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Want to pose a question to Bond, James Bond? Capone has the details about his upcoming QUANTUM OF SOLACE trip!!

Published at:  Aug 28, 2008 5:35:27 PM CDT


Hey everyone. Capone in Chicago here with a chance for you to ask James Bond (Daniel Craig) a question. I'm guessing that for most of you, this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity; it is for me too. In fact, I've got a whole series of events upcoming having to do with the latest James Bond epic QUANTUM OF SOLACE that I can't wait to experience and report back to you all.

In about three weeks, I'm traveling to London to sit down with none other then Daniel Craig, as well as QUANTUM OF SOLACE director Marc Forster. I'm also doing a few Bond-related activities while I'm there, which I'll fill you in on later.

So what does any of this have to do with you, the pleasant and polite AICN readership? Well, this whole event is actually Daniel Craig's way of saying he's sorry for having missed ComicCon this year, an event apparently he was hoping to attend and take questions from the fans at a panel. As a result, all of the questions I'll be asking him will be fan submitted--a sometimes-dangerous venture, I know, but we're talking about James Bond here; he can handle it.

If you'd like to pose a question to Mr. Craig or Mr. Forster, what I need you to do is email me at: capone@aintitcoolmail.com. The subject line should read "QUESTION OF SOLACE". In the body of the email, please give me your name and what city you are from (and country if you're not from the U.S.). Keep you questions brief and to the point (remember, I actually have to ask these out loud to these fine gentlemen). Each entry can ask one question for Daniel Craig and one question to Marc Forster. I'll pick the best questions of the bunch, and ask them directly to them in London.

You may see other film-related sites doing similar contests, and that's because a small number of other web-based outlets are going to be there as well, but my time with Craig and Forster is strictly me and them; this ain't some roundtable affair. Anyway, good luck. I'm not 100 percent sure at this point how many questions I'm taking with me to London, but it will probably be five for Craig and five for Forster.

I'll update this post in a couple of days when I think I've got enough entries. I'm not sure how much (if any) free time I'll have, but I'd love to meet up with some readers while I'm in London. Good luck!

-- Capone
capone@aintitcoolmail.com







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  • Aug 28, 2008 2:41:03 PM CDT

    Ask him this...

    by lordporkington

    Will Miss Funnyfanny be in the new movie?

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  • Aug 28, 2008 2:46:49 PM CDT

    Ask Him

    by rebeck2

    How someone as fugly and classless as he is got the role of James Bond? Short, to the point... And no one else will ask it.

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  • Aug 28, 2008 2:48:13 PM CDT

    Ask him why he wants to be me.

    by thebearovingian

    Seriously. The golden blonde hair, piercing blue eyes, strong jawline, panther-like neck, bulging biceps, ripped abs, broad shoulders, skinny chicken legs, boxer's nose, serial womanizing, British accent and major death wish. Oh yeah, I missed the whole world-class-poker-playing card sharp. Please, do ask the Talented Mr. Craig[Ripley] why he wants to be me!

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  • Aug 28, 2008 2:51:19 PM CDT

    Capone, close your eyes before he sits down for your interview..

    by youareallmybastardchildren

    ...and ask, "Quick, what are you wearing?"

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  • Aug 28, 2008 3:03:29 PM CDT

    question for bond

    by cloudrider`

    you played lover to angelina jolie in tombraider, and now you're bond. gerard butler did the same in tombraider 2 with jolie and now he's king leonidas.

    coincidence?

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  • Aug 28, 2008 3:03:41 PM CDT

    Craig, would James Bond smoke weed?

    by bean_

    At least your interpretation of the character.

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  • Aug 28, 2008 3:04:32 PM CDT

    Ask him if Bond will have balls in this movie

    by bottombrick

  • Aug 28, 2008 3:22:25 PM CDT

    sounds awesome

    by gungan slayer

    Your schedule for "Quantum" that is Capone. Shit....Aston-Martin driving lessons? hot damn

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  • Aug 28, 2008 3:30:04 PM CDT

    Point of order

    by epitone

    If anything should happen to Capone before he departs on his trip, what's the process for choosing his replacement? Not that I'm saying I should be first in line just for mentioning it, but you know, fair is fair.

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  • Aug 28, 2008 3:32:26 PM CDT

    Quantum of Solace - Proposed Theme Song

    by ray gamma

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMoJRLStD9c

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  • Aug 28, 2008 3:33:27 PM CDT

    Good luck quint...

    by earlfist

    Can't see how you'll need that many questions, but this will be a good chance to engage in a proper british media frenzy. You will see why the press over here is the worst in the world. Good luck. I will send a question for what it's worth.

