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  • talos7talos7 New Orleans
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    It's not an uncommon opinion that Daniel Craig is not a stereotypically handsome man. Depending on how he's photographed, he can look great or haggard. I've commented that he often looks better at award shows and TV interviews than he does, at times, in films, specifically as Bond.
    Both SF and SP had exceptional directors of photography but they frequently didn't do him any favors.
  • Tuck91Tuck91
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    Craig is most handsome in the casino scenes in CR, his flat in Spectre & the chinese casino in Skyfall.
  • DonnyDB5DonnyDB5 Buffalo, New York
    edited February 2017 Posts: 1,755
    I may be biased because he's my favorite Bond but I think he's a very good looking dude. Yes, he does look rough from time to time but it's more of a ruggedness in my opinion. He looks the part. He looks like the type of guy who has been weathered and beaten up from a very mentally and physically stressful career. His ruggedness brings even more realism to his portrayal as Bond.
  • jake24jake24 Sitting at your desk, kissing your lover, eating supper with your familyModerator
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    Most of the women I know think of him to be handsome.
  • DonnyDB5DonnyDB5 Buffalo, New York
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    jake24 wrote: »
    Most of the women I know think of him to be handsome.

    Same. I know girls my age (24) that think he's gorgeous.
  • jake24jake24 Sitting at your desk, kissing your lover, eating supper with your familyModerator
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    Hell, I think he's pretty damn handsome.
  • GetafixGetafix
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    NSGW wrote: »
    GetCarter wrote: »
    Happy to say adios to Craig, Mendes, even Fiennes, Harris and Whishaw if it came down to it.

    The Craig era has lasted 11 years going on twelve.

    I'd love to see a stripped down budget and a much tighter production schedule. Every two years like clockwork.

    Choose an edgy actor in his early 30s who can do his own stunts.

    Write the first film with FRWL as the template. Keep the locations in Europe, for example, and bring back some old fashioned spying and espionage.

    Make it standalone, forget about navel-gazing, ponderous movies about bond's various existential crises.

    Make Martin Campbell resident bond director a la John Glen.

    That's what I'd do anyway.

    Perfect.

    Campbell is probably the most overrated director in the series history. GE is dire. CR is significantly better, but it's not without significant flaws.
  • talos7talos7 New Orleans
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    The key word in my comment was "stereotypically". A person can be uniquely handsome or beautiful. My point is, I don't think the way he was photographed, at times, was complimentary.
  • BounineBounine
    edited February 2017 Posts: 2,598
    Getafix wrote: »
    NSGW wrote: »
    GetCarter wrote: »
    Happy to say adios to Craig, Mendes, even Fiennes, Harris and Whishaw if it came down to it.

    The Craig era has lasted 11 years going on twelve.

    I'd love to see a stripped down budget and a much tighter production schedule. Every two years like clockwork.

    Choose an edgy actor in his early 30s who can do his own stunts.

    Write the first film with FRWL as the template. Keep the locations in Europe, for example, and bring back some old fashioned spying and espionage.

    Make it standalone, forget about navel-gazing, ponderous movies about bond's various existential crises.

    Make Martin Campbell resident bond director a la John Glen.

    That's what I'd do anyway.

    Perfect.

    Campbell is probably the most overrated director in the series history. GE is dire. CR is significantly better, but it's not without significant flaws.

    I don't agree that Campbell is overrated. Goldeneye, which had too much action and cheese and that I'm not a fan of, not unlike the rest of the dire Brosnan films, is easily the best of the four. The scripts in the Bond films suffered from too much inconsistency. They tried to put too much of everything into one film - action, gadgets, girls, cheesy humour. Yes, the director has the write to change things but I think that the whole team believed that what Goldeneye and the Brosnan error had, was considered best at the time even if they were wrong, well, atleast according to the purists like myself.

    I think that Campbell did a great job with Casino Royale. It wasn't without the cheesiness, but then none of the Bond films are but atleast in CR, it was kept to a minimum. He championed the removal of the "one line clankers" (his words) and the action is edge of your seat suspenseful and cut perfectly with the exception of the shoot up in the Venice building. This scene should have been left out. The third act in CR wasn't without it's mistakes. It should have involved more drama instead of resorting to more action.

    I don't think that Campbell is the best director of the Bond films but I certainly wouldn't say that he's overrated either.
  • SeanCraigSeanCraig Germany
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    How could be a director who brought us Goldeneye and especially Casino Royale be overrated ?
  • ClarkDevlinClarkDevlin Martinis, Girls and Guns
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    Action film and Pierce Brosnan detractors for you. Slight bit of comic book escapism, and they'll just whine like cats during the night when you're sleeping...
  • bondjamesbondjames You were expecting someone else?
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    SeanCraig wrote: »
    How could be a director who brought us Goldeneye and especially Casino Royale be overrated ?
    Indeed. He's one of the greats in my eyes, only surpassed by Young & perhaps Gilbert. He brings inspiration from both of these predecessors and his two films seem like a wonderfully reminiscent combination of both of their earlier efforts, with GE leaning Gilbert and CR leaning Young.

