fail.

He's the Michael Caine of the 21st century.

I don't get the Sam Worthington thing. Has he ever been good in anything? He's perpetually mediocre. Dude has no charisma.

No more Goddamned reboots. I kept waiting for Craig to finally act like Bond and not a Jason Bourne wannabe but it never happened. They never should have fired Brosnan.

And Will Smith? Aw hail naw. Not because he's black, although frankly that doesn't help (cast Jason Statham as Shaft, then get back to me) but he's too much of a goofball to go either the suave nor dangerous route.

Mugato: No more Goddamned reboots. I kept waiting for Craig to finally act like Bond and not a Jason Bourne wannabe but it never happened. They never should have fired Brosnan.

you realize Craig is acting like Bond as Fleming actually wrote him originally, right?
As written, Bond was not some hi-tech super-spy, he was, much like Craig's portrayal, an assassin. Someone not afraid to get his hands dirty.

SilentStrider: you realize Craig is acting like Bond as Fleming actually wrote him originally, right?
As written, Bond was not some hi-tech super-spy, he was, much like Craig's portrayal, an assassin. Someone not afraid to get his hands dirty.

Yes, I know that. I also know that what works on print doesn't always work cinematically. Humorless Bond is boring on the big screen and no different from any other movie action character.

I'm guessing there is a safety deposit box owned by Sam Worthington in some rural bank that contains a DVD of the heads of the major movie studios fellating an entire corral of horses.

Butterflew: can i please have Christian Bale as James Bond?

ohpleaseohplease

His accent isn't right for Bond, it's the wrong British.

Butterflew: Fark It:
His accent isn't right for Bond, it's the wrong British.

He can do a convincing American accent but you don't think he can do the "right British"?

Well, he didn't do the right Batman in TDK....

But seriously, his Welsh accent that you can hear in interviews doesn't fit Bond, he'd have to work on it a bit.

Fark It: Butterflew: can i please have Christian Bale as James Bond?

ohpleaseohplease

His accent isn't right for Bond, it's the wrong British.

Sean Connery's Scottish, Pierce Brosnan's Irish and they did okay. But Bale is already John Connor and Batman. Besides the scheduling conflicts, it'd just be over exposure.

Why not? Hollywood loves to cast blocks of wood in their films.

Butterflew: oldebayer: Not everything. Unless Tim Burton takes a shine to him.

oh GOD no, i came across Sweeney Todd in my friend's library the other day and popped it in. First, i wish i would have known it was a musical,


Yes, who could have guessed that one of Stephen Sondheim's most famous stage productions was a musical? Next thing you know those bastards will be making musicals out of West Side Story or Into the Woods.

Schadenfreude ist die schoenste Freude: Butterflew: Fark It:
His accent isn't right for Bond, it's the wrong British.

He can do a convincing American accent but you don't think he can do the "right British"?

What's funny is you can hear him slip into Aussie during both T3 and Clash of the Titans.

What amazes me is that they let such glaring slip-ups make it into the final cut of the film. It means that they either a) didn't re-shoot the scenes that much or b) he managed to screw it up in every...single....take.

Sometimes it's possible not to notice it. I didn't notice the Aussie in T3, but that was mainly because I kept on wondering who the main character was and why the hell they were engaging in aerial dogfights with the A-10.

/there's a scene in the first season of The Wire where Dominic West goes full-gov'nah and it made the final cut

Schadenfreude ist die schoenste Freude: She's almost as painful to watch as Hayden Christensen. She's hot and has boobs, so it's not a total loss.

But goddamn can she not act.

In all fairness, she doesn't play characters that require a lot of emotion.

Please god, no.

Schadenfreude ist die schoenste Freude: It's not just her body language it's her delivery. It's so wooden, like Hayden Christensen.

Yeah but Anakin should have been emotional and human. This girl played a terminator and an emotionally screwed up-super weapon-girl.

Christian Bale as Bond?

OH GOOD FOR Q!

AutumnSong: MtHammer: That being said, if they do it needs to be Clive Owen.

I'm liking this idea.

Actually, I think they offered it to him and he turned it down.

MtHammer: I think the Daniel Crag films have been great and hope they don't recast Bond until he is through with the role. That being said, if they do it needs to be Clive Owen. I don't know that I've seen a single Clive Owen movie that didn't make me think about how good he'd be for the part.

Also, bring back Q please. You don't need to go overboard with the gadgets and turn it into the next Moonraker or Die Another Day, but I really miss that dynamic between Q and Bond.

The original actor who played Q up until The World is Not Enough died a few years ago, and his replacement for Die Another Day was John Cleese. That works if you're doing parody, but not so much if you're trying to make an actual bond film (and let's face it, the last two Brosnan films were parody). I think the Q character should be a complete scoundrel, someone Bond turns to as a last resort who has no ties to the government or maybe is even wanted by MI6, like a former IRA terrorist who owns a watch store or something.

The gadgets got way out of hand with most of the Brosnan films. They should basically be assassin's tools, like hidden knives or innocuous devices that simply blow up, or poison. A laser watch? A cell phone that can control your car and all of the gadgets (including the saw that shoots out of the BMW badge)? And don't even get me started on the invisible car..... Invisible Aston Martin = film version of jumping the shark

Fark It: A laser watch? A cell phone that can control your car and all of the gadgets (including the saw that shoots out of the BMW badge)? And don't even get me started on the invisible car..... Invisible Aston Martin = film version of jumping the shark

Well the laser watch was in on of the earlier Connery films and a remote controlled car isn't that far fetched at all. There's probably already an app for that. Well no, the Bond franchise has a deal with Sony, not Apple. The invisible car was too much I agree but that was in Die Another Day, which sucked all around.

The only silly thing I saw in The World is Not Enough was Denise Richards as a nuclear weapons specialist but those complaining about that and the outrageous gadgets for that matter are looking at the earlier films with rose colored glasses. Anyway, I'd classify the glove compartment defibrillators in Casino Royale (just in case you get poisoned but can make it to your car), as a somewhat blatant deux ex machina.

Fark It: Invisible Aston Martin = film version of jumping the shark

Thoroughly agree. Whilst Brosnan fitted the "proper British gentleman" version of bond (if that's your thing), other than Goldeneye, his Bond era was deplorably ridiculous. I have enjoyed Craig's raw-edged reboot and will be quite sad if it's already finished.

AdolfOliverPanties: Christian Bale as Bond?

OH GOOD FOR Q!

That's filled with more win than a foursome with Pussy Galore, Holly Goodhead and Honey Ryder

I've said it before, I'll take Sam-Worthington-in-everything over Shia-LaBeouf-in-everything any day.

Gamer Grrrl: No love for Ewan? I think he'd make a grand 007! (Plus, he likes to get nekkid on film.)

What about Jude law? He has charisma. Could bulk up.