The James Bond Series

[Sabreman]

Speaking of License to Kill, I'm making my way through the books at the moment. While Casino Royale was reasonably close to the eventual movie (though expanded greatly on screen), the novel of Live and Let Die contains a fair chunk of what ended up in the movie version of License to Kill, has barely any of the voodoo, and none of the car/boat chase, dumb sheriff, and crocodiddlio stuff. Mr. Big does kiiiind of get exploded at the end, but certainly not in the way the movie has it.

 

Moonraker the novel is going to be fascinating for sure.

[Hanzo the Razor]

1 hour ago, Anne Summers said:

The Living Daylights - Indiana Bond and the Raiders of the Lost Ark. The films have transitioned fully into 80s style action blockbusters now. The fights, effects and action scenes are way better than they were a couple of movies back. I guess this is a trend that's still going strong today,another 20 years and another 10 films down the road. First time I've watched one of the Dalton films since probably their TV premieres on ITV back in the day. He's pretty good, after Roger Moore!

 

I'm old enough to remember there being some sort of tie in between The Living Daylights and Trio biscuits at the time of it's release. I remember the adverts clearly. Then it being a big story in the papers that Licence To Kill was to be the first Bond film to get a 15 rating. I think they had to cut it to ribbons to avoid an 18 at the time.

[Anne Summers]

Even Living Daylights feels significantly more adult that the final films of the Moore era, which seems to do things like go out of their way to show you that baddies weren't actually dying, but Bond was just incapacitating them or putting them out of action - showing them climbing out of car wrecks after Bond had made them crash, and things like that. Stuff you expect to see in a family film. Whereas TLD starts off right away with people dying in the intro scene where Bond is infiltrating Gibraltar. Seems a deliberately conscious effort to show us that they are trying to make it a bit grittier and harder hitting now Dalton has taken over.