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If not all of them. He didn't have the levity needed for GE in my opinion.
And most of the Moore films, a few of the Connery's too.
That's what I think should happen with the next Bond, and think Aidan Turner would be great for it. :D
I could very much go with that.
I'm not so sure if it was so much the case with all Moore films. He had more depth than Brosnan. Dalton tried to bring character but I always thought it didn't quite work. GE was a celebration of Bond, Dalton would not have fit in it. And audiences would have been exasperated.
Michael France's first draft of GE, which was written specifically for Dalton, is a very different beast, and it's unfair to consider Dalton's place in the final product without considering the original screenplay.
If the new regime at MGM/UA had not stepped in to override EON's work with France and Dalton had agreed to at least one more film, GE would have looked much different. I have issues with France's script -- there are way too many action sequences, for one -- but it's tougher and clearly geared to Dalton's strengths as an actor.
To be honest, I could have done without the "celebration of Bond" aspects of the film, which I think come off as labored and self-conscious. I like Bond lean and mean.
Oh God, it was horrifying. Self did an very good job of mimicking Fleming's style but the plot was nothing but an excuse to endlessly degrade Bond:
As for Dalton and Moore in combat, I think folks are a little over-lenient toward the late Sir Roger, whose fights were slow and uncreative when not juiced by extensive cutting. Unlike Connery or Lazenby, Moore was not a physically memorable actor and didn't have a distinctive way of moving. Though Dalton never got a chance to shine in a punch-up, as an man of action he was immensely convincing scrambling on the top of the jeep in TLD, hanging from the plane, or scrambling over the trucks in LTK--imagine Moore in those scenes and you'd get lots of stuntmen with a few star closeups.
Nah.
I couldn't have put it better. Moore might have had more fights, across any two of his films, but Dalton was more convincing in the action sequences (Dalton didn't need a double just to throw a punch, for starters).
1. He looked like a normal but capable guy in the action scenes. What some may perceive as "frustratingly weak," I see as realistic (and more faithful to the character from the novels).
2. He did most of his own stunts.
Thanks, @Revelator - I knew you'd know! Well, that confirms my long-held feeling (based on Tough, Tough Toys For Tough, Tough Boys, the only one of his I've read) that although Self is a very good writer, I don't like his style and probably wouldn't like him as a person either.
If that doesn't count as a win, nothing does.
The netting that was flapping around. Under the circumstances, letting go of Bonds boot, and grabbing the net might be easier said than done.
Did he ever have a traditional one on one fight during his tenure? I can't recall any. The best fight in TLD is the one between Necros and that MI6 agent in the kitchen at the safe house.
Even as late as Octopussy some of Moore's fighting against the villains with the spinney wheel thingy looked good, whereas every fight in AVTAK was weak and hopelessly lacklustre.
I agree Moore was surprisingly fluid and convincing in one or two earlier fights.
Dalton was ok in the action scenes IMO, and at the time it was good to see Bond getting roughed up again. Doing some of the stunts lent some much needed credibility to the big sequences.
I still think Brosnan was a better fit in GE though.
Well I picked that fight as it was Dalton's best fight, and one of the best in the series (though my personal favourite fight is the Hotel Room fight from OHMSS). Dalton didn't really get that many fights, most of them were scuffles or grapples. Shame really, as giving what his Bond was like, more tactical, I would have liked to have seen him get into more fights, and bring that tactical nature into them.
There are long swaths without Bond, though. Severnaya, for one.
I'd say the most Bond-centric movie is OHMSS. I think they only cut away from Bond a few times.
But even OHMSS does not celebrate the icon Bond as much or has every other character seemingly so obsessed with him. In GE even a Russian mobster has a history with him!