I feel Timothy Dalton'was an underrated Bond and was ahead of his time. The fact he also mocked himself in the role in Loony Tunes Back in Action makes me like him mote.
Sorry. But the the whole "Dalton's Bond was ahead of time" thing is incorrect. It implies people were too stupid appreciate Dalton's hard-edged performance. Sean Connery's Bond kills a man in cold blood in Dr. No, and that film started the whole Bond phenomenon. But we do agree- Dalton in this movie is solid.
Very true Roger. I'm 37 so while I ADORED Goldeneye( I was 11 when came out and seeing it 3 times in cinema, getting book, soundtrack, n64 game and a major crush on Xenia!) the later Moore and Dalton films often were on TV. We had the English channels in Ireland and AVTAK and LTK were burned into my childhood memories. As I got older and then read the books I got to appreciate Dalton as Bond more. Always tickles me that with Brosnan we had the whole Isles represented as Bond!
He deserved at least one more film I do love that to prepare he read every bond book there was and tried to replicate his personality and his mannerisms
@@jonnybirchyboy1560 I wouldn't call cold war espionage boring TLD ending was far from boring not to mention seeing Bond harpoon,feed people to sharks,grinding them in cocaine shredders,and ingulfing them in flames boring
It's awesome to see the love that the Dalton movies get these days. He absolutely knocked it out of the park in the Bond role. Paved the way for future Bond actors. Dalton really did care about the character and rejected offers when he thought he was too old and too young to play the role.
@@neo-filthyfrank1347 he was offered the role for Goldeneye but on the agreement that he signed up for three more. He turned it down so he wouldn't grow too old for the role
@@ricardofineartist No I thought he turned it down because he only wanted to do one more or so but they wanted him for like another 7 films and he didn't want to dedicate that amount of time to it.
@@neo-filthyfrank1347 could be a bit of both, he only wanted to do one but I think they wanted four. You're right, he didn't want to devote the time to it but also didn't want his Bond to look old.
Rather hoped that the French company which bought MGM and intended to sell all their movies, got rid off whoever came with that idea. There would be no lawsuits then and would have had 2 more Dalton movies '91 and '93. What were they named? Property of a lady and whisper from death our something
Maybe with Dalton in the role, the writers would have nutted up and tackled the issue of Bond's place in a post Cold War Era instead of making that dilemma mere window dressing.
I think time has Been extremely kind to the Dalton era. Many 007 focused social media-channel's i follow have an strong fan base for Dalton and admire him for being ahead of time. He's been my favourite since i saw TLD on VHS as an teen
@@dtz1000 I loved License to Kill, and it is one of my favorites, but I agree that it is out of place, and doesn't fit in with the franchise. Big fan of Robert Davi, but he played more of a typical 80s druglord than a Bond villain Lots of 80s action movie cliches as well.
The Hotel scene where Dalton has Davis at gunpoint is my favorite scene in the whole series. The Intensity given by both actors and Barry's chilling score behind it makes it the greatest scene in all of the series to me.
I agree fully. The orchestral version of Living Daylights by aHa and him telling him to get on his knees with the walther ppk and silencer.. . John Rhys Davis saying "you are professional...you don't kill without reason" such a damn good scene. Licence to Kill was cool and very much like the 80s R rated action ala Die Hard, Lethal Weapon, just without the f bombs, but Living Daylights is a damn near perfect Bond Film. Weak non intimidating villain included. Necros as the henchman was really all you needed, he was the coolest big blond KGB assassin since Robert Shaw's Red Grant. Sometimes the non intimidating, desperate villains are the best ones imo... See Jonathan Pryce as Elliot Carver and Mads Mikkelson as LeChiffre
It's right up there for me too. Dalton had so many great scenes in TLD - the entire sniper was a woman scene at the beginning; when Bond puts Saunder's in his place "stuff my orders. I only kill professionals"; when Bond questions M's orders to kill Pushkin; one of the vey best - when Saunder's is murdered, you can see that Bond is both sad and angry when Kara catches up to him (no other Bond has had the expression in the eyes that Dalton has), when Bond comes clean to Kara - while succumbing to chloral hydrate - about being an agent..... You're right about John Barry's score. I would put TLD's soundtrack up there with OHMSS and YOLT as being the very best in the series.
Yeah A-ha were really big for a few years. Broccoli clearly picked Duran Duran for View To A Kill because it was common knowledge that Princess Di really liked them. Then he followed that up by picking the band that was hottest at the time.
@@ifeanyianazodo8789 I have ALOT of love for the Bond Villains (I love a good villain in general). Goldinger, No, Blofeld, Trevelyan, Le Chiffre, Silva, I love em’ all. But Live and Let Die is probably my favorite Bond film. I love everything about it and Kotto as Kananga is just incredible.
This was the first James Bond movie I saw in the cinema. Granted I was 8 and my dad took the whole family to see it because he never misses the latest 007.
I'm a good bit older...Live and Let Die for me...about same age...had to be taken to lobby twice-as wasn't ready for the implied killings and alligator farm sequence (which still is a bit uncomfortable for me to this day-Bond on very small island/crocs and gators approach..)
Timothy Dalton is very underrated as James Bond but I'm glad he has gotten the attention he deserved all these years. This was the best way to get Bond back on track. The theme song still kicks ass. Its in my top 10 Bond films. RIP Yaphet Kotto.
IMO, The Living Daylights is the greatest James Bond movie ever!!! Great story line, traverses the globe, exciting action! I've watched this movie 20+ times!!
