Daniel Craig is James Bond!!! by CrevanReaver

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Daniel Craig is James Bond!!!

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Friday, October 14, 2005 2:24 AM

It's official! Daniel Craig is Bond, James Bond.

http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/12901779.htm

http://edition.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/Movies/10/14/new.bond.actor/

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-1825142,00.html

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Friday, October 14, 2005 6:34 AM

CITIZEN

Oh dear...

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Even though I might, even though I try,
I can't

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Friday, October 14, 2005 7:19 AM

HKCAVALIER

I'm just happy that they didn't cast another aging pretty boy swoon-machine with a toup'. Every last one of these latterday Bonds has been in the lamo-jamo Roger Moore mold. I mean Orlando Bloom was on their short list, fer chrisakes! No one since Connery has brought anything close to the level of menace and violence the role requires. Anybody read them books? OO7 was a psychopath. Daniel Craig might finally get things back on track.

HKCavalier

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Friday, October 14, 2005 7:22 AM

CITIZEN

I think he'll be the same as the previous vein. I've read the books though, HK, and entirly agree.

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Friday, October 14, 2005 4:56 PM

SEVENPERCENT

Daniel Craig is also apparently shtupping (sp?) Sienna Miller, making it the second thing he's stolen from Jude Law this month. Wonder if he can get a trifecta.......

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He looked bigger when I couldn't see him.

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Friday, October 14, 2005 8:58 PM

GREGGALLINSON

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Originally posted by SevenPercent:
Daniel Craig is also apparently shtupping (sp?) Sienna Miller, making it the second thing he's stolen from Jude Law this month. Wonder if he can get a trifecta.......

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He looked bigger when I couldn't see him.

Show me evidence that Jude Law was ever seriously considered for the Bond role, let alone in the shortlist of final contenders.

Anyway, I'm in a "wait and see" mode. I do like that they went with a "gritty" actor as opposed to another colourless Moore/Brosnan prettyboy, but IMO, toss a scar on Clive Owen's face and you've got Fleming's Bond. Julian McMahon or Chiwetel Ejiofor would've worked for me too...

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Friday, October 14, 2005 9:03 PM

GREGGALLINSON

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Originally posted by HKCavalier:
Anybody read them books? OO7 was a psychopath. Daniel Craig might finally get things back on track.

I wouldn't go that far, but he was certainly an existentialist who was not above doing not-so-nice things. The one quote that probably sums up Bond for me is "It's not difficult to get a Double O number if you're prepared to kill
people. That's all the meaning it has. It's nothing to be particularly proud of" from Casino Royale. Just drives home the fact that Bond was a burnt-out man whose job was killing, and it wasn't a job that particularly thrilled him.

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Friday, October 14, 2005 9:05 PM

RIVERSGUY

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but IMO, toss a scar on Clive Owen's face and you've got Fleming's Bond.

Originally posted by GreggAllinson

Could not have said it better. I am a fan of Daniel Craig since Our Friends in the North and can kinda see him as Bond, but IMO Clive would be fantastic.

Oh for what its worth, I thought Timothy Dalton did a better job than he is given credit for too

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Friday, October 14, 2005 9:07 PM

GREGGALLINSON

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Originally posted by RiversGuy:
Oh for what its worth, I thought Timothy Dalton did a better job than he is given credit for too

Dalton was outstanding. While Licence to Kill has aged somewhat poorly in the sense that it's very obviously a movie from the '80s, it's Fleming's Bond all the way; one of the few movies outside the first two Connery films and OHMSS to get anywhere close to the spirit of Bond as he was in the novels. I think that's a big reason why it's so unpopular with casual fans: they think Bond is a cross between Adam West's Batman and John Steed from the Avengers because that's really the way he was played in the later Connery and most of the Moore films. Give me Fleming's existentialist antihero any day.

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Friday, October 14, 2005 9:46 PM

TIGER

Quote:
Originally posted by HKCavalier:
I'm just happy that they didn't cast another aging pretty boy swoon-machine with a toup'. Every last one of these latterday Bonds has been in the lamo-jamo Roger Moore mold. I mean Orlando Bloom was on their short list, fer chrisakes! No one since Connery has brought anything close to the level of menace and violence the role requires. Anybody read them books? OO7 was a psychopath. Daniel Craig might finally get things back on track.

Darn tootin' HK. He was an over-boozed, cold womanizing, tough bastard, wrapped in a thin veil of British propriety. I'm still waiting for them to make a REAL James Bond movie. Craig seems to have the look of a man on the raggedy edge - at least that's encouraging. Also, I just read today somewhere that this next movie will focus less on gadgets and more on characters. Casino Royale is a good book for that approach.

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Friday, October 14, 2005 10:36 PM

SEVENPERCENT

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Originally posted by GreggAllinson:

Show me evidence that Jude Law was ever seriously considered for the Bond role, let alone in the shortlist of final contenders.

Simmer down there, bro. Just going for the cheap shot at Law, who cheated on Miller to begin with. I think it was the Guardian that had the rumor that he was up for it too, maybe the Independent (yes, strangely enough I like the British papers - and the BBC). But I can't say that he was ever in major contention. He'd have made a crappy Bond had he been, anyway.

And I'm in total agreement over Timothy Dalton. I think he was given the worst (personal edit: worst directed) of the two Bond films to try to salvage (another edit: the scripts needed a little polish as well, imo - the plots weren't that bad), and suffered in the backlash. Dalton was a friggin' awesome Bond.

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He looked bigger when I couldn't see him.

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Saturday, October 15, 2005 3:30 AM

GREGGALLINSON

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Originally posted by SevenPercent:
Just going for the cheap shot at Law, who cheated on Miller to begin with.

Never let the facts get in the way of a good "cheap shot", eh?

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Saturday, October 15, 2005 5:36 AM

SEVENPERCENT

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Originally posted by GreggAllinson:
Quote:
Originally posted by SevenPercent:
Just going for the cheap shot at Law, who cheated on Miller to begin with.

Never let the facts get in the way of a good "cheap shot", eh?

Wow. Aren't you a fun guy. You're either a James Bond fanboy, or just woke up on the wrong side of the bed today. But since you seem to want to be a dick, here is an article that says it:

(I'll bold the appropriate parts to help you)

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Scores of others, including Law himself, Ewan McGregor, Colin Farrell and Orlando Bloom, were considered but rejected.

from
http://www.thisislondon.com/showbiz/articles/20594611?source=Daily%20M
ail&ct=5

and another

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Numerous other actors have been linked with Casino Royale including Ewan McGregor, Jude Law, Hugh Jackman, Clive Owen and Dougray Scott.

The spokesperson for James Bond production company Eon was unavailable for comment

from
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/4293232.stm

And to complete my own trifecta of owning your sorry ass this morning,

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At U.S.-based online movie ticket seller Fandango.com, fans gave Craig only a one percent shot at being 007. Englishman Jason Statham, star of "Transporter 2," topped the Fandangolist with a 33 percent chance.

Dozens of others have been mentioned as possible successors to current Bond Pierce Brosnan, including Britons Clive Owen and Jude Law, Australia's Hugh Jackman and Croatia's Goran Visnjic.

from
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20051011/film_nm/leisure_bond_dc

So it wasn't the facts that got in the way of a good joke, it was your lack of a sense of humor.
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Saturday, October 15, 2005 10:51 AM

GREGGALLINSON

Whoever said anything about a good joke? You yourself said it was a "cheap shot". And those, my friend, are never cool.

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