Frozenprince
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I may be confusing it with another one it has been a long time since I've seen it.
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Why is Pierce Brosnan's Bond era so heavily disliked?
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Frozenprince
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Honestly even GoldenEye hasn't aged THAT well technically but the set pieces are still really great.
Bobby Roberts
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Yeah, GoldenEye is still top 10 Bond, but it's on the lower end of the scale.
Again - the 90s have not aged well.
Again - the 90s have not aged well.
NintendoRev
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I thought they were okay. The world is Not enough is only great because of the theme song. Garbage fucking nailed that.
DontBeThatGuy
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Mentosrock
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I think he was the best bond. The World is Not Enough is also my favourite bond film. Elektra King is the shit. The plot was so good a Batman movie copied it.
Frozenprince
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Most of Moore's suffer the same problem, but his failures are also coupled with the fact that, after the first two, he was just too old and out of shape to be playing Bond anymore.
Connery's age the best, imo, because they rely the least on stupid tech.
old manatee
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It's basically the same as Daniel Craig's run quality-wise. Martin Campbell directed the first film for both, and they are amazing, and everything after is barely worth watching.
RustyNails
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Easily the most good looking Bond. Dude was charismatic af too.
Goro Majima
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They're just not as good as the newer high budget films with Daniel Craig and haven't aged very well.
That said, Brosnan has got the best Bond "look" since Sean Connery. They're really 1a and 1b in terms of having the Bond charisma.
That said, Brosnan has got the best Bond "look" since Sean Connery. They're really 1a and 1b in terms of having the Bond charisma.
Gaius Cassius
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Moore was able to notice and address that shit though! I loved how intentionally cheesy his bond films got!
Frozenprince
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I mean just on a technical level, Skyfall is better than any of Brosnan's post GoldenEye output.
Sibersk Esto
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Rhomega Beta
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To my understanding, Goldeneye was the only good Brosnan film, and everything else was "meh", and Die Another Day is one of the worst. I still want to check them out (except DAD anyway).
BladeoftheImmortal
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GoldenEye was great. The rest were shit.
privitsan02
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Pierce Brosnan was a good Bond. I liked him a lot more than Roger Moore. But his movies got significantly worse with each new one. Goldeneye was great, Tomorrow Never Dies is average, The World is Not Enough is bad and Die Another Day is the worst Bond movie ever.
Daniel Craig has had an inconsistent run in comparison, but all of his movies are head and shoulders above those of Roger Moore and Pierce Brosnan by a country mile. Yes, even Goldeneye.
Best wishes.
Daniel Craig has had an inconsistent run in comparison, but all of his movies are head and shoulders above those of Roger Moore and Pierce Brosnan by a country mile. Yes, even Goldeneye.
Best wishes.
Timothy Dalton's Bond was the prototype for Craig's Bond.
Frozenprince
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Which is why they had him go to Moore, a more popular and well known archetype for the character instead of playing it more like Dalton did. Because his two didn't get well received.
Bobby Roberts
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I've gotten the sense most people recognize Moore's era was the low point of the series, despite his having the longest run. His Bond fit his era pretty perfectly. It was shameless, corny, and ugly as shit. Fit the '70s/early '80s like a fucking isotoner glove.
(I really, really like Spy Who Loved Me, though. The best possible version of that Bond. Still corny and cheesy and stupid as hell, but it's not self-parody yet, either)
I think the two that Dalton did play really well. Licence to Kill seems to work a lot better now than people gave it credit for back then. Then, it was a waaaaaay too late attempt to coast off Miami Vice's coattails (that show was dead meat already). But now, it's some dirty, mean-spirited rogue spy shit. The fact that it's coated in that sweaty '80s paranoia only helps it now.
Yup, this. Timothy Dalton was unappreciated, probably ahead of his time.
I certainly appreciate them as products of their time. Don't like the films intrinsically.
Even for Garbage that song felt like ... rubbish.
Sibersk Esto
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Dalton's still hold up imo. License to kill more than The Living Daylights, which is controversial apparently.
That's a mighty peculiar way of spelling License to Kill.
How can you possibly top a Bond movie where
- People get mauled by Great White Sharks
- Villains get eaten alive by maggots
- Villains get decompresed until their head explodes
- Benecio Del Toro is chewed up into bloody chunks
It's glorious 80's torture porn
rootbeerafloat
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I'm not sure I dislike them... they're just kinda there. Goldeneye is the only one that's "good", and even then I can't watch it without constantly thinking how much better it would have been with Dalton. TND and TWINE are fine, but forgettable. DAD is the only one that ventures into Moore-era levels of hilarious awfulness... which is kind of a shame because the first 15 minutes or whatever really trick you into thinking it's going to be something great.
Frozenprince
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Dalton is the best run you won't get any argument from me. I don't like License that much because yeah, Miami vice ripoff five years too late, but Living Daylighta is astoundingly good. It absolutely holds up and will continue to hold up. Especially coming off IMO the worst in the entire series in View to a Kill.
This is controversial. License to Kill sux!
Gaius Cassius
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I know it's technically not a question of comparing their films, Bond and not, but I also feel that Brosnan not only had better style than Craig, but is also a better actor in general. Might get some hate for that view, but fuck it.
My man.
MidnightMania
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Goldeneye is fantastic though. I'd even give Tomorrow Never Dies a pass.
Massive Duck. C.M.
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Pretty much. Die Another Day is a visitor from the cheeks dimension
uncredited male
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What else do you call your bottom?
Yeoh aren't fooling anybody.
Frozenprince
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Oh he's absolutely a better actor you can't even debate that.
I just dislike the direction they had his character go after GoldenEye. He became a cartoon character.
DontBeThatGuy
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My first Bond flick right there. I still like it.
Ninja Scooter
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Like a lot of action movies of that era, they've aged like milk.
George Washington
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GoldenEye was the only memorable one in the Brosnan era.
Gaius Cassius
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They should have let Campbell handle the entire Brosnan era. Never understood why it took so long to get him back in the directors chair for a bond film.
Gully State
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I thought he was just waste potential.. he absolutely looked the part and Goldeneye was top tier Bond. To this day I still don't get how they could fuck it up so royally with him as Bond
Frozenprince
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Honestly I'm struggling to think of mid 90's action movies that actually genuinely hold up.
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