I saw this at the movies in Atlanta Georgia..and the next one with a dear friend who passed away in 1994...its not just about the imagery on screen a connection is formed with the viewer that is both communal and unique to that(the?) Viewer.
See, I think License to Kill is much more 80’s. The cocaine angle, the suuuuuuuper tacky charity scene with Wayne Newton, the diet Tony Montana villain, the car, it’s just peak 80’s cheese.
@@markusforsberg6741 it’s definitely my favorite Dalton Bond movie. I like the setting, the villain is waaaaaaaaaaaaaay more interesting/fun. I like the revenge for Felix angle. It’s not my favorite but it’s the perfect 80’s Bond.
Can anyone beat King Connery? Connery's first few are probably impossible to surpass in Bond-quality. But Timothy Dalton, his films directed by the great John Glen, will always remain my second-favourite Bond actor.
Both of daltons bonds are fantastic, absolutely love daltons bonds, TLD& LTK are both awesome, Dalton has always been my favorite bond, shame he didn't go onto do more. Great movie.
Still my favourite Bond actor. There, I said it. You can start throwing tomatoes at me now. [Edit:] "License to Kill" came out in the biggest blockbuster summer of all time and tanked against Indiana Jones 3, Batman, Lethal Weapon 2.... Then the rights were in lawsuit limbo; imagine he would have gotten a 3rd one in 1991/92. Or a 4th one for that matter. Connery only got really good in his 3rd outing (Goldfinger), Moore as well (Spy who loved me). Let's all go to a parallel universe and find out!
I’ll be joining you in the firing line... Ever since I first saw the two Dalton films back to back a week before Goldeneye was released, I’ve been a fan of his.
Dalton replacing Brosnan was the best thing that could have happened to both the series and Brosnan. The series got IMO the greatest Bond and Brosnan got to play Bond without interruption.
@@neo-filthyfrank1347 I much prefer Dalton's portrayal as well. Brosnan felt kind of bland to me. Didn't help that his movies sucked outside of Goldeneye, and Tomorrow Never Dies was mediocre for me. Felt that Brosnan was trying to retain some of the cheese of Roger Moore, but the suave of Connery, and the typical action heroes of the 80s and 90s and it kind of just felt halfway in limbo.
Dalton "replaced" Brosnan in 1987 (1986, actually), due to intransigence on the part of "Cubby" and hubris on the part of NBC (both sides arguably were playing 'chicken', with Pierce as the proverbial Pawn). But nealy a decade on, Brosnan succeeded Dalton when he rightly declined to play 007 3 MORE times (rather than 3 times counting the '87 and '89 films). Had Dalton ended up with the role in the early 1980s, Sam Neill might have played Bond instead for the interregnum in question, for Brosnan still would have been ensnared in the Remington Steele matter 🎬📽
Love revisiting this bond - it nicely walks the line between fantasy and reality for me with a great screenplay and excellent cast. It's such a shame dalton wasn't in more bond movies than these two.
What I love about this movie is how REAL it feels. The cold war spionage, I love it. It feels like something like this usually happen and Timothy Dalton IS really convincing as a spy. He looks like an ordinary man, but there are lots of secrets and abilities he hides. I also like Kara Milovy. She's being used by Koskov, quite hesitated with James, and decided to follow Koskov's order. Glad she finally realize that Koskov is bad. I also love the part when they're in the prison, Kara hugs James and says they're safe. James replies, "Kara, we're in the middle of Russian base in Afghanistan". Kara replies back, "At least we're together". It's just so cute and funny 😂 Although the villains aren't really good but their goals are quite possible and rational. When I rethink after watching it, I'm amaze with how cunning Whittaker and Koskov are.
My fondest memory of this movie was my reluctance to see it, and then being pleasantly surprised and glad that I did see it. I was 10 years old upon its release, and Masters of The Universe, starring Dolph Lundgren as He-Man, was released around the same time as The Living Daylights. Like most 10 year old kids of that era, I was a big fan of He-Man and I was stoked to see a live action version of the character. Much to my disappointment, and despite my pleading with him, my dad wanted to see The Living Daylights instead of Masters of the Universe and I was forced to go with him. Talk about "father knows best". After seeing The Living Daylights, and years later watching Masters of the Universe on home video, my dad made the right decision! I became a big James Bond franchise fan after that film, and have watched all of the films in that franchise. Of all the things fathers do for us, one thing that is seldom spoken of is how they raise a child's appreciation for things beyond their age. My dad did that for me. For that, I will always be thankful.
I’ve been looking forward to this revisit for a while. This is one of my faves in the series. I love everything about this film. Dalton is great, the score is great and the story is a Cold War thriller ripped right from the headlines of the time. 👏👏👏
First James Bond movie I ever saw. My grandma took me and my brother to see it when it opened. I was fascinated by this guy who had all these cool tools, a great car and traveled around the world in dangerous adventures. It still remains my favorite of the Bond films as does Timothy Dalton for my favorite Bond actor.
Uncharted 3 borrowed quite heavily from this film in one of the major action scenes outside the cargo plane, which shows that this film is more well-regarded and remembered than many people realize or think. I personally love Timothy Dalton as James Bond and feel that, had things been different in the early 90s and had he been given another turn as Bond, that he may well have gone on to become one of the best-loved Bond actors, as Daniel Craig has become in the modern Era.
As a three decade long fan of the spy, I always considered Dalton to ve physically the closes to the actual look of Bond from the books + his rootlessness/sociophaty as a character. On top of that, A-ha made one of the greatest Bond songs EVER and it's my favourite. JoBlo, you're JoBlowing my mind with these videos. THANK YOU, and cheers from Macedonia!
