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Moore should have gone out from the series after "Octopussy". A better film, better women (Can hardly wait for the spotlight, neo!) and he proved in 1983 that he could play Bond better than Connery did in his one-shot return in an inferior movie.
Agreed: Connery and Moore both did one too Bond many. I read somewhere that OCTO out-performed NSNA in nearly every country. But I don't blame Connery for that; I think John Barry "played Bond" better than Michel LeGrand. And a mature Maud Adams was a great match with Moore at that point in their careers.
But even AVTAK has its pleasures. The music score is outstanding, I like Tanya Roberts, and Patrick MacNee gets in a Bond appearance almost 20 years after his co-star Honor Blackman.
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No Harm - No Foul Department:
REE-lax, Bruce-O (even us Immortals learn Life's too long in its shortness to major in minor misrepresentations). We're not here to peevishly provoke, simply sincerely share.
And yer rite as rain, Zap -
was the more commercially-successful of 1983's so-called Battle of the Bonds (a double 00 bill ne'er to be repeated).
[ Tho, as is his characteristic wont, whatever is seriously awry with NSNA has absolutely ZIP to do with The Great Scot - even considering the fact he had far more influence and "power" behind the scenes than was ever dreamed of, or allowed, under the Broccoli-Saltzman banner. So Jack Schwartzman has been conveniently painted as the all-purpose blaggard of a villain whilst Mr. Perfection Incarnate Connery is the smelling-sweet-as-a-victimized rose Innocent.
In that wise sage Admiral Kirk's woids: "Righhhtttttt".
As for the always-charming, cultivated, unassuming and genuinely humble gentleman that he is, Pat Macnee
was quite tickled when Cubby Broccoli invited him aboard (to make it a full-fledged Avengers Quartet following Ms. Blackman, Rigg and Lumley.
And we wholeheartedly echo both sentiments re Ms. Adams, Eric and Meester Zee:
her second stint was far FAR superior to her first ... 
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But even AVTAK has its pleasures.
Ya know, this is the only Bond film that has NOTHING for me to recommend. Even the equally awful MWTGG had a couple o' good scenes ( info available upon request).
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Licence To Kill is for me the one Bond film with nothing to recommend (beyond the novelty of David Hedison returning as Leiter).
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Licence To Kill is for me the one Bond film with nothing to recommend (beyond the novelty of David Hedison returning as Leiter).
You are correct of course. I never think of LTK when i think of the Bond films.
Just awful (and un-Bondian)!
bruce
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I've never seen the other Casino Royale (the recent one). The original though is fun to look at, even when it isn't being funny (which is most of the time).
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One of our favorite Matt Helm vavavavooms: Daliah Lavi
Except she committed the unforgivable sin of shortening Nancy Kovack's screentime in the film!! 
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For women of the 60s with me, Nancy would rank just behind you-know-who in terms of the "wish they'd been Bond girls" list. (I'm looking forward to spotlighting her in the "Burke's Law" thread soon).
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And you may be right re Ms. Jones' alleged complicity (we're hardly an authority - interested or otherwise - having only been exposed to her via this film) but can you conceivably imagine them trying to pull that kinda scene with
and actually having her AGREE to do it (after raising justifiable unholy hell)? ... 
Hey, Neo. Here's some more grist for the Venn diagram of our shared and unshared beliefs.
I'm not a Halle Berry fan, but she is in a different category than Grace Jones was. Berry is viewed as a soft, feminine type. Anatomy is destiny, nowhere more so than in show business, and Berry's features are softer.
And also, before we go calling EON Productions racially insensitive, let's remember that FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE featured a Gypsy cat fight between two snarling white girls, plus an older Russian woman with a poison-tipped blade in her shoe. And Famke Jannsen's sexuality in GOLDENEYE was as disgusting as anything Jones played with Moore.
(AVTAK Spoilers) I find myself thinking it was plausible to make May Day a bitch in the bedroom because-- look at how she murdered Patrick Macnee in the car wash. This is not a nice girl. Taken out of that context, the racial portrait is ugly, but maybe they were trying to be post-racial and say "The days of treating blacks with kidd gloves are over now because they have their rights and we've all grown up about it, so blacks can be villains too."
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From the Bond girl copy-kitten genre:
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