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Licence to Kill (1989)
I love the final stunt scene
The chase down the mountain with the trucks and the car is excellent. When the final truck goes barreling down across all the roads, it's truly terrifying, a sign of how Bond does not care if he dies as long as he gets Sanchez. I think Dalton is not so much humorless as relentless, obsessed. I also think he was going for a more serious Bond after the jokiness of Roger Moore.
I think it's a decent movie. Talisa Soto is wonderful, the best thing in it, although Carey Lowell is also quite good, and it's nice to see Desmond Llewellyn out in the field. Q & Bond always spar, but beyond the fact that they truly respect each other, they also truly like each other and care for each other. The sparring is a bit of manly cover for their feelings. Q's willingness to risk himself for Bond in this movie is a sign of their real relationship.
Rough Cut (1980)
Charming romantic caper movie; awesome leads
Rough Cut is delicious froth, a shiny bauble of wonderfully made costume jewelry - not the real thing, but so much fun you don't care how silly and artificial it is. Burt Reynolds and the overpoweringly gorgeous Lesley-Anne Down are so perfect in the lead roles that you forgive this movie its many flaws.
This is, essentially, a fairy tale. You know everything will go right, it's just a question of how. It's like the great early 1990s British show Lovejoy - filmed in a beautiful England of pastels and greenery, of charming U characters and not-all-that-menacing bad guys.
It's just a very enjoyable, very romantic caper movie with two terrific stars and a fine supporting cast, filmed in splendid colors. Everything doesn't have to be Some Like It Hot.