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Well maybe one more he was still looking fantastic after Die another day but I wouldn't have wanted him to stay a little too long like Sean Connery or Roger Moore.
I wished Connery have stayed till you only live Twice and Moore stopped with Octopussy. No hate to Lazenby but i guess would have taken him out of the picture and Moore instead of making live and let Die and the man with the golden gun made Diamonds are forever and On her Majesty's secret service.
That would leave Dalton to make those two along with The living Daylights and Licence to kill
Well, I watched GoldenEye yesterday, and it struck me that no other actor has given such a frustrating performance in the role of James Bond either before or since.
Pierce (if I may be so informal), and let's not make any bones about this, completely cocked up his Q and Moneypenny scenes. Whilst Desmond Llewellyn gave his usual assured turn as Q Pierce could barely suppress his delight at finally being Bond in a big Q scene and indulged himself with so much goofing that I half expected the 3 Stooges to show up. The scene looked under rehearsed because Pierce just couldn't do it. His line delivery was dreadful, his acting woeful.
And in the MP scene as Samantha Bond delivered her lines he smirked and postured his way through the scene to such an extent he thoroughly deserved a slap in the face and a knee in the nuts.
HOWEVER, in three key scenes, M's office, the meeting with Zukovsky and the meeting with Janus, Brosnan simply smacked the ball clean out of the park.
In the first of these, with M his restraint was admirable (sorry but Dalton would have spelt it all out for us as if he were Hamlet). As M tore into him his feelings were there but only in his eyes (very important in film acting).
In the Zukovsky scene the fear that he was losing control of the situation was palpable. To such an extent that when he delivered the line 'Very talented girl' about Zukovsky's awful mistress there was a degree of relief that broke through the tension making the line seemed so much funnier than it actually was.
Finally when he meets Janus you can see his mind piecing everything together, trying to think the situation through from a hopeless position.
The rest of the time he was good (eg the interrogation scene), bad (eg playing baccarat)or indifferent (eg meeting Wade for the first time), but when it was called for in the important dramatic moments, he genuinely did the business. And that is the Bond we should have seen more of in TWINE.
Campbell still has it in him.
These obvious truths should be balanced with some praise in this thread. Nice that you managed to find something.
:D
Thankfully, as pointed out, this was redeemed by the M & Zukovsky scenes, which are definitely some of the better ones in the entire series and nicely underplayed.
I don't quite agree on the Janus intro, because there was some overplay here too (imho) but it was thankfully limited.
Well the idea was to highlight what Brosnan did well, not what he didn't do so well. I thought he handled the key dramatic scenes very well as did RogerMoore in his films.
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Even though all of that is very true and obvious, this isn t the place for it.
Visit it. :D Brosnan seems to get a lot of hate, so I don't think it's asking too
Much for his fans to have a safe place away from all the negativity. ;)
Ppffftt! My problem with Brosnan was that he shouldn't have been wearing a belt at all. His suits are tailored not off the rack at Marks and Spencer.
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They should be getting the complaints. :D
Of his suit. Spoilt the entire movie for me. Now Dalton, there's a man who
Knew how to mix and match ! :D
think he was a fantastic Bond, ( to me at least) he always looked
uncomfortable in a suit, whereas Pierce had a frame that suits always
looked good. ;) just my two cents
Craig's Skyfall and Spectre wardrobes are the worst, though.
That said, I also didn't like Pierce's outfits in GoldenEye.But, the rest were very good. Especially in The World Is Not Enough and Die Another Day. And I do agree that he should never have worn a belt. ;)
FAR TOO TIGHT ! , I think his suits in QOS, from the same designer were
far better. whether that's the cut or the fit, I don't know.
Damn, I would kill to have one of those suits.
I'm in complete agreement that Craig in SF/SP has by far the worst suit cuts. Disgraceful in my view. Jany Temime must go, and I'm willing to start a petition if need be.
As I'm a jeans and sweat shirt guy. ;)
And yes, @bondjames, you've read that in The Suits of James Bond website in an article that was a poll, leading the fans to pick which style of clothing they liked. He referred to Brosnan's three-piece suit in Tomorrow Never Dies as "a powerful man's look, a businessman at that, but not a suitable spy." I kind of agree on that. But, I do insist that TWINE/DAD had a great wardrobe and fine cut suits for Brosnan. Even the windsor tie knots looked too great.
I think for the SF/SP wardrobe, it's not Temime to blame. It's Craig himself who prefers those suits in his personal life, too.