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Haha good one. =))
Yes it was supposed to be set in China I think. I thought it sounded okay as a premise. People don't like the robots element but it could have worked. Bit like the current speculation around B25 - potential sci-fi elements cause some to freak out.
And one that didn't need to me made. In that 9 year gap, Bond doesn't age a single bit (yet look at Brosnan in 1986) between 1986 and 1995? Does he think he is Dorian Gray?
Interesting, as I always assumed the 9 years earlier PTS, was meant to be "Dalton's Bond". Then, TLD and LTK happen, Bond has a few missions between 1990-1994 just no movies! Cue the DB5 chase in the present day. That's how I saw it anyway.
I see where you are coming from, maybe that is how the GE PTS is supposed to be taken. I just find that hard to buy into, because it is Brosnan. If the PTS took place in 1990, that problem would have gone away entirely.
The grey at the temples, and leatherly skin suggest otherwise. ;)
I just hope I look that good at 61. :D
All jokes aside, he has aged pretty good, i'll say that much for him.
Thanks for the link. I am going to check it out.
As for the villains,between GE and LTK it is very close,i just think the villains close to Sanchez are more ruthless and ooze an evil sleaze about them.
Ditto Xenia? Well crafted character or cartoon Cruella Deville cut out?
Ourumov is the best of that trio probably but isn't he just a poor man's rehash of the Berkov character in OP?
The whole film feels like a stale rehash to me though with way too much 90s generic action and machine guns everywhere.
Have to disagree. Sanchez wipes the floor with Trevelyan, Beans irritating accent alone was enough to make him less threatening!
I also think the minor henchmen in LTK made more if an impression than the main villains in GE. Boris is one of the most annoying characters in the series, Xenia was a poor rip off of the superior Fatima Blush, and Ouromov, though starting out well in the pts, turns into a hip flask swigging buffoon by the latter half of the movie!
That's probably all you would get before he 'deep-sixed' you !
Boris is a colourful character to me. Yes he's over the top but that's what Bond villains used to be. That's why I embrace the movie so much is that it is an updated take on the classic Bond formula. Compare the action scenes in LTK and GE and I think you will see the spectacle and entertainment is stronger in GE.
Agree with both takes. Sanchez and Dario are a good duo. The rest of the LTK pack are just Lethal Weapon re-treads. GE's complete cast of villains are strong and eccentric. You remember them all for their quirks. Trevelyan himself is forgettable. What does his bring to the table besides a grudge - that has to be fully explained by Bond. Even Stromberg, tired and lifeless as he was, does a better job of explaining himself.
GE has better action than Ltk? Shurely shome mishtake?
By the way, TLD is a top 3 Bond film of mine, and I think Dalton is much better suited there.
That's a funny way of saying "they're cartoons." In any case, what counts more in a film is the major villain, not the minor or subsidiary ones. The major villain is the motor of the film.
Indeed. GE has more spectacle (and some bad CGI), but it doesn't have anything filmed as well as the truck chase, or amusingly as the water skiing/plane scene.
The truck chase in LTK was really well choreographed and thrilling, and way more spectacular and the best finale for a Bond movie alongside OHMSS!
I have to agree.