GoldenEye

naffa said:
Another interesting fact of that sort. Did you know that Pierce actually got offered the part of James Bond in 1986, and he said yes to it? In the end, I believe there was some issue with him being bound to Remington Steele so Timothy Dalton took the role on. Then, Pierce was re-offered the role, I assume because of the reasons you stated above. The rest, as we say, is history. :p
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I did. :D

Did YOU know that Dalton was actually offered the role of Bond BEFORE Brosnan was? But Dalton himself was contractually obliged to finish filming Brenda Starr and parts in Antony and Cleopatra and The Taming Of The Shrew meant he couldn't? Sam Neill screen-tested but Broccoli rejected him and approached Brosnan, who as you said, was busy. By now Dalton had finished filming Brenda Starr and became Bond. ;)

Did you also know that Broccoli asked Dalton, aged 22 at the time, in 1968 to take over from Connery?

Consider YOURSELF informed naffa. :D:cool:
 
Great film, and game (n64)

never got Roger Moore as bond, Connery was before my time but good.

Brosnan brought the role back to life for me, and i quite like where Craig is taking the character.
 
Great film and still one of my favourite games ever. But best Bond films (always subjective I know) have to be Goldfinger, View to a Kill, Goldeneye and Man with the Golden Gun. I also think Dalton was an excellent Bond.
 
A great film for sure, although they fell way again after that. Casino Royale really got me interested again (bar the heart attack scene) but again QoS fell away from that standard. Best Bond film for me will always be OHMSS - best Bond girl, best music (twice) and the best ski chase. Then You Only Live Twice, from Russia with Love and then maybe Goldeneye - so in my top 5 Bond films for sure. I also thought Dalton was a great Bond - a very book like Bond but very good. N64 Goldeneye was great too - that cradle on 00 difficulty was not exactly easy!
 
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semi-pro waster said:
with Quantum of Solace (QoS) I think they rather blew it already and that's ignoring the problems with rights etc that are preventing more being made. QoS was a lot of nothing really
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The only good thing about that film was Olga Kurylenko. Daniel Craig looks like a Polish boxer and should never have been cast as Bond with his freaky Alfred E. Neuman looks and one-facial-expression acting style. The series has been another victim of the "reboot" fad with a good dose of lame shakycam Bourne emulation and I don't have much hope of it recovering in the near future.
 
Tell you what ... I'm wish they'd hurry up and make Bond 23 finally

Stupid MGM with their funding issues, if you can't fund the film then sell the rights so that some other studio can buy the Bond franchise so that us fans are not the ones penalised.
 
Goldeneye would probably scrape in to my top ten. I liked the fact it felt different and looked fresh, indeed rather un-bond like, if that makes sense. It also had Sean Bean, which can never be a bad thing.

It's just a shame Brosnan's Bond became slimy and his remaining films were dreadful. I never took to Brosnan and rate him pretty much bottom with Lazenby.

Daily Bond rant over. :D
 
Alec Trevelyan: Good luck with the floor James. I've set the timers for six minutes, the same six minutes you gave me. It was the least I could do for a "friend".
*snickers*
Natalya Simonova: What does he mean?
James Bond: We've got three minutes.
 
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If I could get back the time I spent playing goldeneye and use it to work instead, I would be a gazillionaire

Don't really remember the film but in general not a bond fan.
 
I remember going to see Goldeneye at the cinema. It was the first Bond film I'd seen on the big screen although I'd seen plenty of other Bond movies on various Bank Holidays.

There was massive expectation with it being so long since Licence to Kill and then Bond jumps over a cliff on a motor bike, climbs inside a diving light aircraft, pulls out of the stall and flies away from an exploding chemical weapons plant. Ludicrous. Expectations for the film reduced to zero. A complete masterstroke of direction.
 
KidCanary said:
Never really understood the hate that Die Another Day gets.
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Bad CGI - especially the scene with Brosnan 'surfing' the wave :rolleyes: cringe

GoldenEye was a great film at the time - I went mad over it as it was almost an all new Bond for the post Cold War era...new M and Moneypenny too. I think the minatures and models were excellent - very high quality and realistic at the time.

What makes me laugh is that after the tank chase (when Bond spots the Soviet missile train) his tank hasn't got a scratch on it (looks almost new) even though he's demolished half of St Petersburg.

Also when firing the tank at the train (from under the bridge) he manages to get out and run a few hundred yards in just a matter of seconds :D

Worst line has to be Sean Bean saying 'situation analysis hopeless' thought it was part bad acting, part bad dialogue...

My brother had GoldenEye on the N64 (outsanding game), always laughed when playing as May Day (Grace Jones from 'A View To A Kill') as when you changed weapon her hands were white!
 
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