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I believe it captures everything that's best about Bond. I'll take that chase any day over the dreck that we got in SP. It probably cost less than half to film it too.
Even Tom 'aped' it 5 yrs later in MI2.
Not about to defend the SP car chase though which was underwhelming and obviously a total waste of budget. Ditto Mendes's crappy explosion at Blofeld's base.
To be fair to Campbell though he made much better use of his more meagre budgets than Mendes in terms of what you see on screen. Still don't like GE though.
Both reintroductions of the DB5 are pathetic and unnecessary. That said the one in GE is far worse. Bond has been absent for 6 years so don't waste the budget on some dull 'comedic' chase - give us a proper one.
As Simon Gruber once said 'There's a difference between not liking one's brother and not caring when some Irish flatfoot throws him off a building.'
I don't think anyone has said they actually like the DAD GB, merely that it's better than the atrocities we got for QOS, SF and SP.
And that chase is even worse.
To be honest I think the "charm" people remember of some of the older entries is down to nostalgia more than anything. Apart from the score I genuinely don't see any reason for ranking GE below the likes of DAF and TMWTGG, but people actually do.
Yes, two reasons. connery and Moore.
Totally agree. Remember my heart sinking when I first saw the tank chase. The Glen era with its amazing action was still fresh in my mind in 95.
These days good action is the exception rather than the rule with Bond.
The tank chase is one of my favourite action sequences in terms of spectacle, though I admit that most of the action in CR, SF and the PTS of SP surpass it.
Can't say i'm all that fond of the car chase in SP. Its ok but it plays out like a PlayStation game with Bond on the phone receiving plot details during the action. Reminded me of when I was playing Nightfire or Everything or Nothing as a teenager.
That was brilliant. Got an applause from the audience I was with during the first time (of 2) I saw it in the cinema.
I wanted to see a fight like that since CR - not saying that the rest of Craig's movies haven't delivered in the fist fight department, of course, but with how muscular Craig is compared to the other actors, I was hoping we'd eventually get to see some huge sonofabitch throwing Bond around and hurting him.
Yes it was definitely overdue. Craig is so bulked up that his opponents often look like the underdog. He needs intimidating match ups in fights otherwise it lacks any sense of danger for Bond.
Wrong
I'm never wrong. :D
GE is the Best. Some just can't handle it.
That said, Gotfried John, Judi Dench and Isabella Scoropco are all undoubtably superb. I don't think you can question their performances.
There was a time when the so-called "Brosnan bashing" stood out big time, but it's gotten so cut-throat and critical around here in regards to so many other things surrounding Bond that I barely notice it any more.
I do think GE is viewed with some rose tinted glasses for some! I've no problem with people liking it but calling it the best ever Bond makes me think you never seen any other Bond movie!
No Limits.
No Fears.
No Substitutes.
GoldenEye all the way Baby! \m/
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I go out of my way to be soft on Brosnan and still people claim it's bashing.
Watching GE is the cinematic equivalent of being made to eat someone else's vomit, after they've been eating nachos and cheese.
You poor man! When did this happen?