Before Bond and Stacey even have a chance to catch their breath atop the Golden Gate Bridge in A View to a Kill, Bond delivers a line that’s hilarious, given the absurdity of their predicament and the sheer spectacle of the moment. While Zorin’s earlier remark completing May Day’s sentence to echo the film’s title feels oddly forced, the ensuing sequence of the blimp, the bridge, and the breathtaking San Francisco skyline stands as one of the franchise’s most inspired uses of a real-world landmark. It would be apropos for the movie title to simply reference the pure awesome spectacle of the Golden Gate Bridge, and not Zorin’s literal megalomaniacal crosshairs.

