Back to work tomorrow. I mean, today I did exciting things like... ironing. Oh, and I took pictures of many of Dad's pop pop boats. (Please, feel free to visit his website, Poppopman.co.uk and see what I mean by this. He would like it if his counter went up, and I noticed that people have turned up here looking for pop pop boats, and there's not really anything here. So, yes.) And also spent ages finding stuff that could go on t-shirts and printing out some transfers. Nice.
One of the transfers is a Living Daylights one. I watched that again last night, and... well, it's about the millionth time I've watched it. I love that film. I've come to the conclusion that I don't like many of the James Bond films. Definitely none of the Roger Moore ones. And I'm not so keen on Pierce Brosnan. I think my problem is that I like the books. The original Ian Fleming ones. And the films aren't much like the books. Apart from the early Sean Connery ones. And On Her Majesty's Secret Service, which is much maligned. But I also like. Hmm.
Where was I? Oh yes. You might have guessed which two films I really like. Yes, the Timothy Dalton ones: The Living Daylights and Licence To Kill. What do I like about them? Let me see. I like the way they're serious. As serious as a James Bond film can be, anyway. You still have some gadgets that'd never work (salt corrosion, anyone) and some throwaway lines that are truly groanworthy, but at their heart they're serious. And Timothy Dalton plays them that way, with all his Shakesperean actor charm.
Yeah, I like Timothy Dalton. But do I like him because the films are good, or do I like the films because he's in them? I might have thought it was just me being obsessed, but I don't think it is. It's not like I could watch Flash Gordon a million times. Or Wuthering Heights. Or the other things he's been in, whatever they are. Plus my brother thinks The Living Daylights is great, too. And he definitely doesn't have a crush on Timbo. Heh.
In John's words, it's like loads of films all rolled into one. It's an amazing film. Fairly complicated for a Bond film. Probably not the sort of thing a modern film audience (who think of Bond as Pierce Brosnan) would like to sit through. (Yes, here I go again saying that today's filmgoers don't like decent films. Mwahaha.)
I think the comment on the IMDb page sums it up rather nicely...
"It is tough to judge one of the Bond actors (with some exceptions) and the Bond movies (with some exceptions) by only seeing it once. At first I thought Timothy Dalton was like all the rest. But after watching the Bond marathon on TV, I realized that Dalton has been the best Bond ever. And this movie is the best Bond film of all time. The Living Daylights has the total package: good action, plot, and romance. Dalton can be dark and serious, as well as light-hearted and smooth. The only bad thing about him is he only did two." - Joldax (USA)
Hmmm. But this wasn't what I wanted to say. I only mentioned The Living Daylights because this time I was able to recognise Virginia Hey! Yes, Zhaan from Farscape was in this film. And not only that, you get to see her almost completely naked. Scary. I mean, Zhaan's had some "no clothes" moments, but she was painted blue. So it didn't seem so bad. Am I making sense? And you saw her nipple in this, for crying out loud! I'll never think of the film in the same way again.
And people are complaining because Die Another Day's going to be more explicit.
*sigh*
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