The James Bond Pierce Brosnan Era

[Castle]

What I get in this era was Pierce made a great Bond but did not star in great Bond films, Golden Eye the only great film. Although I personally loved Die Another Day , not just because I am a Halle Berry fan. I thought the film was pretty good

How will you rate the Brosnan era of Bond?

[choptop]

I disagree I think at least 3 out of 4 of brosnan movie's are great campy but still good you might even make the case they are the last true bond movie's.

[CliffHanger2]

I'd say Pierce is one of the top 3 Bonds. His series is pretty good and still holds up.

[Castle]

I'd say Pierce is one of the top 3 Bonds. His series is pretty good and still holds up.

Pierce is my favourite Bond, however I cannot help but notice his bond movies don't seem to be standing the test of time, apart from 1.

[CliffHanger2]

Pierce is my favourite Bond, however I cannot help but notice his bond movies don't seem to be standing the test of time, apart from 1.

I'll take his library over Craig's any day.

[CosmiComic]

I'll take his library over Craig's any day.

Why? just curious

[Castle]

I'll take his library over Craig's any day.

It takes a lot of time to get used to Craig's Bond.

I like many, hated Craig in Casino Royale as I found his Bond extremely unlikeable and hard to root for, but he won me over by Skyfall by bringing emotional depth and humanity to what was lacking in the character in Casino Royale.

[j9ac9k]

As a huge fan of "Remington Steele" I was thrilled to see him as Bond. I know he had a shot after Moore left, but it was probably good he didn't get the role at the time - I think he looked better as Bond with a few more years under his belt. I agree that "Golden Eye" was probably the best of his era. I liked everything about it. I liked his other ones, but they each had their own pitfalls.... I wasn't crazy about how over the top the ice fortress and satellite death ray were in "Die Another Day" but I liked everything else.(well, the weird race changing aspect to the villain was problematic) "Tomorrow Never Dies" was pretty good, there was nothing terrible about it, but there wasn't anything really special about it either. I liked the villains and the story of "The World is not Enough" but Denise Richards stunk up the joint and was just bad casting.

[ChrisIII]

Goldeneye's fairly dark and wouldn't be out of place with Dalton's era (Possible it was written with Dalton in mind), although Brosnan came across as more likeable than Dalton, who seems to often have a permanent scowl (I think Craig has been able to balance the darker aspects of Bond somewhat better than Dalton did). Funny thing is Brosnan did want to play a more gritty Bond, even backing Quentin Tarantino's Casino Royale idea.

The rest of the films sort of played more to Brosnan's comic timing and more traditional Bond film elements, but sort of turned into Roger Moore 2.0. TWINE tried for a deeper story I think, but was let down by aspects of the production-The action editing was almost as bad as QUANTUM OF SOLACE, and as mentioned, Denise Richards didn't help. Also like the Roger Moore era, a lot of the films were kind of jumping onto things that were popular at the time-TND for instance seems heavily influenced by Hong Kong action films, and DIE ANOTHER DAY used a few tricks from THE MATRIX, FAST AND THE FURIOUS etc.

It's possible they were also aiming more for the teen crowd with the last three films, given how successful the GOLDENEYE video game turned out to be.

[CosmiComic]

Goldeneye and the World is not Enough were good. Tomorrow Never Dies was sketchy. Die Another Day was not great

[marshal88]

pierce brosnan , i always remember his hilarious mastercard ad with the tuk tuk.

[Somecrazyaussie]

Goldeneye's fairly dark and wouldn't be out of place with Dalton's era (Possible it was written with Dalton in mind).

Not possible. It definitely was written for Dalton. Remember he was attached to the film early on. However, Dalton was originally contracted for 3 films. He just wanted to do GoldenEye and then bow out. But the producers and studio wanted to establish some stability after the hiatus and told him they wanted him to commit to more than just one film. He said no and left. Clearing the way for Brosnan to get his shot.

I feel GoldenEye was the best out of his run. TND and TWiNE both had fantastic ideas and villains. DAD, on the other hand, was just terrible.

[choptop]

The roger moore era was always my favorite.

[AnakinFlair]

Also in Tomorrow Never Dies, he uses a ton of K.D Lang's end credit song Surrender during the action scenes, but I don't think he used any of Sheryl Crow's title theme. I think it might've been because Surrender was going to be the original theme but they decided to go with Crow because she was a big thing at the time.

You are correct. the K.D. Lang song was originally meant to be the title song, but for some reason they switched things around and gave the title theme to Crow. Which made the score a bit odd, as it often referenced the Lang song.

[Hypestyle]

What I get in this era was Pierce made a great Bond but did not star in great Bond films, Golden Eye the only great film. Although I personally loved Die Another Day , not just because I am a Halle Berry fan. I thought the film was pretty good

How will you rate the Brosnan era of Bond?

I enjoyed all of them except The World is Not Enough.