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I'll defend TND with a shotgun.
I'll weakly defend DAD as not being a complete waste of time. I never regret watching it.
I think Pryce was probably one of the best casting decisions of the entire Brosnan era. Infact, with the exception of Paris, most of the cast is really pretty good.
As others have pointed out, TND is not a flashy or complex movie. It has a simple, coherent plot and does what it does without a lot of fuss. I see it as quite similar to QoS in some respects - quite fast paced and snappy. Not a classic, but a decent effort. It is far and away the best film of the Brosnan era. Brosnan is at his least annoying, and the film has a nice look - quite stylish, whereas GE looks like it's stuck in the 80s (in a bad way), and DAD just looks naff.
There's something about Carver that is very reminiscent of Max Zorin.
I don't like the BMW car chace. Bond playing with a remote car in a parking. Pushing buttons smiling all the way, minutes after the death of a loved one. By far the weakest action scene.
Survival is a great reason to push your emotions aside for ten minutes, though the smiling that he did while playing with the car... A little much.
I second that. This behaviour of Bond is tasteless and most of all weakens the thrust of the scene before. Also to launch the car into the travel shop is pure recklessness,prone to hurt ONLY innocents (something for the Brosnan Bonds is way more guilty then his predecessors, at least in his first two outings)
Although the dialogue leading to his death is similar-ish to that in The Running Man (the whole "giving people what they want" speech).
It's an average film at best. There's some good scenes early on involving Dench and Palmer, the pace is lively but it's all quite hollow. The action sequences are plentiful but they lack the punch of those in GE and as a result comes off as cheesy and generic quite a lot of the time.
of course, there's beer and chips for anyone who wants to join in :)
I'll use the TARDIS to pick you up
It has been said that Terri Hatcher's character should have been Sylvia Trench, from DN and FRWL, instead!
Personally, I think that's an excellent idea.
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At one point, Carvers wife was going to be Natalya from Goldeneye. I think that would have been a great idea and her death would have been really sad because we'd already gotten to know her and seen her with Bond in the last film, plus she was miles better than Paris.
Hatcher is pretty bad. I cringe at the lines:
"I made my bed...you don't sleep in it anymore"
"That's it? Go home?"
"It's the easiest way to get in...don't argue with me James"
And if you want an awful American Bond girl, look no further than Tanya Roberts.
Yeah, Denis Richards was totally unbelievable as a Nuclear physicist (or anything that comes even close to the field of science), and her acting was questionable at times, but she was good eye candy and surprisingly goes well with Brosnan.
Tanya I never had a problem with.
It's just Mary Goodnight and Jinx that really grind my gears.
As a kid I loved the film. It had the real James Bond music. It had one hell of a parking garage car chase. It had an older Blofeld-esque villain.
Still, when compared to GoldenEye, TND has the same "look and feel". It tried to hard to be a generic Bond incarnation. I actually don't know why fans think GoldenEye is Brosnan's best, when actually all of Brosnan's Bond films had this generic feel.
EON didn't try to reboot the franchise with Brosnan. Instead they wanted to get into "safe financial haven" again. Brosnan's Bond films had to feel like a perfect mix of Connery and Moore. The net result however, were generic Bond films. The fact that GE is considered Brosnan's best has more to do with the return of Bond after 6 years and all those high anticipations of the fans.
Like GoldenEye, also TND is actually as a film not that special.
Just look to Casino Royale and Skyfall and one knows what was wrong with the Brosnan films. Can YOU see Daniel Craig driving a tank?? Actually, that whole tank chase tried too hard to outperform older car/boat chases from previous films. I think the era of Craig shows not only good Bond films, but also perfect stand-alone spy thrillers with stories that usually have deeper meaning and themes underneath it.
May Craig be with us for a very very long time!
I like Paris a lot more than Jinx and Jones. But I agree, she's not great.