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He was clearly being fed a steady diet of buffalo wings while imprisoned, so I don't think his treatment was all that bad.
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It is because 007 is a godlike creature, even when he shot and falls from a bridge he will come back and kill somebody. If Craig claims his specialty is Resurrection why blame Brosnan for being fit after being tortured. And KFC is bloody murder ;) >:)
Or same Roger after Grace Jones rides him.
If your goal was to make me spit my drink onto the computer screen, you came very close to succeeding.
OHMSS is the best Bond movie and Lazenby is the worst Bond (anything you say about OHMSS could be controversial)
DAF is non-offensive and funny
TLD is my third favorite Bond film behind OHMSS and FRWL
QoS isn't that bad.
Spectre is a borderline top 5 Bond film for me.
Wouldn't say I "loved" it. Just don't have a strong dislike of it. It's a middle of the pack Bond film.
Here's my controversial notion: the producers should film the original Fleming novels today, updated to 21st Century the way CASINO ROYALE worked so well. (Not remakes, by the way.). Enough time has passed that they won't be in conflict with or an automatic insult to the original films that may or may not have stuck to Fleming's best.
And years from now after even more time has passed, overcome by technology and social change, likely the filmmakers will withdraw once again and film the Fleming novels truest to the 50s and the Cold War origins. Still using the same film formula through it all of course.
That doesn't even make sense.
Better, @StirredNotShaken? If not, how about this: often times I'm listening to DAF or TMWTGG or MR and wish we got the Bond that the music was bringing to life, instead of the Bond that the actors were portraying.
Pierce Brosnan's masterpiece. At least, it was supposed to be. Connery had GF. Moore had TSWLM. This was supposed to be Brosnan's defining movie.
You can tell they went all out for it. Pierce was never better. The script contained emotional content reminiscent of OHMSS and CR. M had an unusually active arc. MI6 was bombed. Bond has a well-rounded female character to spark off in Electra King.
That PTS is probably the best. Ever. Pierce's desperate pleading for the bomber to turn herself is startlingly good.
Robert Carlyle as the villain. A slinky, moody title song by Garbage.
But the direction let it down. Apted wasn't suitable and it showed. The emotional resonance was there but without solid, propulsive action the movie fizzed rather than sizzled.
Another thread perhaps, but the producers' biggest disappointment may well have been this film.
They reached for the stars and fell short. If Martin Campbell had been in the chair, we may well be looking at the Brosnan era much differently.
He would have his masterpiece.
Just for the record, I'm not a Brosnan fan and have him behind all the others.
What Bondian is is not set in stone of course. And I'm always open to changing my mind.
See, to me "Bondian" is a lush, sophisticated European atmosphere that's also tense and romantic. So FRWL would be up there for me in terms of the most "Bondian" films, alongside stuff like OHMSS, OP, TLD, GE, CR, SF, and SP.
100% agreed! Especially after attempting to sit through 30 minutes of Mission Impossible 2.
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Moonraker Is one of the best Bond films...
Brosnan is my least favorite Bond by a fair margin. He doesn't bring anything new to the table and there isn't a single thing about his portrayal that particularly stands out as being all that good to me. He's serviceable at best. In his defense, however, I don't think it's his fault, he was dealt a bad hand and stuck in a changing of the guard where they weren't sure where to go with the series after Cubby.
Apologies to any fans of his era here.
There's no doubt he wasn't done any favours with the scripts post-Cubby. However, I think he also botched some of the chances he was given, particularly the emotional scenes in TWINE, which were quite cringe worthy at least for me. He probably needed a more seasoned hand in the director's chair, and it's unfortunate that he didn't get that.
His interpretation of the character is least enjoyable for me as well. Ultimately his films are entertaining and light hearted, and that's something I suppose.
+1 Pierce is bottom of the list, though I accept him more than I did in the 90's. Brosnan was not given good material
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