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This is where I put my Dr. Evil face on and say, "Riiiiiight."
At least they didn't totally rag on Tomorrow Never Dies, The World Is Not Enough, and Quantum of Solace, which tends to be the case.
Ouch!
Well, at least its nice to see he loved Spectre...
we're the die hard fans , the hell are they to say Bond movie are bad or good .
But they're all good- most of them great, in my factual opinion.
HAHA :))
I think that scene was barely 90 seconds long.
:)) =))
I think the Bond franchise's greatest asset is time. Due to the 50 plus years most reviewers and casual Bond film goers can't remember most of the content of the last 23 films! - so their reviews/rankings are fairly ignorant.
;)
Interesting to see that so many of the comments on the Guardian site are saying how much people love Dalton though. I get the sense there's a growing community of Dalton fans out there.
Funny you highlight that. It's actually one of the points in these rankings I do agree with. TND is Brosnan's best IMO. That's not saying much, but the first half is moderately entertaining and Brosnan IMO works better as Bond in TND than any of the others.
I found TND slow, boring and painful to watch I think GE was a far better movie, Bean was a better villain, the 006 plot twist was fresh, the locations were better, the finale on the dish. The supporting cast, the direction. Everything about GE was twice the file of TND. But I always find 1st outing are the best. It is almost like more effort goes in to get the audience to buy back in to franchise.
I find all the Brosnan films painfully dull tbh, but none more so than TWINE, which I think I'd possibly rank as the worst in the entire series.
GE was the biggest shock to me personally. As a Dalton fan, I perceived the total change in tone and direction with Brosnan as incomprehensible. But objectively speaking TWINE is an even worse movie, just for its pure tedium. At least DAD is hysterically awful. TWINE just bored me to sleep.
Giving YOLT 5 stars certainly seems to be going overboard. Switch that with the 3 star rating he gave OHMSS and I'd be happy with the 60's.
A 4 star rating to TMWTGG is a little incomprehensible to me but to each their own, I suppose. Other than that, the 70's look fine to me.
Now he really went hog-wild with the 80's films, didn't he? FYEO and TLD at 2 stars? Yikes. Well, at least he got LTK right.
Switch GE with TND and I could live with the rest of the Brosnan and Craig ratings. I've seen worse rankings than this. Not that I'd give it a full endorsement, of course.
I thought some of the ratings for the films, were quite inaccurate to put it politely!
The great thing about being a 007 fan is that you can enjoy various actors, writers composers etc and your personal preference does not make you any lesser a fan. I guess some critics would not know anything about the 007 franchise but it is their job to write about it and their preferences I could not care about. I generally avoid critics and their paid for opinions.
I once met a newspaper critic who gave me his opinion about the then current 007 and he explained his dislike and knowledge about 007 and the franchise. I let him finish his argument before starting to poke holes in his knowledge. His only response was "shit, a fan!" The man did not write for fans he wrote for the general audience and his knowledge did not really damage anything his personal opinion did not stop anybody from seeing the movie as a 007 movie is still a big happening. And he acknowledged that the 007 franchise was something special even after all those years (must have been OP or AVTAK time).
The only folks annoyed by paid critics are the fans who start with a huge advantage namely an larger knowledge than the average person, and larger interest as well. So if you do not want to be offended avoid critics.