Hairspray (2007) - Glorious time with Shankman's inspired musical

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Fizzy, fun-promising poster for Adam Shankman's Hairspray, centering on the hairdos of the main cast

Tracy is the biggest fan of Collins' dance shows on television in Baltimore in 1962, and of course one day she ditches school in order to take part in an audition for the show. But her liberal mind clashes with the leader of the show ...

 

Hairspray is written by Leslie Dixon (Pay It Forward (2000)), based on the 2002 Broadway musical that in turn was based on John Waters' same-titled 1988 film, and directed by Adam Shankman (The Wedding Planner (2001)).

Outstanding shooting star Nikki Blonsky (The English Teacher (2013)) as Tracy is a trouper and imbues the film with an irresistible, happy energy throughout the simple, good story. James Marsden (The Stand (2021-21, miniseries)), Elijah Kelly (Heavens Fall (2006)), Zac Efron (17 Again (2009)), Christopher Walken (The Deer Hunter (1978)) and John Travolta (Ladder 49 (2004)) in a wild and fantastic cross-dressing fat suit-draped performance that has to be seen, - are all terrific. The good songs include Good Morning Baltimore and (You're) Timeless to Me, the latter a duet between Travolta and Walken. 

The hair, makeup and prosthetics job is killer. Michelle Pfeiffer (Frankie and Johnny (1991)) is catty and looks utterly amazing but is no singer, which regrettably shows. 

Hairspray is deeply charming, if a bit overlong, and it certainly inspires one to search for Waters' original as well. 

 

Related post:

 

Adam Shankman: A Walk to Remember (2002) or, Annoying Girl and Idiotic Guy Find Each Other and Love Like the Wind, Which You Can Feel But Not Touch

 

Watch a trailer for the movie here

 

Cost: 75 mil. $

Box office: 203.6 mil. $

= Box office success (returned 2.71 times its cost)

[Hairspray premiered 10 July (Los Angeles) and runs 116 minutes. Travolta was paid 14 mil. $, 3 of them up-front, for his performance in the film. Efron was paid 100k $. Shooting took place from September - December 2006 in Toronto, Ontario and in Baltimore, Maryland. The film opened #3, behind fellow new release I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry and holdover hit Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, to a 27.8 mil. $ first weekend in North America, where it spent 2 more weekends at the top 5 (#4-X-#5), grossing 118.8 mil. $ (58.3 % of the total gross). The 2nd and 3rd biggest markets were the UK with 25.7 mil. $ (12.6 %) and Australia with 14.4 mil. $ (7.1 %). The film was nominated for a BAFTA, 3 Golden Globes and a Grammy, among other honors. Roger Ebert gave it a 3.5/4 star review, translating to a notch over this one. Shankman returned with Prop 8: The Musical (2008, short) and theatrically with Bedtime Stories (2008). Travolta returned with a voice performance in Bolt (2008) and physically in The Taking of Pelham 123 (2009); Efron in 3 TV and short credits prior to his theatrical return in Me and Orson Welles (2008); and Blonsky in Queen Sized (2008, TV movie) and theatrically in Harold (2008). Hairspray is certified fresh at 92 % with a 7.80/10 critical average at Rotten Tomatoes.]

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Nick of Time (1995) - Good performances in taut Badham thriller

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A high-stakes dilemma  is attempted as baiting tag-line on this ocher-colored poster for John Badham's Nick of Time

A young male accountant has his daughter taken hostage in Los Angeles, and the kidnappers demand that he kills the state governor during her soon to begin campaign event! - What will he do!?!

Nick of Time is written by Patrick Sheane Duncan (The Pornographer (1994)) and directed by great English filmmaker John Badham (The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings (1976)).

It is a well-made, exciting thriller in Hitchcock style at times; one that creates a paranoid tension, which may make you wonder, if the plot is really merely the result of an insane protagonist's wild delusions.

