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Ok i guess here comes a controversial confession instead of an opinion
I haven't read the books i only know abiut what Fleming wanted fir Bond and everything related to fleming thanks to shat ive read from the fans and a bitt of googling so I can't tell you if you are right or wrong of The Books having just one woman.
But yes dalton was more of a traditional old school Romantic guy and yes maybe thats what makes him different and made a lot of sense he had only one Bond girl for film because thats how Dalton seems to be.
And 80s aids or not i Think it was better for Dalton he didn't get many girls since he is not that way. i bet he can a make girl love him and he will fall for her again but he is not that naughy boy the other Bond actors were
He actually seemed most comfortable in QoS to me, when he was hiding from mother (sorry, I meant M) and not doing anything with Camille.
Yes, I agree. Dalton was not a believable playboy.
Dalton was cast. In LTK his close friend and ally, Felix, was maimed and his wife killed. This brought back memories of Tracys murder, and it blinded him into murderous revenge, of course he was dour. I think LTK had one of the best storys in the series ,with a brilliant villain in Robert Davi, who played against Daltons Bond beautifully.
Dalton purposefully went back to the novels to try and get a grasp of Flemings 007. Fleming wasn't always clearly descriptive of Bond, but I salute and admire Dalton for trying (and succeeding) to put his own stamp on the role and show us the real James Bond, Flemings Bond! That's why I think he is the best and my own favourite. Craig runs him close, but I will always stick by Dalton
The only actor in the cast who could really work a character driven drama was Dalton. Okay, maybe not but the rest is overall more lightweight in that department. There is the potential to make Lupe Lamore a great vulnerable Bond girl, but Talisa Soto while beautiful does not exactly have the acting skills to do anything else than look pretty. Robert Davi is menacing as Sanchez... But he's a rather stereotypical drug lord, he is fine as an action movie villain (if a bit commonplace in the 80s, which did not help either), but does not really belong to a a character driven drama. The revenge aspect is pretty much a given motivation and is never truly explored. And the friendship with Felix Leiter, who was at this time barely a name on interchangeable faces, does not really convey the revenge motivation.
And I don't dislike LTK, it has moved up in my liking since I first saw it (I hated it then), but I think it is not what many of its fans think it is. I suspect John Glen did not care much about developing the drama and wanted to make a good action movie with a plausible plot.
I think you might have hit upon the key difference between TLD and LTK. The ensemble acting just isn't as good - and that's including Dalton who is far too theatrical.
Maryam d'Abo, John Rhys Davies,Thomas Wheatley and Andreas Wisniewiski are just much better to watch than Carey Lowell, David Hedison, Talis Soto (sooo bad), Priscilla Barnes, Everet McGill and Don Stroud.
The exception I suppose is the villains as Koskov and Whitaker are weak and although I do like Krabbe's performance Davi is far better. Also such a shame Del Toro gets such a criminally short amount of screen time that he can't be considered anywhere near one of the great henchman.
Although this is not restricted to the acting. The cinnematography, locations and tone all just feel a bit off.
I think TLD possibly succeeds better because it drops Dalton's Bond into the traditional Bond universe (a hangover of the Rog era) whereas LTK changes the universe to suit his Bond and in doing that loses something and ends up a bit flat.
I'm all for having Fleming's Bond up on screen but he needs to remain grounded in Fleming's heightened universe. LTK loses sight of this for me and hence just doesn't quite feel like a proper Bond film.
Jerome Krabbe is an excellent actor and could have potentially been a great villain, but he was let down by a poorly written character. Everything is good in TLD except the villains. Okay, so the henchman is good, but he is still a copy of Grant.
That scene with Camile was funny. I loved how she said your mother? And he replied she'd like to think so.
But i did buy Craig as a womanizer ladies man.
Spectre changed everything for me regards to Daniel Craig. I used to think he is a great as a Blunt instrument assasian but he he is not the Classic Bond of the previous films but Spectre made me change my mind and see in a much different way his Bond his previous films.
Its like Spectre introduced me to whole different Craig.
I wouldn't mind a change of actor but i think it would be great if Craig can do one more in that more light hearted approach. It would make a lot of sense to get one more film with him as the classic Bond since his 4 films have been the development of that Bond with Skyfall snd Spectre getting the clossest to it.
Just one more film with a Mission by the numbers would be fantastic.
The perfect close to his tenure and latter let the next actor to follow him in that vain.
Yes!
If another Craig film happens (and I'm skeptical that it will), it won't be a mission by the numbers, I think it'll almost certainly be a continuation of the SP story. And honestly I wouldn't like a mission by the numbers film with Craig at this point, it'd just feel like a jarring end to his era after watching his Bond develop and that storyline come to its natural conclusion in SP imo.
Anyway, my controversial opinion is that You Know My Name should have played over Spectre's credits. The standard Bond theme playing over the credits is pretty played out at this point imo and playing You Know My Name, which unlike most Bond themes was actually relevant to the narrative, the themes of the film and also Bond's character, would have been a nice way to bring things full circle I think.
I'm afraid I can't hear you @TheWizardOfIce over Eric Serra's excellent 'A Pleasant Drive in St. Petersburg'.
Agree. Brosnan is better at comedy and lightness than drama, at least in the Bond films.
Controversial: GE established the pastiche that really sank his last three films and the homages/callbacks that still plague the series.
Indeed. Imagine how much better it could've been with literally anything else playing over it. Even back in 1974, I felt awed at the stunt and cringed at the sound effect at the same time. Sort of like the Tarzan yell of OP, it was never really funny even for its time so I'm not sure why they put it in.
I applaud your thread-appropriate post. :D
...all belong to the Bond franchise and add to the overall image of Bond, as the cinematic Bond also, always has been about various forms of humour.
I totally agree :-)
Perhaps, but the CGI tsunami from DAD I can probably do without...
I think it is a massive cheat (five minutes of suspense that go nowhere and has no pay-off) and technically speaking, an in-universe waste of time given that he cracked one in a few minutes in YOLT.
Well its something i can turn a blind eye on, its a small flaw in a very entretatining Bond flick. Just like Christmas Jones in the world is not enough
Probably not controversial. It's definitely a moment in the film where it drags. However, Barry's music is very suspenseful here
Don't worry about it, even the most perfect film has its flaws if start nip ticking. I ususally dont do it much and enjoy almost every film for what it is Bond or not Bond.
But im even nicer with Bond flicks.
I wouldn't say it drags and it's a sequence I really enjoy but it takes up quite a lot of screen time and only moves the story forward slightly. I can see how it was cut out of some versions for TV to keep the running time down as the general public really aren't going to miss it.
One of the best scenes in any Bond movie and very authentic as they were really in Berne with the main government building in the background