But you are right. Nicnac got caught as well. I Think the Thing is That most People in the audiences look forward to the villains Demise. That is why is was smart of them to have two villains. One for the "arrest" (or diplomati bag) and one for a climactic showdown.
Blofeld gets away in both You Only Live Twice and On Her Majestys Secret Service aswell. But it is pretty rare for the main villian to not be killed. Also being sent home in a diplomatic bag does imply that he was killed in this film
I've always wanted to try throwing some of that exploding milk myself. I think they feed the cows a fair amount of gunpowder to produce exploding milk. : )
I remember the summer they were filming this. My parents took me & my brother to Eastbourne for the day. We had planned to go up to Beachy Head, but when we got there we were told the clifftops were out of bounds for a few days because the were filming the new James Bond film there. Years later I found out that key shots of the opening sequence were filmed at Beachy Head. Apparently there was no way the authorities in Gibraltar were letting a Land Rover be driven over the edge of the rock. The clifftop at Beachy Head was considered a close enough match for just a few rapid shots so was used as a stand in for when the Land Rover actually goes over the side.
by far one of THE best bond movies in my humble opinion.. timothy dalton will always be one of the top actors that embodied james bond in the most unique, authenic way!
Olivia wasn't in it. She was in Wonder Years. That was a sister. Maryam D'Abo was in Living Daylights. She was the lady with the rifle and also was proficient with the cello. Maryam D'Abo. Not Olivia.
i was lucky to see this movie with my dad on the big screen back then and i still love it...same for the follow-up...and it's a shame we only got two Dalton-Bonds, 'cause i like him as 007 oh, and my OST on vinyl still is in mint condition 🥰
I always liked Timothy Dalton as Bond and wished he had one or two more films. He portrayed the character in a less "aristocratic" and more "normal guy next door" way. And he pulled that off better than Daniel Craig did. And that would become even better in his second film when he did " they killed my friend's wife and they will pay and dam the consequences!" thing, which totally fit this character and brought a nice new twist to James Bond.
I love this movie, it's one of my favorite Bond films. It's weird to hear people complain about Dalton, because he's really the closest to the 007 from the novels. I think he's great.
I think that also might have been a tip of the hat to On Her Majesty's Secret Service. Remember Diana Rigg was assassinated? That's something people forget. Dalton was initially supposed to be Bond.
Living daylights is absolutely one of my favorite bond movies. I was really surprised when i grew up and found out that people don't really like Daltons bonds
I used to not like Dalton, but the older I get, the more his movies grow on me. One reason why I think that was is because Living Daylights was hardly shown on the TV marathons they would run, so I caught it late (even though my dad took me to see it at the drive in, I was 2 at the time and only remember the pool scene). Overall I wish Dalton got his third film in. He had a cool guy edginess about him. You could still believe that he was debonair, but would also slit your throat if he had to.
I loved the fact that at the time, they produced a made-for-TV Bond documentary with Roger Moore as the host, where he also introduced his successor Dalton to the audience and assured them that they would not be in any way disappointed with the new Bond or his new adventures. So classy, and so dignified - just as one would expect from a true gentleman like Moore. He will always be sadly missed.
When you mentioned that John Barry retired from the James Bond series, you should have included the fact that he got to make a cameo appearance near the end of the film as the orchestra conductor. A great way to send off such an important part of the James Bond legacy!
Definitely one of my top 5 Bond movies. It's one of the few that have a genuine grasp of cold war geopolitics, and fit Bond into that in an interesting way.
This was the first James Bond movie I saw at the cinema as my dad took me and my brother on my 14th birthday in 1987. So it was a special nostalgic place in my heart for that memory alone. I remember it feeling weird seeing someone that wasn’t Roger Moore as Bond in a new Bond movie, but after that opening scene on the Rock of Gibraltar, I was totally sold and on board with the change. A great and very underrated Bond movie. I loved your review, the only thing I disagree with was your assumption that Koskov was going to be OK. He was embezzling Soviet funds to buy Opium from the Afghans during the occupation. Something tells me that Soviets being Soviets, he was not going to be OK when he got back to Moscow. 😂😂
You're right about the villains being not-so memorable- I hadn't remembered Jeroen Krabbe was the main villain! Instead, I've always remembered sub-villain Joe Don Baker as the military history geek. But I love this one- not only one of my top Bonds but also one of my fave 80s action movies. I really liked Dalton and I think it's too bad he only had 1 more Bond film. I'd always heard he was a humorless Bond, but I didn't see that in this one at all. It was a lot of fun, from the brilliant intro to the "I know a good restaurant in Karachi" at the end of the action; then the concert. I also liked Maryam d'Abo and John Rhys Davies.
Thank you for this upload. Like you, I love this film and have since I was a kid. Timothy Dalton was such an amazing Bond in this, showing us the seasoned Spy that he is with the weight of his past really showing but his convictions still driving him to do his job. Although Golden eye is iconic, this is still my favourite Bond film and T.D is still my preferred Bond. Hearing someone talk in depth about an almost forgotten film is just tops.
I remember when this movie was incredibly hard to find on DVD. All the others you could get but for some reason this was very rare for a time. Made it mysterious to me when I was younger. I love the music in this one.
Dalton's two bond films are my favorites. License to Kill will always be my favorite, but Living Daylights was excellent too. I wish we could have gotten more Dalton Bond movies.
I absolutely love TLD. It's probably in my top 5 Bond's. I agree that it is absolutely underrated; Dalton was such a great Bond. The Gibraltar opening is one of my favorites, too.