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  • Aug 28, 2008 3:36:34 PM CDT

    ABOUT JAMES BOND'S BALLS:

    by ray gamma

    Ask him if the reason there are not hundreds of little James Bonds running around is because he got his nutsack pulverised during the torture scene in 'Casino Royale'.

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  • Aug 28, 2008 3:36:50 PM CDT

    I mean Capone why did i think Quint.

    by earlfist

  • Aug 28, 2008 3:43:34 PM CDT

    Hey Bond -

    by christopher3

    Do you worry about being typecast?

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  • Aug 28, 2008 3:49:36 PM CDT

    DC is a great Bond

    by david cloverfield

    He's a bad motherfucker you wouldn't want to meet in a dark alley. And only fucking Vesper in Casino Royale was genius. Quantum of Solace will make or break the new franchise. Goldeneye was great, but the following Brosnan Bonds sucked more and more. If they can improve on the previous one... Holy shit! Any word on a new Q?

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  • Aug 28, 2008 3:51:52 PM CDT

    A question for Timothy Dalton, then?

    by stalin vs predator

    Or for Connery? Saying "Bond" implies it's one of the two.

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  • Aug 28, 2008 3:55:12 PM CDT

    Stalin vs Predator

    by dr sauch

    I have a question for you. Are you having difficulty staying awake? I ask because I'm sure that you lose sleep every night weeping gently into your pink pillow because neither of your boyfriends got to play bond. You're gay is my point.

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  • Aug 28, 2008 4:02:03 PM CDT

    Aston Martin Driving Lesson?

    by pirateemery

    Hopefully there isn't another driving accident like before...

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  • Aug 28, 2008 4:05:18 PM CDT

    Bond Isn't Supposed To Be...

    by rebeck2

    A BAD motherfucker. He's supposed to be a COOL motherfucker. If you don't know the difference, I can't help you.

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  • Aug 28, 2008 4:09:51 PM CDT

    DC

    by rebeck2

    And another thing, there is no NEW franchise. It's the same franchise that has been going on for 45 years and it will keep going on with or without Daniel Craig and long after you and I are dead. This "personal", "gritty", and "revenge" shit are going to get very tired, very fast. And then you'll see the Bond I love come back again.

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  • Aug 28, 2008 4:10:26 PM CDT

    You know who'd make a great Q...

    by skimn

    Ian McKellan...he could add a little lightening in whats looking to be a VERY serious series. And no, I don't view that as a bad thing at all. The Bonds were getting way too tongue and cheeky again.

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  • Aug 28, 2008 4:16:43 PM CDT

    Gratuitous Nudity in this installment?

    by m.dung

    and simulated sex. Can't we all agree it's time for a Bond movie with a hard R?

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  • Aug 28, 2008 5:11:59 PM CDT

    Rebeck2

    by zooch

    The new Bond is COOL and he's BAD ASS. Bond is the kind of guy ladies want and men want to be. The Bond of old doesn't fit that mold anymore. The new modernized Bond does.

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  • Aug 28, 2008 5:26:44 PM CDT

    The Living Daylights

    by kwisatzhaderach

    is awesome.

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  • Aug 28, 2008 5:35:26 PM CDT

    Sorry, Zooch

    by rebeck2

    Ain't buyin' it. I'll be that one person who notices the Emperor has no clothes on - or in that case, no cool. Craig isn't cool. When you scowl and flex muscles to show us how tough you are, you're not cool. Cool means never having to say you're tough or try so hard. Bond is supposed to be enjoying life in the midst of all the danger, Craig looks like he just had his wisdom teeth pulled. He has no charm, no suaveness, no wit about him, as all the other Bonds have (well, close call on Dalton). If you didn't like Bond, and now you do, I think you'll find yourself disappointed as time goes on, because Bond is not a grimacing thuggish miserable fuck and he'll come back to his established personality as soon as this "gritty" trend plays out. And then, the movies will be fun again.

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  • Aug 28, 2008 5:49:28 PM CDT

    My question for the Bond producers

    by snappy

    How much of the $150m+ that this film will cost to make is being covered by blatant product placement? And ask Daniel Craig if he cracks a smile at any point in this movie.

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  • Aug 28, 2008 6:00:16 PM CDT

    question of solace

    by prossor

    mr. craig why do you suck on lemons so much?

