This time I got distracted by something or other and only managed two movies: Gremlins and The Living Daylights, both previously unseen. Both worked well.
Gremlins was funny and had groovy creature effects, and Timothy Dalton was a fine 007, kind of foreshadowing the grittier approach of Daniel Craig. It feels silly to say that Maryam d'Abo was a believable Bond girl, but I'll say it anyway. The film was fairly faithful to the short story, even though it only offered enough material for the Bratislava defection scene. This was the last Bond in the (very loose) Cold War continuity, with General Gogol making a brief appearance.
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