The Daniel Craig 007 Unappreciation Thread

[Ukbrotha]

The movies are ok but Im not impressed with craig as bond. Just doesnt do it for me. Too much like bourne stone cold killer.

 

[R=G]

I like Casino Royale...one of my last DVDs that I actually paid for with MY money. Quantum Solace with the Russian chick was solid. Haven't seen the new one.

 

[Black Magisterialness]

i think alot of us were just spoiled by Brosnan who i think is mad underrated as Bond, his first 2 were just dope as far as his portrayal

But Casino Royale was dope as fukk...the first half was good...

 

[feelosofer]

i think alot of us were just spoiled by Brosnan who i think is mad underrated as Bond, his first 2 were just dope as far as his portrayal

But Casino Royale was dope as fukk...the first half was good...

This. Daniel Craig wasn't a bad bond. Pierce Brosnan was low-key very good. Casino Royale was very dope, it's just Quantum of Solace sucked bad and kind of tainted Craig.

 

[RJY33]

If we are saying who played him best and excluding how good or bad the movie was

Connery>>>>>

But id put Craig #2

 

[Black Magisterialness]

This. Daniel Craig wasn't a bad bond. Pierce Brosnan was low-key very good. Casino Royale was very dope, it's just Quantum of Solace sucked bad and kind of tainted Craig.

Seriously when i think Bond i think Connery and Brosnan.

each were perfect for the time i think. Brosnan was kinda that throwback to the super-smooth, we pop bubbly era of Bond. He made you feel like he was a SPY because he could talk his way out of everything. But when he had to get gully he made it smooth.

Craig is good because dude is such a physical force but at the same time he retains a charm of a long gone era. That's what Skyfall was all about, "how does Bond still exist in the 21st century?"

He said it when talking to Q, who went on about how he can do more in his PJ's at his laptop in a morning than what 007 could do in a month. But he then says "At some point a trigger has to be pulled," and Bond says "...or sometimes you have to know when not to."

The human element, its what Craig's Bond is. That's why its so physical and less gadgety. At some point, a man has to get up and go see, in person what the fukk is up.

 

[feelosofer]

Seriously when i think Bond i think Connery and Brosnan.

each were perfect for the time i think. Brosnan was kinda that throwback to the super-smooth, we pop bubbly era of Bond. He made you feel like he was a SPY because he could talk his way out of everything. But when he had to get gully he made it smooth.

Craig is good because dude is such a physical force but at the same time he retains a charm of a long gone era. That's what Skyfall was all about, "how does Bond still exist in the 21st century?"

He said it when talking to Q, who went on about how he can do more in his PJ's at his laptop in a morning than what 007 could do in a month. But he then says "At some point a trigger has to be pulled," and Bond says "...or sometimes you have to know when not to."

The human element, its what Craig's Bond is. That's why its so physical and less gadgety. At some point, a man has to get up and go see, in person what the fukk is up.

This is what I like about Daniel Craig in the sense that he is the modern bond, no homo, but unlike the other Bonds, Daniel Craig preferred physicality over charming good looks, he looked like a guy that had to make some hard decisions in his day.

 

[StraxStrax]

i think alot of us were just spoiled by Brosnan who i think is mad underrated as Bond, his first 2 were just dope as far as his portrayal

But Casino Royale was dope as fukk...the first half was good...

Brosnan was good and has a classic (GoldenEye) but also has the worst film (Die Another Day) and another one in the bottom five (The World Is Not Enough)

 

[Black Magisterialness]

Brosnan was good and has a classic (GoldenEye) but also has the worst film (Die Another Day) and another one in the bottom five (The World Is Not Enough)

i blame that one the writers and the weak scripts and weak villains. Goldeneye is one of my favorite Bond films because it did what Bond films do.

Good villain (006)
even better henchmen (Boris/Xenia)
simple yet totally unnecessary masterplan (Goldeneye)

and

the right amount of girl/espionage/action

Die Another Day was terrible though

 

[MikelArteta]

i dont like big brolic bond

 

[ECA]

Craig is the only Bond I like

 

[Sonny Corinthos]

I feel like im the only one who doesnt like the Brosnan bond movies outside of goldeneye.

Craig is a top 3 Bond to me, his movies are good an I feel they could write him like they wrote Bond back in the day. Dude has Connery swag to me in a weird way, but its overlooked by how much he is forced to throw hands

 

[714562]

But Casino Royale was dope as fukk...the first half was good...

That's kind of what I mean, though. The first half of the movie should have been the second. He foiled the bad guy's plan in like, 40 minutes and the rest of the film was one giant Texas Hold'Em tournament. Same shyt with SkyFall, except in SkyFall the bad guy barely even had a "plan."

 

[ExodusNirvana]

I seriously dont get the hate for Quantum of Solace.....i loved it

It just wasn't as good as Casino Royale, which was fukking AWESOME.

 

[jwinfield]

It just wasn't as good as Casino Royale, which was fukking AWESOME.

Even Craig says it wasn't good.

It was filmed during the Writers' Strike, so when they had to do rewrites, Craig and someone else had to do them and it showed.

http://filmdrunk.uproxx.com/2011/12/daniel-craig-on-quantum-we-were-fcked

It seems that the script is sometimes an after-thought on huge productions.

‘Yes and you swear that you’ll never get involved with shyt like that, and it happens. On “Quantum”, we were fukked. We had the bare bones of a script and then there was a writers’ strike and there was nothing we could do. We couldn’t employ a writer to finish it. I say to myself, “Never again”, but who knows? There was me trying to rewrite scenes – and a writer I am not.’

You had to rewrite scenes yourself?

‘Me and the director [Marc Forster] were the ones allowed to do it. The rules were that you couldn’t employ anyone as a writer, but the actor and director could work on scenes together. We were stuffed. We got away with it, but only just. It was never meant to be as much of a sequel as it was, but it ended up being a sequel, starting where the last one finished.’