It’s no secret that I’m one of the few people who was disappointed by Casino Royale. Daniel Craig turned Bond into a brutish thug, and I like my 007 debonair and deadly. I doubt much will change for his next movie, but it sounds like Craig may at least end up looking a little less brutish.
WENN reports that Craig is back in the gym training for his next movie, Bond 22. Only this time he’s not trying to mimic the incredible-hulk. He says, “Last time I did a lot of weights to bulk up. This time I'll do more running. I won't be as 'no-neck'. But when this guy takes his shirt off, he should look like he could kill someone.” Bond doesn’t need to kill people with his pecs, that’s why he carries a gun. He’s not the Terminator. Who cares what he looks like when his shirt comes off.
I still say Craig just doesn’t’ get it, but at least he’ll have a neck in the next one. Maybe he’ll also find clothes that fit.
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You're not the only one that was not impressed with this verison of James Bond. However, the movie was good but it wasn't the debonair James Bond I've grown used to. I think it would have been better if this agent was given another name.
I think Craig's Bond is the best so far because of the brute hitman ideal. I got into James Bond as a kid, started from Dr. No and get up to Roger Moore and then grew out of it. It didn't make any sense, he was like some kind of lounge lizard that for some reason was tasked with saving the world everyday and all the chicks swooned over him - why? Why would anyone swoon over Roger Moore? I understand Sean Connery- kind of but Roger Moore??
Craig's Bond is cool because he's a renegade maverick spy! Fresh out of whatever grunt training program they had him in and given a license to kill. It makes sense that Bond's edge is his hard ass ways and that's why they trust him - because as much of a dick and a brute he is - he gets the job done. Plus you get the whole theme where as strong and as hardened as he is it's just a front, a poker face if you will.
And another thing, Bond hardly ever shoots people with his gun. The Bond movies are all staked on amazing stunt work and explosions that, I hate to say, Connery's tall-svelte Bond could never have realistically pulled off.
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It’s no secret that I’m one of the few people who was disappointed by Casino Royale. Daniel Craig turned Bond into a brutish thug, and I like my 007 debonair and deadly. I doubt much will change for his next movie, but it sounds like Craig may at least end up looking a little less brutish.
November 28th, 2007 at 12:15
You're not the only one that was not impressed with this verison of James Bond. However, the movie was good but it wasn't the debonair James Bond I've grown used to. I think it would have been better if this agent was given another name.