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[WC]

From the past collection of Bond movies, pick 5 of them which you think Dalton could have been good if he had starred in it. You can still choose TLD or LTK if you think those were really suited to him, or you can substitute one of them for another one and then pick a 3rd.

I would keep TLD, and perhaps add to it OHMSS, CR, GE and maybe one Bond movie that is particularly bad but would greatly benefit from Dalton's acting to give it some added weight. Maybe DAD or one of the other Brosnan ones perhaps. Alternatively, I might add FYEO in there or keep LTK as one of his.

How about you?

[Garth007]

I'd like to see him play in TLD,TWINE,OHMSS,TND,and LALD. Those to me would be very cool to see him play in.

[DamnCoffee]

Octopussy,A View to a Kill, The Living Daylights, Licence to Kill and GoldenEye

[tdalton]

The Living Daylights, Licence To Kill, GoldenEye, A View To A Kill and On Her Majesty's Secret Service

[jaguar007]

TLD, LTK, GE, OHMSS, CR (I do like Laz and esp Craig, but I always thought those 2 movies would have been well suited to Dalton's character).

[Blonde Bond]

The Living Daylights , Licence To Kill & Bond 17 in -92

Edited by Blonde Bond, 19 August 2007 - 08:56 PM.

[Qwerty]

The Living Daylights, Licence to Kill, A View to a Kill and GoldenEye. Not sure about the fifth one yet.

[Cruiserweight]

OHMSS,For Your Eyes Only,Octopussy,A View To A Kill,Goldeneye

Edited by Cruiserweight, 19 August 2007 - 10:09 PM.

[coco1997]

1. A VIEW TO A KILL (1985) - This movie definitely needed new blood, as it was lacking in virtually every other area.

2. THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS (1987)

3. LICENCE REVOKED (1989) - Go with the original title and give it a darker ending.

4. COLONEL SUN (1992) - A 1992 follow-up and "sequel" to LR.

5. GOLDENEYE - What would have/could have been a great swan song for Dalton. What a shame.

[00Twelve]

A View to a Kill, The Living Daylights, Licence to Kill, GoldenEye, For Your Eyes Only (I could SO totally see Tim in the car-kicking scene)

[Thunderfinger]

TB-OHMSS-YOLT(The Spectre trilogy), TSWLM and LTK.

[Mister Asterix]

[mra]Hmm... I

[sharpshooter]

In no order what so ever..

The Living Daylights
Licence To Kill
OHMSS
The Man With The Golden Gun
For Your Eyes Only

[Loomis]

I'd like him to have starred in:

OH NO, MR BOND!

NOT SO FAST, MR BOND!

WE MEET AGAIN, MR BOND!

WELCOME, MR BOND, I'VE BEEN EXPECTING YOU

and

BOND, JAMES BOND

Seriously, though, I'd only like to have seen him add GOLDENEYE to his filmography. I don't think he'd have fitted any of the other films any better than their real life stars did.

[Royal Dalton]

I'm pretty sure he only would have done the four (although my choice for a fifth would be From Russia with Love).

So:-

For Your Eyes Only

Octopussy

A View to a Kill

The Living Daylights

Then Brozza from 1989 onwards.

[Judo chop]

FRWL
DAF
NSNA
DAD
CR

No. Not really.

I

[Daddy Bond]

Octopussy,A View to a Kill, The Living Daylights, Licence to Kill and GoldenEye

Agreed 100%

[avl]

I'm pretty sure he only would have done the four (although my choice for a fifth would be From Russia with Love).

So:-

For Your Eyes Only

Octopussy

A View to a Kill

The Living Daylights

Then Brozza from 1989 onwards.

Add back LTK and I'm with you

[Vauxhall]

I'd be interested to see how Dalton approached movies such as MOONRAKER or OCTOPUSSY, as I've always preferred his harder persona in LICENCE TO KILL to the more laid-back THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS. I find his style of acting better suited to ON HER MAJESTY'S SECRET SERVICE and FOR YOUR EYES ONLY - so I'd be interested to see Dalton in them, although I'm particularly happy with Lazenby and Moore's portrayals in those respective films.

[Turn]

Not taking away from the other Bonds, but here's where TD would have worked well IMO:

CR-He just seems right for it. Maybe not so much as the rookie agent, but as the cold, quiet Bond Fleming created.

OHMSS-He could have pulled it off as the wearied Bond of the book. One of the best descriptions I ever read of Dalton's Bond was as a burned-out agent with just enough left for one more mission.

