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Sooooo true. And Brosnan is rubbish.
Great thread btw @chrisisall
I actually happen to agree that Moore is not the Bond of the Books- he's just too nice. But you seem to have wanted Chuck Norris in the role the way you go on and on about the tough guy thing. Have you read any novels? Bond is resilient, but he never came off to me as a world class cage fighter or anything... =))
Chuck Norris? THAT would have been amazing. Or Jason Statham.
Genius. Why aren't we running EON?!
I mean, seriously.
When Judi Dench M died in Skyfall, I thanked Silva. Enough of that crank. She always dragged the whole thing down.
I actually agree. I didn't mind her to start with but over time I found her and her issues with Bond increasingly tedious. Best thing about SF was seeing her finally get bumped off. Dench ended up taking far too much screen time as well.
I don't agree. Are there things in GE I don't like? A few Moore-esque gags in the tank chase, but overall it's very well shot and a pretty good story. The fight stuff is just head and shoulders above the other Broz Bonds, and he feels young and kinetic in this film, and old and slow in the other three.
I have always hated GE since I first saw it at the cinema in 95. A Barry score and Dalton the lead might have saved it.
Hm. I'd rank GE over both of the Dalton films, though the first two sequences in TLD are really, really impressive, some of the best in the series. Both GE and TLD still have remnants of the Moore era, with a pinch of the silliness, but like them both, with GE having a much, much better ending than both Dalton films, IMO.
CR is soap-opera Bond on steroids.
QoS is a marxist manifesto.
SF is all about mommy, mommy, mommy.
OK I'm done. That felt good!
But.....there may be hope for SP. :)
Oh I agree absolutely, loads to love in TWINE, but this is a negativity thread so let's keep an eye on the positive thinking. ;)
Surely you can do better than that. "QoS is the worst thing to ever happen to cinema!!!" Is the tone we're looking for. One half of @JamesBondRadio wrote a very lengthy screed on QoS that earned him a cease and desist order ;)
Come on - you can be more negative than that, surely!
Denise Richards proved she cannot act and that having a nuclear scientist be merely eye candy and near bimbo level dragged down an already choppy and melodramatic script. If she had been cast working in a skimpy outfit in Valentin's caviar factory, then that would have been at least appropriate. But not a main Bond girl. One of the worst.
I can do it!
I'd rather watch QoS than any of the Moore, Dalton and Broz films.
Bond founders around all macho in it like some Duracell bunny always on the go but is embarrassingly useless in any effectiveness in the delivery of his duties and badly fails in the key task of protecting M.
This is the first ever incident in the series, reboot or not, of this level of professional incompetence unless you're counting Tracy or Vesper which are personal failures.
This is the guy that on other days saves the whole world from meltdown countless times without breaking a single fingernail ffs!!
The supporting key players in MI6 were having a bad day at the office too and should all be put on suspension pending an enquiry into how the head of a key government security and protection agency can be permitted to die in a chapel in the back of beyond in Scotland with only one guy to protect them where there are legions of trusted personnel in the armed forces etc who wouldn't be remotely sympathetic to Silva.
Even in his ineptitude Jonny English (never watched it I may add but know the character) manages to bumble the right end results but in SF Bond doesn't. He's a washout.
Diabolical.
Grace Jones, the Tarzan yell, the continuity problem from YOLT and OHMSS, the CGI surfing sequence from DAD...they all pale before the wrecking ball performance of Marc Forster.
I was soooooooo expecting a tremendous follow-up after CR and what have I got?
Shaky camera and roller-derby like editing. How can anyone enjoy a movie when you can't make heads or tails of any action sequences? Simply put, had SF been directed by Forster, I think I woudn't be here.
PLEASE MARC FORSTER, STAY AWAY FROM BOND.
I think you're correct here. If I'm not mistaken, MGM head honchos had EON over a barrel with casting and other decisions during this time as they were all on the verge of financial collapse. Only once Sony came into the picture and new funding was secured, could a new direction/path be forged with CR.