This scene from Licence To Kill (1989) is easily the most bizarre and awkward of the Dalton era. On Della and Felix Leiter’s wedding day, Bond and Della cavort around the wedding reception in a drunken stupor, almost as if they’re the betrothed themselves.
It starts off innocently enough with them falling into the room with the wedding cake, but their subsequent kisses are most definitely *not* innocuous and not innocent pecks on the cheek. I’d argue they are almost passionate. Did Bond and Della have a previous fling?
Although I wasn’t married in the 1980’s when this movie was released, I’m a married American and I’ve never heard of the “custom” where the bride kisses the best man. Did I miss the memo on that? This does not sound like a great custom. Just weird.
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Dalton’s Bond from Licence To Kill (1989) says COME ON aboard and vote!
Hector Lopez for President sign in Licence To Kill (1989)
No, not for Hector Lopez for President campaign from Licence To Kill (1989).
VOTE!
Hector Lopez for President sign in Licence To Kill (1989)
Robert Davi as Franz Sanchez in Licence To Kill (1989)
Inspirational, but not while a shark chews off your leg!
“Hell, I don’t even ride ’em.”
– Manning Redwood as Zorin henchman and oil tycoon Bob Conley in A View to a Kill (1985)
I’d buy a used car from Bob Conley.
Stromberg blows up the helicopter with Professor Markowitz and Dr. Beckman on board in The Spy Who Loved Me (1977)
Stromberg’s button push helicopter explosion from The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) is so satisfying. Maybe it’s the vintage plastic buttons he uses on his control panel. Or the perfectly timed, in-sync explosion that is perfectly edited when he pushes the button. Or the secondary button that illuminates on the upper-right hand side when it happens. Likely, it’s a combination of all three. I could endlessly watch this GIF loop!
Here are the dorkiest moments of each Bond actor’s career:
Sean Connery tries to pull of the pink tie in Diamonds Are Forever (1971)…and fails. DORK!
George Lazenby’s Scottish get-up in On Her Majesty’s Secret Service (1969) screamed “dork.”
Roger Moore’s clown costume in Octopussy (1983) takes the cake…the ultimate dorkiest Bond moment!
Timothy Dalton’s “look” prior to fishing Franz Sanchez out of the sky in Licence To Kill (1989).
Sorry James, but not even Pierce Brosnan in The World Is Not Enough (1999) can pull off purple glasses (even x-ray ones).
Daniel Craig needed a shave and a shower as a hungover mess in Skyfall (2012)
“That’s putting it mildly, 007.”
– Desmond Llewelyn as Q in For Your Eyes Only (1981)
Mads Mikkelsen as Le Chiffre in Casino Royale (2006)
Losing an argument? Emphasis is key!
Paris Carver, played by Teri Hatcher, slaps James Bond (Pierce Brosnan) in Tomorrow Never Dies (1997)
SLAP!
