This week's show begins with Frank giving a special thanks to all listeners/subscribers/downloaders as the podcast is now listed in all directories. There is also a new "patreon" link for those who wish to support the show.
Frank talks briefly about how he was a little disappointed in last week's show despite getting the content out there, and truly desires your honest and constructive feedback on that and for two new segments he would like to begin soon. He then tells a funny story about a time when his wife was playing slots in Vegas and he wanted to play a joke.
He gets in to commentary about driving and traffic, especially in light of traveling to and from his recent vacation. Then there is some nostalgia and memories for his dad's (and Frank's) safe driving habits and how things were different in 1993 for Frank's early days of driving. He then voices some concern with what he sees a lot on the roads now.
This week's Priscilla Barnes (PB) feature is the James Bond classic Licence to Kill, where she has a brief but memorable role and is instrumental to the plot. Frank tells a lot of stories about the Bond franchise and this movie in particular, which he saw twice in the theater in 1989. There is a brief overview of the plot and some of the actors, and a short discussion of Priscilla's work here. He then goes over a few scenes and trivia. Finally, he awards grades to the movie and PB. While not a bad movie overall, it seemed to break with some previous Bond movie characteristics, and therefore is not one of his favorite Bond films.
The theme song is called Retro Funk by SoulProdMusic and can be found at pixabay.com.
Licence to Kill is available on Blu-ray and DVD, and streams on Amazon Prime Video or wherever finer movies are found.
--The best way to contact is:
Twitter: @frankwebertx
Web: frankwebertx.com
Email: frankoweber@hotmail.com
This week's show begins with Frank giving a special thanks to all listeners/subscribers/downloaders as the podcast is now listed in all directories. There is also a new "patreon" link for those who wish to support the show.
Frank talks briefly about how he was a little disappointed in last week's show despite getting the content out there, and truly desires your honest and constructive feedback on that and for two new segments he would like to begin soon. He then tells a funny story about a time when his wife was playing slots in Vegas and he wanted to play a joke.
He gets in to commentary about driving and traffic, especially in light of traveling to and from his recent vacation. Then there is some nostalgia and memories for his dad's (and Frank's) safe driving habits and how things were different in 1993 for Frank's early days of driving. He then voices some concern with what he sees a lot on the roads now.
This week's Priscilla Barnes (PB) feature is the James Bond classic Licence to Kill, where she has a brief but memorable role and is instrumental to the plot. Frank tells a lot of stories about the Bond franchise and this movie in particular, which he saw twice in the theater in 1989. There is a brief overview of the plot and some of the actors, and a short discussion of Priscilla's work here. He then goes over a few scenes and trivia. Finally, he awards grades to the movie and PB. While not a bad movie overall, it seemed to break with some previous Bond movie characteristics, and therefore is not one of his favorite Bond films.
The theme song is called Retro Funk by SoulProdMusic and can be found at pixabay.com.
Licence to Kill is available on Blu-ray and DVD, and streams on Amazon Prime Video or wherever finer movies are found.
