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I agree completely. The topic is "What's each 007 actor's worst line?" not "What are ten horrible Moore lines?" nor "What are ten horrible Brosnan lines?" nor "Why can't everyone else see that [insert name of Bond actor] is the best?"
Can we get the above post to be post of the year? I agree 100%! It does aggrivate me when so many threads veer off topic and fall into the old Brosnan bashing related to is movies post GoldenEye (and even some members rant about GE), or maybe about how they don't like Craig as the new 007, or maybe how Moore is too comical, and even how all Bond movies need to be more in line with Fleming. I for one enjoy every single Bond movie, actor, location, villain, whatever it may be. The fact is that everyone ranks one above the other, but that doesn't crush the other with hatred. It blows my mind how people can be so selective with the Bond movies.
Man, that last line needs to be inserted into the Bond Hall of Fame! =D> The Crease knows what's up! There may never be a more true statement in all of 007 history! I watch the movies by that very principle. When a cheesy scene comes along like Jaws and Dolly or Bond's invisible Vanquish, or some lovey-dovey junk in OHMSS, I just realize that even it has a place in the cannon, and while it may not be for my taste, I can move on and get to the better parts that I enjoy.
Thanks, brother. I really appreciate it.
But, I'm taking this off topic, too, so I don't want to turn into a hypocrite. Let's keep it to the thread topic, and I'll be sure to think of some soon.
I would be great if the last movie you watched was The Omen or something
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and not sure about others, but I usually elaborate on why Dalton is a personal favorite, why I take issue sometimes with others etc, it's all differences of opinion at the end of the day with no real harm done
Not a problem my man!
Haha, I love those lines. Brosnan had loads of great puns IMO. What about "Especially when you are bad" in DAD. Great line, I always laugh at it a great deal.
'One of us smells like a tart's handkerchief' is a great line
As is 'Royal beluga, north of the Caspian'
Good try though
Also in Dr. No is it me, or does Connery deliver some of his lines pretty quickly?
I always liked Brosnan's delivery of that. Showed a bit of confidence in the face of adversary, a lot like Connery did.
Some of Connery's lines in Dr.No were delivered a bit eagerly but I think the man was yet to be fully comfortable in the role.
I always hated Brosnan's delivery of that line...to me he seemed to be playing Remington Steele in that scene, not Bond. While I have a new appreciation for Brosnan's performance in GE (it lacked the smug smarm that IMHO marred his later performances) that scene seems very amateur to me. But that line delivery was the nadir.
For Connery I have a bit of an odd choice - it's a line delivery that you can't hear. When he tells Kerim Bey's son that he has been killed it comes off as a little melodramatic; over-acted is the best way to describe it. When I was a young Connery hero-worshipper it was hard to think of him being less than great in his performances but that scene always pulls me out of FRWL a bit now. If I have to choose a verbal line then it would have to be the bit where he looks at Tania's picture and says that the girl would have to be "mental". I can't recall the exact line but I recall that his reading of it seemed a little...fey or even "precious". Which is a pretty odd thing to say about Connery!
For Lazenby it's a no brainer: "Hmm, that's quite an inducement." to Draco's offer of a "dowry" or more accurately, bribe. It's so flat and wooden that I assume it must have been one of the first scenes that they shot.
I've not seen all of Moore's films but there are several lines that come off as cheesy to me. But that was the style they aimed for so the lines were delivered as they were intended. I think what qualifies as a bad line reading would be when he threatens Rosie Carver in LALD - I recall an interview with Tom Mankiewicz (?) who noted that Connery could threaten a female character and he would come off as bad-ass or a bit of a "bad boy" but when Moore tried to do it he just looked "nasty".
Dalton's lines were often delivered a little too theatrically but again, that was the style he was aiming for. I don't know if it would count as a line but he has a very fake sounding chuckle in LTK that surfaces a few times, such as when he back's Pam's butt into the horn button of the boat when they run out of gas. It's one of those scenes that I can't believe they didn't re-dub it, it sounded so bad.
