No thanks. Star Trek Nemesis was enough for me. I will give him this: at least he TRIED (but utterly failed) to do justice to the role of "Shinzon, Picard's evil clone". That's more than I can say for George Clooney, who portrayed "Batman" as "Look, I'm George Clooney wearing a Batsuit."
I would rank Sean Connery as far and away the best James Bond, with Timothy Dalton in a distant second (shame he only got to two films and the scripts for both were subpar). Dalton could have come close to Connery if given Casino Royale or Skyfall, that material was far better than Craig was in the role.
If you truly think Craig is the "best Bond ever" and Hardy totally fits the part, we simply have vastly different ideas about who James Bond is. Ian Fleming repeatedly stated what Bond looked like (his first choice was David Niven), and it isn't remotely like Craig or Hardy. Also, one major part of the character since the beginning is Bond's utter suave charm that masks his ability to kill a man without batting an eye -- something Craig completely lacks as he always looks pissed off and hung over and the only reason women fall head over heals for him is because the script requires them to.
It reminds me when Tim Burton turned Willy Wonka into a hybrid of Marilyn Manson & Michael Jackson, which some people insisted was "closer to the book" in their strange, twisted world. Then there's the recent Superman reboot (at least that guy LOOKED the part), where numerous "fans" of the film sneered at the decades old tradition of Superman being an inspiring boy scout like figure, and said they were never "into" Superman, until the character was "updated" to a "realistic, grounded" portrayal of a killing machine with the personality of a wooden plank. We simply have totally different ideas about who Superman is, and how he should be depicted on film. End of story.
>> Tomassina’s “look” doesn’t bother me. The pickle smooching does. <<
>> Whats sexual orientation to do with talent? <<
I'd actually agree with the scotsman on this point. Hardy's creepy private life really doesn't matter if he's a talented actor who can become the character on screen. For example, Ian McKellen is a flaming homo and bitter jackass in real life, while he does an excellent job portraying the wise and stotic Gandalf on screen. Hardy's personal life isn't the issue -- his looks and mannerisms on screen, however, are not James Bond. Again, even Craig looks better in comparison, and Craig was far removed from the traditional James Bond (they even did a composite photo of the six actors who portrayed Bond and proved this point... you won't see any trace of Daniel Craig in the composite version):
