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Congratulations! However, I think something "appallingly stupid," based off of the motorcycle-to-airplane transfer stunt, in your own words, could be found in all of the Brosnan PTS's:
TND - Bond facing around 100 men armed to the teeth in a missiles arms bazaar, and succeeding. Surely, someone would have bested him.
TWINE - Bond's weight < the force that table leg could sustain. The curtain cord would have ripped and dropped Bond to his (possible) death before that entire leg would have ripped off.
DAD - How did the diamonds not harm Bond? And how did he grab the bell and fly up without hitting the rest of the hovercraft?
The stunt is insane in GE, but it's so entertaining to watch. You know it isn't possible, just like almost every situation Bond manages to overcome, but that's why they're great to watch.
uhhh... :P
Laws are made to be broken.
Okay, maybe not that much, though. :O
No, because it's a 90's action movie. The only explanation.
After hearing Chris' explanation, maybe I am a little with the TND one. I'm always OK with
someone presenting a POV I hadn't considered, I'm not a communist after all.
What separates Brosnan's flying bullets from others is in the way the scene is presented. The bad guys always seem to look especially incompetent in their aim compared to the other examples you've presented, and I can more rationally defend those.
This is my biggest beef and exactly where my mental midget statement comes from. You simply cannot call the GE PTS "great" taking this into consideration, and expect for someone not to challenge the statement as idiocy.
Not nearly the largest transgression in that one IMO.
While I absolutely love the PTS for TWINE - this is merely opinion. In my opinion, my favorite PTS of Brosnan's - and the series - is GE. Sure, the motorcycle-to-airplane transfer doesn't make sense, but there are many things in the Bond universe that make no sense. We should just try to enjoy them for what they are.
Exactly like in The Living Daylights with the plane crashing into the truck and Koskov seemingly still alive didnt make any sense
Once again, the pre credits sequence of both Tomorrow Never Dies and Die Another Day could well be both movies best features. The hovercrafts chase in North Korea is very well done, but after that - and the awful Ciccone song - it's downhill all the way
Never been one for the Goldeneye opening, for any and all reasons previously stated. A fairly insipid Turner song didn't help either. Sheryl Crow had the best theme intro of all the Brosnan releases without question
However KD Lang's song in the end credits was better IMO, and its themes run through TND anyway.
2, TWINE
3. TND
4. DAD
Honestly, I really liked all of Brosnan's pre-title sequences.
It's all good. DAD does have some incredible opening titles.
I almost wrote about the title sequences too.
For the PTS's, eh. They're good, but they sort of feel like generic action? I don't know, I can't seem to criticize them without making some sort of weak complaint. The TWINE PTS was way too long, though, that's for sure.
TWINE is one of the best as well... Admittedly, it goes on too long, but that boat chase was riveting... far better than SP's watered-down counterpart! Cigar girl is great - there's an underappreciated pun here in 'I'm sure they're perfectly rounded' - and so is everything in Bilbao.
The other two PTS's in Brosnan's tenure though... Hmmmmmm...
TND's is basically just mindless action. Mindless action is usually fun action when done right, but this is one of the few parts in TND I can't get that giddy feeling for somehow. It just seems particularly dumb, though I appreciate how Bond's appearance is held off for a while - but for a hypocritical 'filthy habit' gag?
DAD's is even worse in that regard though. It just thinks 'well, we need more, MORE, MORE!' and suffers because of that. Just lots of fire, and guns, and hovercrafts and bullets and no style. Surfing was bizarre as well and goes on too long in a very dreary setting.
So basically, half of them are good, half of them are... not so good...
I think the actor who saw the best overall PTSs is Craig though, he only had one clunker (QOS) out of four movies.
We get it. You hate the Brozza.
Yeah, they are all pretty samey, but they're all really well executed. Thrill rides etc.
Favorite PTS is still GF because it's just perfection.
Absolutely. Therefore I must admit that I have never been a big fan of all the Brosnan PTS. Still the GE PTS is my favourite of his, second is probably TWINE even though it is too long. They probably should have cancled the whole Bilbao part or just used this one in an extended version and made the Thames chase after the title sequnece. Third is probably TND, even though it was very genaric explosive action. And finally it's DAD. I never understood why people liked it so very much.
I'm not really sure how having Bond command a small army during a fight absolves those sequences. I'd say that they are comparatively more boring. The big firefights in YOLT and TSWLM fit the description of lots of 'faceless goons getting killed and lots of explosions' as well as, if not more than most Brosnan era stuff.