--The best way to contact is:
Twitter: @frankwebertx
Web: frankwebertx.com
Email: frankoweber@hotmail.com
All right. In this episode of Frank Weber's party. Our fifth episode now I go over. Some information about our show. And then I talk a little bit about. traffic, especially as it related to my recent vacation. That's the story that I was originally going to tell. Last week, and then we go into. Priscilla's. roll on licensed to kill. so a lot of information. Packed episode that I think you'll find enjoyable. And. Hopefully a little funny. So stay tuned. Hello, hello and welcome once again to Frank Weber's party. I'm your host, Frank Weber. So glad that you could be here. Once again, I want to give a special thanks to all of you who are listening and subscribing and telling your family and your friends about me. I just got listed in all the directories last week. so I wanted to give you a special thanks about that. So the way that we're doing it around here, I'm recording and editing about two weeks before the episode drops. So today is June 28th, and this particular episode is not gonna drop until July 14th. And, we have new episodes every Friday. And I'll tell you we also have another way to support us. I'm not inclined to charge for the show at this time and maybe never, possibly with some premium content later on. But we do have a Patreon sort of link where you can donate to the show if you feel so inclined. And we'll give you a shout out, for that on a future episode. But of course, that's entirely up to you. And, uh, just one other housekeeping thing as well. my personal website is a little bit behind on its construction. it works okay, but some of the links aren't there, so I need to fix that for you. Today on the show we have what I would say, is a veritable shit load of information to talk to you about. I'm going through a number of kind of potpourri housekeeping things. Also gonna tell you a little bit about the story I was gonna tell from last week and actually a follow up to the story I did tell last week. And then we're gonna review Priscilla's, small-ish, but abbreviated role in the James Bond Classic. licensed to kill. So without further ado, I'll go ahead and start talking to you actually about some other things. real quick, just wanted to let you know I was kind of disappointed in how the show turned out last week, just to be honest. I felt like I was a little off that day, but, fortunately I was still able to present, the content that I wanted to. and as far as moving the show forward, I am asking, really for your feedback if you feel moved to give it on that as well. Uh, in the methods that are listed in that a show notes. this is also where we are gonna do an ask me anything segment, but I can't do the segment if you don't ask me anything. And so I just want to let you know I'm still planning that and I'm also still wanting to fit some, at least occasional interviews into the show, but I'm been asking myself how exactly that's going to work, how I'm going to do that. Doing that is going to obviously increase the length of the show. may be able to do it as a standalone bonus episode, no charge of course, or possibly as a substitute for this episode every so often. cuz right now I'm kind of liking the format as it is. but I think I need to cut down on, maybe a lot of the details. there's gonna be a ton of it when we get into this James Bond thing here in a second. but when we review these shows, that the lovely Priscilla Barnes has been in, we'll probably cut down on a lot of the plot and story details, Even a little bit less information on the actors, certainly will tell you who's in it and try to put a little bit more comedic moments, the play. And, uh, let's go ahead and get into, last week's story part of our trip to Naples. As you may recall me telling you, my wife likes to go to the casino, she. Just plays slots, she doesn't play anything else. She doesn't play the tables or anything. And she typically goes, when I, play golf, That's what she does. She tries to go and play the casino. And I was telling this to a friend of mine at the country club where I play golf and she thought this would be a terrific story, a funny story that I should tell. So we, used to go to Vegas. Many times we've been there very many times. We used to live more proximity to that area, haven't been in a few years and really need to go back sometime. But, a lot of times she would go to the slots and sometimes if her sister was in town with her, they would spend all night playing the slots. And as a joke, I would get this brochure that they only have in Las Vegas and maybe all of Nevada casinos. there's a brochure available called when the fund Stops, and it has a picture of a sunset on it. And I would go and hand this to her as a joke and it's if you think you have a gambling problem, call this number and. My wife would get super mad at me, and I think I tried that more than once and, it doesn't work anymore. I don't think she thought it was funny, but I hope that you think it's funny. so I felt inclined to tell you that today day. and then I'm going to tell a