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Hmm perhaps - he is a bit puney in parts of GE - but like I said he did have a few moments. I think the Yaucht Mountacore fight was one of his best. It was quick but well staged and, in that scene, Brosnan looked believable to me.
The fight with Trevelyan at the climax of GE was a more intense fight than anything Moore ever had.
as much as i love the Die Hard reference... i must disagree with you on all counts...
the attempt was made to make Brosnan's Bond with more emotional depth, and to also explore parts of his personality yet explored in the series - to try and make his portrayal a little more 3 dimensional and human.... again, i stress, the attempt was made....
His Bond comes off more as someone imitating Bond, than it does someone making the role their own... say what you will, but I never felt like he made the role his own - not in the way that Connery, Moore, Dalton or Craig have... IMO, Brosnan was at best an amalgamation of so many different qualities from the previous actors that he failed to have his own unique identity.... his only really good Bond movie was Goldeneye, and that wasn't even written with him in mind - rather Dalton..
one of the failures in Brosnan's tenure was when they'd give him moments of tenderness and vulnerability, it usually gets undercut but the very next scene - ie: his sorrow over Paris' death in TND, and his cold execution of Dr Kaufman as a result... the very next scene he's laughing it up while driving around the parking garage... not exactly a smooth or realistic transition..
>:P
lol.. i personally have nothing against Brosnan, nor his Bond movies - i enjoy them.... well - at least 3 of them ;) .... i just never found his Bond very "deep" .... they tried, but it just didn't work with his Bond IMO - his best Bond performance for me is still in TWINE, but the movie itself was a bit of "meh"..
I disagree.
Fantastic insight!
"As bad as they are" maybe puts it a bit too drastic, but I agree with the rest.
At least Craig understands Bond too!
As for Brosnan, despite all the criticism, and some may be right so, I really like him.
I think he is very far from Flemings Bond, but just as with many of the Moore Bonds, I still enjoy it very much.
Brosnan was a great "Movie Bond", who had his share of fine moments. Even DAD, as much as most us hate it, has fantastic Bond moments.
As for human qualities, I think there were actually a lot in Brosnans Bond. The pace was sometimes off, I agree. But I think the general theme worked throughout the movie, most of the time at least.
The one word I would use for Brosnan's Bond performance is "inconsistent".
Someone already kinda said that, he had to switch a lot. In one scene he had too look vulnerable, next scene he is the laughing action-star. That however comes very much back to the direction and the script.
Brosnan is by far not my favourite Bond actor, even though he introduced me to Bond and I will forever be grateful with that. But I still enjoy his movies. But since I am working my way through the Blue Rays til Skyfall, I will soon have an up-to-date opinion of his movies.
I mean, hell- the same could be said about freaking Captain America in WWII to some degree
Bond doesn't go around killing people for no reason!
He's never referred to as a "meglomanic" or a "psychopath" like a few of his enemies are. Grant for instince for meant to be the polar opposite to Bond. Tall, blonde, muscley, no vices and borderline mad. Bond certainly wasn't mad.
:)) Does seem that way...
Bond is of course a killer (ie licence to kill) but no way is he bad like the bad guys. A muderer? Seriously?
Seriously. He did murder Professor Dent in cold blood. Instead of killing Dent after the latter had spent his bullets, he could have tranquilized the SPECTRE agent, have the authorities remove any cyanide pills before interrogation. Instead, Bond behaved in a vindictive and unprofessional manner and murdered Dent.
There is also the case of Mollaka in "CASINO ROYALE". Instead of waiting outside of the embassy for the bomb maker (who had a job in Miami), Bond barged into the embassy, grabbed Mollaka and dragged him outside. Then he killed Mollaka, caused an explosion, took the bomb maker's backpack and left - and caused a major international incident at the same time. No wonder M was pissed.