalton might be my favorite bond
The Brosnan films loved the "famous rich guy villain" trope, but it fell off hard in the Craig years. They really need to revive it.
I mean they kiiiinda did it with Quantum of Solace.
@@OzPearsall Kind of, just barely. I'd give Greene a half point. Like Goldfinger or Elektra King, he's well-known in certain professional circles, but Bond still needs someone to explain to him who he is and what he does. So I guess that means Craig's had 0.5 Famous Rich Guy Villains over the course of 5 films, while Brosnan had 2.5 over 4. We gotta pump these numbers up.
Matt's editing is amazing as always, big massive props to you. (and the rest of the podcasts pretty good too!)
1:33:37 God, I am so impressed with Matt G's editing skills and jokes and feel so bad that I listen to these at work while working on cars. Dammit, I genuinely feel so bad I've missed so much you beautiful bastard.
Alison Doody would go on to star in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, arguably her more famous role.
I don’t think there will be any argument.
I'm a huge fan of that movie and I always love to point out that there were actually 5 cast members in The Last Crusade that appeared in various Bond films!
I've been waiting for this.
It is interesting that Tom Cruise is still filming Mission Impossible movies at the same age as Roger Moore was in this movie.
Don't smoke, kids. Roger Moore apparently loved him a cigar or two.
Also, they may just have better plastic surgery in 2020.
I ADORE the living daylights and I am very excited to see what you guys think of it
I'm glad the two of you actually liked this one, it's one of my favorite Moore films and the song *definitely* slaps.
If you listen to the tracks on this you can hear a very subtle influence of OHMSS which makes jt even more.awesome. i think its most apparent in hes dangerous and golden gate fight.
This was also my first "seen in theater" Bond film. I did see Never Say Never Again in the theater, but my first sentence stands :)
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Really glad to have this today.
To be fair, the guy who basically was Gidea Park (Adrian Baker) was an on-again/off-again touring member of the Beach Boys (doing the falsetto parts), with stints before and after 1985.
I just started the vodcast, but if they don't pronounce View to a Kill by Duran Duran to be the King of Slaps, then I'm going to have to send a very stern and angry email to their managers.
Patience is a virtue. Thanks for this; I expect to enjoy it immensely (like all the rest)!
From what I've heard, John Glen said that he felt that Roger Moore could've gone on to do two more Bond films. As much as I liked Roger in A View to a Kill, I agree that he did look way to old to be in that film, so him being in Living Daylights and Licence to Kill would seem a bit too much.
I heard as much too and I can't believe that. At this point of Moore's tenure has Bond, he needed to be doubled throwing a punch. He should have called it quits after Moonraker.
@@ricardocantoral7672 Indeed, Moonraker, then ELSEWHERE ~ ⏳
The living daylights is my favourite bond film
Timothy Dalton is my favourite Bond. I'm looking forward to next week.
Sad to see roger go and reminds me that he isn’t with us anymore such a great man.
VERY unpopular choice, though this is my favourite Roger Moore Bond film.
Choosing between this and Moonraker is really tough for me. Everything with Jaws is so good, but MayDay is at least as much fun. Zorin is a better villian, but the blimp stuff (while cool) isn't quite as good as the SPACE STATION! The Eiffel Tower stuff is as good an action set-piece as the cable car... the horse stuff is memorable, but kind of slow. There's just a lot of back and forth for me.
I never noticed this whenever I previously watched it, but the screen-shots really drive home that Moore has had SOME kind of 'work' done on his face. I mean, his face is smoother/tighter (plus the mole is gone), but it's much more obvious how *different* he looks in the stills. Also, if you guys want a quick laugh, most of the shots used in the Connery DVDs have been ridiculously smoothed over and air-brushed, to the point that the close-ups look like they're paintings.
The ski chase from OHMSS and the ski chase in this one have VERY similar scoring...not really a surprise since they were both scored by John Barry but I have always ADORED OHMSS ski chase and the music therein so stands to reason why I love this one
Matt G continuing to just dunk on our hosts. You really make these videos. I mean, obviously you *make* these videos but you're just hilarious in your savagery and I am here for it.
"Silicon Valley" in 1985 most certainly meant San Jose, and Cupertino, where Apple, HP, and other early tech hardware companies would have been. You might be able to see the outline of San Jose's skyline, but SF and SJ are an hour's drive apart in minimal traffic.
