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30 Years Ago in Film - First Blood Part II (Rambo) and Roger Moore's Last as Bond - A View To A Kill
05.22.2015

Posted on 05/21/2015 6:24:54 PM PDT by Perdogg

May 22, 1985 - Thirty Years ago, One of the Best summer movies started with the priemere of two movies - Rambo: First Blood Part II and Roger Moore's last as James Bond "A View to A Kill".

The Bond series has been going down hill with the exception of The Living Daylights.

Rambo First Blood would produce two sequels, one in 1988 and one in 2008.


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Music/Entertainment; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: 1985; aviewtoakill; bondjamesbond; jamesbond; rambo; rogermoore; sylvesterstallone
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To: NFHale; GOPsterinMA; sickoflibs; 2CAVTrooper; Nowhere Man; stephenjohnbanker; Impy; ...

I’ll take the 80’s for everything but the music. Punk & Rap

Ugh!


61 posted on 05/22/2015 8:42:08 AM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (My Batting Average( 1,000) (GOPe is that easy to read))
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To: Kirkwood

He was too girly for Bond.


62 posted on 05/22/2015 9:49:06 AM PDT by longfellow (Bill Maher, the 21st hijacker.)
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To: Perdogg

Real Genius was 30 years ago. Better than both. And probably the second major step to nerds taking over pop culture.


63 posted on 05/22/2015 9:55:15 AM PDT by discostu (Bobby, I'm sorry you have a head like a potato.)
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To: Moonman62

Even by the time Happy Days hit 50s nostalgia was already an institution. With Shanana and Grease and American Graffiti it was already going strong. I don’t get a decade as popular for entertainment as the 50s.


64 posted on 05/22/2015 10:03:19 AM PDT by discostu (Bobby, I'm sorry you have a head like a potato.)
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To: Perdogg

View to a Killl and Die Another Day are the worst of the Bond movies, IMHO. And it’s not that close.


65 posted on 05/22/2015 10:06:38 AM PDT by GSWarrior (Burning the Constitution increases global warming)
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To: GOPsterinMA

Either click your heels three times or dump some Calgon in a bathtub.


66 posted on 05/22/2015 10:33:11 AM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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To: discostu

Yes. I found this on Wiki. I guess we can blame Woodstock and the hippies for making people nostalgic for a decade that had only been gone for ten years:

The group began singing as part of the long standing Columbia University a cappella group the Kingsmen, but changed their name due to the Pacific Northwest group of the same name, famous for covering “Louie, Louie.” Conceived by George Leonard,[4] then a graduate student in Humanities, Sha Na Na began performing in 1969, at the height of the hippie counterculture, and achieved national fame after playing at the Woodstock Festival, where they preceded Jimi Hendrix. Their 90-second appearance in the Woodstock film brought the group national attention and helped spark a 1950s nostalgia craze that inspired similar groups in North America, as well as the Broadway musical Grease and the TV show Happy Days.


67 posted on 05/22/2015 10:59:29 AM PDT by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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To: longfellow

LOL. Women sure loved him.


68 posted on 05/22/2015 11:15:53 AM PDT by Kirkwood (Zombie Hunter)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

Yep. I’m waiting for time travel to arrive.


69 posted on 05/22/2015 12:36:27 PM PDT by GOPsterinMA (I'm with Steve McQueen: I live my life for myself and answer to nobody.)
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To: stephenjohnbanker; GOPsterinMA

There’s plenty of good music from the 80’s!


70 posted on 05/22/2015 1:31:25 PM PDT by Impy (They pull a knife, you pull a gun. That's the CHICAGO WAY, and that's how you beat the rats!)
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To: Impy; stephenjohnbanker; GOPsterinMA; SilvieWaldorfMD

There are a few songs on the radio that sound like they came from the 80s (eg Echosmith) - maybe it is making a comeback like big hair for women.


71 posted on 05/22/2015 2:07:41 PM PDT by Perdogg (I'm on a no Carb diet- NO Christie Ayotte Romney or Bush - stay outta da Bushesh)
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To: NFHale; All

I think George Kennedy and Jim Brown are the only ones still alive.


72 posted on 05/22/2015 2:48:30 PM PDT by GOPsterinMA (I'm with Steve McQueen: I live my life for myself and answer to nobody.)
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To: Impy; stephenjohnbanker; Perdogg; fieldmarshaldj; NFHale

I agree. U2 was good back then, for example. Movie soundtracks were really good.

Yep. Not to sound like an old bastard, but, “Back when I was a kid, things were better.”

And of course, the “hairstyles” were SOOOOOO MUCH better than today. I’m having some fun memories...:)


73 posted on 05/22/2015 2:56:47 PM PDT by GOPsterinMA (I'm with Steve McQueen: I live my life for myself and answer to nobody.)
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To: stephenjohnbanker

Yeah.


74 posted on 05/22/2015 3:08:14 PM PDT by GOPsterinMA (I'm with Steve McQueen: I live my life for myself and answer to nobody.)
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To: GOPsterinMA

I think Donald Sutherland is still alive.


75 posted on 05/22/2015 3:12:10 PM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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To: Tijeras_Slim

You’re right! I overlooked him.


76 posted on 05/22/2015 4:33:23 PM PDT by GOPsterinMA (I'm with Steve McQueen: I live my life for myself and answer to nobody.)
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To: Kirkwood

Moonraker, ugh.

I liked the second Bond with Timothy Dalton.
I wish Dalton had these Daniel Craig scripts.


77 posted on 05/22/2015 5:41:40 PM PDT by longfellow (Bill Maher, the 21st hijacker.)
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To: Impy

IMO the music industry peaked in the 80’s.

There were only a few I couldn’t stand back then such as michael jackson, boy george, culture club, and cindy lauper.... Now a days, I spend more time flipping through the channels just trying to find something decent to listen to. I actually have an advantage in that I’ll listen to just about anything from AC-DC to ZZ Top except for that rap crap and the real twangy my dog died, my girlfriend left me, and my truck broke down kind of country music.


78 posted on 05/22/2015 7:05:24 PM PDT by 2CAVTrooper (Making harmless people defenseless, does not make dangerous people harmless)
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To: GOPsterinMA

Jim Brown was also a football star back in the day, wasn’t he?


79 posted on 05/23/2015 7:03:41 PM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: NFHale

NFL Hall of Fame. A bunch of MVPs. (Pre Superbowl).


80 posted on 05/23/2015 7:09:12 PM PDT by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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