FormerBondFan
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Favourite James Bond Films: The Dark Knight Trilogy, Mission: Impossible and any upcoming action films starring Pierce Brosnan (no, it's not James Bond which is good because he'll need it to expand his reputation as an actor, especially in the action realm)
Favourite Films: Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Star Trek, The Dark Knight Trilogy, Harry Potter, Middle-Earth, The Matrix, Mission: Impossible
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Post by FormerBondFan on Mar 25, 2009 22:23:39 GMT -5
I say the Bond series should be put to rest once DC leaves after Bond 23. Knowing our luck it probably will be. James Bond out. Captain James Tiberius Kirk in.
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Kadov
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Post by Kadov on Mar 26, 2009 11:16:50 GMT -5
in the mean time give a chance to Craig, his potrayal is excellent, be open mind guys Give Craig a chance? That mantra was the rallying cry back in 2005, just after he was announced for the role. And here you are, one of his dwindling number of supporters, still babbling it. In case you haven't noticed, four years have passed, buddy. Which suggests you're conceding that (1) old-faced Danny Boy still hasn't been truly accepted as Bond and (2) he's so utterly miscast in the role. Just how many years does it take to give Craig a chance? At this rate, you'll be spending another 15 years urging the world (which stopped listening some time ago, considering the questionable reception of QOS) to give Danny Boy a chance. Even long after Craig leaves the part, you'll still be babbling "Give Craig A Chance."
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Post by Gambit on Mar 26, 2009 20:21:59 GMT -5
Let's hope it's three and out for DC and then we can return to sanity.
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FormerBondFan
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Favourite James Bond Films: The Dark Knight Trilogy, Mission: Impossible and any upcoming action films starring Pierce Brosnan (no, it's not James Bond which is good because he'll need it to expand his reputation as an actor, especially in the action realm)
Favourite Films: Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Star Trek, The Dark Knight Trilogy, Harry Potter, Middle-Earth, The Matrix, Mission: Impossible
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Post by FormerBondFan on Mar 27, 2009 0:13:28 GMT -5
Let's hope it's three and out for DC and then we can return to sanity. Aye.
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Post by Cpt. Sir Dominic Flandry on Mar 28, 2009 8:05:38 GMT -5
I wish there was a defined end point for Craig's Bond era. No doubt he will make another lighter Bond with Moneypenny and Q. It will receive mixed reviews, but make lots of money because of the Bond brand. Then he will do the same a few years later...
If Craig does make a traditional Bond then his failings as James Bond will be even more apparent, I would imagine. Hopefully that will result in a new actor being cast to play Bond.
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FormerBondFan
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Posts: 5,455
Favourite James Bond Films: The Dark Knight Trilogy, Mission: Impossible and any upcoming action films starring Pierce Brosnan (no, it's not James Bond which is good because he'll need it to expand his reputation as an actor, especially in the action realm)
Favourite Films: Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Star Trek, The Dark Knight Trilogy, Harry Potter, Middle-Earth, The Matrix, Mission: Impossible
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Post by FormerBondFan on Mar 28, 2009 12:37:13 GMT -5
Hopefully that will result in a new actor being cast to play Bond. Or another long hiatus (longer than 6 year gap between LTK and GE).
