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Is Pierce Brosnan really all that bad ??

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  • MurdockMurdock The minus world
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    Thunderfinger wrote: »
    Murdock wrote: »
    Thunderfinger wrote: »
    Murdock wrote: »
    Thunderfinger wrote: »
    Murdock wrote: »
    Well I sure saw perfection out of Brosnan. He is the best Bond after all. :D

    I have sent a worry note to your shrink.
    Wrong one!
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    Uh...uhhh..Oi...

    Did you just shrink my mind?

    Well...hmmm...Are you a Pierce fan yet? :P

    Duh...oink...Pierceuhh?

    He the best!
    Yeeeeeeeeees!
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  • CowleyCowley
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    AceHole wrote: »
    TND worked because it was formulaic & tailor-made for Brosnan. They dropped the edginess (which Brosnan cannot really handle) from GE and were not hampered by the forced melodrama of what was to come in TWINE.

    That's how I see it too. Brosnan's two most endurable performances are in TND and DAD as he's clearly having fun.

    He's not convincingly tough or deep so he's quite cringeworthy in GE and TWINE. If I'd had known back in 1995 we'd have been shut of him in just seven years I may have been less uptight about his reign in the role.
  • chrisisallchrisisall Brosnan Defender Of The Realm
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    Cowley wrote: »
    Brosnan's two most endurable performances are in TND and DAD as he's clearly having fun.
    Ha, finally- a comment NOT bashing Brosnan here! Bravo!

  • talos7talos7 New Orleans
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    No he wasn't bad, at all. He is not my favorite Bond but was exactly what/who the series need at the time.
  • chrisisallchrisisall Brosnan Defender Of The Realm
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    talos7 wrote: »
    No he wasn't bad, at all. He is not my favorite Bond but was exactly what/who the series need at the time.
    Much like Craig, ya?

  • talos7talos7 New Orleans
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    Somewhat, it's like a pendulum. when each era swings too far in one direction, a new one comes along and pulls it back into balance until it needs to be pulled back. It's not an exact pattern but it is there.
  • IGUANNAIGUANNA
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    Brosnan brought out the softer, gentler, more efeminine side of James Bond and for that he reminds us that it's ok to be your own man do not put on airs or try to chop a tree down just hold the gun and say the line make it yours with a litle tribute to before but also modernize and wear the tux and say the line and feel the hot lights on you and don't try to forget that you were on tv before this and all the pressure mounting from a wheezy script full of darkness and bravado. He was good in the fights too.
  • IGUANNAIGUANNA
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    Also , his innuendo is second to none.
  • Kostas_PKostas_P
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    It was the 90s, the 90s couldn't be wrong, could they?
  • MurdockMurdock The minus world
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    Kostas_P wrote: »
    It was the 90s, the 90s couldn't be wrong, could they?
    Nothing was wrong with the 90's. I should know I was born in the 90's. ;)
  • chrisisallchrisisall Brosnan Defender Of The Realm
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    Murdock wrote: »
    Kostas_P wrote: »
    It was the 90s, the 90s couldn't be wrong, could they?
    Nothing was wrong with the 90's. I should know I was born in the 90's. ;)

    It was the best of times; it was the best of times....
  • chrisisallchrisisall Brosnan Defender Of The Realm
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    Birdleson wrote: »
    Not much good came out of that decade. Murdock, PULP FICTION, some decent cartoons...that's pretty much it.
    What about "Chill out, dickwad." ?????
  • MurdockMurdock The minus world
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    Birdleson wrote: »
    I am not familiar.
    Terminator 2.
  • chrisisallchrisisall Brosnan Defender Of The Realm
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    Birdleson wrote: »
    I am not familiar.

    You never saw Terminator 2???
  • chrisisallchrisisall Brosnan Defender Of The Realm
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    Birdleson wrote: »
    and Swartzenegger a tool.
    Off corse heez a tool; heez a Terminator.

  • BAIN123BAIN123
    edited December 2015 Posts: 11,189
    I grew up in the 90s and admit that it was a pretty cheesy decade overall looking back. Movie-wise, It was a period largely targeted at pubescent teenagers or trashy movie geeks (as I was back then).

    However we get Se7en and Trainspotting. Two films that still hold up well now.

    It was a decade of robots, aliens, George Clooney, icebergs and Special Editions.

    @Birdleson.



    I love T2 but this stinks of Sonic the Hedgehog 90s.
  • Kostas_PKostas_P
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    Murdock wrote: »
    Kostas_P wrote: »
    It was the 90s, the 90s couldn't be wrong, could they?
    Nothing was wrong with the 90's. I should know I was born in the 90's. ;)

    You were born in the 90s but I LIVED the 90s as a teenager and I can surely tell you that it was the best era. The Bond films are not an exception. They were 90s Bond films, although they get bashed they were meant to be this way. So, nothing wrong with them, just enjoyable films.
  • bondjamesbondjames You were expecting someone else?
    edited December 2015 Posts: 23,883
    Seinfeld says it all about the 90's imho. Not much that I can recall, except hip hop's dominance and a few years of grunge.
  • chrisisallchrisisall Brosnan Defender Of The Realm
    edited December 2015 Posts: 17,823
    Jurassic Park, The Crow, The Matrix, Silence of the Lambs, T2, Total Recall, Armageddon, Conspiracy Theory, Batman Returns, Star Trek VI, Independence Day, Run Lola Run, Groundhog Day, Chain Reaction, Galaxy Quest, Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey, Back To The Future III.... not to mention GE, TND & TWINE...
    The 90's certainly had its moments. \m/
  • SzonanaSzonana Mexico
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    The 90s had the greatest actors and actresses.
    Acting wise and as Eye Candy.



