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Keith Phipps's avatar

I should add that, like Connery and Brosnan, Dalton's had a really fun post-Bond career, which started almost immediately in THE ROCKETEER where he played an Errol Flynn-like Nazi collaborator. (Flynn almost certainly wasn't a Nazi collaborator, but the stories endured anyway.) He's really fun in HOT FUZZ!, too. (And I keep meaning to check out DOOM PATROL. I hear good things.)

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Octopussy was also my intro to Bond (we had a copy of it in my house on the defunct RCA home video CED format...I must have watched it a million times). My older brother was a big Bond fan, and so it wasn't long before I had watched the whole series as a kid. Even then, I knew the Moore stuff was perhaps a bit iffy when compared to the the first handful of Connery films, but I loved them all the same.

But I was there for Dalton too, and he was the first Bond I saw in theatres. I remember liking The Living Daylights a lot, but but being less into License To Kill. For me, Dalton made a much larger impression in The Rocketeer, which was and is one of my favourite adventure movies. I also loved him as Prince Barin in Flash Gordon. While I wasn't all in on Dalton as Bond, I did like the fact that he seemed like more of a precursor to what Daniel Craig's bond would have more of an opportunity to flesh out: a harder edged, post-Cold War Bond. It's a much better take on the character than Brosnan picking up the cartoonish excess of the Moore films, without the specific Moore charm to elevate the hijinks.

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