They announced a new James Bond this week. Of course I'm so on top of things that I'd already put Daniel Craig's photo in the July issue of the newsletter! Check out page 11.

I'm guessing Layer Cake, the movie Daniel Craig was in with Colm Meaney, will become a bigger hit on DVD as people rent it to check out the new James Bond.

Carol

Hi Carol.

Want to know something really weird Daniel Craig first came to attention in the BBC series "Our Friends in the North" which also starred a certain Mr M McDowell.

Small world

Jude

A blond James Bond... I have to get used to that. (yes, looks isn't everything - but it's James Bond! )

But he has that smile and...... I think that could work with him. (But I'll miss Pierce Brosnan.)

Anyway, I will have to wait for the next movie to make my final judgement.


Ulli

I didn´t like Pierce Brosnan as James Bond.
The best Bond I think was Sir Sean Connery.

But I´ll wait until I have seen the new James Bond until I say something about Mr Craig.

Sean Connery was the first and best, I agree. (Growing up with my mother, a Sean Connery-James Bond - addicted person, I have to like him. )

But I still think Brosnan did a really good job and I think it'll be difficult to replace him.
But thinking about it a bit I was wondering if it really depends on the actor how good a Bond-movie is. I mean, some day they will be running out of exotic places. Although I think they won't run out of stories. Bond vs bad guy will always work.

Ulli

The news has been making a big deal about James Bond being played by a blond, but I always thought Roger Moore was a blond. At least he always looked to me like a blond whose hair had darkened as he matured. I imagine many women with his coloring would have returned their hair to its earlier shade and would have been blonds.

Sean Connery is my favorite Bond, but I've always had a soft spot in my heart for Pierce Brosnan. He was cast in the role he always wanted but the attention that casting choice generated caused the producers of Remington Steel to do another season which he was contractually obligated to do. The role then went to Timothy Dalton instead. I hated the way Pierce Brosnan was jerked around there. His television series wanted him BECAUSE he'd been cast in a movie so then he lost out on the movie! He did get his chance much later after Timothy Dalton retired and Mel Gibson turned down 16 million dollars to do it! Brosnan did his first Bond movie for 2.6 million which had to sting knowing what they would have paid another actor. I suspect Brosnan would have been a better Bond a decade or so earlier when he was first cast in the role.

Daniel Craig is only the second Englishman to play the role. Roger Moore was the other. I wish him well.

Carol

The only film I've ever seen Daniel Craig in is Lara Croft: Tomb Raider. In that I could well imagine him as Bond. I think it's a good choice.


I rest my case.

Does no one else remember George Lazenby's Bond? On Her Majesty's Secret Service is said to be the most beloved among Bond fans.

I taped it on video when it aired on tv here some time ago.
I definitely like it.
But some people don't even know it. It seems it's some kind of forgotten movie.
If people know it they love it or they hate it. There seems to be nothing between.
It's the same with Timothy Dalton's Bond movies. Some people think it's back to Sean Connery style and some think there is too much violence in it. (But there was never a Bond without people dying in... certain ways.)
But I have to admit that I don't really liked them as much as the Sean Connery movies or the ones with Pierce Brosnan.

Ulli