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  • Aug 28, 2008 6:44:01 PM CDT

    You people really suck, you know that?

    by mahasamatman

    Hating on this guy, in this forum, for what? Calling Craig a faggot and gay and ripping into him when all Capone wants is a goddamn question. It's just poison coming out of you folks, for no reason. You don't know this guy, and I'll bet if I pressed you, half of you would admit he did a good job. Think how impossibly difficult it would be to step into this role, make it "new," make it interesting, make it worthwhile, give life to it again. Think how much hatred came his way when he got the job, and he just did it. He might not be the best Bond (Connery), but he's Bond. He's more like Connery than any of the rest, folks. Connery's Bond's a caveman inside a hyper-cool sophisticated veneer. Don't believe me? Go check out how many of his one night stands he bitchslaps. Check out his cruelty, the amusement he takes in dispatching enemies in creatively agonizing ways. This is a guy who strangled a woman with her own bra. All this shaken not stirred crap is a veneer, an artifice. The guy's a monster, a thug. Connery was, in real life, an uneducated scottish Thug who became a disciplined, trained actor, which is why he was perfect for the character. And that's how Craig does it, too. But I guess I'm a faggot, too, for thinking he was good. You people suck.

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  • Aug 28, 2008 6:54:23 PM CDT

    Craig's Bond is no "thug"

    by zooch

    He's totally classy. For example, at the beginning he kicks a dudes ass in the bathroom, then WASHES HIS HANDS! Then later, he gets poisoned at the card table and his heart even stops beating, but he comes back, cool and collected and continued to play cards like nothing has happened! That's total class.Besides real men don't need "personalities" or need to "smile". That's for effeminate pussies. Real men are tough, the strong silent type.

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  • Aug 28, 2008 6:57:24 PM CDT

    "shaken or stirred?" "DO I LOOK LIKE I GIVE A DAMN"

    by prossor

    this was the absolute nadir, the fucking bowel-steamy pits of the bond series when bond would remain reserved, glacially calm, courteous, has now become a shithead teenager ugmo.

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  • Aug 28, 2008 6:59:42 PM CDT

    Casino Royale

    by blest

    was the best Bond since Goldeneye and Craig the best Bond ever, after Sir Connery.Critics think so, audiences think so, fans think so.Deal.

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  • Aug 28, 2008 7:22:59 PM CDT

    Ask Craig to....

    by thot

    ...retire after QOS. We need someone who actually looks and acts like Bond. Sorry dude.

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  • Aug 28, 2008 7:31:56 PM CDT

    Jeez after reading some of the 'questions' here

    by bean_

    my joke question at the top doesn't seem so ridiculous now...

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  • Aug 28, 2008 7:33:34 PM CDT

    Prossor

    by odo19

    Actually the nadir of the series was all of A view to a kill..and Moonraker...or actually all of the Roger Moore films....actually make that every film except the first five with Connery and Casino Royale.

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  • Aug 28, 2008 7:53:41 PM CDT

    Nobody else ask any questions plz

    by o_goncho

    k thx bai

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  • Aug 28, 2008 8:10:08 PM CDT

    Prosser

    by rebeck2

    If you think The Spy Who Loved Me is the nadir of the Bond series - well, then, you sir, are not a Bond fan. Not by the longest strecth. Which is fine...we don't need you. But please. Just admit it. You're not a fan of the series, so you only like it when Bond is bustin' heads and bein' a dark badass (ooooh). I hope this movie disappoints you and actually entertains me.

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  • Aug 28, 2008 8:10:40 PM CDT

    Or

    by rebeck2

    Live And Let Die for that matter!

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  • Aug 28, 2008 8:33:57 PM CDT

    Daniel Craig's Face is Pants

    by masterbateman

    But he does have nice tits.

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  • Each and every one of you knows that Stallone coming back to AICN would be fucking awesome, even if you cannot admit it your fellow Talkbackers (or even yourselves).The "Rocky Balboa" Q&A was a high point in AICN's history, hopefully Sly will drop by once again.

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  • Aug 28, 2008 10:07:32 PM CDT

    The thingy of whatsis/the something of Boris

    by nasty in the pasty

    Did I get that confused/I got that mixed up

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  • Aug 28, 2008 11:52:04 PM CDT

    Craig the best bond ever

    by bottombrick

    No, fans do not think this, that is why you are arguing with them. Casino Royale sucks, and we almost got a Tarantino directed Brosnan Casino Royale, which just salts the wounds. And my favorite bond is Licence to Kill so I want you to know I have no problem with Bond holding women as they cry in the shower, as long as he bangs em afterwards, and maybe kicks a little ass. Craig plays a good castrated Bond, but that only appeases non-Bond fans. Crushing the icon is a one-shot payoff for people who hate machismo, its not a sustainable long term direction for the franchise.

