I'll start this off with an admission. Last year when Daniel Craig was announced as the new James Bond I was a vocal opponent of the choice. The whole idea behind picking a new Bond was to go with the younger and more edgy version, and Craig was just too old. Not to mention the fact that he's BLONDE. James Bond isn't blonde. It was blasphemous.
Friday night I went to see Casino Royale. It's good. To be honest it's one of the best Bond films in years, and I'd say amongst the best there have been. (To be fair although I've seen all of the Bond films aside from On Her Majesty's Secret Service...it has been a while.) More to the point, I was entirely wrong about Craig. He is exactly what the franchise needed, a brooding vaccine to a bloated (and in my opinion dying) franchise.
Of course the argument can be made that the last film made the most money but C'MON did you see that waste of celluloid? The revenues of the Bond franchise might not have been dying, but the dignity of the world's greatest secret agent sure was.
Although I'm not ready to make such a brash judgement so soon, I have to admit that I found myself comparing Craig to the seemingly insurmountable Sean Connery. I plan to go back and rewatch a little Dr. No and Goldfinger before I'll leap to such claims, so for now I'll leave Daniel Craig out of the rankings, but certainly at least fighting for the number 2 James Bond spot.
Connery>Brosnan>Moore>Dalton>Cubby>Lazenby
As for why I personally rank Brosnan over Moore? Well that's an article all upon itself. Do yourself a favor and go catch Casino Royale on the big screen.
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But I love Moore!
~EmJ
No bashing Moore. He certainly has his place in the halls of Bond. The problem is that for all his charm, he was too fragile. At the root of being classy, sophisticated, and a lady's man, James is still a secret agent. He needs to be able to take a beating. I'm pretty certain one well placed purse-swing from Aunt Bertha would be enough to put Roger down for the count.
I guess that sort of IS bashing? Hehe.
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