I've read all of the novels a couple of times, and Timothy Dalton WAS Ian Fleming's James Bond. I'm glad to see him get a lot of more credit and attention since then. There's even a new book out now about the films they'd planned with Dalton but didn't happen (legal matters again snarled up the films).
I loved this movie as a kid, and listened to the soundtrack frequently. The poster is also my favorite. This is by far the better Dalton movie in my opinion.
Easily one of my favourites of the series; I feel that Dalton’s delivery of Bond has more depth than Craig’s, that his moody outlook belies darker tales that we as an audience are not privy to, a third film would have been great to see once he had really gotten his teeth into the role. As for the story itself - it feels like a proper Cold War spy thriller, with political intrigue, double agents, and double crosses. It feels like it has more in common with From Russia with Love than the “villain of the week” films.
I feel Timothy Dalton'was an underrated Bond and was ahead of his time. The fact he also mocked himself in the role in Loony Tunes Back in Action makes me like him mote.
I don't really think he's underrated at all nowadays, tons of people like his Bond. I think he's the best.
Sorry. But the the whole "Dalton's Bond was ahead of time" thing is incorrect. It implies people were too stupid appreciate Dalton's hard-edged performance. Sean Connery's Bond kills a man in cold blood in Dr. No, and that film started the whole Bond phenomenon. But we do agree- Dalton in this movie is solid.
Very true Roger. I'm 37 so while I ADORED Goldeneye( I was 11 when came out and seeing it 3 times in cinema, getting book, soundtrack, n64 game and a major crush on Xenia!) the later Moore and Dalton films often were on TV. We had the English channels in Ireland and AVTAK and LTK were burned into my childhood memories. As I got older and then read the books I got to appreciate Dalton as Bond more.
Always tickles me that with Brosnan we had the whole Isles represented as Bond!
Dalton is good. He’s a pleasure to watch. Much better than Pierce Brosnan who’s boring as the character
@@ramencurry6672 I totally disagree, could never warm to Dalton, just didn't have the swagger and panache, Brosnan had everything, The best
Dalton was the closest actor to Ian Fleming's James Bond. Darker, serious, brutal SoB. He was brilliant.
He deserved at least one more film I do love that to prepare he read every bond book there was and tried to replicate his personality and his mannerisms
Then you’d be 100% wrong. Fleming considered Roger Moore the best fit for Bond.
Also Dalton’s movies were BORING
@@jonnybirchyboy1560 I wouldn't call cold war espionage boring TLD ending was far from boring not to mention seeing Bond harpoon,feed people to sharks,grinding them in cocaine shredders,and ingulfing them in flames boring
@@jonnybirchyboy1560 Ian Fleming died before Goldfinger was released. He certainly had no opinion about the Bonds after Connery.
It's awesome to see the love that the Dalton movies get these days. He absolutely knocked it out of the park in the Bond role. Paved the way for future Bond actors. Dalton really did care about the character and rejected offers when he thought he was too old and too young to play the role.
I don't think he ever rejected because he thought he was "too old"
@@neo-filthyfrank1347 he was offered the role for Goldeneye but on the agreement that he signed up for three more. He turned it down so he wouldn't grow too old for the role
@@ricardofineartist No I thought he turned it down because he only wanted to do one more or so but they wanted him for like another 7 films and he didn't want to dedicate that amount of time to it.
@@neo-filthyfrank1347 could be a bit of both, he only wanted to do one but I think they wanted four. You're right, he didn't want to devote the time to it but also didn't want his Bond to look old.
I think EON productions should have allowed Roger Moore to quit after Moonraker, Timothy Dalton could have done the entire 80s James Bond movie
I soooo wish Dalton had been Bond for longer. Having him in Goldeneye would have been so awesome
Actually that film was written with him in mind but Bronson still did a rather good job and was his best Bond film as well.
Rather hoped that the French company which bought MGM and intended to sell all their movies, got rid off whoever came with that idea.
There would be no lawsuits then and would have had 2 more Dalton movies '91 and '93.
What were they named? Property of a lady and whisper from death our something
@@evonne_o that is why it still feels more serious than the other brosnans. Janssen and Dalton would have been magic
Maybe with Dalton in the role, the writers would have nutted up and tackled the issue of Bond's place in a post Cold War Era instead of making that dilemma mere window dressing.
@@randomhuman97 Property of a Lady/Risico and Reunion with Death. A Whisper from Hell was a fan created title.
Agreed. Dalton is criminally underrated.
No he isn't
He was rated second best Bond in a recent Radio Times survey. That's where I'd put him, just behind Sean Connery.
@@dtz1000 Dalton is better than Connery
@@neo-filthyfrank1347 No one is better than Connery at Bond. Ther original and best...except Diamonds perhaps.
@@fifthof1795 Nah both Dalton and Craig are better. Connery's good but he's definitely a little overrated.
My favourite Bond. He had the class and humour to make the shenanigans work, and the presence to be genuinely threatening.
I think time has Been extremely kind to the Dalton era. Many 007 focused social media-channel's i follow have an strong fan base for Dalton and admire him for being ahead of time.
He's been my favourite since i saw TLD on VHS as an teen
Yes, TLD is one of my favourite of all the Bond movies. Much better than his second one, which was too much like 1980s Miami Vice for my liking.
@@dtz1000 I loved License to Kill, and it is one of my favorites, but I agree that it is out of place, and doesn't fit in with the franchise. Big fan of Robert Davi, but he played more of a typical 80s druglord than a Bond villain Lots of 80s action movie cliches as well.
