I bet you couldn't actually elaborate how "it feels like an entity onto itself attached to a series rather than a product of one." Wtf does that even mean lol

@@alwaysOPEN4business it's not OP's fault you're stupid

@@alwaysOPEN4business yes agreed! :D one could say that about any movie in the series

TND is hugely underrated. I rewatched it recently and it really has all the elements of a classic Bond movie, I can't understand why it flies so low under the radar

I love both those films too, but that's not saying much considering how bad his last two films were.

The second half of Die Another Day + Casino Royale = Really damaged Brosnans legacy.

Brosnan did a ton with often-mixed bag scripts... totally agreed with your comments. It's possible the "walk away like a Batman villain trope" was used since he was a double agent, but it's not likely. Also, when a new Bond is introduced, it can really set the stage. In this movie, it's is him popping down in a lavatory. His era was never better than Goldeneye, but props to Brosnan for the moments that go above and beyond the sub-Moore camp.

Serra's score, the heavy use of model work, many of the sets are drab computer rooms, it looks really dated today. Goldeneye's plot was pretty much a hangover from the vintage era of Bond. Tomorrow Never Dies went into a new territory of info tech, the then new world 24 hour news network and it's still relevant given the concern over fake news

I believe there is a story floating around somewhere on the choice of film stock used for Golden Eye wich made it a bit grainy, and many of the releases on DVD and even BluRay has had negative points for using heavy methods of sharpening and cleaning up the picture. I do believe they have made a real restauration on the most recent 4K versions though. But I dont want to make the impression I have it totally correct but I think you could google the answers you seek with this in mind.

The use of older sound effects (gun shots and explosions) are very present in the movie as well. But for all its visual and audio quirks, I think it adds to its charm.

@@ricardocantoral7672 okay cool story, Mister Movie Director. Just lemme get my Cousin who is a Movie Director himself

Tomorrow Never Dies is a masterpiece

he would have made an excellent Terminator.

It literally got to the point where he now refuses to take on a role where he dies, in order to try and counteract the typecasting

I think that's a good take. I read somewhere that Brosnan was the Tony Blair of Bond's trying to be all things to all people, which I tend to agree with. He could have been the best, if he'd had better material to work with. I do love Tomorrow Never Dies though!

I agree. He was clearly intimidated by the role.

It's funny, I recently watched the Brosnan movies and he progressively gets better in the role even as the movies slowly decline (untill they fall off a cliff)

Er except Roger Moore had already done this yes he had comedy but he also played serious side brilliantly quite a few cold kills by Moore annoys me people just think his were all comedy. Brosnan to me was just copy of Moore's prob equal amount of puns etc

I think TND is his best film tbh, but GE gets all the accolades only bc it’s script is near-perfect.

Definitely the most underrated Bond of all time, and my second favourite after Connery. For me my introduction to the franchise was The World Is Not Enough (objectively not one of the better entries, but goddammit if I don't have a deep personal nostalgia for it).

​@@oliverholmes-gunning5372 No, World is Not Enough is definitely better than its given credit for. Everyone rags on Denise Richards, but the film is actually a point-by-point warmup for all the best aspects of the Craig era (same writers). Ironic.

I totally agree, I've got Brosnan Moore Connery in that order but it's very close, I never saw Dalton and Craig as Bond

Brosnans full post-GoldenEye run tends to get lumped in with the second half of Die Another. Underappreciated era.

essential bond is the Connery years

Yep, he was always Remington Steele to me, when these movies were being made. It was distracting, in a way that Simon Templar and Brett Sinclair were not.

Brosnan is still the best Bond.

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I think Tomorrow Never Dies is better.

@@TheToonMonkey at least he looked like he wanted to be on screen. Craig looked like he wanted to slit his wrists in every scene. In his last movie he just seemed to be relieved it was all over. Brosnan was brilliant he had the right balance of Connery and Moore he was just stuck was some bad scripts. He deserved another film after the disaster that was Die Another Day, which was though a terrible film but still better than the shite of Specter and (Plenty of)Time To Die.

@@purefoldnz3070 In the future, deep fake technology will allow us to superimpose the faces and voices of our favourite actors on any existing film. Quantum of Solace, with Dalton, Brosnan or Moore replacing Craig, will be recognised as a brilliant movie. No amount of CGI will save the other Craig films, they will always remain unwatchable tripe. (Perhaps people will deep fake Craig into Die Another Day, just to emphasize how bad it is, and it will take a place among the pantheon of "so bad they're funny" cult classics.)

Would you care to attempt to justify your position?

@@kelvinp.coleman563 I just love, love laugh-out fun. Die Another Day feels to me like a production crew drunk on their past successes, trying out their craziest ideas. Pierce Brosnan is utterly comfortable as a bit of a horny dad at this point, and Rosamund Pike hams it up to no end. Basically A View to a Kill, except actually great. The third and second Brosnan films are this to a consecutively lesser extent, and GoldenEye is just … there.

Tomorrow Never Dies is waaaay better Die Another Day and The World is Not Enough.

Brosnan is the best bond in the worst films

I honestly think the follow-up was better.

@@SommersetStriker He was certainly the prettiest. He did give us two good Films before things went South.

@@ricardocantoral7672 I may well agree with you. I did enjoy Tomorrow Never Dies. Such a shame that the next two were not so good.

@@tomsenior7405 I thought it had a better villain, Carver, Brosnan looked and acted a lot better than he did in Goldeneye, and there is an element of satire regarding corporate media. The downsides would be the weak henchmen and too much of Michael Bay influence.

I disagree about Brosnan - I would put him as one of the worst Bonds

I disagree - give me Dalton over Brosnan anyday!

Yes. At the start of the scene the nerve gas factory is at the bottom of the mountain, at the end of the scene it is on top of the mountain. Surely one of the worst writing errors in the history of cinema.

I agree with you about Dalton and this script, but this was not the proposed story for Dalton's third appearance. And I assume John Glen and the usual production team would have been involved in Dalton's final contracted film. So I don't believe we would have seen this story with Dalton with the actual 'Goldeneye' production team. I also believe that once 'Goldeneye' was such a great financial success, the producers decided to play it safe and so Brosnan was never given a script that would have allowed him to really define himself properly as Bond. So.....that 6 year gap due to legal disputes effectively undermined two different Bond actors.

I think so too - Dalton should have had his trilogy 🙃 but again when money is involved with studios who cares about the themes of the movies especially for someone like James Bond. I love Pierce he’s a great actor. Although his last Bond film was so over the top lol but I still like it: I can’t wait to see how he handles Dr Fate in Black Adam movie.

@@CaminoAir Dalton was adamant about not working with Glen again after Licence to Kill. They had a falling out about something. The scripts I’ve seen for the unmade third Dalton venture didn’t impress me much. Some plot points were recycled in Tomorrow Never Dies and The World is Not Enough. I don’t know the chronology of the Goldeneye script but some parts seem to me to have been drafted with Dalton in mind. I think he made a mistake in not coming back, especially if this was the script. You are right about both Bonds being a bit scuttled by history, but Dalton is not the type to “play it safe”.