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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.
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.
My list of great DC films, in order:
1. Skyfall
2. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
3. Casino Royale
4. Munich
5. Road to Perdition
6. Queer
7. Logan Lucky
8. Knives Out
9. The Adventures of Tintin
10. The Glass Onion
Skyfall is such a sloppy copy-cat script for 2/3rds, how could it be that great?
To be fair it’s one of those Bond films I’ve noticed most regular viewers seem to like a lot, even if they’re not that into Bond. So it did and does continue to resonate. We as fans here just have a tendency to pick all these films apart anyway and have overly strong opinions! But I’d say it’s pretty great IMO.
How much time do you have? ;)
That said, I think Skyfall is the film that broke EON. It was so superior in quality and success to anything that had come before that all Babs and Mike have wanted to do ever since was make arthouse Bond films. Hence, they simply couldn't get it right in SP and NTTD--both of which are good films, but you can see an "auteur" approach that didn't quite fit. And it's why we are now 3+ years post-NTTD with no news and no sense of direction for the next film. They want another SF, maybe even surpass it, and I am not sure they can, not in that way.
I will give you the runtime, which I already gave it twice. Love the last act.
No Layer Cake..?
Glass Onion sucked the big one
I started seeing Bono in his appearance, especially when he wears the yellow glasses. Apparently, I'm not alone...
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-14081671/Daniel-Craig-transforms-U2s-Bono-sunglasses-Queer-premiere-LA.html
Is Daniel Craig going to start his habit of dropping out of movies at the last minute again? It sounds like he is a bit bitter about not getting a Oscar nomination. In particular, since it was basically a Oscar bait role.
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/daniel-craig-drops-out-of-dc-studios-sgt-rock-1236141449/
According to some random, unnamed source? I doubt that that's the case.
Give the role to Bradley Cooper.
It was still in development, so I wouldn’t call it last minute. Not quite sure why Luca Guadagnino is directing this anyway (I can see it being quite camp, but I’m not sure if that’s the right tone one way or the other. No idea who this character is, and I’m not entirely sure how successful the movie is destined to be. Guadagnino isn’t exactly a heavy hitter at the box office). From what I can tell Jeremy Allen White sounds like a good alternative.
Agreed.
And isn't he about to start shooting Two for the Money, with Charlize Theron?
If he were that bitter about an Oscar nomination, he wouldn't have signed onto work with Guadagnino in the first place. His films have never received the box office receipts or awards recognition they deserve. For Craig, Queer is just continuing were he left off pre-Bond. Quite literally full circle.
They wanted to release Sgt Rock on Memorial Day 2026.
Which means the shooting schedule conflicted with the potential shooting schedule of Craig’s passion project, OTHELLO (which brings director Sam Gold into the fold in his feature film debut (he was the original director of the stage version that Craig starred in)).
He is producing Othello, and starring, and when he saw scheduling conflicts, Othello comes first.
Why do ppl assume the worst? I don’t get it…
That makes a lot of sense and it's understandable in fairness.
Is Barbara attached to Othello at all? I remember reading reports about it last year, but it never seemed official
Nice to see you back @peter mate
Because people ARE the worst ;)
Except Bond fans, all of us are simply the best :)
Seriously now, I'm glad he's out of that movie. Rather watch him in Othello, no doubt about that.
@peter, my friend, I'd love to know your personal feelings on what's going on. We've been out of the forums for some time, you and I, but feel free to pm me. Hope all is well. Good to see you back. Good to be back.
Cheers