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Accusing people of having a lack of interest because they disagree with you makes you look really intelligent.
Lets disagree on this subject with you.
This is a great point. I would've liked to have moore start with DAF (it was more suited to him anyway and connery just embarassed himself), then retire after moonraker. Then bring in dalton for FYEO, and have him carry on until after goldeneye, then we get brosnan. Also, brosnan gets another film after DAD that still has gadgets and isn't CR, but is more down to earth. He deserved a better final film.
I respect the fact that you enjoy the more campy and comical Bonds more @DaltonCraig but I think the vast majority of critics and fans alike would disagree with that statement. Craig recieved tremendous praise for both performances. Even critics that didn't like QOS said that Craig's awesome performance is one of the film's saving graces. I didn't hear nearly as much in that regard for Brosnan in DAD. To me GE was his worst performance. He got alittle better in TND but didn't improve in eyes again after that.
That might have been a different interview but Im certain with the one I saw the topic of discussion was EON letting him go and how he felt about it. In which he said he was sorry because he was "just getting the hang of it". I would hope that after 4 films he would be more than only just getting the hang of it.
Well here at 7.10 you hear it from the horses mouth ;)
I wasn't calling you a liar. But thanks for showing me this. Im certain I saw another interview. Brosnan looked older, the interview stage was different, and Brosnan said "I was just getting the hang of it" in past tense as opposed to present. Either way its a moot point to me as I thought he came off best in TND before either interview took place. ;)
You're right @DarthDimi. I would've been fine with it but I really enjoyed Roger Moore's darker and more serious take on Bond. I'd hate to have been deprived of that. Like I said Dalton debuting 2 years earlier with AVTAK would have been ideal. Speaking of which could someone post those awesome Dalton AVTAK fan posters? :D
Tamahori must have been VERY convincing.
Anyways, Yes, I've long believed Dalton should have done a little into Moore and ALOT into Brosnan.
http://007art.free.fr/index.php/actors/a-view-to-a-kill-timothy-dalton/
Rog was right to stay on for Octopussy, he carries the whole film, he is of course getting on but the film just works. I wouldn't be against someone else taking over for AVTAK and it may have improved the film, and yes Dalton probably could have fitted in niceley to that one, but once again I have to assume that a suitable replacement wasn't available, I'm sure if they really wanted to replace Rog, they would have!
Im not sure if it was even a matter of a suitable replacement. The Living Daylights was offered to Moore and the first few drafts were even written with him in mind. So who knows how long they would've used him. Personally I think Moore in TLD would've been a huge mistake. He would've been just under 60 and the series needed a change. By AVTAK things were already feeling tired. By TLD it'd would've just been too much. Retiring with Octopussy would've been ideal. 10 years and 6 films is perfect.
I was too young to remember-- but I'm under the impression that they were pretty much asking Rog back on a movie-to-movie basis after TSWLM or maybe MR, but at the same time they were auditioning new guys because they knew they couldn't keep him forever. Publicly available auditions for James Brolin in OP and Sam Neil in TLD back my theory up. This is why I think they did have the script for TLD with Moore in mind, but he finally stepped down before filming started.
LOL I read that when Roger met Tanya Robert's mom and discovered that even she was younger than him, that was the last straw!
Does anyone else think he looks like Henry Cavill??
I very much liked Roger Moore in his films for what they were but he was in his 50's by the time FYEO came out. Connery was too old for NSNA and he was younger than Moore.
Bond has action sequences and you need the actor to be athletic enough to be believable.
Bond has to be young but not too young. In his mid thirties for starting in the role.
I agree that for it's time LTK was violent but if you read Fleming, the violence in the film is milder. But in today's world of cinema, LTK's violence is less shocking but still powerful in the story. And LTK's suggested violence is also disturbing like the valentine gift in the PTS.
But I like Dalton's nasty turn as Bond. Bond is not a nice guy but a vicious animal in LTK in some scenes.
But Bond is a violent character inhabiting a violent world. And the Bond of LTK still belongs in the reality of our times. And LTK holds a special place for me as it is the last film made by Cubby as well as the last gun barrel of Maurice Binder and titles.
As for worst movie, DAD wins that honour. It is a Bond movie for fans of the XXX franchise. It over uses action and tries to do more than it can balance. Bond is a passenger in the story and not the driver as he should be. The initial depth of the movie is thrown out for cheap jokes that are hardly funny or are witty.
And the invisible car was not the worst thing either.