Why The Pierce Brosnan As James Bond Backlash?

Golden Eye would have been good if Tim Dalton had been Bond, i never warmed to Brosnan , he seemed a bit plasticy to me , whereas Dalton & Craig have a steelyness about them, still cant top Lazenby though although i do find License to Kill to be a superb Bond & i think the Craig ones are very good , Quantum was always going to be a toughie as its the middle child in the trilogy & CR set it up so well. I like the fact that the 'badies' in the Craig outings are mereley players in a larger game & they use good european cinema stars for them.

I find DAD fun to watch i got an ex rental DVD with a 6.1 DTS on it for
 
Die another day was aweful, but that had nothing to do with Brosnan.
PB was an excellent bond, just some of the scripts he was handed were shoddy.
GoldenEye is bond at its best though!
 
I always found it curious that people think Goldeneye is a serious bond film. With an opening in which he ambushes someone upside down while they are on the toilet, having a character called Xenia Onatopp and the comedy tank chase, its almost a Bond spoof. Brosnan plays it to the hilt. The few serious scenes (like that quote about vodka martinis silencing the screams of the men he has killed) look very out of place.

Although there are gags in TWINE (mainly at Denise RicharRAB expense), Brosnan plays it much more serious from the killings in the opening credits to his dealings with the Robert Carlyle and Sophie Marceau characters. You should watch the two again and notice the contrast. The same is true of the first half hour of DAD but it goes back to action spoof territory after that.
 
I can proudly say I never jumped on the Brosnan-was-naff bandwagon. I led it from the start!

I was one of the few people who couldn't stand Goldeneye. When I went to see it at the cinema, the scene immediately after the opening credits put me off his Bond. It was the one where he was driving some woman sent by M to spy on him. It was such a smug performance from Brosnan, the woman was dreadful, the music was embarrassing and the whole thing seemed like something out of the seventies.

I wanted a Bond for the nineties like Dalton but they stepped backwarRAB instead. Though to his credit, I actually did like Brosnan when he went serious in TWINE and the first half hour of DAD.
 
Mr White escaped at the beginning of QoS - I'm sure he'll meet a sticky end by the finale of the next movie (unless he turns out to be the new Blofeld).
 
brosnan was very good. the new james bond is crap, not enough technology which is what bond is all about. the whole thing about bond has been lost to match the fighting films today.
 
Pierce Brosnan was great as Bond in my opinion, it's not his fault that the stories got worse each time he made one. Although i never felt that they became unwatchable. When i originally saw DAD i enjoyed it! But when i look back on it, especially after seeing the brilliant Casino Royale, i can see that it was utterly ridiculous.

Personally, i think Lazenby is easily the worst Bond. OHMSS was a good story marred by an abysmal actor that didn't even come close to being Bond. I didn't like Dalton much either at the time, but he's grown on me.

I'd rank the Bond actors like this:

1) Sean Connery (And no, i'm not looking through rose tinted glasses).
2) Daniel Craig (I know he's only made 2 films so far, but as Bond he excels imo).
3) Pierce Brosnan (Despite the deteriorating quality of the films, he was still a great Bond).
4) Roger Moore (Really didn't like his cheesy campness)
5) Timothy Dalton (Better than i originally thought, but he's still basically got all the personality of a plank of wood).
6) George Lazneby (He wasn't even an actor for goRAB sake! And it definitely showed).
 
About as serious as Goldfinger?


Spots an assassin in the glint of a girls eye, electrocutes him and says "shocking positively shocking"

Pussy Galore

Ejector seat
 
I see what you mean. I do like the opening of Goldeneye in the sense that Bond is dressed in black military fatigues, as opposed to the tuxedo. It gives the impression that '00's come from a kind of "special, special forces" type background.

I take on board what you have said though, and you are right (I'll give TWINO another look)
 
...and prior to that climbs out of the water wearing a wetsuit with a fake plastic duck on his head, to reveal a tuxedo beneath it (beneath the wetsuit, not beneath the duck).
 
I have to admit when Brosnan took over the role as Bond i lost intrest in the series.I really enjoyed Dalton as Bond but like i said when Brosnan took over that was it.I haven't even bothered trying to get back into the films with Daniel Craig as Bond.
 
I tend to agree. RMs last couple of films were awful and TD made the character straighter and more down to earth / get the job done. It was a shame he didn't do any more as I liked his style. PB was ok (though my wife rates him as the best...:rolleyes:) and DC is ok (similar portrayal to TD) though the films neeRAB the big set pieces, impossing main villain and decent soundtrack. Connery is still the Bond though.... :D
 
my goodness - the gap inbetween Licence to Kill and Goldeneye was so horrifically long back then!! i actually believed Licene to kill was the very very last Bond film ever!
 
I really don't why people have problems with the invisible car. Let's get it straight that the car was not invisible. Merely cleverly camaflaguhed to the naked eye to give it the effect of invisibility and the technology was very real.

What goes beyond the confines of believability is the virtual reality training thing that they had at MI6. Bond even said it himself, "Give me the old firing range any day quartermaster"
 
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