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Chinner said:
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The Brosnan era summed up in one gif. Glorious.
 
Solo said:
Brosnan is the worst Bond, had the worst tenure as Bond, has the worst average outing as Bond, and is the only actor to ever be fired as Bond. Deal with it.

I actually really like Brosnan outside of Bond. Good actor, terrible Bond. He was great in The Thomas Crown Affair and The Matador and The Ghost Writer.
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Producers might tell you differently about Lazenby. The being fired situation. It seems to be made out as a you can't quit, your fired from their perspective. But if Connery still wanted to come back, I bet he would have been fired either way.
 
Solo said:
Brosnan is the worst Bond, had the worst tenure as Bond, has the worst average outing as Bond, and is the only actor to ever be fired as Bond. Deal with it.

I actually really like Brosnan outside of Bond. Good actor, terrible Bond. He was great in The Thomas Crown Affair and The Matador and The Ghost Writer.
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As much as I love Goldeneye I would have liked to see Dalton in it. That would make throwing Brosnan as the worst Bond ever too easy if Brosnan just had his other 3.

And the 3 Brosnan movies you named are fantastic :D
 
Solo said:
Brosnan is the worst Bond, had the worst tenure as Bond, has the worst average outing as Bond, and is the only actor to ever be fired as Bond. Deal with it.

I actually really like Brosnan outside of Bond. Good actor, terrible Bond. He was great in The Thomas Crown Affair and The Matador and The Ghost Writer.
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Calm down, Connery.
 
Tomorrow Never Dies, The World Is Not Enough, & Die Another Day is easily the worst period ever for Bond. There has never once other than then been a period of medicroe or bad Bond movies three times in a row. OHMSS was in between YOLT and DAF, and Moore and The Spy Who Loved Me and For Your Eyes Only mixed in between his bad films.

SerArthurDayne said:
Producers might tell you differently about Lazenby. The being fired situation. It seems to be made out as a you can't quite, your fired from their perspective. But if Connery still wanted to come back, I bet he would have been fired either way.
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Brosnan was far more clearly fired. He wanted to come back, he wanted to do 6 films. Producers said no. He got very upset and vented to the media at the time.
 
SerArthurDayne said:
Producers might tell you differently about Lazenby. The being fired situation. It seems to be made out as a you can't quite, your fired from their perspective. But if Connery still wanted to come back, I bet he would have been fired either way.
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He did quit, bout you're right - he'd have been fired anyways.

Connery quit. Lazenby quit. Connery was so cool that he quit again. Moore quit (special note about Moore: he threatened to "quit" after almost every film as a ploy for more money). Dalton quit. Brosnan, you are the weakest link - goodbye!
 
Cheebo said:
Tomorrow Never Dies, The World Is Not Enough, & Die Another Day is easily the worst period ever for Bond. There has never once other than then been a period of medicroe or bad Bond movies three times in a row. OHMSS was in between YOLT and DAF, and Moore and The Spy Who Loved Me and For Your Eyes Only mixed in between his bad films.
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Tomorrow Never Dies, The World is Not Enough, and Die Another Day is not the worst period for Bond.

As much as I loved and enjoyed watching Moore not care for seven movies, his only good movie was Spy Who Loved me.
 
I definitely don't put Brosnan last. I actually think he had the potential to be a great Bond, but unfortunately he was left with bad writers, silly plots and over the top gadgets and whatnot, all of which weren't really his fault.

Honestly, for me, Moore takes the bottom position. Though I haven't seen OHMSS so the list is incomplete without Lazenby, and I think I was too young to really think about this sort of thing when I first saw one of Dalton's.

So excluding Dalton and Lazenby, my list goes:

1. Craig
2. Connery
3. Brosnan
4. Moore
 
bud said:
t.n.d. is not bad. q.o.s. is bad.

don't be so wrong, people.
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It's not that bad but the 1-2-3 combo of TND, TWINE, & DAD was awful. Not one was a great Bond film, there has never been any situation like that before or after. QoS at least had Casino Royale right before it and Skyfall (assumingly it lives up to the reviews/hype) right after it.

The Mana Legend said:
Tomorrow Never Dies, The World is Not Enough, and Die Another Day is not the worst period for Bond.

As much as I loved and enjoyed watching Moore not care for seven movies, his only good movie was Spy Who Loved me.
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I am talking about in a row, Moore never had 3 average to bad films in a row. He always every once in a while had a Spy Who Loves Me or FYEO.

If he didn't do FYEO and it went Moonraker to Octopussy to A View To A Kill I would agree. Brosnan is the only Bond with 3 films in a row without a single classic amongst them.

I really like Brosnan but he had the worst scripts of any of the Bond actors.
 
Solo said:
It's actually quite the opposite - you have a raging man crush on Brosnan whereas I merely think he was a terrible Bond.
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Hahaha, what are you even talking about? You were the one that brought up Brosnan in that QoS thread, talking about how old and fat he was. You just randomly started ranting about how terrible Brosnan is, even though it had nothing to do with what anyone was talking about.
 
None of the Bond's completely nail it imo, but maybe it's an impossible role. To balance the gritty, physically believable, humanistic side whilst also retaining the slick, smooth and womanising element. Connery, Brosnan etc I think fit the latter really well, but lack the believability and physical side.

