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TIMOTHY DALTON RULEZ™ vs ole blue swim trunks
@MajorDSmythe as a mod you should prevent such threads to happen :D being impartial can only go so far, wouldn't you think :P
LTK > QOS
+1 to Dalton.
Dalton or Craig? I love them both as Bond so I can't really decide. Dalton wouldn't have worked in the 2000s, much like Craig wouldn't have worked in the 80s. But in their respective era's, they are much needed to alleviate the pain from the previous actor's final outing. Both AVTAK and DAD had left their superstar in a bad place - and for the record, that was not said stars' fault. But Dalton and Craig's introductions both feel like taking a fresh shower after two weeks of swimming in your own sweat. They both bring the Fleming, and the physicality (though Dalton was arguably much less challenged in that department than Craig); they are both careful not to overdo their comedic bits and they both look amazing in a suit. Unconventional but far more adventurous Bonds, that is how I'd describe them.
Honestly, Dalton or Craig? I think both are amazing Bonds.
It's basically professional agent with style, class and sophistication (Tim) against random professional agent (Craig).
I tend to blame the over-pretentious nature of the Mendes films though. In QOS Craig gave a very Bondian performance, but SF and SP made him way too unsophisticated. Mendes doesn't seem to understand that you can't make up for this working class kind of hero just by putting him in a DB5.
If we want to include Pierce into the debate, I must say I prefer him to Craig but not to Dalton. Pierce was definitely a very elegant Bond. Look at the way he moves, at his gestures, it's all there. Some pretty terrible dialogue drags him down a bit though.
1. Tim
2. Pierce
3. Dan
And they both beat Brosnan easily.
I am so close to agreeing with you, @GoldenGun. I do believe that with Spectre, Craig finally gets to play James Bond (rather than the Bourne copy he'd been playing previously). Seeing Bond step out onto the balcony (accompanied by the Bond theme), and effortlessly swaggering (the first time Craig was swaggered and it not come off as a desperate attempt to mimick Connery) across the rooftops, a quick adjust of his cuffs, followed by putting the ear piece in and readying his gun, I had such a big smile on my face. That was exactly what I wanted to see from Craig at the beginning of his run. Unfortunately, being a Mendes Bond film, Spectre isn't able to escape the pretentious attitude of Skyfall. The less said about the godawful Bond - Blofeld connection the better.
I do agree with the ranking, though. If Craig had started with an altered Spectre, and continued from there, he would be up with Dalton and Lazenby. But that isn't the way that it worked out, so he is dead last in my ranking.
1. Dalton
2. Lazenby
3. Connery
4. Moore
5. Brosnan
6. Craig
Anyway,as we were saying,you only have to look at the films Brosnan has done post-Bond to see he is still as popular as ever,compared to Dalton.
I'll try to view Brosnan's TND shortly before making any further comparisons between them, as this is another 'run of the mill' adventure as far as I'm concerned (which instead draws direct inspiration from Roger's best rather than Sean's) and they both are similarly ranked for me.
No its not.
Either way though, Connery wins. He may not be my favourite but he is the best and comes in at a VERY close second for me.
As was mentioned on another thread where these two were discussed yesterday, Brosnan is far more slick & stylish as Bond, while Dalton is more sincere & real. In TND, Brosnan gives a decent performance, and for the most part he avoids his acting tics (pain face, exaggerated facial expressions). One of the issues I've always had with his Bond though is that he seems quite slight, even though he's quite a tall chap. There's something rather unthreatening about his physique, voice and manner. Dalton on the other hand is a more sinister presence, and is more credible as a hardened agent.
I can't really pick one actor over the other. They both bring different strengths, & I find in both cases that what one lacks the other delivers. Neither actor is fully convincing to me but both are quite watchable as Bond.
Yes.
Additionally, neither film comes close to matching the premise or quality of the earlier entries which inspire them and which they seek to evoke. Such is the risk with attempting to draw inspiration from the past.
However there's certainly a handful of classic scenes in it.
Still, Joe Don Baker was a better Whitaker than Wade.