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This is exactly the type of project that I want Craig to do. I hope it’s true. I want to see Craig in this type of film (working with someone like Jim Jarmusch) more than I want to see him in another Bond film.
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He'll never walk alone!
Here's an interesting tidbit: the bird tattoo on DC's shoulder is the Nazca bird, one of the enormous sand carvings in the Peruvian desert:
Years after getting that tattoo, DC found himself filming QoS in the Chilean desert, just a few hundred miles south of where that bird is located.
Right you are, @Thunderbird. I mean, @Thunderfinger. Thanks, @TripAces.
I'll probably watch it again to get clear on how the whole job went down.
Dan is real funny, with his southern accent and redneck con persona.
It's an entertaining light-hearted romp with a solid cast also featuring Channing Tatum and Katie Holmes
It does require a second viewing I think to really suss out what actually went down.
It's a good natured film but still with some bite.
4/5 stars. It might be my favourite non-Bond, post-Bond Craig film, along with Dream House.
I think the movie works just fine. It's got a strong cast with Craig, Rachel Weisz and Naomi Watts.
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Its a movie that probably could have been done a whole lot better, considering it seems to have had a decent budget, but still, I think the cast saves it, plus the basic mystery-suspense driven story
Something is not quite right here, but what is it!?
Next time its on TV i will give it another go,i have actually forgotten most of it actually so that will help !
I made an edit above to last post.
The movie is not without it's problems. I don't think Craig was too happy with final cut.
In fact I think he disowned it and refused to promote it, but still I find the final salvaged cut is at least watchable.
A decent little timewaster I thought.
Sadly, it was one of those films where all involved signed onto a script, which was changed so much over the course of production all involved wanted nothing to do with the final product. Which I like you, didn't think was terrible (also didn't see the trailer first).
The director, unsuccessfully tried to have his name removed from the film altogether.
Regardless, things worked out nicely for DC and RW.
They'd actually worked together before in a play in their early 20's.
Perhaps it was a case of the one who got away, or poor timing back then.
Sounds about right or they found amore in their shared experience of the chaotic Dream House experience :)
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I ask because I get the feeling that some are well and truly had enough of his time in the role and when you see some saying Brosnan was more natural in the role I have to wonder that the tide seems to be turning.
I guess it will come down to what he delivers with Bond 25 and if that film can make up for the utter disaster that is SPECTRE.
Although some seem to be trying to rewrite history suggesting that Craig did not make a big impact on the role or shift what kind of actor could be suggested to play Bond.
We seem to be shifting back to handsome clothes horses again with the likes of Cavill being considered. I've no problem with a more classic Bond again but please lets set the bar a bit higher than this.
I agree apart from in SPECTRE although I can see this forum as more than a few who seem to be turning on him.
I'm just looking forward to seeing him coming back with something to prove with Bond 25, I think he knows SP wasn't great and that his 5th film needs to be something special.
Yes, a negativity has seeped into a bit of the DNA on this forum.
But I think they're a passive-aggressive minority.
The rest of us have accepted their perception as their perception, and we await B25. They project their frustrations onto Craig, but the majority are just waiting...
After all, Boyle's not Mendes, and he is bringing with him his team. 25 will be a very different beast than 24. And with this, we get arguably the most popular Bond since at least Moore (and I would say, the most popular Bond since the Golden Era of King Connery); yet these vocal minority projectionists will continue spouting their displeasure with this choice until the bitter end.
It just won't change the reality:
In the real world, as @RC7 has repeatedly pointed out: DC is a popular Bond; in the film world-- in all realms of production-- the actor is sincerely respected, and he IS beloved as James Bond.
So, let the passive-aggressiveness have its day, @Shardlake , but know that it is truly insular to this site, and has no bearings on the production of 25, or the general public who will flock to this film.
Thanks again @peter I was wondering as like you say some have really turned on our current 007 with the exception of SPECTRE I've never doubted this era myself.
I just find some trying to downgrade Craig's impact on the role, I always continue to argue that Daniel arguably made the most significant stamp on the role since Roger and some degrees since Connery.
Although some hide behind so called measured comments trying to rewrite history as they have an agenda to promote some TV star that hasn't a hope in hell of being Bond.
Some might not like Craig in the role like I hated Brosnan but I would never deny what good Pierce did at the time. Also how he made the brand hugely popular again but in the same breath they need to conclude that Craig is one of the most significant actors of the series history instead of trying to underestimate his contributions because they don't like his Bond.
Brosnan is also my least favourite Bond, I just didn't take to him. But, like you, I know he played a significant role in putting Bond back on the map again.
Yes, Sp was a misstep, and the Sony Leaks can paint the picture on where it ran off the rails (it was script development (and the domino-effect thereafter). Logan and Mendes supposedly turned in one terrible draft after another, the next being worse than the one before it; Purvis and Wade, if one is to believe the Sony leaks and the actual players involved, gave Sony and the producers a sigh of relief with their drafts (that's how bad the Logan scripts were).
However, there were still some working on development that were worried even with the latter drafts-- and especially a weak ending.
They weren't listened to.
It's all there in black and white.
But on this site I hear how Sp and its direction was/is Craig's fault; he was sleep walking through his performance; his gun barrel and the way he swung his arm-- all his fault. He's only in it for the money. He's old. He's this. He's that.
Forget about the pissing and whining of the Orange Monster in the White House and the so-called "Trump Derangement Syndrome"; on this site, there is an actual Daniel Craig Derangement Syndrome!...
However, there are others who generally never took to Craig-- like I didn't take to Brosnan. These people have always been consistent and intelligent in communicating what they don't like about his Bond (and his films). They're not bombastic about it. It is what it is. Personal preference and personal taste. And I thank them for their perspective.
It's the loud projectionists who, as you rightly pointed out, are trying to downgrade Craig's importance to this franchise.
But, as I said before, this is pretty insular to this site and has no bearing with the general, worldwide, audiences, nor does it have any bearing in the actual film industry where Daniel Craig is a respected actor, and a beloved Bond.