tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5497928641398322495.post3388111207176176902..comments2024-03-23T12:33:33.918-04:00Comments on Junta Juleil's Culture Shock: Film Review: LICENCE TO KILL (1989, John Glen)Sean Gillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00537515557596273876noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5497928641398322495.post-16582048766571856892015-01-07T17:52:20.410-05:002015-01-07T17:52:20.410-05:00Nice! I haven't seen DANGEROUSLY CLOSE in ages...Nice! I haven't seen DANGEROUSLY CLOSE in ages! I checked it out after seeing her LICENCE TO KILL.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08164105442273577128noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5497928641398322495.post-33696277553976940232015-01-07T14:16:08.315-05:002015-01-07T14:16:08.315-05:00John,
I did not have the pleasure of seeing this ...John,<br /><br />I did not have the pleasure of seeing this as a child, though I could see how it would naturally lend itself to a G.I. Joe extravaganza. Love REMO WILLIAMS as well– the Statue of Liberty scenario was quite inspirational to my childhood play!<br /><br />J.D.,<br /><br />'Tis a pity Ironside never played a Bond baddie, but at least we've got Davi! Carey Lowell is indeed a solid Bond girl; I intend eventually to review the Cannon/Pyun films she starred in, DANGEROUSLY CLOSE and DOWN TWISTED.<br />Sean Gillhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00537515557596273876noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5497928641398322495.post-84090080614842422042015-01-07T14:03:13.443-05:002015-01-07T14:03:13.443-05:00I do have a soft spot for this movie and in retros...I do have a soft spot for this movie and in retrospect it anticipates the harder-edged Daniel Craig movies by more than a few years!<br /><br />Love Robert Davi in this one - he reminds me of Michael Ironside in that he fully commits in every role he does and isn't afraid to have fun with it and man, is he bad man in LICENCE TO KILL. It is one of the few times I felt that Bond was in actual danger.<br /><br />Carey Lowell never looked finer than in this movie and she ranks right up there in the pantheon of Bond girls for me. There's just something about her tomboyish, no-nonsense vibe yet with a sexy-as-hell look.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08164105442273577128noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5497928641398322495.post-16960635104646548952015-01-07T09:56:31.467-05:002015-01-07T09:56:31.467-05:00Glad to see this one finally made it to the blog, ...Glad to see this one finally made it to the blog, for me it holds a special place because I can remember as a kid this was one of those movies that was great to accompany G.I. Joe play on the carpet in front of the tv. The madcap action sequences and overall sense of adventure and danger made it perfect for inspiring mini-battles amongst my Joes. Another movie that was great for the same purpose was REMO WILLIAMS: THE ADVENTURE BEGINS.John Guedeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16977371064737979240noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5497928641398322495.post-4591268647957012182015-01-06T12:57:25.184-05:002015-01-06T12:57:25.184-05:00Cannon,
Very well said, and some magnificent obse...Cannon,<br /><br />Very well said, and some magnificent observations! Indeed it does occupy that magical "1989" headspace á la the cologne commercials of the era. And I have to imagine, that if Crockett and Tubbs are dining undercover at Davi's pleasure palace, then his bejeweled iguana might just have to face off against Crockett's pet alligator in some kind of trashy Miami reptile kumite.Sean Gillhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00537515557596273876noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5497928641398322495.post-39765508675333496172015-01-05T12:47:31.108-05:002015-01-05T12:47:31.108-05:00Yeah. I've said elsewhere, this is basically t...Yeah. I've said elsewhere, this is basically the <b>Lethal Weapon</b> of Bonds. But then, the franchise has always appropriated the times. Consider how the Roger Moore era ranged from Blaxploitation to going full-retard <b>Star Wars</b>, or how the Brosnans were so eager to make internet hacking feel "new" and "exciting". <br /><br />But I love <b>Licence to Kill</b> specifically for its explicit sinister nature and for unleashing Bond in all-bets-off revenge mode long before the Craig films made it fashionable.<br /><br />Other pluses for me:<br /><br />Pre-<b>Mortal Kombat</b> appearances by Talisa Soto and Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa.<br /><br />Carey Lowell as the first-and-only Robert Palmer backup Bond girl.<br /><br />Robert Davi's elaborate, 'Stairway to Heaven' style, Acapulco palace villa, where you can easily imagine an undercover Crockett and Tubbs dining one overlook below.<br /><br />And, yes, Del Toro:<br /><br /><i>"What have you done with my wife?!" <br /><br />"Don't worry. We gave her a nice honeymooooohnnn!"</i><br /><br />The movie's also got some kickass action sequences. That tanker chase is a marvel of stunt-work and pyrotechnics, and Bond's "Lighter's lighter" pun kill. <br /><br />And finally, I have a soft spot for the way Patti LaBelle's 'If You Ask Me To' plays over the aforementioned swimming pool closing scene. There is something so distinctly "1989" about that moment: pool-lit romance to the sounds of decade's end, easy listening R&B—very VH1esque. <br /><br />It was like a cologne commercial from the same era.Cannonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12886860130286869992noreply@blogger.com