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They are already. At least the reasonable people :P
That image of Craig in CR on the beach, as bloody freaking hot as it is, was A HUGE MISTAKE.
Like a commercial suggesting, hey you must have muscles to get the ladies.
But who am I to say a thing like this, I'm the same, I put to much importance on my body. I'm spoiled :P
The One Man vs an Army wasn't invented in the 90s with Brosnan.
It was almost 10 years earlier in TLD where Daltonbond goes against the army on the air field, machine gun toting.
There is no use in pretending, Bond has stayed in the 60s.
I wouldn't mind Bond using an iPad either. Blofeld did which I found cool. After all, that's realistic.
Is it Fleming Bond, certainly not, but it doesn't have to be. It's cinematic Bond.
And you can have all the machine gun-toting scenes you want in TND or elsewhere, it still will be 10 times more Bondian than anything that got us dished up in the reboot nonsense era pre-SP.
Craigbond never really hit it right until SP. Yes, CR is a classic and undeniably one of the best, worthy of a Top 10 spot easily.
But that's mainly because Campbell created a perfect storm of cast performances, direction and style in general, locations and sets are wonderful.
CR without the casino sequences and the torture scene would not have much left that "intentionally" went back to Fleming.
QOS is even not worth mentioning in that context. I love that film, don't get me wrong, but it has little to do with Bond compared everything that came before.
I'm no expert at the books though, that's for sure.
The Craig era is much more Flemingesque than the Brosnan era (tone, characterization etc), no question.
I am an expert with regards to the books (as well as the films).
PS there is also something "unEnglish" about a machine gun if that makes sense, not really "fair play" ?
PPS when did we first see Bond on the big screen use a machine gun?
And he made it look really cool while sliding over that ice on his belly while firing, nobody ever complained about that.
As for Craig more Bondian or Flemingesque, he is far more James Cameronesque as he is witout any doubt the only Terminator among the james Bond, getting shot falling of a terminal height of a train and without any background check is back working for MI6. Just like they knew; He'll be back and in SP he got to the Chopper.
Anything about Brosnan is a complained and generally full of the stuff the grass grows greener of. There can be complains about any performer even if they are generally taste driven and period driven. But I must say that I prefer a Terminator movie over a Graig version because Schwarzenegger is still the original.
Yet I never feel any pain with Craig, he is like a frigging terminator and he does not give up so his so-called emotions are never really felt or there. In that sense I do not feel the danger at all and with SP we got an agent who at no point felt being in danger. Heck even Lazenby shows more emotion in his one movie. And Brosnan showed more emotion and vulnerability in his 4 movies. Than Craig did with QoB, SF or SP. essentialy a promise that went way wrong after the powerhouse that was CR.
Brosnan will be remembered as the one who return the franchise after a leave of absence and did so very well and then was chucked out. Craig as the one who started great and then went arty farty with two directors that were full of pretense and no real idea what to do with the franchise or even film a half decent story. Another Mendes-Craig movie would leave me waiting for the next installment wit ha new 007 as I am done with crap that Mendes and EON keeps serving.
Another November man would draw me straight back to the cinema. Unless Mendes would direct it.
I really don't think most people would think that the Craig era started great and then declined precipitously after that. SF's phenomenal critical and commercial global success (it very well could have been the #1 film globally in 2012 if one measures it on a ticket sales basis, given that Avengers was in more expensive 3D) guarantees that. If Craig leaves after SP I believe there will be a somewhat sour taste in some people's mouth (certainly mine), but it will be no worse than Connery after DAF, Moore after AVTAK, Dalton after LTK (at least from a commercial success point of view) or Brosnan after DAD.
I think Craig and his reboot era will have a rich place in the Bond history books, if for no other reason that it restored some seriousness, dramatic heft and credibility to the franchise. Whether it will be looked at with the same esteem that it seems to get these days is another question.
CR on the other hand is Craig's GoldenEye, nobody seriously can claim it's not his best by a large margin overall.
The only thing going for SF was the huge monetary success, but let's be honest, had Spectre be in its place or Casino Royale for that matter the billion would have materialised as well.
SF is already the one Bond film that lives almost only from romantic glorified memories of the 50th, Olympic Games, patriotism and such. Bringing back the DB5 and the images in Scotland are what appealed to the older generations to make it go and see. The younger generations went because it was an EVENT film. It's that simple.
In 10 years tops that will become clear to the even most die-hard SF fans. That I'm sure of.
I know it's hard to take for many, but the Craig era isn't any different to the Brosnan era. I can be if there is a fifth that would be another CR. But I highly doubt that.
1. OHMSS
2. LTK
3. DAF
4. SP
5. AVTAK
6. DAD
I'll never really like SP, but respect the money up on screen and the cinematography (bar the filter), which is top notch. There are a few outstanding scenes as well (PTS before the helicopter, White, & the Hinx fight).
OHMSS
LTK
SP
DAD
DAF
AVTAK
and here my favourite first two:
1 TLD-LTK
2 GE-TND
3 DN-FRWL
4 CR-QOS
5 LALD-TMWTGG