Daniel Craig - any good as a Bond?Follow

Which was the early Bond movie, with Connery, that had the amazing older female ****/KGB-esque bad woman official, in the grey uniform? She had captured the heroine, and there were a lot of heavy Lesbian over-tones to those scenes?

I seriously doubt it. A lot of the Bond movies in the middle were full of fluff. I think most people drifted in and out of most of them while they were channel-surfing for something to watch.

I saw the earlier ones a long time ago when I was little, and retained a strong affection for the Bond "universe". As a little girl I found it all rather marvellous and impressive.

I secretly love the supercilious snotty upper-class Bonds*. The modern Craig version doesn't do it for me. But Triple XXX sure showed how far the Bonds had fallen behind in the special effects and action stakes. So I like that the Craig Bonds have stepped up their game in that area. I'm tending to feel like the Craig Bonds are a whole new phenomenon in their own right. It's not the same Bond.

That's not entirely a bad thing, the franchise had definitely gone down hill. Even though Brosnan was a rather good Bond pick. But he really wasn't supported by any decent scripts.


*One of my favourite book series of all time is the Lord Peter Whimsey detective novels.

Edited, Nov 11th 2008 11:33am by Aripyanfar