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.
Mal: So we run. Nandi: I understand, Captain Reynolds. You have your people to think of, same as me. And this ain't your fight. Mal: Don't believe you do understand, Nandi. I said 'we run'. We.
'Heart Of Gold'
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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"
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?
Sean K - Feb 22, 2006 7:07:19 am PST #618 of 10001
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
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.
Beverly - Feb 22, 2006 7:08:40 am PST #619 of 10001
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
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.
edited to remove a character.
Kathy A - Feb 22, 2006 7:17:16 am PST #620 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Brosnan isn't Bond, and never was. He was like Bond Lite or something.
Having grown up with Roger Moore being my first Bond, and only watching the Connery Bond films on commercial-filled TV (those big set pieces lose a lot of impact on a 19" color console set), I really liked Goldeneye. Seeing Brosnan play an icy-cold Bond really made me believe him as a secret agent/assassin, which is what Bond should be, not the jokey guy playing against outrageously campy villains.
Kathy A - Feb 22, 2006 7:18:16 am PST #621 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Cereal to add--I've never seen any of the Dalton films, so I can't compare him to Brosnan.
erikaj - Feb 22, 2006 7:34:40 am PST #622 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
I've seen a lot of them, but the last few didn't make much impression. I thought PB was good, though. It was the rest of the stories that missed, imo.