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FilmPG1987
The Living Daylights
Directed by John Glen
After a defecting Russian general reveals a plot to assassinate foreign spies, James Bond is assigned a secret mission to dispatch the new head of the KGB to prevent an escalation of tensions between the Soviet Union and the West. From TMDB
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| Lemmy * | 3 | 0 | 2 |
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The Living Daylights is a 1987 action adventure thriller film, directed by John Glen, starring Timothy Dalton, Maryam D'Abo and Joe Don Baker.
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60 of 223 · most liked firstMy respect for him increases, honestly. Dalton is actually a very solid choice. He needed a third film to give us a clearer throughline to his interpretation of Bond (The Living Daylights and Licence to Kill were *very* different movies, both mostly good for what they were) but that's not his fault.
positive · AI labelView post →Daaaaamn. We’ve had a lot of fun with Joe Don over the years, on eps like Congo, The Pack, and Joysticks, but he was also great in GoldenEye, Cape Fear, The Living Daylights, Charley Varrick, Fletch, Walking Tall… it goes on. What a life! www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...
neutral · AI labelView post →Time for my traditional NYE Bond film. This year it's The Living Daylights.
neutral · AI labelView post →Timothy Dalton & Maryam d'Abo in publicity mode for - THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS (1987) - the 15th movie in the 007 franchise.
neutral · AI labelView post →tonight on anything but a Humvee, this Dodge WC-51 with an M2 Browning subbing in for a Soviet truck in 007's "The Living Daylights (1987). The film was made in Morocco so it was likely either left by the Americans or the French in the Moroccan military's motor pool
neutral · AI labelView post →"The Living Twilights" (13 Dec 2022) Another #JamesBond007 poster parody, this one with the main cast of #SpyXFamily re-creating the poster of The Living Daylights (1987). #myart #fanart Lines by shoxxe on deviantART.
neutral · AI labelView post →#DavidsMonthOfMusic #MusicChallenge 6. A song with the same title as a movie , book or tv show The Living Daylights A-HA youtube.com/watch?v=de2r...
neutral · AI labelView post →Watching The Living Daylights. It’s brilliant. No Daniel Craig film has ever made me cackle like this
positive · AI labelView post →#NotYourFavourite (170) #MusicChallenge A-ha - Hunting High and Low One of many decent songs, My favourite is The Blood That Moves the Body. I wish Broccoli et al had made that a Bond Movie title as it would be a better theme than The Living Daylights youtu.be/s6VaeFCxta8?...
neutral · AI labelView post →I will die on this hill: this song should have been the title theme for The Living Daylights, not the A-ha song Co-written by John Barry and interpolated throughout the film. They shoved it into the end credits but I feel like it was intended to be the main theme youtu.be/KltjoX0VtgQ
neutral · AI labelView post →OMG come see my favorite Bond movie THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS tonight for Smash Cut Cinema, coincidentally on Timothy Dalton’s 80th birthday!
positive · AI labelView post →#DavidsMonthOfMusic #MusicChallenge 4 ~ A song you love from a movie you don’t The Living Daylights | a-ha youtu.be/z61NEfYK0fc?...
neutral · AI labelView post →Next film theme watches confirmed.. The Third Man(1949) The Living Daylights(1987) Before Sunrise(1995) Mission: Impossible-Rogue Nation(2015) #ViennaAustria #MovieSky #FilmSky #Vienna
neutral · AI labelView post →The V8 Aston Martin Vantage that Dalton drives in The Living Daylights is the most beautiful and coolest bond car on film.. 
positive · AI labelView post →Timothy Dalton & Maryam d'Abo in publicity mode for - THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS (1987) - the 15th movie in the 007 franchise which premiered in London 38yrs ago today.
neutral · AI labelView post →RIP Joe Don Baker, 89, stage, TV and screen actor, "Walking Tall" and 3 James Bond films "The Living Daylights", "Goldeneye" and "Tomorrow Never Dies", TV's "Eischeid" and more. variety.com/2025/film/ne...
neutral · AI labelView post →Had a dream last night where Jane Bond (yes Jane) was smuggling a Russian cellist from Russia to London. Yes this was basically Atomic Blonde + the Living Daylights, and I also happen to think it’d be a good movie.
neutral · AI labelView post →Tonight’s 007 movie with the boy is The Living Daylights. My son said he was ready to be done with the Moore era, the last two films were rather weak, and that he was looking forward to Timothy Dalton’s debut.
neutral · AI labelView post →It's a new agent & we bring back a seasoned one! We're rejoined by Composer Michael Llewelyn Barker to welcome Timothy Dalton to the franchise in The Living Daylights! Available wherever you listen to #podcasts! 🟢: tiny.cc/QDivTLDSpotify 🍎: tiny.cc/QDivTLDApple 🏳️🌈: www.glitterjaw.com/the-q-division
neutral · AI labelView post →Roger Moore is the best James Bond, but The Living Daylights is the best James Bond film.
