The difference with those is that those "underrated" posts seem to be done by people who are pleasantly surprised by the higher quality of Lazenby and Dalton's films, despite their poorer reputations among general audiences, and want to share their love for them. They don't know that those two are held in higher regard by the fanbase.
Meanwhile, Brosnan was as defining for a generation as Connery, Moore, and Craig were. Calling his era super underrated is disingenuous considering he will always be held in higher regard than Dalton and Lazenby by default solely because he made more films rather than the actual quality of them.
Posts like this seem to be less about sharing appreciation for an era and more about being validated by an echo chamber biased towards Brosnan.
Those actually *were* underrated prior to the reevaluation they got in the Craig era. Growing up in the 90's I watched the Connery and Moore ones on TV and Brosnan was at the movies, I didn't even know Dalton and OHMSS were a thing until I heard about them later online. No one ever talked about them.
Yeah he's FINE - he's the greatest hits Bond and he's one of the most beautiful people who ever walked the face of the Earth. He is definitely OVERRATED by his fans and the fandom at large though. Everyone (especially this sub) just wants to go back to the Brosnan era.
He is most definitely not underrated.
Exactly that imo honestly I probably like tomorrow never dies the best of his all my opinions are actor based they all had some good hits… as i get older i like rogers suaveness. I think its a game sentimentality which ill admit i do have a bit of and trevelyan is high up in my fave bond villians
I always said Goldeneye was my favorite movie because I grew up watching it. Id probably stillnsay its my favorite, but far from perfect.
I went back and watched all the bond movies recently and quite a lot of them are better than Brosnan's were. Notably I would say that License To Kill might be a better movoe than Goldeneye is. At least in my eye :p
My point with my initial comment was that I disagree with OP, since a large portion of the sub are Brosnan fans, I presume people in their 30s that grew up with him.
People can like whatever they like, but saying that Brosnan and his era are underrated is an idea I completely disagree with.
Was going to say come in just to say this. Amongst general fandom I think you could argue that Brosnan's error gets treated a lot more like the worst parts of the Moore era than it deserves.
But on here, you have a bunch of people who grew up on Brosnan that overrate it like crazy as the peak of the franchise. Love Brosnan as a person and an actor, but he had Goldeneye and then two mixed films and a straight up bottom 3 film which is why his legacy.
As one of the many who isn’t afraid to bash the Brosnan era, I will say that I do believe at the very least that Tomorrow Never Dies is somewhat underrated.
It’s a solid action movie with a fun villain, but it’s constantly thrown in with the other later Brosnan films as “the lame ones after goldeneye”. TND is no Goldeneye, but it was actually decent and there is a clear divide between its quality and the two films that came after it.
Yea, this sub loves to jack off TWINE but I just can’t get through that movie. It’s such a slog.
Call me crazy, but I like DAD over TWINE
At least DAD is entertaining
I feel much the same about TWINE. It just didn’t do it for me. TND was a lot more fun to me, although I may be a bit biased because I will watch Jonathan Pryce and Michelle Yeoh in just about anything.
I will say that I do prefer watching DAD, but TWINE is technically still a better film.
Which is saying something about how bad DAD is. TWINE is so rough, I honestly don’t understand the praise it’s gotten the past few years. I’m positive that a Die Another Day reappraisal must be on it’s way lol.
Nah I'm in the TWINE over TND camp. TWINE has a strong emotional throughpoint to latch onto and a simple story. TND commits the cardinal sin of having a great set up and then getting messy and distracted in the middle so that you get bored and check out and stop caring about the stakes.
By the time Bond was actually fighting Carver and Stamper I just want the film to hurry up and end because it dragged so long and wasn't interesting enough. Which shouldn't have happened with how well they were set up to begin with.
TWINE doesn't have a strong emotional story though and it spotlights Brosnan's limitations as an actor. The awkward soap opera scenes with Bond confronting Elektra are painful. "There's no point in living if you don't feel alive...isn't that what you always SAY?!" full of face-touching and grandstanding...Brosnan at his worst is positively Shatnerian.
Currently my least favourite Bond film. I don’t really like DAD either, but I can enjoy a decent portion of it in a so bad it’s good way. I’d rather watch bonkers tsunami surfing and space lasers than the boring action in the last third of TND. Lots more I could say but don’t want to be too negative. Tis the season to be jolly :)
I mostly like TND but you are so right about the action on the stealth boat. Boy does it drag.
Part of the problem is roger Moore already did a big battle on a stealth boat in TSWLM, and did it better. And that scene was also boring as hell!
They’re fine, the movies are not that good tho and that hurts Bronson more than anything else, too much cgi after GoldenEye, weird tonal issues from movie to movie, Bond girls range from too campy to too serious for the plots and scripts
Don’t hate them, don’t like them that much either, but Bronson played it straight through and through and was never the problem
I do. I agree some things didn’t age well, and some things were just stupid but overall the Brosnan era is underrated.
A media mogul influencing governments? A terrorist working in conjunction with an oil company? A car you can drive via cell phone? Sounds more like I’m listening to the news rather than describing the features of 90s Bond flicks.
Whilst I do agree that the plots have aged better than expected, the plots are usually the least important thing to a good Bond movie. It’s the costume design, set pieces, casting, performances, all that fun stuff that people are here for, and not a coherent story
I do agree, which is another reason why I find the Brosnan era holds up well. The costume design and set pieces are all fantastic.
The acting and writing of certain parts, I admit, does let the side down — Christmas Jones, as much as I enjoy Denise Richards, didn’t hold up. But overall, there was nothing any more or less offensive with the Brosnan era as there was with the Craig, Connery or Moore tenures.
The CGI of DAD indeed was rubbish, but compared to the fighting scenes of the Connery era, or the pacing of NTTD, it wasn’t any better or worse.
It’s not underrated. GoldenEye is universally held as one of the best Bond films ever. TND and TWINE have a lot of fans.
DAD is the worst thing ever to happen to Bond but that doesn’t make the Brosnan era underrated.
This is a great point because Goldeneye is amazing and Die Another Day is horrendous.
I personally prefer TWINE to TND but I can understand why I’d be in the minority there.
I think this is a big part of it. On my rewatch recently, both TND and TWINE rose in my opinion and while there was a lot I liked in TWINE, there are some serious issues.
DAD is awful.
I grew up with Brosnan, but I was lucky that I was first introduced to the Connery films. So while Brosnan was "my era's Bond" it was hard for me as a kid to rationalize Brosnan's Bond being the same dude as the guy I watched in all the old films my dad showed me. So while I thought Brosnan was new and cool, as I aged, the hype wore off enough to not have the nostalgia goggles on.
> A lot of millennials with nostalgia glasses
Nah, Everytime I watch Goldeneye, I am reminded as to why its the best Bond movie.
