Daniel Craig's Bond is in serious need of a comeback. Quantum of Solace wasn't bad but it was no Casino Royale either. I do like that the last two film's stories are connected and I am pretty sure Skyfall is a continuation of that. In the 60's when Sean Connery was Bond, each movie had a villain that belonged to the same terrorist organization called SPECTRE. Other than that each Bond movie pretty much stands on its own. For the most part I love all of them. Die Another Day and Connery's final but unofficial Bond movie Never Say Never Again are my least favorite. Never Say Never Again was garbage actually. Daniel Craig has been a great James Bond so far. Better than Brosnan and almost as good as Connery but the thing about Connery is he automatically gets credit because he was the first and set the precedent.
You can definitely tell that American interest in this British agent has dwindled in the past twenty years. The production company responsible for the making of so many of these movies has faced bankruptcy and the few head people who have been involved in the Bond movies since the 60's have had trouble finding the right directors and writers. I like the direction these last two movies have taken. I didn't like the Roger Moore era of gags and I thought his movies were too lighthearted. I would like to see a return of the characters "Money Penny" and "Q" though. But the girls are always beautiful, the stories are engaging and the action scenes are impressive as hell.
This is my current ranking of all the men who've played 007 so far:
- Sean Connery
- Daniel Craig
- Pierce Brosnan
- George Lazenby
- Timothy Dalton
- Roger Moore
I'm looking forward to it for sure. I think that movies like Bourne and the Mission Impossible movies have taken a lot of the American interest. Craig has delivered and there is no doubt he makes Bond seem like a badass.
ReplyDeleteLooking back on previous movies I think Craig's Bond and Dalton's Bond are really similar. Dalton only did two in the 80's after Roger Moore but I thought he was great too. I don't know how long they'll go with this series and if the Bond movies completely stopped at like number 25 I wouldn't be terribly disappointed but again I like the direction they're going now and I think these latest ones are a return to the classiness and sophistication of the Connery run and to the spirit of Ian Flemming's books which all of them until The Man With The Golden Gun are based.
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