Hayward and San Andreas being "The Big Ones" in terms of Fault lines, and Griffiths, you have no idea. California is just kinda "seismic fault".maps
2:00:50 Tragically. Beruit? Levelled the Port and most of the surrounding city? the AN of ANFO.
As a former student of geography, oh lord do I understand how complex the faultlines of the pacific rim are. "Why does anyone live there?" is the real question.
@@mattgriffiths9448 Looking at the skyline of Naples, you might think there's some optical illusion with depth perception going on. But when you look at a satellite view, the city actually wraps around an active volcano with a history of devastating eruptions.
@@Yora21 Humans are amazingly bad at judging dangers of situations they are not immediately confronted with. Volcano? Eh, probably won't erupt any time soon. Fault lines? I'm sure the next big earthquake still is many years away. CO2 levels? How bad could one or two meters of ocean level rise really be!
Heh, they Moore'd the blimp to the bridge.
I noticed that too when I watched the film for the first time yesterday
I don't know if it was intentional, but it did make me chuckle
Zorin goes the full Jack Torrance
on the Golden Gate .
On a less fun note, ANFO is effectively what was being stored in Beirut. So, yeah, that’s what that would look like...
But loving these videos, brightens up my Monday every week, thanks guys!
Yeah, ANFO has lots of not-fun real-world associations. Being one of the more famous, easy, and effective improvised explosives makes it the go-to choice for insurgents and terrorists and a common component of industrial/shipping accidents.
I Love the Living Daylights and Timothy Dalton has a Bond, he brought a much needed "tougher" view on Bond and someone who felt more like a Rebel. It will be very fun to see what happened next week.
I think The Living Daylights might actually be my favorite Bond movie. This whole era of movies is what is for me "Classic Bond".
The Living Daylights is For Your Eyes Only on steroids.
I agree that Timothy Dalton was great. I wish he could have done a couple more movies between License to Kill and Goldeneye.
Roger Moore looks "younger" here because he got plastic surgery prior to this movie... a decision that has universally been regarded as a bad one. Even Moore stated that he somewhat regretted it.
I suspect that they were still working on getting Pierce Brosnan for Bond at this time, knowing they'd be replacing Moore. I'm not sure of the timeline, but I do know between this and The Living Daylights that Brosnan was pretty much on board, except that his contract for Remington Steele was renewed at the last moment, which meant they had to get Timothy Dalton.
I'd say this movie has one of John Barry's best scores, and that theme that plays in Siberia and in the Golden Gate Bridge climax is somewhat transposed from the OHMSS theme - similar descending bass line, Bondian melody on top, compounded by the guitar screeches and such. Very '80s, but a perfect update of the older motifs.
This movie began a trend that still continues to this day with theme songs. Prior to this, Bond themes were sung by good vocalists who weren't necessarily the biggest pop/rock stars of the day (Sheena Easton's fame came later after she hooked up with Prince). Sure, Nancy Sinatra, Shirley Bassey, and Tom Jones were known... but they weren't the biggest stars of the day. From here on... Duran Duran, a-Ha, Tina Turner (with a song written by Bono and The Edge), Sheryl Crow, Garbage, Madonna, Chris Cornell, Adele, etc. It all started 'cuz of John Taylor's quip to Cubby Broccoli.
Also, this was the second movie of three-in-a-row where the plot is motivated by the death of another double-0. 009 in Octopussy, 003 in A View to a Kill, 004 in The Living Daylights... I always was bothered by the fact that Bond almost never had an interaction with another double-0 beyond having to pick up where another one failed, or to be reminded that if he fails, 008 will take over. Goldfinger - "If I don't report in, 008 replaces me." The Living Daylights - "008 can do it. He follows orders, not instincts." I liked that Goldeneye began with 007 and 006 as partners, fellow double-0s on a mission together... but my excitement for that died after a whole minute realizing that Sean Bean would likely be the bad guy (even as a 14-year-old, I recognized him from other movies, usually as a villain). T'would be nice to see Bond actually having a successful mission or even regular cooperative interaction with a fellow double-0.
Alison Doody (Jenny Flex)... later to star in Taffin with future Bond Pierce Brosnan, and with past Bond Sean Connery in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.
