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[Film] Dr Kananga (Yaphet Kotto) Bond villain.
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That was quite an odd bond film.
Great scene with the alligators
Great scene with the alligators
Barnet Seagull
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I'm still psychologically scarred from watching that film with my Dad when I was little.
I honestly believe I have a genuine phobia of New Orleans style Jazz Bands.
I honestly believe I have a genuine phobia of New Orleans style Jazz Bands.
albionalbino
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He was excellent in Alien too.
Great ensemble cast with Harry Dean Stanton, Ian Holm, Tom Skerritt, Sigourney Weaver, Veronica Cartwright and John Hurt.
Great ensemble cast with Harry Dean Stanton, Ian Holm, Tom Skerritt, Sigourney Weaver, Veronica Cartwright and John Hurt.
Me too but also parades. I ALWAYS check who I’m standing next to at events like Pride or the Children’s Parade to make sure I don’t get a blade to the side and end up in a coffin.
One of the worst of the old Bond movies. No Desmond Llewelyn. Someone else than Richard Maibaum writing the script. No John Barry doing the music. No Ken Adam. Lots of the gritty stuff from the book left out in order to make it more comic. And the double role of Dr Kananga is more of a mind**** than anything else (Katto himself did well though). LALD is also very contemporary, it is frozen in the 1970s in a "in your face" way unlike most Bond movies that are somewhat timeless.
RIP, must have been like 200 years old.
RIP, must have been like 200 years old.
bobbab5
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I'll always have a soft spot for FBI Agent Mosley in Midnight Run.
Lenny Rider
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My first Bond film, so lives long in the memory, as Bond Baddies go he was right up there.
"My name is Bond, James Bond"
Mr Big replies "Names is for tombstones baby"
Was also in Arnie's very underrated "The Running Man"
RIP Mr Big.
"My name is Bond, James Bond"
Mr Big replies "Names is for tombstones baby"
Was also in Arnie's very underrated "The Running Man"
RIP Mr Big.
bobbab5
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What a show that was, in many respects better than The Wire.
RossyG
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I don’t see that as a bad thing. I remember Moby the musician saying approvingly that it was like a Seventies Blaxploitation film starring Roger Moore.
Llewelyn, Maibaum, Barry etc I think were dropped as the producers wanted Moore’s Bond to have his own identity. It’s why he asks for bourbon instead of a vodka martini and smokes cigars instead of cigarettes.
KeegansHairPiece
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Always been on of my favourite Bond films, directed by Guy Hamilton who also did Goldfinger, Diamonds AF, Man with TGG. I think most of the films took liberties with the books didn’t they? And McCartney’s theme tune - still one of the most memorable!?
Stato
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Unbelievable that nobody is streaming it. One of the best TV dramas of the nineties. The writing was brilliant. The stories taken from life. Kotto, Belzer, Braugher, Melissa Leo, Ned Beatty - the cast were excellent throughout.
You seem to have mis-typed something in your post though. I don't understand the phrase 'better than The Wire', except when used in the context of 'No television drama ever made has been.... better than 'The Wire'.
RossyG
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Definitely. Diamonds Are Forever, the film that preceded LALD, would’ve had gangsters with a hideout in a western ghost town and a Back to the Future 3 style locomotive chase scene had it followed the book.
And The Spy Who Loved Me film wouldnt have Jaws, the underwater city, the stolen submarines, the lady Russian spy, the submarine Lotus, the skiing off the mountain... It’d be about a woman having two affairs with married men, having an abortion in Switzerland, getting a job in a motel in America, encountering two monsters who try to rape her, and then (over halfway through) James Bond shows up.
Not as uncommon as you might think.
I’ve been seeing a therapist about recurring nightmares on the same theme, where I’m being chased by a man from the brass section.
Apparently he’s a sax maniac.
AmexRuislip
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JamesAndTheGiantHead
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I hope his actual death was a bit more peaceful than his on-screen one.
Still the most I’ve ever laughed during a Bond film
Still the most I’ve ever laughed during a Bond film