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Dalton and Brosnan are my favourite Bond actors. Very different Bonds but both were brilliant in the role.
I will confess that his films were/are kind of cheesey. I think even Brosnan himself has expressed disatisfaction with his entries. One does get the feeling that, with Dalton and Craig, the production team did try a bit harder to make a meaty product. Things started well with GE but aftr that they became...average.
And to this I say to you, Amen.
Brosnan has aged really well. I think it's a toss up between Brosnan and Connery when it comes to who's the perfect Bond visually.
Tbh I don't really picture any of the actors regularly when reading the books (I think I've kind of formed a different image in my head) but the one I know I picture least is Moore.
When I think of Moore I'm reminded of Monty Python:
Now for something completely different...
There will be no dissing of Rog. Not on my watch! ;-)
I like Rog as Bond and he's currently 3rd in my rankings behind Connery and Craig. He was comfident, funny and could carry off the serious moments when he wanted to. But I will confess that a lot of the time he seemed to be playing an extended version of himself rather than James Bond.
That is what I think too, or rather it is somewhat forgotten. I don't see it as overrated, even among the fans of Moore.
If Someone in my family or a friend wants to watch a bond film even on i am not fond of (Diamonds are forever Die another day etc) I would still watch it.. why beacause it's still a Bond movie :D
I don't think that's controversial in the slightest actually.
If by "very" you mean "not at all," then yes.
Nahh, the prods love Craig, they'll want to try and get someone with a similar demeanour a la Lazenby after Connery.
Can you elaborate on that?
Another view which suddenly occurred to me after seeing a bit of GE last night:
Trevelyan could have been a better villain. As much as I like him I realised he doesn't really do that much in the film. He shows up, "dies", reappears, makes a few speeches to Bond, barks orders at henchmen then is killed in the climax.
I think the name "Janus" is quite cool - especially given its Roman origins.
I've heard it used a couple of times elsewhere and it's always reminded me of GE.
I actually agree with this. I love Sean Bean as an actor and he was a capable villain, but I always thought Trevelyan was lacking as a character. He is too young for his background, for one, and in a role of leadership it would have fitted more had he been older.
I thought Janus could have been the recurring villain, but in a different way: have Trevelyan the commander in the field so to speak for GE, who told them everything he knew about the 00 section, so they are a worthy adversary, have some former KGB as the head of Janus and mentor of Trevelyan (it still works, two heads, like Janus, one body, i.e. the organisation). TND would have been the standalone, then in TWINE which features Zukovsky and terrorism and the East it would have made sense to be a sort of follow up to GE, with a revamped Renard the new field commander, then a much revamped and better DAD (including a different title) with the head of Janus played by an experienced thespian actor to end Brosnan's era with a bang. A recurring menace is one of the big, big, BIG missed opportunity of Brosnan's tenure.
I'd never really thought about it before until last night. I like some of his scenes (the statue park scene especially is excellent) but Trevelyan is all talk and little action. Despite having a personal connection to Bond you get the sense Bond has faced more challenging, despicable villains both before and since.
Sanchez for example brutally murders his mistresses lover, mames Felix and kills Krest. Heck even Carver arranges for the death of his own wife and personally shoots one of his henchman. Trevelyan just spends most of the time mocking Bond (admittedly with some good lines of dialogue), but doesn't really succeed beyond that in doing anything particularly villanous.
He does get a great death though and physically he's a match, if not superior, to Bond.
Also, on another note I thought Brosnan's performance in GE was good. Not his best but decent. That's probably another controversial view.
Nothing wrong with DAD's title. It's snappy, memorable, Bondanian and it made sense in the context of the film.
I think the Bonds that most need title changes are TND (should've been Tommorow Never Lies) and Quantum Of Solace (should've been Property Of A Lady).
Die Another Day is a bit generic, but I agree Tomorrow Never Dies is worse. Were there any other proposed titles that weren't variants on the "Tomorrow Never X-es" theme?