Maud Adams (Octopussy, "Miss Anders" in The Man with the Golden Gun) is somewhere in the background in the scene on the fisherman's wharf when Bond meets with Chuck Lee (why they didn't make him Felix Leiter, I'll never understand... but I guess knowing they were gonna kill the character, it makes sense).
Manning Redwood, who plays Zorin's chief engineer and the "mine owner" was also the American general in Never Say Never Again, the one who says, "Wonderful, that means it's all over the Kremlin!" in the NATO scene when S.P.E.C.T.R.E. makes its demands.
The dinner scene, I think, was supposed to be a self-aware moment that Moore was far too long-in-the-tooth by this point; 57-year-old Roger Moore (and looking very much so even with the plastic surgery) bedding a 30-year-old Tanya Roberts... well, of course, Bond has to get the girl at the end, but I suspect the producers knew they were treading very thin ice with his age by that point, so the dinner scene felt a little more friendly/paternal than romantic.
That sene when Scarpine is told to get Bond and he gives Zorin the "you want me to do what?" look... same gag as Octopussy. I enjoy that.
"Why does Zorin have sticks of dynamite on his blimp?" "Why not?" "Fine!" Okay... THAT pretty much explains ALL of the silliness we've seen in ANY Bond movie before or since.
Q is not a field agent, and on top of that, he's proud of his surveillance device, so of course he wouldn't just walk up to the door and knock.
Good series, guys. I mean, I question your tastes, LOL... but oh well. It's still fun to listen to. So, thank you.
What about Live & Let Die by Wings? Pretty much the precursor to Duran Duran’s View To A Kill in my opinion. Both are hard hitting pop rock songs by a huge at the time band. The two best Bond songs in my book.
@@mrmisterjingles They both make it in my top five Bond songs !
@@mrmisterjingles Y'know, I'm so not a fan of that movie that I keep forgetting about that one. Yes, that one is an exception and was a bona fide mega-pop/rock star doing the theme for a Bond movie prior to Duran Duran. Plus the fact that George Martin (McCartney's and The Beatles' producer) did the score for that movie 'cuz John Barry was unavailable, and since McCartney/Wings did the theme, it made sense.
But yes, point taken - Live and Let Die was the first major mainstream pop/rock song used for a Bond theme, but was the only one 'til Duran Duran did A View to a Kill.
Thank you G
Oh boy, Dalton is coming 😁
Stand back!
Probably not a popular opinion, but the song by Duran Duran, is the best song of every James Bond
Before you can become a hansom cab driver, you must learn the Horse Knowledge.
So it looks like it’s just the old British people being party poopers of the young bad guy
The almost-retired-Bond hooks up with children is in full effect and it is creeping me out. I didn't notice as a kid, everyone looked old to me, but watching this podcast is making me very uncomfortable over and over and over. And I was already on the Bond is a creep train. (Though, of course, with some lingering fondness for the memories, and your joy is contagious :) )
I honestly found Bond pretty un-rapey in this one. Un-rapey obviously being the standard we all strive for.
The mine exit scene was filmed at Amberley, West Sussex and you can see it at the living museum they have there. Its a very good day out tbh.
The title, I think, is from a song about a fox hunter called John Peel.
"Yes, I ken John Peel and his Ruby, too!
Ranter and Ringwood, Bellman so true!
From a find to a check, from a check to a view,
From a view to a kill in the morning."
This movie is very much a guilty pleasure for me. It has a lot of issues (in particular that horse subplot that went nowhere and as it turns out was only put into the film because Cubby Brocoli reay loved horse racing), but over all it's still a fun watch.
Thanks in large part to Roger Moore, Christopher Walken and Grace Jones. They were the highlights of this film.
Also the track you were talking about in the beginning that plays throughout the film has two versions in the soundtrack. He's Dangerous, which plays during the fire truck chase. And The Golden Gate Fight, which the title pretty much sats when it was used. This and Living Daights are my all time favourite John Barry scores, with the latter being his perfect Swan Song work.
I'm always surprised that the James Bond movies haven't used music from the band Bond in their soundtrack. They're work was inspired by James Bond soundtracks and they're amazingly good as soundtrack meat.
Ms. Sutton has been reading that Winchester lore.
Almost every guy who played Bond said he should be played by someone between 35 and 40.
My favorite credit was in, I believe it was prometheus, was 'microwave technician'.
They call Stacy's boss "the Mayor" like 5 times when he's not the mayor.....the door on his office says hes head of mines and resources or something.