007

[brazoseagle]

Any European brothers seen Skyfall yet????

[Puros Y Vino]

FYI. We've got a 007 Art & Style Exhibition Toronto. Looking forward to the new movie. Daniel Craig was a wise choice.

[Dara]

Saw it last night, excellent film!

[dangolf18]

I still think the best bond was Pierce Brosnan, followed by Roger Moore, and then Sean Connery. I agree with Shlomo. Not quite sure how I feel about Craig yet. He looks the part of bond, but his lines are often forced (he's not that good of an actor imo). Looking forward to Skyfall...I think Craig might be finally up to speed in this one.

[brazoseagle]

I still think the best bond was Pierce Brosnan, followed by Roger Moore, and then Sean Connery. I agree with Shlomo. Not quite sure how I feel about Craig yet. He looks the part of bond, but his lines are often forced (he's not that good of an actor imo). Looking forward to Skyfall...I think Craig might be finally up to speed in this one.

I am a long time Bond traditionalist, Bond Nerd, Bond Fanatic, Bond Novel Collector and enthusiast, and I strongly feel that Craig is the best Bond! As far as his acting skills and credentials, Connery may have more recognition for his, but Craig blows Brosnan, Moore, Dalton and Lazenby out of the water!!! If you are questioning Craig's acting skills, you have clearly never seen: Defiance, Munich, or The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, or The Golden Compass for that fact.

Not to mention his stunt work and action work in the bond movies are is much a level above anything any of other actors did, it's ridiculous!!! Roger Moore spent half of his Bond shoots in front of a green screen.

The last several Brosnan Bond's were a joke, cartoonish at best. That is not the real Bond to me, no the Bond of Sir Ian Fleming that's for sure!

[brazoseagle]

P.S. The new James Bond 007 50th Anniversary Cologne Fragrance actually smells pretty good.

[dangolf18]

I've see Defiance, Munich, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, all those. Okay, he's not a terrible actor, but he just strikes me as too stern and not as comfortable in the character as Connery or Brosnan...he also lacks the same wittiness of the previous bonds. I agree that the last Brosnan movies were somewhat of a joke. To each his own...

[brazoseagle]

Craig is most like Fleming's original intent for Bond in his novels, and minimal gadgets, minimal cartoonsihness.

[brazoseagle]

As we talk about acting chops, lest we forget this Connery Jewel???

[CaptainQuintero]

Bergh utter tripe, just more generic action film beige film making. If you took the word Bond out of the scripts of Craig's Bond films they could be any random Vin Diesel/Jason Statham yawnfest.

I didn't like most of Brosnon's Bond films but Goldeneye was pure class, just everything a Bond film should have.

These films just haven't met the mark, Bond films need:

-cheesy bad guys

-crazy gadgets

-a disfigured henchman

-one liners

-bad accents

-a useless bondgirl who get's captured and at some point gets knocked into water/sea/pool

-a half-pissed sexist bond who stumbles around gunning down Soviet thugs with eyepatches

That's what made Bond films great fun films to watch, that's what they are. These new ones just don't stand out from the crowd. They need cringe worthy cheesy moments and to be hangovers from the cold war.

Craig may be a good Bond but the scripts haven't given him the chance yet.

and then the product placements....

"Barman, give me a green bottle of sheep flavoured pisswasser, chilled not shaken, and yes a Heineken for my lady friend too"

"This watch? Rolex Omega...the gentleman's choice"

"when will this bomb go off? Let me check my new Sony Xperia" *Looks into camera and winks*

It's just embarrassing, more so than Moore's eyebrow, and it doesn't even make you laugh.

Might as well wait for the next film; Jimmy iBond: directed by Michael Bay and starring Vince Vaughn in a stars and strips leotard brought to you by the new Jay Z iBurger.

[brazoseagle]

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[samuelsmithbeer]

I'd like to see them make a new Bond film set in the 60's. With this being Craig's last film it will be interesting to see where the franchise goes next.

[cigcars]

Bergh utter tripe, just more generic action film beige film making. If you took the word Bond out of the scripts of Craig's Bond films they could be any random Vin Diesel/Jason Statham yawnfest.

I didn't like most of Brosnon's Bond films but Goldeneye was pure class, just everything a Bond film should have.

These films just haven't met the mark, Bond films need:

-cheesy bad guys

-crazy gadgets

-a disfigured henchman

-one liners

-bad accents

-a useless bondgirl who get's captured and at some point gets knocked into water/sea/pool

-a half-pissed sexist bond who stumbles around gunning down Soviet thugs with eyepatches

That's what made Bond films great fun films to watch, that's what they are. These new ones just don't stand out from the crowd. They need cringe worthy cheesy moments and to be hangovers from the cold war.

Craig may be a good Bond but the scripts haven't given him the chance yet.

and then the product placements....

"Barman, give me a green bottle of sheep flavoured pisswasser, chilled not shaken, and yes a Heineken for my lady friend too"

"This watch? Rolex Omega...the gentleman's choice"

"when will this bomb go off? Let me check my new Sony Xperia" *Looks into camera and winks*

It's just embarrassing, more so than Moore's eyebrow, and it doesn't even make you laugh.

Might as well wait for the next film; Jimmy iBond: directed by Michael Bay and starring Vince Vaughn in a stars and strips leotard brought to you by the new Jay Z iBurger.

I LOVE your quotes/observations here on this subject, Capt. Quint! I've NEVER been a Bond fan. To me here you've got a guy who all he's about is running all over the world, sleeping around and killing people. And we're told, "That's the good guy!" That's not a good guy, that's a DOG. I've sat through a few Bond films through the years and was most impressed with "Goldfinger" and a tiny bit with the new "Casino Royale" with the more sadistic James Bond (Daniel Craig). But for the most part and for all the rest of you, you can HAVE 'im.

