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 Posted:   Jan 22, 2025 - 6:42 PM   
 By:   ChuckNoland   (Member)

Just putting it out there, maybe it will manifest. Anyone with me?

A VIEW TO A KILL...

LALALAND.....

Think about it....

 
 
 Posted:   Jan 22, 2025 - 7:47 PM   
 By:   henry   (Member)

Good chance this year since it’s the 40th anniversary.

 
 Posted:   Jan 22, 2025 - 8:12 PM   
 By:   BornOfAJackal   (Member)

The A View to a Kill score is the second-best Bad Bond Movie score, right after The Man with the Golden Gun.

Gimme!

 
 
 Posted:   Jan 22, 2025 - 10:13 PM   
 By:   c8   (Member)

This is THE Bond score I’m holding my breath for. That guitar led action motif is just *chef’s kiss*.

And I don’t care how hard you judge me but I don’t get the hate for this one. This is up there with my favorite Bond films.

 
 Posted:   Jan 22, 2025 - 10:16 PM   
 By:   Steve H   (Member)

I'll be all over this one for the steeplechase chase cue alone!

 
 Posted:   Jan 23, 2025 - 12:36 AM   
 By:   Stephen Woolston   (Member)

Based on recent history, I think there's reason to be optimistic.

Cheers

 
 
 Posted:   Jan 23, 2025 - 1:47 AM   
 By:   jamesluckard   (Member)

I'll be all over this one for the steeplechase chase cue alone!

I'm eagerly awaiting the main theme fanfare on brass as Bond descends the ladder from the burning building, one of the great moments in film scoring:



I can't find that moment in any of the clips of that scene, they all end before it or start after it, but you can basically see it in this multi-angle feature from the DVD at 0:48

 
 
 Posted:   Jan 23, 2025 - 4:34 AM   
 By:   bladerunner76   (Member)

I'll take amazing film scores to godawful movies for $800, Alex

 
 Posted:   Jan 23, 2025 - 5:31 AM   
 By:   JeffM   (Member)

This was the first Bond I saw in theaters. I love this one.

 
 Posted:   Jan 23, 2025 - 5:52 AM   
 By:   johnonymous86   (Member)

I remember feeling like a REAL collector when I ordered the Japanese version of this score on CD with the OBI and everything. I used to stare at the liner notes wondering what they said.

I played it endlessly on my Sony Walkman and this is still a sentimental favorite, although it doesn't get played as much as DAF and TLD, it's a solid Bond score with some really great suspenseful writing ("Destroy Silicon Valley" is a personal favorite, such beautiful music for a discussion about mass murder).

Also has one of the cooler cover illustrations, imo, with Bond and Stacy defying gravity and the laws of physics standing on the side of a cable on the Golden Gate Bridge big grin

I would buy this in a heartbeat.

 
 
 Posted:   Jan 23, 2025 - 6:11 AM   
 By:   Disco Stu   (Member)

I'll take amazing film scores to godawful movies for $800, Alex

I'll take very entertaining film with an awful score. The Durex Durex song is awful and that grating guitar cry in the action tracks is like rubbing the 11th finger with splinters in it.

D.S.

 
 Posted:   Jan 23, 2025 - 6:19 AM   
 By:   Shaun Rutherford   (Member)

Says DISCO Stu!

 
 
 Posted:   Jan 23, 2025 - 6:26 AM   
 By:   jkannry   (Member)

This is THE Bond score I’m holding my breath for. That guitar led action motif is just *chef’s kiss*.

And I don’t care how hard you judge me but I don’t get the hate for this one. This is up there with my favorite Bond films.


Never understood the hate for this one either other than Moore looked his age. Liked the plot. And liked the craziness of having an insane CEO. This was a time when we thought leaders of corporations and governments could not be crazy. It’s the first Bond movie to do this and I think the next one was Tomorrow Never Dies.

Plus you have a true pop hit at a really excellent score.

 
 
 Posted:   Jan 23, 2025 - 6:27 AM   
 By:   BasilDowl   (Member)

Barry was on fine form for this one, and I'm confident LLL will bring us a cracker later this year. The steeplechase/Inferno cue alone will be worth the £40.

 
 
 Posted:   Jan 23, 2025 - 6:27 AM   
 By:   jkannry   (Member)

I remember feeling like a REAL collector when I ordered the Japanese version of this score on CD with the OBI and everything. I used to stare at the liner notes wondering what they said.

I played it endlessly on my Sony Walkman and this is still a sentimental favorite, although it doesn't get played as much as DAF and TLD, it's a solid Bond score with some really great suspenseful writing ("Destroy Silicon Valley" is a personal favorite, such beautiful music for a discussion about mass murder).

Also has one of the cooler cover illustrations, imo, with Bond and Stacy defying gravity and the laws of physics standing on the side of a cable on the Golden Gate Bridge big grin

I would buy this in a heartbeat.


I bought the Japanese one too. And I bought the American version when they finally released it in 2003. Agree on the artwork.

 
 
 Posted:   Jan 23, 2025 - 6:28 AM   
 By:   jkannry   (Member)

I'll take amazing film scores to godawful movies for $800, Alex

I'll take very entertaining film with an awful score. The Durex Durex song is awful and that grating guitar cry in the action tracks is like rubbing the 11th finger with splinters in it.

D.S.


Stu I love your music. It is some of the best music I’ve ever heard for television. But I totally disagree with your assessment of AVTAK.

 
 
 Posted:   Jan 23, 2025 - 6:30 AM   
 By:   BasilDowl   (Member)

This is THE Bond score I’m holding my breath for. That guitar led action motif is just *chef’s kiss*.

And I don’t care how hard you judge me but I don’t get the hate for this one. This is up there with my favorite Bond films.


Never understood the hate for this one either other than Moore looked his age. Liked the plot. And liked the craziness of having an insane CEO. This was a time when we thought leaders of corporations and governments could not be crazy. It’s the first Bond movie to do this and I think the next one was Tomorrow Never Dies.

Plus you have a true pop hit at a really excellent score.


Completely agree. Moore's age and one or two ropey lines aside, it's a very good Bond film. Grace Jones acquits herself really well and Patrick Macnee is great. The score is superb, and I can't wait to hear it in full, powerful remastered glory!

 
 Posted:   Jan 23, 2025 - 6:39 AM   
 By:   AdoKrycha007   (Member)

Moore in this film looked worse than my grandmother at 80 (and that hair styled with hairspray like in cheap 1970s porn from West Germany!).

It completely distorted the overall very good quality of this film, also script-wise.

 
 Posted:   Jan 23, 2025 - 6:44 AM   
 By:   SBD   (Member)

I'll be all over this one for the steeplechase chase cue alone!

I'm eagerly awaiting the main theme fanfare on brass as Bond descends the ladder from the burning building, one of the great moments in film scoring:





Where the horns practically sing out ‘…dance into the fire!’. So glad Silva re-recorded that part for their compilations.

 
 
 Posted:   Jan 23, 2025 - 6:52 AM   
 By:   djintrepid   (Member)

Out of all the possible Bond expansions, this is the one I'm most excited/hoping for. I've loved the score and the Duran Duran song going way back to 1985 when I first watched it at the cinema. I think I went back 2 more times to see it and I played the hell outta the cassette tape until it was done for.

 
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