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How good is Daniel Craig as James Bond?
Pretty good. Especially in Casino Royale, he played a much more 3-dimensional Bond than we'd seen before, although that's arguably a function of most of the previous' films slavish devotion to a formula that had gone quite stale somewhere around the Moore era.
 

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Pretty good. Especially in Casino Royale, he played a much more 3-dimensional Bond than we'd seen before, although that's arguably a function of most of the previous' films slavish devotion to a formula that had gone quite stale somewhere around the Moore era.
Everybody slags off Moore , but I though he was excellent not in the Sean Connery but still good.
He has some of the best one liners in any Bond film and some of the best gadgets , who could forget the Lotus sub boat.
The film scripts let him down , Moonraker was just dreadful , but the one liner at the end is the best ever.
I would not mind a remake of some of the Moore Bond films , with better scripts they could be quite good , would love for Moore to make a cameo in one of them
 

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was he not killed in For Your Eyes Only , when he was dropped down a Chimney.
Mind you in the credits for the film there was no mention of Blofeld , but it had to be him bald ,with a white cat.
Mind you if the maker's forget that bit , after all it was only the opening credits ,they could get away with bringing him back.
They could do a plot for Bond getting revenge for Blofeld being the driver of the car that killed his wife.
The Casino Royale movie was a relaunch of the franchise with that been Bonds first mission as a 'double O' and the movies are just following on from there so what the 5 previous Bonds have done is irrelevent in this set of movies.
 

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Casino Royale was great, Quantum was shite, it felt like it was trying to be a Bourne movie. I hope with Mendes directing the next one it will be a little less frantic. It also needs a MUCH better story in general.
 

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Casino Royale was great, Quantum was shite, it felt like it was trying to be a Bourne movie. I hope with Mendes directing the next one it will be a little less frantic. It also needs a MUCH better story in general.
I believe they are doing about 5 movies that all continue on from each other or atleast thats the intended plan, I get the feeling Quantum will fit in more once the story is complete, it did seem to move through the story quite quickly though.
 

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Goldfinger is on itv4. He's playing golf with Goldfinger at the moment. Not exactly covert espionage is it?

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Goldfinger is on itv4. He's playing golf with Goldfinger at the moment. Not exactly covert espionage is it?

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Goldfinger doesn't know he's a spy. He just thinks he's a cnut.
 

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He's just run a woman off the road just so he can pick her up and shag her. That's incredibly rapey.

To be honest, he's fantastically rapey in this one. He certainly forces himself on Pussy Galore.
 

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No point expecting him to act...
 

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Yep, I agree. I had it wrong, and for some reason assumed that Roger Moore was starring in Goldfinger, years before he landed the Bond role. :D
 

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Whishaw's a good actor. He's done some pretty serious stuff besides Barley. Odd choice making Q younger than Bond though. Won't please the kind of people who wrote into the Daily Mail cos Daniel Craig was blonde.

Man talk is a sexual harassment case waiting to happen.
 

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Live and Let Die is my fave but it's massively racist so doesn't get much play nowadays.

JW Pepper should have had a spin-off movie after that great line from TMWTGG..."Git your cotton-pickin' schnozz out of ma pants, boy"
 

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I've just watched Quantum of Solace for the first time properly (I tried once, and sort of lost interest) While it is admittedly pretty uninvolving and shorn of, well anything particularly defining in anyway, I'm staggered there are people who'd put it below Die Another Day in the pantheon. feck, even Moonraker is well above Die Another Die. Everything about that is rubbish. A quantum of rubbish.

What Quantum loses in pretentious Opera shootouts and bafflingly rubbish name it just about claws back in Craig's performance, pant wettingly hot Bond Girl and visible cars.

It was a bit dull by comparison but at least it didn't have Halle Berry, Mr Kill, MADONNA!!! a camp plastic disco ice palace and this....THIS feckING MONSTROSITY IN IT!.


Anything Moonraker might have going against it is more than made up for by "I think he's attempting re-entry sir".....Die Another Day had THIS feckING MONSTROSITY IN IT!!


It's the Batman & Robin of Bond. Anyone who doesn't hold it in the deepest contempt should be hung at dawn for treason.

Anyway....In lighter news.

 

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It was a bit dull by comparison but at least it didn't have Halle Berry, Mr Kill, MADONNA!!! a camp plastic disco ice palace and this....THIS feckING MONSTROSITY IN IT!.

The only thing missing in that scene was a Shark to jump over.
 

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Many of the recent bond films have blurred into each other in my memory. Meaning I now avoid watching any of them in case they turn out to be the one where he spends the entire film sitting around playing cards.

Is Quantum of Solace that one? Or is it the other, more entertaining one which came after that? The one with the hotel in the desert which was built on top of some fuel rods for some reason, and then exploded...I liked that one, even though it was awful.

Also, any faults with Moonraker are instantly voided due it having a giant moon lazer fight at the end, and because it's got a guy with metal teeth in it, who possesses the unparallelled ability to bite things, with his teeth.
 

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Poor Pierce......such a great Bond........ruined by by 2 terrible scripts, and 1 pretty mediocre one, and obviously Goldeneye. The GOAT Bond film.
 

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As if by magic, Die Another Day is on ITV2 now. Don't watch it. But if you do insist on watching it, like me, you better constantly undermine it with pithy quips about how shit it is.