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Cavill wasn't big enough at the time for all of us to realize just how flat and wooden he is. I can forgive Campbell for this slip-up.
I love Kitchen, but those others? No.
Cook me slowly at 125 degrees.
Brosnan was a terrible Bond in my opnion and although GE was my least disliked of his offerings it's still in the bottom of my ranking.
I know it's become fashionable to rain on Brosnan but I was doing it long before that when trying to defend Dalton was a very lonely place to be.
I really can't see what makes GE so great, I'm with Getafix & Thunderfinger and I don't say that often I can assure you.
Don t forget yours tuly.
Just edited it.
Very interesting info from craigs co-star on play
While it maintains some of the aspects that helped it stand afoot, it always moves in with time and follows the trend that makes the production marketable. That's the way it always has been. I mean, sure, we used to think Bond has always set the trend, but that was the sixties. After that, Bond has always followed the then-current trend.
I can understand that, @Shardlake. I can't imagine seeing the promise of Dalton, then finding out a hiatus was on, then waiting years with the hopes he would return for more when suddenly he was out of the picture and in his place came a set of Bond films that represented an arguable decrease in quality. I like GE well enough, but people's issues with the Brosnan era are more than understandable to me. Out of all the Bond films, they are the ones that feel the most like video games, and that often works against their favor. Even Moore in his different approach to the role conveyed a presence that made him feel like Bond, if imperfect, but I think Brosnan had a real identity crisis in the role and at times it's hard to tell whether the films are showing us Bond or a more parodied version of him in tune with the endless, faceless gun-toting action characters of the 80s.
I'll be interested to see how I feel about Brosnan when I revisit his films in the near future, but at this point he's at the bottom of the pile for me in terms of best Bond actors.
I don't want to turn this into a Brosnan Bond slash and burn offensive, though.
As for there being too much action in GE, this was the case with all the lacklustre Brosnan flicks as I think at the time, Eon were trying too hard to compete with all the other action movies out there instead of trying to strike a healthy balance between drama and action. Goldeneye felt the most original and lavish out of the Brosnan films to me. The other three felt generic and aritifical.
As for CR, Campbell did a great job with this movie, minus the odd minor niggle.
I enjoy AVTAK very much, especially the first half of the movie. I don't think Moore looked too bad and he certainly had presence and charisma unlike Brosnan. I think that the people who say that the reason AVTAK is not a good film is due to Moore's age are too easily letting themselves be bothered by this. I think it's an easy thing to look past. I don't think he's really the issue at all. Any problems that exist in AVTAK are mostly in the second half of the movie.
Funny how that works, eh? So many months of Turner this, Hiddleston that, and now the bookies finally get it: Daniel is and always has been in prime position.
Wow, what a surprise! ;)
Exactly, they make money on these rumours. They and the tabloid journalists feed off each other.
2 / 10 / 13 / 23
Those are the places in my Bond ranking of Craig and Brosnan.
Dalton has spots 3 / 11 by the way.
No matter how many of you will find Brosnan and/or his films "dismal" or whatever, they were not.
At the time all 4 of them worked wonders at the BO and with critics and the audience by the way.
It can be debated if they aged nicely. But then the 00's will be judged quite differently in 2025 as well, once they hit the 20 year old mark.
Brosnan paved the way for whole generations of new Bond fans. Dalton, as much as it pains me to say, would have not accomplished this, he lost 3 movies for a decent 5 film run. AVTAK, 1991 and 1993. That should have been his time.
https://www.yahoo.com/movies/naomie-harris-thinks-daniel-craig-is-coming-back-to-play-bond-and-shell-bet-you-money-on-it-233621391.html
She tiptoed around it but she seems convinced. It's a little unconvincing how Craig, Harris, Mendes et al. all seem to suggest that there has been no momentum on B25 since Spectre came out.
That has to be bullshit, Bond is a billion dollar industry that is tied to numerous multinationals that rely on the revenue it produces. There is most certainly an announcement coming. Especially since numerous outlets have confirmed Sony have the rights. Maybe Craig and Broccoli are waiting for Othello to pass?
Yes, they must at least be readying some kind of update, whether it's a tentative release date, clarification on Craig's position, or even a director or script in the works. Some kind of official recognition that something is actually happening, that it's a priority. It's completely unprecedented for there to be uninterrupted radio silence for this length of time.