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Started BAIN's love for the franchise, I guess.
Ruthless? Brosnan? Nah. After seeing Dan, Tim, AND Dan Pierce is like a rubber ducky in the tub.
My Bond fandom...duh! :p
I don't know about Dalton...sometimes it was good...sometimes it was stagey
"Well...FIND HIM" :)) Ooooh scary. Davi completely out "ruthlessised" Bond in LTK with his laid back persona and soothing voice when he was ordering the most horrific of acts. He was the real star in many ways and the one I'd be (frankly) more scared of.
Having said that Dalt's "make a sound...and you're dead" was good.
Well at least when the rubber ducks tips over in the bath you actually see what happens. And there is no fantasy needed to correct a bad scene and stupid actionscenes.
I meant to toss Sean in there too, but got Dan twice. That's what watching Munich gets me.
Oh, and 2,000 posts! Feels excellent.
You killing me bro! LOL. When I called the two of us "oldsters".
The first one I ever saw was DR NO. It was on a return double bill with GOLDFINGER...
No home video or TNT Bond weeks then. I saw the first five on return engagements.
The first one I saw newly released was OHMSS
That makes me one old M@therf*cker. :))
...And a generation of kids from the 80's and 90's who were introduced to Bond for the first time via GE and the N64 game.
Let's face it Bond would have quite possibly ended quietly after LTK if it weren't for Brosnan's Goldeneye. Sure, it wasn't all Brosnan and perhaps another actor could have pulled it off. But could they? Piece had the "look", and that's all he needed. I've heard the argument that Sean Bean would have been a better Bond. I think Pierce however was more suave. It was all the right factors at the right time.
What did Brosnan start? I would argue the commercial revival of the series!
Yes! But I can't find any good pictures to use for Blu-ray fan covers or posters. :(
Speak for yourself fellow original, you only got 5 years on me and I ain't that old no matter what my kids say! I run circles around them, 14 and 11 and I can still beat both of them in a short sprint even with a head start!
What us "oldster Connery original fans" need is a thread of our own. First, let's see how many of us are out there. Seriously, not a put down of the younger fans who I am grateful for because they keep the series going while we get fewer in number every year, but we can tell them a lot about the original "golden age of Bond" and what things were like then in ways that the UDVD footage doesn't cover.
Who wants to get one going?
What about the scene where
I think the late 80s were the golden age. Imo nobody will ever come close to Dalton. I also really liked the 90s Bond films though.
Duh!! :p (But 1995 and 2006 were pretty grand years for Bond too)
^:)^ ^:)^ ^:)^ Pierce Brosnan Martin Campbell
^:)^ ^:)^ ^:)^ Timothy Dalton, Pierce Brosnan, John Glen, Martin Campbell, and, erm... (I forget who directed TND and TWINE).
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tops the sixties Bonds. They are like seventies Dr Who - utterly perfect.
Anyway I like the 60s, buuuuttt... They didn't have Timothy Dalton or Pierce Brosnan (Sean was awesome though), they didn't have the great cold war thriller that was TLD, they didn't have the dark, gritty tail of Bond on revenge that was LTK, the great story of Bond struggling to fit in post cold war, and his past coming back to haunt him (GE), or the story of how he found himself facing an insane terrorist who can't die while he was tricked by the girl he was meant to be protecting (TWINE).
I love the 60s films, most are in my top 10 (GF and TB are even in my top 5), but I like the 80s, and some of the 90s better.
YOLT wasn't the best film of the 60s but I'd hardly call it a stinker. Donald Pleasence? Ken Adam's awesomeness? Nancy Sinatra, killer pirahna's and Nancy Sinatra?
It's not (IMO) one of the very best but I don't get the hostility it gets now.
The 60s had FRWL, one of the greatest Cold War thrillers ever, made in the heat of the Cold War.
It doesn't stack up to the other films Connery blessed us with. At all.
I've said this before, but I don't think FRWL deserves all the praise it gets. Connery wasn't as good imo as he was in GF/TB. And I think TLD (and maybe even FYEO) were better cold war thrillers.
I think actonsteve sums it up perfectly.
Goldeneye and CR were sparks for the franchise, but certainly not anywhere near a golden age.
Brosnan and Moore had the popularity and box office gross too, so did Dalton for TLD.
Well its definitely more entertaing than Dullmonds are Forever ;)
Not to the level of Connery. Craig is the biggest since Connery. That was the point @SirHenryLeeChaChing made and as he said, you can't argue with that. In fact, Bond may never reach that height again.
Yes, YOLT beats out DAF, but that is from the 70s. We are speaking 60s exclusively.
Having lived through all the eras and been an observer of everything going on, I'd say only the Moore era approached the level of hype and excitement that each new Connery and Craig release has gotten. Not trying to discount your or anyone else's opinion, but while the other eras have had a little of both hype and solid box office, it wasn't sustained at this level.
Say what you will about DAF, that Connery looks fat and bloated, that the plot is confusing in places, that there is too much cartoonish over-the-top comedy. But Diamonds are Forever is anything but dull. The dialogue alone elevates DAF way way beyond dullness and let's not forget John Barry's score.
But I don't mind you or anyone slagging off DAF. Really I don't. (Lord knows the Brosnan fans take quite a beating around her, so I sympathize) :)>- I just found that statement to be inaccurate.