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Post by RiP, IMDb on Apr 16, 2020 0:45:17 GMT
A View to a KILL (1985)!!
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Post by darksidebeadle on Apr 16, 2020 0:45:32 GMT
Nay
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Post by movielover on Apr 16, 2020 0:45:44 GMT
Nay
It's been too long since I've seen it, but I remember not liking it. (Great theme song by Duran Duran though.)
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Post by moviemouth on Apr 16, 2020 0:45:47 GMT
yay
The story is moronic, but the movie is consistently entertaining at every turn.
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Post by rudeboy on Apr 16, 2020 0:47:14 GMT
A big nay... dreary, as generic as these things got, awful performance by Tanya Roberts, Moore looks about 100. Walken is quite good and I have a soft spot for Duran Duran. 3/10
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Post by Feologild Oakes on Apr 16, 2020 0:56:41 GMT
I like it
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Post by alpha128 on Apr 16, 2020 1:54:56 GMT
A big Nay from me. The most forgettable of all the Bonds IMO.
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Post by vegalyra on Apr 16, 2020 1:56:10 GMT
Meh for me. Great theme song, and Christopher Walken was great as a bad guy, but it's the most forgettable Moore Bond film in my opinion. I don't hate it, but it's not too good.
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Post by FridayOnElmStreet on Apr 16, 2020 5:36:04 GMT
yay. Underrated fun. 10/10
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Post by darkreviewer2013 on Apr 16, 2020 5:46:11 GMT
I actually like this one. The soundtrack is amazing and Christopher Walken proves to be as great of a villain as one would expect. It drags a bit in the middle and I wish he traveled around a bit more, but it's underrated.
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Post by hitchcockthelegend on Apr 16, 2020 17:26:30 GMT
Meh
It was touch and go if Roger Moore would carry out his intention to quit the franchise, as it happened he slotted into the tux for one last time. A mistake, for although A View to a Kill is hardly the runt of the Bond litter, it's a very lazy Bond movie, one that desperately tries to hide its laziness with production values. On the plus side is that Bond here is mostly gadget free, meaning he has to use his wits and guile to either save himself and others or further his ends. But the overt humour is all over the tired script, a script that lifts from Goldfinger, thus making a mockery of the claims in some quarters that this is a fresh and imaginative Bond! it also includes one of the worst Bond girls of all time in Roberts' Stacey Sutton. Sexy without doubt, gorgeous too, but the character is nothing but a woman in peril excuse and Roberts' delivery of techno speak laughably lacks credibility.
Elsewhere there are some fine performances. I'm very much in the camp that loves Walken's take on Zorin, looking like he has just stepped out of the Aryan Brotherhood, he is maniacal and callous, but Walken knows when to underplay the role and gives the clearly psychotic loon a degree of charm that underpins Zorin's edginess. Grace Jones is one of the more original Bond girls, a villainess who is highly sexual, strong of mind and a physical threat, Jones does fine work with the role, even if a sex scene with Bond is more funny than sexy. Macnee is a welcome addition, his byplay with Moore a highlight and there's a certain thrill to observing John Steed and James Bond together, even if it as two old stagers. Lois Maxwell makes her final appearance as Moneypenny, and thankfully for a change the makers giver her something to do as she goes out in the field. Fiona Fullerton slips in as KGB agent Pola Ivanova, and leaves a very good mark by paying the role with seductive charm and no little skill, really it would have made sense to have had Fullerton in the Stacey Sutton role. Other performances, though, are either weak (Yip, Willoughby Gray) or superfluous (Patrick Bauchau).
Acton wise there is plenty, though not all of it works. An exciting pre-credits sequence is ruined by the crass introduction of a ski-surf escape backed by the Beach Boys singing California Girls, a "half" car chase in Paris is just stupid beyond belief, while a fire engine chase/escape in Frisco serves no purpose and is blighted by crude back projection. However, film is saved by Bond's participation in a steeplechase sequence, a breath taking leap from the Eiffel Tower (B.J. Worth the stunt man), underground flood peril with a murderous Zorin going bonkers and a quite excellent finale atop of the Golden Gate Bridge, resplendent with stricken airship and hand to hand combat. Hume brings vibrancy of colour at the lovely locations and Barry provides a strong score and oversees a belter of a title song by pop sensations Duran Duran. Worldwide box office cashed in $152 million, a big success but considerably down on Octopussy's take. As with all Bond films, it does have fans, but View to a Kill was fairly well assessed by the critics and Bond purists, it is tired and Moore, as game as he was, only aids the lazy feel of the film.
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Post by politicidal on Apr 18, 2020 21:24:35 GMT
Nay.
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Post by bd74 on Apr 19, 2020 5:31:02 GMT
Meh. I don't remember much about it despite having last seen it not too long ago. Grace Jones was in it. Something happens in a mine toward the end. If there was not much memorable about it, it's probably because it was forgettable. The Duran Duran song still holds up well 35 years later.
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Post by theravenking on Jul 14, 2020 10:53:45 GMT
Yay
It's much better than its reputation would suggest. The story may be dumb, but the movie is never boring. It may have been better with someone else than Moore in the lead role though. Some scenes have a harder edge to them which would've benefitted Dalton. Tanya Roberts is not very convincing in a poorly written role, too bad that Alison Doody who has a small role as one of Zorin's henchwomen was only 18 at the time of filming, I believe she would've made a better Bond girl. Moore does look ancient and you can see the stand-ins in some of the action scenes, but he makes up for it with plenty of charm. I also really liked the interplay between him an Patrick Macnee, too bad he was killed off so early.
So, while this has a bit of a guilty pleasure aspect to it, after my recent rewatch I feel that it has aged far better than either Moonraker or The Spy Who Loved Me.
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Post by mstreepsucks on Jul 14, 2020 19:18:53 GMT
I say nay to every bond film after goldfinger. At least up until the pierce brosnon ones, they all seem like nothing but a tax right off.
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Post by Vits on Jul 15, 2020 18:59:12 GMT
1/10
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Post by maxwellperfect on Jul 15, 2020 19:40:21 GMT
Some great bits, some not-so-great parts. Also, when you're watching it, it's hard not think that Moore should have retired from the role at least one movie earlier. Averages out to "meh."
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