kind of a related story. based on our trip from Naples last week, so we drove down there and back. We did that last year. We did it again this year. I kinda like to fly again next time, but then there's problems with flying. Now Naples is actually difficult to get two by commercial flight because you have to fly into Fort Myers, and that's another. I wanna say 30 or 40 miles, but I'm not sure if it's even that long. But driving from Canyon, Texas to Naples, Florida, it's about 1600 miles down there, 1600 miles back. You're looking at two days traveling down there, two days traveling back. We had four days to spend there. You really don't have a lot of time to stop and see a lot of things on the way, which is unfortunate. our route included Vicksburg, Mississippi, which is the side of a famous civil war battle. but I never get to stop there, because it's a lot of driving. Very tiring. I feel kind of glassy-eyed at the end of each day and when we finally get there. and when you're driving that much, you observe a lot of things. you observe a lot of the behaviors of other drivers, and so this is kind of another social commentary related to people's driving habits today. It's also related to having a lot more cars on the road and a lot of locations depending on where you are and what time of day it is. I've been driving for about 30 years and some people would say that I'm, 30 years. Actually this summer is when I was in driver's ed class. Some people would say that I'm slow or I'm cautious. I don't really want to ticket. people a lot of times will compare me to the way that my late father drove. He passed away about nine years ago. God rest his soul and. I can tell you a little bit about that time. I, maybe he was a slow and cautious driver, but there were other things, other factors that were involved in that, that I'll go over with you briefly. the first vehicle that he had that my brother and I came to know was a 1979. Chevy love, which is basically in a suzu pickup, small pickup with a Chevrolet name on it. It doesn't have a real powerful engine. and he drove that around for a good, I guess 11, 12 years till about the early eighties. you also have to remember that there was a 55 mile an hour national speed limit, which means that any public road. Whether it's a highway somewhere or back country road, farm to market road or whatever, the highest posted speed that you could go anywhere in this country was 55 miles an hour. Now you youngins are gonna think that's absolutely crazy. How in the world did we ever survive? But it was still 55 during the first couple of years that I was driving. probably, slower speed is a safer speed. but I know it's kind of unfathomable back then. You also realize that there was no internet, there was no social media or anything until about the mid nineties. So there was really no, instant gratification or hurry up mentality. this isn't related to driving, but when you ordered something in the mail back then, time Life had your favorite country music on some eight tracks or something like that. You would have to, either order it by mail with check or money, order or call in with your credit card, maybe even pay cash on delivery, which was really going outta style even in the eighties, and you still had to wait four to six weeks or six to eight weeks for it. because there was nothing, there was no Amazon Prime you, basically had to wait for it if there was nothing like that in the store. And I think what was also happening back then is that there was a less perception of narcissism or a general better courtesy amongst other drivers. Okay. So that's my take on him and. my observation was that, a lot of things seem to have changed, with driving habits. I have a long, long list of pet peeves while driving. Obviously it would be too long to mention anything here. we don't have that much time, but one of the things that I saw, there were people who had tried to pass me in the left lane. I was driving my little Toyota Camry is got a four cylinder engine. I didn't have my big Dodge Ram Hemi, which is eight cylinder and much more powerful, better acceleration. But I was in my little car and you have people on a two-lane road. They would try to pass me on the left lane. They weren't passing. That causes a lot of problems for other people who choose to pass, and that may actually be the cause of a lot of road rage. And then you have, the people who are in such a hurry, they tailgate you, they weave in and out of lanes. I almost feel, especially in my little Camry now, if I'm on a three lane freeway that I can't hang out in the middle lane or even in the slow lane where, obviously a lot of people are still getting on the highway, because they made it dangerous to be in all three lanes. I'll see things on city streets as well. sometimes you'll see rude drivers, people honking at you even though you can't go I've seen something here around Canyon where. I'm driving along a road and I'll see somebody looks like they're going full speed, maybe even a little over the 30 mile an hour speed limit to a stop sign. And obviously they're messing up their brakes