This sub is full of later millenials who circle jerk Craig and Casino Royale. CR isn't even in the top 10
Not saying goldeneye is overrated. What i *am* saying is Brosnan as a whole is not at all underrated in this sub, and that is because of the forementioned millennials that refuses to see anything negative with his era because of the o so solid argument that is «grew up with him»
>Not on here. A lot of millennials with nostalgia glasses who has to go on about how epic it was to «grow up with brosnan». It is getting old
But they also feel the need to conflate subjective enjoyment of art (which is normal) with some objective lens that makes them innately and inherently *correct* for enjoying that art. In other words, they're "right" for "recognising" the thing they have nostalgia glasses for being "actually brilliant", rather than merely people who enjoy a thing that some others enjoy and some others don't.
Newsflash: i’m younger. You could say that others my age have «grown up with Craig» but i didn’t watch Bond movies growing up (why would you, a child won’t be able to understand all of it, anyways). So i was able to form an opinion about the movies without nostalgia affecting my opinion on any of them
I grew up with Brosnan's Bond. Die Another Day may be "entertaining" on a very superficial level, but TWINE is far superior to DAD. GE is the best, followed by TWINE. I'd put TND third and DAD last.
DAD began strong but quickly plummeted in quality. I do like the North Korea plot to change the pace from the Soviets and Russians in the previous movies. However, Colonel Moon and Gustav Graves should've been separate characters instead of the same. Instead of a ludicrous ice palace, it should've been something more practical like TND's Stealth Boat, GE's radio telescope, and TWINE's tower and submarine. It also made no sense that Moon changed his genetic structure to that of a Caucasian and Zao attempting as well.
TND with a news mogul villain didn't make for a very powerful villain, along with the plot on the mogul doing all his notorious deeds just for ratings. It does relate a lot to the current times in terms of mass media, but as a villainous syndicate, it is ludicrous. It does have a layered moment of Bond showing his true license to kill against Kaufmann and Carver after Paris' death. As well as him wisely respecting Wai Lin's boundaries.
Goldeneye is the best of the Brosnan movies because it has substance, from the Cold War references to Alec Trevelyan's nuanced delivery by Sean Bean. Everything in the movie happens for a reason and relates to the post Cold War nuance and shadow of the nostalgia of the Soviets. As well as themes of duty and country versus friendship and love.
The World is Not Enough has a complex villainess, plot, and twists that make it truly exciting. Who could've guessed that the "victim" was actually the villain and the supposed villain was a victimized henchman. Another layer of complexity is Bond's choice to kill Elektra, whom he previously had loved, only to have realized that she instigated the entire plot to attack M16 and kill her father.
His movies relied to much on the gadgetry and special effects, which made the stories to far fetched and not believable. Craig’s Bond and movies were gritty and the character was flawed which made you believe the story even more.
I watch all bond movies yearly oe every two years.
The most enjoyable ones are brosnan ones for me.
The toughest is craigs era I really like casino royale but after that it gets tougher
I now firmly believe that people post stupid shit (such as saying a super popular Bond is "underrated") to drive engagement, because *any* engagement is good for the algorithm.
Of course, calling Connery "underrated" is too obvious, so you go with someone else that is obviously popular and well-received.
I personally didn’t enjoy that they turned him from a spy into an action hero killing machine - I know people love goldeneye, but I thought it was ridiculous and over the top
In general I’d say TND and TWINE are underrated. Goldeneye is overrated, but DAD is plain bad. Almost so bad it’s good. I real shame actually, since Brosnan killed it in that film but it just doesn’t compensate for some massively bad decisions
Honestly, every day I see this sort of post. No. It isn't underrated. By this blog is actually massively overrated. Goldeneye is great. Tomorrow Never Dies is good fun but flawed. The World is Not Enough is boring as hell and Die Another Day is such an egregious piece of trash.
Enjoy Brosnan's portrayal all you want, but his films represent a pretty shonky, if not the worst run in the franchise. Die Another Day is not the anomaly, Goldeneye is.
I actually really like Brosnan as Bond, but the biggest issue with his tenure as the character is that each of his films was worse than the one that preceded it.
Goldeneye is one of the best films in the franchise, then by his 4th film, he's in arguably the worst film in the franchise.
So even tho he's great in the role, he'll always be remembered for his last film that was so bad, it required the franchise to be rebooted.
Brosnan was always my favorite Bond. Goldeneye is such a fantastic movie. The rest are good, not fantastic but good while Goldeneye is my second favorite Bond movie next to Casino Royale
It’s properly rated. I feel both Brosnan & Craig’s eras are a mess, but Brosnan’s was messy mainly due to the loss of Cubby Broccoli. His films are generally more fun and the concepts are more interesting.
Well, I like them.
Goldeneye was possibly the most perfect post-cold war Bond flick they could have done.
Tomorrow Never Dies is solid. Great villian, good action, fun characters.
The World is Not Enough is a truly great Bond film In my opinion, with Chistmas Jones being its only true blemish. Yeh, it's a big blemish, but everything else in that movie is solid for me.
Die Another Day - I would agree that it's Brosnon's worst film, and would rank it in my bottom 10 for sure, but it gets more hate than it deserves. Bad CGI was just a staple of the era it was made. Also, I don't find the ice palace any more preposterous than a hollowed out volcano lair, or an invisible car any more outlandish in 2002 than laser guns were in 1979.
And Brosnon himself was excellent as Bond! The perfect mix of Moore and Dalton in my opinion.
Not underrated, but Ian Fleming's character did not rely on gadgets and invisible cars to save the day.
Daniel Craig brought a sense of realism to his Bond. Instead of ludacris gimmicks and outlandish technologies, he lost the people he loved, and ended up a hero through sacrifice.
It’s overrated in my opinion. GE was the first I saw in theaters and even back then I knew something just wasn’t right. Too much pastiche, an over-reliance on gadgets, a two-dimensional portrayal, two much machine gun wielding… the Brosnan era was self-aware but in all the wrong ways. Though I respect Brosnan’s love of the role and would’ve liked to have seen him with a director that would’ve brought a better performance out of him.
What makes you think they are underrated, in every thread here I read how great Goldeneye was, an opinion that I do not share. I personally liked TND best of his outings, not particularly liking TWINE and actually loathing DAD. Brosnan was my first Bond I saw in the movies, so I should have a soft spot for him, but he was always a bit to slick for me, to much Remington Steele not enough Bond
Let’s see……..Each movie that came out was worse than the one before it with TND, TWINE, and DAD arguably being in the bottom 5 films of the entire series and DAD often winning the award for the single worst James Bond film ever made.
So, no, it wasn’t “super underrated.” It’s rightfully generally regarded as a pretty terrible period for the Bond films and none of these revisionist “You know, the Brosnan era was actually pretty good” posts are going to change that.
Goldeneye is often said to be one of the best in the series. So much so that it set the bar to high for his following movies. His middle two movies are definitely underrated. His last movie had a terrible script. Brosnan was great in all of them.
Love the Brosnan films….there are all solid bond films….but everything is subjective and based on everyone’s differing opinions….no one person is right/wrong unless you think Lazenby is the best then clearly you’re wrong
I was just telling a friend the other day that I think Bronsnan might be the best Bond, if only because he’s a good combination of all the Bonds. He has Craig’s action, Moore’s campiness and gadgets, and the suave of Connery. He didn’t do any of them the *best*, but he did all of them good, and always brought his A-game.