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Post by chuck007 on Mar 29, 2009 1:18:10 GMT -5
in the mean time give a chance to Craig, his potrayal is excellent, be open mind guys Give Craig a chance? That mantra was the rallying cry back in 2005, just after he was announced for the role. And here you are, one of his dwindling number of supporters, still babbling it. In case you haven't noticed, four years have passed, buddy. Which suggests you're conceding that (1) old-faced Danny Boy still hasn't been truly accepted as Bond and (2) he's so utterly miscast in the role. Just how many years does it take to give Craig a chance? At this rate, you'll be spending another 15 years urging the world (which stopped listening some time ago, considering the questionable reception of QOS) to give Danny Boy a chance. Even long after Craig leaves the part, you'll still be babbling "Give Craig A Chance." give him chance i mean give him another 5 or more movies hehehehe, i'll never conceding him as miscast bro, EON has good choice to cast him not just like Preety Boy Brosnan, and EON would make mistake if cast Cavill in his teenage age, his boyish looks would make the franchise stupid like Brosnan and Moore film again, many of my friends who not a fan before Craig, now become a James Bond fan because of Craig Potrayal. Craig is Bond whether u like it or not ;D so what u guys anticraig mob do just fantasized other lossers to cast as alternative bond ;D this is the forum about i think, fantasy Bond ;D
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Post by Kadov on Mar 29, 2009 11:50:32 GMT -5
I like this member Chuck. His desperate attempt to defend Old Danny Boy Craig is amusing. give him chance i mean give him another 5 or more movies hehehehe, Oh, so you've changed what you meant. You were asking us to give Danny Boy a chance because (in your words) "his portrayal is excellent" and you added that we needed to "be open mind guys." So all that suggests you were pleading for us in the anti-Craig brigade to give another look at Danny Boy's Bond. But since you've retreated from your original stance and thereby admitting your lost cause, I'll go easy on you. Let's take up your new plea for "another 5 or more movies" with Craig. Unfortunately, what you're wishing for actually works against you. Today, Craig looks like he's about 60. If you keep him for another 5 films, he'll look about 80. There's realism for you--an 80-year-old guy doing action scenes. Besides, it's not up to the fans to decide how long to keep an actor in the role. The franchise was successful during Brosnan's reign, but Eon still decided to recast the part. You can be sure Craig's days are numbered. Of course not, bro. You have invested so much effort pouring into the drool bucket for Craig that it's too difficult to change course. And yet here you are at this forum, pleading for us to change our tune. In other words, the voice of the anti-Craig brigade is important, which suggests that you are aware of the enormity of the fans who disapprove of Craig and this rebooted approach. If we were such a minority, we would be so insignificant and there would be no reason for you to plead for us to join the Craig bandwagon. Unfortunately for you, your struggle has become that much more difficult. Based on the overwhelming bad reviews of QOS, I'd say there's been a stirring in the winds, that even the media is now rethinking its stance on this rebooted series. The public seems to be doing the same thing, considering how QOS was quickly eclipsed by other mainstream films released during the Thanksgiving/Christmas season. And you know what, Chuck? All my friends and colleagues, business associates, my teenage kids and their friends are no longer Bond fans because of Craig's portrayal. For some reason, they prefer a Moore or a Brosnan as a debonair womanizing Bond over Craig's aging metro-sexual Vladimir Putin interpretation. "Fantasy Bond"...Interesting. I'd say Craig's Bond is the most fantastical the series as ever ventured into. The fact that a guy who resembles Vladimir Putin was cast as Bond and packaged as the iconic debonair spy is an extreme stretch of the imagination and sheer fantasy.
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Post by poirot on Mar 29, 2009 13:37:13 GMT -5
many of my friends who not a fan before Craig, now become a James Bond fan because of Craig Potrayal. This is the way it's always been, bro. I'm guessing that for many of those friends, Craig is probably their first Bond. Oh, they may have been aware of the films near the end of Brosnan's tenure, but he wasn't really "their" Bond. Brosnan fans rejected Dalton. Dalton fans rejected Moore. Moore fans rejected Lazenby. The bottom line is that Craig is just another link in the chain. He'll eventually be replaced by another actor, and those kids 10 or 20 years from now won't feel any sense of loyalty to the previous actors, either. This forum tends to skew a little older, which is why most of us can afford to be unimpressed with the current state of EON. It's also one reason we were able to accurately predict QOS' negative reception. You always want to believe that your first Bond will last for 7 films and that each one will be a masterpiece. But you eventually learn the reality that EON just can't be consistent to save its life. ;D
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Post by adam on Mar 29, 2009 14:55:26 GMT -5
I wonder what todays 6 -14 year olds will find in todays Bond. I was that age during the Moore era. I remember 7 foot henchmen (Offically the most popular character in Bonds history), underwater cars, charm, humour, handsome leading men, 'Q', giant pythons space ships & Bond using trains, planes & automobiles to save the world from mad russian generals. Watching the old Connery films on T.V. also thrilled me & helped me get hooked.
Todays Bond has none of the above. There is nothing that stands out from a Statham, Whalberg or Damon film. What a pity.
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Post by alex on Mar 30, 2009 12:48:47 GMT -5
Some of these posters on the other forums are so young they probably think Daniel Craig and Paul Haggis invented James Bond.
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Post by Gambit on Mar 31, 2009 8:41:50 GMT -5
Some of these posters on the other forums are so young they probably think Daniel Craig and Paul Haggis invented James Bond. They act as if they did sometimes.