For Craig I thought that "She's seasick" in QoS was delivered in that brusque way intentionally, much like the way that Dalton tossed his first "Bond, James Bond" aside in TLD. For him I think that the "Skewered - one sympathizes." line was delivered in a bit of a rush and mumble in CR. In fact, I had to look up the line after the fact to see what it was (the first two times I saw the film I thought he said "Skewered - unsypmathizers!" which made no sense to me.
Lazenby: This never happened to the other fellow.
Moore: (To Blofeld-like character) All right, keep your hair on! (FYEO) 3:-O
Brosnan: You burned me, and now you want my help? (DAD - could put the entire script in here) :-q
Craig: We're teachers on sabbatical and we've just won the lottery (QoS)
(after seeing Heller impaled on the forklift) "Looks like he came to a dead end, COMMON!"
Ok:
1. Why would you say something like that under those circumances? (talk about a line being forced in)
2. Dalton couldn't have been more unconvincing if he tried.
Funnily enough everytime I watch that scene I always smile at that line. IMO Craig does it well. I think he's funnier in many ways in CR.
Craig's worst line? Hmm...The "it's time to get out" line always falls a bit flat for me. Also, upon watching CR again the other day something didn't seem right about the "if you were just born...wouldn't you be naked?" line
Actually, there's a line Craig says in the Ocean club at the bar just after he's seen Solage kissing Domitrios/him being rude to her. He looks over at two men sitting next to him before saying it. I've never been able to tell what it was.
I see what you mean (kind of) about the Remmington Steele-esque way of the "no...chit chat" line in GE. However having not seen a full episode of RS it doesn't really bother me that much. I quite like it actually. Bond's just being cocky under hard circumstances. It suits Brozza's light comedic style quite well IMO
I would strongly disagree with that. Tempo, inflection, which words are stressed - these all play a part in whether a line is delivered well or not. If you're just going in terms of voice then Brosnan would never have delivered a good line because his voice was, to quote an acting teacher, "thin and reedy". Yet he delivered some lines exceptionally well. The flip side is that Lazenby, who had some really well-done scenes in OHMSS also delivered a few lines in a flat monotone which robbed the lines of their coolness - or even worse, their intended meaning!
A good actor can invoke tremendous meaning with a single word when it's delivered well - Craig's way of saying "No." when M says that personal feelings don't seem to be a problem for him (when overlooking Solange's body in CR) is a fantastic example of this. And no matter how great an actor's voice is, even a brilliantly written line will sound bad if delivered without conviction or the proper manner - something that both Connery (my fave) and Lazenby were guilty of.
Connery - 'Worse than listening to the beatles without ear muffs' or 'I was just walking my pet rat and seemed to have lost my way'
Moore - 'What's for dinner, whiskas?' or 'having trouble keeping it up Q' or 'Just keeping the British end up Sir'
Dalton - 'Plenty of time for someone to make a (what was it), 'strawberry trifle' out of him' or 'whoever it was must have scared the living daylights out of them'
Brosnan - 'You meant nothing to me, one last screw' or 'Its time...for...a media break'
Craig - 'Ow' or 'every penny of it' or 'you want me to be half hit man and half monk' or 'you know what I can do with my little finger'
(of course there aren't the (absolute) worst of each Bond, but some decent examples of each respective actor I thought)
As much as I love Craig and CR, that line makes me cringe every time.
If you are talking about the moment he leaves to walk over to the poker table, those two guys behind him are the Germans whose care he wrecked earlier, so they look at him a bit angry/suprised, and then he says 'Guttenavond' (or however you spell it) which means 'good evening' in German
Gute Nacht is more Good Night, where Guten Abend is more an evening expression, literally, 'good evening'
Point being, I know the scene in CR, and until now I never understood what Craig was muttering about, he says a few indistinct words and walks off, this is a bit of a help, and how did Bond know the two guys were even german, did they mention this at any point, they could of been Danish or Austrian or practically anywhere from such a vicinity, but I think we'll let it lie
Also when Craig has White in the trunk of his car at the start of QOS - 'It's time to get out now', maybe something didn't feel right about it
I will always insist the very worst I can remember was with Green and all the 'little finger' talk, maybe it just sounded silly, also someone mentioned the 'wouldn't you be naked' line, also, Yes, I think we can include that
Hard Bond....Silly lines......