Pierce Brosnan screen-testing for The Living Daylights in 1986

Would he have been better than Dalton? At the time, he was locked in but NBC renewed a show he was contractually obligated to return to and cucked him out of the role and it eventually went to Dalton as a second choice. What do Bondbros feel about this?

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  1. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    Some more photos.

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous
  2. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    What's an actual good non-Bond movie Brosnan has been in that isn't Mrs. Doubtfire?

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      Lawnmower Man is a fun B-horror movie.

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      if you're asking that then you've never seen the thomas crown affair. you're in for a good time bro

      • 7 months ago
        Anonymous

        The Thomas Crown Affair
        Seraphim Falls
        Butterfly on a Wheel
        Off the top of my head.

        Thomas Crown Affair sister-bros, we eatin good tonight.

        • 7 months ago
          Anonymous

          Clearly not, I'm afraid.
          >In 2016, Michael B. Jordan had approached Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer to pitch a new adaptation of the story, with hopes of starring in the lead role.[22][23] By April 2023 after previously acquiring MGM, Amazon announced plans to reboot the franchise, with a new feature film in development through the company's Amazon Studios.

        • 7 months ago
          Anonymous

          ruined by a very gross rene russo

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      Mamma Mia? 😀

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      The Thomas Crown Affair
      Seraphim Falls
      Butterfly on a Wheel
      Off the top of my head.

      • 7 months ago
        Anonymous

        >Seraphim Falls
        legendary. He ambushes Liam Neeson by gutting a cow and waiting inside of it until he comes by.
        They one upped the scene where Harrison Ford put some of those intestines on Mark Hamill to keep him warm.

      • 7 months ago
        Anonymous

        The Matador was fun. Also The Ghost Writer.

        • 7 months ago
          Anonymous

          'The Greatest' is pretty good. It's a movie about dealing with loss, so you know that role hit close to home for Pierce. I even liked 'Taffin'.

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      The Fourth Protocol and The Ghost are both good.
      But my favorite thing he's done is the TV miniseries Noble House, adaptation of a novel by the writer of Shogun.

      • 7 months ago
        Anonymous

        it's good but it's certainly not as good as remington steele

        • 7 months ago
          Anonymous

          Remington Steele is fun. Noble House is epic.

          • 7 months ago
            Anonymous

            >fantasies of a roastie
            No wonder Brosnan absolutely despised it and wanted out as soon as possible. Imagine his utter rage when they cucked him out of Bond for this cheap show for roasties and then cancelled it anyway shortly after and then Dalton got the job when it was LOCKED IN for him and him only.

            • 7 months ago
              Anonymous

              he didnt despise it at all. he just wanted to move up to filming bond

              • 7 months ago
                Anonymous

                It would seem he was fine with it as a stepping stone or just indifferent and came to despise the whole thing after the NBC fricks cost him the biggest movie role in existence only to cancel the show again anyway.

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      Taffin

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      the matador

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      The Foreigner is a good recent one. Brosnan's best non-Bond movies are the ones where he starred as a deutragonist or a supporting actor. So Seraphim Falls, the Ghost, the Matador, the Tailor of Panama, the Thomas Crown Affair, the Fourth protocol.

      • 7 months ago
        Anonymous

        >The Foreigner
        Good recommendation. Avoid 'Butterfly On A Wheel', that one is shit.

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      Dantes Peak was the shit when I was young watched it all the time

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      He was great in the Fourth Protocol.

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      Ghost Writer is kino

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      He's great in The Matador

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      Mars Attacks

  3. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    Dalton is the best

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      /thread. Brosnan is fine, though.

      • 7 months ago
        Anonymous

        Brosnan is easily the best, come on now.

  4. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    Dalton and Brosnan have the same metrosexual handsome Bond vibe but Dalton acts circles around Brosnan (Brosnan is still pretty good).

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      >metrosexual
      How on earth did you get that impression? Graig fits that bill though.

  5. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    I'm 27 and I've never watched the lawnmower or even seen Remington Steele

  6. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    Dalton was better. he was a psycho

  7. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    Neither.
    Lewis Collins should have been the one.

  8. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    No. I like Brosnan, I think his movies are entertaining, but Dalton is the closest Bond has ever been to the actual character, a sociopath with carte blanche.

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      If only he'd gotten the role in his prime years. He'd definitely have done more than Moore or Connery and cemented himself as THE 007, with TLD and LtK to his Bond resume.