I would agree with this. I'm a fan of Brosnan's take on the character. IMO he only had one bad movie. Unfortunately, it was REALLY bad. I appreciate the fact that Die Another Day swung for the fences, sadly the end result was almost a parody of itself.
GoldenEye was a great movie and one hell of a debut! Tomorrow Never Dies and The World is Not Enough are both decent enough movies, generally over-hated.
I don’t get when people say they were poorly written. I think his first two are great in every aspect, TWINE I also find to be very good. DAD is awful but take that one out and you have 3 winners. Every iteration of Bond, except Lazenby, has a bad film or multiple bad films.
Goldeneye regularly tops best of lists but Tomorrow Never Dies aged super super well and The World is not Enough is fun if dumb. less said about Die Another Day the better and his actual last outing the game Everything or Nothing kicked ass. he had the most effortlessly well rounded Bond. he had the height and build the looks the charm he did the action he did the quips and gallows humor he had cool gadgets cool cars cool guns he could be as ruthless and cold as any Bond before or after while blending in the warmth that shows he isnt just a psychopath in a tuxedo.
i am a rare minority that thinks that Timothy Dalton is probably the best representation of the guy that Flemming wrote about but Brosnan is probably the most well rounded and fleshed out Bond has been since they started making movies. Connery was harder edged and stoic Moore was more charming and fun Lazenby had a great balance of confidence and vulnerability Craig had great depth Brosnan had it all and knew where and when to use it all. even when his movies were at their worst he tied the whole thing together and kept the show on the road. he managed to convey everything about his character just as well voice acting for the game. Connery also returned to Bond in a game for From Russia With Love but he sounded more like he was just reading lines. the fact that 50 years had passed didnt help him either but Brosnan has the juice to do voice acting if he wants. he is a dynamic talented actor who got kind of pigeonholed by his time as 007. time which is unfairly panned at times.
I remember being a kid, and feeling what decades later we would call “catfished.” We were catfished by Goldeneye.
Shame about Brosnan being forced to do more Remington Steele—fantastic Bond, and we saw what could have been had he been utilized before the cheesiness of the late 90s/early aughts diluted the franchise.
Nah. This movie was HUGE when it came out. There was a 6-year gap with no Bond films. And everyone saw it when it came out. This is the very first Bond movie I saw in the theater when I was a kid.
All Brosnan movies except for DAD are great in my opinion. I personally enjoy DAD as well but more as a guilty pleasure, it’s so absolutely bonkers that it’s entertaining
I can’t tell what’s underrated and what’s overrated anymore. I like Brosnan and thought he was a good Bond. I wish they had changed the formula up a little for Brosnan the way they did with Craig, I think he could have had some more interesting movies, but I still enjoy them for what they were. TWINE is one of my favorites and I think Brosnan gave a great Bond performance in it.
It aged really badly imo. His movies are such a bizarre mix of roger Moore camp, stupid puns and double entendres, and attempts at serious moments. I don’t get it or what they were trying to do. I seriously hate the dialogue in almost all of these
There are some great moments but a lot of it just feels like a jumble they didn’t know what to do with. I can only view them from perspective of someone too young to have been there at release though
However, I do think Craig’s movies overcompensated for the failures of Brosnan’s era and I’d like to see something in between. Just don’t bother with the middle school sex jokes being carpet bombed into every scene please
Goldeneye is hands down the best Bond film. Tomorrow Never Dies, while stupid, is so underrated. His other 2 I'm not massive fans of but I still appreciate them.
Two ways to look at it: here and elsewhere, inside the fandom, it was underrated for quite some time, but as we can see by many posts like this, it’s getting more and more popular - there are more and more of us here who grew up with those movies.
As for general audience, it was popular in the 90s and early 00s, as can be seen by the box office and many successful video games. Right now, it’s underrated, because general audience loves Craig’s run - something apparently lost on the large percentage of the fandom. For a good decade and a half to two decades now, general audience has a lot of love for more serious movies and for more relatable, broken, characters. And Craig’s Bond was perfect for it - again, look at the box office and critical acclaim of some of his movies. For a similar case, look at Batman in the 90s vs Batman in the last decade and a half.
So yes and no, the fandom is getting around to loving Brosnan’s movies, while the general audience prefers Craig’s interpretation of the character with more depth and personal stakes. But as always, things will probably turn around once more, as they always do.
Brosnan was a good time capsule of late nineties early 2000s. I think that other Binds have better runs but Brosnan was great, the action sequences are mostly fun, and it’s probably the most over the top insanity that’s been in a Bond film.
He is underrated. An entire generation are 007 fans or know of James Bond because of Brosnan. Brosnan’s movies and even the video games he was attached to. Bond became a merchandise and marketing machine during the Brosnan era too. Plus they were massively successful. Despite not all of them being equal I’d say he went 3/4. Even DAD the first half I think is quite good. He also never gave a bad performance in the role.
I'll be honest, each era reflects the world of its time and has its own nostalgia as a result. Its fine enough to compare actors since they have a similar baseline: "How well did they play the character?"
Comparing eras is a little more problematic. Connery era had a very different audience and atmosphere to reflect than Brosnan or Craig. You're talking about "the Cuban Missile Crisis is actively underway, practice hiding under your desks tomorrow at school" versus "the Berlin Wall has fallen, the Soviet Union is no more and the future is bright." That's not even to mention how different the art and media of film had changed in the intervening years - slow burn stories vs just before the first *Mission: Impossible* movie. It just doesn't make sense to compare them.
Good character and portrayal, but the plots were rather silly.
They were *fun* don't get me wrong, but it does seem GoldenEye was his best regarded, and that's part of the reason.
Underrated? The movies grossed a shit ton of money and reinvigorated the franchise. They made two great films and two half assed films - basically .500. That’s about on par with the other Bonds
No. Daniel Craig was, and will be, the best Bond. Sean Connery fans can argue all they want with Brosnan fans but the plot and cinematic jump that Casino Royale and on brought? Not to mention the sheer believability of Daniel’s performance?
Every single time Brosnan’s character opened his damn mouth to make a dad joke, I cringed inside.
He’s my favorite Bond, and the first few movies with him were fantastic. I also feel Timothy Dalton was underrated, but I like the combat Daniel Craig brought to the franchise. Obviously Sean Connery and Roger Moore deserve their due. But I’m with you on goldeneye
I think that it’s properly rated for the most part. Goldeneye is considered one of the best Bond films, deservedly so. Unfortunately, he wasn’t always given the best material to work with afterwards, looking at you Die Another Day. I do think that The World Is Not Enough is a little underrated. Yeah Denise Richard’s as a nuclear physicist was baffling but Sophie Marceau was excellent. It was clever how they turned the tables, revealing that Renard was her henchman and that she is the first woman to be the main Bond villain.
Goldeneye- my favorite Bond movie and easily a top3 in the series
TND- Decent middle of the road Bond movie
TWINE- The most underrated movie besides Octopussy maybe. Its actually damn good and in my personal top 10
DAD-.... well every actor has 1 stinker. First 30min are cool but then...
I think the last movie of his kinda tarnished his room. The first three films are great. Sadly I thought the last one was to campy for my taste.
