The BJMDDS General Discussion Thread......

[shaken not stirred]

Did anyone say skyfall

Put this together last night.

[oscartheman]

well you captured his gray hair.HG Wells man in the moon face there.

[bjmdds]

Danielle Cr-egg has the perfect face for radio.

[Kristatos]

He looks like Frank Sidebottom in that picture.

[bjmdds]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SZWuyAXV4A Eva Green will portray Lara Parker's Angelique in this film this year. I met Lara Parker at a Dark Shadows convention a few years back and Eva has some huge shoes to fill. The "Scissorhands" duo are back (Burton and Depp). Will anyone see this? The original soap opera in the late 1960s was quite popular.

[Alessandra]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SZWuyAXV4A Eva Green will portray Lara Parker's Angelique in this film this year. I met Lara Parker at a Dark Shadows convention a few years back and Eva has some huge shoes to fill. The "Scissorhands" duo are back (Burton and Depp). Will anyone see this? The original soap opera in the late 1960s was quite popular.

Seen as I can't stand Eva Green, NOT A CHANCE. Subject and all is interesting but I really, really can't stand her and I'd never pay to see her "act" in a movie. I think she is a horrible actress. Just no, thanks.

[Omega]

Eva Green... okey I guess. She's not really a draw but I suppose her career is doing better than the girls in QoS. Or Craig.

I don't get the Burton Depp thing each are better on their own. They like the collaboration but the movies don't seem that good to me. Alice in Wonderland made a lot of money it just wasn't that great a movie.

[Omega]

Ouch! Ale beat me to the punch

[Alessandra]

Ouch! Ale beat me to the punch

I just see red when I see her mentioned. I was literally OFFENDED by her portrayal of Vesper. It sucked THAT much.

[Alessandra]

So I have a new anecdote for you guys. I was just talking with a friend of mine, former CBS journalist who is now a producer on Broadway. We were chatting about Hugh Jackman whom she of course has met, and she says he is SUPER dreamy in person (of course) and he's super nice as well. She, too, wishes him or Henry Cavill would have been picked over DC as Bond. But the best part is this. Her CBS colleague interviewed Daniel Craig on the red carpet. (NOTE: RED CARPET. MOVIE PROMOTION so that's what he's supposed to talk about, his freaking character). They were doing the interview and at a point she asked him "do you ever wonder What Would Bond Do?" he just said "NO" and walked away. How fitting for his lack of interest and dedication (that EON instead tries to promote. UH? )

I just find this hilariously bad. Because of his rudeness (dude, it's a red carpet, THOSE are the questions you get when you're promoting your movie on a red carpet) and because of the fact Pierce or Sir Roger or Timothy Dalton would NEVER have answered like that, they of course would have made a charming joke (or they would have just said "YES OF COURSE" like any actor promoting his character). And anyhow further proof (if any was needed) how he considers the role of Bond beneath him and how he just couldn't care less.

I really want to try and give him the benefit of the doubt sometimes, but then I find out these things (and not via gossip but via those who were involved) and I just want to tell him "WHY THE HECK DON'T YOU JUST GO AWAY THEN?". Oh, right. Only franchise where he manages to have profits (at least with the first movie). Lots of money. Nothing wrong with doing it for the money since for them it's a job after all, but if that's the case then at the very least BE A d**n PROFESSIONAL about it. Right, he's busy dressing as a woman to make a stance.. while then casting a girl 15 years younger than him to portray the Bond girl. So dreamy.

[bjmdds]

"I really want to try and give him the benefit of the doubt sometimes" Ale said. DON'T. I've said it many times that Danielle is a poor ambassador of the Bond franchise, but more importantly, he is a rotten individual, to the core, with no class, who cannot verbalize his thoughts tastefully or coherently, and is hideous to look at. To sum him up in one word: ogre. Let him be the bell ringer at Notre Dame, or Calibos in the swamp marsh in Clash Of The Titans from 1981, but not James Bond

[bjmdds]

Ouch! Ale beat me to the punch

I just see red when I see her mentioned. I was literally OFFENDED by her portrayal of Vesper. It sucked THAT much.

I doubt she will come close to Lara Parker's portrayal and Lara was a soap opera actress and very well loved on that show by the public.

[Dr. No]

. Her CBS colleague interviewed Daniel Craig on the red carpet. (NOTE: RED CARPET. MOVIE PROMOTION so that's what he's supposed to talk about, his freaking character). They were doing the interview and at a point she asked him "do you ever wonder What Would Bond Do?" he just said "NO" and walked away. How fitting for his lack of interest and dedication (that EON instead tries to promote. UH? )

I just find this hilariously bad. Because of his rudeness (dude, it's a red carpet, THOSE are the questions you get when you're promoting your movie on a red carpet) and because of the fact Pierce or Sir Roger or Timothy Dalton would NEVER have answered like that, they of course would have made a charming joke (or they would have just said "YES OF COURSE" like any actor promoting his character). And anyhow further proof (if any was needed) how he considers the role of Bond beneath him and how he just couldn't care less.

This is what happen when you hire a man who is not a gentleman first. Not talking about manners per say, Connery likes to eat with his fingers, talking about attitude and how they treat people. As Bond you are going to get stupid questions and people wanting to buy you a martini shaken not stirred. This guy would tell a class of third graders to f___off.

[katied]

Daniel(l)e Craig being pissy to an interviewer doesn't surprise me.Not the first or last time.



Satsuki always kept that in check. She kept him from beating people who p!ssed him off on several occasions.