[Dara]

You're forgetting the classic suggestive bondgirl names Captain Quint:

Plenty O'Toole

***** Galore

Honey Rider

Dr Holly Goodhead

Xenia Onatopp

Chew Mee

I'm not going to say anything about the film to avoid spoiling it for anyone but my favourite bond is still Goldfinger....the rolls, the Aston, oddjob, the one liners ("no mr bond, i expect you to die"), a good baddy.....very hard film to top!!

[CaptainQuintero]

Xenia! I....Cant....breathe!

*snap*

[headstand]

As we talk about acting chops, lest we forget this Connery Jewel???

What the F*** was in that Monte # 2 i just smoked!

Brother your killing me...

[headstand]

Seriously though, my only complaint with Quantum is how bond is pistol whipped by M. Very un-cool. Now my hope is that someday we will see Rowan Atkinson as a serious Bond.

[CaptainQuintero]

I think the only person alive right know who could do Bond Justice would be Brian Blessed. In a world where the cold war has ended and international terrorism is done via hacking and computers, an older Bond ravaged by years of hard living struggles to find his place in the modern intelligence community

[headstand]

I think the only person alive right know who could do Bond Justice would be Brian Blessed. In a world where the cold war has ended and international terrorism is done via hacking and computers, an older Bond ravaged by years of hard living struggles to find his place in the modern intelligence community

Captain - you crack me up.

[Ken Gargett]

I am a long time Bond traditionalist, Bond Nerd, Bond Fanatic, Bond Novel Collector and enthusiast, and I strongly feel that Craig is the best Bond! As far as his acting skills and credentials, Connery may have more recognition for his, but Craig blows Brosnan, Moore, Dalton and Lazenby out of the water!!! If you are questioning Craig's acting skills, you have clearly never seen: Defiance, Munich, or The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, or The Golden Compass for that fact.

Not to mention his stunt work and action work in the bond movies are is much a level above anything any of other actors did, it's ridiculous!!! Roger Moore spent half of his Bond shoots in front of a green screen.

The last several Brosnan Bond's were a joke, cartoonish at best. That is not the real Bond to me, no the Bond of Sir Ian Fleming that's for sure!

david, i seriously don't understand how you could be a cowgirls fan because on pretty much everything else, we are as one.

i thought casino royale the best bond to date for so many reasons. i wondered about craig as a choice (one of the main reasons was that they wanted an actor, not cartoon figure) but i took it all back when i saw his first. i thought he was a brilliant choice (and remember i am almost, not quite but almost, of the generation that had connery as the first, last and only choice).

it starts here in a month (i'm not happy as bollinger always hold a special private showing and we all get our own bottle of bolly for the night etc etc, and i'll be away). saw the short and it looked good.

my first bond was lazenby and he has copped a flogging but i thought he wasn't too bad (what is not widely known is that he turned them down for his second, not that he was dumped). then saw all the connery films and loved them. still do. snuck out of school for several - they were doing a double at a city cinema going through them all - great week. dr no, thunderball, diamonds, goldfinger, diamonds - all classics.

moore in live and let die not bad but i wonder if that was because it was a top flick, not thanks to him. after that, he went absurdly downhill - view to a kill not bad. but the day they dressed him as a clown - for your eyes only or octopussy - forget which - they nearly lost me for good. they were a joke. would ian fleming have ever had him running around like a witless headless chook in clown make up?

i really liked timothy dalton (probably closest to craig in many respects) and those films not bad. loved brosnan in remington steele but for me, as 007, he made a great remington steel. i differ in that i thought he was getting better each outing and die another day his best (but then halle berry in anything wins me).

craig a revelation who saved the franchise. that said, i thought that as a film, solace was a disaster. very poor. i thought craig did a good job but it was very weak. they should never let whoever directed it near another one.

so i'm hopeful this will be a cracker. very sorry to see craig go.

a year or two ago, went back and read the lot. great reading.

my fave moment was actually in casion royale - bond apparently always brought moneypenny back a small present from his missions. the presents were always a bit of the latest technology. in this one, he brought her back a ball point pen. my god, how times have changed.

they are in the process of replaying all the 007 films on tv here. i am taping them and then will gorge myself, night after night. set up with a top rum and a top cigar and a 007 overload.

[mk05]

Tell us how you really feel CQ. How can you not like Craig as 007? He's the most raw yet complex Bond I've seen. It's just that the script for Quantum SUCKED. Just ask Ian Ewan McGregor or Natalie Portman about Star Wars.

[amosnaim]

i saw it last night. great movie

[SCgarman]

I think Craig is the best bond next to the original Connery. I believe he is more true to the orignal character and even though I grew up with the Roger Moore flicks, they were cartoonish with all the one line jokes and the wacky characters. Casino Royale was awesome and I am looking forward to this new one. I am a big 007 fan here, always have been, always will be.

[CaptainQuintero]

Tell us how you really feel CQ. How can you not like Craig as 007? He's the most raw yet complex Bond I've seen. It's just that the script for Quantum SUCKED. Just ask Ian Ewan McGregor or Natalie Portman about Star Wars.

I think you hit it, it's the scripts mostly, Craig sadly get's the flack because he is in front of the camera.

it would be interesting to see Craig in a remake of 'On Her Majesty's Secret Service' which I personally think is a fantastic Bond film, it shows the other side of the character (Wife being killed etc) and would suit his style of Bond.

[dangolf18]

On another note, what do you guys think of Judie Dench as M. I don't like how she's always pissed off at Bond. "Bond, what the hell do you think you were doing?!?!?". I don't advocate violence against women, but Bond should've just slapped her. I'm sick of her lousy, angry one-liners. Rewrite the script for her...