I'm really weird, I think Brosnan is the best Bond, just for GoldenEye alone.
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The best part of the Roger Moore movies is the chase scene music. With the 89's synth techno and blaring trumpets. One of my favorite examples: (skip ahead to 1:13 or so)
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Brosnan was very good as an evolution of Moore's Bond, and if you didn't like Dalton (like me) then he was a welcome change.
I grew up on the Moore films. The Connery ones are great but a little old school for me. Craig is in another zip code, the new version is awesome but has definatley lost a few things that make bond fun. I'm glad he's not driving invisible cars but I'd like to see a few more gadgets.
Idris Elba would be a good choice, I don't think Hiddlestone could sell it for me. But I thought Brosnan was wrong before he got the role.
Connery is the best because he got the right mix of light and dark. Also, the clothes, cars, everything were more stylish in the 60s.
Now that the Bonds seem to have fallen into a pattern of light - dark - light - dark, I'd like to see the next Bond lighten things up. They don't have to go full Octopussy, but a bit of wit, levity, and camp would go over well.
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I thought Kingsman was a better Bond movie than any Bond movie since Goldeneye.
I get that the setup was Bond-like, but the ridiculous, over-the-top gore violence (church fight and heads exploding) was about as non-Bond as you can get.
I get that the setup was Bond-like, but the ridiculous, over-the-top gore violence (church fight and heads exploding) was about as non-Bond as you can get.
Fair enough, I kinda forgot about those bits. Gadgets and dialoug were great though.
Fair enough, I kinda forgot about those bits. Gadgets and dialoug were great though.
Oh yeah, Kingsman was a good movie, it had other aspects that you never really see with Bond like how he learned his skills and came to be the super agent that he is. That would be kind of cool to see, but it isnt really in the Bond 'theme.'
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Oh yeah, Kingsman was a good movie, it had other aspects that you never really see with Bond like how he learned his skills and came to be the super agent that he is. That would be kind of cool to see, but it isnt really in the Bond 'theme.'
I want a bit Bond extended universe stuff, like Judy Dench's 'M' backstory, a slick 60s cold war spy thriller, but with the gritty moral complexity of the Craig Bond movies. I had that thought even after Casino Royale, and Skyfall really demonstrated that she had the potential to be one of the most interesting characters in the franchise. Not sure who you'd get to play her, someone young, diminutive and unassuming but capable of a withering glare. Maybe Emma Watson. I'd watch that.
Edit: Actually, after googling pictures of young Judy Dench, Carey Mulligan is a dead-ringer; she'd be awesome for that role.
Honestly, I dont think we'd like it. People like Bond as he is. Its where the appeal is. Seeing Bond screw up, get shot down, all that? I dont think thats what people want out of a Bond film.
Hell, look at Casino Royale, a lot of people didnt like the fact that he was a bit different and unpolished.
Thats the beauty of James Bond movies, audiences are pretty forgiving because we sort of know what we want and as long as we more or less get it we can ignore a lot of the other stuff.
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It is but the book isn't a pseudo origin story the way the movie was.
Edit: speaking of the books and having read almost all them I can say that they are hilariously racist and mysoginistic. To a level that even the most offensive film portrayals don't come close to matching.
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Gadgets and dialoug were great though.