Johnny Depp (Benny & Joon (1993)) and Christopher Walken (Kiss Toledo Goodbye (1999)) are good, and the film has sharp supporting performances from Charles S. Dutton (Threshold (2005-06)) and Marsha Mason (I Love Trouble (1994)) as the governor. Parts of the plot don't completely add up, but basically it is solid. The entire film takes place in real-time, (meaning that the plot plays out minute-for-minute in the total 90 minute playtime), and this is a high-wire act that also succeeds pretty well here.

 

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John Badham: Dracula (1979) - Badham's sensuous, exceptional adaptation

 

Watch a 4-minute clip from the film here

 

Cost: 33 mil. $

Box office: In excess of 8.1 mil. $ (North America only)

= Uncertain but likely a mega-flop (projected return of 0.45 times its cost)

[Nick of Time was released 22 November (North America) and runs 90 minutes. Depp was paid 5 mil. $ for his performance. Shooting took place from April - June 1995 in Toronto, Ontario and in Los Angeles, California. The film opened #9, its highest placement, to a 2.7 mil. $ first weekend in North America, where it grossed 8.1 mil. $. Regrettably the international gross numbers have not been made public. With a projected world total gross of 15 mil. $, the film ranks as a mega-flop. Roger Ebert gave it a 2.5/4 star review, translating to a notch under this one. Badham returned with Incognito (1997). Depp returned in Divine Rapture (1995, short) and theatrically in Donnie Brasco (1997). Nick of Time is rotten at 31 % with a 4.60/10 critical average at Rotten Tomatoes.]

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Heaven's Gate (1980) - Much to admire in Cimino's incredible western epic disaster

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An incredibly dramatic sky and the three central stars set against a frayed Stars and Stripes make up most of this impressive poster for Michael Cimino's Heaven's Gate

Two men fight over the same woman and a bloody plan to murder 125 immigrants in Wyoming's Johnson County in the 1890s.

 

Heaven's Gate is written and directed by great New-Yorker filmmaker Michael Cimino (Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (1974)).

Kris Kristofferson (Blade (1998)), Christopher Walken (Kiss Toledo Goodbye (1999)) and Isabelle Huppert (White Material (2009)) are the three actors who form the center of this possibly the - financially speaking - most spectacular flop in cinema history. Heaven's Gate is full of lavish and incredible images (cinematography by Vilmos Zsigmond (Deliverance (1972))) and a production width and beauty of rare fabric. The problem is more with the narrative and the grotesquely prolonged, detached, abstract structure of it all, and with dialog scenes in which the dialog is nearly unaudible. 

 

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Michael Cimino: The Deer Hunter (1978) - Cimino's great, colossal Vietnam epic

 

Watch a trailer for the film here

 

Cost: 44 mil. $

Box office: 3.4 mil. $ (North America only)

= Box office disaster (returned around 0.11 times its cost)

