In recent years, there seems to have been a general downward trend in public opinion of Brosnan’s portrayal of the spy, at least in relation to the others. And while I certainly went into this exercise in coronavirus escapism hoping to mainline nostalgia ( Die Another Day is the first Bond film I remember seeing in theaters), I came away thinking Brosnan has got to be the most unfairly maligned Bond in franchise history. Netflix currently has all four Pierce Brosnan Bond films available to stream, which are, for those who only remember him from the N64 cartridge, 1995’s GoldenEye, 1997’s Tomorrow Never Dies, 1999’s The World Is Not Enough and 2002’s Die Another Day. As a result of the pandemic, it has been postponed until November.īut you know what? That’s actually OK, because after rewatching four Bond films recently, it occurred to me that Craig isn’t the Bond we, as a society, need right now - Pierce Brosnan is.
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Sometimes you need a martini shaken, not stirred, sometimes you need a whisky, straight up, with a scorpion.Ī week from now, No Time to Die, the 25th official Bond movie and Daniel Craig’s final turn as the spy, was supposed to hit theaters in the U.S. But the truth is, the James Bond movie franchise is great not because we, the audience, are split off into different factions, but because the various actors, and even the individual films themselves, fill different voids at different times. (Don’t email me.)Īs a fan, I’ll happily jump in whenever someone starts up the timeless bar debate about which Bond is best. And yes, that also includes Daniel Craig in Quantum of Solace, a movie which has the important distinction of being the last Bond before the insufferable new Q came into the mix. For the record, I like every actor who has played James Bond.
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