And scaring me cuz are they gonna stop? And then yesterday I was even driving around town here in Canyon and coming out of a stop. and the light turns green and then the car behind me just decides, I'm gonna go around anyway cuz the acceleration is slower, which it is on my car. I don't really get what's going on a lot of times on these traffic fronts that I see. My understanding is, a lot of people's insurance premiums have gone up here in the last few months, even if they weren't in an accident because the number of accidents, in the general area has gone up high enough to increase everybody's premiums. And so I, just want to give another little, call to action here, just to ask people to slow down. Care for themselves as well as others. wanted to even put the old Heinz ketchup thing here. The slogan was, good things come to those who wait. the point of the matter is, let's all stay alive. I can be alive so I can keep making this podcast for you. keep writing a book for you, which I'm still working on. But then, not only keep myself alive, but keep yourself alive so that you can listen to this podcast and tell everybody about it and hit subscribe. that's the point of my message there. I don't really get what's going on. I told, myself the other day, I'm 45. I'm more experienced in some ways. I may be more wise, but I see a lot of things. I less and less. understand. And, if I got some people out there who are around my age or middle aged, I love to hear from you. I'd love to hear your stories and we can interact on that. Anyway. I think that's it for the first part of the show. Let me take a quick break and then we'll get into License to Kill. All right, so welcome back. We're gonna do a review of the James Bond movie. I guess some people would say Classic License to Kill, where Priscilla Plays, Della Churchill lighter. She was the fiance. And then briefly the wife of CIA agent and bond friend Felix Leider. In this movie, it was released in the United States July 14th, 1989. And if you listen to last week's episode, you'll also recall that later that night, Priscilla was in the Highway to Heaven episode, and it's by purpose that we've coincidentally put all those together right around the same time. I'm going to spend hopefully considerably less time on the plot and the stories and, telling you too much about the actors. I used to think as a kid that the plots in a lot of these movies were quite complex. this one really is not, you can summarize it in two or three sentences really. So I'll give you an overview and I will tell you about some of the actors that are in here as well. And we'll talk a little bit about Priscilla's role, which confused me for a long time. I was, heartbroken what happened to her in this show, and I didn't really understand it for a long time, but now I do. And. I understand it better. and this is going to maybe take a little time because I have a lot of stories regarding the Bond franchise and this movie in particular. I'll give you a brief history of the franchise. So there was a guy named Ian Fleming who wrote bond novels in the 1950s. and then there was a movie production team called Eon, e o n, that was run by the Broccoli family, Albert originally, and now I think it's being run by Barbara. They and United Artists, teamed up to make them into movies. first releasing Dr. No. In 1962, they have made to date 25 films. license to Kill was the 16th. And then you have two non Cannon films. The original Casino Royale in 1967 was a comedic spoof with David Nivan. I believe Peter Sellers was in that as well, and so was the first bond girl, Ursula Andrus, and, there was also a movie called, never Say Never Again, in 83. That was basically a Thunderball remake using the exact same bond as a Thunderball Sean Connery. And several actors have played him over the years. You have Sean Connery, then there was George Lazenby for one movie, Roger Moore, Timothy Dalton here, Pierce Brosnan, Daniel Craig. my brother and I, we always talk about these movies and how they have. Sort of transformed over the years. We're not real big fans of Daniel Craig and some of the direction that the franchise has gone since then. So we've kind of lost interest after the Pierce Brosnan movies. and the appeal about James Bond is kind of one of the quotes from the first Austin Powers movies. You know, every young man and maybe older man, perhaps my age or older wants to be Bond, and the women want to be with him. He has a cool, perhaps debonair demeanor. He dresses well stylish. he has a, a wit and charm and a charisma, just kind of a cool cat. he's got all the cars and the gadgets, he appeals to us. he seems to, in a lot of ways, have a certain amount of wealth or success, even though he works for the English government and her Majesty the Queen, queen Elizabeth II during these, he always gets the bad guy at the end. Always gets the girl. it's an idyllic life and probably a little too ideal in this world of ours, but that's why it's, so much fun. I think Sean Connery, the original, was the best. With Pierce Brosnan being a close second, they seemed to have the best