Workplace Accident Shaking things up in the Bond appreciation fellowship I declare here that License to Kill (1989), with Timothy Dalton as Agent 007, Bond James Bond, is the second best Bond film. The best is Thunderball . My blog, my opinions. License to Kill came out at a time when Latin American drug cartels were in the news and entertainment media quite a bit. Miami Vice used the motif of Colombian cocaine traffickers, scoundrels and murderers, "Colombian punks," Rico calls them, Rico played by Philip Michael Thomas opposite Don Johnson as Crockett. So the drug lord in this film (Robert Davi at his cold best) has a big operation going on as well as a pet iguana. He gets arrested but sprung from the van transferring him to prison. His operation involves cocaine but it's bigger than that, but I'm honestly unaware of what his business is besides drugs. He's cruel...
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A Twitch of Chrome I saw John Carpenter's Christine (1983) a week ago, so whatever lack of specific memory of plot details derives from that. Keith Gordon plays a glasses-wearing "nerd" friend (Arnie) of a high school football player (Dennis, played by John Stockwell) popular with girls, including a sweet blonde played by a young Kelly Preston (later on John Travolta's scientologist wife). Whether Arnie is drawn to something malignant or not, he becomes immediately attached to a For Sale 1958 Plymouth, rusty and falling apart, but with a living purring engine. The crusty old man who sells it to him for 250 dollars, accepting a check, which looks uncool as opposed to just paying with cash, tells his friend later on that someone committed suicide in the car. It's evidently haunted. The radio comes on emitting a strong puke green light, playing rock and roll, the genuine kind of the 1950s. When that radio activa...