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I just get the feeling that Owen tries way too hard to be badass, and is constantly miscast because he always comes across as weak and insipid. EON dodged a very large bullet by not casting him.
The Bourne Identity (Spy)
Shoot 'Em Up
Children of Men
The International (Spy) Some people feel that this movie be Owen his QOS/Bourne Ultimatum.
Duplicity (Spy)
Beyond Borders. (The title who be big part of the discussion, also because of Martin Campbell and Angelina Jolie. I think this discussion helps in the results Campbell returns.)
Greenfingers
If there's one thing Owen wouldn't have done, it's deliver soap opera level over-acting like Brosnan did throughout his tenure, but especially TWINE. Owen is all business, no drama. But that may be what you dislike about the character.
Anyhow, these stories are laughable. Each actor in the past had their supporters, their detractors, would always refrain from making comments about rumors, and now are making more noise about it. It's all about publicity. Bond publicity is always good for an actor, to get others to talk about him, and now more publicity. We have the "I want to be James Bond" stories, the "I'm in discussion to be James Bond" stories, the "I've never been considered to be James Bond", the "I don't want to be James Bond", etc. It'll all pick up again after Bond 23 and rumors that Craig is done.
Owen might have been all business and no drama, but at least Brosnan never looked like he made peoples' skin crawl. I can't picture a Clive Owen Bond film without the women looking uncomfortable around him.
All Bondperformers are somehow part of their own times, and the average Bondmovie is still very watchable and not so outdated as some of their competition from those days.
People should stop complaining about the different performers they all made valid movies for the franchise. Sean Connery is a brilliant 007, Roger Moore is a brilliant 007, George Lazenby did one exceptional 007 movie and could have been brilliant, Tim Dalton did deliver a decent performance, Pierce Brosnan brought the series back in some excellent movies and Daniel Craig began brilliant lets hope he gets a chance to improve on that turd of second movie. Never before has a 007 performer been weighted down with such a terrible outing. I sincerely hope that the next 007 outing has the brilliance of the first 3/4 of CR.
But I still believe that as an actor Owen would have given a different imput had QoS been his second 007 movie. Him and Craig are different people. I say that CR would have been similar simply because EON were locked into a different course in which 007 was going a different route. Otherwise they would have stuck with Pierce he did deliver the audiences and they were pleased with him.
edit: also, to me, both Craig and Owen are similar. With their facial, carved from the rock, features at least. I also have nothing against Owen. He would've probably made very similar Bond as Craig did. Only there wouldn't have been any complaints about the color of his hair.