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[Robert Watts]

That said, he overacted every post-TND scene where he found a dead woman's corpse.

[secret_007]

In my opinion Brosnan is the best bond actor in the series. He was smooth with the ladies and he did the action scenes very well and i loved the way he was serious and non serious. The only bad thing in his time about him was that he only did 1 good bond film which is TWINE and i consider it the best in the series.

[dunmall]

I agree that he was a cookie cutter Bond, he was more the "ideal of what bond should be" rather than what bond is.
While i feel that worked in GE, seeing as that could of just as easily failed and we could never have seen bond again I think he did need more room to grow and try something new.
That being said his flippent quips were badly delivered and else where I've noted his cringe inducing, taunting of the bad guy... "i wouldn't know what to do elliot, i'd be lost at sea....adrift."

Oh and yeah over acting every time some one he had a connection with died or he found out he'd been betrayed. Always a good idea.


Oh and secret_OO7, your favourite is TWINE? But thats full of so much talking. Bond takes for ever to try and shoot Renard down in the nuclear missile silo, why doesn't he just walk up to him and kill him? And why does Electra put Bond into that ancient torture device? she could just shoot him...

your obviously a man of many parts...

Edited by dunmall, 31 March 2006 - 10:11 AM.

[secret_007]

I agree that he was a cookie cutter Bond, he was more the "ideal of what bond should be" rather than what bond is.
While i feel that worked in GE, seeing as that could of just as easily failed and we could never have seen bond again I think he did need more room to grow and try something new.
That being said his flippent quips were badly delivered and else where I've noted his cringe inducing, taunting of the bad guy... "i wouldn't know what to do elliot, i'd be lost at sea....adrift."

Oh and yeah over acting every time some one he had a connection with died or he found out he'd been betrayed. Always a good idea.


Oh and secret_OO7, your favourite is TWINE? But thats full of so much talking. Bond takes for ever to try and shoot Renard down in the nuclear missile silo, why doesn't he just walk up to him and kill him? And why does Electra put Bond into that ancient torture device? she could just shoot him...

your obviously a man of many parts...

The TWINE has the best story from all the bond films and an interesting twist.
You dont need to ask me why he didnt shoot him cuz its explained very well.

[dunmall]

hey i'm just trying to understand how you can think that connery is all talk and should have killed goldfinger when he has the chance, yet brosnan does the same to renard....odd as well since both films have a similar plot for the villain...

[secret_007]

hey i'm just trying to understand how you can think that connery is all talk and should have killed goldfinger when he has the chance, yet brosnan does the same to renard....odd as well since both films have a similar plot for the villain...

Brosnan isnt all talk he has guts to go shoot 100 people. TWINE had reasons not to kill Renard.

[DanMan]

So Bond is all about Bond running around with an automatic weapon and taking people out???

[secret_007]

So Bond is all about Bond running around with an automatic weapon and taking people out???

sometimes yes and sometimes no.

[ThunderhearT]

So Bond is all about Bond running around with an automatic weapon and taking people out???

Bond is just....how do yyou say it?? BOND

[Stephen Spotswood]

An actor who's only as good as the script or director is not much of an actor to me. I've seen actors do very well on a lot less. Lugosi and Karloff would often be found in skid row trash movies, but they always added some dignity to them. Karloff would slum some in the movies, if he felt they were beneath him, but Lugosi felt that once he was paid he would give it his all. In one dubious "comedy" reel, was a singing Betty Boop (was the actress's name Mae Quesel?) Lugosi slinks up to her and intones, "Betty, you have booped your last boop," and bites her as she shrieks. These few seconds are all that are remembered of this lame comedy series. Ernest Thesiger delivered so much waspish malice with a simple line in, "The Old Dark House," when he asked the heroine, "Have a potato?"

[freemo]

As an actor, I think he's made the most of his flopportunities.

[Skudor]

As an actor, I think he's made the most of his flopportunities.

Pretty good way to put it. I've seem many much worse actors, but he's hardly the best actor around either. But he has done well with what he has.