The BJMDDS General Discussion Thread......

[dirtybenny]

I really do believe there is something wrong with Craig. This interview gives us a real Freudian view in to his psyche.



"Now? I'd rather break this glass and slash my wrists," he told the magazine about the speculation about the next Bond film. "No, not at the moment. Not at all. That's fine. I'm over it at the moment. We're done. All I want to do is move on."

First he's ready to commit suicide rather than make another Bond, then in the same breath reaffirms that's how he feels at the moment, meaning there is room for a change of heart.


He is still under contract for a fifth movie, but it is not likely producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson would not stand in his way if he wanted to leave. Part of the issue for Craig is that he feels there are just so many times he can be expected to save the world.

Poor Craig they really pulled the bait and switch on him, how was he to know playing James Bond would require him to "save the world" each film.

"'Every idea I've had for a Bond movie, I've stuck into this one," said the 47-year-old actor. "It's gone in. The Bond bank is dry. If you're asking me what would I do with another Bond movie? I haven't a clue.

So it's Craig's franchise now?

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Go into space? Let's do it! They already did it. Let's do it again."
This comes off as the ranting's of a man at the end of his rope. Just screaming "You want to do it?! Let's do it! Come on do it! DO IT!!!!"


"Literally I'd say two things. Firstly, it's your decision," Craig told Time Out London. " Don't listen to anybody else. Well, do listen to everybody, but you have to make the choice at the end of the day. It's your bed to lie on.
This statement tells me Craig didn't want Bond but was talked in to it by someone else, and that's why he's so resentful of the character.

"And don't be s---! Don't be s---. You've got to step up. People do not make movies like this anymore.(You mean cheap knock offs of other franchises?) This is really rare now. So don't be s---."
Too bad he didn't take his own advise.

[dirtybenny]

Perhaps it's the stress of just completing a film, but if Craig is that tired of being Bond, then let him leave already. The last thing we need is an aging Craig who's bored out of his skull, he's already dull enough as it is.

Unlike Roger Moore, I can't see Craig being enthusiastic about Bond years from now. After 30 years, Moore still fondly talks about the Bond series and appreciates being part of it. He doesn't swear when being interviewed, and he enjoys answering questions from the fans even if they do get a bit repetitive.

Yes Saint, that's because Rodger is a class act, and Craig is, well to put it mildly, not.

[Veronica]

Why does the Spectre song video have Bond going around with his granddaughter?

Also Craig looks a bit like Dr Zaius.

cregg looks older than SIR ROGER in AVTAK...

Moore was 58 and for he looked great. On the other hand Craig is 47 and looks just plain weird like he had a surgery didn't go well...
Comparing Moore and Craig is ridiculous in every way.

[shaken not stirred]

Perhaps it's the stress of just completing a film, but if Craig is that tired of being Bond, then let him leave already. The last thing we need is an aging Craig who's bored out of his skull, he's already dull enough as it is.

Unlike Roger Moore, I can't see Craig being enthusiastic about Bond years from now. After 30 years, Moore still fondly talks about the Bond series and appreciates being part of it. He doesn't swear when being interviewed, and he enjoys answering questions from the fans even if they do get a bit repetitive.

Money talks (sadly), atleast Eccleston after he thought he didn't fit in doc who left after one series, Craig will more likely be bond till....I don't know but it's depressing thinking about it..

[bjmdds]

Great press before EON releases the film.....NOT ......I wonder if Broccoli and the dolt MGW knew he was going to say this.

[kater23]

Daniel Craig has gone completely emo. Actually, it's gone way past emo, at this point. Everyone in his life should be seriously concerned about him if he is truly serious with what he's saying.

I have visions of Daniel Craig going postal, and let me tell you that is not a pleasant prospect.

[Barry Niven]

That's what they get when they indulge their Favorite Pet by loosening his leash: An overgrown baby bawling until he gets his bottle.
And Craggy even looks like one, too.

[Omega]

Wtf?
Did he just quit or is he shitfaced ?


