'Objects In Space'
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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.
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.
Lazenby, anyone?
Could have been one of the greats. On Her Majesty's Secret Service may be my favorite Bond.
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.
Doesn't she always?
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.
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.
Was that the one with Robert Carlyle as the no-nerve-endings villain?
I sometimes have a hard time keeping the Brosnan movies straight. They all sort of run together in my head. I thought Die Another Day was the one with the Korean with the diamonds in his face, Halle Berry, and the silly melting ice-hotel sequence.
Didn't like Moore, didn't like Brosnan, both ooze smooth, and I think Bond should have more of an edge, which Dalton had. I still think if Adrian Paul could act anything besides MacLeod, he'd be a good edgy Bond. Owen would be best, because he does stone cold yet charming very well. But short or not, I can't get Robson Green out of my mental casting.
I think Green fits the character Fleming wrote, and would pull the character back to some solid ground, after the fireworks and FX field day the movies made of it. Maybe it's time for a new direction. One not based on bigger and stupider gadgets, sillier plots, bigger and more pneumatic boobs on the cardboard eye candy, and more and biggerer explosions.
Or, I could be wrong.
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