Bond...New Bond

Saw it tonight, it was great. I was really, really dubious about the new Bond, but he is excellent. I am a bit disturbed at the apparent "do over" of the entire franchise by effectively portraying the new Bond as just starting his double-knot career, in modern times, and with a female M (although Dame Judy is, as usual, most excellent). There was no Q, no up-play of gizmos, and very little Bond humor...but still, a wonderful job has been done in the overhaul of the franchise.

Bond 2006 is meaner, a more steely-eyed killer, less suave and debonaire, but still 100% Bond. As a lifelong Bond fan, I'm giving this one a 9 out of 10.

Now I want to see it, thanks.

It's the first Bond movie in a long while that was not just a good Bond movie; it was a good movie.

Agreed, all round.

But hubby still asks . . . who was the best Bond ever?

He votes for Sean Connery.

I like one of the older ones before that . . . the one I think of as the original bond. Now what was his name?

I have to add, the ending of the movie was perfect, just perfect.

I loved it. I saw it the weekend it premiered in England. Really impressed.;

Best Bond ever is still Sean Connery. However, I'm moving Daniel Craig into second...that's how impressed I was with him. My list is thus:

Connery
Craig
Brosnan
Dalton
Moore
Lazenbee (he might have scored better if he'd made more films)

My list is:

Craig
Dalton
Connery
Moore
Lazenby


Brosnan doesn't even make it onto my list:P

I really liked Dalton, he was my favourite Bond, just because he played it so close to the character in the books. Now though, Craig has pipped him to the top slot. He oozes danger and still has a few rough edges, a little more....soldierly than the others.

I think I enjoy all of them like they're different wines and I don't want to rank them. Moore is not generally liked as much, but his subtle sense of humor and timing was really cool. Brosnan's acting was OK (and he was brilliant in last year's The Matador) but the films were too action-filmy fake for me.

The Dalton/Brosnan years saw a marked improvement in the quality of Bond films, until the disatrous "Die Another Day", when they returned to the Mooresque camp and BS in spades.

I'm not saying I didn't like the Moore era films. I did and do. But I've always preferred rather more serious Bond films, which is why I am so enamoured of the new "Casino Royale". The Moore Bond always reminds me of the old TV "Batman", another character who can be very well done with a very serious bent, but which also worked as high camp and humor. My opinion of Moore as Bond suffers because of the films he was in, and not due to his having been an inadequate Bond.

CaliforniaMama;303205 wrote:

I like one of the older ones before that . . . the one I think of as the original bond. Now what was his name?

Moore! That's the one I'm always forgetting!

I do like him best . . . well, 2nd best, now.

I like the cheesyness of the old Bond movies.

Elspode;302796 wrote:

Saw it tonight, it was great.... I am a bit disturbed at the apparent "do over" of the entire franchise by effectively portraying the new Bond as just starting his double-knot career, in modern times, and with a female M .....

Casino Royale was the first Bond novel.... I guess the film franchise wanted to relate to this.


(Casisno Royale was also the only novel Cubby did <i>not</i) have the original rights to.

Craig was good - I think he set himelf up for the parT after his role in Layer Cake. Casino Rotyale was agood film overall with a satisfying mix of stunts, special effects and pure adrenaline stuff. A friend of mine got fed up with the high level of product placement throughout the film (Omega watch, Sony Vaio, Ford whatever-it-was, and so on) that I looked out for it myself, but quickly found that the film took over my attention more than the products.

Craig is soooooooooooo fookin' hot he burns my eyeballs---in a good way!! forget Pitt, Cruise, Washington, all the bad boys, Craig crushes them all! (except Connery. when Connery was In The Day he made all the girls whimper)


[slaver, slaver, slaver]

You all should see Craig in the film SYLVIA. He played Ted Hughes to Paltrow's Sylvia Plath. He made me :yum:


PPS--really non-sequitur--the newsanchor for channel 2 (?) here in Dayton is dating Earl of Spencer---Diana's brother.
Ga-ross.

Really Bri? Which one?

Cyclefrance;305036 wrote:

A friend of mine got fed up with the high level of product placement throughout the film (Omega watch, Sony Vaio, Ford whatever-it-was, and so on) that

Selene and I remarked on this as well. Product placement, combined with pre-film advertising is just about on my last nerve. Strangely, I don't mind it as much on network television, where it has also taken a strong upswing.

Network TV has to find a way to enhance revenues in order to survive, and product placement is a surefire way to do that. Films, though, are something we are already paying to see. I don't actually mind the pre-show advertising as much as I do the in-movie product placement, because production companies and distributors of films make the vast lion's share of the price of admission, leaving the theaters themselves to find ways to making a living in more creative fashion.

Entertainment media, in general, is in a vast stake of flux right now on all levels. It is an interesting time to be alive if you are a movie fan.

Brianna;305060 wrote:

(except Connery. when Connery was In The Day he made all the girls whimper)

Just for you Bri, I'll write in a whishpy Scottish accent....

Are they Craig's own pecs I wondered....

Craig Ferguson is heeelarious when he imitates Sean Connery.

OMG...I forgot to mention the biggest change in the new Bond film style...

...no naked women in silhouette behind the opening titles. *That* change I do not care for. I want my naked women back, damn it!

Shawnee123;305264 wrote:

Really Bri? Which one?

Ah! sorry so long! He's dating Colleen Sullivan, formerly of channel two, dayton.

Craig looks fine for this new bond film. He did hes best and was great!
Looking forward for another action movie Outlaw by Sean Bean.