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From: mercury@ut-ngp.UUCP (Larry E. Baker)
Newsgroups: net.movies
Subject: Re: A View To A Kill : badly flawed (Spoiler)
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Date: Tue, 4-Jun-85 02:12:30 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jun  4 02:12:30 1985
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[sigh]


> to; she had killed good guys (unlike Jaws in _Moonraker_ who was let to live
> since he had only been after Bond and didn't get anyone else), but that should
> have been thought about and avoided.

No, no, no.  You've got it all wrong.  Some JB fan you are.  Jaws
appeared first in "The Spy Who Loved Me," and he, ah, whet (pun
intended) his teeth on quite a few people/items, including a service
van and a shark. 

I have mixed feelings about AVTAK, but I think it was somewhat better
than the last sequence of techno-kiddie offerings coming out of the
Bond machine.  There was more to the story, the score was more like
earlier (Connery) JB's, and the ending (with Bond, Zorin & Co. on top
of the San Fransisco bridge) was much like earlier Connery work,
although not as good.

One thing I noticed this time 'round is that, although still heavily
into the showoff-the-gadgets mode, they used "gadgets" (The blimp,
etc.) in a far more realistic way.  Did anyone notice the "explosive"
Zorin was using to set off the fault?  Someone obviously put a little
more thought into this scene than in previous movies; ANFO *is* a real
explosive.

Of course, it was not without, ah, faults.  I gagged on the scene
where she uses an Apple to figure out where the epicenter of an
earthquake earlier in the movie.  Also, The Sharper Image must have
paid quite a hefty sum to get their (patented, no doubt) "window
opener" in a scene all by itself.

Of course, these are all my own opinions and I offer no justification
for them whatsoever.

                            "But...but...you're not a good guy AT ALL!"

			          	     "I'm a LAWYER, you IDIOT!"

                            *BLAM*

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