positive · AI labelView post →That's a brilliantly sarcastic reference to a troubling aspect of the James Bond film, 'The Living Daylights'.
neutral · AI labelView post →#BondSoundsTop25 #MusicChallenge Day 12: "Where Has Everybody Gone" - Pretenders/John Barry From “The Living Daylights” - John Barry (1987) (Song can be heard in the film playing on Necros's Walkman and utilizes the Necros leitmotif)
neutral · AI labelView post →Before he was Bond, James Bond, he was Steele, Remington Steele. In fact, Pierce Brosnan nearly missed his chance to play Bond entirely because NBC uncancelled Remington Steele just as he was about to film The Living Daylights. www.thepopverse.com/movies-james...
neutral · AI labelView post →My ★★★★ review of The Living Daylights on @letterboxd: boxd.it/a3Bc7J #265moviereview #filmsky 📽️
positive · AI labelView post →You reminded me of the terrible fake cello playing in the Bond movie The Living Daylights. A friend and I got some confused looks when we were laughing uproariously during what was meant to be a serious scene.
negative · AI labelView post →My ★★★★ review of The Living Daylights on @letterboxd: boxd.it/4U2LU1 #265moviereview Filmsky 📽️
positive · AI labelView post →#BreakingKindSongs #MusicChallenge June 1️⃣2️⃣ - Song that is from any James Bond 007 film. A-Ha ~ The Living Daylights www.youtube.com/watch?v=z61N...
neutral · AI labelView post →Cannon cinema, Hoylake. I remember queuing around the block for Top Gun. We used to sneak in the fire exit once one of us had paid. Ashtrays on the back of the seats etc. (I also love that I can date this picture to on or around 30 June 1987, by the Living Daylights preview poster outside)
neutral · AI labelView post →What’s your go-to Bond movie? The one you throw on and feel instant comfort and delight? For me it’s THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS, an absolute fucking banger from end to end. Great stunts (the plane!!), great one-liners (“he got the boot”), and Dalton might actually be the perfect Bond. Lethal and slutty.
positive · AI labelView post →1. Withnail & I 2. Galaxy Quest 3. Daleks! Invasion Earth! 2150AD! 4. Flash Gordon 5. The Princess Bride 6. Love, Actually 7. The Living Daylights 8. Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home 9. The Lion King 10. Transformers: The Movie (1986)
neutral · AI labelView post →Dead People Roundup #21. Being old, death gets my attention, so I read the obituaries. This is a collection of recent obits, mostly of people whose work touched my life, because I want to say thanks (or maybe give 'em a final fuck you). There’ll be a roundup like this every weekend, until I’m on the list myself. [Bob Edwards](https://ghostarchive.org/archive/ljbvd) host of *Morning Edition*, squeezed out by NPR [Ross…
neutral · AI labelView post →Ruddy love The Living Daylights. Not saying it’s my favourite Bond film, but it’s in the Top 1.
positive · AI labelView post →I can't help but love The Living Daylights in much the same way as I did when I watched it aged 10 in 1987. But I'm pretty sure it's sitll amazing and - yes, I'm going to call it - the best Bond film. #TheLivingDaylights
positive · AI labelView post →Would have been John Barry's 90th birthday today, so here's my 6 favourite scores from him. Zulu The Ipcress File Hanover Street The Living Daylights (my favourite Bond movie) Somewhere In Time Body Heat Honourable mention to… The Tamarind Seed
neutral · AI labelView post →NowWatching Hubs Birthday Picks w/ @j60660.bsky.social The Living Daylights 1987 | John Glen New Bond Who Dis? Celebrating @j60660.bsky.social birthday with our big screen 🍒 👀 of this 🔥 Bond flick courtesy of film host supreme @patrickbromley.bsky.social
positive · AI labelView post →Happy 80th birthday, Timothy Dalton! In the actor’s first movie as James Bond, The Living Daylights (1987), Dalton’s smart, subdued wardrobe included a tan gabardine Benjamin Simon suit with an open-neck cream shirt while confronting Soviet General Pushkin in Tangier with his trademark Walther PPK.
neutral · AI labelView post →15 - The Living Daylights - Dalton makes a good Bond. It’s nice to have a romance you can actually believe now. The film itself is a mixed bag. Some really nice ideas, but it doesn’t tie together nicely. The stunt work feels like it’s gone up a notch. 5/10
neutral · AI labelView post →1. Pierce Brosnan is the best Bond 2. Goldeneye is the best Bond movie 3. Dalton in The Living Daylights is the most book-accurate Bond 4. The Living Daylights rips 5. I don’t understand why people love A View to a Kill
positive · AI labelView post →#OnThisDay 1987 : The Living Daylights was released in UK cinemas. Watch the movie trailer here : www.youtube.com/watch?app=de... #80s
neutral · AI labelView post →NW: #TheLivingDaylights This one feels like a classic entry with Dalton being an incredibly underrated Bond and it’s the movie I revisit the most. #JamesBond #007 #FilmSky
positive · AI labelView post →#NowPlaying on Sam’s 80s TV & FILM For: @kellybyourself.bsky.social a-ha - The Living Daylights #Sams80s @madwaspradiomwr.bsky.social #MadWaspRadio The very best in advert free music – accept no substitutes!!