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I wonder if he is bipolar. One minute he's going to be Bond for a million years, the next...well, this.

maybe he was sarcastic saying I've only done four movies as in that for him is a lot , he hasn't made but two movies in what 5 years

But he does sound bipolar . If pierce had said that promoting dad I would be happy if he left, dalton never said crap like that the worst he said he was afraid it might be the last bond, Craig come out and talk like this and as a fan of bond I be happy if he was fired tomorrow , we'd probably get idris or captain winters but that is better than this


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[kater23]

^Carrie Mathison fo reals, yo.

[bjmdds]

The internet sites are running with this story. Broccoli must be fuming

[kater23]

This is the textbook definition of schadenfreude.

[Omega]

Does anyone think this finishes him as bond? Does it only endear him more to his loyal fans ?

I can't see Barbara ditching him but then again I don't think the standard best dress awards eon usually pays for are flooding him this outing .


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[ml94]

Does anyone think this finishes him as bond? Does it only endear him more to his loyal fans ?

I can't see Barbara ditching him but then again I don't think the standard best dress awards eon usually pays for are flooding him this outing .


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I hope so...

[Kristatos]

He says stuff like this all the time, though.

[John Drake]

What they could do is give the part to an actor who would genuinely appreciate the role and afford it the respect it deserves.

[Kristatos]

Tweet from Angry Salmond (an Alex Salmond parody account): "It's good to know Daniel Craig feels the same way about playing James Bond as I do about watching him as James Bond."

[Veronica]

Tweet from Angry Salmond (an Alex Salmond parody account): "It's good to know Daniel Craig feels the same way about playing James Bond as I do about watching him as James Bond."

exactly.

[shaken not stirred]

Tweet from Angry Salmond (an Alex Salmond parody account): "It's good to know Daniel Craig feels the same way about playing James Bond as I do about watching him as James Bond."

[James]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/men/thinking ... -back.html

Please can we have the fun James Bond back?

So, Daniel Craig is threatening to wash his hands of James Bond.

In widely reported news this morning, the 47-year old said he would rather "slash my wrists" (and presumably his contract, which runs for another film) than play 007 again.

"The ‘classic’ Bonds (Connery, Moore, Brosnan) are defined by their Teflon attitude, but Craig’s is all about vulnerability"
Joel Snape

Putting aside the fact that only last week Craig inferred that he would keep going "As long as I’m physically able", today's quotes are largely in-keeping with the actor's apparent dislike of Bond – not the role, but the man himself.

Craig (probably fairly) seems to think that 007 is sexist and misogynistic, and says that "there’s a great sadness" to the way he deals with women. While the actor confesses that he would go for an unnecessarily-shaken martini (or a clumsily product-placed Heineken) with his alter-ego, "it would have to be early doors ... what goes on after hours I’m not too sure about."

This, on the face of it, seems ridiculous. Bond, whatever you think of his morals, would definitely be interesting to go boozing with – assuming you didn’t get fed to a shark or painted gold. He's the sort of chap you wouldn’t invite to your wedding, but you’d definitely want at the stag do: all swagger and bravado and winning at cards and knowing how to order wine and wear cufflinks properly. Yes, he’s sort of awful, but he’s also impossible to dislike: the ultimate combination of posh imperialist overconfidence and the karate skills to back it up.

Has Craig taken leave of his senses? Well, no. Consider it for a second, and it makes sense: because you’re thinking about Fun Bond, and Craig’s version of the character has the distinction of being the Least Fun Bond ever.

Craig’s Bond, when you consider it, has a terrible time. When he’s not being forced to watch his leading ladies die, he’s brooding and questioning everything he’s ever known and being lashed in the genitals with a rope. He bleeds after fights, doesn’t do one-liners and his theme tunes scan like bad sixth-form poetry (‘A million shards of glass/haunt me from my past’, Sam? Really?) Even his adversaries aren’t the sort to lark about: Scaramanga has a funhouse full of waxwork cowboys and a flying car, while Javier Bardem’s Raoul Silva has a facial disfigurement and PTSD.

