Here's a scene that would never be done today (explanation in comments)
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There's a second bit of context to this film:
This, The living daylights and Licence to Kill are the only two Bond films with Timothy Dalton. When he came in it was the tail end of the cold War so they didn't want to paint it as 'those evil Soviets' as the villains and they didn't have an evil organisation like Spectre to fall back on. So both of these films played more into the narrative of the war on drugs with this one being the opium trade and the film after being about South American cartels.
Timothy Dalton also gets a under-appreciated as he plays Bond more like an assassin like in the books and I do like his more cold take on bond which is why I rate him third in my list of Bonds.
He's my favorite bond actually. He's the coolest in my opinion. Pierce Brosnan plays a pretty good Bond, but I don't think his movies are very good.
For me it goes Dalton as number 1, Roger Moore as number 2, Pierce Brosnan and Sean Connery are pretty much tied for me as number 3
That guy who only had one movie, which I've only seen once and don't really remember is by default number 4
and Daniel Craig sucks, so number 5.
I really dislike Daniel Craig as "Bond". Think of a scene with Daniel Craig's Bond. Is he scowling or looking mopey....Gonna guess that when you thought of his Bond that's the image that conjured up.
About the one thing Bond should never be is mopey looking, and that's what they went with Daniel Craig's "Bond" and his default face throughout all his movies. There's nothing suave or cool about Daniel Craig's Bond.
That's the downside of leaving your franchise hanging for a few years and letting Matt Damon release a series of movies that redefines your own genre for a new generation.
Because every spy movie since, including all the Bonds, seem to be downstream from Jason Bourne.
That and Austin Powers being seen as
peekpeak Bond spoof which led to the "dark and gritty" reboot of Craig's Bond in the first place.Fun trivia. Both Austin Powers and Bourne were both some of the lowest rated "Test screenings" for their respect companies and both were sent out to die in theaters quietly, only to flip and become massive trilogies that changed the industry to this day.
Proving as always that test audiences are some of the most retarded people in this country, and don't get called out nearly as much as they deserve for probably being a solid chunk of why all movies turn out as horseshit as they do.