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I think Craig is fine in SPECTRE but fine is not how he was previously. I don't whether his injury affected his enthusiasum or the fact that this more laid back Bond just didn't work for me like his previous performances but this is the one entry of his he felt like he was just going through the motions.
Craig felt far more invested in his previous films. I don't want him to go despite my disappointment with SPECTRE and I hope he comes back and ends on a high because if SP is his last shout in the role it will be a great shame.
Except for Lazenby! ;))
Yes :))
Also, the prospect of a possible sequel to SP is so tantilising! =P~
If they had let him perform like that in QOS and especially SF, he would be considered to be better than Connery.
Craig Bond No 5 has to come.
But the new actor would do new things. If they want to keep the same style, they might as well hold on to Craig but if they want to bring a different angle, they will bring in somebody new. I quite like the idea of Aiden Turner because he has a sultry Byronic quality, different to Craig. The last thing I'd want is somebody who was playing it like Craig because Bond is meant to be unique and it undermines that idea.
You're misunderstanding what I'm saying: I am not suggesting the new actor has to "do Craig", I am saying the new actor has to "beat" Craig, in his own way, in the scenes that we expect a 007 to go through.
I think they deliberately made him look older in SF. Everyone goes on about how old he looks, I think it's meant to be like that given the whole theme of old ways and new ways ... old dog new tricks etc., hence the very cropped haircut which makes him look older.
That reminds me of how Ewan McGregor was made to look older in Revenge of the Sith, so he would match up with Alec Guinness Obi-wan in A New Hope.
When I read posts suggesting Craig looks bored in SP or is 'going through the motions', it does remind me of the same thing being levelled at Connery in YOLT.
IMO both give perfectly measured and fine performances, no les than previously.
I have never seen a single frame of YOLT that suggested to me Connery looked bored.
However, others are seeing it, so I could only surmise that YOLT the movie simply did not fit Connery's take on the role as well as the first four pictures did. It was more action orientated, more quirky and light hearted. Connery's languid, leisurely, urbane agent probably didn't fit the film as well as (say) Moore would have done. Connery was as cool and dynamic as ever but the pace of the film just passed him by.
Is this happening now with Craig and Spectre? Craig gave us the tortured, troubled spy in CR, QOS and SF, but suddenly we have a more light hearted film, and it doesn't quite fit him as well, even though his performance is perfectly good.
So, are we looking at the actors and saying they don't look interested when in fact we should be looking at the film and saying that this film isn't quite right for the actor?
I see. I still think though that we can't call it yet. I can imagine quite a few actors can convincingly seduce a woman- whether that same actor can also do fight scenes may be another matter but still, there are probably actors who can pull that off, maybe even better than Craig. It's simply that the potential may still be untapped- until we have seen examples of the actor doing these things, we can't really say that they'll be worse than Craig.
I really enjoyed very much his more Classic Bond Portrayal in Spectre and being the character we all loved from Dr No- Die Another day so id love him to come back but with a standalone mission where all the classic elements are back in place.
Going back to the old days but in a modern way. A clear statement that we have back the Classic Bond character so the next actors in the future can be The Next Bond with no problem.
We could forget about Blofeld and Madeline ever existed and give Craig a simple standalone misssion like the older Bonds.
"Ladies. Forget it!"
Now you're speaking my language. :-bd
I speak English.
Who is your Bond?
Yes yes I'm English. Brosnan is my Bond. :D
If they want him back they will waste half the film's budget on him. And he will give a very bored performance probably. Not worth it.
And I am sick of the Craig era and all the angst that comes with it. They're fine on their own but enough is enough. We will not be getting another CR from Craig, so never mind about it.
Little chance of it happening? Thankfully it's closer to zero chance.
A 63 year old Bond in TSWLM as written would be terrible. I wouldn't mind it in a series of adaptations of the novels on Netflix but if EON served up a trite story of some girl getting shagged in a cinema before winding up working in a motel where two stereotype hoodlums attack her only for her to be saved by some guy passing through they would be crucified and justly so.
And I doubt the new studio would be too happy with their investment either. If you think SP was underwhelming at the box office as it limps to $200m this would be lucky to make $20m.
Yes Bond is a licence to print money but you've got to serve up something better than Mills & Boon with a bit of action thrown in. I wonder if it was your own money backing it you'd be as keen?