Film Discussion of the Week: GoldenEye

I'm currently watching all of the Bond movies since I haven't watched them all, and today I watched this movie, and wow do I disagree with the Pub on this one:

"GoldeneEye, the Bond movie that was in development hell for a while and made one of the best Bonds quit the franchise. So a new movie, a new Bond actor, how did Pierce Brosnan fare? Well, if the movie was not so awful, maybe it would be easier to judge his performance. GoldenEye is often said to be one of the better Bond movies, but I cannot for the life of me see how anyone can prefer this over a myriad of the other films. There a couple of things I liked in it like the opening sequence. It was cool, but had an over the top implausible ending. The opening credits are perhaps the best in any Bond movie since Goldfinger and the tank chase sequence was pretty fun. Now all the fucking awful moments. The hacking, my fuck, the hacking. It is the 90's alright, so we need hacking to be the star of every god damn plot device. Let us add one of the worst Russian accent hacker boys to the cringe pot and we got ourselves screen disaster. The female henchman is the worst henchman in all of these movies. She gets sexual pleasure from squeezing people to death with her thighs. This is something I could expect from a B-movie, not a Bond movie. Sean Bean is a great actor, but his character fucking sucks man. This guy is supposed to be close to Bond and have had all of these moments together with him, but he has never once been mentioned and he did not seem that close to him in the opening sequence. It was all too obvious too that he would return as a villain, although they never bothered to explain how he survived. Also his plans were only briefly mentioned at the end of film. The Bond girl was also pretty bad, and she only added to the feminist overtones this movie has, which only feels cringeworthy to me. Even the music is subpar as aside from the theme, all we get is this 90's techno nonsense. I actually hate to say it, but I think this is the worst Bond of them all up to this point, even beating out Live and Let Die to the throne of shit. Such a disappointment." 1.5/5 Shit Bond.

(Dalton) also got the absolute best gun barrel scene.

I just rewatched the gunbarrel scenes on Youtube and I agree, it surely is. Sean Connery ends in an awkward position, almost out of balance. Lazenby is surprisingly good due to how fast he goes from casually walking to his shooting position, but his hand throw is a bit clumsy and most people won't like the final kneeling position. I think Moore actually misses his shot in the first of them (the gun goes off before it's properly centered); in the following ones, he takes too long to aim and shoot. Brosnan is very precise and fast, almost as good as Dalton, but I prefer Dalton's final position due to it implying that now Bond is ready for combat, while Brosnan is completely stiff. Craig does a perfect shoot on Casino Royale, but there's no walking; on Quantum of Solace he does the entire scene too fast, almost as if they were in a hurry to film it, I don't like it at all; in Skyfall, the scene is paused too soon, and in Spectre the gun is too low (I think he misses the shot, like Moore).

To me, it's Dalton for the very best gunbarrel scene, followed by Brosnan.

And with this, we might have entered in the most random film discussion in this pub!

Balder - Oh man, I forgot the Bob Simmons one! I also think its only problem is being too slow, outside that it was a good introduction to the scene.

scipioafricanus - There's this one: