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Indeed.
Agreed 100%.
Yes, I've noticed a shift in popular opinion lately. It's something I thought (and hoped) would occur at some point.
I'm agreeing with everybody's opinions on Brosnan today!
I even like that too. DAD is a fun celebration of saying "Screw restraint and moderation!"
He can't match what DC brought to the role in CR, QoS, SF... and, even SP... Craig is the better actor, but... more importantly...
Craig's got more charisma
sexiness
charm
physicality (brosnan through a worse punch than Dalton IMHO)
athleticism
likability (Brosnan comes off too slimy too often)
defiant
real
... quite frankly, the most complete 007 since SC... have at it, boys...
Craig comes off like a petulant teenager trying too hard to be cool too often IMO. Or a middle-aged man who never outgrew his teenage attitude. They should just complete the ensemble with leather jacket and a Harley.
Fair enough.
One man saves the world and/or does some other feat single-handedly such as taking out several armed bad-guys is never realistic. Not when Craig does it. Not when Brosnan did it. I don't ask for realism in Bond movies, only entertainment and fun, of which Brosnan supplied more. The whole thing with Bond as a spy is pretty unrealistic.
Not to bash Craig too much though. I currently have him third in my Bond rankings.
(cue the barking dogs)
Hmm. . . I think Broz was definitely the prettiest Bond. 'Dashing,' I believe the ladies call it. Or 'debonair.'
Sadly, he was saddled with a series of crummy choices, both sides of the camera, and there wasn't much he could do.
I'm a big fan of Craig - he's probably my favourite Bond. But if I'm honest I have to admit that Craig's benefited from a huge amount of latitude and creative input (a producer's credit!), big budgets, indulgent directors, hugely talented co-stars, and more 'artistic' films.
Put another way, can you imagine Craig being asked to act seriously along Dr. Christmas Jones? Can you imagine him being directed by Tamahori? I can't. But I can imagine Broz acquitting himself well after being given $250 million to shoot a sweeping epic like SF with a top-shelf cast, an oscar-winning director, and Deakins on lenses.
Same here, he's probably my second favourite so I'm enjoying this very much. I think maybe SP getting a mixed reaction has led to a reevaluation of them.
Yeah I've really warmed to DAD in a so bad it's good kind of way. It's crap but it's fun, colourful, endlessly watchable crap with Brosnan somehow managing to anchor the film and a few genuinely good scenes and moments. Bond breaking a landspeed record and then windsurfing a ps2 esque CGI tsunami. Women in sports bras having a sword fight in a crashing plane over the Korean demilitarised zone. Bond stopping his own heart. A bad guy with diamonds scarred into his face. An invisible car. Moneypenny masturbating over VR Bond. A fencing match devolving into a brutal broadsword fight. The villain makes his entrance by parachuting into buckingham palace with a union jack parachute and later his a robot suit that can electrocute people.
It's a wonderful OTT mess that doesn't understand the meaning of subtelty (opens with Bond shooting down the barrel of a gun and then surfing into North Korea) but despite being a complete car crash of a film, it's actually well paced, well structured, it's great visually (apart from the poor CGI), and has some great scenes. It's colourful and has a great sense of energy to it. The opening is genuinely brillianf and such a great way to subvert expectations for the 20th Bond film. And Brosnan gives it his all and somehow manages to keep the whole thing from falling apart.
I'd much rather watch DAD than something bland and boring like TND or FYEO. It's not good but it's fun.
And GE and TWINE are still classics for me. Two of my all time favourites. TND is the only Brosnan film I don't really enjoy and even that isn't bad at all (the first half is actually really good), it's just nothing special.
Apart from my wife's almost 60 year old secretary I have yet to meet a woman that would agree with you.
Still, as I said in 2006 when we first saw Craig, this is also why Brosnan got all the backlash. Not because his Bond was so bad, but because Daniel's was so much better, which is unfair to say the least. I think he gave a very decent performance in all his films, and definately gave the franchise it's boost in GE when it was needed so much.
I don't need to see that!
It's been scavenged to the point of being unadaptable.
When the picture of him with that scar was released, there was some speculation online if that was the case.
Did Moore look cruel?
Brosnan may be a tad too pretty but at least he isn't blonde, short and looks like a thug or chav half of the time.
This notion of "looking cruel" is at best vague. Moore never really "looked" cruel in my view but had a professional, commanding air about him.
Cruel isn't the first word that comes to mind looking at a pic such as this. Here he looks more like an after-dinner speaker at a gentleman's club.