[Heaven's Gate premiered 18 November (New York) and runs 219 minutes. Though the plot has historical basis, several things are invented and changed for the film. Cimino had submitted the original Heaven's Gate script in 1971 but failed to find support for it until after the runaway success of Deer Hunter (1978). He was given an 11.6 mil. $ budget and carte blanche. Shooting took place from April 1979 - April 1980 in England, Montana, Idaho, Massachusetts and Rhode Island. At the 6th day of shooting, legend says, the shoot had already fallen 5 days behind on the schedule. An entire street was built and then taken down to be re-assembled, because Cimino thought it should be 6 feet wider. An irrigation system was devised and placed underground for a central battle scene so that the grass would be freshly green and contrast, as intended, with the red blood. Cimino demanded up to 50 takes of the same scene. John Hurt waited around so long on the shoot that he was able to fly away and star in The Elephant Man (1980) and come back to continue work on Heaven's Gate. Though United Artists considered firing Cimino many times, they ultimately never set the foot down. Nearly 220 hours of footage was shot, a new record. Cimino's first cut ran five hours and 25 minutes, 15 minutes longer than the final cut should, Cimino informed the baffled executives. Unsurprisingly, the studio executives refused to release the film at that length, and Cimino cut it down to 3 hours 39 minutes. This version was shortly released but then pulled back. Months later UA released a 149 minute cut, which played for a few weeks, before it was also pulled. It made 3.4 mil. $ in North America. Regrettably the gross numbers from foreign markets are not public, but the 0.11 time return above figures on a 5 mil. $ projected final world gross, - which is likely set too high. The film was nominated for the Best Set Decoration/Art Direction Oscar, lost to Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark. It was shown in competition in Cannes. Roger Ebert gave the film a 1.5/4 star review, translating to 2 notched under this one. The film's flop was deciding in United Artists getting bought up by MGM and thereby losing autonomy and their status as a successful independent studio. It was also instrumental in the Hollywood power change away from young New Hollywood directors such as Cimino, Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola and others, and back to tighter controlled studio pictures and high concept 'package' arrangements. Finally the controversy concerning animal cruelty on the production of Heaven's Gate, - involving horses, cows and chicken killed for scenes, - gained the American Humane Society the momentum to become standard monitors of animal safety on all major American productions. Cimino in his own words was after Heaven's Gate never again able to make the films he wanted to make, - but he did continue making films. Though critically smashed at the time, the film has grown in esteem since and was hailed as a masterpiece at a 2012 Venice Film Festival restoration screening, much to Cimino's delight. Cimino returned with Year of the Dragon (1985). Kristofferson returned in Rollover (1981). Heaven's Gate is rotten at 59 % with a 6.70/10 critical average at Rotten Tomatoes.]

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The Dead Zone (1983) - Eerie sci-fi horror King-adaptation

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The eerie, well-composed poster for David Cronenberg's The Dead Zone

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Our school teacher hero is set to be married, as he gets involved in a traffic accident that puts him in a five-year coma. When he awakes to a reality that has moved on, he has a new ability: He sees horrific things ...

The Dead Zone is a good Stephen King-adaptation (Misery (1987)). Jeffrey Boam (The Lost Boys (1987)) adapted King's same-title 1979 novel, and Canadian master filmmaker David Cronenberg (Naked Lunch (1991)) has directed it. Fans of Cronenberg might be a bit disappointed with the film, because there are only a few Cronenberg touches to it, and it feels a little novel-like; this happens, then that happens and so on.
But Christoper Walken (A Late Quartet (2012)) and Martin Sheen (The West Wing (1999-06)) are good in it, and it is still a well-done and exciting film.

Related reviews:

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A Dangerous Method (2011) - Cronenberg's rather disappointing waltz with the fathers of modern psychology 
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Spider (2002) - Cronenberg takes us to the tormented (and slightly dull) mind of a schizophrenic 
Dead Ringers (1988) or, Brothers and Their Instruments 
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In lieu of a trailer, not currently on Youtube, watch the opening credit sequence of the film here

Cost: 10 mil. $
Box office: 20.7 mil. $ (North America only)
= Unknown
[The Dead Zone was released October 21 and runs 103 minutes. Stanley Donen, Andrei Konchalovsky and John Badham were contacted to direct before Cronenberg was set. King wrote a screenplay himself and originally wanted Bill Murray for the lead, but his script was rejected, and he reportedly ended up complimenting Boam and Cronenberg's changes to the story, saying that [they] "improved and intensified the power of the narrative." The film was shot on location in Cronenberg's native Ontario, Canada during a deep freeze winter, which contributed greatly to the freezing atmosphere in the film. Dead Zone opened #2 in North America with 4.5 mil. $, behind Never Say Never Again. Without foreign box office numbers, it isn't possible to say whether the film crept up into profitability theatrically, although it probably became a small success. The Dead Zone is fresh at 90 % with a 7.6 average on Rotten Tomatoes.]

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The Dogs of War (1980) or, Mercenaries in Africa!

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The tag-line that runs into the title for John Irvin's The Dogs of War here is actually a Shakespearean quote from Julius Caesar (1599)

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A group of mercenaries carry out a coup d'état in a brutally led, African dictatorship for economical gain ... or ?

