Ten years ago, when the second and final Timothy Dalton Bond movie,
Licence to Kill, tanked at the box office, it looked like the venerable
secret agent had finally run out of gas, driven into the ground by the
likes of The Terminator and Rambo. A six year hiatus followed, and, when
Bond finally returned in 1995's Goldeneye, Dalton had been replaced by
Pierce Brosnan and the series was said to have been given a complete
overhaul. Actually, as Goldeneye and its sequel, Tomorrow Never Dies,
illustrated, the changes were more cosmetic than anything else. Bond
still drinks his martinis shaken not stirred, still utters his signature
"Bond, James Bond," and still sleeps with any gorgeous woman who
crosses his path. The only differences are that he has traded in his
Aston Martin for a BMW and "M" has experienced a sex change. With
Brosnan in the lead role, the Bond series has undergone an unprecedented
revival. Both Goldeneye and Tomorrow Never Dies exceeded the magical
$100 million mark (the latter doing so while in direct competition with
Titanic), and the latest movie (the 19th overall), The World Is Not Enough, stands poised
to join them.
to join them.
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