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But when the dust settles, it's always Sean that remains on top...
Not necessarily, in this very thread, I have posted articles wherein the writer has put forward their opinions why Dalton is the best. Not second best, but THE best Bond.
But for some, Connery being the first Bond, is all the reason needed to rank him #1.
I know. But the majority view I think is still that Connery was best. I think Dalton would be amused by any one saying he was the best Bond ever.
I am a long time Dalton fan, so more than happy to see him praised though.
Yeah i caught this too! Looks great! :-bd
A very promising debut... Dalton is terrific in easily his meatiest role in years.
http://www.hmss.com/films/memory/
Dammit, Dalton was good.
In some folks perspective he was brilliant, for the masses in the US he was BO poison.
I always thought TLD did reasonable business in the US?
LTK was clearly a bit of a flop stateside, but there were perhaps mitigating circumstances. Attrociously handled marketing being the prime example.
So was OHMSS. Does that make it a bad film?
I do suspect though that Dalton's alleged unpopularity in the states is sometimes a little overdone. TLD did fine in the US. LTK's title change and bad marketing contributed to it being a flop there. However, Moore's first two films were not financially runaway successes. TMWTGG was, I think, a pretty poor performer at the box office. However, Roger's third was a resounding success. Who would bet against GE with Dalton not having been a success in the US...?
I never said that Dalton was a bad actor, but not all actors can manage the greatness offered by the 007 part. Lazenby couldn't either......
OHMSS is close to a brilliant as the franchise gets. But like Dalton it followed a brilliant performer loved by the masses, and rightly so imo. And even great movies suffer then as the 007 series has shown.
I do, as LTK's complete BO was less than Batmans opening weekend. So LTK really performed badly in the US, which was at that time an important market.
Had Dalton returned the franchise after 6 years I doubt many people would have gone and watched it.
EON and its financial backers decided wisely to go for an easy and popular choice, and reboot the show with a female M and an easier to accept actor to play 007.
It says nothing about Daltons performance but his take and persona were perhaps not the best choice after the popular Roger Moore. ANd the world was a far easier place to live pre 9/11.
I risk offending our Stateside cousins, but big budget films obviously get dumbed down due to them needing to 'appeal to the U.S masses' ... Dalton's casting was great for the 007 character, but less so for Bond's general mass appeal.
I agree that movies nowadays needs to appeal to a larger audience and thus cultural differences. Dalton would work today far better than in the olden days, as the BO of the rest world are often better than the US and they seek out the markets outside of the US.
The Avengers & Cap America 2 were released in the rest of the world and by the time the US joined the BO the movies were way ahead in profits, And those movies were actually quite smartly written and Winter Soldier was quite edgy in it message. And political recognizable around the world.
The Bondmovies always get a earlier release in Europe than the US and performs quite well in recent times.
http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/ustv/s238/penny-dreadful/news/a575506/penny-dreadful-renewed-for-second-season.html
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That's good news indeed !
How would it do that ?
It's written by Logan and produced by Mendes...
The only worrying thing is that John Logan is writing ALL 10 episodes of season 2 which will start shooting the same time as Bond 24. I think Logan's time is seriously limited, on top of that he is writing a Broadway musical. I hope he is giving enough attention to Bond 24, if not I do hope Mendes brings on another writer soon (if he hasn't already) to polish Logan's draft. Maybe Paul Haggis could return? I attribute the success of CR to his contribution. Or possibly Abi Morgan?
I haven't even seen the first season?!!! ;))