Dogs of War is an uneven war drama with a young Christopher Walken (The Deer Hunter (1978)) in a fairly uninteresting part as one of the mercenaries. I rarely think about it in his later work, but as a young man, (although he is actually 36 here, so not, in fact, so very young), Walken had a stunning, off-center beauty.
Most of the film concerns an international errand, where one dull weapons deal after the other is introduced and quickly forgotten again. Dogs of War's facets never quite make up for the fact that the film never seems to really deliver what its posters, blurbs and first, exciting scene promises: Action.
It is written by Gary DeVore (Raw Deal (1986)) and George Malko (Indian Killer (1974)), based on the 1974 novel of the same title by Frederick Forsyth (The Day of the Jackal (1971)), and directed by English director John Irvin (Hamburger Hill (1987)). Irvin is making a film entitled Mandela's Gun in South Africa right now for release later this year.

Watch a hokey TV spot for the film here

Cost: Unknown
Box office: 5.4 mil. $ (presumably US only)
= Uncertainty
[Dogs of War is an English production, shot in Miami, Florida, and in Belize, standing in for the fictitious African country Zangaro. The film was photographed by the great Jack Cardiff (The Red Shoes (1948)). Information about the film's budget and box office performance are not to be found online.]

What do you think of The Dogs of War?

The Deer Hunter (1978) - Cimino's great, colossal Vietnam epic

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A praise-stressing, unusual and exciting poster for Michael Cimino's The Deer Hunter

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Three American steelworkers and their trials before and after their service in the Vietnam War.

Deer Hunter is a great war drama epic. But its all-pervading director Michael Cimino (Year of the Dragon (1985)) is no Sergio Leone (Once Upon a Time in the West/C'era una Volta il West (1968)), meaning; he's no master of the epic, and Deer Hunter is ultimately too loosely edited (by Peter Zinner (The Godfather: Part II (1974)), who nevertheless won an Oscar for his job), which is no doubt Cimino's own fault, as he did everything in his power to keep it as long as possible. (It runs 183 minutes.) - Perhaps Deer Hunter is a precursor of his fatal eruption of megalomania on his following western epic, Heaven's Gate (1980), which, infamously, bankrupted its studio United Artists.
Robert De Niro (Casino (1995)) and Christopher Walken (A Late Quartet (2012)), who won his only Oscar to date for his supporting performance, are both eminent in this film, and Stanley Myers' (A Severed Head (1970)) somewhat under-appreciated score is beautiful.
Deer Hunter, written by Deric Washburne (Extreme Prejudice (1987)), tackles its taboo (at the time) topic of the US Vietnam War in an all-together different way from Francis Ford Coppola's soon following Vietnam epic Apocalypse Now (1979)): Deer Hunter is a more social-realistic portrait that also inhabits symbolism (like the controversial Russian roulette scenes that are a part of the film, because it is based on a script about Russian roulette in Las Vegas, not because Russian roulette war known to have been a widespread practice in the Vietnam War), whereas Apocalypse is a doomsday-themed journey into the dark pits of man's soul. Though I think Coppola's film is superior among the two, The Deer Hunter is certainly also a great film. - As well as a very controversial and disputed film, both from a production and a public standpoint, as you can read about in its lengthy, interesting Wikipedia page here.

Related review:

Apocalypse Now (1979) redux version - The horror of war 

Christopher Walken in a pivotal scene from Michael Cimino's The Deer Hunter

An original trailer for the film that punches its greatness in your face again, again ... and again

Cost: 15 mil. $
Box office: 48.9 mil. $ (US only)
= Box office success
[Deer Hunter was budgeted at 8.5 mil. $ and ran over budget less than halfway through its production, (already during the wedding scenes, which were filmed first.) The whole film was shot on locations in Ohio, Washington, West Virginia and in Thailand. The box office reports about Deer Hunter's performance are, as many things about the film's inception and making, mixed. Despite the film's success in the US, (after a very lengthy run, ending in the end of 1980), it seems to have been well-received in other countries as well, as in Spain, where 2.2 mil. people paid admission. The film won 5 Oscars, (also for Best Director, Picture and Sound) out of 9 nominations, but was also protested against by red block nations and liberals like Jane Fonda because of its somewhat one-sided portrayal of the Vietnamese.]

