Daniel Craig on for four more Bond movies
Well, new Bond Daniel Craig has signed on for four more Bond movies. That would make him Bond for one more movie than his predecessor, Pierce Brosnan (who made four Bond flicks) but wouldn't equal Sean Connery (six) or Roger Moore (seven).
I'm a die-hard Bond fan, love the books and the movies. I was very skeptical about Craig -- but he won me over with the excellent Casino Royale.
If I'm forced to choose I have to go with Connery as the best Bond -- but because the first Brosnan was the first Bond I ever saw on the big screen I feel like he'll always be my generation's Bond. Timothy Dalton was the first Bond I ever saw (on video, in License to Kill) -- and I thought he was good, but he didn't have the scripts and his second (and last) Bond movie was no good.
Roger Moore -- I really consider his entire tenure a sort of embarrassment and find it hard to believe that anyone was ever coked up enough to buy him as Bond.
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Sean Connery will always be THE quintessential Bond, in my opinion anyway, and not just because he was the first, and the first one I saw on screen and in video. Connery's Bond is a brawler and leg man. Brosnan is right there with him in all departments. Roger Moore - well, I'll take him before Timothy Dalton for sure, and George Lazenby could have been good, maybe, but we will never know, bad break on that score.
I don't know about this new one - I have yet to see the new film, I have procrastinated because of his politics, and believe it or not, that will spoil things for me sometimes.
I am sure I will see it sooner rather than later, I do, after all, know all the Bond stories by heart.
Posted on December 14, 2007 2:22 PM
Daniel Craig's politics have kept you from seeing the new Bond film?
I don't have any idea where Craig stands politically -- but if it's anywhere short of being an actual neo-Nazi I can't see skipping his film because of it.
Go get your hands on the DVD - you'll be glad you did.
Posted on December 14, 2007 2:26 PM