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[Tinfinger]

Whatever {rolls eyes}

[Harmsway]

Whatever {rolls eyes}

You said you had no clue as to why it was hated. I explained exactly why some find it detestable.

[Tinfinger]

Yep, and I rolled my eyes at your reasoning. Case closed.

[Harmsway]

Yep, and I rolled my eyes at your reasoning. Case closed.

What was "eye roll" worthy about my reasoning? There's no reason to be so condescending. After all, it's all opinion. Self-important things irk me. A lot. And TWINE is about as self-important as it gets, and for all its effort, it still mananges to be slow and uninteresting.

If you must know the whole host of things I find wrong with TWINE, I'd be more than than happy to tell you, but I was only listing the primary reason - and that is that it got who Bond is all wrong. And I do give a lot of leeway there - I like most of the Bond interpretations and am looking forward to Craig's reinvention. But when you take a male fantasy figure who is supposed to be hard and removed and throw in a lot of sensitivity and melodrama (Bond even stops a tear on a computer screen in TWINE), you're moving the character in a direction I won't stand for.

[DLibrasnow]

Yep, and I rolled my eyes at your reasoning. Case closed.

What was "eye roll" worthy about my reasoning? There's no reason to be so condescending. After all, it's all opinion. Self-important things irk me. A lot. And TWINE is about as self-important as it gets, and for all its effort, it still mananges to be slow and uninteresting.

If you must know the whole host of things I find wrong with TWINE, I'd be more than than happy to tell you, but I was only listing the primary reason - and that is that it got who Bond is all wrong. And I do give a lot of leeway there - I like most of the Bond interpretations and am looking forward to Craigs reinvention. But when you take a male fantasy figure who is supposed to be hard and removed and throw in a lot of sensitivity and melodrama (Bond even stops a tear on a computer screen in TWINE), you're moving the character in a direction I won't stand for.

I'm with you Harmsway. In fact if this poster wants to know the reasons why people dislike this movie he can research it in the Pierce Brosnan forum, there is more than one thread on the subject there.

[Judo chop]

My ranking of the Pierce films:

1. GE
2. DAD
3. TND
4. TWINE

My ranking in terms of what I thought of PB's performances:

1. TWINE
2. GE
3. DAD
4. TND

Though, truth be told, I don't see THAT much difference in his performances. I can find moments in each film where I think he's right on, and moments where I think he's trying too hard to be Connery/Dalton or where his mannerisms just irk me. (Breathing through his nose in every make-out scene! I can't stand it!)

Ranking his films is easy for me though. GE wins by a mile; fun and wholly unoffensive. TWINE loses by a mile; dull and lifeless. TND and DAD are generally both equally entertaining and yet long-winded in action at the end. DAD wins out because of a small handful of inspired moments that TND just did not have.