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  • Aug 29, 2008 12:21:18 AM CDT

    YOU EXPECT HIM TO TALK?

    by ironic_name

  • Aug 29, 2008 12:30:41 AM CDT

    Didn't know that DC missed Comic-Con

    by youareallmybastardchildren

    But now that you mentioned it I'm pissed!!! Ask him what in the hell could've been so damned important that he couldn't make it!!! We know he doesn't have a family or children! Unlike myself with all my bastard children here @ AICN...

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  • Aug 29, 2008 1:17:59 AM CDT

    to Bottombrick

    by la frog

    what you say is absurd : "Crushing the icon is a one-shot payoff for people who hate machismo, its not a sustainable long term direction for the franchise." Craig is not a macho? That fight in the stairs is what, sissy? And anyway, were the last Brosnan movies better than this? fighting against a Korean cyborg and surfing on CGI was what, more macho? Craig is just the best Bond ever. Get real. For you, a man who holds a woman can't be a macho if he doesnt "bang her" afterwards? How classy. Well, maybe you should meet real men more often I think to understand machismo. Or real women, maybe.

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  • Aug 29, 2008 1:32:15 AM CDT

    And the worst Bond in years

    by eustisclay

    was Die Another Day. God, it started well. But the invisible car, laser from space, Surfing a glacier. And there was actually a scene where one villain says to another, Do you want to shoot her? No, I want to use the laser. C'mon, after Austin Powers?

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  • Aug 29, 2008 1:48:08 AM CDT

    Twats

    by princessleias_poohole

    All you twats moaning that James Bond isnt cool anymore or he isnt sauve anymore, grow the fuck up.In these films Bond has just become a 00 agent so hes not going to be sauve and as cool yet u morons. Craig is doing a great job.

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  • Aug 29, 2008 3:11:42 AM CDT

    The Frog

    by bottombrick

    Please excuse my coarse choice of words, I did not really mean "he hugged her now he should bang her! high five!" The truth of the matter is Bond became romantically involved with a woman and didn't make love to her because sex was consciously removed from the series to conform to a modern politically correct sensibility, a sensibility that thinks Bond was a sexist misogynist dinosaur. However, I posit that old Bond's boyish charms that are wasted on Craigists obviously worked on audiences who evaluated previous Bond movies to be excellent pieces of entertainment. You mistake Craig for macho because he is "ripped", but that too I find to be a mischaracterization. Bond is powerful, capable, and an efficient killer, but not a bodybuilder. Casino Royale is not a precursor to the Bond series that doesn't have Bond in full swing yet, it is a reinvention of the franchise or "reboot", and a shitty one. Yes, Die Another Day is awful, but it doesn't hate James Bond movies or throwaway the staples, it was just crappily done.

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  • Aug 29, 2008 3:23:31 AM CDT

    Was he upset to be called a midget

    by catlettuce4

    by his co-star?

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  • Aug 29, 2008 4:08:35 AM CDT

    Why is Bond such a jerk?

    by mr gorilla

  • Aug 29, 2008 4:09:41 AM CDT

    ...wasting their time on a character who is such a jerk?

    by mr gorilla

  • Aug 29, 2008 4:10:43 AM CDT

    Why so serious?

    by mr gorilla

    It's boring.

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  • Aug 29, 2008 4:13:42 AM CDT

    While not being serious at all.

    by mr gorilla

    Really. Casino Royale was meant to be all serious and 'realistic' - then the next moment terrorists were making money in high stakes poker games (like Mr Bin Laden does that - the only poker games played in 2008 are by online geeks who have one hand firmly down their pants). And why, if they were being so realistic, did they have a baddie who BLEEDS BLOOD??!!!?! Wah-ha-ha-haaaaa...

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  • Aug 29, 2008 4:14:59 AM CDT

    Did Bond feel bad about shooting all those black people?

    by mr gorilla

    In that first action scene in Casino Royale he seemed to be intent to kill every security guard, office bod etc etc in that African embassy, or whatever it was. Is he a remorseless racist?

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  • Aug 29, 2008 4:16:57 AM CDT

    Can't you accept that Bond is not a serious proposition?

    by mr gorilla

    If you want to make a grown-up film about espionage, try THE CONSTANT GARDNER, or LUST, CAUTION. You'll find that in, this serious world, it's not very funny when people die. Whoever they are.

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  • Aug 29, 2008 4:21:42 AM CDT

    Why not be 'light', like MI:3?

    by mr gorilla

    OK, that final minute was cheesy, but all in all MI:3 was far more exciting and enjoyable than Casino Royale. While still treating death more seriously than Bond, it had a light energy about it. The torture scene was far more dramatic. The action was WAY more exciting. (And didn't always rely on Bond chasing something. When did Bond action scenes get so boring? Oh, I know, since the Bourne films came out.) The Vatican sequence had people cheering. The bridge sequence had people speechless. The jump off the building was terrifying. And it NEVER felt, like all Bonds do, that they thought of a stunt sequence then put it into the script.

