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Post by FormerBondFan on Jan 13, 2011 12:48:29 GMT -5
www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/film-news/8255132/Daniel-Craig-is-the-perfect-modern-James-Bond.htmlDaniel Craig is the perfect modern James Bond Calls to replace charismatic star as 007 are wide of the target, says Mark Monahan.
2:39PM GMT 12 Jan 2011
FILM COMMENT by Mark Monahan
Cast your mind back, if you will, to five or six years ago, and the announcement that Daniel Craig was going to succeed Pierce Brosnan as 007. But he’s blond, we gasped! Only 5ft 10, we wailed! He’s not this enough, not that enough – the franchise is doomed!
In fact, as the sharper-eyed observers among us figured, Craig had precisely what it took to be Bond. He was always been a charismatic actor, with an infuriating number of women over the years saying how attractive they had always found him – Bond does not have to look like a catwalk model, but he does have to be irresistible to the opposite sex. Add to this magnetism a liberal dollop of the devious upper-middle-class bastard he delivered in 2004’s serpentine thriller Layer Cake, and a large dash of his hard-as-nails hitman in Spielberg’s Munich (2005), and wasn’t this, in fact, going to prove a damned fine 007?
Yes it jolly well was, as both Casino Royale and Quantum of Solace proved. (And yes, by the way, Quantum of Solace – oh, it's often a bit Bourne Identity-ish, but watch it again and you’ll find an unusually punchy and immensely enjoyabe action-thriller, and with the best Bond title-song in decades.)
And so, let’s cut to the present, and to this week’s announcement that Craig is to return in the 23rd official Bond film. This has provoked an inevitable web-based hullaballoo, with some mealy-mouthed gripers suggesting that this would have been the perfect opportunity to replace Craig. This guy who wrote this article is an idiot. BULLSH*T IF YOU ASK ME. BULLSH*T! BULLSH*T! BULLSH*T! BULLSH*T! BULLSH*T! BULLSH*T! BULLSH*T!
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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)
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Post by FormerBondFan on Jan 13, 2011 12:52:38 GMT -5
BOND 23 MUST FAIL, ESPECIALLY HERE IN THE US. DC doesn't deserve a three times the charm Bond like Sean and Roger had with Goldfinger and The Spy Who Loved Me, respectively. BOND 23 HAS TO DO WORSE THAN BOTH CR AND QOS IN THE BOX OFFICE, ESPECIALLY HERE IN THE US!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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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 Jan 13, 2011 12:52:53 GMT -5
BOND 23 MUST FAIL, ESPECIALLY HERE IN THE US. DC doesn't deserve a three times the charm Bond like Sean and Roger had with Goldfinger and The Spy Who Loved Me, respectively. BOND 23 HAS TO DO WORSE THAN BOTH CR AND QOS IN THE BOX OFFICE, ESPECIALLY HERE IN THE US!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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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 Jan 13, 2011 12:53:10 GMT -5
BOND 23 MUST FAIL, ESPECIALLY HERE IN THE US. DC doesn't deserve a three times the charm Bond like Sean and Roger had with Goldfinger and The Spy Who Loved Me, respectively. BOND 23 HAS TO DO WORSE THAN BOTH CR AND QOS IN THE BOX OFFICE, ESPECIALLY HERE IN THE US!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Post by Cpt. Sir Dominic Flandry on Jan 13, 2011 15:29:35 GMT -5
www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/film-news/8255132/Daniel-Craig-is-the-perfect-modern-James-Bond.htmlDaniel Craig is the perfect modern James Bond Calls to replace charismatic star as 007 are wide of the target, says Mark Monahan.
2:39PM GMT 12 Jan 2011
FILM COMMENT by Mark Monahan
Cast your mind back, if you will, to five or six years ago, and the announcement that Daniel Craig was going to succeed Pierce Brosnan as 007. But he’s blond, we gasped! Only 5ft 10, we wailed! He’s not this enough, not that enough – the franchise is doomed!
