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I entirely agree with you but I can still see how if you did a comparison between Brosnan and Craig, as opposed to the genuinely definitive performances, then Brosnan could come out looking slightly less awful than he deserves.
I.e. A comparison with Craig flatters Brosnan slightly, whereas a comparison with Connery or Moore leaves him looking pretty awful.
But I do agree with @BondJasonBond006 that there are some similarities between the Craig and Brosnan eras. From my perspective that's a bit depressing. I definitely did not expect the Craig era to end up where it is now. All a bit of an anticlimax IMO. I know SP has plenty of hate on here, but for me SF was the mistep that took the Craig era in the wrong direction. Just don't feel Mendes fully appreciated the opportunity he had.
A return to standalone movies would be welcome IMO as it makes it much easier to shot tone and direction ans correct 'errors' from the previous film.
I actually quite enjoyed SP for what it was - certainly more enjoyable than SF from my perspective. The retcon stuff was painful and entirely unnecessary though.
Even as a GE fan/defender I'd agree with all of these.
I re-watched CR and QoS a few days ago. I still have my problems with QoS but Craig isn't one of them. I like Brosnan but Dan is easily the better of the two actors. There's just more weight and subtlety to his performances. I just can't see Brosnan in a scene like this:
I do think though that SP is the closest we've come to a Brosnan-esque Bond film with Craig. It's got more OTT aspects to it. Remember thinking that since I first saw it in the cinema.
It has many Brosnan moments, even Moore moments. And that is A GOOD THING imho.
Yes! :D
The problem is its cheesy and gets further into pastiche territory. I'd have agreed with you a few years ago but now, I'm not so sure.
I give you that Spectre is cheesy in some rare moments, which I don't mind as at least half of all Bond film have some or a lot of cheesy moments. It's just part of the series.
Pastiche, I never understand what this really means.
A potpurri? I feel that Spectre is very even in tone and style from start to finish.
Skyfall, now that's a film that changes tone drastically several times. After the PTS to Macau to Silva's appearance to the Skyfall sequence to the last scene. All over the place in tone and style.
But as I said, I may misinterpret the term pastiche.
TSWLM is arguably good pastiche.
It depends on perspective to a large extent. To be fair Bond has been cannibalising itself for decades so saying a new Bond film is pastiche is usually stating the obvious. Having said that, there have been attempts periodically to freshen things up and explore new avenues , with varying degrees of success.
thanks for explaining, even being bilingual sometimes I lack knowledge of a term or expression.
Then I agree on pastiche for Spectre. Which for me personally also is not a bad thing because it was done in a great way imho.
I hate to agree on that (not because it's you of course) but because I love Craig's performance in SPECTRE.
Still having seen the Brosnan trailer for Spectre I really wanted to see that alternate reality Spectre. I still do.
Unlike parody, pastiche celebrates, rather than mocks, the work it imitates. Basically Die Another Day.
Fair comment
"What makes these movies wuuurk. WHAT IS IT that got them goooinng"?
He does seem quite animated in that clip.
I believe the last two MI films have done excellent pastiche of Bond. Far better than Bond itself has been doing.
Even at its lowest ebb nothing comes close in terms of class.