curbstomp wrote:Ughhhh... Dalton? I can't agree on that one. He was too macarbe, and lacked a lot of charisma & personality in my view.
Ha, your answer doesn't surprise me. I still think he was good, dark and serious. I don't think he lacked charisma at all. I've heard that before but I just don't see that at all. It was a welcomed change to me as the Moore era became too much of a joke and relying on gadgets. Because the Moore era got so far fetched is hasn't aged the best and allowed for the franchise to be made fun of too much(Austin Powers).
curbstomp wrote:And I think that Connery's "phoning it in" didn't come until You Only Live Twice.
The reason I feel that it came after Goldfinger was because it was on the set of Goldfinger where he started throwing his tantrums and hating the role that made him famous. I recall a story where he walked off the set for a few days until Cubby and Saltzman agreed to give him a raise in pay. Then it was also like he started to go in his second phase of awkward puberty, where he was starting to bald and get a paunch around his stomach. Although thats more noticable in Diamonds Are Forever. But it seems after Goldfing, to me at least, Connery hated the role and was just doing it for the money and because everything else at the time he was doing wasn't so successful. All the passion he had in Dr. No, FRWL and GF seemed gone.
curbstomp wrote:Although I do agree that Brosnan was getting stale. It aimed for too much of an over the top, action oriented angle. I'll never forgive them for making Die Another Day. The screwed up thing is that they based the screenplay off the Moonraker novel. Why the hell would they want to adapt a Bond movie from a bad Bond book that was already adapted into a bad Bond movie? Doesn't make sense.
Yeah I was tired of Pierce and the movies they were making. I'm glad they made the abrupt change. I didn't know DAD was lifted from Moonraker. They were just going way too far out with the cgi.
curbstomp wrote:I'm thrilled that Casino Royale finally made it to the screen though. And while I wasn't as enthused about Craig in the beginning I changed my mind once seeing him in Layer Cake & in Munich.
Layer Cake and Munich for some reason never really changed my opinion of Craig. I thought he was still weird looking and was upset at the choice. However after seeing CR I changed my mind and thought he was decent to good. Although in a couple shots I still thought he looked weird.
Curbstomp, which actor were you hoping to replace Brosnan?