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I agree too ...but I still enjoyed Brosnan a great deal. He brought back old and brought in new fans to the series.
TWINE though was very disappointing to me. I think they learned from that and got it right with SF but at the time I expected so much more from Apted.
An example being?
This is unfair for Brosnan. OUAT features some if the worst acting I've ever seen (except for Robert Carlyle, Lana Parilla and Rebecca Mader); comparing people like Jennifer Morrison or Jared Gilmore to Brosnan is an insult.
That's certainly the dilemma for EON. They will want a decent enough contrast to Craig but not lose an approach that has won them more critical favour.
When Brosnan first debuted there was a fair bit of dismissal of the seriousness of the Dalton films from some quarters but the subsequent success of CR and SF has shown that the 'Brosnan way' isn't the only route the series can go down in order to survive.
Criag haters would say he always looks unflattering. It's the ill-judged OTT facial expressions we got from Brosnan at conveying drama.
As soon as there is some praise for Brosnan from various members, the usual suspects come out to put anyone down who does so. Hilarious and so predictable.
=)) so glad there are smilies for those moments.
At least most the usual suspects are open about their dislike of PB unlike those who hide behind their clear dislike of Craig BJB006 with their I don't mind him but I'll slag him off at any opportunity I get agenda.
You are as big a trouble maker as those you level the criticism at.
See my last post. Wasn't a knock at all, just a joke.
Different strokes for different folks then. I know you like it @Murdock, but from my perspective, that scene and photo you posted is an example of the overacting I'm referring to that was all over the place in this film.
Again, different strokes......OHMSS?.....I think not personally. Not even SF, which it is much closer to.
=D> +1
Fair enough. Someone laughably made a comment that Brosnan was a better dramatic actor than Craig, and had not been given an opportunity to showcase such skills. I could have either laughed or tried to correct the record. I did the latter. Perhaps I should have just let it rest.
That happens here. I tend to overreact when Brosnan gets criticized sometimes. I don't mind people have those opinions on him but they can grate on me. I enjoy all the Bond actors to varying degrees. They all have done their part well for the time. I for example think Dalton over does it more than Brosnan and I could show photos as well, but like you said, different strokes. Tensions are high because of the upcoming film anticipation, once it's out it will be like a pressurized bottle exploding it's cap off. Craig is the better actor sure, but I get more enjoyment from Brosnan's era as that's what I grew up on. No hard feelings. ;)
I agree with you on that. I enjoyed 3 of Brosnan's films a lot more than I expected when I did my recent Bondathon. They are all fun......except for...the one in question, for me..
True, Brosnan does get bashed a lot. I noticed in my Bondathon that Dalton overacts quite a bit in his films too, more so than the others....I did not notice it before until I did the back to back viewings. Brosnan went up in my estimation (although still suffers) and Dalton declined.
I have to correct you on who or what started this "war".
"Let me guess your favourite Bond is Brosnan and Bond should have dark hair and be tall and speak like Stephen Fry.. a way and bile yer head."
This was the reply that initially started it by belittling someone who had an opinion that didn't suit that poster. Again from someone who heavily defends Craig and obviously can't stand Brosnan and uses him to insult other people.
It's always the same. But I admit finding it more amusing than angering these days.
It does kill the time till that bloody Bond movie finally hits the theatre :))
QFT.
You two should marry and happily live twice :))
Bond had been slowly losing its appeal in the 80s. It needed a real shot in the arm - like him or loathe him Brosnan was the genuine answer. And when the series wavered again when DAD came out Eon had to make another decision. This one also worked, but had they stuck with Brosnan for another film (his 5th), it would have been successful because there was nothing to suggest Brosnan himself was losing his appeal.
Very true. He's not been Bond (on screen) for 13 years, but he is certainly still held in high esteem by many I know. Everybody likes their Bond different, it's a minority who would pitch him against the Fleming blueprint, while a good portion just see him as the visual embodiment of what Bond 'is'. He is certainly the whipping boy for the intelligentsia, which is a shame as a good portion of cinematic Bond is beautiful nonsense and the Brosnan films execute that well.
The intelligentsia are a bunch of idiots, pardon my french. Those people's opinion shouldn't impact anyone. They ruined poetry for the masses, be sure they will ruin Bond too.
Whatever this thread is…it's not that?
Brosnan was nothing if not popular. I'm quite certain Dalton in the 90's would have finished the series off (it almost did in the 80's). As we know, the public didn't take to Dalton in the US and that was a big portion of the market.
Brosnan was imho a compensatory reaction to Dalton's relative unpopularity and was hired to fill the huge void left by Moore's (still felt even in the 90's) departure. I think Craig was a compensatory reaction to Brosnan as well (......but paradoxically, has also been highly popular with the public).
Brosnan was definitely likeable and unoffensive in the role, although it's always unusual to watch his films now because he always appears less British than the villains (so I sometimes feel like I'm watching a generic American action film when I watch any Brosnan movie outside of GE).
It was the comment earlier about Brosnan being a superb dramatic actor (or something to that effect) who had not been given a chance to demonstrate his thespian skills that I find absurd however. He was given far more opportunity to do that than Connery/Moore or even Dalton on account of the direction/tangent some of his films took (apparently it's a direction EON wanted to go in because DC's tenure has emphasized this).. It definitely wasn't his strong suit however (far from it) and to suggest otherwise is stretching it from his fanboys imho.
I don't think anybody is seriously doubting his popularity however. Anyone who does is being unfairly critical.
if you not a Dan Fan, your a Fan Dan! =))
Agreed. Bean would have been good.