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  • Aug 29, 2008 4:24:50 AM CDT

    For all my bitching...

    by mr gorilla

    ... I think Daniel Craig is a wonderful actor. It's just the way they produce these films that is so awful. The director of the new one recently gave an interview complaining how little time he's had to edit this film - less than any of his others. He compared how Nolan had months to fine tune THE DARK KNIGHT. The people behind the BOND movies are bad producers. But there's an additional problem, the one that Paul Greengrass mouthed: Bond is an old fashioned, Empire-loving, slave to Queen and Country. And that's just not the kind of hero any of us need in these troubled times.

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  • Aug 29, 2008 4:33:33 AM CDT

    Mahasamatman

    by mr gorilla

    Look - all the stuff you say about the cruelty of the character is all well enough... But in the films this horrible character is sold to us as a character we should applaud and 'get behind'. Now - 'bad' characters make excellent leads, but you've got to be clear about the emotional response you want (even if it's conflicted) and you've got to do it in an appropriate genre. Think of the character of Michael in the first two GODFATHERS. He goes from hero to some kind of villain. Think of Ray Liotta's character in GOODFELLAS. You take this outrageous journey with him - but in that last half hour you realise how horrible that world is, and you feel disgusted with yourself for enjoying it. (Scorsese gave an interview where he confirmed that this was the intention.) When Luke Skywalker decides not to kill Vader, you applaud the way he turned to good in the face of temptation. But Bond... well, these aren't that kind of film. On the dial of genuine psychological complexity, they are somewhere below Harry Potter (who at least voices worries that he might be capable of evil). Now listen, I grew up with Bond - I've seen all of them many times, and I've seen them in the cinema since THE SPY WHO LOVED ME. But, you know, Casino Royale wasn't all that. It was misguided. It was - in its own way - just as cheesy as any of the Brosnans or Moores, but without knowing it. That being said, Marc Foster has done some wonderful films, so, you know, fingers crossed.

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  • Aug 29, 2008 7:01:46 AM CDT

    What, no Disaster Movie talkback?!

    by nasty in the pasty

  • Aug 29, 2008 9:18:52 AM CDT

    Ask him about SHOE LIFTS!!!

    by peter skellen

    Come on! He's supposed to be 007 and he's such a shortarse he has to wear stacked heels. After that you could ask the craggy one to retire so someone can make a James Bond film again. You know, cool, handsome, suave, tall, gadgets, wit, style, fun, hurrah!

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  • Aug 29, 2008 9:51:24 AM CDT

    Casino Royale was the shittiest Bond movie in years

    by sithdan

    Will Quantum of Solace at least be fun? Casino Royale bored me to tears. It took itself way too seriously and played out more like a Jason Bourne flick than a true 007 adventure. RIP James Bond.

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  • Aug 29, 2008 10:04:55 AM CDT

    Does bond like vannilla or chocolate?

    by g-ride9000

  • Aug 29, 2008 10:07:52 AM CDT

    Sithdan, get into the new millinium

    by g-ride9000

    cause i'm a new money millionaire. no serious....your opinion is sad because there are like 15 bond films you like, they are hooky like a peter sellers movie sometimes....anything modern and remotely like that gives you ice castles and hally berry doing one liners.

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  • Aug 29, 2008 10:34:55 AM CDT

    Which fantastic Sony products will appear in lingering close-up?

    by soupdragon

  • Aug 29, 2008 11:02:59 AM CDT

    John McCain has pulled a Marisa Tomei!!!

    by six demon bag

  • Aug 29, 2008 11:32:41 AM CDT

    CENSORSHIP ON AICN!!!! READ ABOUT IT HERE

    by ray gamma

    i posted a link to this quantum of solace-related clip last night: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMoJRLStD9c

    but someone at AICN has deleted my post. Why?

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  • Aug 29, 2008 12:30:47 PM CDT

    Ironic_Name

    by embeedeuce

    I expect him to die.

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  • Aug 29, 2008 1:20:37 PM CDT

    Re: Craig "Becoming Bond"

    by acquanetta

    The problem with the whole "Bond is still learning to be Bond" argument is that Daniel Craig looks (and is) far too old for such an approach. (By comparison, the previous actors all appeared far younger than Craig in their respective debuts.) If the producers really wanted to go that route, they should've done it fully in Casino Royale. For Craig to still be learning the ropes just seems silly. How long will it take this 'rookie' Bond to get up to speed?

