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Daniel Craig Says James Bond Shouldn’t Be Played By A Woman
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ManaByte
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BlackM1st
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ManaByte
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You know how you can spot someone who hasn't actually watched a movie and instead relies on YouTube for their opinion?
BlackM1st
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How?
ManaByte
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BlackM1st
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Oh c'mon man. Don't be like that. Tell me what I'm missing in here lmao
ManaByte
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It's an out of context meme image that doesn't represent what actually happens in the movie.
BlackM1st
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It's a meme, so that's kinda the point, no?
Regardless of the context, it illustrates my feelings towards the modern Bond movies better than an extensive forum post by me.
I'm glad that it's his last Bond movie, that's for sure. Do I actually care about future Bond installments? Absolutely not.
ManaByte
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Ah so you don't care about the movies and are just posting in Bond threads to troll. Got it.
Dwight Schrute
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It’s a male character. Should Jane Eyre be played by a man?
BlackM1st
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About modern? No. Trash upon trash upon trash with no hope of improving. That's my honest opinion. No need to be so serious about it, man.
ManaByte
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Casino Royale and Skyfall say you're full of shit.
BlackM1st
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ManaByte
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Casino Royale/Skyfall are better Bond movies than both Dalton movies and the last three Brosnan movies.
BlackM1st
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The only thing I liked about the Skyfall is its main theme song.
That old lady defending her house is some Home Alone shit lol
I prefer my Bond movies to be like that:
Dumb, fun and with no men tears .
ManaByte
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That's not her house. Did you even watch the movie? It was BOND'S childhood home. It was Home Alone with James Bond.
BlackM1st
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Man, you act like I (or anyone) really care. Sure I watched it. Once. God knows how many years ago.
Who the F cares who's house is it, really ? After all those years...
I'm telling you, I really have no interest in modern day Bond movies where they try and successfully deconstruct him from a "power male fantasy" to just another "human being" and make him "relatable", make him feel, have a background and all that grounded stuff. Who asked for any of this?
ZywyPL
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This is hands down the best scene in entire Bond saga and one of the many reasons I consider Golden Eye as the best Bond movie ever, it never gets old.
BlackM1st
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LOL, finally, someone who gets it
lils
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because it's easier for a woman to do, it's not special
lils
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too flatHow about a spin-off instead of changing what Bond is about? Paloma anyone?
ManaByte
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Tams
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> cis male
I hate this clown world.
And if you want a character like that, then go and make your own. Don't try and ruin an existing one that many of us like.
strange headache
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Pretty much encapsulates everything about this sad and mediocre imitation of a Bond movie.
Tams
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Gotta disagree there.
In No Time to Die, yes, she drives him around on that moped. She's also next to pointless in the entire film and Bond still gets the limelight. As it should be.
And Tomorrow Never Dies is my favourite Bond film, for what it's worth.
TGO
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I like Casino Royale because it changed who Bond is, and showed you why he is the way he is.
And I think it has some great memorable scenes which stands with if not above the greats in not just bond films but in general cinama
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YuLY
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Na, The Living Daylights is better than Skyfall. I'll give you Casino Royale, but thats the only Craig one that I actually consider good, while for Brosnan I can watch the first 3 and really enjoy them.
Dalton is underrated as Bond and better than Craig at it, his movies are really good. Just cause they didnt do very well at the box office doesnt mean they were not very good.
Craig never had the sophistication and he already looked old by the second movie.
darrylgorn
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I don't even look at it as equality. Sometimes it's just nice to try something new.
Like I said before, this is a 'why not have both' solution.
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Jeff Spicoli
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Tom Hardy next.
But i honestly would like to see Di Caprio as Bond.
But i honestly would like to see Di Caprio as Bond.
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captainraincoat
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as much as i like Henry Cavill he would be very miscast in this role
i think they will go with Richard Madden (Rob Stark GOT)
Hes white...European and still in his 30s which is enough for a bond actor to pump out at least 3 movies
i just dont see them going with a Black Bond
i think they will go with Richard Madden (Rob Stark GOT)
Hes white...European and still in his 30s which is enough for a bond actor to pump out at least 3 movies
i just dont see them going with a Black Bond
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Impotaku
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Maybe they should mix it up for the modern zoomer/millenial cinemagoer, make a female bond go all out. Pink haired, mannish features, plus she's gotta be overweight so she is both stunning & brave, tailored with just enough wokeness. She wouldn't actually physically fight anyone instead she just cancels them online, her only bond gadget is her mobile phone & twitter account.
Few starter ideas film titles for directors to use.
007 danger hair
You only get cancelled twice
Hashtags are forever
Few starter ideas film titles for directors to use.
007 danger hair
You only get cancelled twice
Hashtags are forever
DeepBreath87
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If you want to try something new, try something new. But if you take something people already like and turn it into something they don’t like, they are rightly going to be disappointed and are likely to express that disappointment. This isn’t complicated. People like the character of James Bond. They have a certain attachment to him. If you completely gut fundamental elements of that character, people are going to complain.
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GymWolf
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Please no.as much as i like Henry Cavill he would be very miscast in this role
i think they will go with Richard Madden (Rob Stark GOT)
Hes white...European and still in his 30s which is enough for a bond actor to pump out at least 3 movies
i just dont see them going with a Black Bond
Tom hiddleston on the other hand...a much better actor and he looked splendid in that bootleg 007 serial he was in
darrylgorn
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For sure, though to be fair, 007 has already been pretty gutted and turned into crap.
Anyway, you could just have a spin off series with a female 008 or something.
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Nobody_Important
“Aww, it’s so...average,” she said to him in a cold brick of passion
I would go further than that myself and say that Casino Royale might be the most "James Bond" film ever made or at least top 3. It has literally everything that one would traditionally label as being necessary for a Bond film. The class, the women, the sex, the cars, the intrigue/politics, and of course the spycraft. And it did it all while introducing a new Bond. And Craig made Bond an actual human being rather than the borderline cartoon character that Bond has been shown to be at times. He had faults and he made mistakes. He took the character and made him a person.
I will never understand why people who claim to be huge bond fans try to shit on Royale. The rest of the Craig films I can get, but Royale is basically a love letter to classic Bond fans and is almost painfully a by the numbers Bond film outside of Craig himself.
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GymWolf
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Imagine listing casino royale strenght points and not talking about la chiffre...
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DeafTourette
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The bloke's not British! Blech!
DeafTourette
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Please no.
Tom hiddleston on the other hand...a much better actor and he looked splendid in that bootleg 007 serial he was in
Plus, he can perform the fight choreography! He's an awesome physical actor!
Nobody_Important
“Aww, it’s so...average,” she said to him in a cold brick of passion
In my defense I hadn't had my coffee at the time.
But yes a great villain was another of it's high points.
It works especially because it's a sexual dynamic between a man and a woman. That's part of the fantasy for both male and female audiences.
I'm sorry but it's just not the same lol
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daveonezero
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The series isn’t 007. It is Bond.
elcapitano
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And? If they where to do s movie with a Women it would probably be a spin off.
That's the point. 007 can be a Women and has been a few times over the history of James Bond.
Goalus
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His name is literally JAMES.
Well there is a British YouTuber whose name is "James Stephanie", and who wants to be referred to as "they/them". This person also seems to be a bit overweight and could therefore serve as a great role model for a woke James Stephanie Bond.