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Craig is not Moore. Craig is not going to raise an eyebrow; Moore is not going to sit by coldly as a man bleeds out. Their Bond movies play to their very different strengths.
Just one question: Since when a commander in the Royal Navy is not a "military type" ?
I forgot he was in 28 Weeks Later. Interesting that he's being compared to Craig, while Naomie Harris was in 28 Days Later.
Did you think I would find the trailer perfect? I didn't, and I often get lumped in the "Craig lover" category for defending him when people post opinions that have little or no basis in factuality, which I've discussed above with factuality. Which is fine, I think the guy has what it takes to be Bond if the script allows that, and am willing to give him a chance and go into this watching to see if I was right or wrong.
The essence of Bond in that respect is that when he has to be, he is. After all, he is a commander. When he doesn't, he isn't. We've seen evidence that when Craig has been allowed to relax and be a playboy spy and lover of fine things (Ocean Beach Club in CR as an example), he does what you expect. He plays at a casino, admires and wins Dimitrios' Aston Martin, seduces a beautiful woman, and manages to spy efficiently both through surveillance camera records as well as by charming the OB receptionist. And does it all well and with a very light, playboyish tone. From what we've been led to believe by comments from Craig, we should expect this.
What is truly sad is that people are already making a "thug assumption" before having seen the movie. I'm not saying you are one of those. But if you're looking for Moore/Brosnan "Bond Lite", the tone of this movie doesn't scream that.
People have two different takes on Bond
1. More of the book's complex interpretation or
2. The cliche idealization of Bond being a superspy playboy
Work, then being driven by my daughter, who just got her drivers licence and celebrating that over dinner. Home late and tired. ;)
Country: Russia
Gun: Sibneft
Agent: Chelsea
Murder: Champions League
Di Matteo?: silence
Di Matteo: done
Forums are made for people to agree or disagree. I think Craig's Bond, in parts of CR, was as light and relaxed as Dalton's moments in TLD, and as hard as Dalton when he needed to be. CR has quite a lot of Bondian type moments where you can see what Daniel will be like as Bond, would you say they are not what you would like to see?
Glad that you have the good sense to recognize that Craig hasn't played the Bond we know yet. Any arguments that he isn't a good normal Bond are completely moot at this stage, and I'll argue that with anyone. That doesn't make me a "Craig fanboy", just someone who recognizes reality and not fantasy opinion. There are things Craig does in CR/QOS where I say to myself "that's not how normal Bond would have played it". And at times, I see the Bond I expect. I think that is what the script intended. This is why I would say that QOS was better than MR and DAD, because an incomplete script that generally gets the point of wrapping CR easily trumps winking pigeons and CGI surfing and all the nonsense and bad characters in those. Now, that said, I expect like you to see certain elements of normal Bond in this film that I haven't yet. And one thing I know for sure, if I walk in already prejudiced that I don't like the guy, I'm going to nitpick about negatives rather than put the whole picture and character into it's proper perspective.
They tried to do another MR in 2002 with DAD. If you want the series to return to that hen good for you.
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http://ca.ign.com/videos/2012/05/21/rewind-theater-skyfall-teaser-trailer
1)"Country"-"England". Don't know why I like it.
2)"Agent"-"provocateur"-It is me or is it very Flemingesque? The use of French, the word play...
3)I think we will see Bond training. And not like that stupid scene in DAD, it is going to be old fashioned training, not some virtual reality sci-fi rubbish. Good.
4)The Bind girl shaving Bond: nice touch, with just enough of eroticism and a dash of Thanatos.
5)The images are dark, much darker than most Bonds, but they are not gloomy. They are lush.
6)Where is the villain? He is the big absentee of the teaser.
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. I think StJamesSt makes a completely valid point, which under different circumstances could have come from you. You seem a bit of a contrarian - arguing purely for the sake of it.
The concern many raise about Craig is NOT that he has taken the movies in a 'different' direction (in the light of TLD and LTK, this is debatable any way) but that his depiction of Bond is so stripped of fun and enjoyment that the films actually become generic (if still entertaining) action thrillers - Bourne light, but not as good. If you think CR and QoS represent the pinacle of Bond, then fine, but if (as I believe you have stated before) you think the films have not hit their stride fully since LTK, then there is obviously something going wrong somewhere along the line. Hence the point by StJamesSt that you rubbish remains entirely relevant.
My friend, you know we speak the same language and we both share the love for all things 007, but who the hell would prefer to watch any film dubbed? It´s never well dubbed, it´s well dumbed. And to all who don´t understand english, LEARN IT! I´m sure you agree with this, being an english speaking Brazilian ;)
Sorry for the mini-rant, I just hate dubbed films with a vengeance :)
Of course it would. Sorry about that, my mind blanked out on me. Thanks.
Pre-title sequence.
Or, of course, I'm just mistaken.
You're completely right Univex. I just posted the link for sharing purposes. But like you said, I never watch dubbed movies, not even the Bond ones.
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I would have guessed that my friend ;) You seem like the international aware type :)