In fact, as the sharper-eyed observers among us figured, Craig had precisely what it took to be Bond. He was always been a charismatic actor, with an infuriating number of women over the years saying how attractive they had always found him – Bond does not have to look like a catwalk model, but he does have to be irresistible to the opposite sex. Add to this magnetism a liberal dollop of the devious upper-middle-class bastard he delivered in 2004’s serpentine thriller Layer Cake, and a large dash of his hard-as-nails hitman in Spielberg’s Munich (2005), and wasn’t this, in fact, going to prove a damned fine 007?
Yes it jolly well was, as both Casino Royale and Quantum of Solace proved. (And yes, by the way, Quantum of Solace – oh, it's often a bit Bourne Identity-ish, but watch it again and you’ll find an unusually punchy and immensely enjoyabe action-thriller, and with the best Bond title-song in decades.)
And so, let’s cut to the present, and to this week’s announcement that Craig is to return in the 23rd official Bond film. This has provoked an inevitable web-based hullaballoo, with some mealy-mouthed gripers suggesting that this would have been the perfect opportunity to replace Craig. This guy who wrote this article is an idiot. BULLSH*T IF YOU ASK ME. BULLSH*T! BULLSH*T! BULLSH*T! BULLSH*T! BULLSH*T! BULLSH*T! BULLSH*T! I agree FBF, some of the biggest bullshit I have read for years. I can only presume the author is a friend of Daniel Craig ,or Barbara Broccoli has started spending money on her Bond 23 publicity campaign.
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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 Jan 13, 2011 16:47:42 GMT -5
Great or not, DC's Bond is nothing special. I rather join Voldemort than watch DC's Bonds.
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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 Jan 13, 2011 16:54:21 GMT -5
And I still could not get over that these guys gave QOS a "see it" in At The Movie show. What about bunch of motherf*cking idiots they are.
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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)
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Post by FormerBondFan on Jan 13, 2011 16:55:01 GMT -5
There's only one modern James Bond, and that is Pierce Brosnan.
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Post by smartboy on Jan 13, 2011 18:10:56 GMT -5
Utter rubbish articale!
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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)
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Post by FormerBondFan on Jan 13, 2011 18:16:27 GMT -5
You could say that again a billion times.
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Post by alvin on Jan 13, 2011 21:08:06 GMT -5
Wow, it's unbelievable how this article came out just a day or so after the press announcement. The movie is in the early stages and I didn't think big media attention would happen right away. But here it is. Daniel mania is already starting. I just have this feeling Bond 23 is going to be big.
It's really exciting to read this article. The reporter obviously is more articulate than me but what he says summarize my thoughts on Daniel Craig as Bond. Daniel is truly the modern BOnd. I mean, he's so "now," just in sync with the style and mood of my generation. I have a feeling the media attention will start getting stronger and stronger for Bond 23. Daniel Craig is a media sensation and the praise from this article is just the beginning.
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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)
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Post by FormerBondFan on Jan 13, 2011 22:00:32 GMT -5
I just have this feeling Bond 23 is going to be big. It doesn't deserve to be big, especially here in the US. And it doesn't even deserve to be bigger than any Harry Potter movie, not even the lowest grossing of the franchise, The Prisoner of Azkaban (which made around $790 million at the box office) That honor goes to Pierce and NO ONE ELSE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! If that's the case, why not have Carrot Top as Bond once DC retires?
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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)
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Post by FormerBondFan on Jan 13, 2011 22:02:53 GMT -5
AND BOND 23 DOESN'T DESERVE TO BE BIGGER THAN BOTH CR AND QOS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Post by FormerBondFan on Jan 13, 2011 22:03:35 GMT -5
AND BOND 23 MUST FAIL, ESPECIALLY HERE IN THE US!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Post by James on Jan 14, 2011 10:56:37 GMT -5
This is going to be a long couple of years.
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