Would you rather a return to the dénouement OR a return of the romantic ending?

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• CommanderRoss The bottom of a pitch lake in Eastern Trinidad, place called La Brea

  9:46am Posts: 8,945

  thedove wrote: »

  Brosnan's were not like Connery endings. Connery never did a quip at the end, that was Moore era. Connery's all ended with the girl but Connery never uttered a cringy line of dialogue. Aside from Kissy it made sense for him and the woman to be romantic.
  
  "Keeping the British end up sir." curtain drops and it is assumed that Bond and Triple X start to shag with their superiors right there.
  
  "For your eyes only darling." Cringe. No real romance between 20 year old Melina and 50 year old Moore. Yet they are going for a skinny dip.
  
  Moore's best ending is OP and I think that is where his era should have ended.
  
  "Drat I dropped the soap." cringe. This time 57 year old Bond and 20 something lady who never really had any romance in the film are now having sex in a shower. Moore's last utterance is an exaggerated "Ohhhh"
  
  
  It is funny how Moore's are extolled on here and Brosnan which matches that tone get ripped. I actually think Pierce consistently takes arrows that are meant for others.
  
  From the movies I have watched in the cinema I would say Craig's first three are great endings. I remember really being pumped at the end of GE. Dalton's were strong, though some comedy and a somewhat cheery Leiter undo that ending for me.

  
  I think that fits to the 'Bond by the numbers' line of thinking around Brosnan. But I think that's unfair. Brosnan is still negatively influenced by the fact that his films fall into a day and era that was, in effect, the most peaceful (in the West) and perhaps most decadent. DAD was over the top, but was even more so as it came on the heels of major historical changes, that make it look bad in hintsight.
  
  I agree with the critique on TND, just because somehow Wai Lin and Bond don't really have any chemistry. The producers/writers tried to make her a bit too much of an independent force, with the result that the connection between them doesn't materialize.
  But other than that, the films fit their time perfectly. Except, perhaps, for DAD, but it was still hugely succesfull at the boxoffice.
  
  Imagie if Craig would've followed Moore. Bt then again, the producers wouldn't go that far, and Timthy did an excellent job of turning Bond into a more realistic, human, 'hero'.
  
  It's just that the endings of his films are not outstanding ;-)