His character and the portrayal is tougher and more credible for a secret agent.
$150mil for two more movies. Impossible to refuse. No actor in history has been paid as handsomely.
Skyfall was terrific. Spectre was OK but not really memorable. If anything, Craig looked bored playing the role, going through the motions.
Have not seen any of his Bond movies. I tend to watch the Connery ones...my favorites.
I may be in the minority on this, but to be honest, I think the last several Bond films have been a little too indulgent of Bond (Skyfall) or just over the top (Quantum). I was disappointed in both and passed on Spectre. And I still prefer Sean Connery.
$150 million for a six-year contract extension?!?! Who does he think he is, an NFL quarterback?
So we’e going to have to wait another 6 years for the black one eyed trans sapien Bond? Disappointing.
I liked him in Casino Royale.
Eva Green was also stunning.
I like Craig’s portrayal of Bond.
I would like to see Tom Hardy in the role, too.
I watch The Drop over and over.
The worst Bond actually. Too short, wrong hair color, not nearly handsome enough, with little of the British sophistication that made Bond, well, Bond. He seems more like a middle class ex-SAS trooper than an Eaton educated Royal Navy commander.
His financial negotiation tactics alone, make him perfect for the part. He’s playing hardball with the producers and he’s going to win and everybody knows Bond always plays hardball and always wins. These two movies will likely make a billion or two, so what’s wrong with 100 million per movie? Hang in their Daniel... They’ll succumb.
(Runs and hides)
I’m putting on my asbestos undies before I say this:
Roger Moore was the perfect Bond. Unfortunately, he was cast during the 70’s and early 80’s when Hollywierd decided Bond movies needed to be cheesy comedy parodies of real secret agent movies. The stories and one liners were ludicrous. Then they kept him around too long - he was 58 in his final Bond flick A View to A Kill.
Having recently watched all the “official” Bond movies as well as the unofficial Connery one “Never Say Never Again” - as one of my summer “fun goals” - let me list the Bond actors in order of my best to worst:
1 Connery
2 Craig
3 Lazenby
4 Dalton
5 Moore
6 Brosnan
However, it’s difficult to separate the quality of the actor from the overall movie, and the overall movies vary so much in terms of their production quality, special effects, storylines, as well as the actual time period in which they were produced. For example, Moore’s version of Bond was campy and corny, but this is true of a lot of the action films produced in the 1970s. The special effects of the 1960s Connery films are laughable compared to what producers could deliver in the Brosnan and Craig eras.
Storylines still matter too - the two Dalton Bond films were hurt by the anachronistic 1980s plot lines - Colombian drug runners and Afghan “freedom fighters”? Ugh!
Similarly, Connery’s Japanese impersonations in You Only Live Twice feels really over the top and frankly pretty racist by today’s standards.
Brosnan’s four Bond films were pretty slick in terms of production values, but they were all sort of the same and undifferentiated and therefore for the most part forgettable. Still, there were some great moments, which is true of most Bond movies. When he dove off the cliff without a parachute and caught up with the falling plane at the beginning of Goldeneye was as exciting a moment as any Bond film ever had.
One thing I noticed about all of the Bonds as I watched them in chronological order was that each actor’s films became more reliant on special effects, corny jokes, campy villains, and sexy “Bond girls” - and then the new Bond actor would come in and the series would “reset” with a different tone and more focus on the Bond character which would set the process off again (except for Lazenby who only made one Bond movie). This has certainly been the case with Craig’s films. HIs latest, Spectre, was a forgettable mess compared to his more low key debut Casino Royale which was excellent. Hopefully the producers can restrain themselves enough that the Craig films don’t devolve into self-parody the way Moore’s did.
Also, I would hate to see the franchise wander off into SJW land or destroy the essence of the original character - which is grounded in the hard-boiled film noire and pulp fiction male archetype of the 1940s and 50s. Frankly, the “green” themes introduced in the recent Quantum of Solace were pretty eye rolling.
Still, I am impressed with how long they have been able to drive this franchise. I think they have made 24 official Bond movies over more than 50 years! And they continue to do well at the box office. Most of the films contain the same theme music, the same plot structures, the same tropes, mostly the same character. There is really no other film franchise that has been able to do anything like this. Pretty amazing.
I guess you’ve never heard of Sean Connery
;-)
David Niven was the best Bond.
I have really enjoyed all of the Craig Bonds. But i doubt he will come back, did he peak? No but i think he is afraid of being given a truly terrible Bond movie, better to get out on top than have an albatross following you.
One of the more recent actors i think that could be a good Bond is Jeremy Renner. He did London has Fallen pretty good.
Spectre was boooooring when it wasn’t perplexing. I went to a 10 p.m. screening and pretty much everyone sitting around me who’d had a drink or two at dinner was struggling to stay awake.
Spectre was boooooring when it wasn’t perplexing. I went to a 10 p.m. screening and pretty much everyone sitting around me who’d had a drink or two at dinner was struggling to stay awake.
IMO, the reason Daniel Craig’s portrayal of Agent 007 is because he gets to play a James Bond in a sort of Jason Bourne, and not in those stupid ‘campy’ Roger Moore...and even Sean Connery episodes, which are truly unrealistic.
If he accepts the will turn Bond full gay. They started the process already. Hollywood would love to turn one of the last manly men homo.
The next actor to play bond will definitely be a black homosexual. Hollywood can’t let well enough alone.