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  • Aug 29, 2008 2:25:45 PM CDT

    When QoS becomes one of the best reviewed films of the year

    by superunknown85

    I hope all the haters finally fuck off.

    You'd think they would have learned their lesson after Casino Royale's critical and commercial success.

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  • Aug 29, 2008 2:33:07 PM CDT

    Die Another Day was at least FUN

    by sithdan

    It didn't take itself too seriously, and I loved its campy sci-fi elements. Just because I don't run with the herd, pretending to like Casino Royale while sucking Daniel Craig's cock doesn't mean my taste in movies is inferior.

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  • Aug 29, 2008 2:44:24 PM CDT

    MY ARMUR IZ ALL GONE YU STWIPPED IT FRUM ME

    by prossor

    how unintentionally hilarious was it to hear a guy with the imploding face and puffy fish lips say this line? i wonder if George i hate sand Lucas write this?

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  • Aug 29, 2008 3:36:26 PM CDT

    Die Another Day was about as much "fun" as a heart attack

    by nasty in the pasty

  • Aug 29, 2008 4:10:48 PM CDT

    You Just remember Die Another Day Sucking

    by bottombrick

    I watched it again last night and despite some poor pacing and editing at the very beginning and during the Ice castle finale and the shitty dialogue when he first meets Berry, the movie delivers the goods and tells a good Bond story and is a hundred times better than Casino Royale. Hype has your judgement twisted. "Critics, audiences, and fans agree the new Bourne Bond is great!!!" If you could develop your own sense of taste and still find things you like in Casino Royale, you would realize they don't belong in a Bond movie.

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  • Aug 29, 2008 4:43:03 PM CDT

    How about...

    by biggusdickus

    'Isn't it time we knocked this tired old franchise on the head?'I mean, the bloke's a 'spy' right? Yet he drives a hundred grand's worth of Aston Martin (hardly subtle) and tells everyone his real name at every opportunity - 'Bond...James Bond' - what a plum!Give me Jason Bourne any day...

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  • Aug 29, 2008 4:46:24 PM CDT

    bottombrick...

    by biggusdickus

    ...and the 'invisible car' was, what...poetic licence?

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  • Aug 29, 2008 10:51:36 PM CDT

    Sithdan

    by odo19

    Please tell me you're fucking joking. Please. Die another day was fucking atrocious. It took everything that was wrong with the Bond franchise and just spread it out for two hours. What a terrible piece of fucking shit. Brosnan was half asleep the entire time. Hally Berry was unwatchably bad and completely useless. Themovie was a fucking buddy comedy. It featured one of the worst opening songs ever by, Madonna no less, who also lends a hand acting-wise. To top it all off the movie actually broke the record for most product placement in a single film. It sucked. If you think it was better than CR there is'nt any helping you.

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  • Aug 29, 2008 10:53:06 PM CDT

    Oh, I forgot about...

    by odo19

    the laughably bad CGI and the retarded plot.

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  • Aug 30, 2008 12:09:52 AM CDT

    Then have Jason Bourne

    by bottombrick

    If you don't want to see a super spy driving ludicrous cars and using implausable gizmos than James Bond isn't your cup of tea, slapping the James Bond brand on a Bourne movie to up the ticket sales is apalling. And Die Another Day's CGI sucked in the last 30 minutes but the plot was solid. I think with a better edit and a few million spent shoving it done your throat with the hype machine you'd think it was just as good as Casino or Goldeneye.

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  • Aug 30, 2008 2:03:48 AM CDT

    Every new Bond is just a re-make of an old one.

    by mr gorilla

    The cineastes on this site rightly sigh when news arises that an old classic is being 'remade' or, worse, 're-imagined'. Updated for the present day. Eurgh. But wait. Isn't that what every Bond film did. Just remade the formula. Take a satelite from DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER, the volcano base from YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE and BANG you have GOLDENEYE. Take the dying girlfriend from OHMSS and voila: CASINO ROYALE. And so on.

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  • Aug 30, 2008 2:06:20 AM CDT

    Twisty-turny plots

    by mr gorilla

    One thing I gotta say: THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS was the last Bond with a twisty-turny plot that kept me guessing. (OK, I was 15 at the time, but I think it still stands.) Even Octopussy had one of those. Why did the Bond films stop being able to plot properly? At the very least you used to sometimes get a good story.

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  • Aug 30, 2008 6:23:24 AM CDT

    Racism in Bond but none in Constant Gardner?

    by jackrabbitslim

    Oh look - its a spy movie (and a tedious one at that) set in Africa - where - what - 8 of the 10 leading actors (and probably 9) are white!!! Can't have it both ways... Nice playing up to the preggo porn freaks though - damn they love those lactating ladies.

