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[copperhead1]

1. Goldeneye
2. Tomorrow Never Dies
3. The World Is Not Enough
4. Die Another Day

[x007AceOfSpades]

I knew GoldenEye was going to be the highest on the polls. To this day I still wonder what Quentin Tarantino's Casino Royale would have looked like on film if EON had hired him. I'm just glad that they never approached him or bothered to take a look at his idea.

[iBond]

Looks like DAD is currently in the lead.

I love your sarcasm.

[Agent Nine]

TWINE for sure awesome movie

[00 Brosnan]

To this day I still wonder what Quentin Tarantino's Casino Royale would have looked like on film if EON had hired him. I'm just glad that they never approached him or bothered to take a look at his idea.

I really like the majority of Quentin Tarantino's films, but his style just isn't right for Bond.

[Melack]

Goldeneye by far, great Bond movie overall. Though I like The World Is Not Enough somewhat too. DAD and TND are both different shades of crap.

[Matt_13]

Upon a recent viewing, I think I can comfortably state that the first 30 or so minutes of Die Another Day is my favorite Brosnan Bond film. It's loaded with potential for something genuinely different. Shame it devolved into...well...

[DaveBond21]

Looks like DAD is currently in the lead.

I love your sarcasm.

It's actually quite likely that DAD was in the lead back in Feb 2003. It was lauded here at the time.

[Capsule in Space]

Upon a recent viewing, I think I can comfortably state that the first 30 or so minutes of Die Another Day is my favorite Brosnan Bond film. It's loaded with potential for something genuinely different. Shame it devolved into...well...

I watched it again recently, and I agree with you for the most part.

For me, take away the "drag racing off the cliff" scene, clean up the Icarus CGI a little bit, touch up some of the dialogue, and you're left with a pretty good Bond film.

If those things had been done, then DAD would have been my favorite Brosnan film.

[Matt_13]

Upon a recent viewing, I think I can comfortably state that the first 30 or so minutes of Die Another Day is my favorite Brosnan Bond film. It's loaded with potential for something genuinely different. Shame it devolved into...well...

I watched it again recently, and I agree with you for the most part.

For me, take away the "drag racing off the cliff" scene, clean up the Icarus CGI a little bit, touch up some of the dialogue, and you're left with a pretty good Bond film.

If those things had been done, then DAD would have been my favorite Brosnan film.

If all of Graves' dialogue had been rewritten, Halle Berry's character cut out, and the over reliance on CG reigned in, we would have had a great Bond film. Brosnan was never better.

[domnule alb]

Okay, maybe it's not the most creative poll, but I love making these polls and it will be interesting to see percentages here. So everyone vote!

Goldeneye. Had the most interesting set of minor characters and best locales. Easy choice.

Upon a recent viewing, I think I can comfortably state that the first 30 or so minutes of Die Another Day is my favorite Brosnan Bond film. It's loaded with potential for something genuinely different. Shame it devolved into...well...

I watched it again recently, and I agree with you for the most part.

For me, take away the "drag racing off the cliff" scene, clean up the Icarus CGI a little bit, touch up some of the dialogue, and you're left with a pretty good Bond film.

If those things had been done, then DAD would have been my favorite Brosnan film.

Well put. Although I did not like the character of Jinx the NSA agent. A more plausible backstory was needed; it was like having Denise Richards acting as a nuclear scientist...

[AMC Hornet]

I must be the only one who has no problem with Die Another Day.

Everyone talks about how it went wrong in the second half, but I don't see it. Maybe I'm just a no-nothing engenue who's watched the films and read the books repeatedly since 1971 without developing any measurable degree of discrimination, or maybe I was so influenced by that first exposure (Diamonds Are Forever, another film which gets little love here) that I can't tell a good movie from a bad one.

Or, maybe I'd just rather like a Bond film than hate it. Even AVTAK - my least favorite - I don't hate. I wish it had been different, but since it wasn't, c'est la vie. At least The Living Daylights made up for it (IMO).

So, as someone who didn't like disco in the 70s (and didn't wait until 1980 to make that claim) I will maintain my opinion, based on my own weird tastes, and rate Mr. Brosnan's contributions as:

1: Die Another Day
2: Tomorrow Never Dies
3: GoldenEye
4: The World is Not Enough

[AMC Hornet]

I just discovered that this is more or less a duplicate post. Oh, well. My ranking remains the same in any case.