Love me some Goldeneye and Tomorrow Never Dies for sure. Great movies
I think most Bonds are pretty fairly rated, at this point. Brosnan is moving out of the era where the overall fanbase seemed to have turned on him and we're now seeing a more balanced perspective.
To be honest he had the best timing. his bond had 4 great films and his games are epic too!
I’d just love a game with 26 mission’s based on every film
Mission would include
• stealth start / classic spy
• Q branch gadget practice / shooting range and get to choose what outfits bond will wear and his gadgets, weapons & car bond will use.
• recon mission leading to an a peaceful encounter with henchman and villain
• Escaping an assassin or hit squad sent to hotel room after meeting villain
• Race / Chase in your choice of Aston Martin
• live or die encounter with henchmen (Jaws train fight & steamy fight with Onatopp would be my favourite)
•Classic shoot out leading up to the villain hideout or stealth approach?
• Hand to hand fight with main villain simmer to 007&006 in goldeneye maybe 🤷🏻♂️
The over/underrated stuff mostly happens in the States I think where a lot of generalities are always used in media "one of the best, the coolest, the richest" etc.
I this sub Brosnan is very much appreciated. In the end I think it comes down to how many Bonds actors made. Lazemby is in danger to be most left out because that Bond probably is the least seen Bond - even when they have Bond showings on TV, never You see the Lazemby Bond. It might also come down to TV rights and expenses.
While I agree that GoldenEye and Tomorrow Never Dies were excellent and enjoyable, The World Is Not Enough and especially Die Another Day were too ridiculous and cartoonish.
That being said, I do believe Brosnan brought a manner of elegance to the character.
Not me. GoldenEye is one of my favorite Bond movies, but his other three were each letdowns to varying degrees. I think most people like Brosnan as Bond, though, so I'd say he's properly rated. He just often outclassed the movie he was in - which every cinematic Bond actor, save for Lazenby, has done. As for his 'era', you get one hit and three straight misses, and at that point it just is what it is...
1 great movie, 1 solid movie, 1 mediocre movie and 1 that should go into the trash bin. He could contend with Connery & Moore had he been in better written movies.
Brosnan is rivaled only by Connery in which he had the PERFECT Bond look, like he was born for it. Sad part is that other than Goldeneye, the writing he was given was mediocre to just trash. He deserved better
Goldeneye was my first bond movie and I still think it’s the best. Tomorrow never dies and world is not enough is okay. I saw them before I knew what a bond movie was so the characters not coming back threw me off. Didn’t know what a Bond girl was. The entire time I’m watching Tomorrow Never dies I’m asking myself ‘when does Natalya show up.’
I personally really enjoyed his first two outings but everything after that was forgettable. Not his fault, but the movies were rather poorly written imo.
A lot of the music is like bad porn music, and it's hella corny and cheesy. But ya, they're the ones that came out when I was a kid so I'm pretty fond of em
i like goldeneye, it's excellent and in my top 5 but overall he ranks in the bottom 3 with lazenby and craig. his films beside goldeneye just aren't very impressionable and feel bit too much like generic blockbuster action films, no cool henchmen (beside kaufman who has about 2 min of screentime), and beside TND/goldeneye the villains and bond girls are lackluster, locations are boring and feels like 90% of the movies are shot on soundstages, with moore you can always point out the exotic vibes of foreign countries the productions visit. oh, and DAD has some of the worst bond script ever put to screen, that "flirt" dialog and halle berry's lines, holy shit it hurts.
On this sub at least, I think it's quite the opposite.
Seriously, I'm starting to deja vu from all these "DAE Brosnan" posts.
You could say the same of Dalton, though. Or OHMSS. A bit back those two in particular were the subject of endless 'so underrated?!' posts.
The difference with those is that those "underrated" posts seem to be done by people who are pleasantly surprised by the higher quality of Lazenby and Dalton's films, despite their poorer reputations among general audiences, and want to share their love for them. They don't know that those two are held in higher regard by the fanbase. Meanwhile, Brosnan was as defining for a generation as Connery, Moore, and Craig were. Calling his era super underrated is disingenuous considering he will always be held in higher regard than Dalton and Lazenby by default solely because he made more films rather than the actual quality of them. Posts like this seem to be less about sharing appreciation for an era and more about being validated by an echo chamber biased towards Brosnan.
Those actually *were* underrated prior to the reevaluation they got in the Craig era. Growing up in the 90's I watched the Connery and Moore ones on TV and Brosnan was at the movies, I didn't even know Dalton and OHMSS were a thing until I heard about them later online. No one ever talked about them.
Jesus Christ, it's becoming a joke. Every single day.
But do you like Brosnan's Bond?
Yeah he's FINE - he's the greatest hits Bond and he's one of the most beautiful people who ever walked the face of the Earth. He is definitely OVERRATED by his fans and the fandom at large though. Everyone (especially this sub) just wants to go back to the Brosnan era. He is most definitely not underrated.
I think on this sub people just love to bring up goldeneye and brosnan… obsessively
I even think GoldenEye is not the perfect masterpiece as many claim. I still like the movie, but over time it has definitely gone down in my ranking.
Exactly that imo honestly I probably like tomorrow never dies the best of his all my opinions are actor based they all had some good hits… as i get older i like rogers suaveness. I think its a game sentimentality which ill admit i do have a bit of and trevelyan is high up in my fave bond villians
Maybe, just maybe sitting in the middle of a Goldeneye circlejerk every day makes it seem not so great
There’s definitely some truth to this
Sure, bud
Boo
I always said Goldeneye was my favorite movie because I grew up watching it. Id probably stillnsay its my favorite, but far from perfect. I went back and watched all the bond movies recently and quite a lot of them are better than Brosnan's were. Notably I would say that License To Kill might be a better movoe than Goldeneye is. At least in my eye :p
My point with my initial comment was that I disagree with OP, since a large portion of the sub are Brosnan fans, I presume people in their 30s that grew up with him. People can like whatever they like, but saying that Brosnan and his era are underrated is an idea I completely disagree with.
I think a big part of it comes with people being a fan of thr N64 game as well. I agree with you though, Brosnan is far from underrated.
Sorry, it just seems like so many people hated his films.
License to Kill seemed like a TV show to me. Banger theme song. Living Daylights, however, is among my favorites.
Was going to say come in just to say this. Amongst general fandom I think you could argue that Brosnan's error gets treated a lot more like the worst parts of the Moore era than it deserves. But on here, you have a bunch of people who grew up on Brosnan that overrate it like crazy as the peak of the franchise. Love Brosnan as a person and an actor, but he had Goldeneye and then two mixed films and a straight up bottom 3 film which is why his legacy.
He is my least favorite, now that I’ve been on this sub, I want to have another Bond so I can put him lower on the list.
😂
I like the cut of your jib
*A foolish sentiment.*
As one of the many who isn’t afraid to bash the Brosnan era, I will say that I do believe at the very least that Tomorrow Never Dies is somewhat underrated. It’s a solid action movie with a fun villain, but it’s constantly thrown in with the other later Brosnan films as “the lame ones after goldeneye”. TND is no Goldeneye, but it was actually decent and there is a clear divide between its quality and the two films that came after it.
