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Laughing Gravy	Apr 15 2009, 08:57 PM
Revered in the UK Posts: 11,073 Group: Admin Member #1 Joined: August 31, 2005	James Bond battles a psychopath intent on cornering the world's silicon chip market by destroying silicon valley. I saw this movie 24 years ago, and all I remembered about it was "Damn, Roger Moore is WAY too old to play James Bond." I was right. He was 58, at least 20 years too old (he was in his mid-40s when he assumed the role from Connery). In any case, this was the one and only 007 film Kid Gravy hadn't seen, so in best father-son tradition, we sat down to watch it tonight. He started bitching during the title song (by Duran Duran, remember them? Pro'lly not) and pretty soon just said "Ewwww" whenever Moore sucked face with some actress 30 years younger and "Scary!" whenever Grace Jones appeared at the terrifying ebon assassin May Day. Christopher Walken does what he can with the thankless role of Max Zorin, the nuttsy-cookoo villain, which isn't much. It's a total patchwork job, with sequences lifted from For Your Eyes Only, Live and Let Die, Diamonds are Forever, and Goldfinger. Hell, I'm pretty certain the runaway fire engine sequence was stolen from W.C. Fields' Never Give a Sucker an Even Break. Lame. Oh, and the Bond girls? Tanya Roberts and some other rather pretty blondes who can't act, even by Bond girl standards. Just disappointing all 'way round. Bring on Timothy Dalton, boys, we need him.


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