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Second thoughts and questions:
ginmar: Who the hell is that goober, anyway? I mean----huh? He's going to do one Bond movie to cries of sheer outrage, and then he's going to be tossed into the dustbin.
cleolinda: Well, here's the impression I'm getting from the comments on [the previous] entry (or what I've read so far): he's actually quite charismatic and attractive in his own way. My question is, why did they pick someone that people are going to initially look at, as most of us just did, and go, "Who? WHAT? WHY??" Why did they pick someone that it would be an uphill job to sell?
I would love to see this guy's audition tapes, I guess is what I'm saying (she said, watching Gladiator on a continuous loop from her bed).
And now Daniel Craig may not be doing it anyway. Bond franchise, you have called wolf on us too many times.

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I would love to see this guy's audition tapes, I guess is what I'm saying (she said, watching Gladiator on a continuous loop from her bed).
And now Daniel Craig may not be doing it anyway. Bond franchise, you have called wolf on us too many times.
off topic, but...
Date: 2005-04-06 07:23 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2005-04-06 07:32 pm (UTC)Frankly I'm sort of hoping Clive doesn't take the job. He seems to be doing fine on his own without getting typecast.
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Date: 2005-04-06 07:35 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-04-06 07:40 pm (UTC)But I *do* hope he gets some prosthetics, hair dye, and a razor.
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Date: 2005-04-06 07:41 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2005-04-06 08:25 pm (UTC)But yeah, he has a bad rap, but I think he's better than Dalton -_-.
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Date: 2005-04-06 09:32 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-04-06 09:43 pm (UTC)Craig would be an interesting Bond...he has that glint of menace to him that 007 would actually need (remember, Jimmy has a body count that would send most men to the chair several times over, and these deaths did not tend to be either necessary or merciful.) I'm just surprised the Broccolis would even consider going that route.
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Date: 2005-04-06 09:46 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-04-06 08:07 pm (UTC)http://www.notcoming.com/reviews.php?id=416
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Date: 2005-04-06 09:47 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-04-06 10:59 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-04-06 07:44 pm (UTC)and i really hope clive owen gets the part. that would just be awesome -- he seems like hed make a great bond.
although i have to say ive always secretly been pushing for jeremy northam, who i believe IS cary grant (they do look scarily alike, admit it), and they did model bond after grant so...
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Date: 2005-04-06 07:47 pm (UTC)That's it. I give up. They can get whomever they like, but I don't want to hear about it any more. End the madness.
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Date: 2005-04-06 08:24 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-04-06 08:59 pm (UTC)L.
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Date: 2005-04-06 08:59 pm (UTC)Although, honestly, I've felt Clive Owen was the best person for the job for years now. I'd prefer it if he didn't, I'd rather see him in smaller, more interesting films (never really been into bond) but he would kick ass. Daniel Craig would just kick ass in a different way, but would be fine.
I also think Clive would have been a MUCH better Constantine.
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Date: 2005-04-06 09:34 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-04-06 09:06 pm (UTC)And is it just me, or do some people tend to jump on Pierce Brosnan and blame him a bit unfairly for the last few movies sucking? Maybe I'm biased, but I think he's one of the best Bonds (after Connery, that is), although he could probably stayed after he was too old to play the part.
*According to imdb, his middle name is Golightly, and I find that amusing.
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Date: 2005-04-06 09:07 pm (UTC)I expect James Bond to be all suave and super sexy!Scottish man who likes martinis a certain way. I don't want him looking like an ex-soccer hooligan who used to drink bitter and then chase people through the streets as they shouted "Arsenal 4-evah!" and he chasing after them and flying the traditional obscenities whilst declaring that Machester United is the best and then there's the fight in the streets
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Date: 2005-04-06 09:11 pm (UTC)At this point, I would be screaming at the Powers That Be for the Bond franchise to just pick any actor in the world, hire a dialect coach, and make sure he knows how to order martinis and drive an Aston Martin. Cut and dry.
Besides, I really cannot imagine Daniel Craig in the Bond role. No way in hell.
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Date: 2005-04-06 09:52 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-04-06 09:56 pm (UTC)Anyways, I was surprised though cos he doesn't really strike me as Bond-ish. Thing is not even Clive Owen does. I mean Pierce Brosnan (and Sean Connery, of course) was perfect for the part, and I'm finding it hard to picture someone else. Although Hugh Jackman does have a certain appeal... ;)
Though what strikes me as odd is that they're considering non-British actors too. I always thought that James Bond HAD to be British
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Date: 2005-04-06 10:56 pm (UTC)I still resent Mr. Brosnan for sulking his way through the finale arc of Remington Steele because he'd been considered for Bond but was tied to his TV series contract. Since that was almost twenty years ago, you can see what I mean by a different fan base for the Bond films.
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Date: 2005-04-06 11:10 pm (UTC)Finally, I'm in the Clive Owen camp. It's the right thing to do. However, no actor is going to be able to fly in and replace Brosnan without a lurch, because few are in that spot where they are known enough for the role but not bigger than Bond already. Almost no action oriented actors have quite the same crisp good looks that Brosnan does, and the few who do are too big for Bond. I think Clive is about primed. If they don't jump soon, he'll be too big for the part, and they'll have to settle for less.
Daniel Craig might not be a bad choice, really. But I truly never imagined them going for a blond (hair colour aside), let alone one who has been relegated to secondary roles in all of the big films he's co-starred in. Potential, perhaps, although he's even less pretty than Owen, if Brosnan is the standard we're measuring against.
Hard call, really. If you had your choice of aBond you'd actually go see, who would you wish to see, dear?
http://www.commanderbond.net/Public/Stories/2725-1.shtml
L o L,
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Date: 2005-04-07 01:21 am (UTC)But now...CLIVE! CLIVE! (is it me, or does his name make other people think of chives...and then I crave potato chips...ok I'm crazy).
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Date: 2005-04-07 03:08 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-04-07 03:27 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-04-07 03:32 am (UTC)I guess you have to be an LJ freak to find it funny? Heh.
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Date: 2005-04-07 08:22 am (UTC)But it's James Bond! They don't have to sell it - it kind of sells itself, particularly in the UK, where Daniel Craig is very well known. (Probably more so than Clive Owen, actually, as he's done more acclaimed TV work and dated Kate Moss.) Sean Connery wasn't well known when he did it and Pierce Brosnan was probably known to most people as "that guy from Mrs Doubtfire".
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Date: 2005-04-07 01:08 pm (UTC)(this from some1 who's been hoping clive owen would be bond for the last 4 yrs!)
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Date: 2005-04-07 05:43 pm (UTC)Other names mentioned to play the 007 role have included Eric Bana, Jude Law, Heath Ledger, Ewan McGregor, Dougray Scott and Australian Hugh Jackman.
And Colin Farrell. And Orlando Bloom. That is, no joke, ever A List U.K./Down Under actor in the book.
I love Clive and I was always rooting for him in the role, but now it's become more of a push me pull you sensation where I think about the other movies he could be doing. He's pretty damn high profile anyway--would this be the first Bond who came to the franchise with an Oscar for instance?
Call me nuts, but the prequel with Orlando Bloom is just right because it can be crappy, and probably will be, and the debate can proceed where it should-behind closed doors. (Also, HELLO JOHNNY LEE MILLER. Am I yelling in a vacuum? Yes I am.)