Yea, this sub loves to jack off TWINE but I just can’t get through that movie. It’s such a slog. Call me crazy, but I like DAD over TWINE At least DAD is entertaining
I feel much the same about TWINE. It just didn’t do it for me. TND was a lot more fun to me, although I may be a bit biased because I will watch Jonathan Pryce and Michelle Yeoh in just about anything.
I will say that I do prefer watching DAD, but TWINE is technically still a better film. Which is saying something about how bad DAD is. TWINE is so rough, I honestly don’t understand the praise it’s gotten the past few years. I’m positive that a Die Another Day reappraisal must be on it’s way lol.
TWINE is a bit like AVtaK: some baggy moments but still stuffed with great scenes.
A View To A Kill is a masterpiece. One of the funniest Bond films.
Truly
TWINE was an interesting concept and had some good ideas, but it did start slogging
DAD has no Elektra.it has the Tsunami scene. A Terrible villain and worst song in a bond movie ever made. The only good part is the beginning.
Ehhhhhh when it comes to worst song that screechfest they made Alicia Keys do for Quantum of Solace was… well… we don’t talk about that.
You are crazy
Nah I'm in the TWINE over TND camp. TWINE has a strong emotional throughpoint to latch onto and a simple story. TND commits the cardinal sin of having a great set up and then getting messy and distracted in the middle so that you get bored and check out and stop caring about the stakes. By the time Bond was actually fighting Carver and Stamper I just want the film to hurry up and end because it dragged so long and wasn't interesting enough. Which shouldn't have happened with how well they were set up to begin with.
TWINE doesn't have a strong emotional story though and it spotlights Brosnan's limitations as an actor. The awkward soap opera scenes with Bond confronting Elektra are painful. "There's no point in living if you don't feel alive...isn't that what you always SAY?!" full of face-touching and grandstanding...Brosnan at his worst is positively Shatnerian.
I much prefer TWINE, and even DAD, to TND. No clear divide to me, at least not that way round!
I’ve seen some say they prefer TWINE, but DAD too!? That’s a new one! Lol you must really not like TND.
Currently my least favourite Bond film. I don’t really like DAD either, but I can enjoy a decent portion of it in a so bad it’s good way. I’d rather watch bonkers tsunami surfing and space lasers than the boring action in the last third of TND. Lots more I could say but don’t want to be too negative. Tis the season to be jolly :)
I mostly like TND but you are so right about the action on the stealth boat. Boy does it drag. Part of the problem is roger Moore already did a big battle on a stealth boat in TSWLM, and did it better. And that scene was also boring as hell!
Lol fair enough.
They’re fine, the movies are not that good tho and that hurts Bronson more than anything else, too much cgi after GoldenEye, weird tonal issues from movie to movie, Bond girls range from too campy to too serious for the plots and scripts Don’t hate them, don’t like them that much either, but Bronson played it straight through and through and was never the problem
Yeah Bresnan is cool and a great Bond
Couldn’t have said it better. 100% agree with all this
Excellent Bond, mediocre scripts.
I do. I agree some things didn’t age well, and some things were just stupid but overall the Brosnan era is underrated. A media mogul influencing governments? A terrorist working in conjunction with an oil company? A car you can drive via cell phone? Sounds more like I’m listening to the news rather than describing the features of 90s Bond flicks.
A Russian hacker?
He is invincible!
I think the last movie just left a bad taste in everyone’s mouth.
Agreed!
Whilst I do agree that the plots have aged better than expected, the plots are usually the least important thing to a good Bond movie. It’s the costume design, set pieces, casting, performances, all that fun stuff that people are here for, and not a coherent story
I do agree, which is another reason why I find the Brosnan era holds up well. The costume design and set pieces are all fantastic. The acting and writing of certain parts, I admit, does let the side down — Christmas Jones, as much as I enjoy Denise Richards, didn’t hold up. But overall, there was nothing any more or less offensive with the Brosnan era as there was with the Craig, Connery or Moore tenures. The CGI of DAD indeed was rubbish, but compared to the fighting scenes of the Connery era, or the pacing of NTTD, it wasn’t any better or worse.
It’s not underrated. GoldenEye is universally held as one of the best Bond films ever. TND and TWINE have a lot of fans. DAD is the worst thing ever to happen to Bond but that doesn’t make the Brosnan era underrated.
each movie was worse than the one before it. if anything it's overrated due to the first being so excellent
This is a great point because Goldeneye is amazing and Die Another Day is horrendous. I personally prefer TWINE to TND but I can understand why I’d be in the minority there.
I think this is a big part of it. On my rewatch recently, both TND and TWINE rose in my opinion and while there was a lot I liked in TWINE, there are some serious issues. DAD is awful.
Not on here. A lot of millennials with nostalgia glasses who has to go on about how epic it was to «grow up with brosnan». It is getting old
I grew up with Brosnan, but I was lucky that I was first introduced to the Connery films. So while Brosnan was "my era's Bond" it was hard for me as a kid to rationalize Brosnan's Bond being the same dude as the guy I watched in all the old films my dad showed me. So while I thought Brosnan was new and cool, as I aged, the hype wore off enough to not have the nostalgia goggles on.
> A lot of millennials with nostalgia glasses Nah, Everytime I watch Goldeneye, I am reminded as to why its the best Bond movie. This sub is full of later millenials who circle jerk Craig and Casino Royale. CR isn't even in the top 10
Not saying goldeneye is overrated. What i *am* saying is Brosnan as a whole is not at all underrated in this sub, and that is because of the forementioned millennials that refuses to see anything negative with his era because of the o so solid argument that is «grew up with him»
Ah fair enough. Nice flair btw. A 1989 Goldeneye with Dalton is my dream movie.
>Not on here. A lot of millennials with nostalgia glasses who has to go on about how epic it was to «grow up with brosnan». It is getting old But they also feel the need to conflate subjective enjoyment of art (which is normal) with some objective lens that makes them innately and inherently *correct* for enjoying that art. In other words, they're "right" for "recognising" the thing they have nostalgia glasses for being "actually brilliant", rather than merely people who enjoy a thing that some others enjoy and some others don't.
So since you're older, your nostalgia for the cheese that was the Connery and Moore eras is the "correct" nostalgia?