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  • Aug 30, 2008 6:26:09 AM CDT

    City of God = more black speaking parts in 4 minutes

    by jackrabbitslim

    But I guess Senhor Mireilles wanted to go for the paycheck. Can't say i blame him.

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  • Aug 30, 2008 11:40:11 AM CDT

    Ask Him...

    by drwynninblack

    ...what bothers him more...the fact that he looks like a 40-something-year-old meatpacker from Wisconsin? Or a 40-something-year-old has-been boxer? Just wondering...

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  • Aug 30, 2008 2:49:35 PM CDT

    Sorry

    by bottombrick

    Here is what I really meant to express before participating in talkback hate got me twisted. Bond movies (and the novels) aren't "remakes" of older Bond movies as suggested by mr Gorilla (at least they weren't). They were riffs on an action laden spy yarn with the same conventions, more akin to a serial. I feel it was lazy and opportunistic to lash together elements lifted from movies that came out a few years ago (Bourne, B17, and a host of darker and more provocative spy movies) and slap the Bond moniker on it without appreciating and continuing the soul of the series. I was talking out of my ass when I said enjoying Casino meant only submitting to a hype engine and that an admirer automatically had no sense of taste, but also I was directly referring to a comment that used "critics, audiences, and fans agree" as the final word to silence dissenters.

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  • Aug 30, 2008 3:18:55 PM CDT

    Bring on the trumpets!

    by themagicalhornofguntata

  • Aug 30, 2008 10:14:55 PM CDT

    ))&

    by mixedcompany

    Thats 007 whilst holding in SHIFT. Think about it..

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  • Aug 31, 2008 5:40:22 AM CDT

    Die Another Day was fun? Fuck off!!

    by football

    It certainly wasn't fun wasting my hard earned cash on that stinking turd of a movie. But then the Bond films lost their way when Roger Moore took over back in '73. Even Lazenby had more acting range in OHMSS than Moore could muster in all his films put back-to-back. At least Craig makes me believe he could kill you... which is more than Moore and 'ladyboy' Brosnan could achieve. Besides, Bond will kick Batman's lycra ass this Fall!!

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  • Aug 31, 2008 11:17:47 AM CDT

    JackRabbitSlim

    by mr gorilla

    In what world does THE CONSTANT GARDNER count as 'going for the paycheck'? (If that's what you meant.) Ralph Fiennes is a great actor, but having him in your film doesn't exactly deliver box office (THE WHITE COUNTESS etc). And choosing drug testing in Africa as your subject isn't exactly an easy route to getting investors to give you money, as the producers very publicly attested. As far as I can remember, when Africans died in THE CONSTANT GARDENER you weren't meant to feel good about it, whereas in CASINO ROYALE they were meat-props, disposed of in a video game style progress through an embassy. Or something. Oh god I'm bored.

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  • Aug 31, 2008 11:20:36 AM CDT

    By the way.

    by mr gorilla

    What's with all the personally insulting on this site? (Calling Craig ugly etc.) And what's with all the homophonic stuff? Seriously. It's pathetic.

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  • Aug 31, 2008 4:14:21 PM CDT

    A VIEW TO A KILL IS THE BEST

    by tme2nsb

    That is all!

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  • Aug 31, 2008 6:51:46 PM CDT

    Die Another Day and Casino Royale

    by hipshot

    Everyone dumped on the "invisible car" in DAD...anyone notice the recent announcement that an "invisible" material that functions pretty much the same way Q described it in the film is only a few years away? People should be eating their words. I've been watching the Bond movies for forty years, love them to death, and their peculiar genius is the ability to continually re-invent themselves to fit into current trends. Danial Craig? A tasty roll of the dice, taking the position that Bond is a killing machine with the veneer of a gentleman, rather than a gentleman with a talent for killing. Perfectly reasonable approach. Is Bourne better? I can see the argument...but does anyone think they could continue to re-invent him for forty years? And look at the initials of Bourne and our other favorite, Jack Bauer, and realize even the film-makers acknowledge that Bond started it all...and is rather miraculously still going.

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  • Aug 31, 2008 8:58:19 PM CDT

    Die Another Day started great

    by vadakinx

    Bond in North Korea, gets captured and tortured for months, is traded for the Korean guy, but Bond thinks it's a mistake that will come back to bite them in the ass...aside from the Madonna song, Die Another Day had one of the best openings in Bond history...then it went downhill fast.