neutral · AI labelView post →#AugustMovieChallenge #Moviesky #Filmsky 12: Your favorite Bond movie 🎥 The Living Daylights (1987) The opening segment, is literally the story from the book. Timothy Dalton not only looked exactly as the character described in those books, but read them all as a fan, to play Bond perfectly..
positive · AI labelView post →Acknowledge his correctness because “The Living Daylights” is the second best Bond film and some days it is first.
positive · AI labelView post →Definitely. His Bond got knocked for being dark but he really isn't, at least by the standards of nowadays. And The Living Daylights is a top-tier Bond movie.
positive · AI labelView post →Spy Who Loved Me Casino Royale Skyfall Goldeneye Tomorrow Never Dies The Living Daylights Thunderball From Russia With Love The Man with the Golden Gun (look, Christopher Lee really owns the movie for me)
neutral · AI labelView post →Now rewatching, The Living Daylights 1987). I remember clearly when this movie came out because it was the first time I watched a new Bond take over. I was Born when Roger Moore was already Bond. Dalton was a perfect choice. He brought some real gravitas to the role. Fantastic entry.
positive · AI labelView post →oooh i love The Living Daylights but it is not a great movie haha it was my first Bond and that does a ton of heavy lifting for it having said that, it's got some really good Q bits and a lot of the classic Bond gadgets are in it the Bond girl in this one was a bit too Bond girly tho
neutral · AI labelView post →The Living Daylights premiered on this day in 1987. As you might expect, film critics were keen to discuss Dalton's arrival as 007. More surprisingly, they also made a lot of comments about the HIV/Aids crisis. You can read about it in James Bond Will Return.
neutral · AI labelView post →On this day back in 1987, production wrapped on Timothy Dalton’s first #JamesBond adventure THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS and we think it’s the best 007 film of the 1980s… But which of Daltons two Bond films is your favourite? Go behind the scenes on the film in our interview: pod.fo/e/13b86f
neutral · AI labelView post →#NowWatching The Living Daylights Where is my Dalton Bond hive? Justice must be served! Let's give him a third 007 movie now. Why Not? 🤣 More Women InSession Bond analysis incoming: insessionfilm.com/women-insess... #JamesBond #action #filmsky #moviesky #movies🎬
positive · AI labelView post →Since basically every Bond film is now on prime, a quick rating of opening sequences 1) Goldeneye 2) Casino Royale 3) The Living Daylights 4) Goldfinger 5) Skyfall 6) Spectre 7) The Man with the Golden Gun 8) Most everything else, maybe License to Kill in front for originality
neutral · AI labelView post →10. The Living Daylights (1987) Our first entry into the top 10. It is a great Bond film, plain and simple, and the script suited Dalton’s Bond perfectly. The action is incredible, and such a memorable action-packed ending. Epic theme, too.
positive · AI labelView post →The underappreciated Dalton Bond movie The Living Daylights, featuring the great Joe Don Baker
positive · AI labelView post →THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS (1987) Viewing 10? I've had my battles with TLD This film now feels like a nice cello piece or a fine glass of red wine Proper espionage. Exciting action set pieces. Fleming inspired And...believe it or not...1 Sight & Sound vote as one of the greatest films ever made
positive · AI labelView post →The Living Daylights is a top three bond film for me, to this day.
positive · AI labelView post →I'm posting this for the 500th time: The Living Daylights is by far the most underrated Bond movie
positive · AI labelView post →except for the final scene, which felt a bit tacked-on, the Living Daylights is a nearly perfectly paced movie
positive · AI labelView post →Connery: Goldfinger Lazenby defaults to On Her Majesty's Secret Service Moore: Live and Let Die (this was my first ever Bond movie, and despite how problematic it is, I still have a soft spot for it) Dalton: The Living Daylights Brosnan: GoldenEye Craig: Casino Royale (probably overall favorite)
neutral · AI labelView post →The Living Daylights - OST (1987) #vinyl Superb film with a soundtrack to match. Last Bond outing for John Barry and he throws in his usual motifs to good effect. Title song by a-ha was good but If There Was A Man by The Pretenders bested this at the finale. Great start to the musical day
positive · AI labelView post →Make a Bond movie pro wrestling: The Living Daylights Out Match
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