Queue Tips: Daylights of Our Lives

There's a band called The Deadlights.  I wonder if they've ever seen "The Living Daylights".  What does that saying mean anyway?  Let me use the googalizer.

One of the searches I found explained that "daylights" used to mean "eyes".  So the other James Bond films could have been named "For Your Daylights Only".  And "GoldenDaylights".  To knock the living daylights out of someone is to punch them so hard they become unconscious.  

So what happens if your little lamp is running out of battery?  It would be a dying nightlight.  Anyways, in this film, James Bond is living in the limelight, the universal dream for those who wish to see.  Oh, wait.  That's the Rush song.

This is a film where they have a new actor playing James Bond.  That is Timothy Dalton.  If you haven't seen him in other movies, you wouldn't recognize him.  He says his character name near the end of the opening action sequence.  I'm not sure how effective that is, or if they should have pointed it out clearly earlier.  He is also not wearing the tuxedo that we might usually associate with the character.

We do see him in the gun barrel sequence that starts the film.  But it's a wide shot, obviously.  And it's pretty short so if you were just walking in, or tending to your popcorn and soda, you might have missed it.  Interestingly, Dalton shoot with his left hand down, not away from the body for balance and not supporting the right hand on the gun.

It's still pretty silly.  Bond decides not to shoot an assassin because she is an attractive woman.  They have a boombox gadget called the "Ghettoblaster".  There are some pretty cool stunts as usual.  Dalton's portrayal of Bond was interesting, but it wasn't quite there yet and the plot didn't really support.  It was definitely less comical than Roger Moore in a clown suit trying to convince people a bomb is about to explode in 90 seconds.  I also liked the portrayal of the female lead and supporting women actors.  Not quite as mysoginistic as the previous films.

The theme song by A-Ha was good, but I have actually forgotten it already.  Somehow I have it stuck in my head to the tune of the reading rainbow.  "There's a bomb in the sky, it can blow twice as high."