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Aren't you a huge Timothy Dalton fan? Care to tell me what old school Bond flair LTK has? I really enjoy LTK, don't get me wrong, but if you're going to attack GE for having 'no Bond flair', you should tell me why you give LTK a free pass in that regards.
Not quite.The GE main title sequence is superior.
And Brosnan makes his appearance upside down in a toilet. Nuff said
Sorry I was thinking PTS but you mean the titles during the song. Perhaps I will give you that one but wasn't LTK Binders last?
Seem to remember that Kleinman directed the LTK Gladys knight video
Title sequence, not pre-titles!
But great drama.
He did, and that is how he got the job. Kleinman comes from the music industry.
However, Natalya/Isabella is light years better, both as an actress and as a Bond girl, than both Lowell and Soto combined.
I really don't think there's any comparison in terms of acting talent. Lowell and Soto are both fairly poor I think.
It was arguably a fairly weak period for Bond girls. I thought Natalya was pretty forgettable but then if you don't like the film in the first place it doesn't help. I guess if I'm feeling generous I'd say she's one of the less issues I have with the film.
On a recent rewatch totally agree Soto can't act but she still looks amazing. And I actually quite like Lowell. She's grown on me, just as LTK has.
I am saying that it is my opinion, that having read all the books and watched the films many times That I personally deem QoS as a better Bond film than GE for all the reasons I have already stated.
It's a small issue but I also don't like some of the staged looking establishing shots (at the party, the opera etc).
Personally speaking I certainly agree with you. Would rather do my tax return than watch GE. A nasty, squalid, dull little film.
I'd rather watch GE for the upteenth time than listen to your repeatitive, spiteful anti-GE posts but hey-ho.
I like all Bond's too. Just some a lot more than others.
You said that based on 'objective' reasons, which is closer to saying QOS is factually better than GE than simply stating your opinion about it.
Certainly he was blessed with two of the better screenplays produced this side of the '60s. Two cracking casts, as well. So some of what works in GE and CR isn't entirely down to him. But I do note they both get certain things right. For example, Natalya and Vesper are exactly what a modern Bond girl should be: regular people caught up in Bond's world, capable in their own right but not trying to beat Bond at his own game, with the girl needing Bond at points and Bond needing her at points (for plot reasons, emotionally, sexually, etc).
I also find that (with the exception of the tank chase) the action in Campbell's films comes from story and moves the story. Which you can't really say for most Bond films (to their detriment). The test for this is asking, can you cut this action and the story is unaffected? See the action in films like TWINE or QoS. And Campbell's action is also marvelously staged and shot (again, I would say with one exception, the sinking house).
Big words. Not true, but certainly big.
Obviously others will disagree, I've heard the many defences of QoS, and I find many moments to love in it, but on a personal level I find GE is a far more interesting, exciting, fully rounded piece of cinema. It's very fresh.
Did it never bother you that they re-introduced James Bond with a - then already quite worn - plot like a threatening satellite in space? To me it felt quite the opposite of fresh way back then. Hasn't changed ever since.
No. The Goldeneye was a Macguffin. The Bond/Alec dynamic is what drives it. It was and still is excellent and the final fight is class.
I'm always amazed how easy people do brush off arguments that are not to their liking. GE needs no original McGuffin because it's about the 006/007 dynamic, SF needs no intelligent writing because it's all about the character arc. If you approach storylines that way there's actually no need for anything original/clever/intelligent at all. That's not my idea of writing.