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Pierce Brosnan for me... I think it really has to do who you grew up watching play James Bond. I just loved GoldenEye. I think the N64 game had a little something to do with it too!
Don't bash me though.. I still enjoy watchin the old Bond Movies! Especially "Man with the Golden Gun"
I think it really has to do who you grew up watching play James Bond
Very true. I grew up with Dalton and Brosnan playing the parts, so I could never say I didn't like them because those are the people I saw first. But when I started to watch the older movies, I realized Dalton and Brosnan weren't the only good Bond actors. In fact, some were better than them.
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If you read the books then George Lazenby was indeed the closest to the character in the novels. I also liked him as Bond because he used very few spy gimmicks in that movie and also because Lazenby used no stunt double throughout the film, the only Bond who didn't. He actually did all the skiing in "On Her Majesty's Secret Service" as well, including the mono-ski scenes. Fairly impressive actually. In fact it shamed Sean Connery, who did none of his own stunts in Bond movies, so much that Connery began doing his own stunts in later movies such as "The Man Who Would Be King." In that movie Connery himself took the longest fall ever put on film without a chute.
By the way, for Bond fans you have to add the names of Woody Allen, David Niven, and Peter Sellers, who all played a Bond character in the movie "Casino Royale." There was also one other actor who played Bond in a TV version that came out about 1960 and preceded any of the movies, but I can't recall the name of the actor who played Bond in that one.
I still think the best Bond film overall was "Goldfinger."
Pierce Brosnan for me... I think it really has to do who you grew up watching play James Bond. I just loved GoldenEye. I think the N64 game had a little something to do with it too!
Don't bash me though.. I still enjoy watchin the old Bond Movies! Especially "Man with the Golden Gun"
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Well not for me,
I was born in 1988 and I think that Sean Conerry was the best, his last (official) bond movie was made in 1971, he did make a 007 movie in 1983 though that is okay, im watching it right now. I was also thinking of another good reason that I like the Sean Connerry ones the best is that the villans were cooler back then too. They had something unique to each one, they had the coolest layers, and they had the nicest stuff, and they were usually pretty Rich. The brosnan movies and many action movies like the bond movies today are all the same, the villan is some violent eastern european, russian, middle easterner, or latin american tyrant. They are not cool calm and collected, and they dont have cool stuff or sexy sidekicks. Dont some agree?
If you want to see the fall just go out and rent a copy of "The Man Who Would Be King." It's a pretty good film since it stars Sean Connery and Michael Caine as a couple of AWOL British soldiers in the late 1800's roaming about in Tajikistan. One of Connery's better non-Bond efforts.
I was also thinking of another good reason that I like the Sean Connerry ones the best is that the villans were cooler back then too. They had something unique to each one, they had the coolest layers, and they had the nicest stuff, and they were usually pretty Rich. The brosnan movies and many action movies like the bond movies today are all the same, the villan is some violent eastern european, russian, middle easterner, or latin american tyrant.
I don't like how if both of the last movies, there have been traitors, or deceivers. In The World Is Not Enough and Die Another Day there have been people luring other people into traps. So to me, it made Die Another Day seem like it was already done, but I didn't care for that movie anyway.
If you notice, Russia had a big impact on the old movies, not just the new ones. Remember from RUSSIA with love? I think they use villains from countries that are threats to the United States presently. When the first Bond films came out, Russia was more of a threat, but now, with the Middle East and Korean threats, they are focusing on villians from those countries.
I think that Sean Conerry was the best, his last (official) bond movie was made in 1971, he did make a 007 movie in 1983 though that is okay,
I think he made that movie because he was mad that MGM (I think) told him he was too old.
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ATL, BWI, CLT, CVG, DAL, DEN, DFW, DTW, EWR, HOU, IAD, IAH, LAS, MCI, MCO, MDW, MEM, MSP, ORD, PHX, SLC, and STL.
I realize that russia was the enemy a lot in the 007 movies, but the villian in russia w/love was cool. He was rich, had a cool layer, and cool sidekicks and gadgets. He was fictitional. That is what I like about the villians from that time. Now they are sweaty angry loud violent men. And they dont have style. Lol
If you want to see the fall just go out and rent a copy of "The Man Who Would Be King." It's a pretty good film since it stars Sean Connery and Michael Caine as a couple of AWOL British soldiers in the late 1800's roaming about in Tajikistan. One of Connery's better non-Bond efforts.
Coincidentally, "The Man Who Would Be King" was on television last night... and Mr. Freightdogg is correct: it's an excellent adventure romp that has more depth than most films of the genre. The chemistry between Caine and Connery is terrific, the scenery of Central Asia is majestic, and Huston's directing is crisp and direct: a superb tale, superbly told (based on a Rudyard Kipling short story).
I don't know what more anyone could want out of a movie... except nekkid titties, maybe.
________ Avandia death
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