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Did any of you wish Lazenby, Dalton, and Brosnan's 007 tenure's were..

Re: Did any of you wish Lazenby, Dalton, and Brosnan's 007 tenure's we

Dalton had potential to do more Bond movies and is vastly under-rated IMO but Brosnan did enough with his 4 because despite him being a good Bond, the last two film were hit n miss and I don't think CR would of been do or at least done in the same way with him.

I like the more serious Bond we have at the moment.
 
Re: Did any of you wish Lazenby, Dalton, and Brosnan's 007 tenure's we

I have, perhaps, somewhat unusual views about the various Bonds. I don't think Daniel Craig was all that good, for a start.

Lazenby, however, at least has a better "average" than Roger Moore. He only appeared in one movie and it was great. Perhaps not because of him, but still.

Moore, on the other hand, did two of my favourites - Live and Let Die and The Man With the Golden Gun. He also did two of the worst - Octopussy and A View to a Kill as well as the not bad, but boring For Your Eyes Only.
 
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If I had it my way:

Sean Connery: Starts out with "Dr. No" and bowsout with "You Only Live Twice."

George Lazenby: Starts out with "On Her Majesty's Secret Service" and bows out with "For Your Eyes Only."

Timothy Dalton: Startsout with "Octopussy" and bows out with "Licence to Kill"

Pierce Brosnan: Startsout with "Goldeneye," continues on with "Die Another Day," and bowsout with a 5th film in between 2002-2006.

Daniel Craig: "Casino Royale" - ???? (beyond "Quantum of Solace")
 
Re: Did any of you wish Lazenby, Dalton, and Brosnan's 007 tenure's we

Wow, I thought I was the only one who didn't mind George Lazenby's portrayal of Bond. Good to see there are a few people who agree with me that he wasn't the worst thing ever to happen to the movies.
 
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I just pretend the Moore years never happened.

My favorites, in oder:

Connery
Brosnan/Craig
Dalton
Lazenby
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Re: Did any of you wish Lazenby, Dalton, and Brosnan's 007 tenure's we

TheArsenal said:
Brosnan I liked a great deal as Bond. The opposite of Lazenby in that he was a better Bond than the movies he was in. I felt removing him was a mistake until I saw the excellent Casino Royale, which made it all a little easier to live with.

Since it was Brosnan who cut Dalton's run short, I'm pretty much okay with Dalton not appearing in more films.
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I agree. And I love Judi Dench as 'M'. I think they need to do a follow-up on the lump that was in the bed with her in the last film. Who should it be? I choose a real politician.
 
Re: Did any of you wish Lazenby, Dalton, and Brosnan's 007 tenure's we

Should've been Connery up to the Man with the Golden Gun, then Dalton (all the way until Die Another Day!), then Craig.

But Lazenby until For Your Eyes Only would've been interesting. I figure Octopussy and A View to a Kill would've had a bit in tone with Dalton in the lead, and coming off of a Lazenby, not Moore, era.

To be fair, Moore wasn't bad. I think there was too much self-parody during his tenure, and he was admittedly not that in love with the violent aspect of Bond's character (though he pulled it off pretty well when it was required).
 
Re: Did any of you wish Lazenby, Dalton, and Brosnan's 007 tenure's we

Lazenby, definitely. I love OHMSS.
 
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MeanJoePhaser said:
To be fair, Moore wasn't bad. I think there was too much self-parody during his tenure, and he was admittedly not that in love with the violent aspect of Bond's character (though he pulled it off pretty well when it was required).
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To tell you the truth, up until the time Pierce Brosnan became 007 in Goldeneye, I actually prefered Moore over Connery.

Of course, as I grew older, I realized that that was campy 80's juvenile nonsense I was watching, and glad to see that Bond worked better as "a tough guy" on the big screen. :cool:
 
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Well, strike me down! I just happened to watch OHMSS last night on DVD, and I was thinking that it was one of the best Bond movies ever.