balance of toughness, and grit and humor. But because I'm a big fan of comedy and humor, I also really love Roger Moore, for his humor, even if it seemed a little too goofy or excessive at times. and being iconic, it's good to make fun of, and it's been around for so long, it's been so popular. Why not? One of the best examples of that, of course was Austin Powers. They made three of those movies so far. I don't know if Mike Myers is interested in doing anymore. you have some other examples as well. Roger Moore did a great spoof of himself and the original Cannonball Run, and obviously I would check out, any and all of those movies. that you can, because they're quite entertaining and quite good. And the crazy thing is that the Eon producers, the broccolis and maybe some others, they seem to get very frustrated or annoyed when people would spoof their. Films, even though that helps to promote them, it helps to lead people to them or if you've already seen them, you think it's funny and it's all good promotion. so I never really understood what their attitude was on that. these movies, they write themselves. They're, for comedy essentially. And I saw. Uh, couple of YouTube sites. one that I would check out is there was a guy, I believe his name or the name of the group is called Cinema Sins, like s i n s, like Sins from the Bible. And he had a thing, called Everything That's Wrong With License to Kill in less than 23 minutes. very funny. And if you watch that, You get the feeling that the producers or the writers were really not paying too much attention to what was going on, because there's a lot of plot holes and maybe they missed a lot on a lot of details and, with all the things that he listed, there was like over 100 sins that he counted. And, you almost makes you wonder if it was really well done or not. So anyway, license to Kill, go ahead and start reviewing the show here. So it was the 16th bond movie Timothy Dalton and his final Bond movie, and we'll get to that in a little bit. He was very tough and gritty. He was rumored to, read the Ian Fleming novels while he was on the set. and be very by the book. He was not real great at the comedy and the comic relief. I remember an interview where Priscilla was talking about it a little bit she's a very funny person. Was on very funny show and other shows for that matter. And he apparently asked her how he could become funnier. so back in 1989, I was 11 years old. I watched this movie in the theaters twice. Now I don't really know why. Again, I'll tell you it's not one of my favorite movies. not one of my favorite bond movies, first time with was with my older, late half brother Rick, and the second time was with my dad and my brother, and both times in the theaters when Priscilla appeared on screen early in the show, People said, oh, hey, that's Terry. That's Terry. And cuz they still remembered her from three's company. It's been less than five years at the time since the show had been off. she looked stunningly beautiful in that wedding dress, And I still, throughout the years, think about that time. I don't know if I really appreciated her beauty until this movie. So we'll go over some of the plot overview here, some of the actors, and then tell you about a lot of the, trivia here. so basically bond as in the Florida Keys. I don't really know what time of year it is or if that really matters. It's kind of important for a particular scene that's, early in the movie, but. Anyway, his buddy, Felix lighter CIA agent is, getting married to Priscilla Barnes, character, Della. And for some reason he is working on the day of his wedding and he's following, this drug Lord, and they go out and basically capture the drug, Lord, send him to jail. great beginning of a Bond movie, I suppose. but then there's another c i a agent who's corrupt, takes a bribe and then, Sanchez is the drug Lord's name. He gets out of jail and so do his henchmen. And then Felix and Della, they get married. James Bond's the best man. I believe Frank McCray is in the movie as well. He was in some memorable movies. some funny things and so the bad guys, they get out of jail and basically they ambush. Felix and Della. Della is murdered. Some people say raped, because she's lying on a bed. there's a lot of controversy over that. We'll get into that. And then Felix is left near death, maimed by a great white shark because everybody, still loved great white sharks, even though the Jaws franchise had entered a couple years before. But anyway, James Bond is very upset about this. He, was married 20 years before on Her Majesty Secret Service, where Telly Valles played, Blofeld the bad guy. And, he was married to somebody named Tracy. And she was killed at the end of that movie. And, So he knows what it's like to be married very briefly to somebody and have them die and he goes into sort of a vengeful rage and he wants to go and get these guys and his boss, em, who was still played by Robert Brown at this time, says, no, we can't do that. This is not any of our business. This is United States, CIA and DEA stuff. And. so he refuses an assignment like in