[Miles Miservy]

Well put. Although I did not like the character of Jinx the NSA agent. A more plausible backstory was needed; it was like having Denise Richards acting as a nuclear scientist...
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...no less believable than Tanya Roberts as a geologist.

[Miles Miservy]

Looks like DAD is currently in the lead.

I love your sarcasm.

If you go back and watch Die Another Day, you can find references to each & every movie the preceded it. Some are blatant (like the truck load of props in Q's lab) and others, more subtle (like Scaramanga's funhouse in Los Organos). Give it a try the next time you're compelled to put the 2002 movie in your DVD player.

[00 Brosnan]

I agree about Die Another Day. The first half-hour of the film is quite spectacular and entertaining. It does seem to fall off a cliff though towards the second half.

Halle Berry's character "Jinx" just didn't work...at all for me and I didn't think Toby Stephens character (Gustov Graves) was menacing in any way shape or form. Rick Yune (Zao) was the most interesting character and I think he was under-developed and under used and I thought John Cleese did as good as job as one can do replacing a legend (and would welcome him back for Bond 23).

I used to rank DAD as my least liked Brosnan film, one spot behind TWINE, mostly because TWINE was more grounded in reality. However, upon recent viewings I am much more entertained and willing to "go with the flow" of the film for pure entertainment's sake. Whereas, TWINE is more grounded, but I've always found it sort of boring at times.

GoldenEye is my favorite with TND coming in a close second. I think both are excellent Bond films and are highly entertaining. Whereas TWINE and DAD have their moments, but they're more of a mixed bag.

[gepopes]

Tomorrow Never Dies.
This is what i call an action movie, a great one, it has everything you need to make your adrenaline flow. And of course it also does it for a Bond movie, it has funny lines, clichés, gadgets, and it deliver us a movie that is pure action and danger without losing the sense of humour (like all Bond movies).James Bond had always fought to the powerful, but this is the first time, i think, that he deals to a press magnate like Elliot Carver, who cares nothing about an informed world as he says, but to get all the power and money that he can. In WW2, the men who took advantage of the war were those who manufactured weapons, in the 90's, the medias gain as much money as them, so Elliot decides to begin a war to have the complete coverage of the deed, so our fellow agent 007 must stoop this crazy guy from beginning a war just for economic reasons.... So, we can say the plot is quite good and original as well, nobody can say no.

[TCK]

Pierce Brosnan was the most average James Bond because, in four films, he did :
- an excellent one : The world is not enough
- a rather good one : Goldeneye
- a rather bad one : Tomorrow never dies
- and an awful one : Die another day

[Miles Miservy]

I voted for TCA, that being said, I really think his best work to date is "Evelyn."

Yes, he made a movie called "Evelyn" and it was even out recently. You might have missed it though, because the major studio that released it didn't seem to have its whole heart into promoting it.

-- Xenobia

Thought we were talking Bond films???

I would probably say "GOLDENEYE". Although "THE WORLD IS NOT ENOUGH" is a close second.

TOMORROW NEVER DIES and here's why;

What makes a GREAT 007 movie (or any adventure movie for that matter...) is the villain. That having been said, Elliot Carver was ruthless, vindictive, sadistic, and just a little bit insane. I can imagine Blofeld thinking, "Wow! THAT guy is frickin' NUTS!!!"

[glidrose]

1. Tomorrow Never Dies
2. Die Another Day
3. The World Is Not Enough
4. GoldenEye

Fans and audiences underrate my first two picks and colossally overrate GoldenEye. GoldenEye in my not so humble opinion is the franchise's most overrated film and may be my least favourite.

[Trevelyan 006]

GoldenEye.
Were You Expecting Something Else ?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWlguwfZhS4&feature=related

[Secret Treaties]

While he was an improvement over Moore, I felt Brosnan was a step back after Dalton's portrayal. They jettisoned the slapstick and ridiculous gadgetry from Moore's later Bond movies, but I have always felt that Bond should have physical presence and a vague sense of menace. Brosnan had neither. None of the movies bowled me over, but Goldeneye wins by default. It still seems the freshest and most inspired of the Brosnan Bond movies.

