“Bond is the gift that keeps giving and has allowed me to have a wonderful career,” he explained. “Once you’re branded as a Bond, it’s with you forever, so you better make peace with it and you’d better understand that when you walk through those doors and pick up the mantle of playing James Bond.”
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I think he was OK as Agent 007...
Mr. Brosnan seems to have enjoyed his time playing Bond...
Sir Sean Connery...I have the impression that he did not have fond memories of playing Agent 007...Playing Bond made him very famous...But, I got the impression that he felt uncomfortable still being associated with 007 film franchise... Connery complained about being treated unfairly by Bond film producers...
It's nice to see that he didn't waste an opportunity to get his daily dose of virtue in.
Sean Connery is the only 007. The others were junk.
GoldenEye was a fun ride. The rest were garbage. The evil newsman was the worst. Too believable to be a Bond villain.
He can always do “Remington Steele, G.I.*”
*Geratric Investigator
He does well in his new shows portraying an older guy. No Hollywood these days anyway with the Wuhan sniffing at our doors.
It would have been interesting to have seen Timothy Dalton in one or two more outings as Bond. I recall reading somewhere that they were about ready to have him in For Your Eyes Only (1981), but he backed out (apparently at the last minute). And you can see that even though Roger Moore was good in that one, that there were parts of the movie that could perhaps have been that more better and real had Dalton been Bond.
Pierce Brosnan’s 007 suffered from poor scripts, as did Timothy Dalton’s 007. Until the Daniel Craig 007, the franchise never got past the campy nature of the Roger Moore era.
Sean Connery’s 007 was played moe or less seriously.
Roger Moore’s 007 was over-the-top campy.
Pierce Brosnan’s 007 split the difference between the two.
Daniel Graig’s 007 rebooted the character into a straight-up action hero.
Sean Connery was the best in my book, probably by virtue of being first. Daniel Graig is a very close second. Pierce Brosnan takes the final podium position.
Connery had so many other great pictures. Any time I see his name...I go for it...Never bad...no swearing...no necked scenes.
He looked the part but should have been a little more powerfully built. He also had some poor material to work with.
All the good plotlines, all the good villians, all the good directors were long gone by the time he showed up. Bond films were formula affairs whose purpose was to showcase the latest BMW sports car models.
Change my mind
Brosnan got caught in the transition between Bond as a campy womanizer to Bond as an action hero. I liked both genres, but Bond of old would never make it in today’s #woke and #metoo age...
Bronson in Thomas Crown Affair...Sheer enjoyment...
He always had the worst hair of the Bond portrayers.
Also, Die Another Day was awful, IMO.
I think Pierce Brosnan grew/matured into the role. Initially, I felt like he was just too cocky, too self-assured, just too smooth. Sure, those traits are part of the Bond persona, but so is the occasional bout of fear or confusion. The later Brosnan Bond films incorporated those “weaknesses”, and I liked him better for it. Maybe it was his last film that actually showed his character with a little grimness thrown in.
And nobody’s mentioned...Sir David Niven.
Eh, what?
The real crime was after he was picked to play Bond the first time, that’s why NBC decided to activate a clause in his contract. They brought Remington Steele (which they had cancelled) back for four more forgettable episodes. Brosnan had to turn down the iconic role.
Luckily, he got a chance again a few years later. Not as lucky, most of his films weren’t good.
I really liked Brosnan’s take as 007. I thought Dalton was boring so Brosnan was a step in the right direction. That being said, I think Craig is the best of them all including everyone’s sacred cow.
As a side note, Connery is the only one who had a thriving post-Bond career. I love Craig but I think he’s going to fizzle post-Bond.