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I wish someday, someone is going to spill the beans on what happened with the Pierce Brosnan films and why was the most anticipated Bond of all time turned out to be a letdown? Sure he was insanely popular and his films did really well but they were never on a Connery or even Roger Moore level. Brosnan seems to bitter and Barbara won't talk. Someone has to pump her for information.

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I think people were just getting a bit bored of Bond, especially with the Bourne films coming along. Didn't really help that the Brosnan films aside from Goldeneye were pretty disappointing. Brosnan seems to be pretty bitter about the direction the films took and seems the producers completely missed following up on Goldeneye's darker tone.

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I think people were just getting a bit bored of Bond, especially with the Bourne films coming along. Didn't really help that the Brosnan films aside from Goldeneye were pretty disappointing. Brosnan seems to be pretty bitter about the direction the films took and seems the producers completely missed following up on Goldeneye's darker tone.

It seemed like no one seemed confident in pushing the series in new directions after Cubby's death so they went a safer route. The basic foruma but with more explosions, machine gun fire and hip young actresses to appeal to the young boys. Any attempt to go different direction gets held back by insecurity. The World is Not Enough and Die Another Day seemed to start off going a new direction then they just made them into mindless action films.

I'd be pissed too if I was waiting almost 20 years to get a role only to be in mediocre films.

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They progressively get worse. I liked Tomorrow Never Dies slightly better than The World is Not Enough. Both films did indeed have great concepts but like you said they were poorly executed. I haven't heard much from Apted but Spottiswood was frustrated by MGM and the producers while filming TMD. Purvis and Wade brought back the concept of MI6 under attack from World's Not Enough and reinvented it for Skyfall with John Logan. I guess they wanted to redeem their first Bond story.

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Yesterday I watched A View To A Kill on Blu Ray. Great transfer, but it's such a dated movie :confused:

I think Goldeneye is on tap for today.

Are you watching them in random?

Maybe I will watch GoldenEye today.

I think Die Another Day will go down as the most dated James Bond film.

Yea. I wanted to watch them in order, but my parents wanted to watch FRWL on Christmas, and one of my friends wanted to watch AVTAK yesterday, and I'm itching to watch Goldeneye for some awful reason, so I guess going in order has pretty much gone out the window :lol:
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Of all films, why A View to a Kill?

I've been itching to watch GoldenEye too a couple weeks ago. Maybe it was because I haven't seen it in years and I associated with the video game for so long. I liked it just fine watching it but there was one thing that bothered me.

Pierce's hair.

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Of all films, why A View to a Kill?

I've been itching to watch GoldenEye too a couple weeks ago. Maybe it was because I haven't seen it in years and I associated with the video game for so long. I liked it just fine watching it but there was one thing that bothered me.

Pierce's hair.

Nostalgia? :shrugs: I don't hate AVTAK, but it's so dated.

I pulled this list from the Bond subreddit, I'm interested to see what everyone puts for each of the following categories:

Best Movie

Best Bond Actor

Best Bond Girl

Best Minor Character

Best Villain

Best Bond Vehicle

Best Bond Gadget/Weapon

Best Theme

Best Video Game

Worst Movie

Worst Bond Actor

Worst Bond Girl

Worst Minor Character

Worst Villain

Worst Bond Vehicle

Worst Bond Gadget/Weapon

Worst Theme

Worst Video Game

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Best Movie: On Her Majesty's Secret Service

Best Bond: Daniel Craig

Best Bond Girl: Domino Auger (Thunderball)

Best Minor Character: Q. Honorable mention: Jack Wade

Best Villain: Silva

Best Bond Vehicle: DB7 from The Living Daylights

Best Bond Gadget/Weapon: Walther PPK

Best Theme: Song? Thunderball

Best Video Game: GoldenEye 64

Worst Movie: Die Another Day

Worst Bond Actor: Pierce Brosnan

Worst Bond Girl: Jynx

Worst Minor Character: Mr. Kill

Worst Villain: Elliot Carver

Worst Bond Vehicle: Anything BMW

Worst Bond Gadget/Weapon: Invisble car

Worst Theme: Die Another Day

Worst Video Game: Only played one video game.

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Best Movie: From Russia With Love

Best Bond Actor: Connery

Best Bond Girl: Teresa (Diana Rigg)

Best Minor Character: M played by Lee.

Best Villain: Good ole' Rosa Klebb and the shoe.

Best Bond Vehicle: Aston Martin DB5

Best Bond Gadget/Weapon: Walther PPK.

Best Theme: YOLT

Best Video Game: Goldeneye (N64)

Worst Movie: Die Another Day

Worst Bond Actor: Moore.

Worst Bond Girl: Christmas Jones

Worst Minor Character: A few of the Leiters were not that good.

Worst Villain: Dominic Green from QOS

Worst Bond Vehicle: invisible car

Worst Bond Gadget/Weapon: the invisible car

Worst Theme: Madonna's DAD

Worst Video Game: Do not know. I only ever played Goldeneye which I love.

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Best Movie: From Russia with Love

Best Bond: Sean Connery

Best Bond Girl: XXX (Spy who Loved me)

Best Minor Character: Q

Best Villain: Red Grant

Best Bond Vehicle: DB7 from The Living Daylights

Best Bond Gadget/Weapon: Bonds laser watch (classic!)

Best Theme: Song? Live and Let Die

Best Video Game: GoldenEye 64

Worst Movie: Die Another Day

Worst Bond Actor: Pierce Brosnan

Worst Bond Girl: Jynx

Worst Minor Character: can't think

Worst Villain: Mr Big

Worst Bond Vehicle: Invisible car

Worst Bond Gadget/Weapon: Invisble car

Worst Theme: Die Another Day/Quantum

Worst Video Game: Only played one video game.

I'll add;

Most Underrated Bond Film: For your Eyes Only

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Jack Wade needs more love. The CIA oeprative who loves gardening.

I watched Goldeneye before The Living Daylights, so I was pretty confused at first :lol:

I know, right? It was those subtle things the filmmakers make us believe that the films have limited continuiety but every character is the same like Bond.

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Jack Wade needs more love. The CIA oeprative who loves gardening.

I watched Goldeneye before The Living Daylights, so I was pretty confused at first :lol:

I know, right? It was those subtle things the filmmakers make us believe that the films have limited continuiety but every character is the same like Bond.

Exactly, although I like that Russian gangster who is in Goldeneye and comes back in The World Is Not Enough
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