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The Hotel scene where Dalton has Davis at gunpoint is my favorite scene in the whole series. The Intensity given by both actors and Barry's chilling score behind it makes it the greatest scene in all of the series to me.
Nah The Living Daylights was a mess, LTK is way better
I agree fully. The orchestral version of Living Daylights by aHa and him telling him to get on his knees with the walther ppk and silencer.. . John Rhys Davis saying "you are professional...you don't kill without reason" such a damn good scene.
Licence to Kill was cool and very much like the 80s R rated action ala Die Hard, Lethal Weapon, just without the f bombs, but Living Daylights is a damn near perfect Bond Film. Weak non intimidating villain included. Necros as the henchman was really all you needed, he was the coolest big blond KGB assassin since Robert Shaw's Red Grant. Sometimes the non intimidating, desperate villains are the best ones imo... See Jonathan Pryce as Elliot Carver and Mads Mikkelson as LeChiffre
I loved that scene. I rewatched it several times.
It's right up there for me too. Dalton had so many great scenes in TLD - the entire sniper was a woman scene at the beginning; when Bond puts Saunder's in his place "stuff my orders. I only kill professionals"; when Bond questions M's orders to kill Pushkin; one of the vey best - when Saunder's is murdered, you can see that Bond is both sad and angry when Kara catches up to him (no other Bond has had the expression in the eyes that Dalton has), when Bond comes clean to Kara - while succumbing to chloral hydrate - about being an agent.....
You're right about John Barry's score. I would put TLD's soundtrack up there with OHMSS and YOLT as being the very best in the series.
@@neo-filthyfrank1347 I wasn't talking about the film itself, I was talking about the scene itself. LTK is one of the greatest Bond films I do concur.
Dalton has always been my favorite.
A-ha were only one hit wonders in the US. In the UK and Europe they had many hits and were still charting in the early 90s.
Take On Me is a great song.
@@jvblhc Not to mention The Sun Only Shines on TV
@@dkaudu74 Brilliant song. I like how the video serves a sequel to Take on Me.
Yeah A-ha were really big for a few years. Broccoli clearly picked Duran Duran for View To A Kill because it was common knowledge that Princess Di really liked them. Then he followed that up by picking the band that was hottest at the time.
@@garrick3727 From what I read, they chose a-ha bcs alfred broccoli liked them and became their fan after the hits of take on me
Yaphet Kotto just passed. RIP Dr. Kananga/Mr. Big.
Seriously he played my all time favorite Bond villain.
@@ifeanyianazodo8789 I have ALOT of love for the Bond Villains (I love a good villain in general). Goldinger, No, Blofeld, Trevelyan, Le Chiffre, Silva, I love em’ all. But Live and Let Die is probably my favorite Bond film. I love everything about it and Kotto as Kananga is just incredible.
He was also great as Alonzo Mosley in Midnight Run. RIP.
@@cthewave9955 right? Can’t forget Parker in Alien either
@@stefanfilipovits21 Whoa, you hit my movie-heart good. Hollywood lost another great.
This was the first James Bond movie I saw in the cinema. Granted I was 8 and my dad took the whole family to see it because he never misses the latest 007.
I'm a good bit older...Live and Let Die for me...about same age...had to be taken to lobby twice-as wasn't ready for the implied killings and alligator farm sequence (which still is a bit uncomfortable for me to this day-Bond on very small island/crocs and gators approach..)
Timothy Dalton is very underrated as James Bond but I'm glad he has gotten the attention he deserved all these years. This was the best way to get Bond back on track. The theme song still kicks ass. Its in my top 10 Bond films. RIP Yaphet Kotto.
Dalton was perfect as bond. And his two movies were very strong.
Desmond Llewellyn who played Q said Dalton was the closest to Fleming's ideal.
@@robertjewell9727 everybody told that. He himself prepared for the role by studying the novels.
Craig is like a funless RIP off of Dalton
@@robertjewell9727 can't argue with that 👍
Nah, he looked too much like a Bond villain instead of Bond himself. Brosnan would have been 10x better in the role.
@@jonnybirchyboy1560 if you've read the novels Dalton's really close to Fleming's description. Brosnan is good, but he's a bit too manicured for me.
IMO, The Living Daylights is the greatest James Bond movie ever!!! Great story line, traverses the globe, exciting action! I've watched this movie 20+ times!!
Highly underrated Bond movie. One of the best.
Not underrated at all. It’s boring.
I saw this at the movies in Atlanta Georgia..and the next one with a dear friend who passed away in 1994...its not just about the imagery on screen a connection is formed with the viewer that is both communal and unique to that(the?) Viewer.
Timothy Dalton was and is forever James Bond in my eyes.
Dalton was bond straight out of the books ahead of his time
Funny thing is I've watched this more times then the other 007 movies.The era 80s and Darker Bond was awesome.
See, I think License to Kill is much more 80’s. The cocaine angle, the suuuuuuuper tacky charity scene with Wayne Newton, the diet Tony Montana villain, the car, it’s just peak 80’s cheese.
@@stefanfilipovits21 license to kill is an awsome bond movie my personal favorite.:D
yes my son
it was more true to the actual james bond character and the best bond overall along with sean Connery
@@markusforsberg6741 it’s definitely my favorite Dalton Bond movie. I like the setting, the villain is waaaaaaaaaaaaaay more interesting/fun. I like the revenge for Felix angle. It’s not my favorite but it’s the perfect 80’s Bond.