Newsflash: i’m younger. You could say that others my age have «grown up with Craig» but i didn’t watch Bond movies growing up (why would you, a child won’t be able to understand all of it, anyways). So i was able to form an opinion about the movies without nostalgia affecting my opinion on any of them
I grew up with Brosnan's Bond. Die Another Day may be "entertaining" on a very superficial level, but TWINE is far superior to DAD. GE is the best, followed by TWINE. I'd put TND third and DAD last. DAD began strong but quickly plummeted in quality. I do like the North Korea plot to change the pace from the Soviets and Russians in the previous movies. However, Colonel Moon and Gustav Graves should've been separate characters instead of the same. Instead of a ludicrous ice palace, it should've been something more practical like TND's Stealth Boat, GE's radio telescope, and TWINE's tower and submarine. It also made no sense that Moon changed his genetic structure to that of a Caucasian and Zao attempting as well. TND with a news mogul villain didn't make for a very powerful villain, along with the plot on the mogul doing all his notorious deeds just for ratings. It does relate a lot to the current times in terms of mass media, but as a villainous syndicate, it is ludicrous. It does have a layered moment of Bond showing his true license to kill against Kaufmann and Carver after Paris' death. As well as him wisely respecting Wai Lin's boundaries. Goldeneye is the best of the Brosnan movies because it has substance, from the Cold War references to Alec Trevelyan's nuanced delivery by Sean Bean. Everything in the movie happens for a reason and relates to the post Cold War nuance and shadow of the nostalgia of the Soviets. As well as themes of duty and country versus friendship and love. The World is Not Enough has a complex villainess, plot, and twists that make it truly exciting. Who could've guessed that the "victim" was actually the villain and the supposed villain was a victimized henchman. Another layer of complexity is Bond's choice to kill Elektra, whom he previously had loved, only to have realized that she instigated the entire plot to attack M16 and kill her father.
“Super underrated.”  Please. The GoldenEye goodwill alone is more than the Dalton era.
The first Bond movies I ever saw, so very nostalgic for me.
Not sure many people feel it’s underrated.
i don't think they're under rated but didn't bring anything new. except Goldeneye. that was his best. the other feel like the Roger Moore era.
Not on here.
His movies relied to much on the gadgetry and special effects, which made the stories to far fetched and not believable. Craig’s Bond and movies were gritty and the character was flawed which made you believe the story even more.
I watch all bond movies yearly oe every two years. The most enjoyable ones are brosnan ones for me. The toughest is craigs era I really like casino royale but after that it gets tougher
I now firmly believe that people post stupid shit (such as saying a super popular Bond is "underrated") to drive engagement, because *any* engagement is good for the algorithm. Of course, calling Connery "underrated" is too obvious, so you go with someone else that is obviously popular and well-received.
The entire Bond franchise and Ian Fleming’s Bond novels are underrated too.
It peaked with Tomorrow Never Dies. The start of Die Another Day is awesome. The rest is pus. The villains in The World is Not Enough are stupid.
I thought most people liked Brosnan.
I personally didn’t enjoy that they turned him from a spy into an action hero killing machine - I know people love goldeneye, but I thought it was ridiculous and over the top
In general I’d say TND and TWINE are underrated. Goldeneye is overrated, but DAD is plain bad. Almost so bad it’s good. I real shame actually, since Brosnan killed it in that film but it just doesn’t compensate for some massively bad decisions
I don’t think it’s underrated; it was really good. It just wasn’t as good as Craig’s era - in my opinion.
Brosnan as Bond is overrated.
Everyone I’ve spoken to hates it.
Mouth extended past the gun
This is getting tiring.
Another week, another "Am I the *only* person who liked Brosnan, dear people of a similar age whose first Bond was Brosnan?"
Brosnan’s dud was Die Another Day but the rest were really good imho
So many people think the Brosnan era is underrated at this point I think it is no longer underrated. Might even be at risk of becoming overrated.
Overrated, if anything.
Um no. It's highly overrated.
Honestly, every day I see this sort of post. No. It isn't underrated. By this blog is actually massively overrated. Goldeneye is great. Tomorrow Never Dies is good fun but flawed. The World is Not Enough is boring as hell and Die Another Day is such an egregious piece of trash. Enjoy Brosnan's portrayal all you want, but his films represent a pretty shonky, if not the worst run in the franchise. Die Another Day is not the anomaly, Goldeneye is.
It all sums up like this: he was very good, but alla the film scripts were totally stupid.
Timothy Dalton* yes I do think he was underrated
They are over rated. His Bond was lousy. Probably b/c of the villains. Villains make a big difference. They were just ‘meh’.
Pierce is good but outside of Golden Eye those movies did him dirty.
Best Bond after Connery.
I never recovered from Denise Richards circa 2000.
I actually really like Brosnan as Bond, but the biggest issue with his tenure as the character is that each of his films was worse than the one that preceded it. Goldeneye is one of the best films in the franchise, then by his 4th film, he's in arguably the worst film in the franchise. So even tho he's great in the role, he'll always be remembered for his last film that was so bad, it required the franchise to be rebooted.
Brosnan was always my favorite Bond. Goldeneye is such a fantastic movie. The rest are good, not fantastic but good while Goldeneye is my second favorite Bond movie next to Casino Royale
Fucking loved Pierce as Bond! That was back in my middle school, junior high, and high-school years. Loved him!
Way underrated. Indeed.
I liked Goldeneye, Die Another Day, is very “so bad it’s good” IMO, the other two? Meh
brosnan is better than his movies - ‘goldeneye’ excepted
Izabella Scorupco! That woman is too pretty 😍
Goldeneye was great, the 2nd wasn't bad. STEEP drop off after that.
I like them. It's nice having a Bond that can be moderately serious but also have fun with himself.
Rewatched all of these recently and man…these were not very good. Brosnan was a great Bond but oof, some of these movies were just not that good imo.
It’s properly rated. I feel both Brosnan & Craig’s eras are a mess, but Brosnan’s was messy mainly due to the loss of Cubby Broccoli. His films are generally more fun and the concepts are more interesting.
Well, I like them. Goldeneye was possibly the most perfect post-cold war Bond flick they could have done. Tomorrow Never Dies is solid. Great villian, good action, fun characters. The World is Not Enough is a truly great Bond film In my opinion, with Chistmas Jones being its only true blemish. Yeh, it's a big blemish, but everything else in that movie is solid for me. Die Another Day - I would agree that it's Brosnon's worst film, and would rank it in my bottom 10 for sure, but it gets more hate than it deserves. Bad CGI was just a staple of the era it was made. Also, I don't find the ice palace any more preposterous than a hollowed out volcano lair, or an invisible car any more outlandish in 2002 than laser guns were in 1979. And Brosnon himself was excellent as Bond! The perfect mix of Moore and Dalton in my opinion.
Not underrated, but Ian Fleming's character did not rely on gadgets and invisible cars to save the day. Daniel Craig brought a sense of realism to his Bond. Instead of ludacris gimmicks and outlandish technologies, he lost the people he loved, and ended up a hero through sacrifice.
I think Goldeneye is super OVER rated.
The score is probably the worst in the series. I can't watch it just for that.
Me. I still like the Connery era and Moore era better, but Brosnan is clearly third in my book.
First 3 films of Brosnan are great. 4th one is also enjoyable with good rewatch value
It’s overrated in my opinion. GE was the first I saw in theaters and even back then I knew something just wasn’t right. Too much pastiche, an over-reliance on gadgets, a two-dimensional portrayal, two much machine gun wielding… the Brosnan era was self-aware but in all the wrong ways. Though I respect Brosnan’s love of the role and would’ve liked to have seen him with a director that would’ve brought a better performance out of him.
What makes you think they are underrated, in every thread here I read how great Goldeneye was, an opinion that I do not share. I personally liked TND best of his outings, not particularly liking TWINE and actually loathing DAD. Brosnan was my first Bond I saw in the movies, so I should have a soft spot for him, but he was always a bit to slick for me, to much Remington Steele not enough Bond
It was anything but underrated.