[The Sweeney]

Then again, didn't Connery show distain towards the press and public when Bond was mentioned to him? I recall many stories similar to what Ale mentioned here, when Connery behaved in the same manner. Although I can't remember exactly what they were. Has anyone else here read similar stuff about Connery?

Actors are supposed to behave like ambassadors, particularly on red carpet nights, but it doesn't surprise me that Craig reacted like that. I guess it fits in with the rebellious Steve McQueen image that Craig emulates - rock star attitude for ators.

[buffybond]

Then again, didn't Connery show distain towards the press and public when Bond was mentioned to him? I recall many stories similar to what Ale mentioned here, when Connery behaved in the same manner. Although I can't remember exactly what they were. Has anyone else here read similar stuff about Connery?

Actors are supposed to behave like ambassadors, particularly on red carpet nights, but it doesn't surprise me that Craig reacted like that. I guess it fits in with the rebellious Steve McQueen image that Craig emulates - rock star attitude for ators.

Craig is no McQueen that's for sure.

[Capt. Sir Dominic Flandry]

Then again, didn't Connery show distain towards the press and public when Bond was mentioned to him? I recall many stories similar to what Ale mentioned here, when Connery behaved in the same manner. Although I can't remember exactly what they were. Has anyone else here read similar stuff about Connery?

Actors are supposed to behave like ambassadors, particularly on red carpet nights, but it doesn't surprise me that Craig reacted like that. I guess it fits in with the rebellious Steve McQueen image that Craig emulates - rock star attitude for ators.

I think Sean Connery was driven mad by the press over Bond during the boom years in the sixties; he can be a miserable git too.

Daniel Craig is a bit charmless in public and in interviews even when the interviewer is being polite.

[Mazer Rackham]

Then again, didn't Connery show distain towards the press and public when Bond was mentioned to him? I recall many stories similar to what Ale mentioned here, when Connery behaved in the same manner. Although I can't remember exactly what they were. Has anyone else here read similar stuff about Connery?

Actors are supposed to behave like ambassadors, particularly on red carpet nights, but it doesn't surprise me that Craig reacted like that. I guess it fits in with the rebellious Steve McQueen image that Craig emulates - rock star attitude for ators.

Steve McQueen? Mate they may have botoxed Craig petulant expression to resemble McQueen that about as far as it goes. McQueen for one had a personality.

You got to remember the madness that surrounded Connery as Bond mania was reaching its peak. At the French premiere of Goldfinger a troubled young woman launched herself into the Aston Martin Connery was driving to the event (tumbling in next to him), squads of reporters/cameramen were following him when he took his son to the loo.

"People used to call me Bond in the street. It was impossible to avoid crowds of people all over the place and blinding flashguns. The Beatles had to run the gauntlet as well, but at least there were four of them"

The problem Connery had was nobody back then distinguished Sean Connery actor from James Bond, however he was never purposely rude unless provoked. A question like Craig got on the bloody red carpet nonetheless, Connery would smile, say " Of course not dear." Brozza and Moore were particularly skillful handling the attention.

"My view is that to get anywhere in life you have to be anti-social, otherwise you'll end up being devoured. I've never been particularly social, anyway, but if I've ever been rude, fifty per cent of it has usually been provoked by other people's attitudes. Though I do admit, like most Celts, I'm moody. It's fine until people try to cheer you up with gems like, 'snap out of it' or 'Come on, now'."

There was one time where Connery was out right rude however it was after he retired from film making, 2004 to 2005. He snapped at some reporter then made her answer her own questions. Long, long after he was Bond and a newly retired actor. Dressed to Kilt if I remember right.
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[Alessandra]

"I really want to try and give him the benefit of the doubt sometimes" Ale said. DON'T. I've said it many times that Danielle is a poor ambassador of the Bond franchise, but more importantly, he is a rotten individual, to the core, with no class, who cannot verbalize his thoughts tastefully or coherently, and is hideous to look at. To sum him up in one word: ogre. Let him be the bell ringer at Notre Dame, or Calibos in the swamp marsh in Clash Of The Titans from 1981, but not James Bond

The ogre part made me laugh out so loud I can't even begin to explain And all the rest, too. Of course he can't be James Bond, I shared the anecdote on purpose to just show how he really doesn't have the slightest inclination for the role, no matter what the cruciferous vegetable tries to say. But sometimes I wish I could be able to give him the benefit of the doubt at least in terms of behaving in a courteous and professional way during interviews. Not even that. It's just pathetic.

Sweeney, Steve McQueen was never rude. And he didn't botox his face (LOL I see Mazer preceded me on this one). On top of that, I don't think Craig has ANY of McQueen's swagger. McQueen HAD style, and created a way of being so to speak. Craig doesn't have style (some of the outfits they photograph him with are downright hideous) and he created nothing. Connery had a completely different situation, like Mazer underlined. Connery was everyone's idol and was literally assaulted tby fans and press he whole time and constantly. He was a major star and was just and only identified with Bond because he created that icon. The same certainly can NOT be said about Craig, who is not even recognized while walking down a street most of the times.(in fact he goes around LA and London no problem and papz photograph him). While Connery DID have reason to be exasperated by the situation, Craig has none. None whatsoever. He is just rude.

ETA: everything that Mazer said. This in particular:

Steve McQueen? Mate they may have botoxed Craig petulant expression to resemble McQueen that about as far as it goes. McQueen for one had a personality.

This is what I tried to say but in a more concise and eloquent way

[The Sweeney]

Ok Craig haters. You all win. I'm convinced now Craig is a miserable git now too. You've worn me down......

As for McQueen, he was the king of cool. There is a passing resemblence between the two actors, but I agree Craig doesn't have the same swagger and coolness that McQueen naturally exuded.