Post by Eddie Love on Sept 3, 2009 18:34:17 GMT -5
Thank you. Your episode on his two entries was a blessed delivery from the relentless snark emitted by the hateful pricks at
Entertainment Weekly who never pass up a chance to spit venom in Dalton's direction. I really can't fathom anyone who would rather watch the final Moore entries (barring FYEO) than these two pictures. Dalton is simply in every respect a better Bond than the Sir Roger of the 80s. Period. Full stop. Perhaps some people need to get over whatever rosy childhood nostalgia they cherish and make a proper critical assessment. (Just because I would rather listen to The Partridge Family than The Rolling Stones when I was 8, doesn't mean I'd defend Keith Partridge over Keith Richards today.)
I think part of the reason Dalton's films get a bad rap with elite
members of the press (but never, I've found with true fans) is twofold. One is that John Glen shot so much of these pictures in wider shots and Dalton isn't always shown to the best advantage. Did you know he's the tallest actor to play Bond? I would have thought he was the shortest -- until Daniel Craig--because his stature isn't highlighted in these films. They should have done more to showcase his build and his physicality in his entries.
Then there's the matter of the women in the two Daltons. The two principals -- Maryam D'Abo and Carey Lowell -- are both hot and D'Abo's Kara is a kind of sweet character. (I know you guys hated Lowell, and I'll not go to the mat for her acting, though I do think she at least brought some athleticism to her part in addition to her phenomenal legs.) However, in both relationships at the end of the films when they're alone with Bond, both women...cry? Seriously? WTF? Can you imagine the women floating along with Bond in the first 5 movies just letting it all out and having a good sob? Would Connery have pitched them overboard? Here -- in both films! -- Dalton has to calm them down and give them a paternalistic "there, there." I don't think anyone in the audience -- of either sex -- wants to watch 007 suffering some needy chick after he just saved the world, no matter how sweet and lovely she is. I think the fact that these pictures didn't end with hot women jumping on Dalton to bang him (instead of his having to coax them out of a snit) played against his image as Bond.
Entertainment Weekly who never pass up a chance to spit venom in Dalton's direction. I really can't fathom anyone who would rather watch the final Moore entries (barring FYEO) than these two pictures. Dalton is simply in every respect a better Bond than the Sir Roger of the 80s. Period. Full stop. Perhaps some people need to get over whatever rosy childhood nostalgia they cherish and make a proper critical assessment. (Just because I would rather listen to The Partridge Family than The Rolling Stones when I was 8, doesn't mean I'd defend Keith Partridge over Keith Richards today.)
I think part of the reason Dalton's films get a bad rap with elite
members of the press (but never, I've found with true fans) is twofold. One is that John Glen shot so much of these pictures in wider shots and Dalton isn't always shown to the best advantage. Did you know he's the tallest actor to play Bond? I would have thought he was the shortest -- until Daniel Craig--because his stature isn't highlighted in these films. They should have done more to showcase his build and his physicality in his entries.
Then there's the matter of the women in the two Daltons. The two principals -- Maryam D'Abo and Carey Lowell -- are both hot and D'Abo's Kara is a kind of sweet character. (I know you guys hated Lowell, and I'll not go to the mat for her acting, though I do think she at least brought some athleticism to her part in addition to her phenomenal legs.) However, in both relationships at the end of the films when they're alone with Bond, both women...cry? Seriously? WTF? Can you imagine the women floating along with Bond in the first 5 movies just letting it all out and having a good sob? Would Connery have pitched them overboard? Here -- in both films! -- Dalton has to calm them down and give them a paternalistic "there, there." I don't think anyone in the audience -- of either sex -- wants to watch 007 suffering some needy chick after he just saved the world, no matter how sweet and lovely she is. I think the fact that these pictures didn't end with hot women jumping on Dalton to bang him (instead of his having to coax them out of a snit) played against his image as Bond.