Controversial opinions about Bond films

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• mtm United Kingdom

  9:39am edited 9:41am Posts: 18,812

  Agree on Auger, but I don't know if I'd say Chiles is terrible; I think she gives a perfectly decent, professional performance. It's just not very memorable. It might be the character in part- this is probably just me(!) but I actually find Stacey Sutton more endearing (I'm willing to be on my own on this one! :D )
• echo 007 in New York

  9:45am edited 9:47am Posts: 6,921

  Sutton has grown on me, as has May Day. Those characters are not the issue with that film, which has a so-crazy-it-works cast. It's more like Moore fatigue.
  
  I never thought AVTAK would have been a good launching pad for Dalton (maybe Brosnan?) but it's intriguing to think what Dalton would have done with Grace Jones and Christopher Walken.
• GoldenGun Per ora e per il momento che verrà

  10:03am Posts: 7,743

  Auger for me is another highlight of TB, a top 5 Bond girl for me. But perhaps I have soft spot for future giallo-starlets like her. Speaking of which Barbara Bach also appeared in a few gialli.
• Benny Shaken not stirredAdministrator, Moderator

  10:57am Posts: 15,489

  The problem with Stacey Sutton, is she’s not well written as a character, and Tanya Robert’s line delivery is sub par.
  She is however stunning to look at (imo) but I think Moore needed an older actress to be paired with.
• Reflsin2bourbons

  11:43am Posts: 493

  Saying Auger is terrible is a bit unfair. She isn't exactly a standout but her character was stripped of a lot of interesting bits and left as a boring shell.
• SIS_HQ At the Vauxhall Headquarters

  2:31pm edited 2:33pm Posts: 4,084

  mtm wrote: »

  Agree on Auger, but I don't know if I'd say Chiles is terrible; I think she gives a perfectly decent, professional performance. It's just not very memorable. It might be the character in part- this is probably just me(!) but I actually find Stacey Sutton more endearing (I'm willing to be on my own on this one! :D )

  
  Chiles is actually more convincing as a cold agent than Barbara was, the thing is Chiles didn't have anything to do with the character, I liked Holly Goodhead for how she was played with more agency in the film, with Barbara Bach, she had to play with the character's complexity and emotion about her boyfriend being killed and exacting a revenge on Bond, and a Russian accent, Barbara failed it, then the character didn't helped who did nothing for most of the film, after the Egyptians scenes at least, when she's supposed to be the Proto Wai Lin (TND).
  
  Holly Goodhead, I don't think are that much of a demanding character, all she needed was to be a capable fighter and an agent, an action heroine, she didn't need to show any emotions, and her background was not as strong as Anya Amasova (who had a Siberian Survival Course and a Major to boot and had dead boyfriend that she needed to avenge), but Holly did more than what she was written as she showed off her fighting skills, so, in many ways, she improved on Anya, and Lois Chiles didn't have to dealt with emotional scenes and an accent.