Unpopular Opinion
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Rules:
1. NO POLITICS
Politics is everywhere. Let's make this about [general] and [lemmy] - specific topics, and keep politics out of it.
2. Be civil.
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4. Shitposts and memes are allowed but...
Only until they prove to be a problem. They can and will be removed at moderator discretion.
5. No trolling.
This shouldn't need an explanation. If your post or comment is made just to get a rise with no real value, it will be removed. You do this too often, you will get a vacation to touch grass, away from this community for 1 or more days. Repeat offenses will result in a perma-ban.
6. Defend your opinion
This is a bit of a mix of rules 4 and 5 to help foster higher quality posts. You are expected to defend your unpopular opinion in the post body. We don't expect a whole manifesto (please, no manifestos), but you should at least provide some details as to why you hold the position you do.
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Brosnan was a bit of a victim of time. Dalton’s Bond has definitely aged better, but was not popular at the time. They wanted to make it edgier, and less womanizing. Personally, I thought it was a solid take, at the time and now. But Dalton was their second choice. They really wanted Brosnan. The show Remington Steele got everyone talking about him as the next Bond. When the show ended, and the role was available, the fans were excited. Then we learned about his contract with CBS, and that the network wouldn’t let him go be Bond. By the time he was available he could still play young enough for the role, but the franchise was reacting to fallout from Dalton’s edgier iteration. So they retreated to safe ground (sillier, a little more womanizing, but not Connery levels!). I would argue that the first three (Goldeneye, TND, & TWINE) were solid. DAD was a decent idea, but the production was bent on being “bigger and better” than anything else. Instead it was kind of a farce of itself. I guess the only good thing we got was Madonna finally realized that, but for that 1 role where she basically played a non-singing 1940s version of herself, she’s a terrible actress. I think Brosnan was still a solid Bond, despite the goals of the franchise at the time.
They didn’t figure out how to do edgy right until Craig (and the Bourne movies kind of helped with that).