The Bond films of the 1980's Vs. The Bond films of the 1990's
AlphaOmegaSin
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My own continuation of the Lego Batman's Thread. Which of these two Decades for Bond do you prefer?
1.On Her Majesties Secret Service 2.The Living Daylights 3.license To Kill 4.The Spy Who Loved Me 5.Goldfinger
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I like the 80's too. Mostly because of the two Timothy Dalton movies and the fact that Maud Adams came back for Octopussy but I was only a baby back then. You see, I was born in the year 1985, the same year as Roger Moore's last Bond movie (A View to a Kill) and Back to the Future. I grew up in the 90's. During the Pierce Brosnan era and GoldenEye was my favorite film of his...
I agree
1 - Moore, 2 - Dalton, 3 - Craig, 4 - Connery, 5 - Brosnan, 6 - Lazenby
GE
TLD
LTK
TND
FYEO
AVTAK
OP
TWINE
So it's pretty even, probably collectively I would say the 80's. However, if you are including all the Bond universe, for me GE64 was such a huge part of my childhood that I would have to say the 90's.
GoldenEye didn't do it for you sir?
The highlights of the 80's Bond for me are Octopussy, AVTAK and Living Daylights. I really like the 90's Brosnan trilogy, but they lack the vintage charm of the 80's.
All 6 of those films I just mentioned are in my top 10... so it's fairly evenly matched.
1. GE 2. MR 3. OP 4. TMWTGG 5. TSWLM 6. TND 7. TWINE 8.DN 9. GF 10. AVTAK
I like all 3 of Moore's 80's flick, like TLD a lot too and I don't mind LTK
But Dalton's occupy the top two spots, so it has to be 80's for me.
#1.TLD/LTK 2.TND 3.GF 4.GE 5.DN 6.FYEO 7.FRWL 8.TMWTGG 9.TWINE 10.YOLT/QOS
For Your Eyes Only, The Living Daylights, and Licence to Kill were all excellent films. In the 1990s, however, I'd argue that only GoldenEye was the only film that stood out as being very good.
What were you hoping for? Something more along the lines of For Your Eyes Only and/or The Living Daylights? Or are you just not a fan of Martin Campbell's direction? Because I thought he was a great film-maker until he made Green Lantern...Which I hear is a bigger piece of crap than Die Another Day ever was.
The Green Lantern is way worse than Die Another Day. Way worse!
Heard nothing but BAD reports.
True, it's probably Campbell's worst movie, but his worst is still entirely watchable IMO.
#1.TLD/LTK 2.TND 3.GF 4.GE 5.DN 6.FYEO 7.FRWL 8.TMWTGG 9.TWINE 10.YOLT/QOS
Lots of things bothered me about Goldeneye:
It needed better production values, for one. I still think Goldeneye looks more like a cable TV movie of the time than a Bond film. The Living Daylights looks better and so does Tomorrow Never Dies. The bad CGI and model work notwithstanding, whole sets seemed underdeveloped or underwhelming, and a lot of the characters, like the computer nerd, were just annoying or half baked, giving the film a Bond wannabe rather than a Bond for real quality. The music was mostly odd, and the plot, well, it just didn't seem all that intriguing to me.
Brosnan underwhelmed me, which is so weird because when Remington Steele premiered, the first thing I said was "That guy should be Bond." He did a Coke commercial or something, too, where he essentially was doing Bond, but it was lighter and with more flair than any of his films. It felt like with Brosnan's casting, the Bond films would combine the wit and humor of the Moore era with the more suave and dangerous qualities of the Connery era. Instead, they decided to try to make Brosnan tougher and more dour, and I don't think those are his strengths.
Martin Campbell did a fine job with Casino Royale and The Legend of Zorro -- to the degree that I almost don't believe he did Goldeneye. The directing styles are very different, with his first Bond seeming rather amateurish by comparison. So it might not be him, I suppose. But Goldeneye just doesn't do it for me. I can watch it, but I thought six years was plenty of time to establish something bigger and spectacular. This wasn't the movie I'd been waiting all those years for.
Thank Buddha it was as good as it was.
TND is still my favourite from that era though. -{
#1.TLD/LTK 2.TND 3.GF 4.GE 5.DN 6.FYEO 7.FRWL 8.TMWTGG 9.TWINE 10.YOLT/QOS
I've seen a video on Youtube of a guy saying that Green Lantern is basically "a bread basket at a restaurant, there's nothing to complain about, but it's really just there to tide you over until some real food is served."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fARbgw4upoY
^Here's the video where so-and-so compared Green Lantern to a bread basket.
No, it was by no means perfect, but not every superhero movie can be Superman: The Movie or Iron Man.
#1.TLD/LTK 2.TND 3.GF 4.GE 5.DN 6.FYEO 7.FRWL 8.TMWTGG 9.TWINE 10.YOLT/QOS