Tag: A View To A Kill

Few throwaway Bond lines are as oddly specific or as emblematic of A View to a Kill‘s quirks as this one. The remark comes during Bond’s visit to Stacey Sutton’s home, immediately after he dispatches a pair of intruders. Throughout… Read More →

The final line of A View To A Kill is a throwaway quip from Q explaining to M how Bond was found alive. The joke is meant to play off the fact that Q interrupts Bond and Stacey Sutton mid… Read More →

The infamous bed scene from A View To A Kill remains one of the most awkward James Bond moments of all time.  Beyond the odd Zorin/May Day dynamic that seems to require a strange kind of “permission” to proceed, the… Read More →

When General Gogol presents James Bond with the Order of Lenin in A View To A Kill, it’s played as a brief moment of Cold War humor.  Yet, a closer look reveals a fascinating bit of real-world context.  The Order… Read More →

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… Read More →

Zorin’s magnificent blimp in A View To A Kill deserves way more credit than it gets.  It’s am underrated villain vehicle.  While most bad guys settle for yachts or private jets, Zorin floats around San Francisco in his egomaniacal parade… Read More →

Now you tell me! It’s the ultimate “wait… what?” moment of Roger Moore’s Bond era in A View to a Kill, when Bond boldly commandeers Stacy Sutton’s gun only to discover it has all the firepower of a cap gun. … Read More →

This was such a bizarre scene from A View To A Kill… So Bond meets up with the detective hired by the French jockey club to investigate Zorin/Pegasus.  Where does he meet him?  He chooses the most touristy of tourist… Read More →

For all its flaws, A View To A Kill at least has an amazing Bond girl.  The bubbles tickle my…Tchaikovsky! Read More →