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[Hand of Evil]

Call me a crackpot, but I liked Timothy Dalton. Nothing against Brosnan (who I think is certainly a good choice for the role,) but the recent films have a much more comic-book preposterous action feel. The two Dalton films felt much more like spy movies - more like From Russia With Love.

All movies made in the last few years have that comic-book feel to them. Brosnan is the man and feel he would have added life to the role. Check out Nomads or Tiffian (sp).

 

[VorpalBunny]

Call me a crackpot, but I liked Timothy Dalton. Nothing against Brosnan (who I think is certainly a good choice for the role,) but the recent films have a much more comic-book preposterous action feel. The two Dalton films felt much more like spy movies - more like From Russia With Love.

Dalton is IMO, the best Bond after Connery. He seemed much more dangerous than Moore (or even Brosnan - although I like his work. GoldenEye is one of my favorite Bond films).

Bond (at least the way Fleming wrote him) was supposed to be have that underlying sence of menace that I think Dalton captured quite nicely. It's not his fault the scripts he was given sucked.

 

[Dave Blewer]

Chalk me up as another who prefers Dalton's Bond...

On Back to the Future: BttF III was on TV over here in Britain yesterday and Stoltz played one of Mcfly's anscestors, so there can't have been that many hard feelings. His Irish accent though was terrible (but better than Leah Thompson's)

 

[Viking Bastard]

I don't remember Stoltz in part III, in what scenes?

 

[Hand of Evil]

On the Indy being Tom... I don't think it would have worked because of the way Ford moves and carries the character, it is face and body and while Tom would have been good in the role that would have been different and affected the movie visually.

 

[Hand of Evil]

Dalton is IMO, the best Bond after Connery. He seemed much more dangerous than Moore (or even Brosnan - although I like his work. GoldenEye is one of my favorite Bond films).

Bond (at least the way Fleming wrote him) was supposed to be have that underlying sence of menace that I think Dalton captured quite nicely. It's not his fault the scripts he was given sucked.

Again, to see how dangerous and menacing Brosnan can be see Nomads and Tiffien (sp). He did both movies to address the concern that he was too small for Bond (added 40 pounds for Nomads) and that he could not be rough and tumble. Both are good movies.