Thats fair enough, it wasn't everybodies cup of tea and you are probably right in saying the plot was a little too overblown. I still liked it but to each his own. I found it better after my second viewing and I think most might.
As opposed to things like "Living Daylights" and "Moonraker" which were just out-and-out shit movies.
I called one of my henchmen Mr. Kill and it's supposed be scary, not clever, ffs
The man with the golden gun is one of my faves, isnt this the oen with the hatchback that turns into a plane.
I liked what they were doing with it and enjoyed Casino Royale, but Quantum was just awfully boring and it was like the director had watched the Bourne trilogy and thought to himself 'hm, I like the camera work on that, I'll try that myself'.
Definately, Goldeneye proved to be a false dawn for Bond as it was a very strong entry to be followed by five films which to average out would be so-so. On paper the storyline overviews of the Brosnan films were encouraging though they were poorly executed with too much emphasis on set pieces - Die Another Day was basically a collection of nothing new stunt sequences with dialogue in between, talk about ruining a premise.
I just didn't really follow it ...Shame though, cos the girl was absolutely stunning. Even better than Lauren from Eastenders...er..I mean Eva Green
N64 Goldeneye, full on carnage.
If the sixties films weren't rated so highly then Connery as Bond wouldn't be held in such esteem, the problem with Moore is that his films were so up and down; Live and Let Die was good, Man with the Golden Gun was dire, The Spy who Loved Me was great, Moonraker was pathetic etc. etc.
...it's just so random it's gold. Quality Malcolm quote
Is it even classed has a Bond Film?Moore is often derided as pure cheese but he's not. He could do cold hard killer with the best of them, he just hammed up the one liners to such an extent that they're what he's remembered for. And as GB said, like Brosnan, he didn't get the best stuff to work with...That, and he couldn't run...For Your Eyes Only is a good example of Moore playing it straight to good effect...He suffered from the same problem as Sean in that fake re-make of Thunderball by the end though. He looked too old to be convincing as anything other than a dirty old man. In fact that whole period with both of them in their 50s chasing 20 year old woman in wigs in different bond films was just incredibly sad. If anything Roger pulled it off better than Sean, who'd lost all his hair by then and just looked like he was going to collapse at any minute...Actually, Never Say Never again needs a shout as one of the worst Bond films. It's just utterly pointless, but I'm not sure it counts...and it's not as ridiculous as View to a Kill or Die Another Day
Still, in those cheesy movies, Roger still delivered the lines like a don and better than most of the others could have...I still piss myself at Live and Let Die when Jane Seymore freaks out at a feathered hat on her bed and he goes "nothing to worry about darling, it's just a hat belonging to a small fellow of limited means who lost fight with a chicken"...
God bless you Rog
I'd support it. He's a better actor than anyone who's ever played the role.
No complaints from me, I'd probably throw in Thunderball to complete the top five.
Controversial. Wasn't Connery ex-SAS in The Rock? Plus Bond with a beard, teamed up with Nic Cage, it's just too much of a stretch
Wikipedia's confused, referring to him as both MI6 and SAS. My recollection is that it wasn't specified. "I was trained by the best. British intelligence."
At Connery's age, the beard is pretty much necessary, so I can't fault him for that. As for Cage, he's a slightly nerdy chemical weapons expert while Bond/"Mason" is the bad-ass. Admittedly Cage's role should have been played by, say, Angelina Jolie, but we'll live.
Thought all the Brosnan movies were kind of shit, tbh. The best of the lot seemed to be Tomorrow Never Dies, and I thought Michelle Yeoh got a fair bit of the credit for that.
but enjoyable
