Unfunny?


When people talk about how much they dislike Dalton and his two movies, one of the main complaints I always hear is "He/His movies just aren't funny. They don't have any of the camp of the older films, and are too stiff".

Is there some alternate version of this film that people are watching? Because I always found it to reach near-moore levels of humor in some scenes.

For instance:

The milk bottle bombs
The cello case chase ("We have nothing to declare.")
The car being sawed in half by a laser, and Dalton blaming salt corrosion
The barn sliding across the ice

These and many other moments left me in tears the first time I watched the movie. Dalton may be a bit more serious in his portrayal of bond, but I feel like this makes the humor even better. It's like he's a straight man walking through a carnival.

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Dalton is funny especially the "Salt corrision" line. However, he didn't want to do more than three Bond films. The third one was delayed and eventually canceled. Thus, I think he ended up being cast in a negative light. It gave Pierce Brosnan an opening and his Bond to take over. I think women liked Brosnan while men liked Dalton more, but Dalton didn't want to continue.

ETA: Even if Dalton wanted to continue as Bond, the production had legal problems and he would've been too old to play Bond. Likely, he would've been replaced either way. It's too bad that his third Bond ran into legal problems and eventually canceled. He would've been good in GoldenEye.

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There's plenty of humour in this movie. I actually think it's much better balanced than the previous movies, although there's still some "Moore" humour here and there.

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Yeah the car being lasered was pretty hilarious.

There was another scene where I laughed out loud, and it was also joined in with on-screen laughter. When the Russians take Bond and the girl to the jail and the Afghani leader is in prison, and he asks if he'll be set free. The laughing Russians say he won't be hanging in the morning, slight pause, he'll be shot instead. -Laughter ensues-

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