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The original post: /r/movies by /u/Tarbuckle on 2024-12-26 01:42:08.

I was rather lukewarm on the Brosnan Bond era when I was younger, but over time I've come to view him as the best 007 after Connery. Craig embodies the ruthlessness of Bond, but takes him into territory that's too cold and remorseless. Craig is aided by the fact that the movies he was in were better made and had more relevance to the Bond narrative trajectory—Brosnan's films, released in that amorphous territory between the fall of the Soviet Union and the retreat into sullen, narcissistic reaction, had no compelling plot or arcs, but nevertheless entertain because the lead possessed the chops to make Bond his own...