@@markusforsberg6741 LTK is a top 5 best bond movie
This is my favorite Bond film. Best score. Best Bond. Love Necros. Love the song. Love Vienna. So good!
underrated bond film and one of my personal favourites. 9/10
Agreed
The Living Daylights is in my opinion the best bond movie.
Another legendary score from John Barry. Great music
I for one love the "Mujahadeen and Opium" track that plays over that "Lawrence of Arabia"-like shot in Afghanistan.
Dalton was hands down the best Bond
Definitely the best actor to have played Bond. The only one who makes you believe he's in some peril.
Can anyone beat King Connery? Connery's first few are probably impossible to surpass in Bond-quality.
But Timothy Dalton, his films directed by the great John Glen, will always remain my second-favourite Bond actor.
Wrong . Connery is the best, followed by Brosnan. Any other opinion is trash millennial revisionism.
@@jonnybirchyboy1560 Lol Brosnan.
@@jonnybirchyboy1560 Brosnan??? Lol GTFOH
Both of daltons bonds are fantastic, absolutely love daltons bonds, TLD& LTK are both awesome, Dalton has always been my favorite bond, shame he didn't go onto do more. Great movie.
Still my favourite Bond actor. There, I said it. You can start throwing tomatoes at me now. [Edit:] "License to Kill" came out in the biggest blockbuster summer of all time and tanked against Indiana Jones 3, Batman, Lethal Weapon 2.... Then the rights were in lawsuit limbo; imagine he would have gotten a 3rd one in 1991/92. Or a 4th one for that matter. Connery only got really good in his 3rd outing (Goldfinger), Moore as well (Spy who loved me). Let's all go to a parallel universe and find out!
I'll get covered with you maters with you. I liked Dalton's take on 007.
Up there as one of my favourites (although I think they've all got their place.)
I’ll be joining you in the firing line... Ever since I first saw the two Dalton films back to back a week before Goldeneye was released, I’ve been a fan of his.
If it had a better villain it would be one of the best. Has all the trademarks of Bond and does them all well except that
I'm with you, I think the brosnan movies are better and I like like brosnan well enough but Dalton was the perfect bond.
Dalton replacing Brosnan was the best thing that could have happened to both the series and Brosnan. The series got IMO the greatest Bond and Brosnan got to play Bond without interruption.
True. Brosnan looked too young in his 30s
Dalton's waaaay better than Brosnan
@@neo-filthyfrank1347 Of course, no contest
@@neo-filthyfrank1347 I much prefer Dalton's portrayal as well. Brosnan felt kind of bland to me. Didn't help that his movies sucked outside of Goldeneye, and Tomorrow Never Dies was mediocre for me. Felt that Brosnan was trying to retain some of the cheese of Roger Moore, but the suave of Connery, and the typical action heroes of the 80s and 90s and it kind of just felt halfway in limbo.
Dalton "replaced" Brosnan in 1987 (1986, actually), due to intransigence on the part of "Cubby" and hubris on the part of NBC (both sides arguably were playing 'chicken', with Pierce as the proverbial Pawn). But nealy a decade on, Brosnan succeeded Dalton when he rightly declined to play 007 3 MORE times (rather than 3 times counting the '87 and '89 films).
Had Dalton ended up with the role in the early 1980s, Sam Neill might have played Bond instead for the interregnum in question, for Brosnan still would have been ensnared in the Remington Steele matter 🎬📽
Love revisiting this bond - it nicely walks the line between fantasy and reality for me with a great screenplay and excellent cast. It's such a shame dalton wasn't in more bond movies than these two.
Dalton has been my favorite Bond since I saw this film as a kid, when it first came out.
Dalton has always been my favorite Bond.
The downhill cello scene is hilarious!
This is one of my favourite Bond movies. Actually one of my spy movies and I only watched it for first time last year. So underrated
What I love about this movie is how REAL it feels. The cold war spionage, I love it. It feels like something like this usually happen and Timothy Dalton IS really convincing as a spy. He looks like an ordinary man, but there are lots of secrets and abilities he hides. I also like Kara Milovy. She's being used by Koskov, quite hesitated with James, and decided to follow Koskov's order. Glad she finally realize that Koskov is bad. I also love the part when they're in the prison, Kara hugs James and says they're safe. James replies, "Kara, we're in the middle of Russian base in Afghanistan". Kara replies back, "At least we're together". It's just so cute and funny 😂
Although the villains aren't really good but their goals are quite possible and rational. When I rethink after watching it, I'm amaze with how cunning Whittaker and Koskov are.
My fondest memory of this movie was my reluctance to see it, and then being pleasantly surprised and glad that I did see it. I was 10 years old upon its release, and Masters of The Universe, starring Dolph Lundgren as He-Man, was released around the same time as The Living Daylights. Like most 10 year old kids of that era, I was a big fan of He-Man and I was stoked to see a live action version of the character. Much to my disappointment, and despite my pleading with him, my dad wanted to see The Living Daylights instead of Masters of the Universe and I was forced to go with him. Talk about "father knows best". After seeing The Living Daylights, and years later watching Masters of the Universe on home video, my dad made the right decision! I became a big James Bond franchise fan after that film, and have watched all of the films in that franchise. Of all the things fathers do for us, one thing that is seldom spoken of is how they raise a child's appreciation for things beyond their age. My dad did that for me. For that, I will always be thankful.
I’ve been looking forward to this revisit for a while. This is one of my faves in the series. I love everything about this film. Dalton is great, the score is great and the story is a Cold War thriller ripped right from the headlines of the time. 👏👏👏
Being a child of the 80s, Dalton has always been my favorite Bond.
