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I cant help but think if they had cast Monica Bellucci, as originally planned, she would have played out better on screen. At least there may have been more allure and charisma in her. Teri Hatcher was a poor choice.
I read somewhere that her and Pierce didn't get on, and she really phones it in. Pierce had to try and find some measure of chemistry all on his own.
Hatcher was pregnant and so was constantly late to set which annoyed Brossa apparently!! The most convincing part of their chemistry was the face slap.....because she meant it!!
Teri Hatcher is also known not to be very nice in general. Just look up her final Desperate Housewives goodbye. She wasn’t thanked we everyone else.
Monica Bellucci would have been perfect in the part. What could have been...
Ms Hatcher is completely miscast. And an American just seems wrong in the part.
Exactly.
Hmmm . . .not sure that would be enough to save it. I mean, I don't think the biggest problem with AVTAK is the audience
didn't know what semiconductors are...
Getting smitten isn't the problem, it's the supposedly going back that doesn't work. As @revelator said, he'd be more worried about what vesper would think, but above all try to avoid running into exes. In no way can I see him think ' I closed that chapter, let's open it up so I can get close to her husband'. He'd find it a distraction, not a tool.
And indeed, Teri was as miscast as they come.
Most secondary Bond girls are not meant to be of much importance for Bond. Problem is that they gave a backstory to Paris Carver she could not live up to. Casting Monica Bellucci would not have solved the all the problems, but at least you'd have an actress who is both sexy and charismatic. Her mere presence would have made the backstory more believable. With Hatcher, Paris is good looking and has a great body. And that's it.
Hatcher is an awful actress. Plus her character had some of the most atrocious dialogue in the entire franchise.
DAD was released a year after 9/11 and did extremely well--audiences were initially quite happy to enjoy over-the-top escapism. Then the Iraq War happened and the "war on terror," the national mood started to sour, and audiences became more receptive to the Bourne films and grittier spy movies in general.
Yeah, this is an interesting and important discussion point re: the film. I find it interesting, using 9/11 as a lens, seeing the more fantastical elements playing like pure escapist mirage/vision. Some ludicrous daydream with an unkillable hero at the center.
On the flip side, the success of films like the Bourne series, tonally, certainly signaled a shift in the zeitgeist of big-budget cinema. DAD is compelling when read within the socio-political context of its release.
@Birdleson Make it two :) agreed.
+3.
I agree on the Dalton and Lazenby gunbarrels, especially Dalton's. He just looks so confident and smooth. So thankful they didn't do another take on the jumping from the rough cut.
+4.
Liking Teri Hatcher's Mrs. Carver seems to be more of a controversial opinion than disliking her. But I'm glad she got to be a Bond girl, especially after this prescient clip made two years prior to TND:
Or maybe I just like the idea of Remington Steele and Lois Lane sharing a secret past together?
She was fine in the film. It was Jonathan ‘hammy acting/ pantomime dame’ Pryce that was the issue!
Quite literally dodged a bullet.
- A View To A Kill is a bit overhated. For one thing, there's certainly no denying that Moore was a bit old by that time. On the other hand, even then he still pulled it off and gave one last great performance as Bond, though as much as I love Moore, it was time for him to go after this one. The villain Max Zorin was also great, and was well complimented by May Day as his henchwoman. If anything, it's somewhat like an 80s version of Goldfinger, but with better pacing and without some of the flaws in it. Really the only weakest link in AVTAK is Stacy Sutton, who was almost insufferable.
- Personally I have always thought that the Pierce Brosnan era is very overhated. Tomorrow Never Dies is a really great second entry in his era, giving a very classic Bond adventure with a wild, yet realistic villain in Elliot Carver, great action sequences, a great Bond girl with Wai Lin and an excellent debut soundtrack by David Arnold. The World is Not Enough is good as well, though the plot seemed messier and the tone felt more melodramatic, so as such it doesn't quite hold up as well as GE and TND, or even DAD. As far as Die Another Day is concerned, having watched it several times, I have to say the negative hype around this movie is just borderline echo-chambery. It's a good mix of seriousness and classic 70s-esque campiness with a great villain in Gustav Graves, an underrated Bond girl in Jinx, a great henchwoman, great action sequences and a good revenge plot with an over-the-top yet psychopathic and warmongering villain. It also has what is, in my opinion, David Arnold's single greatest Bond soundtrack from his time as Bond composer. Personally, it's Brosnan's 2nd best entry in the series for me, next to GE, and in my personal top 5 of the franchise as well.
- In contrast, the Daniel Craig era is overrated. Having said my thoughts on his era before, I'll keep them short and straight to the point here. My main issues with the Craig era are that the franchise has been turned into needlessly dark and gritty nonsense that clearly came on the heels of Bourne and Nolan Batman, as well as the fact that the movies are so connected between each other. As for the movies, first of all, Casino Royale is something I personally never thought was that great. However, it is still fairly enjoyable with good characters. Quantum of Solace, while butchered by the writer's strike, is also a fairly decent entry and wraps up the CR story nicely, or would have. Skyfall however is where it goes completely off-rails and is honestly just completely awful, with a non-sensical disjointed storyline, terrible characters, a terrible soundtrack and bad action sequences, on top of suddenly jumping to "Bond is old, how will he be relevant now?". Spectre however is even worse, as it copies scene after scene and trope after trope from previous Bond movies to hide a story ripped off from The Winter Soldier, as well as a terrible "reimagined" Blofeld who is now Bond's evil brother who became evil because "Bond was treated better" and a hamfisted attempt to make Spectre look more threatening by making them "the author of all Bond's pain", if you catch my drift. And as such, I am not too optimistic about how No Time To Die will turn out. If anything, I doubt I will be seeing it in theaters.
Nope. Not what I said. The main issue is the weak villain.
I think the idea of a media mogul as a Bond villain is quite clever and timely for the beginning of the 21st century, now if only they cast someone remotely interesting. Johnathan Pryce had zero charisma and his awful overacting didn’t help matters. I find it hard to believe him in the role of a headlines-obsessed, power-hungry megalomaniac. For want of a better word he is a fanny.
I find him to be a weak villain in every sense of the word. When Bond finally offed him with his own sea drill it wasn’t a moment too soon. The embarrassment of a pathetic, overacted, pantomime dame was over.
One of the best villains is Franz Sanchez...In an unusual brutal outing, Sanchez is a Bond villain free of gimmicks, but Robert Davi's intense antagonist is the perfect match for Timothy Dalton's more sober Bond – one of the few Bond villains to be genuinely, properly scary.
I don't see where Bond is an idiot in GF. In what instances would those be? The villain popping up at the end was a Bond tradition which actually began in FRWL when Klebb showed up as the maid in Bond's hotel room. I like the way that's handled.
The timing doesn't help matters. The blood is a quarter of the way down the screen before he even fires! I'm glad they went for his other (much better) take.
If not for David Arnold I’d probably agree with that.