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Craig's casting way back caused a fury of activity, and I am sure the next feller will have the same reaction.
Well...I guess he's overacting more than Louis Jourdan at least, but hey, that's his role. What do you expect from a guy who is ordered to drive a Mercedes on railroad tracks?
Price is just fantastic, the media mogul bar none. full of himself, loud and arrogant, it fits the character perfectly and personally I like him as the best Brosnan-villain. He may not be a regular one, but the story and perforrmance fit perfectly fine.
Tanya Roberts isn't over-acting, her acting is just not that convincing.
Jo Don Baker in TLD is a typical American arms dealer. Again his portrayal fits the character.
Obruchev, however, I have a problem with. Somehow the performance doesn't work. I don't find the character funny nor convincing. His timing isn't good, hence the funny moments fall flat (compare that to Anna's performence, her timing is impeccable).
So for me the Klebbie should go to Obruchev.
We don't know what Putin is like in private meetings with his generals.
For me, Berkoff is strategic, petulant, and spot on, and prescient of the world's evil we are unfortunately facing today.
The Soviet Union was infamous for its backstabbing and scheming, and that still happens in its current military. Hence, nothing was written down and people (high-ranking officials) usually kept (keep?) a low profile and say as little as possible.
OHHH MY CAR!!! MAH CAR MAH CAR!!!! *wild arm gestures, followed by losing control of legs when getting pushed into table*
I'M INVINCIBLEEEE!!!!!!
Because of its characters (like Boris and Xenia) I don't think Goldeneye was as grounded as people making it out to be.
PS: Oops, wrong movie :-)
Is there anyone who isn t hammy in that film, except for Karyo?
Boris is the least hammiest of all the Bond characters, but a vote is a vote. Mine goes to Jonathan Pryce.
Maybe I don't understand the meaning of the word 'hammy', but it's a bad performance anyway
It seems to me that the character was written to be that type, so he actually really did exactly what he was supposed to.
Agreed, I don’t think we’re supposed to warm up to Boris at all. He’s genuinely dislikable from the moment he’s introduced in the sense that he’s an arrogant two-faced jerk, and I think Cumming played that perfectly.
1. Clifton James as JW Pepper - he tends to overact at some point, especially in The Man With The Golden Gun, or even in LALD, but in TMWTGG is where his hammy performance began to show.
2. Rami Malek as Safin - Hammy? Yes, particularly his attempt at accents, it's like he's trying hard to do a Russian-Japanese accents, he's even whispering to the point that his dialogues gets boring, it's like trying hard at best, it's not natural, remember "peop-el" and his expression at the end when Bond shot him after infecting him with nanobots ("Madeleine! And yes M-M-Maathildeee!")
3. Talisa Soto as Lupe Lamora - given already in my other post ("I love James so much!", "I don't wanna go back!", "Can I live with you, I think I will be safe with you?"), In the first act of the film, she's fine, but near the climax, at the third act, once she's reunited with Dalton's Bond, that's where her hammy performance shows.
4. Gloria Hendry as Rosie Carver - A Hammy character combined with a hammy acting, then it's all hammy all the way, she's acting weird and anxious in an unconvincing and unnatural way, she's trying hard to be this clumsy, naive, anxious woman, but it comes off as overacting, she's even not convincing as an agent or double agent, would it work had they gotten a different actress? Maybe, the concept would work.
Of course he is meant to be a jerk, that doesn't mean the performance can't be hammy
I think it's not so much hammy, but the two women just turned in poor performances. Soto has always been among the worst. I could never buy that Sanchez would go to so much trouble for her.
As for my vote, it would go to Carver.
"You can't kill my dreams!"
I think he's a great actor, not his fault, I think the bad thing there was the script, he just did what the script demanded him to do.
I wouldn't be surprised if that was Tamahori's doing tbh. He's definately overacting.
I really don't get the backlash against Soto. She's one of the most convincing golddiggers I've seen on film, including the dramatic 'I love him sooo much!'. We're not supposed to buy it for real, and the irritation with Lowell's Pam is utterly justified and fun, and wouldn't work so well if Talisa hadn't made it so dramatic.
He's a good actor. But he was too young and terribly directed, like a parody of a Bond villain. Playing Dr Armstrong in that Agatha Christie adaptation, he looked more like a classic Bond villain (Hugo Drax from the novel) than he did in the Bond movie he was in!
+1
Whether or not the hamming up is justified is completely irrelevant. Fact of the matter is, Stephens plays it like a suckling pig with a bad attitude. Large ham indeed. And, on a side note, I'd say the deus ex machina filled background of Graves/Moon is utterly implausible even for a Bond film and pretty ridiculous.