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I think that fight's pretty poorly staged; the punches blatantly don't make contact, the goon overacts like mad when Moore grabs him and Moore's movements are clumsy and stiff.
Oh and I forgot Moore's little grunts, a prelude to Brosnan's perhaps ;)
In a word:
He sucked
No thats two words... :))
The pseudo-intellectuals have to maintain at least one sacrificial lamb.
Too bad their shooting the Messenger. :))
at least Brosnan didn't push a poor Thai boy into a canal, or sleep with Grace Jones, or rely on a parrot for information, or yell like Tarzan, or constantly wink at villains in cars next to him or presumably give a woman a heart attack causing her to go into intensive care.
But after QoB & SF I long back to Brosnan, I prefer his spy adventure thrillers over pretentious extremely unlogical editing in QOB and story in SF.
With the November man Brosnan showed once more that a spy story can be decent without costingas much as a Marvel movie.
But it is not quite the same thing. Apart from DAD, I don't consider any of the Brosnan Bond movies bad. But on the whole, his tenure was disappointing.
Personally I enjoy them but I don't think most of them hold up all that well in 2015.
Then again I suppose you could say the same about several of the Moore films. NOW they feel very dated and at times shoddy.
The Moore films have charm for me in a way the Brosnan era ones don't. But I now rank DAD above TWINE. DAD is awful but somehow much more watchable than TWINE.
Really? I thought it surprisingly good when I saw it the other day. Better than I'd remembered.
The first half of the film is...alright. A decent enough 40 minutes or so with Bond going detective. Nothing special but OK. A few good lines of dialogue and of course Christopher Lee.
By the time the car chase comes in and we have more reliance on inept sidekicks, young schoolgirls and fat redneck sheriffs the film becomes an insulting farce (Pepper talking to Goodnight thinking she's headquarters? Wow..just wow. What ingeniously clever comedy) By far the best scene in the second half is the meeting at the dinner table between Bond and Scaramanga.
It plods along and, like the other two proceeding Guy Hamilton films, doesn't have the thrill or suspense it should have.
The Brosnan bashing is back in full swing. Gosh, suddenly I miss dod and his pastry fixation.
Nor does my opinion. I love Brosnan's Bond. He had some great moments and two great Bond films: GE and TND. He was a fine Bond.
What I don't freakin' get is why people can watch TSWLM and think it's great, but rag on TND because 'it's a box-ticking mess with an actor that doesn't make Bond his own.'
Does Pierce drop a fish out of his car window (even in DAD)?? Do his movies use music ques from other movies for hilarious effect? Has he ever Tarzan-yelled during a pain face?
There were some very genuinely stupid moments in Bond movies circa 1967 - 1985, yet all (or much) of that pales next to, uh... when Pierce straightens his tie underwater??? :-O
Please boys.
b-(
Blame the other fella for it. [McGlory I mean :D )
Brosnan just doesn't cut it as a tough figure who could brutally murder someone. This is partly down to his looks, partly down to his feminine voice, partly down to an overall metrosexual persona, and partly down to his rather slim build. In fact, out of all the Bond's, he looks the least likely to be able to handle himself in a fight.
He definitely looked cool, no doubt about that, and he looked very handsome, no problem there, but he is in the romantic lead mould, not a tough action guy mould.
When you compare his movies to Craig's films, it becomes fairly obvious the differences. Craig as Bond looks believable. You really buy into the idea that he can kick ass. With Brosnan, you are never really that convinced.