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apples & pears but as long as you think it is funny. ;)
I for one, agree completely. And I don't think too many others would oppose you either.
In any case, the last half is pretty "bad" (the sci-fi elements, silliness, CGI, etc.) but it has an energy that makes it watchable, is how I should have worded my comment.
EDIT: nostalgia aside, the last half of the movie defeats any chance it has of ever moving up past, say, 18 or 19 in my rankings list, which I'm sure most everyone says is too high to begin with. Thank god for subjectivity.
Brosnan did one too few in my opinion, as bad as Die Another Day is. He should have gotten a 5th.
Connery (4)
LALD 62
MR 63
DAF 64
FRWL 65
Lazenby (9)
DN 68
GF 69
Hildebrand Rarity 70
FYEO 72
TB (with Blofeld) 74
TSWLM 76
OHMSS 78 (with Blofeld)
YOLT (end the Blofeld trilogy) 79
TMWTGG 81
Dalton (10)
FAVTAK 83
OP 85
TLD 87
TPOAL 89
LTK 91
007 in NY 93 (earning back his 00 after LTK)
GE 95
TND 97
TWINE 2000
DAD 02
Craig (5)
CR 06
QOS 09
SF 12
EON 15
Risico 18
End of series.
Controversial, no?
remove Sir Rog completely? very controversial ;) :P
Not controversial at all. Just batshit mental.
doctor's orders: some viewings of 'Wild Geese', 'North Sea Hijack', 'TMWTGG', 'The Man Who Haunted Himself' and 'Sherlock Holmes in New York' for this weekend ;)
Moore could of easily had a tenure as dark and close to the novels as Craig dalton and early Connery and actually thrived in said dark films. For your eyes only proves that.
I don't think FYEO was dark. It has a few "grittier" moments though I suppose, in which Moore does fine. So you may be right.
There's a reason why the Moore era took the route it did and it was because Moore couldn't handle and convincingly pull off the requirements for a darker tone, which is why they went in the opposite direction. This was a conscious decision by all parties involved.
I disagree with the statement that Moore not being able to handle a darker tone, you should see some of his other work. The man is a very good actor but indeed he chose together with Broccoli for a certain tone of the movies, and they worked very well for 7 movies long.
Anybody who doubts Moore's ability as an actor should just watch "The Man Who Haunted Himself".
The very best thing some say about Moore as Bond was the variety he brought to the role. Serious, deadpan, humorous, ridiculous, bizarre, outstanding, fragile, tenacious, etc. It was all those things during his career. No release was really ever the same - he provided a bit of everything during his James Bond tenure. I don't think any of the other Bonds can quite match that
That wasn't a controversial opinion, but just a response to the previous answer. Furthermore it was true and can't be disputed
He was steady when the films were constantly trying to find footing...if that make sense.
His darkest film were TMWTGG and he played a harder Bond eloquently.
Which brings me into my controversial opinion:
TMWTGG is very Fleming-esque.
Not as crazy as it sounds. Not by a long stretch.
And of course, that sort of thing NEVER happens here... ;)
Peel of Pepper, some of Goodnight's actions and the handling of the karate-girls and you got a pretty serious story with some sarcastic undertones which is very much in vein of Fleming. Moore does also perform very much like Bond in the books, he's sinister but not as serious as Dalton and Craig sometimes are.
Some of the less intellectual highlights include: (I have suitably added my feelings)
"I never thought Dalton was Bond." :O
"Bond would never go rogue, as that is considered being a treason." X_X
"Licence To Kill is not a Bond film. It was more like an American cop movie rather than something a British spy to be dealing with. Sure, Felix was murdered , but he should have AT LEAST took permission from M to investigate the situation, accusing Sanchez for being terrorist." 8-}
"I personally think it was a mistake not to cast either Lewis Collins or Ian Ogilvy in the role in the eighties." =))
Seriously, though, I would love it if he had just one or two more Bond films under his belt. The two he gave us were fantastic.
Agree with you @Creasy. Clearly the only actor they consider as Bond is Brosnan.
I do think Dalton could've gone on that long as Bond (as per my timeline which is merely a fantasy). If I thought he looked too old in the 90's through to DAD, I wouldn't have had him go that long either.
I'll always defend him, and he is my favorite? Absolutely. Is he the best? Absolutely not. It's hard to argue that Connery doesn't still own that role.
You haven't seen it? It's the cut where Bond gets stuck in the tanker that explodes, and then he comes back as a RoboSpy.