Turkey or something, and m says, no, you can't stay here in, in the States and do this. And he says, your license has been revoked. Gimme your license and your gun and everything. And he becomes a rogue agent. And so over the course of the movie. he follows these guys. Some of the other filming in this movie happened in Mexico, although it probably, was supposed to be set in Panama. They talk about something about a country called Isus or something and so there's a back and forth and we see all sorts of things, lots of seafaring. Boats and underwater battles and decompression chambers scenes at the end with 18 wheel tankers and everything. as you can expect, bond, tracks these guys down, takes care of them. there's actually two bond girls. Officially Romantic interests in the movie, and, uh, that as they say, is that. let me go ahead and get into some of the other actors real quick. Of course, you had Timothy Dalton playing bond. He mostly was a movie star or, or still is? He's still around mostly a movie star. I don't remember him on TV very much. I think he did some stage roles. They say he was asked as early as 1968 to play Bond, which meant he would've maybe been on that movie on Her Majesty, secret Service instead of George Lazenby. But he was very young then and actually turned it down. And of course we also got Roger Moore, which I think was still a great thing for the series. And then, we have, Robert Davey, who was in it, an excellent actor, really good guy in real life. If you ever heard him talk, But he's been in some blockbuster movies, was in some TV for a lot of years. movies like The Goonies and Die Hard. I think he was in Showgirls later, which turned out not to be a great movie. interestingly enough, the year or so before that, he was in a movie with Priscilla, a comedy movie called Tracks, which also had Shadow Stevens and Wish I could find it for some reason, that's one of those forgotten movies I hope that I can find someday. you have, like I said, Frank McCray, who was in a lot of stuff like used cars and I think he was in like loaded weapon one, yelled a lot, played another CIA agent was a good guy. Got sacrificed as well in this movie. You had, David Edison, who was in, a few movies, a lot of tv, I looked at his bio. He was in the love boat seven times. Now. I don't think that's the record, but that was pretty impressive. he was in Fantasy Island six times. again, very impressive. I think he was in, I saw Charlie's Angels three times. Was in some fall guys a few times with Lee Majors. kind of ended his career, early two thousands, like on the young of the restless and daytime soap operas. So he was in a lot of those episodes. now David Edison and Frank McCray, they're no longer with us. David Harrison was the only actor to portray Felix Leiter in two different bond movies. The first one was in 1970 threes. Live and let die. There was a bunch of different actors that portrayed that character. Interestingly enough. And Frank McCray's character in this movie, he was also a good CIA agent and a friend. Friend of bonds. His name was Sharkey. like We had all the great white sharks in this movie so just wanted to add that in there should also note that Wayne Newton has a little appearance in this movie. That's Mr. Las Vegas. Been playing Vegas and touring for a lot of years. A famous song, Donka Shane. he played a televangelist that, Sanchez was using to launder Monday, in the show. and it was always fun to see him in this, and then the two bond girls that. Bond was romantically involved one of them was Carrie Lowell and the other was Alisa Soto. I haven't really heard a ton of things that they've been in since then, or even before then, although I think I saw Carrie Lowell had been in Law and Order, on nbc. And, I should also note, Benicio. Del Toro, he played Darrio. That was, Sanchez's. Henchman He was very young in this movie. He only had one previous acting role, which was the year before in that almighty classic big top Peewee starring Peewee Herman. I'll talk a little bit about Priscilla's role. new bride of Felix Lighter, so her name was Della Churchill, lighter, gorgeous wedding dress. I think it was a real fancy, expensive thing. Basically a sacrificial lamb in this. And I didn't always understand why they kill her and why she couldn't have maybe been in the role of Carrie Lowell for instance, who has played us by in this movie as well. And, the murder and the possible rape. I don't know exactly. I think I know why people say that. but that and lighter getting maimed as the main, motivation for bond to go after these guys. she had a few lines, right outside the church and inside the church and, at their home in the Florida Keys for a little bit. she kissed Bond, wanted to kiss the best man, threw him the garter, and then later on, he's the one who finds her dead on the lighter marriage bed essentially. And she's been shot in the chest probably just once. It looks pretty clean. As far as the murder, I don't know about any kind of rape. It may have been implied. Just because she was on the bed, but it was, whatever happened to her was