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He is such a.....well, to quote my own username, a BEAST! Hahaha. If it wasn't for the genious who casted Brosnan, I might not have had such an impact with 007 Nightfire, and certainly wouldn't with GoldenEye the movie, and therefore wouldn't know the full swagger and suaveness of James Bond the man.
And so do I, his very presence in the Nightfire game made more than a satisfactory impact on me!
Correct.
Yeah, the voice was a different guy, but even still, just knowing that I was playing as Pierce Brosnan's 007 was enough!
Not true, he was in a crap soap called Emmerdale that my fiance watches for about 5 seconds =))
Anyway, I've heard alot of people say Brosnan didn't put his own stamp on it. But I think he did. He made his own take on it by mixing up elements of past Bonds, he had Moore's comedy, Connery's charm, and sometimes Dalton's ruthlessness. In a way, it's sort of what Craig's doing, as he has Dalton's ruthlessness, Lazenby's physicality and sometimes Connery's charm.
There is an element of truth to that. Even Brosnan later admitted he often felt in the shadow of Connery and Moore BUT there are many moments in each of his films when I feel he IS Bond and not just an imitation. The way he moves, the little smiles he gives etc. I've got mixed feelings about that argument.
I mean just look here for instance. The guy is 007 in these clips - especially towards the end :p
I think it was. Even in DAD, his worst film, his performance was one of the high points.
Kinda like they didn't want to show Andre the Giant too often on TV in the "old" days , to leave the fans yearning for more/avoid overexposure ;)
Batman TAS
Batman Mask of Phantasm
Batman Sub Zero (twas all right imo)
The Crow
Mortal Kombat (many bash the video game films but it's pretty good in it's genre)
Street Fighter II animated movie
Police Story III (Jackie and Yeoh in the same movie is pretty cool)
Matrix (didn't it come out '99 ?)
True Lies
OT : WWF Attitude Era (SCSA , Rock , Taker in his prime....sadly this was when Owen died :(
WWE would prolly gone belly up if not for SCSA/Rock.....in '95 they were in financial trouble.
I was at Wrestlemania 17 in Houston and the next one in Toronto, Ontario when Chris Jericho was champion at the time, that was around the time I lost interest, or a year or two directly after. Never was one for the Smackdown/Raw split, they shoud of just kept it all together instead of two brands
EDIT: Apparently it's CM punk. Well idk who he is. He wasn't in the show when I watched it.
CM Punk? Yes, I know the name, not a name I remember much either from my viewing days and attending live events, but apparently he's quite good, a sort of Cena type wrestler apparently
After the Benoit incident (he killed his son/wife and then himself.....depression/constant head trauma after his friend Guerrero died.....needless to say chair shots to the head is now banned) WWE has become more "family friendly" thus Cena is sort of the new Hogan.....CM Punk is like the rebel.
Big Show (he's now evil which I find amusing)
Daniel Bryan (sure the "yes" chants can become annoying but he's cool)
Sheamus (nice to see that a fish puddin colored pale man can become HW champ , Sheamus rules !)
HHH (still active , I think he's cool although many AE era fans is fed up with him , kinda like Hogan where he got too much backstage control)
Undertaker (I went to see him 4 yrs in a row (WM 25-28).....that says it all. He can no longer give 100% in the ring but it will be a VERY sad day for me when he quits :(
Divas are very pretty but the matches bores me to tears , I did see a ppv Beth Phoenix match recently that was all right.
I never saw the AE era , only watched until '95 when HHH started out.....I like todays WWE , Raw is OK to watch but doesn't feel "must see" like the 80s/90s (PPVs excepted)
Sorry but I think we're going a tad OT now.....it's my fault for bringing it up though ;)
LTK is very underrated, and GE is very overrated by critics, but watching the 2 movies back-to-back, it is glaringly obvious which film is the superior of the two.
Dalton's performance is up there with Craig, in terms of a tough, no-nonsense, realistic approach, but the script itself stays well clear of the cheesy, naff, soap opera drama that would plague the Brosnan films, even in GE.
For all its 80's feel and make-up, LTK's stunts are hugely impressive and are completely free of any naff CGI. GE on the other hand....
Brosnan starred in the worst Bond films of the franchise, littered with bad scripts, bad CGI, and absolutely void of any connection from the Fleming novels.
Every other Bond actor appeared in at least one scene based on a Fleming novel, except Brozza, and boy did it show. The 90's are easily the most forgettable of the entire franchise, and a period I wish to block out, erase from my mind and wish they'd never happened. For me the Bond films end in 89 with LTK, and begin again in 2006 with CR. It was just an awful long wait inbetween, while an imposter shamefully claimed to be James Bond.
I agree that Brosnan's movies had their fair share of drama, and TWINE was IMO buried in it, but why give CR a free pass? No offense, but comparing CR to TND for instance, I'd say the latter is not the one filled with soap opera drama. At times during the last half hour of CR I'm wondering whether I'm watching Bond or "The Notebook" or something. And OHMSS & QOS have pieces of drama too, IMO.
Obviously not a Brosnan fan then :)
I agree mostly and I always compare LTK to GE as LTK is also one of my favourites.
Brosnan was a fine Bond with some nice little moments (like the Monte Carlo boat scene in GE), but as mentioned, he was let down massively by rubbish scripts.
I think the problem is that most of the Bonds have some definitive moments - films or large screen time segments when they really shine and Brosnans were too brief and small because the scripts were very poor.
GE - nice film that looked like it was shot on the backlot.
TND - Die Hard Bond - Loads of Machine guns!!!!!
TWINE - Christmas Jones, enough said. Also very boring despite a fab pre-credits.
DAD - 1st half very good, 2nd half invisible cars and that surf scene so enough said.
So you and Getafix are new best friends. ;)
GE is still a cracker in my book. It has more charm than LTK hands down.
I think you have to be born a great actor to be one. In other words you have to have a distinctive voice,physically look the part (in this case bond) and be highly motivated to perform when the cameras roll.