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From: vijay@ucbvax.ARPA (Vijay Ramamoorthy)
Newsgroups: net.movies
Subject: A View To A Kill (Spoiler)
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Date: Fri, 24-May-85 19:24:37 EDT
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Posted: Fri May 24 19:24:37 1985
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Being a James Bond fan, I naturally liked AVTAK.  To put it in perspective
though, I thought it was a much needed step up in quality from the
recent Bond (Roger Moore) movies.  However, I still think The Spy Who
Loved Me was Moore's best. 

I was very delighted to see Bond solving all those life-threatening
problems so elegantly (as usual), along with a lot of colorful action
scenes that weren't as goofy looking as in Octopussy.

Nitpicking, however, I can still find things to gripe about.  First,
I think the advertising slogan "Has Bond Finally Met His Match?" is
a bit misleading.  Bond never confronts Grace Jones (May Day)
in any major way (such as he did with Jaws).  Secondly, there still
is a bit of the lunacy left over from Octopussy (eg. the scene where
Bond commands "sit" to a wild man-eating tiger--and it does), 
when some music from the Beach Boys accompanies Bond's skiing on
a surfboard-like ski.

Also, there wasn't too much care taken in the scene where Grace Jones
pushes the car containing Bond and Sir Godfrey into the water;  I
could make out the wires connected to the front of the car that were
doing the actual pulling.  Lastly, there was the usual girls-say-
nothing-but "Oh James!" line for female actresses, except in this 
film, there seemed to be quite a bit of it.

Two other things about this movie (not really gripes): there weren't
the usual set of super-high-tech gadgets (I didn't notice this until
the end of the movie- it wasn't such a letdown), and there was something
peculiar about Bond's/Moore's expression - a lot of smiling or 
something (anyone else notice it?).

But, still, this movie was fun....even though we don't know what film
he'll be returning in (by the way, I heard that there may be a new 
James Bond actor -- see the most recent issue of Newsweek).