relatively clean. There's also a YouTube video I didn't notice this at all, but when Bond finds, they're on the bed, so her eyes are open. Okay. And they're supposed to be open throughout the scene, but there's another camera angle that goes from. The top of her head, the second camera angle. And if you look very closely, you'll notice that her eyelids close at one point. you have to look really closely or you'll miss it. you yourself can't blink. But she did blink during that scene. I wish that she had a bigger role in the movie, but. It was a Bond movie and that's a great resume builder and I'm glad that she was in it. Probably one of the most famous movies that she's been in, although she's been as many others that we're going to review. So let me go over a few scenes, maybe a few plot points. at the very beginning of this movie when they go after Sanchez, before the wedding and they wind up going in a, I think it was a Coast Guard helicopter, and they tie the back of his prop plane and it winds up going on its nose or something like that. I don't know, it was really weird, but, bond and lighter and, Frank McCray's character, they're all wearing their tuxedos, like they're going to a wedding, and it just seems very weird to me. This is South Florida. Lots of clothes on, could be very warm and humid, and they wind up getting back to the wedding. The helicopter takes'em back to the wedding and I don't see how their clothes are all soiled. Maybe a little dirty. Maybe a little smelly. And, any bride to be with her wedding coming up is probably gonna be really pissed that they, went ahead and worked. they have these soil clothes and smell and stuff to them, but obviously they show up at the wedding. And of course, being movies, they don't have any problem with their clothes. So that's, one of the weird points. the great white shark is used of course, to attack lighter, and I believe, bond feeds a Rogue c i a agent, the one that was bribed to get Sanchez out of jail. great White shark stuff at this point was getting pretty trite. Like I said, the Jaws franchise ended about two years earlier. usually great whites, they probably won't eat you whole, but they probably will attack you. and then I think what was also a problem with this movie is that it's about drugs and drug lords and drug manufacturer and we had a lot of movies about that at the time. And so that was getting to be a little old there. Sanchez had a pet iguana who had a diamond necklace. So if there was a little bit of decadence right there, that would be it. But apparently, his old mistress, Lupe, I think her name was, apparently kept the iguana at the end. Of course, we have a requisite under sea battle with harpoons and everything. People shooting harpoons at each other. I believe we had seen that before in bond movies. we saw one of Sanchez's helpers get put into a decompression chamber and his head blow up, which was, kind of comedic now. at the time it was very weird and grotesque and, But remember this is 1989 or even 88. There's no CGI at the time. people had to make models, they had to make prosthetics. They had to do their own stunts without having to worry about computers. And then of course, at the end you had an 18 wheel tanker truck is able to do a wheelie on its side. And then there's another cab of the tanker truck that does a, I'm not sure what they call it, but you basically got the front wheels off the ground. All of that was really done, by stunt men and maybe even by Timothy Dalton himself. He did his own stunts in this movie. also need to add that the reason that these trucks did these wheelies was so that they could avoid stinger missiles. Now, I don't really know what a drug Lord wants with stinger missiles, but it is a bond movie. And. There needs to be a lot of action and explosions. So that's the reason they did these. let's go ahead and talk about, The review or synopsis of this movie here? back then, as now, I'm not a real big fan of this particular movie. reviews over the years have been very mixed. people have been fairly divisive about it, or divisive, but a lot of it depends on your taste, there's a lot of different tastes in the actors who played bond over the years. There's a lot of different tastes in these movies. I've had people tell me, oh, yeah, I like how there was more emphasis on the story and less emphasis on the gadgets. And then I was like, well, I like the gadgets, you know? And I like the humor too. And, so I would say that the majority of people who have reviewed this, critics and fans alike over the years have, the majority of the reviews are positive. maybe 60 40, maybe 70 30. There were three things that were really different to me in this Bond movie compared to the ones that came before it. But some people also say that none of them after this are really quite as violent. This was a very violent movie, kind of bloody and gory, bond is out for revenge. It's like the movie Death Wish with Charles Bronson and the sequels with that. There had been concerns, of course, throughout the eighties about violence and movies, and television, on the increase. And once