What do you think of The Deer Hunter?

Batman Returns (1992) - Burton gives us the ultimate, Gothic spin on Gotham City and its sinister characters

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Featuring Michael Keaton, Michelle Pfeiffer, Danny DaVito and Christopher Walken, all in stellar performances in a visually incredible film, Tim Burton's Batman Returns is the best Batman movie ever

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The story rotates around the Penguin, a man, who has lived in Gotham City's sewers, and who now wants to be the mayor. He gets help from the city's business king, Max Shreck. His secretary in the meantime begins to meow ....
Michael Keaton (Beetle Juice (1988)) is busy as Batman in this the second big movie adaptation of the DC comic by Warner Bros., but the story is well-told in a pace that has to be labeled as perfect. Danny Elfman's (The Simpsons (1989-)) score compliments Bo Welch's (Beetle Juice (1988)) amazing, Burtonesque production design to a tee. - Returns is one of Elfman's best works, because the film is perfectly suited to his grandiose, playful style.

Michelle Pfeiffer in one freaky and very sexy role as Catwoman in Tim Burton's Batman Returns

The film offers exceptional, Gothic images and legendary performances by, in particular, Michelle Pfeiffer (Scarface (1983)) as the sexy Catwoman and Danny DeVito (Anything Else (2003)) as the oozing Penguin, one of the all-time best movie villains.

Danny DeVito in one of the best villain roles ever created on the screen, as the Penguin in Tim Burton's Batman Returns

Returns is a fantasy movie with a thick underlining of the word fantasy and totally without consequences for reality; it is escapism in its purest form. In these cases, the fantasy must be excessively thorough and amazingly conceived to hit the highest notes: Batman Returns is just that, and might be master director Tim Burton's (Mars Attacks! (1996)) best film yet: Weird, funny, sexy, scary, inventive and wildly entertaining throughout.
Burton is working on an untraditional project for him at the moment, Big Eyes, a 'low budget' (10 mil. $) period drama about real-life painter Margaret Keane, set in the 50s and 60s, with Amy Adams, Krysten Ritter and Christoph Waltz. - Sounding very intriguing.

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Batman Begins (2005) or, Modern, Dark, Smooth Batman 

The movie is better than its trailer makes it look, but here it is anyway

Budget: 80 mil. $ (incl. marketing)
Box office: 266.8 mil. $
= Blockbuster

Do you agree that Batman Returns is the best Batman movie?

Biloxi Blues (1988) or, '45 Army Camp Confidential

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Young, charming Matthew Broderick send out to sell, sell, sell! - Mike Nichols' Biloxi Blues

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Jerome's weeks as a private trainee in Biloxi, Mississippi in 1945, until the war ends, is a time with discoveries, exhaustion and drama.
Matthew Broderick (Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986)) is tremendous, and Christopher Walken (The Deer Hunter (1978)) as the eccentric and semi-loony Sergeant is just as good.

Matthew Broderick and Christopher Walken in the fine film by Mike Nichols, Biloxi Blues

Many of playwright/screenwriter Neil Simon's (The Odd Couple (1968)) lines are hilarious, and the structure of the film is impeccable.
Biloxi Blues is moving and universally relevant with a few minor problems in the supporting cast.
Its German-born director Mike Nichols (The Graduate (1967)) finished his formidable career recently with Charlie Wilson's War (2007).

Related review:

Mike Nichols: Angels in America (TV mini-series, 2003) or, Dying in the 80s, of AIDS, at L-E-N-G-T-H

Watch the film's short, funny trailer here

Budget: 20 mil. $
Box office: 51.6 mil. $
= Box office success and # 1 in the US

What do you think of Biloxi Blues?
Other army comedies that simply tickle your ribs?

A View to a Kill (1985) or, Once a Gentleman, Always a Gentleman!

