If you could modify AVTAK, what would you do ?

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Replace Tanya Roberts with an older, but more believable movie.

Rewrite the script into something more daring and original. Perhaps based on Fleming's A View to a Kill short story (involving motorcycle chases).

Cut the horse subplot in half. It shouldn't take an hour long.

I was happy with the original Moneypenny. Roger Moore and her were nearly the same age! lol

Timothy Dalton should have been brought in for For Your Eyes Only.

- Totally agree with removal of the Beach Boys music. It completely ruined the feel of the pre-title sequence.

- The ship or whatever the F it was at the beginning that was camouflaged as an iceberg should have submerged to show it was meant to be a submarine. It was way too weird looking and just sputtered away like it had an Evinrude outboard.

- I thought Bond's X-Ray glasses were douchey-looking. They should have been Ray-Bans or Gargoyles like the Terminator.

- I wish Bond would have shown some regret for being such a prick to Tibbett, especially after he got offed while playing his valet. I know it was part of his cover, but still.

- The fire truck jump was a complete bust. They should have used a model or CGI or something (even though both would have probably sucked at the time). Even some creative editing. I remember seeing some "behind the scenes" short film about the making of the stunt, around the time of the film's release, and they kept going on and on about how difficult it was to plan and execute. I guess in real life it's hard to jump a hook and ladder off a ramp, but in this movie it looked like it was driving over one of those ramps a kid makes in their driveway with a piece of plywood and a few bricks. It was a total letdown.

- More Jenny Flex

- Invest a few million dollars from the budget in acting lessons for Tanya Roberts. Loved her in Sheena: Queen of the Jungle; hated her in AVTAK.

- Should have had a car chase with that Russian agent's state-of-the-art C4 Corvette.

- Change the title of the movie, or figure out a better way to work it into the script. The way they shoehorned it in was embarrassing.

- For some reason it really bothered me that Stacey Hutton's house was mostly empty. I don't care what the excuse they used in the movie was, it seemed like they ran out of money to furnish a regular old house and that felt cheap.

- The movie seems a bit gray and the locations aren't very interesting. Paris, a stud farm, and San Francisco. Meh.

I have to admit, I'm digging this movie a bit more in HD, plus I haven't seen it in a while, but it's still my least favorite Moore film.

Roger Moore did all his own stunts. It was only Zorin who used a double

If Moore was still in it

-Get rid of the Beach Boys song
-An older actress for Stacey, like how Maud Adams was age appropriate for Moore in Octopussy
-Instead of Chuck Lee, maybe bring back David Hedison as Felix for a good book end that started with Live and Let Die
-While I liked Patrick McNee as Tibbett and felt that he and Moore worked well together, I'd rather maybe a younger British actor paired with Moore in that France sequence
-Make the stunt double less- obvious
-Take out the hot tub scene with that spy that led nowhere besides a awkward cameo from Gogol. If they were to keep it bring back Barbara Bach from Spy Who Loved Me. It would be a nice homage
-A better exit for Moore's Bond (not like having to kill him-off, maybe hinting at a sort of retirement angle)

Had a new actor, Timothy Dalton appeared
-Different actress for Stacey Sutton and be younger than Dalton
-No Beach boys song
-Younger Moneypenny (possibly Caroline Bliss, or the Miss Smallbone actress)
-No silly scenes
-Dalton and Walken would work well, both would come up with new scenes, both are great dramatic actors. This is how both Dalton and Robert Davi made Licence to Kill great. But both Dalton and Walken would have been great rivals on-screen. On a bonus, Dalton would be a great match against Grace Jones.
-The ending fight scene would be more equal between Walken and Dalton
-Zorin would have the same moments
-Again instead of Chuck Lee, Felix Leiter would appear (insert actor, John Terry, David Hedison, Powers Boothe, ect)
-Tibbett, instead of McNee, an actor close to Dalton's age (maybe Ian McShane)
-Stunts would be less obvious as Dalton would be performing them
-For the PTS, It would be Bond in Paris meeting the French contact who is killed by May Day ending with Bond being arrested.
-Instead of Horses, it would be replaced with a motorcycle Grand Prix sequence and Tibbet would have a more brutal death.

Bowie as the villain. He would probably have done the theme song as well.

Cast Dalton as Bond, Moore was too damn old to carry a Bond film. And cast Rutger Hauer as Zorin.

Nothing against Christopher Walken, he is an excellent actor - but I feel like he was not really a good fit for Zorin, he was too American for the character. I know that M mentions that Zorin is fluent in 5 languages with no accent, but it just felt off to have him play a European 007 villain. However, Rutger Hauer would have been perfect - besides, he actually did speak 5 languages with no accent.