It looks like you're new here. If you want to get involved, click one of these buttons!
^ Back to Top
The MI6 Community is unofficial and in no way associated or linked with EON Productions, MGM, Sony Pictures, Activision or Ian Fleming Publications. Any views expressed on this website are of the individual members and do not necessarily reflect those of the Community owners. Any video or images displayed in topics on MI6 Community are embedded by users from third party sites and as such MI6 Community and its owners take no responsibility for this material.
James Bond News • James Bond Articles • James Bond Magazine
Comments
I have no consience. I am the Terminator.
The truth? Ah, you are talking about the conspiracy on the Craig vs Dalton thread, I'm thinking of ways to stop that ;)
Anyway, I found out that I could vote again so I voted for Brosnan.
So it is hard for me to say to choose between these two. I like Craig as Bond very much - gritty, sexy, believable - but it's only been 2 films. I am going to respectfully request that I vote a tie (so my vote does not count) - but that is the only fair way I can state my current feelings about them as Bond. Really looking forward to Skyfall!
Brosnan looked like Bond.
Brosnan all the way!
*Please note, this post was brought to you by the Not-Shallow-Society. "We, at the NSS, don't believe in shallowness, superficiality or any other long type words, but we eagerly await the day Mr Craig retires from the role so he can have more casual sex with his lovely wife and we won't have to look at his mug on the big screen."
:P
He certainly has a few Robert Shaw vibes going and he'd definitely nail the punching, but I doubt that Brosnan could be game for such a fight.
In a fight, perhaps Craig would have won, but Brosnan could have unleashed so many quips that Craig (Grant) decides to commit suicide. Thus Brosnan would win.
He was a mix of Connery and Moore, so what? Craig to me is a mix of Connery and Dalton (even the producer said he was similar to Connery), but he's still a good James Bond. I'm tired of people bashing Brosnan with arguments that don't even work.
I don't think Pierce was a mix of Sean and Roger at all. Definitely not Sean, because if he was I'd at least like much more.
I can see bits of Connery in him in some scenes.
Brosnan had lofty ideas for Bond and how he's like to develop the character but he's just not a good enough actor to make it work so he reverted to a mixture of Moore and Connery and when I say Connery I mean like a schoolboy not like the subtle way that Craig has wove some SC's feel into his performance.
plus, i also prefer Craig's dry delivery of quips rather than the softball puns lofted up by Brosnan.
That could be the version of FRWL where Red Grant actually kills Bond.
There is no way in living hell that Brosnan could beat Craig in a fight.
He'd end up a squidgy blob on the floor of the carriage.
The strongest doesn't always win.
Check the IP's - you'll see a world-wide fanbase for Brosnan
Ah yes, to quote Mr. White in QoS, "We have people everywhere."
The problem with Brosnan for me is that he never established his own character and style for the role (I know some will disagree here). I thought in GE that he was at his best because I think he just jumped in the role and did his thing. I still don't think he grabbed the role and made it his own in GE but at least it was not as forced like in later movies (though there are moments). After GE Brosnan was trying to hard to be all Bond's and he came off bland. I couldn't connect with his character, he was just there playing the role of Bond.
Personally I think it comes down to acting skills or the application of, and where Brosnan struggled to find his own Bond, Craig has flourished in the role and created a Bond with substance, character (like it or hate it) and emotion (completely lacking with Brosnan). He's not just some robot that does his job... Any moments that Brosnan did have that were meant to be "with emotion", were never convincing or sincere to me. Again, this is down to either acting skills or down to the fact that Brosnan just had the wrong idea of the character. He was much better in Thomas Crown and Tailor of Panama... so I guess he had the potential to some extent, he just didn't apply it right to Bond.
Whats interesting though is that people that generally like Moore like Brosnan and people that favoured Connery or Dalton like Craig... I'm sure I'm wrong here with some but that's just what I seem to notice.
Mod edit: please use the edit button and avoid double posts.
Ehh....sadly so. :((
I think both get their own interpretation and a enough films to become Bond for the most oft the people.
Later i discovered Lazenby and Dalton but they really do not make it into my mind as James Bond.
And that is the same with Brosnan, i thought he would be cool but i don´t see him as bond, also after four films.
I´ve seen Craig now in two films, one good one not so but last time sb mentioned "Bond" i was surprised thinking of him!!! I think he is doing a very good job.
Btw, my mother got a new pin for her credit card and was very angry on the phone telling me what a bad number she got and that it is hard for her to memorize.
I ask her what number it is and she told me 0076.
I had a lough because...what a great number to get into your brain.
So i told her to think of bond having sex (in germany the number 6 is pronounced like sex) with one of his girls.
She liked this and every time now my mom gets money she is thinking about bond...
Asking her of which bond she is thinking she answered immediately...Moore, of course;))
Then again Grant was MEANT to be much bigger than Bond originally. If I remember correctly Bond knew he wouldn't have stood a chance against Grant in hand-to-hand combat so had to resort to dirty (and implausable) tactics.