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source: Metro-Goldwyn-MayerĪfter a slew of drab heavies, Max Zorin is just he shot in the arm this series needed. Three Bonds, two M’s, and one cinematic legacy later, I’ll always miss her flirtatious moments with James, even if she only appeared in a solitary scene.

No), Lois Maxwell will also be departing alongside Moore. Making her fourteenth consecutive appearance as Miss Moneypenny (seriously, she’s reported for duty in every film since Dr. But first, we must bid farewell to another franchise stalwart. Off to the races! Literally, the entire staff of MI6 heads over to the racetrack to scope out our Bond Villain. Extra points go to the visuals in the credit sequence, which features a rich dichotomy of ice and fire, and some glorious shots of downhill skiers adorned in dayglo ribbons.

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source: Metro-Goldwyn-MayerĪnd how about these crazy lyrics! “First crystal tears / Fallen snowflakes on your body / First time in years / To drench your skin of lover’s rosy stain / A chance to find the phoenix for the flame / A chance to die / But can we dance into the fire / The fatal kiss is all we need!” I love it. After a series of soft ballads that openly revere 007, Duran Duran kicks the doors in and goes extremely hard with this supernova of sonic goodness. But “A View to a Kill” really gets the blood flowing, in ways no other song in the franchise does. And yes, “Nobody Does It Better” is truly exquisite. Yes, “Live and Let Die” is a stellar bop. Past and present, always and forever, I will officially declare this as if it were an objective fact: Duran Duran’s theme song is the greatest James Bond song ever composed. Okay, let’s lay all the cards on the table. Bond shoots a helicopter down with a flare before shacking up with a gorgeous blonde agent in a submarine disguised as an iceberg. He’s almost immediately spotted by enemy soldiers, necessitating a quick escape, during which Bond inadvertently invents snowboarding while a Beach Boys cover band sings “California Girls.” Scoff all you want, I’m busy grinning ear to ear. Moore’s ultimate cold open is an especially chilly one, finding the agent in snow-covered Siberia, exhuming the corpse of 003 to locate a special microchip. Let’s base jump off the Eiffel Tower and into the action. The year is 1985 – what a time to be alive. We’re gonna cover it all, and hopefully, I’ll make a believer out of you yet. But the worst? With these villains? With *that* theme song? Absolutely not.

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So you’ll have to forgive me as I buck the trend of the general consensus and proudly proclaim that I think this movie is a total blast. And sure, if one were to take the aggregate totals of all Bond reviews, A View to a Kill lands somewhere near the bottom.

Hell, even Moore quipped that he was “only four hundred years too old for the part.” The age certainly shows – you could host a drinking game for every instance you spot Moore’s stunt double, and everyone would be properly sauced by the end of the Paris sequence (best not to attempt such a thing). This brings us to this week’s entry, A View to a Kill. Every time I run through the series, I always find it tough to say goodbye to a Bond, and today is no exception. Besides, who else could pull off that clown makeup with such panache? Not Timothy Dalton, that’s for sure. Drop Craig into Moonraker, and the enterprise falls apart quickly. Whether or not he was the best is a matter of taste all that matters is he was the best at what he did.Īnd what he did was so much fun! A suave presence with ace comic timing, Moore was game to take the series to stratospheric heights of goofiness, yet it never felt any less credible in his hands. Twelve years and seven later, Moore appeared in more (official) films than any other Bond Actor. The party I’m referring to, of course, is the tenure of Sir Roger Moore. Not this column we have plenty of entries to go before we reach that conclusion. In the No Time To Die Countdown, Jake Tropila takes a look back at every Bond film – official and unofficial – in anticipation of the release of the latest entry.Īlas, the party had to end at some point.