The New Bond

[poliphilo]

I don't like James Bond. Never have done. He's a psychopath, a hired goon. I've only ever watched one Bond film all the way through and that's because I was dragged to the cinema by children.

The Bond films are infantile. The first two or three had something about them (though they're over-rated) but since then they've been nothing but mindless thrill-rides. Bond initiated the cinema of big bangs and zero imagination. He's to blame for Sly and Arnie.

Bond destroys careers. It took Connery decades to get out of the shadow. Moore never did. And whatever happened to Timothy Dalton?

Daniel Craig is the new Bond. Lucky him. He's a better actor than Piers Brosnan. I just wish they'd chosen someone we could better dispense with.

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[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

My understanding is that Brosnan was given the heave-ho and is bitter about it. He's not an actor I like very much.

Thoough I enjoyed his sleazy deconstruction of the Bond character in The Tailor of Panama.

[halfmoon-mollie.livejournal.com]

Okay, I"m stepping in here to defend Pierce. When he first had a chance to play Bond - James Bond - he was tied to "Remington Steele". They wouldn't let him out of his contract. He REALLY wanted to play Bond, and he was bitter about that. That's why Timothy Dalton stepped in.

I hadn't heard that handsome Pierce was bitter about not being Bond any more, but I believe it because you said it, Tony.

And, in my experience, you're usually right.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

It's something I read in a newspaper or magazine. Brosnan prefers not to talk about how he came to leave the Bond franchise. Perhaps he's under contract not to.

Craig is very handsome. He played Ted Hughes in the Sylvia Plath movie.

[halfmoon-mollie.livejournal.com]

Eh. He doesn't fit *my* idea of what Bond should look like...he sort of reminds me of...I can't figure out who, but he looks sort of anemic.

But then there are the wonders of makeup.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I think he's kinda rugged.