I never used to think that. I thought it was slow-moving, and all the action occurs in the last hour (I was 12 when I first saw it). But now I recognise it as one of the greats. I would have liked Lazenby to continue in the role for a few more movies. He was short-changed, definitely.

I would have liked to see what Dalton would have done with For Your Eyes Only. That was one of my favourite Moore era ones (alongside The Spy Who Loved Me), but it could have worked equally well with the more serious Dalton-era Bond in the lead role. I also watched Living Daylights and Licence to Kill recently. I don't see why people don't like them. They're two of my favourite Bond movies, and Dalton was good in the role.

Brosnan was an excellent Bond. The problem is, his movies kind of petered out after Tomorrow Never Dies. Goldeneye and TND were awesome, TWINE was OK (some good action, and a great villainess; but Carlyle is wasted in the lead villain role, and the less said about nuclear scientist Denise Richards, the better), and Die Another Day was pretty dire. I would have liked to see him get another chance, though. Another Bond film with Brosnan, between DAD and Casino Royale would have been good.
 
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^I like Dalton, but I find his performance lacking in charisma. That's not to say I wanted him to grin for the camera like Moore, just that he wasn't able to strike the right balance of ruthless killer and personal magnetism. Connery and Craig both nailed it, and Brosnan came pretty close.
 
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I think the reason that Dalton get such a bad rap is becuase he came in right after Roger Moore (which due to his extended tenure, and entire generation grew up with) and portrayed Bond almost the exact opposite from Moore. Moore's bond was a comical character. Dalton's Bond was far more serious and closer to Fleming's Bond. After a decade and a half of Roger Moore, people found the change jarring. Because of this, word of mouth spreads that Timothy Dalton wasn't a good Bond, and people believe it.
 
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Hermiod said:
the not bad, but boring For Your Eyes Only.
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Ever listened to Moore's commentary on the DVD for the film?

It seems the film was an attempt to do what Casino Royale did 26 years later - back to the basics without the gadgets and glitz i.e back to basics and the only really campy bit was the Margaret Thatcher impersonator at the end.
 
Re: Did any of you wish Lazenby, Dalton, and Brosnan's 007 tenure's we

For Your Eyes Only and The Living Daylights tried to do the same thing that Casino Royale recently did. Put simply, they intended to bring Bond 'back to basics', after the silliness of Moonraker, View to a Kill, and Die Another Day respectively. But in only one of those cases did the reconceptualising of Bond not involve the changing of the actor.

For that matter, FYEO, TLD, and CR are some of my favourite Bond movies.
 
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Marc said:
Hermiod said:
the not bad, but boring For Your Eyes Only.
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Ever listened to Moore's commentary on the DVD for the film?

It seems the film was an attempt to do what Casino Royale did 26 years later - back to the basics without the gadgets and glitz i.e back to basics and the only really campy bit was the Margaret Thatcher impersonator at the end.
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Ice-skater girl was a brilliant execution of this plan. :bolian:
 
Re: Did any of you wish Lazenby, Dalton, and Brosnan's 007 tenure's we

I keep trying to block that from my mind. The moment when Lynn-Holly Johnson pushes Roger Moore against the hotel room door for some one-sided tonsil hockey was the moment when I realized he was too old to be playing James Bond anymore. :p
 
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Moore wanted to retire after For Your Eyes Only, but Cubby Broccoli retained him for Octopussy so that it could go head to head against Never Say Never Again so that 2 established Bonds could battle it out at the box-office.

James Brolin almost got the role of 007 in Octopussy until this happened. :borg:
 
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That would have been full of fail. I will never understand why they keep wanting to put American actors in as Bond. I believe Adam West was approached for OHMSS, and the names of various other American leading men were kicked around during the 70s.
 
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Well, heck, we've already had Scottish, Australian, Welsh, and Irish Bonds...
 
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