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No, I have to have them all.
I think this is a good way to determine whether you prefer one Bond movie to another, strictly by if you can make it through the average 2 hour run-time AND enjoy it while watching. This is what makes me put movies like Dr. No, Goldfinger, You Only Live Twice, On Her Majesty's Secret Service, and Die Another Day towards the bottom.
Tarnish the franchise? I really can't agree here, if anything, Brosnan is the one who SAVED the series from the long 6 year gap and made the 007 series relevant again since the end of the Cold War and the start of the new century and millenium. His movies introduced a whole new group of people to the Bond world, inlcuding myself. Such movies like GoldenEye, Tomorrow Never Dies, and The World is not Enough are stone-cold Bond classics.
Glad you like them 00Beast. I wish I did too. :) Obviously no films can be dropped as every one has different ideas as to what makes a good Bond film but if I was the only person in the world, I'd drop the Brosnan ones and maybe QOS.
Dropping the Brosnan movies is not even on my radar. I could drop other actors movies so that Brosnan could have made at least 6 or 7.
He may have kept the franchise going but they were poor quality stuff.
Pity to see you don't like Brosnan :/
I have no problems with him as a person and his Bond is pretty unmemorable but his films IMO got progressively worse.
Yeah unfortunately i need to agree a bit. But these movies don't lose it's magic anyway, still very great movies.
Craig in drag... that's the one where I felt a cosmically scaled war was immanent.
I completely agree! Though at the time (GE, TND & TWINE era) I didn't think so. It wasn't until DAD and the reboot with DC that I realized how campy most of the Brosnan movies are and how bad of a Bond actor he is. Even his first "Bond, James Bond" in the casino is forced and so unnatural that I cover my face in embarrassment when it's on. Why he never played the role like the style of Thomas Crown or Tailor of Panama is beyond me.... Had he done that and some better scripts were written who knows how much better the movies may have been!
Having said that, every Bond movie has moments I enjoy (even DAD) and though I'm not a fan of the Brosnan era I have to agree with some that he got the Bond wheels moving again. I wouldn't say he "saved" the franchise but he elevated it (strictly in terms of popularity and box office returns) to a consistent level that the movies had not been at since the early 80's. However, we now have an actor and a production team that is delivering substance and getting its returns so we're living in good times (in Bond history)... lets hope it continues.
To answer the post.... if I had a gun to my head (and this list changes every time I watch the movies again) I'd choose: DAF, MR, AVTAK and DAD.
Yes, I like the PTS in GE and TND and Arnold's cue "White Knight" that accompanies the PTS in the latter. I like the scene between Paris and Bond in his hotel room in TND even though Brosnan over acted during the part when he was standing facing Hatcher. There were a few scenes prior to Bond meeting Q in DAD that I found relatively enjoyable too. I'd still drop the Brosnan films though as for the most part they are bad films in my opinion and I think with another actor and better dialogue we could have had four much better Bond movies.
These are the ones I quite literally have left out in as much as I don't have them in my DVD collection because, quite frankly, I think they're all crap.
Licence To Kill is as bad as Brosnan's films?
And I would definsitely keep all of Brosnan's. I love his Bond - and there are a few (granted a few, not many) good scenes even in DAD. GE and TND are my fav of his films.
I like your points; well put.
No trouble, @Bounine! And I do agree that none really can be dropped, because something will be lacking from the franchise and someone will be upset about a favorite Bond movie missing from their collection.