Who should be James Bond?

[Looper]

I watched Quantum of Solace at the weekend and enjoyed it as more of a fun Bond movie than the previous one. I enjoyed Casino Royale very much too but it did not feel like a Bond movie so much as the Pierce Brosnan standard blockbusters. The main problem with both the recent movies though is not so much the experimental direction but rather what a fugly little coont Daniel Craig is. He just always looks like he escaped from a council scheme, stole the tuxedo from a Marks and Spencer changing room and and hot-wired the DB9.



It's just not right

So who should be Bond?

I would suggest minimum height 6 feet and no acne scarred blondes.

My vote goes to Clive Owen

[PlanK]

I like Daniel Craig as Bond.

He plays it as Bond should really be, not a camp joker like Roger Moore did. I've been told that in the books Bond is a bit of an ugly koont, big scar on the face or something. Didn't like the Brosnan Bond movies, mostly because of stupid storylines/impossible tech, not because of the actor.

[somtamslap]

Clive's a good choice for sure.

But you know the youth of today..

Be somet more like this...



Olroight, geezer. me names Bond, innit. Ere, give us one them tabs..

[somtamslap]

He plays it as Bond should really be, not a camp joker

Bond must be able to crack a good pun...I believe good ol Sean did this best..

[PlanK]

I think he did, but he was Bond in a different era, if he was Bond today would he play it the same.

[Thetyim]

Peter Dinklage would make a good Bond

No-one would suspect him of being a spy

[Sparky]

I think I am the man for the part , when I walk down soi seven all the girls give me the hello sexy man bit so its obvious Ive got more than what it takes ! dont need any body stand ins I am just perfect as I am . send me the script now ill consider if its good enough .

[baldrick]

I think it would be hard to go past some one who typifies the dashing , debonair englishman spy......

[Thetyim]

[somtamslap]

[chassamui]

I like Clive Owen but i don't think he would do it now he's almost become a serious luvvie.
Melk Ibsen would be ok if he was a Brit instead of a colonial.
Owen Wilson.......... er ok..... no
Jackie Chan would be the dogs doodahs, but he's colonial too.
OK Looper you win. Hugh Grant with a stammer and lots of chicks and gadjets.
(You can do his rump double for all the sex scenes).

[EmperorTud]

debonair englishman spy.

Bond is half Scottish on his father's side and half Swiss. Fleming based him on a Scotsman he knew too.

James Bond's parents are Andrew Bond, a Scotsman, and Monique Delacroix, from Canton de Vaud, Switzerland. Their nationalities were established in On Her Majesty's Secret Service. Fleming emphasised Bond's Scottish heritage in admiration of Sean Connery's cinematic portrayal, whereas Bond's mother is named after a Swiss fiancée of Fleming's. A planned, but unwritten, novel would have portrayed Bond's mother as a Scot. Ian Fleming was a member of a prominent Scottish banking family.

James Bond - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[Gerbil]

My vote goes to Clive Owen

Funny, I had that idea as well when I saw the thread title. He was great in "Shoot 'Em Up"

[BugginOut]

Who'd win in a fight between Daniel Craig and Clive Owen?

[kmart]

Clive Owen looks too smug for my liking. I thought the 2 Daniel Craig Bond films were great; realistic violence and a grittier approach to the Bond franchise.

Although I'd nominate Johnny Vegas as the next James Bond.

[TSR2]

Fleming did not initially like Connery , thought him too rough.

Surprised he has not been arrested at various immigration points for declaring false info as to his career

ie ACTOR !!!!

[DrB0b]

In the original Bond books Ian Fleming frequently said that Bond looked like Hoagy Carmichael. This is Hoagy Carmichael;



So is this;



I think Daniel Craig looks a lot more like Fleming's description of Bond than that fat poove Moore or the over-rated milkman Connery. Also, Fleming's Bond has a streak of violence, cruelty and sadism that Craig puts across nicely but none of the other Bonds managed to do.

[Rural Surin]

[baldrick]

Bond is half Scottish on his father's side and half Swiss.

her majestys service , for the queen of the poms , could only have a star spy that was an englander man.

[Rattanaburi]

Yeah, James of late just wasn't James. Maybe we are just old though. The youngsters may not feel the same way. This is there James Bond and they hold the buying power of the future.

[melvbot]

I dont care who plays him, James Bond is a load of shite. Old and new.

[DrB0b]

Yeah, James of late just wasn't James. Maybe we are just old though. The youngsters may not feel the same way. This is there James Bond and they hold the buying power of the future.

He's just an actor. The real James Bond is in the books.

[TSR2]

James Bond is a load of shite. Old and new.

All just FCKG Gimmicks, but more high tech nowadays

And what was Jas Bond, an Agent, Spy ? either way in real life a liability, wouldn,t last 5 minutes on a mission!

[DrB0b]

^haven't really got to grips with the concept of fiction, have you?

[Fuzzy Bob]

If you read the badly written books, he comes over as a bit camp and survives mainly by pure luck and his own guile.