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I seriously doubt DC reads this forum, but if you do, I liked you in Layer Cake if that's any consolation.
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Kristatos wrote:I seriously doubt DC reads this forum.
Same with EON.
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I suppose humor is hard to come across here. :P
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I was in tears watching Casino Royale. The Bond series has gone!
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carl stromberg wrote:I was in tears watching Casino Royale. The Bond series has gone!
RIP James Bond
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carl stromberg wrote:I was in tears watching Casino Royale. The Bond series has gone!
RIP James Bond
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You know by including 2006 FBF, that you include CR and Craig in the Bond series don't you?
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If you were anti-Craig, you'd put 2002.
Glad to see you've changed teams.
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Captain Nash wrote:
FormerBondFan wrote:
carl stromberg wrote:I was in tears watching Casino Royale. The Bond series has gone!
RIP James Bond
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You know by including 2006 FBF, that you include CR and Craig in the Bond series don't you?
:wink:
If you were anti-Craig, you'd put 2002.
Glad to see you've changed teams.
:cheers:
But where does that leave the period 2002-2006? Bond died in November of 2006, the first 10 months of the year were before the parasite killed its host.
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Kristatos wrote:But where does that leave the period 2002-2006? Bond died in November of 2006, the first 10 months of the year were before the parasite killed its host.
This is what happen to the old series:
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Kristatos wrote:But where does that leave the period 2002-2006? Bond died in November of 2006, the first 10 months of the year were before the parasite killed its host.
This is what happen to the old series:
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That's the analogy I had in mind. I guess the initial decision to throw out 40 years of Bond and turn him into something else would represent the "facehugger" stage in this metaphor, with the film's actual release being the "chest-burster" moment.
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The death of the series occured in November 2006 when I saw Commander Faceache in action.
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This is how I see it...

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I'm still trying to get all this... So it's only, or at least mostly, Craig's looks that get you down about him as Bond? But you guys are a bunch of, well, guys.... It's a bit strange for me to hear so much complaining about his looks when most men go out of their way to never talk about how good looking other men are... But this is the same thing...

I hope that when Craig is done with Bond (and for me that could happily be years away) and should they hire someone more conventionally attractive, that there are threads and threads by you guys on how good looking and handsome and tall and pretty and attractive he is. :D
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retrokitty wrote:I'm still trying to get all this... So it's only, or at least mostly, Craig's looks that get you down about him as Bond? But you guys are a bunch of, well, guys.... It's a bit strange for me to hear so much complaining about his looks when most men go out of their way to never talk about how good looking other men are... But this is the same thing...

I hope that when Craig is done with Bond (and for me that could happily be years away) and should they hire someone more conventionally attractive, that there are threads and threads by you guys on how good looking and handsome and tall and pretty and attractive he is. :D
Icons and characters have a certain look. When they change it, it is bound to rub some people up the wrong way.

Casting a short 38 year man (who looks a little older), with an unconventional face and a red/blonde crewcut as a young James Bond was bound to upset some James Bond fans.

What would people have done if Craig was cast instead of Tobey Maguire in Spiderman? Or if Craig was cast as Superman?

Radical reinterpretaions are fine, but this Bond fan feels Eon went too far.
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retrokitty wrote:I'm still trying to get all this... So it's only, or at least mostly, Craig's looks that get you down about him as Bond? But you guys are a bunch of, well, guys.... It's a bit strange for me to hear so much complaining about his looks when most men go out of their way to never talk about how good looking other men are...
Funny how the men are complaining that he isn't handsome yet the women seem to think otherwise.
What would people have done if Craig was cast instead of Tobey Maguire in Spiderman? Or if Craig was cast as Superman?
I've heard of this analogy before and it's flawed. The difference between Bond and Superman is that Bond has six different looking actors while the rest are cast as lookalikes (Christopher Reeve to Tom Welling to Brandon Routh). Can you really tell me that Sean Connery and Roger Moore share a striking resemblance? Speaking of comic books, remember what happened when Michael Keaton was cast as Bruce Wayne/Batman? Sounds fimiliar doesn't it? :wink:
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Michael Keaton was a surprise - I thought, "Wha?" and then totally fell for it. I loved him as Bruce Wayne/Batman and it forever changed how I looked at him as an actor.
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retrokitty wrote:I'm still trying to get all this... So it's only, or at least mostly, Craig's looks that get you down about him as Bond? But you guys are a bunch of, well, guys.... It's a bit strange for me to hear so much complaining about his looks when most men go out of their way to never talk about how good looking other men are... But this is the same thing...

I hope that when Craig is done with Bond (and for me that could happily be years away) and should they hire someone more conventionally attractive, that there are threads and threads by you guys on how good looking and handsome and tall and pretty and attractive he is. :D

I have no problem in forming a subjective opinion about how other men look. No idea why this concept is considered strange. As far as Daniel Craig goes, I'd seen him in many things over the years, usually some sort of British Lottery Funded tedium where his unconventional looks usually aided whatever nutcase character he was playing. So far so good. Then I hear he's going to be James Bond. Well, I'm sorry. I don't care what anyone says. James Bond is a handsome devil. That's the character. Fleming's Bond was darkly handsome to the point of looking un-English. The cinematic Bond has had a darkly handsome (TALL) model for four incarnations. The deviation was Roger Moore. Cubby Broccoli said he cast Roger Moore because he was "6' 2 and handsome." He was Simon Templar. Can anyone honestly look at the picture below and say that's the best they could do? I see about two dozen people a day in the street who look like this.

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I'll be delighted if the next Bond is tall and handsome because that's what James Bond is supposed to be. He's a fantasy. There is no fantasy with Craig. Just a load of pretentious gits desperately trying to convince us that all along Fleming intended Bond to be a short ginger haired everyman with big ears.
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007 wrote:I'll be delighted if the next Bond is tall and handsome because that's what James Bond is supposed to be. He's a fantasy. There is no fantasy with Craig. Just a load of pretentious gits desperately trying to convince us that all along Fleming intended Bond to be a short ginger haired everyman with big ears.
So it's pretentious to be a fan of the new Bond then....? :?
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