The ‘classic’ Bonds (Connery, Moore, Brosnan) are defined by their Teflon attitude, but Craig’s is all about vulnerability: he’s the only one to cry since Lazenby, and the only one apart from Dalton to care about revenge more than Her Majesty’s national interests. Craig’s run, while two-thirds full of objectively good films (so far) has not been much fun. And fun is what Bond needs to go back to.

This isn’t Craig’s fault, by the way: nobody’s questioning the fact that Fun Bond had to go away for a while. Austin Powers was poking holes in the formula at the same time as Bourne was punching lumps out of it, and the last few Brosnan films only made matters worse. The series hit its nadir in Die Another Day, a film where Bond surfs twice – first as an improbable way to infiltrate a North Korean military base, later down a CGI tidal wave via parachute. When you’ve cast Madonna as a fencing genius in the same year that the pitch for your biggest box office rival is ‘Amnesiac Matt Damon beats up the entire French police force,’ you know it’s time to dial up the grittiness a notch.

Also, it’s true that the Craig films are maybe the closest in spirit to Ian Fleming’s Bond books, where Bond is a haunted, driven man. But Bond, like Batman, is a character defined by reinvention: just like Bob Kane’s original Caped Crusader had no qualms about using guns or killing people, Fleming’s original 007 also regards Koreans as ‘lower than apes in the mammalian hierarchy,’ says ‘Bitch’ too much, and has decided that lesbians only exist because women were given the vote. Say what you like about that writing being a product of the times – and even that’s a tough sell – you wouldn’t make Daniel Craig blurt any of it out after a delicious Belvedere vodka.

So: Bond can be whatever we like, and what we need now is fun. In 2002, when terrorists were actually pulling off schemes worse than anything SMERSH has ever concocted, it seemed wildly out of touch to be cracking jokes and flirting with Rosamund Pike. Now, after more than a decade of war and austerity, we could all do with cheering up a bit.

Other films already sense this: Mark Millar’s Kingsman doesn’t so much mock the super-spy formula as update it, and The Man From U.N.C.L.E. plays with the men-in-suits formula to pleasing effect. But nobody does it better than Bond – to paraphrase Ms Simon slightly – and, right now, it should be on Bond to cheer us up. Where’s the man who’ll upbraid Robert Shaw for ordering red wine with fish, or cheerfully flirt with Grace Jones with his girdle just out of shot? The one who’ll ignore his bosses to have zero-gravity sex in a spaceship, or crack a joke after he straps an exploding cake to a hitman? For pity’s sake, where’s the Bond who keeps a bottle of champagne in his iceberg submarine?

Well, he hasn’t turned up in any of the Craig films yet. So here’s the campaign to get behind, whether you’re rooting for more Craig, Elba, Cavill or (maybe not) Hoult: Bring Back Fun Bond, because we've had enough grittiness. Bring back Fun Bond, because the properly English response to hard times is an overarched eyebrow and a terrible one-liner, not just a stiff upper lip. Bring back Fun Bond, because men want to be him, and women want to roll their eyes at him.

[James]

http://www.dailystar.co.uk/movies/46898 ... James-Bond

Backlash as Daniel Craig says he'd 'rather slash his wrists' than play Bond again

DANIEL Craig has sparked controversy by claiming he would rather "slash his wrists" than play James Bond again.

The actor is currently promoting the eagerly anticipated Spectre, but has made it clear that this will be his last Bond film.

In a shocking interview, Daniel joked that he would rather kill himself than step into 007's suit one more time.

When asked by Time Out if he could imagine doing another instalment, the 47-year-old said: "Now? I’d rather break this glass and slash my wrists.

"No, not at the moment. Not at all. That’s fine. I’m over it at the moment. We’re done. All I want to do is move on."

There was understandably a bit of backlash against the suicide joke on social media, particularly ahead of this Saturday's World Mental Health Day.

One reader cited the Mental Health Day and tweeted: "And Daniel Craig says he would rather 'slash his own wrists' than play Bond again, helpful stuff."

Another called the response "unnecessary", while a Twitter user wrote: "Insensitive much?"

Elsewhere in the expletive-laden chat, Daniel, who has taken the lead role in Casino Royale, Quantum Of Solace and Skyfall, said that he couldn't "give a f***" who plays Bond next.