"I TELL YOU WHAT though, put him in a thousand movies opposite Mae West and ZERO Bond Films. My gosh, he was just AWFUL.
You want torture? Watch him deliver lines ala SHUT UP WOMAN to the blond Eastern European Cello player in The Living Daylights, where he was best mates with what are now predominantly Al Qaeda, then be incredibly UNFUNNY and WOEFUL in Licence to Kill. The only redeeming quality of the second film? A shot of him using a Laserdisc as a data storage device hooked up to a computer. This alone, makes it a film that computer enthusiast ought to see, but them alone.
With the absence of Pierce Brosnan, I still grizzle at the thought they looked over Steven Hartley for Bond, the primary problem him being too young. To them, Timothy Dalton was an improvement...HAHAHAHA...."
If you'd read the books, (Which you obviously didn't) You'd know that Dalton's portrayal was the closest to the way Fleming wrote him. Cubby Broccoli wanted Dalton as early as 1968 for OHMSS, and he turned THEM down, because he felt he was too young.
All Brosnan did was try to play half Connery, half Moore. And as I see the repeats, it fully doesn't work. I liked Dalton's hard edge considerably. This is a guy who's supposed to be a killer. Dalton certainly gave us that, and was leagues ahead of Moore in the believability department. Even Desmond Llewellyn says Dalton's the closest to Fleming's Bond.
I'll take the ruthless killer any day. I liked the Roger Moore Bonds as well, but Dalton showed more acting range and charisma in the first 20 minutes of "TLD" that Moore did for 95 percent of all his films combined.
So I'd rather have Dalton in 1000+ Bonds than one Sextette.
I love to love my Lisa.
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