GE-The problem with Brosnan's Bond in this film was it was his debut. We were supposed to associate him with having a past with Trevelyan, but that's hard to do with a first film. Dalton doing this for his third film would have been perfect.

LALD-Minus the Sheriff Pepper and goofieness, he would have made formidable competition against Mr. Big.

FYEO-Something about this film just seems right for Dalton, save for the Bibi thing. The relationship with Melina is a lot like what his relationship with Kara was.

[Royal Dalton]

FYEO-Something about this film just seems right for Dalton, save for the Bibi thing. The relationship with Melina is a lot like what his relationship with Kara was.

Yeah, he was a perfect fit for it. And he probably would've had a more successful run as Bond if he'd started back then, instead of six years later.

[DaveBond21]

OHMSS, FYEO, AVTAK, GE and TND.


Goldeneye still looks, to me, like a continuation of Living Daylights. But I must say I liked Brosnan as Bond in that.

[puck]

Hello everyone, I just joined! Here are my 5 picks for Timothy Dalton's Bond.

OHMSS I loved the overall style of this film (minus the cornball jokes) and it's a shame that they didn't get a real thesp to really work it. Although GL certainly could have been worse.

FYEO I liked RM's acting in this best but this is truly Dalton territory (the juvenile skater plot notwithstanding).

TLD It combined humor w/o the silliness and toughness. I just wish there had been a more radical change in writing, DP, styling, etc . . during the TD era. As others mentioned weak villains in this one.

LTK This could have been so much more, see TLD comments, but I appreciate his performance and the darker theme and tone.

CR Because it would have been great seeing him be able to pull out the stops with full support from the right production team pulling together in symphony, torward the right aim. Very consistent vision; very consistent film. Loved it!

[ronbond]

Dalton is my favorite Bond, and it has always burned me that he got cheated out of having a longer and more successful run as Bond. If I could pick 5 films for him to be in, regardless of the order in which they were made, let's see ...

I'd start my Dalton series with On Her Majesty's Secret Service. I've already expressed the opinion in another thread that, to reconcile the Blofeld inconsistencies, YOLT was followed by DAF, which seems to start in Japan. Then, both Bond and Blofeld (the real one, as it was another double killed at the end of DAF) have plastic surgery, to prevent the other from recognizing them.

Well, after the plastic surgery, Connery looks like Dalton, and the stage is set for OHMSS. That would be Dalton's first film.

Then, For Your Eyes Only. Except the Blofeld teaser would be changed to be more serious and give Bond a more satisfying revenge. No stainless steel delicatessens here. And I think the rest of the film would have played to Dalton's strengths, especially kicking the car over the edge of the cliff. I'm sure Tim would have had no problem doing that.

Then, The Living Daylights and Licence to Kill, followed by GoldenEye.

And then, as a bonus, Never Say Never Again, in which Tim years later has to be brought out of retirement to deal with an international crisis -- but obviously the script would have to be much more polished, and someone other than SPECTRE would need to be the villains.

[O.H.M.S.S.]

Octopussy, A View to a Kill, The Living Daylights, Licence to Kill and the unfinished production in 1993.

[RedKelly]

A view to a kill notthing but Chris Walken saves this movie and it would have been great to see the two act together.

TLD

LTK

Property of a lady- I remember hearing that was the original idea

007 in New York- Finally Bond out just to be an asassin

[shehenshah]

casino royale
from russia with love
doctor no
on her majesty's secret service
diamonds are for ever (made as a sequel to OHMSS as a serious movie)

this is not to say that i didnt like what the actors in these movies did, it just that i think dalton would have done a great job in all of them

[RazorBlade]

I agree with Judo Chop
OHMSS, TMWTGG, GE through TWINE.

Though I really like Laz in OHMSS.

[pparker007]

From the past collection of Bond movies, pick 5 of them which you think Dalton could have been good if he had starred in it. You can still choose TLD or LTK if you think those were really suited to him, or you can substitute one of them for another one and then pick a 3rd.

I would keep TLD, and perhaps add to it OHMSS, CR, GE and maybe one Bond movie that is particularly bad but would greatly benefit from Dalton's acting to give it some added weight. Maybe DAD or one of the other Brosnan ones perhaps. Alternatively, I might add FYEO in there or keep LTK as one of his.

How about you?

Two movies I wish he was not in:
The Living Daylights
Licence To Kill

[coco1997]

And why is that?