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[Llewthepoet]

<!--QuoteBegin--> <table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'><b>Quote:</b> </td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'> Angry Bond Fans Threaten to Boycott Film Tue Feb 21, 9:26 PM ET<br><br>NEW YORK - They're shaken, stirred and just plain angry. And several months late with their response. A group of James Bond fans have launched a Web site, <a href='http://www.craignotbond.com' target='_blank'>http://www.craignotbond.com</a>, to protest British actor    Daniel Craig replacing    Pierce Brosnan in the 007 film franchise, and boycott the upcoming Bond movie "Casino Royale." <br><br>The fair-haired Craig, whose recent screen credits include "Munich" and "The Jacket," was tapped last October to play the secret-agent icon.<br><br>"EON Productions angered fans around the world when they fired Pierce Brosnan at the height of his popularity as Bond," said a statement on the site. "To add insult to injury, EON cast a short, blond, odd-looking Daniel Craig in the role of Bond."<br><br>"Craig, described by The New York Times as having a 'pale, flattened face and large, fleshy ears' is a terrible choice for Bond. If EON Productions and Sony Pictures will not accept they've made a big mistake, then Bond fans promise to boycott Casino Royale!"<br><br>Calls by The Associated Press to EON Productions and a representative for Craig were not immediately returned on Tuesday.<br><br>Brosnan stepped into the shoes of dashing predecessors    Sean Connery and    Roger Moore to play a blue-eyed, dark-haired Bond in "Tomorrow Never Dies," "The World Is Not Enough" and "Die Another Day."<br><br>In its statement, the Web site claimed EON did not want to pay for Brosnan or other high-profile actors    Hugh Jackman and    Clive Owen as replacements.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table> <!--QuoteEEnd-->

[Zaaphod]

Fired? I thought Pierce Brosnan quit of his own free will. Well, whatever. People will be crabby about the next Bond actor, regardless of who he is.

[Softpaw]

Damn, that guy is definitely not the right man to play Bond. Ugh.

[Gizensha]

And your basing that on... what, exactly? Past movie appearances (in which case he's either played a similar role poorly in the past, or your typecasting. As an example of the error of the latter, take a look at Walter Walter Koenig's Bester in Babylon 5, then compare to the role he was infinitely associated with before hand, namely that of Checkov in Trek.)? Physical appearance (In which case - 'umm')?<br><br>I've seen people get up in arms about choices of actors for changeover roles before. It's never pretty, and it's rarely sensable (well, for <i>roles where the tradition is changeover actors</i>, it shouldn't be done for the majority of roles. It just doesn't fit. Movies are far less capable of guilt for that than television, however. And with television, minor roles don't really matter). It happens whenever there's a new person cast in the role of the Doctor, and most fans of Doctor Who were up in arms when... Oh... A little known Liverpudlian actor by the name of Tom Baker replaced Jon Pertwee, for most of his first season in the role. The irony of that is that many fans now view Tom Baker as being the definitive Doctor (though based on initial reactions to David Tennant's portrayal in The Christmas Invasion and in the interactive short The Attack of the Graske, that title may soon be taken away from him...) and he played the role for the longest (well, the longest amount of time while the show was on-air. Sylvester McCoy technically played the role for 10 years, but only three of those were while the show was on-air and he temporarially reprised the role for a death scene in the Television Movie, so he doesn't count as beating Tom).<br><br>In fact, I'll go as far to say this. In the only examples of fans being correct to be up-in-arms about actor takeovers I can think of, the problem wasn't with the actors, but the writing. Give the same actors good scripts with the same role, and they are simply marvelous. (The examples are Colin Baker and Sylvester McCoy for the role of the Doctor in Doctor Who, incidently. Though by the end of Sylvester McCoy's era the writing was back to being quite good, and he was good in the role, though the first of his seasons are adysmal)<br><br>Course, this is fairly irrelevent anyway. Bond films are horrid.

[Rooster]

I'm not too bothered as I was never a Bond fan. I'm really annoyed that Dog Soldiers 2 is replacing Kevin McKidd as Cooper though.

[Tavis]

I think the point of this is that the Bond movies have increasingly been about flashy spy gadgets, hot Bond girls, and wacky world domination plots. This may actually lend the whole Bond theme some credibility.<br><br>Look, let's face it, whatever comes of this actor's performance, it won't be James Bond like you know it, and some might consider it a good thing. Give the guy a shot, then pelt him with praises or overripe fruit when you actually have something.

[Muninn]

It doesn't bother me, I've never seen an entire Bond movie and the parts I've seen didn't interest me.

[Zaaphod]

<!--QuoteBegin-Tavis+Feb 25 2006, 08:11 PM--> <table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'><b>Quote:</b> (Tavis @ Feb 25 2006, 08:11 PM)</td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'> I think the point of this is that the Bond movies have increasingly been about flashy spy gadgets, hot Bond girls, and wacky world domination plots. This may actually lend the whole Bond theme some credibility. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table> <!--QuoteEEnd--><br> Heh, not bloody likely. And I speak as someone who likes Bond movies, despite their ridiculousness.<br>

[Gizensha]

<!--QuoteBegin-Tavis+Feb 26 2006, 04:11 AM--> <table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'><b>Quote:</b> (Tavis @ Feb 26 2006, 04:11 AM)</td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'> I think the point of this is that the Bond movies have increasingly been about flashy spy gadgets, hot Bond girls, and wacky world domination plots. This may actually lend the whole Bond theme some credibility.<br><br>Look, let's face it, whatever comes of this actor's performance, it won't be James Bond like you know it, and some might consider it a good thing. Give the guy a shot, then pelt him with praises or overripe fruit when you actually have something. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table> <!--QuoteEEnd--><br> Oh come on. Did you see the chromokey used for the surfing scene in the one about a heat ray involving polar ice caps? I've seen more realistic chromokey in dodgy comedy sketches from about 7 years ago. Hell, it would be more dodgy than some of the 70s Who uses of chomokey if it wasn't for the fact that you didn't get any of the obvious shadows.<br><br>That moment alone managed to illustrate how little credibility the Bond franchise has at the moment. And it'll take more than a more realistic portrayal of Bond to get it back.<br><br>On the assumption that's what they do with him.