the eighties left, the discussion ended. and then this series, in fact, earlier in the eighties, had some concerns about violence. A couple of the Roger Moore movies, he felt like there were some scenes in it that were not very bond-like. I had a feeling that there was a certain creepiness as well to this movie, like you would see in a horror movie. the dark nature of it, kind of like, Norman Bates or Jason with a hockey mask or Freddie Krueger was gonna come out from, behind the corner and start stabbing a bunch of people. it had a very, non bond feel to it. I think what really kind of got me a lot of times too, the way the movie was set up, you basically had the the bad guy and his crew captured, I believe they were all captured at the beginning of the movie and they were put into jail and then they had a wedding and they had a big celebration and the thought is what else can you do? This is a 15 minute movie. everything should be fine. what the fuck are we doing this other two hours all hell breaks loose and the guy gets out and then we gotta solve the problem again. and of course, everybody knows what's gonna happen because it was a typical James Bond ending anyway. those were the three things that really have led me to not like it as much as some other entries. and again, your taste may be different, you might think it's better the way it was or ahead of its time, but was never really one of my favorites. I give the movie a c plus. I think it's fair. It's not bad. it's just not to my liking. And then Priscilla, I'll probably give her a B minus. I really wish she was in more of the movie than she was maybe had a bigger role. I sometimes think if that was really the last old Guard Bond movie or not, it had already kind of been transitioning. Maybe it had started with Timothy, Timothy Dalton, and, in the next movie, which would be a few years later, Robert Brown, retired as m and then you had Judy Dench. Take over as m who is, of course Bond's boss. I don't know if I really liked her in that role. I, jokingly called her Judy Stench. instead of Judy Dench, but she had a real big career in a lot of British sitcoms. and then eventually, Daniel Craig took over. my brother and I, were never a big fan on him. He just didn't do a lot of the things that we expected from Bond. And then the movies are obviously much faster paced, hard to follow now. my brother even told me that bond died in the last one, even though they're looking for a new bond actor. that's my thing about change in general. change can be good if you've got a problem or an issue in your life or your business or whatever's going on, you need to make a good change. or if you want to update things to be a little bit more modern, I don't really have a problem with that. But you can't really change the basic formula of a lot of things, whether it's a fiction story or kind of the essence of who we are as human beings, you really can't change that too much, without some negative repercussions. the last thing I wanted to get into, this was Timothy Dalton's second and final movie as Bond. He was supposed to make a third that they were gonna start working on in 1990. eon Productions got into a lawsuit with MGM who had recently acquired the United Artists, and they wound up not making another movie. Or releasing another movie until late 1995. and that's when Pierce Brosnan stepped in this was the first Bond movie that was rated PG 13, and it was originally gonna be r because of all the violence, but cutting out a few scenes. They made it PG 13. Every bond since then has been PG 13, And then this Bond movie made money, including in the United States, but it failed to meet expectations. a lot of people feel the, advertising for the show was not good. It was gonna be called License revoked until shortly before the movie. Was released and that sounded like someone getting a driver's license take taken away in the us. So that wound up being licensed to kill, licensed with the s being a c written in the English version. and there were also a lot of big summer sequels out that year to compete with the movie. and they didn't take as much home as they would've wanted to. and it caused them to shift the release date of the movies to Halloween or later. And it's been that way ever since. and then I told you a little bit about how this might have been the last Old Guard Bond movie. but like I said, I don't think it's a poor movie. I think it's a fair movie and certainly it can be worth a look if you're willing to check it out. And. Stomach a little violence and gore. I think that's about it for today's show. I've gone over quite a bit with you. hope you're having a great time at the party and I really enjoy doing this for you. Every week, every Friday, have a new episode, and, thank you for listening. Thank you for subscribing. Continue to hit, subscribe and tell your family and friends and, we will see you again next time. Thank you so much for being here. hope you love the show and take care. Until then. This is Frank Weber signing off. The theme song is called retro funk. Bye soul prod music and can be found@pixabay.com.