A small detail that very much dates the movie in the 80s, is Sanchez' scheme to smuggle cocaine to Asia by diluting it in gasoline.This is probably the Bond movie that most screams "'80s action movie" ever. Bond himself is perilously close to having a mullet, the series' gore has never been higher, and the ending song is a synthesizer-backed love ballad. Every car is boxy as hell, Pan-Am Airlines still exists, and Pam has trendy short '80s Hair and a background as an army pilot in Central American warzones. The '80s: Bond is a lone man-on-the-edge Cowboy Cop fighting a Latin American drug dealer who's bringing in wealthy Hong Kong businessmen to sell cocaine all over the world and whose henchmen include an ex-Green Beret, an ex-Contra, a yuppie banker, and a televangelist.555: The hotline for donating to Professor Joe's scam religion is 555-LOVE.Preceded by The Living Daylights and followed by GoldenEye. Pierce Brosnan was then announced as the new James Bond in July of that year. Broccoli passed away in 1996.ĭalton was signed to return as James Bond for a third time, but legal issues (a lawsuit concerning television licensing rights sold off cheap by the new MGM owner, Italian fraudster Giancarlo Parretti, to finance the purchase of MGM, without approval of franchise co-owner, the Broccoli/Wilson family), coupled with reluctance, if not outright resistance, of the new MGM management in 1993 (after Parretti was arrested and his bank, France's Credit Lyonnais, assumed control) to see Dalton return once more, kept the series in a long-running hiatus ( six and a half years, the longest gap between two films in the franchise to this day) until Dalton officially resigned in April 1994. Wilson became the new producers, starting with GoldenEye in 1995. Broccoli retired years later and his daughter Barbara Broccoli and stepson Michael G. Broccoli, after 16 consecutive films made over the course of 27 years. The final Bond film produced for Albert R.The final Bond film with opening credits by Maurice Binder, who was responsible for the opening credits for 14 of the 16 first films in the franchise.
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