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Post by ironyman on Apr 2, 2009 8:33:47 GMT -5
many of my friends who not a fan before Craig, now become a James Bond fan because of Craig Potrayal. This is the way it's always been, bro. I'm guessing that for many of those friends, Craig is probably their first Bond. Oh, they may have been aware of the films near the end of Brosnan's tenure, but he wasn't really "their" Bond. Brosnan fans rejected Dalton. Dalton fans rejected Moore. Moore fans rejected Lazenby. The bottom line is that Craig is just another link in the chain. He'll eventually be replaced by another actor, and those kids 10 or 20 years from now won't feel any sense of loyalty to the previous actors, either. This forum tends to skew a little older, which is why most of us can afford to be unimpressed with the current state of EON. It's also one reason we were able to accurately predict QOS' negative reception. You always want to believe that your first Bond will last for 7 films and that each one will be a masterpiece. But you eventually learn the reality that EON just can't be consistent to save its life. ;D I have to disagree with you point about fans rejecting the other Bonds. I think that the biggest disservice Barbara Broccoli has done to the franchise is the acrimonious division she has created, not in casting DC as Bond, but in 1. how Brosnan, who quite frankly revived the franchise when it actually needed (not like the fictional necessity put out by EON to justify a "Bond Begins"), was replaced; and 2. seemingly telling fans that whith Craig they now finaly have a true Bond film, which suggests that everything that has gone before was invalid and that fans were fools for enjoying it. Previously we had our favorite Bonds, but that's what they were, favourites, preferring Connery over Moore, did not require that you reject outright the films featuring the other actor(s) because when it came right down to it Bond films were always, under Cubby, the most consistently entertaining 2 hours you would spend at the movies. I liked Craig as Bond in CR, even though I find him to be a bit mumbly in the delivery of his lines, but quite frankly he was a non-entity in QoS, with a mostly charmless portrayal that reached its nadir with an embarassingly dinner theatre calibre drunk scene.
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Post by alvin on Apr 2, 2009 15:07:08 GMT -5
[ many of my friends who not a fan before Craig, now become a James Bond fan because of Craig Potrayal. This is such an incredible experience. My situation is the same. My friends and I weren't even fans but ever since CR, we were blown away by Daniel Craig. He just transformed us into fans. He made us realize so many things about being a true man. I can tell you I'm trembling right now because I think there's something deeper going on here. I was taking a psychology class and the stuff I learned about archetypes and mythic roots of man is incredible stuff. You see, I think that stuff is taking place here. Daniel Craig speaks to us through art and he's brought us together, uniting us as a collective consciousness. Even the forum members here who don't like Craig are united with us. We have one thing in common, and that's BOnd. Bond is now manifested through Daniel and despite our differences we're all Bond fans. My friends Ron and Maynard were talking about this stuff after we watched the QOS DVD and I couldn't stop myself from crying. I know this can sound corny but we, all of us, have made an emotional connection with each other.
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FormerBondFan
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Favourite James Bond Films: The Dark Knight Trilogy, Mission: Impossible and any upcoming action films starring Pierce Brosnan (no, it's not James Bond which is good because he'll need it to expand his reputation as an actor, especially in the action realm)
Favourite Films: Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Star Trek, The Dark Knight Trilogy, Harry Potter, Middle-Earth, The Matrix, Mission: Impossible
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Post by FormerBondFan on Apr 2, 2009 17:36:21 GMT -5
Give Craig a chance? That mantra was the rallying cry back in 2005, just after he was announced for the role. And here you are, one of his dwindling number of supporters, still babbling it. In case you haven't noticed, four years have passed, buddy. Which suggests you're conceding that (1) old-faced Danny Boy still hasn't been truly accepted as Bond and (2) he's so utterly miscast in the role. Just how many years does it take to give Craig a chance? At this rate, you'll be spending another 15 years urging the world (which stopped listening some time ago, considering the questionable reception of QOS) to give Danny Boy a chance. Even long after Craig leaves the part, you'll still be babbling "Give Craig A Chance." give him chance i mean give him another 5 or more movies hehehehe, If 5 more Bonds for DC, we might as well have this monster as Bond: images4.wikia.nocookie.net/residentevil/images/b/bd/RE_Birkin2.jpgimages4.wikia.nocookie.net/residentevil/images/0/05/Willbirkin.JPGimages2.wikia.nocookie.net/residentevil/images/5/5e/Birkin_form_2.jpghttp://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/residentevil/images/2/2e/Birkin_form_3.jpgimages2.wikia.nocookie.net/residentevil/images/5/54/Birkin_form_4.jpgimages2.wikia.nocookie.net/residentevil/images/d/d7/Birkin_Mutated5.jpg
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