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Agent 007 stands assured by a glamorous blonde high up on San Francisco's Golden Gate bridge on this wonderfully drawn and painted poster for John Glen's A View to a Kill

A dope-using race horse court owner has himself been manipulated by some ugly Nazi doctors and really plans to flood California's Silicon Valley and monopolize the microchip market. Obviously this is a case for Great Britain's #1 spy, agent 007, James Bond! 

 

A View to a Kill is written by Richard Maibaum (Goldfinger (1964)) and Michael G. Wilson (For Your Eyes Only (1981)) and directed by great British filmmaker John Glen (For Your Eyes Only (1981)), whose 3rd Bond film it is. Overall it is the 14th in the Bond franchise, with a title drawn from Ian Fleming's (Thrilling Cities (1963)) short story From a View to a Kill (1960), but the script is entirely original.
Scores of critics - seemingly including the late Roger Moore (Ivanhoe (1958-59)) himself - think that the film is a tacky, awful Bond film with a dinosaur lead, but personally, I think it's a terrifically entertaining film, possibly one of the best Bond films ever, and certainly Moore's best. It is his 7th and last as the agent, which he has portrayed more times than any of the long-running franchise's other 5 starring actors.
Christopher Walken (Domino (2005)) and Grace Jones (Conan the Destroyer (1984)) are a villain couple from heaven; sexy and wild; and Duran Duran's title song is eminent and is used extensively in the film's beautiful score by Bond-regular John Barry (Chaplin (1992)).
The action scenes and locations are spectacular and fun, and the film is especially be a treat for anyone with a penchant for the 1980s on screen. Lois Maxwell (Age of Innocence (1977)) plays Miss Moneypenny for the last time in the film, and Dolph Lundgren (War Pigs (2015)), then boyfriend of Jones, has a tiny part, his first credit.
Forget the badmouthing this film has received and still does: A View to a Kill was a world smash and is still a colorful, fun, exciting and excellent action-adventure movie!

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For Your Eyes Only (1981) - Glen debuts with wacky, action-packed Roger Moore Bond
Diamonds Are Forever (1971) - Connery's last Bond adventure is a colorful romp 

Goldfinger (1964) - The 007 template gets perfected in fabulously entertaining third spectacle 
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A View to a Kill (1985) or, Once a Gentleman, Always a Gentleman!  

For Your Eyes Only (1981) - Glen debuts with wacky, action-packed Roger Moore Bond 

Watch a teaser for the film here

Cost: 30 mil. $
Box office: 152.4 mil. $
= Big hit (returned 5.08 times its cost)

[A View to a Kill premiered 22 May (San Francisco, USA) and runs 131 minutes. David Bowie and Sting were approached to play the Max Zorin part eventually played by Walken. Shooting took place from June 1984 - January 1985 in Switzerland, England, France, including Paris and in California, including San Francisco. A stuntman was fired in Paris, when he parachuted from the Eiffel Tower without authorization from city authorities, because he was disappointed another stuntman was used for the film's Eiffel Tower jump scene. Glen has said that the film went two weeks over schedule but was made 5 mil. $ under budget. Duran Duran were hired to write the theme song, after the group's bassist John Taylor had teased producer Albert Broccoli at a party; "When are you going to get someone decent to do one of your theme songs?" It was the first Bond theme song to reach #1 on Billboard's Hot 100 chart. The film opened #2, behind fellow new release Rambo: First Blood Part II, to a 10.6 mil. $ first weekend in North America, where it stayed in the top 5 for another 4 weeks (#2-#3-#4-#5) and grossed 50.3 mil. $ (33 % of the total gross) from 14.1 mil. admissions. The international gross numbers are regrettably not released. Many critics lashed out at Moore's age, 57 at the time, including the first Bond, Sean Connery, and eventually Moore agreed: In 2007 he remarked; "I was only about four hundred years too old for the part." The film was nominated for a Golden Globe. Glen returned with The Living Daylights (1987), the next Bond movie; he would end his Bond turn after one more; License to Kill (1989). Moore returned with a voice performance in The Magic Snowman (1987) and theatrically in Fire, Ice & Dynamite (1990). A View to a Kill is rotten at 38 % with a 4.96/10 critical average at Rotten Tomatoes.]

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