I think Craig comes closer to anyone else, but the only thing that let's him down (douchey comment incoming) is his appearance. He's not the best looking guy in the world, and that takes away from it just a touch. Those stares he gives sometimes that are supposed to be womanisingly entrancing, often come off a bit creepy or weird. But in every other aspect he's well above the rest, and still does a fine job even with the bits he's not.
 
nib95 said:
None of the Bond's completely nail it imo, but maybe it's an impossible role. To balance the gritty, physically believable, humanistic side whilst also retaining the slick, smooth and womanising element. Connery, Brosnan etc I think fit the latter really well, but lack the believability and physical side.

I think Craig comes closer to anyone else, but the only thing that let's him down (douchey comment incoming) is his appearance. He's not the best looking guy in the world, and that takes away from it just a touch. Those stares he gives sometimes that are supposed to be womanisingly entrancing, often come off a bit creepy or weird. But in every other aspect he's well above the rest, and still does a fine job even with the bits he's not.
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Those blue eyes are mesmerizing.
 
The Mana Legend said:
Hahaha, what are you even talking about? You were the one that brought up Brosnan in that QoS thread, talking about how old and fat he was. You just randomly started ranting about how terrible Brosnan is, even though it had nothing to do with what anyone was talking about.
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"to go off on a tangent". Tangent, do you know the word?
 
nib95 said:
I think Craig comes closer to anyone else, but the only thing that let's him down (douchey comment incoming) is his appearance. He's not the best looking guy in the world, and that takes away from it just a touch. Those stares he gives sometimes that are supposed to be womanisingly entrancing, often come off a bit creepy or weird. But in every other aspect he's well above the rest, and still does a fine job even with the bits he's not.
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Brosnan was definitely a great Bond, he just had terrible writers making his movies. All of the problems in his movies after Goldeneye had nothing to do with him and there was nothing he could have done to fix them, short of refusing to work I guess.

It was a sad day when his era was over but it had to happen sometime. It's too bad Craig had to be the one to take over because he sucks. I'll see this like I go see every Bond movie and I truly hope this is Craig's first good Bond movie.
 
Cheebo said:
Is it just me or did Pierce Brosnan age like a decade between GoldenEye and Tomorrow Never Dies?
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Yes, he had 2 noticeable times when looked older. He looked noticeably older in TND after GE, and noticeably older in DAD after TWINE.
 
Imm0rt4l said:
Brosnan was the 2nd coming of Roger Moore.
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Brosnan was an odd mix of each Bond that came before him.

But those traits weren't balanced well, and he veered from being strong, emotional and hard hitting ala Dalton to being a silly joking doofus within the space of two scenes.

It just felt wrong to me.
 
G-Fex said:
Alright alright let's just agree to disagree
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No, hold the phone. People are arguing that Daniel Craig is just not that good looking.

What the hell is going on?!

EDIT: wow and now Derrick01. there must be some kind of mass hallucinogen or subliminal messaging going on here
 
Jokergrin said:
Are Tomorrow Never Dies and The World is Not Enough really all that bad?

I kinda enjoyed them.
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It's more they are forgetable than bad, Usually ever 1-2 Bond films we get a great one. We went from 1995 to 2006, this time. Over a decade. Longest gap from great Bond film to the next ever in the franchise.

richisawesome said:
Brosnan was an odd mix of each Bond that came before him.

But those traits weren't balanced well, and he veered from being strong, emotional and hard hitting ala Dalton to being a silly joking doofus within the space of two scenes.

It just felt wrong to me.
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I think a lot of his Daltonisms (mostly all in GoldenEye) come from GoldenEye being written for Dalton. He was basically trying to play Dalton's Bond in that one, he really didn't take it on as his own till TND.
 
Derrick01 said:
Brosnan was definitely a great Bond, he just had terrible writers making his movies. All of the problems in his movies after Goldeneye had nothing to do with him and there was nothing he could have done to fix them, short of refusing to work I guess.

It was a sad day when his era was over but it had to happen sometime. It's too bad Craig had to be the one to take over because he sucks. I'll see this like I go see every Bond movie and I truly hope this is Craig's first good Bond movie.
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I just barfed everywheres. At all of this.
 
Derrick01 said:
Brosnan was definitely a great Bond, he just had terrible writers making his movies. All of the problems in his movies after Goldeneye had nothing to do with him and there was nothing he could have done to fix them, short of refusing to work I guess.

It was a sad day when his era was over but it had to happen sometime. It's too bad Craig had to be the one to take over because he sucks. I'll see this like I go see every Bond movie and I truly hope this is Craig's first good Bond movie.
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wtf is this I don't even....
 
I thought Brosnan was great personally. Super smooth and effortlessly classy. He just wasn't that physically dominating and perhaps lacked the vitality for the role lol. When watching most of the Bond's recently, a part of me always thought I myself could beat Bond in a fight or at the very least catch him off guard and not even be afraid to lol, but with Craig's Bond, no chance. Guy is a beast.
 
Derrick01 said:
Brosnan was definitely a great Bond, he just had terrible writers making his movies. All of the problems in his movies after Goldeneye had nothing to do with him and there was nothing he could have done to fix them, short of refusing to work I guess.

It was a sad day when his era was over but it had to happen sometime. It's too bad Craig had to be the one to take over because he sucks. I'll see this like I go see every Bond movie and I truly hope this is Craig's first good Bond movie.
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Derrick01 said:
Brosnan was definitely a great Bond, he just had terrible writers making his movies. All of the problems in his movies after Goldeneye had nothing to do with him and there was nothing he could have done to fix them, short of refusing to work I guess.

It was a sad day when his era was over but it had to happen sometime. It's too bad Craig had to be the one to take over because he sucks. I'll see this like I go see every Bond movie and I truly hope this is Craig's first good Bond movie.
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You're even more wrong than Cheebo
 
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