"Being a Welsh man he brings a gravitas to the role". Being Welsh, I applaud you 👏
No focus on the opening? Gibraltar sequence is one of my faves.
The Living Daylights is one of my favourite Bond-movies. And I like Dalton as Bond!
First James Bond movie I ever saw. My grandma took me and my brother to see it when it opened. I was fascinated by this guy who had all these cool tools, a great car and traveled around the world in dangerous adventures. It still remains my favorite of the Bond films as does Timothy Dalton for my favorite Bond actor.
Easily my favourite Bond film, cold war era spy action.. cannot beat it
Used to be my favorite one hands down, but now "For Your Eyes Only" kinda shares the place.
FYI... I think Maryam D’abo was the last Bond leading lady to pose in Playboy.
might have to do some research on that one
@@JimmyMon666 Denise Richards did... but not at the time of the Bond films release.
I can’t imagine Robocop with another cast. Everyone fits so well
Murphy, I'm a mess!
Rewatched this a few times now and man Dalton is amazing
Uncharted 3 borrowed quite heavily from this film in one of the major action scenes outside the cargo plane, which shows that this film is more well-regarded and remembered than many people realize or think. I personally love Timothy Dalton as James Bond and feel that, had things been different in the early 90s and had he been given another turn as Bond, that he may well have gone on to become one of the best-loved Bond actors, as Daniel Craig has become in the modern Era.
As a three decade long fan of the spy, I always considered Dalton to ve physically the closes to the actual look of Bond from the books + his rootlessness/sociophaty as a character. On top of that, A-ha made one of the greatest Bond songs EVER and it's my favourite. JoBlo, you're JoBlowing my mind with these videos. THANK YOU, and cheers from Macedonia!
This was my favorite Bond film.
Just randomly looking through my recommended feed and finally another James Bond Revisited video was released!
After the Moore years it was good to get back to a real gritty Bond. Dalton was so underestimated as Bond. His two movies are still in my top 5.
Is this and Spectre the only Bond films where the villain gets arrested? That’s pretty damn rare in the Bond canon isn’t it?
Being "sent home in a diplomatic bag" implies a little more than being arrested!
@@tigerbread78 touché
But you are right. Nicnac got caught as well.
I Think the Thing is That most People in the audiences look forward to the villains Demise. That is why is was smart of them to have two villains. One for the "arrest" (or diplomati bag) and one for a climactic showdown.
@@niels25chr1 I completely forgot about NicNac, you’re right.
Blofeld gets away in both You Only Live Twice and On Her Majestys Secret Service aswell. But it is pretty rare for the main villian to not be killed. Also being sent home in a diplomatic bag does imply that he was killed in this film
At first i thought Dalton was too serious in this role but after seeing the Craig, I've come to appreciate him
I can't believe you didn't mention the explosive milk bottles. I was obsessed with that.
I've always wanted to try throwing some of that exploding milk myself. I think they feed the cows a fair amount of gunpowder to produce exploding milk. : )
I loved Timothy dalton as bond, he was ahead of his time.
Dalton is the bond I imagined while
reading the gardener bond novels, he fits perfectly to the 80ties settings
This is one of my favorites too. Timothy Dalton is in my top 3 James Bonds.
Glad to see Dalton getting some (much deserved) love -- Craig, good though he is, is just following the footsteps of Timothy, twenty-plus years later!
My favourite thing with Dalton in outside bond is him playing rassilon in the end of time
I remember the summer they were filming this. My parents took me & my brother to Eastbourne for the day. We had planned to go up to Beachy Head, but when we got there we were told the clifftops were out of bounds for a few days because the were filming the new James Bond film there.
Years later I found out that key shots of the opening sequence were filmed at Beachy Head. Apparently there was no way the authorities in Gibraltar were letting a Land Rover be driven over the edge of the rock. The clifftop at Beachy Head was considered a close enough match for just a few rapid shots so was used as a stand in for when the Land Rover actually goes over the side.
Have to admit. Timothy Dalton Bond movies > Daniel Craig Bond movies.
There, I said it.
I agree. So far Craig has had 2 good films outta 4. Daltons entire (brief) run was good.
I loved both Dalton films! I really need The Living Daylights in my collection!
Casino Royal, Dr No and The Living Daylights are my favorite Bond films. And a great theme song! 😎
by far one of THE best bond movies in my humble opinion.. timothy dalton will always be one of the top actors that embodied james bond in the most unique, authenic way!
Living Daylights is one of my personal favorites, since I saw it for the first time.
My favorite Bond and favorite Bond movie!
This was actually my first Bond film, and it will always have a special place in my heart (as will Olivia D'abo)
Olivia wasn't in it. She was in Wonder Years. That was a sister. Maryam D'Abo was in Living Daylights. She was the lady with the rifle and also was proficient with the cello. Maryam D'Abo. Not Olivia.
This is one of my favorite Bond films; Barry’s theme is fantastic.
a-ha is only an one-hit-wonder in north america. They're huge in south america and europe. They still sell out arenas there.
In Brazil they never ceased to be huge.
i was lucky to see this movie with my dad on the big screen back then and i still love it...same for the follow-up...and it's a shame we only got two Dalton-Bonds, 'cause i like him as 007
oh, and my OST on vinyl still is in mint condition 🥰
This is definitely one of the most underrated bond films, i saw it for the first time recently and loved it
I always liked Timothy Dalton as Bond and wished he had one or two more films. He portrayed the character in a less "aristocratic" and more "normal guy next door" way. And he pulled that off better than Daniel Craig did. And that would become even better in his second film when he did " they killed my friend's wife and they will pay and dam the consequences!" thing, which totally fit this character and brought a nice new twist to James Bond.
