"Yeah. I reckon out of the five John Glen directed, FYEO was definitely his best effort. It went downhill with Octopussy, but I still found the film to be impressive.

AVTAK is one of my favorites but not quite up there with FYEO - though I'm probably the only person who loved AVTAK and Glen's directing.

The Living Daylights is a darn great Bond film, Dalton's the best Bond and I always debate whether I prefer AVTAK or TLD, depends on my mood.

Licence To Kill however, which John Glen considered his best, was my least favorite Bond film of the 80's by far... That's not to say I didn't like it, I do mostly. It's just a far cry from the previous four entries, not really a Bond movie and misses out so much - and mainly because of Dalton's slightly disappointing second outing alone, he needed at least two more films! Maybe AVTAK or two from the early 90's. "

"Well... Because I did. I thought it was superb, and the most underrated in the series.
I loved the action - Eiffel Tower chase, car scene in Paris, horse racing scene between Bond and Zorin, the fire truck chase in San Francisco especially and the final fight scene on top of the Golden Gate Bridge.
The soundtrack was also quite a success.
Once the film reached San Francisco, that's where it becomes truly exciting. The two locations in North France and especially San Francisco were incredible.

I didn't mind Grace Jones at all, and Christopher Walken's part as Zorin was incredible - he probably made the best Bond villain I've ever seen, besides Blofeld.
The plot is the other factor behind the success of the film to me, and better than Goldfinger's, despite being similar. Goldfinger went downhill once it reached Kentucky, boring location and not enough action.

My only flaw with AVTAK, and even I agree with this. Roger Moore. He was too old and should have said never again after For Your Eyes Only. His age on Octopussy was a minor problem, but on this it is a whole new story. He seems to have aged 10 years in only two years. Still a good performance from Moore, and he was serious most of the film - similar to his FYEO performance.


FYEO is amazing, OP is impressive, AVTAK is superb, TLD is great and LTK is poor. "

""I got me a regular Ben-hood down here, doin' ninety-five - minimum!"

"Ya need any help, J.W.?"

"HELLLL NO!" "

"If you'd take that sentence^^ and swap around the titles AVTAK and LTK then we'd be in complete agreement. ;)

I agree with you about Roger being 57 - 58 in AVTAK, it was one too many for me.
I used to think FYEO shoulda been his final outing but I dunno... even OP was pretty good and Moore's age wasn't as obvious there as you said. It wwas a worthy entry overall and could have served well as Rogers swan song.
I'm still of the opinion if Dalton was in AVTAK and the film was suited to his style a bit more (no Beach boys during the ski chase, less camp and a younger meaner Bond) then it would've worked. Dalton deserved more than two entry's, I say! Damned early '90s legal troubles... :["

"Yes."

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