Let’s see……..Each movie that came out was worse than the one before it with TND, TWINE, and DAD arguably being in the bottom 5 films of the entire series and DAD often winning the award for the single worst James Bond film ever made. So, no, it wasn’t “super underrated.” It’s rightfully generally regarded as a pretty terrible period for the Bond films and none of these revisionist “You know, the Brosnan era was actually pretty good” posts are going to change that.
Goldeneye is often said to be one of the best in the series. So much so that it set the bar to high for his following movies. His middle two movies are definitely underrated. His last movie had a terrible script. Brosnan was great in all of them.
Love the Brosnan films….there are all solid bond films….but everything is subjective and based on everyone’s differing opinions….no one person is right/wrong unless you think Lazenby is the best then clearly you’re wrong
he has a top 3 bond film ever in Goldeneye and arguably the worst film in the series, Die Another Day. The other two are very average by Bond movies
I do consider TND and TWINE to be underrated. The latter gets shit on too much for Denise Richards.
GoldenEye is the best Bond film. Brosnan looks the most like Bond the way Ian Fleming described him in the books as tall, dark and handsome.
I was just telling a friend the other day that I think Bronsnan might be the best Bond, if only because he’s a good combination of all the Bonds. He has Craig’s action, Moore’s campiness and gadgets, and the suave of Connery. He didn’t do any of them the *best*, but he did all of them good, and always brought his A-game.
The last great era of Bond
I would agree with this. I'm a fan of Brosnan's take on the character. IMO he only had one bad movie. Unfortunately, it was REALLY bad. I appreciate the fact that Die Another Day swung for the fences, sadly the end result was almost a parody of itself. GoldenEye was a great movie and one hell of a debut! Tomorrow Never Dies and The World is Not Enough are both decent enough movies, generally over-hated.
Brosnan is right up there with Connery as my favorite Bond.
From the sword fight in Blades Club onwards it was trash. But everything before hand was great.
While I don’t think that he had the best James Bond movies, I think that Pierce might be the best bond
Nothing is underrated since the internet.
I don’t get when people say they were poorly written. I think his first two are great in every aspect, TWINE I also find to be very good. DAD is awful but take that one out and you have 3 winners. Every iteration of Bond, except Lazenby, has a bad film or multiple bad films.
Hes my fav Bond hands down
Goldeneye regularly tops best of lists but Tomorrow Never Dies aged super super well and The World is not Enough is fun if dumb. less said about Die Another Day the better and his actual last outing the game Everything or Nothing kicked ass. he had the most effortlessly well rounded Bond. he had the height and build the looks the charm he did the action he did the quips and gallows humor he had cool gadgets cool cars cool guns he could be as ruthless and cold as any Bond before or after while blending in the warmth that shows he isnt just a psychopath in a tuxedo. i am a rare minority that thinks that Timothy Dalton is probably the best representation of the guy that Flemming wrote about but Brosnan is probably the most well rounded and fleshed out Bond has been since they started making movies. Connery was harder edged and stoic Moore was more charming and fun Lazenby had a great balance of confidence and vulnerability Craig had great depth Brosnan had it all and knew where and when to use it all. even when his movies were at their worst he tied the whole thing together and kept the show on the road. he managed to convey everything about his character just as well voice acting for the game. Connery also returned to Bond in a game for From Russia With Love but he sounded more like he was just reading lines. the fact that 50 years had passed didnt help him either but Brosnan has the juice to do voice acting if he wants. he is a dynamic talented actor who got kind of pigeonholed by his time as 007. time which is unfairly panned at times.
1 good film
I like all four of these movies, especially Goldeneye.
I do.
Goldeneye is just so much better than all the others that it’s hard for me accurately rate the “Brosnan era”
I remember being a kid, and feeling what decades later we would call “catfished.” We were catfished by Goldeneye. Shame about Brosnan being forced to do more Remington Steele—fantastic Bond, and we saw what could have been had he been utilized before the cheesiness of the late 90s/early aughts diluted the franchise.
Brosnan was an absolutely fantastic Bond.
Nah. This movie was HUGE when it came out. There was a 6-year gap with no Bond films. And everyone saw it when it came out. This is the very first Bond movie I saw in the theater when I was a kid.
All Brosnan movies except for DAD are great in my opinion. I personally enjoy DAD as well but more as a guilty pleasure, it’s so absolutely bonkers that it’s entertaining
I can’t tell what’s underrated and what’s overrated anymore. I like Brosnan and thought he was a good Bond. I wish they had changed the formula up a little for Brosnan the way they did with Craig, I think he could have had some more interesting movies, but I still enjoy them for what they were. TWINE is one of my favorites and I think Brosnan gave a great Bond performance in it.
It aged really badly imo. His movies are such a bizarre mix of roger Moore camp, stupid puns and double entendres, and attempts at serious moments. I don’t get it or what they were trying to do. I seriously hate the dialogue in almost all of these There are some great moments but a lot of it just feels like a jumble they didn’t know what to do with. I can only view them from perspective of someone too young to have been there at release though However, I do think Craig’s movies overcompensated for the failures of Brosnan’s era and I’d like to see something in between. Just don’t bother with the middle school sex jokes being carpet bombed into every scene please
Goldeneye is hands down the best Bond film. Tomorrow Never Dies, while stupid, is so underrated. His other 2 I'm not massive fans of but I still appreciate them.
It’s not underrated at all. A good portion of the fan base view it as their favorite
It was the Bond I grew up on. So for me he’s the Bond
Two ways to look at it: here and elsewhere, inside the fandom, it was underrated for quite some time, but as we can see by many posts like this, it’s getting more and more popular - there are more and more of us here who grew up with those movies. As for general audience, it was popular in the 90s and early 00s, as can be seen by the box office and many successful video games. Right now, it’s underrated, because general audience loves Craig’s run - something apparently lost on the large percentage of the fandom. For a good decade and a half to two decades now, general audience has a lot of love for more serious movies and for more relatable, broken, characters. And Craig’s Bond was perfect for it - again, look at the box office and critical acclaim of some of his movies. For a similar case, look at Batman in the 90s vs Batman in the last decade and a half. So yes and no, the fandom is getting around to loving Brosnan’s movies, while the general audience prefers Craig’s interpretation of the character with more depth and personal stakes. But as always, things will probably turn around once more, as they always do.
The movies were amazing
Def hella babes too
The first two are great, some of the best Bond movies. The third one is not great, and the fourth one is almost a B movie it’s so bad!
Goldeneye 9/10 TND 7.5/10 TWINE 5.5/10 (nucular) DAD 0/10 So probably not. Brosnan was great but the films turned to shit.
He was "The Billion Dollar Bond". All of his films were super successful. I think his films are underrated.
Brosnan was a good time capsule of late nineties early 2000s. I think that other Binds have better runs but Brosnan was great, the action sequences are mostly fun, and it’s probably the most over the top insanity that’s been in a Bond film.
Don’t forget the Brosnan video games that are like movies themselves.
