The return to gadgets, high-profile Bond girls, and tongue-in-cheek humor.
I’m that guy who liked Tomorrow Never Dies, but among these 4 films the best one IMO is clearly GoldenEye. It was just an awesome movie (and bonus points for being an awesome game as well).
Goldeneye by far.
“I am…invincible!”
I liked Tomorrow Never Dies as well. Now if you said you liked The World is Not Enough, you might be alone!
I found the prospect of Bond being portrayed by Remington Steele so unpalatable that they’re the only ones I’ve never seen. Not a threadshit, just why I chose the last option.
The answer is right in front of you, and they open very large doors
My vote too. I lived at a California apt complex with a lot of Russian immigrants, highly educated, who spoke great English. They loved quoting this line with the pose. Also one of the better Bond songs.
They were all good, esp Goldeneye and The World Is Not Enough. Pierce Brosnan is a very good actor, don’t miss his movies, there aren’t enough of them. See especially The Matador and The Tailor From Panama. Both are kinda spy movies and both are fantastic.
Tomorrow Never Dies at least had Michelle Yeoh in a superbly ass-kicking role, an entertainly absurd motorcycle chase sequence, the silent recording studio fight, and a sadly misused Jonathon Pryce. The only thing I remember about the other Brosnan films is Famke Jannsen stealing a super-advanced stealth helicopter for the sole purpose of flying to Russia and killing a bunch of people, a henchman with a face full of embedded diamonds, the Arecibo telescope being stolen by Cuba, a disappearing car, and a villain who MI-6 couldn’t find in the entire world but which they could determine within millimeters the location of the bullet making its way through his brain and making him stronger until it kills him. So I guess my vote would be for Tomorrow Never Dies.
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I had problems with all of them, but still went to see them in the theatres, such is the devoted geekdom of the franchise. I never thought Brosnan would be a good Bond–he had the look but not enough masculinity–Timothy Dalton in retrospect was much better, except that his source material stunk.
I voted for Tomorrow Never Dies–too contrived but it had Michelle Yeoh, Goetz Otto as the big bad henchmen, and a wicked closing number by KD Lang.
Goldeneye.
It has the quintessential Bond scene: Bond drives a tank through a wall, then pauses to adjust his tie before wreaking further havoc.
Goldeneye, because it has one of the best villains in a Bond film: Sean Bean as an English spy gone over to the dark side. And it has the hottest villain: Sean Bean.
Best Brosnan Bond was on the N64.
More seriously, it’s got to be *Goldeneye *for me. The next two are OK, not world beating entries by any stretch but better than some of the dreck that Roger Moore was in.
Very surprised three people thus far have voted for Die Another Day. That’s a film that I would put “up” there with the worst in the franchise’s history - alongside pet hates like Moonraker and A View To A Kill.
Yeah, but he was veering uncomfortably close to Michael Dukakis territory.
GoldenEye by a country mile. One of my favorite Bond girls, and I do love the dialog when Bond first meets the CIA agent, Jack Wade, in St. Petersburg.
James Bond: Who is the competition?
Jack Wade: Ah, an ex-KGB guy. Tough mother. Got a limp in his right leg. Name’s Zukovsky.
James Bond: Valentin Dmitrovitch Zukovsky?
Jack Wade: Yeah, you know him?
James Bond: I gave him the limp.
He was also very good in The Thomas Crown Affair.
I agree with those before who said Goldeneye. Somehow I managed to miss the one with Christmas Jones.
And having Madonna in Die Another Day brings the movie to an awful, screeching halt. That movie had several problems to go along with it but the biggest two faults that I find with the film are Madonna insisting on a cameo in the film to be a “Bond Girl” and the producers saying “Duh, OK.”
To clarify, Robot Arm means Onatopp.
Goldeneye, no question. I think it was the only good Brosnan bond film.
It’s a tossup for me. GoldenEye is great, but Tomorrow Never Dies has Jonathan Pryce and a badass stealth boat.