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The DANIEL CRAIG Appreciation thread - Discuss His Life, His Career, His Bond Films

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  • muzz100muzz100
    Posts: 93
    Has he made a truly great film yet? I’m playing Devils Advocate of course. He’s never entirely convincing as an action hero, and too hard to be an artist. Faod I think this is a good thing. I’m a massive admirer. He’s a proper awkward ****er.
  • LeonardPineLeonardPine The Bar on the Beach
    Posts: 4,179
    Depends what you define as a 'great' film. It's entirely subjective.

    I'd say Casino Royale is not just a great Bond film, but a great film altogether.

    Personally i consider Layer Cake to be a great film. Same with Logan Lucky. Perhaps Munich could be considered a great film..?
  • Mathis1Mathis1
    edited January 26 Posts: 7,678
    LeonardPine wrote: »
    Depends what you define as a 'great' film. It's entirely subjective.

    I'd say Casino Royale is not just a great Bond film, but a great film altogether.

    Personally i consider Layer Cake to be a great film. Same with Logan Lucky. Perhaps Munich could be considered a great film..?

    They are three very good films, I would put Munich as the best of them, and Layer Cake second, Craig is actually the best thing about Logan Lucky!
    Oh, and I agree about CR, a couple of people I know who are not really Bond fans, enjoyed it a lot!
  • LeonardPineLeonardPine The Bar on the Beach
    Posts: 4,179
    Mathis1 wrote: »
    LeonardPine wrote: »
    Depends what you define as a 'great' film. It's entirely subjective.

    I'd say Casino Royale is not just a great Bond film, but a great film altogether.

    Personally i consider Layer Cake to be a great film. Same with Logan Lucky. Perhaps Munich could be considered a great film..?

    They are three very good films, I would put Munich as the best of them, and Layer Cake second, Craig is actually the best thing about Logan Lucky!
    Oh, and I agree about CR, a couple of people I know who are not really Bond fans, enjoyed it a lot!

    I bloody love Logan Lucky! It has a real Coen Bros feel to it. Still can't believe it was directed by Steven Soderbergh..!
  • 007HallY007HallY
    edited January 26 Posts: 4,465
    LeonardPine wrote: »
    Mathis1 wrote: »
    LeonardPine wrote: »
    Depends what you define as a 'great' film. It's entirely subjective.

    I'd say Casino Royale is not just a great Bond film, but a great film altogether.

    Personally i consider Layer Cake to be a great film. Same with Logan Lucky. Perhaps Munich could be considered a great film..?

    They are three very good films, I would put Munich as the best of them, and Layer Cake second, Craig is actually the best thing about Logan Lucky!
    Oh, and I agree about CR, a couple of people I know who are not really Bond fans, enjoyed it a lot!

    I bloody love Logan Lucky! It has a real Coen Bros feel to it. Still can't believe it was directed by Steven Soderbergh..!

    I think it feels like a zany, comedic spin on Ocean's Eleven (or at least it uses that heist format but with a very particular story about blue collar Americans down on their luck in various ways. IIRC there's even a joke about it in the film - 'Ocean's Seven Eleven' I believe it was). So I can see how Soderbergh directed it. He tends to drift into different genres I guess though.

    And yes, what a 'great' film actually is can be subjective. But Craig's career is nothing to sniff at. I'd say in his Bond tenure CR and SF are great films. Layer Cake's pretty damn good too, as is Munich. Personally, I'm a fan of Girl With The Dragon Tattoo and consider it better than the Swedish version. I'm sure many would say Knives Out and Glass Onion are great films too.
  • mtmmtm United Kingdom
    edited January 26 Posts: 16,838
    Road to Perdition isn't exactly bad either.

    I agree about Dragon Tattoo: I absolutely love the tone of that film and Craig is perfectly cast in it. I'm sad they didn't make more.
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