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  • Sep 01, 2008 5:19:45 AM CDT

    Brosnan

    by mr gorilla

    I do feel a bit sorry for Mr B because he was constantly urging the producers to go 'back to roots' with Bond, and do something simpler and tougher. He asked Ang Lee to do one, and used to chat to Tarantino about it. And on the Die Another Day commentary, you can hear his uneasiness during the CGI wave sequence - although he manfully stays on-message.

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  • Sep 01, 2008 7:46:49 AM CDT

    Craig was far too old for a 007 reboot

    by peter skellen

    Never mind the fact that he looks more like Kenny Baker than James Bond, I think it was risible that Craig's 'Bond' was supposed to be a relative rough around the edges rookie. Roger Moore was 45 when he made LALD and he looked like a fresh faced scamp in comparison to old mungo in Casino Royale.

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  • Sep 01, 2008 8:28:28 AM CDT

    Umm, Bond was supposed to be a thug

    by shadow warrior

    and still classless in Casino Royale, I thought it was clear enough. He's at the beginning of his career as a double O. That's why M was guiding him to put his emotions out of the equation and stuff like that. "You don't trust anyone do you?" "No." "Then you've learned your lesson". In the next one we'll see a more professional, classy, and collected Bond like the one we're used to. Not a huge Bond fan but CR was great and I'll definitely watch QOS. Also Chris Courbould, the FX guy of TDK/BB, is involved, so... great.

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  • Sep 01, 2008 9:50:32 AM CDT

    Bond was never a thug or classless

    by peter skellen

    That's not James Bond. It's a new character invented by Haggis & Babs. If you like it, great, but don't confuse it with James Bond. A 38 year-old man who doesn't know what his favourite drink is or anything about dinner jackets? Bond went to public school and Oxford. There are 13 year-olds at public school who are more intelligent, classier and know more about food, drink and clothes than Craig's 'Bond'. Barbara says Craig is still 'evolving' in QoS. Still evolving? He's forty years old! This reboot idea, which I was intrigued by before Barbara shoehorned sixty-three year-old Daniel Craig into, was really for a younger actor - or at least a younger looking actor.

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  • Sep 01, 2008 9:58:35 AM CDT

    Oxford

    by mr gorilla

    Cambridge, surely.

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  • Sep 01, 2008 12:02:09 PM CDT

    Geneva

    by peter skellen

    Correct, it seems the 'cinematic' Bond went to Cambridge. I'm sure Vesper makes a comment about Oxford in Casino Royale. Perhaps I was asleep by that point. Bond was supposed to have gone to Fettes, which is Tony Blair's old school. Can you picture Daniel Craig's 'Bond' going to Fettes? No, me neither. Perhaps Barbara Broccoli and Paul Haggis have changed Bond's background completely in their desperate attempt to latch onto Jason Bourne and appeal to people who don't actually like James Bond films. "Before being recruited into MI6...originally as a window-cleaner..."

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  • Sep 01, 2008 4:34:12 PM CDT

    igotbigballs

    by peter skellen

    You lost me after two lines. Que? Nothing agaisnt Craig, I suspect I've seeen almost everything he's done. But James Bond? No. They scrapped Bond to go for a younger and more uncouth demographic. Good luck to Sony anyway. They've must have spent about twenty-five gazillion dollars promoting Craig and telling that he's the world's best dressed man or whatever on a weekly basis.

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  • Sep 01, 2008 5:08:56 PM CDT

    For Mumbles

    by davidfingniven

    Dear Mr Mumbles,

    Being the most effiminite Bond so far, how do you feel about the neutering of Bond? Bond's own emotion state is now dependent on the opinions of women around him, his sense of self worth is given yeah or nay by some skirt, how can you claim to be Fleming's Bond? His Bond walked over women to get to the next, yours can't deal with one half-a-heifer left in charge of a grade school class.


    You look like a celebrity baller havina laugh by wearing suit. Sorry knuckles you ain't what my man wrote about from chapter one to the last page, even you'll have to admit you are perfect for the villain escaped from the sanitarium on a full moonlit night.

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  • Sep 01, 2008 9:12:11 PM CDT

    skellen

    by half-baked-goggle-box-do-goader

    you must be retarded

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  • Sep 02, 2008 7:30:20 PM CDT

    Hey, Scarface Al! Where's the update?

    by therealratigan

    Let's hear the questions you picked!

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  • Sep 03, 2008 4:52:02 AM CDT

    This is not a Craig-hate talkback!

    by mr gorilla

    I think that he's a brilliant actor. I loved him in OUR FRIENDS IN THE NORTH, and have followed him since. I also thought his performance as Bond was wonderful - really committed and it had something of Dalton in Living Daylights about it - always a good thing if you ask me. But I do think that Casino Royale simply wasn't the brilliant film that lots of people said it was.

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