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CBn Forum members on seeing Pierce Brosnan's second James Bond film for the first time

I rember seeing this back in 1997 because it was the very first james bond film i had seen in the theaters.I was 15 at the time and went with my mom.I don't rember the place or the time(Most likely it was in NYC though) but i rember it as a fun time and i still consider it the best of Brosnans four.

I was 20 and at university. Mostly remember being surprised at Kaufmann and generally impressed with the movie - but not blown away. The ending felt confusing.

I saw it on opening night. I picked Bond over Titanic, easily. I generally enjoyed it and knew it would be an enjoyable film from the wonderful PTS with its terrific music. It was for me the experience I was hoping for when I first saw GE which somewhat disappointed me. I saw it with 2 friends, including one who years later would actually pay twice for the first time to see a Bond film after he saw CR. My initial reaction to TND was ***1/2 out of **** although I've since tempered that to a solid ***. My only disappointment was Teri Hatcher's Paris dying so early in the film since I'd hope she be a Bond girl for at least 2 years prior to it. I was a big Lois & Clark fan at the time which is probably why I never became a big Wai Lin fan.

It's been a few years since I've seen it. I need to rewatch and see how I feel about it post-CR.

Seeing it on opening day in Malaysia,love the action sequence and the music score from David Arnold.The most action pack Bond film.

This post has been edited by templer1972: 21 November 2007 - 03:40

Watched it in late December 1997, with an old girlfriend in Darlington, England. The cinema was quite small but the screen was large.

I remember enjoying it, although there was too much machine-gun fire at the end. I decribed it in my diary as a "typical Bond film". I thought that Elliot Carver was an old-school and over-the-top Bond villain, and liked him at the time.

It's not as good now, but I can't believe that PrinceKamalKhan has waited years to watch any particular Bond film never mind this one! I thought as such Bond fanatics we at least get through all 21 every year???

LOL! Yes DaveBond21, I haven't watched all 21 in a long time. Signs of aging, I guess. I think a few years after I watched it, I rediscovered TSWLM and whenever I get in the mood for TND's plot, I watch either TSWLM or YOLT instead. The first hour of TND until Paris dies(sadly) is quite enjoyable. In retrospect, I wish TND had used its original plot of the villain leveling Hong Kong prior to the UK's returning it to Red China instead of starting WWIII again.

I was able to see a private showing of it in NJ before its premiere, then saw it on the day it opened in NYC. Loved the pre-title sequence, the parking lot sequence, and the music. Disliked the slow motion close ups.

I was (and still am) a huge fan of GOLDENEYE. After being a rabid Bond fan from the age of eight to eighteen, the absence of 007 from our cinema screens and my oncoming adulthood, convinced to me partly 'put away childish things'. The release of GOLDENEYE reinvigorated my enthusiasm (or mania) tenfold. it was the best directed, scripted, acted Bond film in many, many years. And I LOVED Dalton.

I saw TOMORROW NEVER DIES at a preview at The Odeon, Chester - alone, after college.(I couldn't wait!)

And man, was I disappointed.

After the careful reintroduction and restatement of James Bond into the Nineties, TOMORROW NEVER DIES was just one noisy, frenetically edited action set piece after another. The women and the villains were one-dimensional and unimaginative. The story tedious. The drama was non-existent. In short, Eon had played it safe.

After a few marathons of watching each Bond over a month or so in order, the charms of the film are now apparent to me, and I rate the film as one of the better ones. I appreciate the very things I didn't before - the action is excellent, the editing breakneck and exciting. The women good and interesting, the villains interesting. There were great dramatic moments. It's one of the purest, most fun, action-packed films in the series. And Brosnabn is absolutely superb in it. He EXUDES the character.

I seem to get through them all every 12-18 months, and I certainly watch FRWL, TB, OHMSS, TSWLM, Moonraker, FYEO, Octopussy, TLD, LTK, and all the Brosnan ones every year.

However, some fans on here watch them a lot more than I do, yet there seem to be some who don't watch them all the time. I like it when people are pleasantly surprised about the following:-



Moonraker is quite exciting with great locations and doesn't go into space until the last 30 minutes.

Octopussy is pretty good, despite the Tarzan yell and clown dressing up

FYEO is a lot more colourful, fun and summery than people think

TWINE is quite good in places

After GOLDENEYE, I felt disappointed. But I did enjoy the motorcycle/helicopter chase, Bond's confrontation with Kaufmann and Michelle Yeoh's performance.

Are those your top 13, DaveBond21?



Indeed. I love those space scenes though. For a product of the Star Wars generation, the SFX(for that time period anyway) along with John Barry's hypnotic score were mindblowingly amazing.



Love OP. Sir Roger's last good Bond.



It's certainly a geographically gorgeous Bond film. Call Sir Roger's character Simon Templar instead of Bond and I'd call it the best episode of The Saint ever filmed.



Hadn't watched that one in a while. I think CR and my recent re-evaluation of OHMSS have made TWINE go down quite a bit by comparison.

Nope, not necessarily, just the ones I find easiest to watch.



I watch the PTS of TWINE more than any other part of a Bond movie. It's long but to me, it's what James Bond is all about.

(plus in a UK survey in 2002, it came 2nd in the Top Bond moments of all time).