# Which was the best Pierce Brosnan Bond film? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 24, 2012, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-was-the-best-pierce-brosnan-bond-film/638726 "2012-10-24T13:30:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2012, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-was-the-best-pierce-brosnan-bond-film/638726/1 "2012-10-24T13:30:44Z")
The return to gadgets, high-profile Bond girls, and tongue-in-cheek humor. ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2012, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-was-the-best-pierce-brosnan-bond-film/638726/2 "2012-10-24T13:43:53Z")
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). ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2012, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-was-the-best-pierce-brosnan-bond-film/638726/3 "2012-10-24T13:52:35Z")
_Goldeneye_ by far. “I am…invincible!” ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2012, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-was-the-best-pierce-brosnan-bond-film/638726/4 "2012-10-24T14:25:35Z")
> [@DCnDC](#): > > I’m that guy who liked _Tomorrow Never Dies_, but among these 4 films the best one IMO is clearly _GoldenEye_. I liked Tomorrow Never Dies as well. Now if you said you liked The World is Not Enough, you might be alone! ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2012, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-was-the-best-pierce-brosnan-bond-film/638726/5 "2012-10-24T14:31:24Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![pancakes3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ba9def/32.png) [@pancakes3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pancakes3)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2012, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-was-the-best-pierce-brosnan-bond-film/638726/6 "2012-10-24T14:59:05Z")
The answer is right in front of you, and they open very large doors ---
**Author:** ![The\_Second\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbe5ce/32.png) [@The\_Second\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Second_Stone)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2012, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-was-the-best-pierce-brosnan-bond-film/638726/7 "2012-10-24T16:02:00Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > _Goldeneye_ by far. > > “I am…invincible!” 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. > [@lieu](#): > > 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. 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. ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2012, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-was-the-best-pierce-brosnan-bond-film/638726/8 "2012-10-24T16:35:29Z")
_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_. Stranger ---
**Author:** ![Greekfreak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c68b51/32.png) [@Greekfreak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Greekfreak)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2012, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-was-the-best-pierce-brosnan-bond-film/638726/9 "2012-10-24T17:03:14Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2012, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-was-the-best-pierce-brosnan-bond-film/638726/10 "2012-10-24T17:47:39Z")
Goldeneye. It has the quintessential Bond scene: Bond drives a tank through a wall, then pauses to adjust his tie before wreaking further havoc. ---
**Author:** ![teela\_brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2012, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-was-the-best-pierce-brosnan-bond-film/638726/11 "2012-10-24T17:53:52Z")
_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. ---
**Author:** ![Cumbrian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ce7236/32.png) [@Cumbrian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cumbrian)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2012, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-was-the-best-pierce-brosnan-bond-film/638726/12 "2012-10-24T17:56:07Z")
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_. ---
**Author:** ![standingwave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9de0a6/32.png) [@standingwave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/standingwave)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2012, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-was-the-best-pierce-brosnan-bond-film/638726/13 "2012-10-24T19:24:14Z")
> [@Clothahump](#): > > Goldeneye. > > It has the quintessential Bond scene: Bond drives a tank through a wall, then pauses to adjust his tie before wreaking further havoc. Yeah, but he was veering uncomfortably close to [Michael Dukakis territory](http://listverse.files.wordpress.com/2010/03/dukakis-in-the-tank.jpg). ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2012, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-was-the-best-pierce-brosnan-bond-film/638726/14 "2012-10-24T19:45:11Z")
_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. ---
**Author:** ![A\_Dodgy\_Dude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a87d85/32.png) [@A\_Dodgy\_Dude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/A_Dodgy_Dude)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2012, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-was-the-best-pierce-brosnan-bond-film/638726/15 "2012-10-24T19:47:13Z")
> [@The\_Second\_Stone](#): > > 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. He was also very good in The Thomas Crown Affair. ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2012, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-was-the-best-pierce-brosnan-bond-film/638726/16 "2012-10-24T20:09:51Z")
I agree with those before who said **Goldeneye**. Somehow I managed to miss the one with Christmas Jones. ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2012, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-was-the-best-pierce-brosnan-bond-film/638726/17 "2012-10-24T20:42:13Z")
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.” ---
**Author:** ![pancakes3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ba9def/32.png) [@pancakes3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pancakes3)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2012, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-was-the-best-pierce-brosnan-bond-film/638726/18 "2012-10-24T21:22:35Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > _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. To clarify, Robot Arm means Onatopp. ---
**Author:** ![Odesio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/odesio/32/20003_2.png) [@Odesio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odesio)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2012, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-was-the-best-pierce-brosnan-bond-film/638726/19 "2012-10-24T21:39:17Z")
Goldeneye, no question. I think it was the only good Brosnan bond film. ---
**Author:** ![Bosstone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@Bosstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstone)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2012, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-was-the-best-pierce-brosnan-bond-film/638726/20 "2012-10-24T21:41:04Z")
It’s a tossup for me. _GoldenEye_ is great, but _Tomorrow Never Dies_ has Jonathan Pryce and a badass stealth boat. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-was-the-best-pierce-brosnan-bond-film/638726.md?page=2)