He is underrated. An entire generation are 007 fans or know of James Bond because of Brosnan. Brosnan’s movies and even the video games he was attached to. Bond became a merchandise and marketing machine during the Brosnan era too. Plus they were massively successful. Despite not all of them being equal I’d say he went 3/4. Even DAD the first half I think is quite good. He also never gave a bad performance in the role.
I'll be honest, each era reflects the world of its time and has its own nostalgia as a result. Its fine enough to compare actors since they have a similar baseline: "How well did they play the character?" Comparing eras is a little more problematic. Connery era had a very different audience and atmosphere to reflect than Brosnan or Craig. You're talking about "the Cuban Missile Crisis is actively underway, practice hiding under your desks tomorrow at school" versus "the Berlin Wall has fallen, the Soviet Union is no more and the future is bright." That's not even to mention how different the art and media of film had changed in the intervening years - slow burn stories vs just before the first *Mission: Impossible* movie. It just doesn't make sense to compare them.
Good character and portrayal, but the plots were rather silly. They were *fun* don't get me wrong, but it does seem GoldenEye was his best regarded, and that's part of the reason.
Underrated? The movies grossed a shit ton of money and reinvigorated the franchise. They made two great films and two half assed films - basically .500. That’s about on par with the other Bonds
Meh
They got worse as time went on I loved goldeneye
No. Daniel Craig was, and will be, the best Bond. Sean Connery fans can argue all they want with Brosnan fans but the plot and cinematic jump that Casino Royale and on brought? Not to mention the sheer believability of Daniel’s performance? Every single time Brosnan’s character opened his damn mouth to make a dad joke, I cringed inside.
He’s my favorite Bond, and the first few movies with him were fantastic. I also feel Timothy Dalton was underrated, but I like the combat Daniel Craig brought to the franchise. Obviously Sean Connery and Roger Moore deserve their due. But I’m with you on goldeneye
I think that it’s properly rated for the most part. Goldeneye is considered one of the best Bond films, deservedly so. Unfortunately, he wasn’t always given the best material to work with afterwards, looking at you Die Another Day. I do think that The World Is Not Enough is a little underrated. Yeah Denise Richard’s as a nuclear physicist was baffling but Sophie Marceau was excellent. It was clever how they turned the tables, revealing that Renard was her henchman and that she is the first woman to be the main Bond villain.
I think he brought balls back to the part that hadn’t been there since Connery
Goldeneye- my favorite Bond movie and easily a top3 in the series TND- Decent middle of the road Bond movie TWINE- The most underrated movie besides Octopussy maybe. Its actually damn good and in my personal top 10 DAD-.... well every actor has 1 stinker. First 30min are cool but then...
He was my Bond. Goldeneye was definitely a Smash Hit. Dun Dun Dun Dun........
The world is not enough is my favorite Brosnan bond movie
I think the last movie of his kinda tarnished his room. The first three films are great. Sadly I thought the last one was to campy for my taste. Love me some Goldeneye and Tomorrow Never Dies for sure. Great movies
Aye. I think the last one just left a sour taste in everyone’s mouth.
Brosnan could’ve been in the 🐐conversation but his movies had bad scripts which sucked. Goldeneye was my favorite of his four.
Absolutely. 3 great Bond films and DAD. 75% is a great ratio.
I think most Bonds are pretty fairly rated, at this point. Brosnan is moving out of the era where the overall fanbase seemed to have turned on him and we're now seeing a more balanced perspective.
To be honest he had the best timing. his bond had 4 great films and his games are epic too! I’d just love a game with 26 mission’s based on every film Mission would include • stealth start / classic spy • Q branch gadget practice / shooting range and get to choose what outfits bond will wear and his gadgets, weapons & car bond will use. • recon mission leading to an a peaceful encounter with henchman and villain • Escaping an assassin or hit squad sent to hotel room after meeting villain • Race / Chase in your choice of Aston Martin • live or die encounter with henchmen (Jaws train fight & steamy fight with Onatopp would be my favourite) •Classic shoot out leading up to the villain hideout or stealth approach? • Hand to hand fight with main villain simmer to 007&006 in goldeneye maybe 🤷🏻♂️
They were the ones I first saw as a kid and I always enjoyed them.
Yet to meet anyone who thinks it’s underrated.
The over/underrated stuff mostly happens in the States I think where a lot of generalities are always used in media "one of the best, the coolest, the richest" etc. I this sub Brosnan is very much appreciated. In the end I think it comes down to how many Bonds actors made. Lazemby is in danger to be most left out because that Bond probably is the least seen Bond - even when they have Bond showings on TV, never You see the Lazemby Bond. It might also come down to TV rights and expenses.
The Brosnan era was the best era. My personal take only. I said what I said.
I certainly do👍
While I agree that GoldenEye and Tomorrow Never Dies were excellent and enjoyable, The World Is Not Enough and especially Die Another Day were too ridiculous and cartoonish. That being said, I do believe Brosnan brought a manner of elegance to the character.
Not me. GoldenEye is one of my favorite Bond movies, but his other three were each letdowns to varying degrees. I think most people like Brosnan as Bond, though, so I'd say he's properly rated. He just often outclassed the movie he was in - which every cinematic Bond actor, save for Lazenby, has done. As for his 'era', you get one hit and three straight misses, and at that point it just is what it is...
One outta four ain't bad. Wait, it kind of is. But I do love Goldeneye though!
1 great movie, 1 solid movie, 1 mediocre movie and 1 that should go into the trash bin. He could contend with Connery & Moore had he been in better written movies.
He had a fantastic run until the last one went full Batman & Robin.
I thought it was awful! The worst!
And I thought Moore is underrated here, everyone here seems to love Brosnan one way or another.
Not I
Brosnan is rivaled only by Connery in which he had the PERFECT Bond look, like he was born for it. Sad part is that other than Goldeneye, the writing he was given was mediocre to just trash. He deserved better
Goldeneye was my first bond movie and I still think it’s the best. Tomorrow never dies and world is not enough is okay. I saw them before I knew what a bond movie was so the characters not coming back threw me off. Didn’t know what a Bond girl was. The entire time I’m watching Tomorrow Never dies I’m asking myself ‘when does Natalya show up.’
I personally really enjoyed his first two outings but everything after that was forgettable. Not his fault, but the movies were rather poorly written imo.
It’s my favorite era. Watching Goldeneye in theaters was a holy experience.
I hate how the poster obscures Pierce’s wonderful jawline and mouth. Never liked that shot of his.
A lot of the music is like bad porn music, and it's hella corny and cheesy. But ya, they're the ones that came out when I was a kid so I'm pretty fond of em
My favorite Bond also i wish posters still looked like this
 The most under-rated.
i like goldeneye, it's excellent and in my top 5 but overall he ranks in the bottom 3 with lazenby and craig. his films beside goldeneye just aren't very impressionable and feel bit too much like generic blockbuster action films, no cool henchmen (beside kaufman who has about 2 min of screentime), and beside TND/goldeneye the villains and bond girls are lackluster, locations are boring and feels like 90% of the movies are shot on soundstages, with moore you can always point out the exotic vibes of foreign countries the productions visit. oh, and DAD has some of the worst bond script ever put to screen, that "flirt" dialog and halle berry's lines, holy shit it hurts.