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Uh no not even close to being the worst Bond film. Try anything with Daniel Craig except maybe Skyfall. And Dalton was awesome.
Drew Barrymore was a drug addict and alcoholic trainwreck before she was 15. Her own mother had her locked up.
Add Brad Renfro, Jonathan Brandis and Jake Lloyd to the list of children ruined by the business as well.
Well, the events of OHMSS are part of Bond's character arc as Ian Fleming originally wrote it. You could argue that it worked better in the novels because we were inside Bond's head and could read his emotions, something that obviously isn't possible in a film. I think the way his romance with Vesper Lynd was portrayed was far more out of character. I find it harder to believe Bond would act so vulnerable as to tell a woman "whatever's left of me, whatever I am, I'm yours," which sounds like a line that belongs in a Twilight film or Nicholas Sparks novel and definitely wasn't in Ian Fleming's novel.
I would say Craig. I really can't get into him as Bond and he's been in the worst movies of the franchise. Lazenby was great, the reason people hated him was because he replaced Sean Connery (and made a fourth-wall breaking joke about it) and because his movie had a downbeat ending.
Yep I agree, much better than Red Dragon and more like the novel in a lot of ways. About the only real criticisms I have are that Mann discarded Dolarhyde's tattoo of the Red Dragon and eliminated the shock ending of the novel which Ratner's Red Dragon reinstated.
He was awesome as Marty Funkhouser on Curb. Big R.I.P.
LOL what a fucking puss. The dog dies and that's too horrific for you, even though it's not even graphic. Don't watch films like Halloween then cause the dog dies in that one too, it gets stabbed by Michael Myers.
As for the film itself it was decent, good performances but action wasn't graphic and brutal enough and not very creative. In fact John shows too much mercy whereas his enemies show none and it comes back to bite him in the ass repeatedly. Films like these need that Charles Bronson/Paul Schrader touch where the hero suddenly turns brutal and unforgiving. Compare this film to Rolling Thunder or Death Wish II or III.
Nope. I did when I was like 9 but later on in life I realized that the only good films were the first 3, the ones that Carpenter and his people were directly involved in.
This isn't just the worst Craig-era Bond movie, this is the worst Bond movie PERIOD. Skyfall was infinitely better. Casino Royale was boring and way overrated, QoS was kinda a return to form but still sucked and the editing was awful.
And these movies aren't closer to the books, that's just something that Eon and Craig fans say in order to present Craig as "definitive" and "gritty" which he isn't.
But I agree that it's time to fire Purvis and Wade, Craig, the whole lot and return to making JAMES BOND films. The SJW set are trying hard to collapse the series even further.
It entered wide usage way before 2010. This looks like a movie that just pays lip service to looking like the 80s by featuring a few cars, a VCR, New Wave music or something. Charlie's hair isn't even 80s.
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