This is me not listening to you. Daniel Craig is wrong and you only betray that truth with your open-mindedness and guarded criticism. I'm going to watch Tomorrow Never Dies again and pray for your soul.
Sheesh, what next, are you going to watch a movie where someone other than Gene Wilder is playing Willy Wonka?!
No, but that is because I have yet to see a version of Willy Wonka that doesn't CREEP ME OUT. Print, movie, does not matter.
I was REALLY MAD about Daniel Craig for SO LONG, because seriously, Pierce Brosnan? I have to lay down after watching Tomorrow Never Dies. So. Hot. And Daniel Craig has never been hot to me.
This was . . . a completely different thing. And because they did something different with it, I found it didn't bother me.
It was true to the book pretty much except the stupid car CPR stuff. There is serious torture in the book. And Bond is not smarmily confident all the time, he's got hidden angst. I like that.
When I was watching the film last xmas with my mother-in-law and sister-in-law, the latter exclaimed 'HE HAS BUNIONS' at the beach scene. So we all ended up staring at his bunions.
See, here's the thing ... it's a good movie, not a brilliant one, but not bad. But there's two things seriously wrong with it;
1] It's not actually all that different from any other action/spy movie. [seriously, imagine if the lead hero hadn't been called James Bond. See what I mean?]
2] as a subset of (1)... It's not a Bond movie
( ... )
I kind of gave up on it being a Bond movie Bond movie. I wasn't expecting it to be, from what I had heard. I'm going with a "valid interpretation" thing.
Part of getting over my pissoff was being able to go into it knowing it wasn't going to be like the movies I started watching Bond in. I'm probably a heretic anyway, because I only started watching them with Dalton. I haven't watched the "classics" because they just don't appeal to me visually. And I feel bad about that, because, you know, I loved the later ones, I feel like I should at least WANT to watch the earlier ones, and I just . . . don't.
I found that without the stuff that makes a Bond movie a Bond movie, I was . . . a lot more interested, actually. Which is a weird reaction to have, but there you go. Maybe it's a delayed reaction to the last Brosnan movie, which, his involvement aside (I would watch him do anything), was a pretty awful movie in my book, because it just tried too hard with all the silly goofy stuff.
I liked Moore and Dalton and Brosnan, but oddly every time I saw Connery, I just kept thinking how I'd rather be watching the Rock or Highlander. I officially have no taste.
Yes, but the earliest Sean Connery Bond movies were a bit more hardcore (relative to the time they came out). Bond was more of a swaggering psycho, not a suave charmer laden with gadgets.
And from what little I know of the actual books, it's a heck of a lot closer.
I mean, I don't think Gritty Realism should be in everything... I like my swashbuckling and such. But I think it certainly worked in the Daniel Craig movies.
I remember when the big controversy was just that he was blonde...
Oddly enough, your Point 1 reminds me of another movie... I've always said that "Constantine" with Keanu would be an OK (not great, but ok) movie if it was called "Devlin Chase: Demon Hunter." But as an adaptation of DC Vertigo's Hellblazer, it sucks dead goat dick.
I'm sorta glad I don't have balls, or I'd still be coaxing them back out of my abdominal cavity.
That makes two of us. I was having phantom pain in body parts that I don't even have after watching that. I think that my ovaries were whimpering and trying to burrow into my diaphragm, too.
I was really torn between "Awww, man, OUCH SHIT OUCH SHIT OUCH SHIT!!!" and "BWAHAHAHA that's not funny BWAHAHAHA!!!" Then he started cracking wise and I just lost it.
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Sheesh, what next, are you going to watch a movie where someone other than Gene Wilder is playing Willy Wonka?!
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I was REALLY MAD about Daniel Craig for SO LONG, because seriously, Pierce Brosnan? I have to lay down after watching Tomorrow Never Dies. So. Hot. And Daniel Craig has never been hot to me.
This was . . . a completely different thing. And because they did something different with it, I found it didn't bother me.
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When I was watching the film last xmas with my mother-in-law and sister-in-law, the latter exclaimed 'HE HAS BUNIONS' at the beach scene. So we all ended up staring at his bunions.
Ew, bunions.
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*cracks up*
Now that's all I'll see.
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1] It's not actually all that different from any other action/spy movie. [seriously, imagine if the lead hero hadn't been called James Bond. See what I mean?]
2] as a subset of (1)... It's not a Bond movie ( ... )
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Part of getting over my pissoff was being able to go into it knowing it wasn't going to be like the movies I started watching Bond in. I'm probably a heretic anyway, because I only started watching them with Dalton. I haven't watched the "classics" because they just don't appeal to me visually. And I feel bad about that, because, you know, I loved the later ones, I feel like I should at least WANT to watch the earlier ones, and I just . . . don't.
I found that without the stuff that makes a Bond movie a Bond movie, I was . . . a lot more interested, actually. Which is a weird reaction to have, but there you go. Maybe it's a delayed reaction to the last Brosnan movie, which, his involvement aside (I would watch him do anything), was a pretty awful movie in my book, because it just tried too hard with all the silly goofy stuff.
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And from what little I know of the actual books, it's a heck of a lot closer.
I mean, I don't think Gritty Realism should be in everything... I like my swashbuckling and such. But I think it certainly worked in the Daniel Craig movies.
I remember when the big controversy was just that he was blonde...
Oddly enough, your Point 1 reminds me of another movie... I've always said that "Constantine" with Keanu would be an OK (not great, but ok) movie if it was called "Devlin Chase: Demon Hunter." But as an adaptation of DC Vertigo's Hellblazer, it sucks dead goat dick.
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That makes two of us. I was having phantom pain in body parts that I don't even have after watching that. I think that my ovaries were whimpering and trying to burrow into my diaphragm, too.
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I adored that scene!
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