skyjedi2005 said:Makes me wish Pierce did not age so fast and was still James Bond. I hate Daniel Craig as bond. Not because of his acting which is for the most part pretty good because he looks nothing like james bond more like a bond villain.
Die Another day will be the last bond i have in my permanent collection, if not for grudgingly owning martin campbell's casino royale as a separate continuity on dvd. As for the last film it was so poorly reviewed and received and never even bothered watching it. Why did not Campbell direct Quantum?
I think just about everybody has been looking at the reboot Bond films all wrong. Non-fans saw Casino Royale as the absolute high-point of the series, basically because it was nothing like a James Bond film. Fans liked it but didn't think it felt "Bond" enough. Both sets of people disliked Quantum of Solace.
The reboot is simultaneously deconstructing and reconstructing James Bond. In Casino Royale, we got a stripped-down, bare-bones, run-of-the-mill secret agent character. He's just another agent. He's honestly closer to Harry Palmer than he is to any iteration of James Bond. Slowly, throughout the film, we started to see hints of the elements in his life that would create Bond, but nothing so noticeable as to be clear until the next film came out. Once Quantum arrived, the reconstruction/deconstruction process was full-on. It's clear now that the point of the reboot is to slowly build James Bond into the classic Connery or Brosnan character, from the starting point of a bland secret agent template. James Bond is unique; the reboot is out to show us how he got that way. In that respect, I think Casino Royale, Quantum of Solace, and Daniel Craig are doing a fantastic job.