    @dominicgreene, I agree with you on Craig. He sometimes can look very impressive in a rugged Connery'esque manner (most notably in his early turns as 007), but in SP I noticed an almost 'tired' and 'ragged' appearance. I'm not sure if that was because he was in pain or under anesthetic on account of his knee, but it was certainly noticeable to me.
  • patbpatb
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    Re DC's looks, I do worry that in a couple of more years, he could move to his "Sid James" era. I'm a big fan but I can't see him ageing as well as PB.
  • NSGWNSGW London
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    patb wrote: »
    Re DC's looks, I do worry that in a couple of more years, he could move to his "Sid James" era. I'm a big fan but I can't see him ageing as well as PB.

    Yeah I've always thought he resembles Sid James, especially in his last two outings. He only really looked the part in CR imo, he just hasn't got the look of Brosnan or Moore to be able to carry the role on beyond 50, even though hes in great physical shape.
  • QuantumOrganizationQuantumOrganization We have people everywhere
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    He can go till he is 57.
  • DonnyDB5DonnyDB5 Buffalo, New York
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    talos7 wrote: »
    The key word in my comment was "stereotypically". A person can be uniquely handsome or beautiful. My point is, I don't think the way he was photographed, at times, was complimentary.

    I agree with that.

    Like this picture for example...Daniel-Craig-Once-Roughed-Up-A-Guy-10222015.jpg

    Vs.
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  • jake24jake24 Sitting at your desk, kissing your lover, eating supper with your familyModerator
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    FYI, in about a months time we're likely to get a release date window for B25 (i.e. to be released "within the next two-three years") from Gary Barber.
  • Mendes4LyfeMendes4Lyfe The long road ahead
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    jake24 wrote: »
    FYI, in about a months time we're likely to get a release date window for B25 (i.e. to be released "within the next two-three years") from Gary Barber.

    =D> Thank you.
  • DonnyDB5DonnyDB5 Buffalo, New York
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    jake24 wrote: »
    FYI, in about a months time we're likely to get a release date window for B25 (i.e. to be released "within the next two-three years") from Gary Barber.

    What exactly is happening in a month again?
  • jake24jake24 Sitting at your desk, kissing your lover, eating supper with your familyModerator
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    The investor relations conference call between MGM executives, summarizing the fourth quarter of 2016.
  • Creasy47Creasy47 In Cuba with Natalya.Moderator
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    Hell, that'll be our first bit of concrete information regarding 'Bond 25,' if Barber does mention it.
  • Some_Kind_Of_HeroSome_Kind_Of_Hero
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    Didn't Barber or somebody or other already mention something like, "We're looking to get around to it, maybe, in the next few years."
  • ClarkDevlinClarkDevlin Martinis, Girls and Guns
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    Yes, he said the next film will come out in the cycle of the next "three or four years".
  • jake24jake24 Sitting at your desk, kissing your lover, eating supper with your familyModerator
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    Yup. A few months ago, he mentioned that MGM intend on releasing Bond films on a three-to-four year cycle. In November, he included Bond 25 in a list of franchise films on MGM's slate that are currently being developed, and are to be released "over the next few years."
  • DonnyDB5DonnyDB5 Buffalo, New York
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    "Currently being developed." I remember him saying this. So how could Barbara have no idea what's going on? BS.
  • jake24jake24 Sitting at your desk, kissing your lover, eating supper with your familyModerator
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    Naomie Harris isn't any more privy to behind the scenes information than we are at the moment, if I had to guess.
  • Tuck91Tuck91
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    The only 3 that know whats likely to happen are Barbara, Wilson & Craig. Mendes probably knows more than we do as well.
  • ClarkDevlinClarkDevlin Martinis, Girls and Guns
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    I hope to God we've seen the last of Mendes.
  • DonnyDB5DonnyDB5 Buffalo, New York
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    If only they could get Campbell back to finish what he started with Craig. Again, one can dream.
  • Creasy47Creasy47 In Cuba with Natalya.Moderator
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    DonnyDB5 wrote: »
    If only they could get Campbell back to finish what he started with Craig. Again, one can dream.

    I'd prefer we get a new actor for 'Bond 25' so Campbell can do his third Bond introduction film in a row. That'd make me a very happy fan.
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