Journey/Survivor wrote:kgdjpubs wrote:
Just curious...it is Craig the actor, or the unrefined version of an "younger" Bond that they went with in CR that you have a problem with? I don't see Craig very far off from where Timothy Dalton went on Licence to Kill, which I love even though it's not what you would call a "Bond movie".
For starters, I really liked Brosnan's Bond a lot, and I thought he easily had 1 or even 2 more Bond films left in him. So I'm pissed at EON Productions for replacing him.
I don't like Daniel Craig the man. He is disrespectful of Bond fans with his comments, and he acted like he didn't even want the role in the first place.
The biggest majority of fans still wanted Brosnan back, or at least preferred someone like Hugh Jackman, Clive Owen or Christina Bale over Craig. But Barbara Broccoli just had to have her way regardless of what the fans wanted.
funny thing is that CR is exactly the type of film that Brosnan wanted to make, but never got the chance to. He might have gotten away with one more film, but he did start noticably aging a lot in the last few years.
I've never read much of Craig's comments...but to an actor, the role (as fun as it might be) is an albatross and typecasting--and probably only Sean Connery ever got away from it. I can easily see why many actors would NOT want the role.
It's a hard role to cast. Jackman, I could see working, but he's already rather overexposed--as is Christian Bale. I believe Clive Owen turned it down also. I get the impression that they are trying to cast someone who is NOT an A-list Hollywood star in the role. Nobody, so far was an A-list actor when they took on the role. Moore and Brosnan were known for TV series, and the others were obscure or literally unknown. Frankly, there just aren't many guys around that are currently at the age to pull it off effectively.
Journey/Survivor wrote:I don't like that they re-wrote Bond's history with the "re-boot" of the franchise. It's as if they erased Dr. No and all of the films that came after it, and James Bond just became 007 in 2006. All of the shit with Judy Dench's M. She just meets Bond for the first time in Goldeneye well after Bond has long since been a double-0, now she's the current M when Bond has just become a double-0, which is also trying to forget about Bernard Lee and Robert Brown who had both played M in the past. No Miss Moneypenny, no Q. I know that Q wasn't in Dr. No either, but I still miss the Q character, and I was hoping that John Cleese would be back. I could go on for hours actually, about what I hated about CR.
I can sorta agree with you here. The one weird thing that throws me here is not re-casting M. I think they could have found some dignified aged man to play the role and it would have fit in well. Nothing against Dench as she plays the character very well...but it DOES create a discontinuity. I got the impression that the Moneypenny and Q characters would be re-introduced at some point in the future.
Journey/Survivor wrote:I do love a lot of the more serious Bond films too, like License To Kill, On Her Majesty's Secret Service, For Your Eye's Only etc, etc. But I also like for Bond to be fun too.
Oh, good...you don't get shot then.
Overall, sounds to me that you are more dissappointed with the direction of the franchise (re-booting) as opposed to Craig's interpretation of the role, discounting a few comments by the actor re: Bond.
) but his story fascinates me. And I like Jason Scott Lee - haven't seen or heard much of him lately.