      Disagree. He could do it well but Dalton has this very good-guy aura that doesn't mesh well with the scenes. I've never understood why he's praised so much because of that. Brosnan channeled that aspect of Bond in his movies too and did it a bit better only because of his looks. He has incredibly kino eyes and glare. I think Brosnan was the best to play the character, by looks and acting ability alone. Goldeneye, barring lady M, is perfection and S+ tier Bond movie, only next to Goldfinger.

      • 7 months ago
        Anonymous

        I now understand why Cubby was so obsessed with this guy. Intoxicating charisma just from a still picture.

      • 7 months ago
        Anonymous

        eh. i was disappointed by golden eye. he lacked the boyish charm and the swagger he had as steele. as bond he never seemed relaxed

        • 7 months ago
          Anonymous

          Nah, in 86 he still looks too boyish to pull of Bond. The Bond character is very much supposed to be an experienced middle-aged man (which is why he was being played by a senior citizen beforehand). Dalton was a better choice.

          The duality of man. Myself, I think he should have gotten the part in 86 and Bond needs some boyish charm because at the end of the day, he was the absolute prettyboy chad type in his school and that's what adds to the fantasy. I imagine most of us were the unpopular or quiet kids who revered and envied such a man to death and as such, the fantasy of Bond is completed with Brosnan in the role to me. He's the quintessential Bond and I've always felt this. Dalton was a great Fleming's Bond and Connery is the stuff of legend but Brosnan is the perfect representaiton on what the global consescus is on who Bond is.

          • 7 months ago
            Anonymous

            That's your opinion, but I disagree. Bond is in no way a "prettyboy", he's the embodiment of that "swag is for boys, class is for men" meme, the guy was a sex symbol for wearing a white tuxedo in an age when film icons started wearing jeans and t-shirts.

            • 7 months ago
              Anonymous

              I didn't say he was a prettyboy if you bothered to not speed-read my post. I said SOME boyish charm.

              Dalton is a good actor and seems like a great chap, but The Living Daylights is one of the worst Bond movies, very amateur in almost every respect.

              Must not have watched the same movie then, anon cause what you said is completely ludicrous.

            • 7 months ago
              Anonymous

              so brosnan is the right pick then

      • 7 months ago
        Anonymous

        >He could do it well but Dalton has this very good-guy aura that doesn't mesh well with the scenes.
        What? Timothy Dalton has never played an out and out hero. It's anti-hero at best.

        • 7 months ago
          Anonymous

          I don't know, he has a very likeable physiognomy and personality (judging from interviews) so it surprises me he hasn't played many heroes. I look at Brosnan and see a harder edge to him.

  9. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    Good lord Pierce was handsome

  10. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    brosnan had more important roles

  11. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    Nah, in 86 he still looks too boyish to pull of Bond. The Bond character is very much supposed to be an experienced middle-aged man (which is why he was being played by a senior citizen beforehand). Dalton was a better choice.

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      >very much supposed to be an experienced middle-aged man
      after 4 seasons of steele audiences would have lapped it up

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      I think that's an artefact of modern perceptions of age. We tend to think of actors in their 30s as young, and middle age beginning with 40s. An early thirties Bond is perfect really.

  12. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    the last dalton one was very sad. he had jowls

  13. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    Dalton is a good actor and seems like a great chap, but The Living Daylights is one of the worst Bond movies, very amateur in almost every respect.

  14. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    >I thought Christmas comes only once a year
    The best Bond, tied with Connery. The rest I'm completely indifferent about.

  15. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    Saw an interview with him on youtube. He was in an English boarding school. He said he wasn't at home and: "The English have a wonderful way of letting you feel it". I remember it because of the way he put it.

  16. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    If only he'd been in TLD, it'd be the greatest Bond movie of all time without a doubt. Only thing I would change is to add one more Bond girl even if Kara is S tier. Use the theme PSB had prepared, as good as a-ha's song was. It would have been one for the ages but nonsense got in the way as they often do.

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      The Living Daylights had great Bond and great Bond girl but a shite Bond villain and a boring third act. Necros was a good henchman.

  17. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    Dalton was the best Bond so I'm okay with it.

  18. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    >Have mancrush on Pierce Brosnan
    >Seen most of the things he's in
    >Can't bring myself to watch 'Mamma Mia!'

    I can't.

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      It‘s camp kino. Though probably best enjoyed with company.
      Also amanda seyfried is hot as frick

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      cant even rewatch season 5 of stgeele because it's so depressing

  19. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    in summary remington steele and noble house are quintessential brosnanwatching

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