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You know what? I'm a fickle fuck and you reminding me of those scenes in Licence to Kill changed my opinion. It's good too. I also agree about the fourth wall break with Lazenby. It serves no purpose.I went through a time where I watched them all in a row because I was a 1 year old when Dalton did his movies and I only really saw the Brosnan ones and some of the Craig ones up until my teens or so.
I think both Dalton ones are good. He had a hardass Lee van Cleef kind of look to him. I liked how they went for a more hardcore action appeal as a contrast from the campy, tongue-in-cheek Moore era. Moore would be karate chopping guys and they’d be unconscious for 3 hours because Moore was uncomfortable with extreme violence. Old hack should have picked a new character to play if he cared but whatever. He was also ancient at the end of his run and it just looked stupid to have ol’ Granpappy Moore seducing all these women.
In License to Kill they had Felix Leiter get his legs eaten by sharks and then had Benicio del Toro say Leiter’s now dead wife had a very nice “honeymoooooooooooooooooooooon” after she was raped and killed. It was hilariously brutal for a Bond movie.
I will say I liked The Spy Who Loved Me quite a bit out of the Moore era and some of the ridiculous ones like The Man With The Golden Gun were fun in a zany kind of way. Christopher Lee is always a good villain even in shit movies.
Connery’s are great for the most part. Goldfinger always makes me laugh at the Fort Knox scene. A fat ass German in a stolen officer’s uniform with a gold pistol says “zey vent zat vay!” to the soldiers running by and nobody is like hey wait a minute who is that fat German with a non-standard issue pistol? Aren’t we looking for a fat German who loves gold?
When Connery shoots the scientist guy who makes a move for his gun in Dr. No and when he fights Robert Shaw in the train car in From Russia With Love are good examples of the ruthlessness lost in the Moore era and brought back under Dalton.
I do like Goldeneye still. Sean Bean is a good villain to me and I like a lot of the setpieces like the train and the satellite.
Craig I want to like more than I do. I thought Casino Royale was great except for the “Vesper Lind” love story shit. Predictable garbage that slowed the film down. Skyfall I thought they should have done more with Javier Bardem. Spectre was just a lost opportunity to make better use of Blofeld in his return. Quantum of Solace had maybe the worst plot and villain in Bond history and that’s saying a lot. The villain had the most generic name and the plot was to control water in a third world shithole. Just awful.
Lazenby’s was an ok entry but I really hated the constant wink and nods to the character of Bond rather just being Bond. He’s sitting there reading a playboy or something at one point. Because he can’t get enough of the sex! Bond would just have sex with whatever bimbo was at hand, there was no need to ham it up like that. Plus at the start of the movie he says something like “this never happened to the other fellow!” after a chick robs his car in the opening sequence. It was unnecessary to be self-referential and just made me realize he’s no Connery from the jump rather than letting the new guy grow on me. It did show another side to the Bond character though with the marriage storyline.
He's good. An underrated Bond.Where we at with the Timothy Dalton? I like the Timothy Dalton to be perfectly honest witcha