I love this movie, it's one of my favorite Bond films. It's weird to hear people complain about Dalton, because he's really the closest to the 007 from the novels. I think he's great.
This is a top 5 Bond movie for me. I truly love Dalton in this movie.
"It's amazing, this modern safety glass."
I think that also might have been a tip of the hat to On Her Majesty's Secret Service. Remember Diana Rigg was assassinated? That's something people forget. Dalton was initially supposed to be Bond.
Living daylights is absolutely one of my favorite bond movies. I was really surprised when i grew up and found out that people don't really like Daltons bonds
I used to not like Dalton, but the older I get, the more his movies grow on me. One reason why I think that was is because Living Daylights was hardly shown on the TV marathons they would run, so I caught it late (even though my dad took me to see it at the drive in, I was 2 at the time and only remember the pool scene).
Overall I wish Dalton got his third film in. He had a cool guy edginess about him. You could still believe that he was debonair, but would also slit your throat if he had to.
Flash Gordon. He was easily the most down to earth character in the film and he wasn't even from Earth.
One of the best bonds
I loved the fact that at the time, they produced a made-for-TV Bond documentary with Roger Moore as the host, where he also introduced his successor Dalton to the audience and assured them that they would not be in any way disappointed with the new Bond or his new adventures. So classy, and so dignified - just as one would expect from a true gentleman like Moore. He will always be sadly missed.
When you mentioned that John Barry retired from the James Bond series, you should have included the fact that he got to make a cameo appearance near the end of the film as the orchestra conductor. A great way to send off such an important part of the James Bond legacy!
I don't know if anyone mentioned it, but John Barry also used a synthesizer in the "On Her Majesty's Secret Service" score back in 1969.
He is the best Bond and I have been shouting this for years
Definitely one of my top 5 Bond movies. It's one of the few that have a genuine grasp of cold war geopolitics, and fit Bond into that in an interesting way.
The first movie from the franchise that I really liked. Dalton was fierce and intelligent, his Bond is one of the best.
Watched this as a kid,on vacation in a theatre in Lisbon, in probably 1987 with my mom, its also my favorite Bond movie ;)
This was the first James Bond movie I saw at the cinema as my dad took me and my brother on my 14th birthday in 1987. So it was a special nostalgic place in my heart for that memory alone.
I remember it feeling weird seeing someone that wasn’t Roger Moore as Bond in a new Bond movie, but after that opening scene on the Rock of Gibraltar, I was totally sold and on board with the change. A great and very underrated Bond movie.
I loved your review, the only thing I disagree with was your assumption that Koskov was going to be OK.
He was embezzling Soviet funds to buy Opium from the Afghans during the occupation. Something tells me that Soviets being Soviets, he was not going to be OK when he got back to Moscow. 😂😂
One of my favorite bonds of all time
You're right about the villains being not-so memorable- I hadn't remembered Jeroen Krabbe was the main villain! Instead, I've always remembered sub-villain Joe Don Baker as the military history geek. But I love this one- not only one of my top Bonds but also one of my fave 80s action movies. I really liked Dalton and I think it's too bad he only had 1 more Bond film. I'd always heard he was a humorless Bond, but I didn't see that in this one at all. It was a lot of fun, from the brilliant intro to the "I know a good restaurant in Karachi" at the end of the action; then the concert. I also liked Maryam d'Abo and John Rhys Davies.
Thank you for this upload. Like you, I love this film and have since I was a kid. Timothy Dalton was such an amazing Bond in this, showing us the seasoned Spy that he is with the weight of his past really showing but his convictions still driving him to do his job. Although Golden eye is iconic, this is still my favourite Bond film and T.D is still my preferred Bond. Hearing someone talk in depth about an almost forgotten film is just tops.
Actually Dalton was approached for OHMSS, not DAF.
Well this is my favorite Bond soundtrack because i am a child of the 80's and i love synths.
This is one of my favorite Bond movies to this day.
I remember when this movie was incredibly hard to find on DVD. All the others you could get but for some reason this was very rare for a time. Made it mysterious to me when I was younger.
I love the music in this one.
Dalton's two bond films are my favorites. License to Kill will always be my favorite, but Living Daylights was excellent too. I wish we could have gotten more Dalton Bond movies.
I absolutely love TLD. It's probably in my top 5 Bond's. I agree that it is absolutely underrated; Dalton was such a great Bond. The Gibraltar opening is one of my favorites, too.
I love how you end these clips, so awesome.
I've read all of the novels a couple of times, and Timothy Dalton WAS Ian Fleming's James Bond. I'm glad to see him get a lot of more credit and attention since then. There's even a new book out now about the films they'd planned with Dalton but didn't happen (legal matters again snarled up the films).
I loved this movie as a kid, and listened to the soundtrack frequently. The poster is also my favorite. This is by far the better Dalton movie in my opinion.
I loved the Dalton era..I was sad that when Dalton didn't agree for more films. I would have loved to see Sam Neill play Bond at least twice.
Totally agree with this take on TLD... One of my favourite Bond movies.
Easily one of my favourites of the series; I feel that Dalton’s delivery of Bond has more depth than Craig’s, that his moody outlook belies darker tales that we as an audience are not privy to, a third film would have been great to see once he had really gotten his teeth into the role.
As for the story itself - it feels like a proper Cold War spy thriller, with political intrigue, double agents, and double crosses. It feels like it has more in common with From Russia with Love than the “villain of the week” films.