Regardless of the James Bond thing....Daniel Craig is a great actor..

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I have seen him in so many things....from years ago, well before he was announced as Bond (and I am not totally happy with him doing it for commercial reasons, even though I think he will surprise everyone and be fab) and so forth.

But I have seen nearly all his movies..and tonight watched 'Enduring Love' for the first time. And me and the OH were chatting, and were saying, even if you don't think he should be Bond (you as in the royal 'you' :D) he is still a fabulous actor. He totally immerses himself in a part...whether it is a physcopath in 'Road to Perdition' to a scyzophrenic in 'Some Voices' to the role he played in the movie I saw tonight as a troubled man, he is the sort of actor that, when he is on the screen, you look at no one else.

He is getting a lot of stick in the media...too ugly to play Bond, no one knows who he is, etc.

But, whilst I disagree with that..I also think that a lot of people have never seen him as an actor..and seen the depth he can bring to a role.

I have met him in real life too..and let me tell you, those eyes totally mesmerise you like they do on screen! :)

I just had to write this....as I want people to give him a chance...not so much on here...but everywhere.

I have 2000+ films on tape and most of my favourite actors are from the 40's and 50's (Laurence Olivier, David Niven, Cary Grant et al) and am also a huge foreign movie buff so adore Daniel Auteuil, Jean Hughes Anglade, etc...but Daniel Craig is one of our top British actors IMO...so I am standing up for him! :D
 
Glad it is not just me.

When I first saw him years ago, I just thought what a great actor he was. I got most of his DVD's, but due to circumstances have been lax with my movies the last year (which of course was a good year for him).

Two years ago me and OH just happened to be in London one night when they had the premiere of 'The Mother' (another Roger Michell film like 'enduring Love', if you haven't seen it...it is well worth a look) and (don't ask me how..as it never happens to me) managed to blag free tickets.

Fab night, goody bag and all that..but I also got to ask him a question and he is as intense and sexy in real life as he is on the screen.

Very few actors have that total charisma. Even my OH agree's....he thinks he has 'it' and is very fussy when it comes to actors! :D
 
He always convinces me that he's the character and not Daniel Craig.

To me that's the mark of a good actor.

But then you know what I think of him ;)
 
I saw him in Tomb Raider and Layer Cake and as a James Bond fan was really hoping he'd get the part. Since it was announced, I've bought Archangel on dvd and seen Munich and I'm even more convinced that he's going to be such a brilliant, dramatic Bond and add so much depth to the character.

I've seen a few comparations of him to Steve McQueen and he certainly has the prescence, but I feel he's got a bit more range and diversity than McQueen.
 
I have liked Daniel Craig ever since Our FrienRAB in The North was onTV in the Nineties. I still think Clive Owen should have been Bond though
 
I've only seen Daniel Craig in Munich and I wasn't impressed at all - but i'll wait until I see him in something else before I decide what I think of him.

I agree that Clive Owen would've made a great James Bond.
 
Layer Cake sold him as a potential Bond to me. His character and performance had both the charm and the toughness needed.
 
I think Clive Owen is a good actor. Maybe not quite on Daniel Craig's level, but certainly better than Brosnan.

Croupier is on four sometime soon. Check it out if you haven't seen it
 
What was the TV film thing Daniel Craig was in?, he was a sort of stalking identity theft person who ended up killing people. :confused:.....that was good.
 
If anyone has seen any of the BMW films series called The Hire which featured Clive Owen as pretty much a Bond character driving around in BMW's for a variety of directors (Tony Scott, Ang Lee etc.). He would have made a decent Bond based on that, but I think for this particular film (if you've seen the script review on Latino Review), Craig is perfect for the type of Bond that we're going to see i.e. a totally different Bond from all the others.

You can't compare him to Brosnan or Connery or any of the others as the character in the film isn't the Bond we know from the films.
 
That was a one hour tv show called 'Shockers' that was on Channel 4 back in 1999. The episode Daniel appeared in was called 'The Visitor' & in the drama he arrives at a house where three flatmates 'assumed' he was the cousin of the friend they were expecting to arrive.... with awful consequences.....
 
Thankyou! The Ice House was the first thing I saw DC in, and have been wracking my brains to think of the name of it. I remember it largely because I noticed at the time how good (looking) he was.
 
Ok I've looked on IMDB and here's what I've seen him in:

Chancer
Close My Eyes
Gosford Park
The Bourne Identity
King Arthur
Sin City

6 things, which is a fair old amount really, and at varying points in his career.

I've also seen various clips of him in other things, most recently Derailed, where his accent is the worst imaginable (as in Sin City).

He just hasn't impressed me in anything and has never convinced me that he isn't Clive Owen...

*shrugs*

But then each to their own. I should watch Croupier, but I'm doubting it'll make me change my mind ;)
 
I didnt think he was great in Munich, but he certainly has the looks.

Clive Owen would have been all wrong, he doesn't have the sexiness or that devilish streak. Way too bland. I think he's overrated as an actor too. He just lacks personality.
 
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