I also really liked Dalton. I thought Brosnan was like a parody of Bond-- for god's sake, his first role was as an actor hired to play a smooth investigator! What's more, I never found Sean Connery sexy-- isn't young Connery similarly joli-laid?
Everybody dies, Tracey. Someone's carrying a bullet for you right now, doesn't even know it. The trick is to die of old age before it finds you.
Mal ,'The Message'
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bon bon - Feb 22, 2006 4:55:19 am PST #608 of 10001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
Volans - Feb 22, 2006 5:11:07 am PST #609 of 10001
move out and draw fire
I really liked Dalton, but I hated those movies. Brosnan isn't Bond, and never was. He was like Bond Lite or something.
Some of the Moore movies were decent, but since I started watching Bond with Moore, I never got the whole Bond fandom thing.
Lazenby, anyone?
Frankenbuddha - Feb 22, 2006 5:17:06 am PST #610 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
And the prettiest, fey-est Timothy Dalton evar. His film debut, no less, and he plays all three princes like marionettes.
Also Hopkins', who played Richard.
I thought Brosnan was like a parody of Bond-- for god's sake, his first role was as an actor hired to play a smooth investigator!
First starring role, but he'd already appeared in a small but significant role in THE LONG GOOD FRIDAY by that point.
§ ita § - Feb 22, 2006 5:23:37 am PST #611 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
He had nine credits before Remington Steele and five before The Long Good Friday.
I like Bosnan's Bond. If we weren't going to get a Conneryesque Bond (and I don't think he's laid (well, maybe here, but I think he was a weathered but goodlooking guy)), I think Dalton does the smooth a lot better than Moore who lacked all menace for me. I did love the pretty, but then I learnt of true pretty, and other Bonds.
Fred Pete - Feb 22, 2006 5:29:20 am PST #612 of 10001
Ann, that's a ferret.
Lazenby, anyone?
Could have been one of the greats. On Her Majesty's Secret Service may be my favorite Bond.
Frankenbuddha - Feb 22, 2006 5:39:38 am PST #613 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Could have been one of the greats. On Her Majesty's Secret Service may be my favorite Bond.
Liked the movie, think Lazenby was a mannequin, but love, love, LOVE Diana Rigg. She makes up for a lot.
erikaj - Feb 22, 2006 6:19:42 am PST #614 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
Doesn't she always?
Matt the Bruins fan - Feb 22, 2006 6:24:01 am PST #615 of 10001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
I liked Brosnan's performances as Bond, but felt the movies around him were largely crap (with the exception of Judi Dench, of course). Despite liking him I'm fine with Craig in the role as well.
§ ita § - Feb 22, 2006 6:38:53 am PST #616 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I liked Die Another Day more than the past few Bonds by quite a bit. I watch them in the theatre because I watch them in the theatre. Despite the Halle-osity, that one reminded me that they could be fun too.
Matt the Bruins fan - Feb 22, 2006 7:02:14 am PST #617 of 10001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Was that the one with Robert Carlyle as the no-nerve-endings villain?