Which Bond do you wish made more films?
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Pierce Brosnan, without a doubt.
His Bond should not have been limited to only four. He was SO good in the role and he definitely had enough gas to keep going after DAD. I feel like Pierce deserved more films.
His Bond should not have been limited to only four. He was SO good in the role and he definitely had enough gas to keep going after DAD. I feel like Pierce deserved more films.
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1. GoldenEye 2. Goldfinger 3. Skyfall 4. OHMSS 5. TWINE
1. GoldenEye 2. Goldfinger 3. Skyfall 4. OHMSS 5. TWINE
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He could've done more films (perhaps up to two more) but for the long drawn out legal battle that EON were involved in. I find that his portrayal of Bond is the closest to the original Fleming character, and as a Fleming purist, I would've liked to see Dalton do more.
Roger Moore - two more films in 1987 and '89 would have been great. B-)
Pierce Brosnan - would have been nice to see him doing CR, QOS and finish with SF (which with its theme of an old, burnt-out Bond would have fitted Brosnan just as well as Craig who looks exactly the same age now)
I think Pierce had at most one film left in him until we were in AVTAK territory assuming that it quickly followed DAD.
Timothy Dalton - two more in 1991 and 1993, maybe even GoldenEye in 1995.
Pierce Brosnan - another Bond film in 2004-2005, his last of 5. Interview about just this very subject in The Irish Mail on Sunday today, funny enough.
- Roger Moore did more than enough! :P
- Timothy Dalton is my main choice for this! He is closest to the Bond of the novells, I think he would have grown on to become one of the best and well-respected Bond's in history! Had Roger Moore only done the first two I think people wouldn't have such a high oppinion on him either. Nowadays people usually say the big Bonds were Connery, Moore, Brosnan and now Craig, oh and there were some minor one's: Lazenby and Dalton.... I don't mind callining Lazenby minor, as he kind of was... But Dalton! He's so overlooked! (Especially by casual Bond fans) Such a shame the MGM issues started in the early 90'ies. I would have loved to she what '91 s "'the property of a lady'" could have brought to the franchise!
I wouldn't have anything against seeing Brosnan do a fifth one either by the way...
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Dalton could have easily done five, and ended with Goldeneye, then they could have gone with Brosnan. It may have even helped Brosnan out. He's lamented as of late that he never got to play the role the way he wanted, and didn't like doing the one liners. If Dalton had done five, and the more serious Bond had been given a chance to find audiences, then Brosnan probably could have had a shot at a more serious Bond as well.
I mean, after 20 years he is actually starting to rise up in the rankings finally and that's just with two entries.
I say that because had any of them done more, the pattern of the films as we know them would not have come to pass. Lazenby passed on doing more, his choice. Dalton also said Thank You and Goodnight after waiting for the legal mess of MSM's financial woes to sort itself out. If Mr Brosnan had done another, then CR-06 would not have happened as it did, in the way it did. Would I have liked to see those actors mentioned above do more? Yes. But life (especially 007s!) is too short for "what iffing."
Once was enough for Lazenby.
Brosnan should have gotten at least one more.
Thankfully the two best Bonds both did 7 films. -{
1. GE 2. MR 3. OP 4. TMWTGG 5. TSWLM 6. TND 7. TWINE 8.DN 9. GF 10. AVTAK
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1. GE 2. MR 3. OP 4. TMWTGG 5. TSWLM 6. TND 7. TWINE 8.DN 9. GF 10. AVTAK
Agreed, brothers in Bond.
I think, I should do rank it...
1. Timothy Dalton
2. George Lazenby
3 Pierce Brosnan
4. Sean Connery
5. Roger Moore (No offensive old Rog, Your awesome, but I think you've made enough)
-Casino Royale, Ian Fleming
I also thought Dalton was really great and engaging.
I think Brosnan could have handled one last great film, but who knows if Casino Royale would have been the same had Brosnan's tenure not ended as it did.
I would have been fine with more Lazenby, but I don't think he was the draw of OHMSS at all.
Moore is the only one I would say really had just what he should have. Not too many, since several are fantastic in his tenure, and not too few, since it lasted a while with a tolerable number of dud outings.
1. GoldenEye 2. Goldfinger 3. Skyfall 4. OHMSS 5. TWINE
Dalton - Should've taken over starting with AVTAK and played Bond up until and including 1993.
Brosnan - Should've done one last film provided it came out in 2004 or 2005.
Craig - Can stay on for a sixth outing after these next two films provided age becomes kinder to him.
Terribly sorry to disagree old man but...his performances either side of OHMSS were not his finest hour. At his best he could have done a fine job, but he was bored and jaded and the relationship with EON was strained.I doubt therefore that things would have improved after YOLT to the extent to allow him to be his best.