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My son recognised Pingu right away and insisted to watch this.
Maybe that's for the controversial thread but I never found Dalton menacing as Bond. I thought he was far more threatening (and charming for that matter) in The Rocketeer.
Maybe because he got beaten up in that bar brawl but I never thought he looked like he could measure up to his adversaries physically.
I didn't mind Dalton-Bond's fights (didn't love them either), minus the bar brawl (this must be my least favourite of the series).
It's a shame about Moore. His fight scene in Saida's dressing room in TMWTGG showed a man of intimidating size. I would have liked for them to play up on this element: RM wouldn't have had to move around a lot like a Lazenby or Connery, but when he did, they could have played off his imposing height and width.
As I said on the MI thread, I feel that Tom Cruise adopted this approach recently for MI:RN and it works for him for exactly the same reason. He's aging and we see it in the weariness he brings to the fights. No more the young whippersnapper of MI:2.
I was watching the Alec vs Bond fight the other day, and, Christ, Sean Bean looked f****** fierce! That's a man who knows how to fight.
And although this is indeed Brosnan's best scrap of the series, he does look choreographed, like his moves are step-by-step; Bean looks like he's "unleashing" his combat skills.
I very much doubt that. You need some physicality from the actor somewhere along the line and Moore in particular just wasn't very adept at selling that stuff on screen. He was a lover Bond, not a fighter. Not that I hold it against him.
Severe brutality is not a requirement for me for a decent and enjoyable fight,
Sean Bean can do no wrong like my mother-in-law says. He's the one who sells that fight. Talking of GE what happened to Trevelyan's scar at the end?
Brosnan, the actor, looked as if he was going through what they trained for in rehearsals. He doesn’t flow with the combat. Not the way Bean does. Not by a long shot.
What’s more disappointing is to see how generic Brosnan-Bond became in his fight sequences. The training that they were trying to convey in GE never made a comeback.
The same disappointment could be said for DC to a degree; with Mendes came a more stylized way of fighting that took a step away from DC-reality; both fights with Patrice (although I loved them) weren’t as grounded as what we saw in his first two films (the less said about the casino fight, the better).
This is why I didn’t love the Hinx battle as much as I was hoping. Even if Bond was on the losing end of this battle, I was hoping to see him lose while using his unarmed combat training (instead of just throwing punches and hopping up on a bar to swing a kick— seemed very Moore’ish in parts). I wasn’t necessarily in fear for Bond’s life as I was in the stairwell fight or the excellent Slate punch-up...
And what’s this about a missing scar??
It's only with the printing factory fight in TND that I realized it would be difficult for him to be really effective in a fight scene. He just couldn't throw a punch credibly imho. To quote him, he didn't "put his back into it".
I don't know why films do this: they introduce something about the character through action (Brosnan/Craig's unarmed combat training; Martin Riggs' martial arts), only to drop the trait in subsequent films (and usually they don't replace it with something better).
His added bulk in DAD helped in that department I thought. To bad there wasn't really a more solid fisticuffs sequence in that film along the lines of the Sean Bean fight.
True. It's almost like a light pop. Connery's punch to the guard as he escapes Palmyra in NSNA would have been more like it.