Posted on 09/19/2008 9:42:26 AM PDT by Reaganesque
Much coolness to behold!
Yes, this looks cool. And yes, Craig is fantastic. I’m not sure that he isn’t better, even, than Connery. He has more of a mean streak.
> Yes, this looks cool. And yes, Craig is fantastic. I’m not sure that he isn’t better, even, than Connery. He has more of a mean streak.
Agree. IMO Timothy Dalton was the best Bond — his looks and actions were closest to Ian Fleming’s description. Craig comes very close second. All others come distant third. Brosnan comes dead last.
Roger Moore was a hack who nearly killed the franchise.
To me, in the brief glimpse he looks more ‘buffed up’ than he did in the first Bond. Perhaps, he’s been working out more.
Looks spectacular, and more important — smart.
Craig seems to me a Steve McQueen-style Bond. And that’s a good thing.
Though the Bonds have had their PC moments of late, I couldn’t help chuckling — the villain’s name is “Greene” — and in a couple of sequences there, he looks a little like Al Gore!
Bump.
Moore was more than capable of playing JB in a colder, more serious fashion, but the producers wanted him to play it lighter (a la Simon Templar). In case you’ve never seen it, watch him in “ffolkes”. He was great in that film.
Craig is a very close second. But he’s been helped by the brilliant move of Bond going back to his roots in his movies as a character that bleeds, fights with no rules, will take revenge, and takes what happens around him personal. This is exactly how Bond should be. Not some pretty boy model in a tuxedo driving invisable cars and shooting lasers in outerspace.
I wouldn’t rank Craig ahead of Connery. The problem I have with Craig is that he plays Bond like a cold-blooded villain/assassin. Connery had charm and panache and you could root for him, but Craig is like an iceberg and it’s hard to root for him or have sympathy in the least. I wish the producers hadn’t swung so dramatically from the previous Bond. “Pirs Bonbons” was so light, flaky, and intolerably and arrogantly smug (nearly George Clooney territory) that he really got on my nerves (for those that think Moore was worst, nope, it was Brosnan). Surely they could’ve cast somebody in between those two dramatic characterizations to strike the proper balance. I liked Timothy Dalton (probably the best actor in the role) and even George Lazenby showed promise (had he not acted like such a prima donna on-set and during the promotion of OHMSS, he’d have probably continued doing the franchise into the ‘80s).
Lazenby was pretty good Bond on camera though
Cool. Hubby & son will see in movies. I wait for the dvd.
Agreed. Lazenby shined in that movie which I consider one of the very best Bond films.
Dalton was my favorite too. I read all of the books and he had the edge that comes across in them.
See, that’s what I like about Craig. I just don’t view professional assassins as all that “personable” or warm and fuzzy. But I do like Connery, and certainly he and Craig are light years above all the others (Moore too handsome, Brosnan just never had it, and Dalton too, well, actorish.
RM was great, bringing the right amount of comic flair to offset the absurdity of this character.
You’re kidding me right? This is the same “Bond” that thought it would be cool if James Bond performed a “gay sex scene”.
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