Loving LALD

Sweepy the Cat

I never used to be a big fan of LALD. In fact it usually lied around the bottom end of my bond list and was the borderline of good and bad. But now recently I watched it and have really gotten into it shifting it up SEVEN PLACES! from no.18 to no.11. Although now my middle Bond film I still love it more then I ever did before. I used to not like it because of the whole voodoo theme and I'd prefer it wasn't like that now but without the voodoo the film would have been too empty. The pre-creds sequence isn't stupid and meaningless like many others and there a brilliant boat/bus/plane chase around midway through it. It keps up it's quality all the way through until finally, the best part, the end finale. It has a brilliant comic ending the Dr Kananga blowing up and a brilliant . This is also followed by an excellent fight with Teehee. JW Pepper is sadly underrated even though he shouldn't have returned. It is really good at looking at other peoples cultures too. Who else wants to comment on this ludicrosely brilliant adventure !

actonsteve

Sweepy the Cat wrote:

I never used to be a big fan of LALD. In fact it usually lied around the bottom end of my bond list and was the borderline of good and bad. But now recently I watched it and have really gotten into it shifting it up SEVEN PLACES! from no.18 to no.11. Although now my middle Bond film I still love it more then I ever did before. I used to not like it because of the whole voodoo theme and I'd prefer it wasn't like that now but without the voodoo the film would have been too empty. The pre-creds sequence isn't stupid and meaningless like many others and there a brilliant boat/bus/plane chase around midway through it. It keps up it's quality all the way through until finally, the best part, the end finale. It has a brilliant comic ending the Dr Kananga blowing up and a brilliant . This is also followed by an excellent fight with Teehee. JW Pepper is sadly underrated even though he shouldn't have returned. It is really good at looking at other peoples cultures too. Who else wants to comment on this ludicrosely brilliant adventure !

I always say if you want to get a newcomer into James Bond this is the one to show them.

I showed a Brazilian freind of mine GE the other day and he lasted twenty minutes. LALD he watched again and again..

Loeffelholz

LALD is my favourite Moore Bond---hands down, no contest---it comes in at #11 on my list as well. He's not 'my Bond'...but (to me) there was a clarity of vision and intent with LALD that makes it a very pure and resonant Bond outing, IMRO.

The 'Blacksploitation' stuff really dates the piece, but this is balanced by the fantastic boat chase, Solitaire, the double-decker bus, Yaphet Kotto's Kananga, Julius Harris's Tee Hee, Geoffrey Holder's Baron Samedi, the nickel-plated .44 magnum, the great 'No Bond in Sight' PTS---and lest I fail to mention it, Roger Moore's magnetism...

Seriously. ;%

No, I mean it, quit looking at me like that! {:) I've said it, again and again, he had his moments in the role...and some of his finest happen right here. The alligators... B-) So there you go, Craig-Haters, CBTs and anti-Flemingists!

In short: even then (at the age of eleven!), I had a strong sense that Bond wasn't heading in 'my' direction...but it was still one helluva lot of fun :007)

Sweepy the Cat

As much as I hate to say it connery just squeezes over Moore. The good thing about Moore is that he stayed long enough to make bond his own. (Maybe too long!) and atraccted new fans. As a young kid I was never a big fan of SC and PB. Because me and my brother both bought the bond films together hekept the SC/PB ones and I kept RM's and the rest for myself. But we were young and stupid. Before we saw FRWL I thought it starred RM. Anyway, here's my Top 007 Moore Films.

#1 TSWLM
#2 OP
#3 LALD
#4 MR
#5 FYEO
#6 TMWTGG
#7 AVTAK

Brosnan_fan

To me LALD is an OK entry. If I had to pick what I like about it

-Beautiful Jane Seymour (and she is still beautiful today :x)

-Tee Hee, the henchman with the most personality I've seen in the series :v

-Clifton James, most entertaining as Sheriff J.W. Pepper

-The boat chase

-The crocodiles and alligators

Its an average Bond film, no more and no less.

Honey Rider

I love this film. {[] Loeffelholz has already listed my own favourite things about the film, but one other reason why I love the film is that it was the first Moore film I saw (I had already seen TMWTGG and MR) that convinced me that Moore was a great Bond.

Georgiboy

I think LALD is wonderful. Solitaire :x was great and is one of my favorite bond girls and Kananga is a good villain. Roger Moore was pretty good considering this was his first outing as James Bond. Baron Samedi was a very original and colorful character that really added some "BANG" to the film IMO. The voodoo stuff is alright but you get used to it after a while.

The only part that annoyed me was Rosie Carver. She was way over dramatic. Other than that I think it is a pretty good bond film and gets better and better at each viewing. {[]

actonsteve

CTrent49 wrote:

LALD's story isn't that great. Why would the British Secret Service be interested in the prime minister of a Caribbean island that may have once been under French control?

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The fact that three British agents were killed within 24 hrs might peek their interest..

CasinoChris75

One of my history professors slammed LALD the other day. His course is on African History and he showed the class a clip from LALD to get the students to understand how Hollywood stereotypes Africans. The scene he showed was of Solitaire hung up to be sacrificed with the voodoo witch doctor approaching her with the snake.

James Bond does lots of stereotyping, but since I am a Bond fan I learned to live with it.

I am not a fan of LALD as I used to be, but that has nothing to do with my history teacher. I prefer TMWTGG.