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But ultimately I'm not sure it was his own personal popularity derailed him - it was legal wranglings and a genuine belief that he no longer wanted to play the role/was too old. His own story has it that EON wanted him to take a 3 picture contract at the time of GE - something he was not prepared to do, and so walked away.
Indeed today the US market is no longer a decider for the movie market, currently loads of movies are premiered outside of the US and do actually make more money than inside of the US. The best example was recently Captain America.
Agreed
He is a little rough around the edges in Dr No. But it's part of the charm of the movie. As the first in the series it seems appropriate that Bond is not quite fully there yet. There is something quite nasty and aggressive about Sean in parts of Dr No which actually adds a real edge to the film. The downside of the fully rounded Sean was that the character becomes progressively more polished until it becomes self parody and the magic is lost - DAF.
But overall when I watch Dr No I just think what an incredible achievement it is. Pretty much everything one associates with the Bond world is there, in that one film, right from the start. Astonishing and for me at least, still highly entertaining.
FRWL and GF are of course amazing performances - more precise and polished.
Connery: Good from the very beginning
Moore : Improved from TSWLM
Dalton: Improved from about half way through TLD
Brosnan : Improved from TND
Craig : Good from the very beginning.
I'd say the first half of TND is where Dalton really shines - not that he's bad in the second half.
Dalton was in TND ? ...now that would have been interesting !
I think it's as much that he needs her out of the way while I carries out his interrogation and execution. His alternative was to knock her unconscious or shoot her - more Sean's style, perhaps...
I personally love the opening scenes of TLD. The bit in Prague is excellent - don't think any one could have done it better.
That would have been an amazing!
Like Sean returning to do DAF, but better.
It would have been interesting to see Tim in a more 'action-packed' Bond film..which GE was going to be.
I really think it might have been his best film if he had the chance.
Although TND is perhaps more frenetic than GE I'm not sure the action is terribly good. The stunts in TLD are still far superior.
I don't remember CGI being particularly evident before DAD.
I do think the major 'stunts' in the Brosnan films often tended to be totally unrealistic though - a big departure from the Bond tradition. I'm thinking of the plane sequence at the start of GE, which always just looked totally implausible to me (is it remotely possible within the laws of physics that Bond could have even caught up with the falling plane?) and the helicopter stunt in TND, which apparently is also impossible - the chopper would have fallen to the ground had it been flown at this angle in reality. A shame really, given the heritage of the series. And DAD obviously doesn't bear mentioning - was ANYTHING real in that movie stunt wise?
The DC era has definitely seen a major improvement on this front. Although I have a bit of a bug bear about the sky diving in QoS and the fall from the bridge in Skyfall. CGI'd to a large degree and both almost equally implausible for different reasons.
And dont get me started on the bloody sky dive in QOS....i have to fast-forward through that as it annoys me so much haha !
Add to that the extra spice that Barry delivers, and you have James Bond at large.
Why thanks DD !!! ;)
I thought the GE stuff was models and blue screen?
That Tsunami scene was embarrasing ....had me squirming in my seat with total shock that they even thought that would be ok to be in a Bond film.
Total lack of respect for Bond fans and cinema/DVD/TV viewers generally.
The Helicopter scene in TND is not all CGI, it's a standard mix of model work, genuine stunt work and some minimal use of CGI - particularly to add rotor blades - which is incidentally similar to the set up for the Caviar factory. I wouldn't call these scenes CGI heavy.
"Just give me five minutes and then scream your head off"