Line #10 Awesome/TheLivingDaylights


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2	[[caption-width-right:350:''[[WeaponizedCar "I've had a few optional extras installed"]]''.]]
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4	* Bond and Kara crossing the Austrian border on a ''cello case''.
5	* [[TheDragon Necros]] successfully infiltrates an [=MI6=] safehouse by dressing up as a milkman. He proceeds to have a ''brutal'' fight with an [=MI6=] RedShirt, then uses a radio handset, adjusting his voice subtly, to warn everybody outside of a (false) gas leak. With the help of milk bottle grenades, he effortlessly kidnaps the target and escapes in plain sight by slightly changing his outfit to resemble a paramedic. All while his theme music triumphantly blares in the background. Magnificent.
6	** Made even better by the fact that it's only one part of one of the best {{Evil Plan}}s in Bond movie history.
7	** That RedShirt, a guard only known as Green-4, himself is a Crowning Moment Of Awesome. A somewhat unimposing-looking, skinny middle-aged chap (played by a veteran stuntman) who nonetheless almost succeeds in fighting the much younger, bigger and stronger TheDragon to a standstill. Hell, from the looks of things, Necros didn't even manage to kill the guy. Give that guy his own movie series!
8	** It's stated two died and two were in hospital, two grenades were thrown at three other RedShirt agents and a cook was strangled, so Green Four did survive the fight.
9	* Bond has a fistfight with [[TheDragon Necros]] hanging out the back of a cargo plane in mid-flight ''while a time bomb is counting down.'' Yikes.
10	** And ''then'' using the bomb to take out a Soviet patrol pursuing Shah's men, ''then'' bailing out of the plane ''in a jeep'' seconds before it crashes...and ''then'' knowing a good restaurant in Karachi.
11	* Kamran Shah and his followers' [[BigDamnHeroes all-out assault on the Soviet airbase]].
12	** Kara going singlehandedly after the convoy Bond is pinned down in was awesome enough for Shah's men to glare him into following, as he growls "Women!"
13	*** Before that, during the prison fight, Kara mostly hangs back from the fight (which is sensible given she's been firmly established as a non-combatant) until she notices one guard knocked out early stir back to consciousness... at which point she tears off his helmet and whacks him upside the head with a steel bucket sending him back to la-la land and proving that she is not, in fact, a NeutralFemale, just one who knows to pick her battles.
14	*** Speaking of that fight, how about Bond taking on [[TheBrute the jailer]] and winning, ''while still handcuffed''??
15	* The Gilbraltar training exercise that opens the film. One of the most action-packed openings of a Bond movie ever (and one of the few to directly tie into the plot of the movie), culminating in Bond driving an explosives-laden Land Rover off the mountainside (with screaming Mook left inside), [[OutrunTheFireball parachuting out before it explodes]], and then landing his parachute on top of a passing yacht where a bored sexy heiress yearning to bump into a "Real Man" is waiting with a chilled bottle of champagne.
16	-->'''Bond:''' (using the heiress' phone) Exercise Control, 007 here. I'll report in an hour.\
17	'''Linda:''' (offering a glass) Won't you join me?\
18	'''Bond:''' (thinks it over) [[BondOneLiner Better make that two]].
19	* Pushkin gets one of his own at the end, when he tells Koskov he's going to be sent back to Russia. Koskov is pleased, til Pushkin growls, "[[DeadlyEuphemism In the diplomatic bag.]]"
20	* The CarChase. Every time a Bond film does a gadget-laden car chase right, it is awesome. This is one of those times.
21	** Bond sees a roadblock set up before him and proceeds to activate a HUD, line up a target and fire a pair of Stingers to take it out.
22	--->'''Bond:''' I've had a few optional extras installed.
23	* There's something awesome about Bond being an American Civil War buff.
24	* All of Whittaker's expensive, hi-tech toys, weapons and gadgets vs. ONE keychain gadget courtesy of Q-Branch. Winner: Q-Branch.

Context Awesome / TheLivingDaylights