    Also had great blockbusters.
    The Mask of Zorro was one of my favorite Movies growing up and now that i watched Goldeneye and Casino Royale i feel like Martin Campbell used a lot of his Bond expirience into his Zorro movies.

    Martin Campbell works great in iconic heroes his only mistep was green lantern.

  • chrisisallchrisisall Brosnan Defender Of The Realm
    edited December 2015 Posts: 17,823
    Birdleson wrote: »
    But, great '90s films:
    BOOGIE NIGHTS, MAGNOLIA, FARGO, SLING BLADE, IL POSTINO, RESERVOIR DOGS, PULP FICTION... a few others.
    Dude, you need to loosen up & have some fun!
    You probably never even saw the single greatest film of the 1990's, Army Of Darkness, have you? :D Bruce-Campbell-in-Army-of-Darkness-2.jpg
  • DaltonCraig007DaltonCraig007 They say, "Evil prevails when good men fail to act." What they ought to say is, "Evil prevails."
    edited December 2015 Posts: 15,722
    Awesome 1990's films: Terminator 2, The Rock, Goldeneye, Die Hard With a Vengeance, Assassins, Desperados, Tomorrow Never Dies, The Matrix, Point Break, Face/Off, Con Air, Air Force One, The World Is Not Enough, Army of Darkness, Heat, Twelve Monkeys, Snatch, Lock Stock 2 Smoking barrels, Independence Day, Armageddon, Bad Boys, Men in Black, Jurassic Park, The Fugitive...
  • BAIN123BAIN123
    edited December 2015 Posts: 11,189
    chrisisall wrote: »
    Jurassic Park, The Crow, The Matrix, Silence of the Lambs, T2, Total Recall, Armageddon, Conspiracy Theory, Batman Returns, Star Trek VI, Independence Day, Run Lola Run, Groundhog Day, Chain Reaction, Galaxy Quest, Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey, Back To The Future III.... not to mention GE, TND & TWINE...
    The 90's certainly had its moments. \m/

    To be honest, for casual movie fans,
    I'd say the highlighted ones are the only ones really worth watching.
    I loved Armageddon when I was 15 or so, but I watched some of it again when it was on tv a few months back. Again its as cheesy as hell.

    "That's not a salesman...that's your daddy" Urgh.
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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    That started with Bond and Pambo in LTK.
  • chrisisallchrisisall Brosnan Defender Of The Realm
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    Birdleson wrote: »
    ARMY OF DARKNESS was a let down because Raimi let the studio talk him into softening the script. Originally it was going to be a far more biting and dark film in line with it's predecessors.
    I thought the studio just wanted a different ending than the one where he gets stuck in the apocalyptic future...

  • chrisisallchrisisall Brosnan Defender Of The Realm
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    Birdleson wrote: »
    LICENCE TO KILL works for me. Aside from the extended truck chase, most of the action works is on the side of believability and makes sense within the story. (Mostly) Bond takes out the enemy through stealth, picking them off in smaller numbers or turning them against each other.
    IMO, as much as I like some of the Bond films after, LTK was the end of an era. Brosnan was very 'Nineties' & Craig is very post 9-11. It'll never be the same again...
  • AceHoleAceHole Belgium, via Britain
    edited December 2015 Posts: 1,731
    Birdleson wrote: »

    I thought of a few other great '90s films:

    REMAINS OF THE DAY, SECRETS & LIES, JFK Most of you are way more into the whole action/superhero/shoot 'em up films than I am. I like Bond because there (ideally) is more style and depth involved; more of an intellectual storyline. My least favorite Bond films are the ones that try to compete with RAMBO, DIE HARD, AVENGERS. I see Bond as an adventure character, more than a cartoon action hero. That is why the Brosnan Era tends to not do so well in my rankings. There was a time that there more of a clear distinction.

    Two of the best early 90's films, imo. I listed JFK as my top film of 1991 on the 'Fav movie each year of your life' thread. So underrated, partly because it does not dumb down or insult your intelligence. A rare thing in Hollywood these days.
  • BAIN123BAIN123
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    Films like JFK, Secrets and Lies and Remains of the Day don't really lend themselves to Bond though.

    I think one of GE's biggest competitors at the time was True Lies.
  • GoldenGunGoldenGun Per ora e per il momento che verrà
    edited December 2015 Posts: 7,198
    My favourite 90's movie must be Nikita. Great little French Cinéma du look thriller. But overall the decade is the least interesting to me as a film fan.

    The action genre was never as obnoxious or tasteless either: "Today we celebrate our independence day!" My goodness. %-( :-O

    Anyway, there are some occasional bright lights: Nikita, Goodfellas, Cape Fear, JFK, Batman Returns, Reservoir Dogs, C'est arrivé près de chez vous, The Nightmare Before Christmas, The Remains of the Day, Schindler's List, Pulp Fiction, Léon, Al di là delle nuvole, La Haine, The Usual Suspects, Se7en, GoldenEye, Heat, Insomnia, L.A. Confidential, The Mask of Zorro, Crna mačka, beli mačor, Eyes Wide Shut, The Talented Mr. Ripley, Todo sobre mi madre.

    Those spring immediately to my mind, but I've forgotten some nice contributions for sure.

    Nevertheless, for every JFK there are at least five Armageddons. Every decade since 1920 has a better record than the 90's.
  • BMW_with_missilesBMW_with_missiles All the usual refinements.
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