[glidrose]

Raymond Benson picks his favorite... and it's TOMORROW NEVER DIES. "It's a toss-up between this and "GoldenEye" as the best of the Brosnans, but I think the villain's plot and Bond's relationship with the Michelle Yeoh character have the upper hand in this one. "GoldenEye" also has some credibility issues but it is still great stuff."

[BourneAgainBond]

goldeneye
tomorrow never dies
the world is not enough
die another day
same order they came out, wish pierce did a 5th film i think it would have been "pierces" for your eyes only and would have made up for the 6 years hiatus and timothy dalton not doing a 3rd 007 film in 1992 on the 30th anniversary. doesn't do his era any justice wouldn't have made sense to have him back a 5th time?
connery and lazenby did seven 007 films
moore did seven 007 films
wish dalton and brosnan did seven 007 films and not only 6

[univex]

I´m not a futurist so I can´t comment on most of the above, but about the films getting worse as they came out, I agree. Although to be fair, I love some bits of TWINE...bits. But yeah, GE is the best and TND is fun. None of which is as good as, say, TLD.

[thecasinoroyale]

Don't think I've replied to this in my years of being here, so here we go...

• Tomorrow Never Dies
• GoldenEye
• The World Is Not Enough
• Die Another Day

Close call between 'GoldenEye' and 'TWINE', some good elements in both and stand out scenes, but I love Sean Bean more than Robert Carlyle as a villain so I gave that the edge.

[SecretAgentFan]

Did I already reply to this?

Damn´, too lazy to go back, page after page. Maybe it´s time for a new list anyway.

4. Die Another Day. (Not because I hate the film. I actually can enjoy it. And I love parts of it. The sword fight, for example. But the other Brosnan Bonds are better IMO.)
3. Tomorrow Never Dies. (Didn´t like it when I saw it for the first time because of the too action-heavy third act. But it is kind of lowbrow fun. And the Kaufman scene is brilliant.)
2. Goldeneye. (The post-cold war atmosphere is just wonderful. And the tank chase is one of the best Bond action scenes.)
1. The World Is Not Enough. (Despite many elements that get hated around here, I think this is Brosnan´s best Bond performance. And it has my favorite Bond one-liner: I never miss.)

[AMC Hornet]

Wow - my list in reverse!

I thinks it's cool that we all have differing tastes, criteria and favorites. It's what keeps EON in business (and makes it impossible for them to satisfy everyone at once).

As much as I love (insert title here), I wouldn't want all 23 films to be just like it - how boring would that be?

[Spyraker]

TND. It wraps everything I like about the film world of 007 into one neat parcel.
The elaborate car, the quips, the chases and the 'current' plot material.
It's a solid 007 and is on my short list with Goldfinger, Spy Who Loved Me, From Russia With Love, Living Daylights and Thunderball.
Only two issues I have are 'why Hatcher?' and 'why K.D Lang's Surrender wasn't the title song?'.

[PPK_19]

Only two issues I have are 'why Hatcher?' and 'why K.D Lang's Surrender wasn't the title song?'.

The same issues i have with it!

After recently re-watching all of Brozza's films my order is:

4. Die Another Day. It's a film of two halves. Love the title sequence (one of the best, ignoring the Madoona song). Love everything up to Iceland. As soon as he leaves Iceland i turn it off, the fight on the plane is just the worst showdown ever.

3.Tomorrow Never Dies. It's just wall-to-wall action, Paris is mis-cast and why K.D Lang wasn't chosen to sing baffles me. But has it's moments; Carver is brilliant.

2.GoldenEye. He's not quite comfortable as 007 yet- a bit too thin- but the film has so many great Bond moments in, it ranks quite highly for me (love Serra's score) . The tank chase alone makes this film. And, let's not forget, the incredible game on the N64!

1. The World is Not Enough. Used to be my most hated Brozza film. But upon re-watching it for the first time in a couple of years, i found i loved every minute. Smashing PTS (probably one of the best of the series), beautiful Sophie Marceau and Brosnan owns the role of James Bond. Valentin is great as ever, and Dr Jones isn't as annoying as she used to be for some reason.

Edited by PPK_19, 25 September 2012 - 03:12 PM.