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Two of us weighing in here, could we have Brosnan as a write-in for TWINE? I think his DAD performance is one of that film's highlights. Also like the tougher Moore of TMWTGG and Craig is good in QoS.
I've long believed that Connery's "sleepwalking" YOLT performance is more a result of Roald Dahl's screenplay and Lewis Gilbert's direction that focuses more on getting Bond onto Ken Adam sets and the Japanese locations and into various vehicles.
Moore's AVTAK performance suffers from less of the easy charm where he feels in command to more dramatic moments that worked in FYEO and OP that worked better in those but not here as well as those clunky action scenes. But it just adds to the all-around mess that is AVTAK.
I think Connery is in YOLT out of contractual obligation and gives a subpar performance because he felt he deserved more money (blame your agent, maybe, Sean?). It's unprofessional. I couldn't see the other Bonds, except for Lazenby, phoning it in like that.
Connery *was* Bond but he was also a bit of a d**k.
IMHO, Brosnan is miles better in DAD than in TWINE. In fact, I think DAD might be the best of his four performances.
Agree about Brosnan in DAD. That seems to be forgotten in all the dislike for everything surrounding it. It's not uncommon for a performer to be better than the material he's given to work with.
For Brosnan, DAD wasn't his worst perfarmance at all, that would be TWINE. That film is so unbalanced even Connery and Craig would've struggled, and Brosnan certainly doesn't know which way to go with the character.
QoS is, to my mind, Craig's finest performance and my favorite James Bond, on par with TB. (if anything, the 'we had a mutual friend' is an amazing homage to Mathis and shows he does care, instead of what people think because of the dumpster. QoS is a far more realistic world, and Bond makes very realistic choices. The fact that he says that before killing the head of Police shows he's professional enough to keep going (it's not like he's got time on his hands) but still makes the point).
I don't think Moore is bad at all in TMWTGG, but the script is all over the place and makes a mess out of everything. Pity, the one time they should've actually taken the time to flesh things out a bit more..
But now I come to (my) elephant in the room, for as much as I like Moore, and as much as I like AVTAK, it really isn't his best performance (nor that of his stuntmen). I like the story, the way it is executed, but Moore just can't keep up anymore, and it shows. SO, AVTAK takes the cake.
They gave him a subpar script. Everyone was tired.
Ken Adam and John Barry saved the day. That's all.
Craig is my least favourite cinematic Bond, but as an actor, I think he's brilliant. I think he even had more screen presence than Brosnan or Dalton, who I much prefer in the role as James Bond.
There's a bit in CR, when Craig answers M. She says something like "I'd say don't make it personal, but that's not your problem, is it Bond?", and he says "no", and it's delivered in such a way that you can hear his distain, his rebelliousness, ruthlessness and determination all in that one syllable.
Actually, Dench was great at pulling it out of whoever she was in a scene with. There's a scene in TWINE where she tells Bond "I will not accept insubordination" and Brozza passes her a drink (or something), and says "what happened?", and changes teh tone of the conversation. It's his most effective line in the movie.
I've probably got loads of those quotes wrong, but I'm sure someone here will put me right.
Lets get right to it the Klebbie for the worst Bond actor performance is Sean Connery in YOLT accepting the award is a sleep walking agent!
Here is a breakdown on the voting:
Let move on to our next category. Over the course of the 25 films there have been deaths. Some memorable and some, well lets us say they are more of a WTF category. So today we shall vote on the worst non-sensical death! These deaths were either non-sensical to the overall story, or just don't make logical sense. Here are the nominees.
Which death is your worst WTF death? Give us your reasons for your vote and lets see which one rises, or is that falls to the winner position!
The first kill in LALD would also deserve a Klebbie.
I think that would be my vote too, though the ear shocks have always bothered me. Maybe I shall think about this more before casting my vote.
I'd probably go with Felicia in TSWLM. It's a very silly scene capped off with a strange death, but at least the following scene makes up for it.
The ear-kills are lazy writing and make little snese, but are one-dimentional kills, they could've been done differently. Felicia is indeed out there as well, but again, it was a single wtf. With Plenty, there are plenty. I'll go for Plenty.
The DN guard death I always took to again establish the dirty side of having a OO designation, although I'd have thought Dent's execution would've been more than enough to establish that. This way he does it in front of others whereas the other was alone.
DAF is a mess to begin with so no real surprise this is another misstep. I can only guess Wint and Kidd took a page out of Stromberg's book and decided to take out anyone who comes into contact with the real Case and Franks/Bond.
For the vote, I'll go with the Plenty death.
There's a DAF deleted scene that shows Plenty going back into Bond's room and stealing Tiffany's ID, I believe and that's how she ended up at the pool house
The Klebbie goes to Felica dies for a stranger TSWLM as she approaches the lectern she screams and takes another bullet from someone up high. Guess she is always willing to put herself in harms way.
Our votes went to Spy and DAF.
Lets swing back to the Bondie side and see who the academy prefers when it comes to Daniel Craig performances! Daniel was the first Bond to get a story arc from film 1 to film 5. Lets see what the academy was his best performance.
The nominees are
So my dear academy members, in which film did Daniel deliver his best Bond performance? Please share your thoughts on your selection and lets see which one the academy feels is worthy of a Bondie!
I enjoy all of his performances as Bond, for different reasons, but Casino felt fresh and yet classic Bond at the same time. He nailed all the aspects of being Bond in that film
That said his other performances are damn close contenders. In my opinion he was the most consistently good Bond actor we've ever had.
Gah, I love that movie so very much.
That was my error my friend! Thanks for your post I have now fixed it to state the correct page of 122.