Higson is wrong on so many levels. First, every Bond has been slightly different from the last. Craig is different from Brosnan, who is different from Dalton, who is different from Moore, who is different from Lazenby, who is different from Connery. In this regard, Craig’s Bond was superb.
Second, in every poll taken prior to the advent of Craig’s Bond, the top 4 choices of Bond aficionados were Goldfinger, Thunderball, From Russia With Love…and On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, which has finally been properly re-assessed as being a fabulous film, with a much better performance by Lazenby than most people remember. It also happens to have been the favorite Bond film of Lois Maxwell (the original Miss Moneypenny). And the reason for this is that it was the first film to “humanize” Bond – something people actually liked (though, of course, there are naysayers).
So the fact that Higson is complaining about an “emotional” Bond flies in the face of what many, perhaps most, Bond aficionados accept about Bond. In fact, it was OHMSS, and the fact of Bond’s wife being killed, that “hardened” Bond (increasing his cynicism) in later films.
Why do they call everything woke? People do not know what the word woke means! Does everything have to be political? All of us like exciting movies and most of the time they have nothing to do with the party you belong to. I really like all of the Bond movies.
In many ways the Daniel Craig Bond films are essentially a fantastic trilogy followed by a separate, mediocre movie, and it’s awful sequel.
Spectre was unnecessary but at least it was entertaining. The sequel however is tantamount to a bad snuff film. It sets out to burn the whole house down and, sadly, it it succeeds.
As a lifelong Bond fan, I hate this movie. I cringed multiple times as the producers mocked and spit upon the withered remains of this once great cultural icon. Bond is humiliated, emasculated, and insulted from the opening scene to the closing credits by a creative team who clearly sought to undermine and destroy everything that Bond has stood for and represented for over half a century. The final insult comes when he needlessly chooses a fist fight over a bullet in the (anti)climactic confrontation with the film’s cardboard cutout of a villain (a tragic waste of Rami Malek’s incredible talent) resulting in his “infection”, which then causes him to sacrifice himself – out of anguish over not being able to touch the recycled Bond girl from the previous film.
This is not Bond.
This could have perhaps been a somewhat compelling story to tell with entirely new characters, but it is the antithesis of the James Bond that we have come to know and love over the last 60 years. Or perhaps the story was too weak to succeed without the brand appeal of the world’s most recognized secret agent to lure the unsuspecting masses into the theater. Sadly, we will never know because instead of making that other movie, Barbara Broccoli was somehow convinced to betray her father’s legacy and his life’s work by creating this monstrosity.
As a fan of the franchise since Dr. No, to now watch the fight go out of Bond’s eyes, to watch him deflate and give up, to see the desire to persevere extinguished from his countenance as he resigns himself to his ultimate “fate”, caused me to die a little inside too. My only consolation is that Ian Fleming and Sir Sean Connery have both now passed on, thus sparing them the betrayal of the character that they brought to life in the hearts and imaginations of so many for so long.
FINALLY! Someone who agrees with me about the Bond movies with Daniel Craig! Bond is supposed to have a twinkle in his eye & not take everything too seriously. And I think Craig’s movies lost the FUN of the Bond stories. I could go on all day . . . but I won’t.
Craig was amazing, No time to die was dark, left me thinking, watched it twice in cinema, more at home, I hope they will continue that line of Bond, dark, heavy, emotional. Luxurious, and off course modern.
Comments for “Oh, F*ck Off!”, “Woke” 007 Author Slams Daniel Craig’s James Bond
Ralph devivo
Movie sucked bad
Julian H
Your opinion, I liked it a lot – Thanks.
Ian Alterman
Higson is wrong on so many levels. First, every Bond has been slightly different from the last. Craig is different from Brosnan, who is different from Dalton, who is different from Moore, who is different from Lazenby, who is different from Connery. In this regard, Craig’s Bond was superb.
Second, in every poll taken prior to the advent of Craig’s Bond, the top 4 choices of Bond aficionados were Goldfinger, Thunderball, From Russia With Love…and On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, which has finally been properly re-assessed as being a fabulous film, with a much better performance by Lazenby than most people remember. It also happens to have been the favorite Bond film of Lois Maxwell (the original Miss Moneypenny). And the reason for this is that it was the first film to “humanize” Bond – something people actually liked (though, of course, there are naysayers).
So the fact that Higson is complaining about an “emotional” Bond flies in the face of what many, perhaps most, Bond aficionados accept about Bond. In fact, it was OHMSS, and the fact of Bond’s wife being killed, that “hardened” Bond (increasing his cynicism) in later films.
Randy
Why do they call everything woke? People do not know what the word woke means! Does everything have to be political? All of us like exciting movies and most of the time they have nothing to do with the party you belong to. I really like all of the Bond movies.
Jonathan
DC was the most awesome Bond ever.I got all his dvd’s.He hunt em and beat em with little help from Q branch.I hate to see him lay the part down.
G.S.
It’s such a bad film that when you see it on somewhere, you don’t even bother to watch it.
Baldwin
RIP James Bond we love 007 because of the way he is cool toys guns and cars the women if he stays WOKE 007 will be lost 😞
Brian
This movie is truly unwatchable.
In many ways the Daniel Craig Bond films are essentially a fantastic trilogy followed by a separate, mediocre movie, and it’s awful sequel.
Spectre was unnecessary but at least it was entertaining. The sequel however is tantamount to a bad snuff film. It sets out to burn the whole house down and, sadly, it it succeeds.
As a lifelong Bond fan, I hate this movie. I cringed multiple times as the producers mocked and spit upon the withered remains of this once great cultural icon. Bond is humiliated, emasculated, and insulted from the opening scene to the closing credits by a creative team who clearly sought to undermine and destroy everything that Bond has stood for and represented for over half a century. The final insult comes when he needlessly chooses a fist fight over a bullet in the (anti)climactic confrontation with the film’s cardboard cutout of a villain (a tragic waste of Rami Malek’s incredible talent) resulting in his “infection”, which then causes him to sacrifice himself – out of anguish over not being able to touch the recycled Bond girl from the previous film.
This is not Bond.
This could have perhaps been a somewhat compelling story to tell with entirely new characters, but it is the antithesis of the James Bond that we have come to know and love over the last 60 years. Or perhaps the story was too weak to succeed without the brand appeal of the world’s most recognized secret agent to lure the unsuspecting masses into the theater. Sadly, we will never know because instead of making that other movie, Barbara Broccoli was somehow convinced to betray her father’s legacy and his life’s work by creating this monstrosity.
As a fan of the franchise since Dr. No, to now watch the fight go out of Bond’s eyes, to watch him deflate and give up, to see the desire to persevere extinguished from his countenance as he resigns himself to his ultimate “fate”, caused me to die a little inside too. My only consolation is that Ian Fleming and Sir Sean Connery have both now passed on, thus sparing them the betrayal of the character that they brought to life in the hearts and imaginations of so many for so long.
Brenda
FINALLY! Someone who agrees with me about the Bond movies with Daniel Craig! Bond is supposed to have a twinkle in his eye & not take everything too seriously. And I think Craig’s movies lost the FUN of the Bond stories. I could go on all day . . . but I won’t.
Moshe
Craig was amazing, No time to die was dark, left me thinking, watched it twice in cinema, more at home, I hope they will continue that line of Bond, dark, heavy, emotional. Luxurious, and off course modern.
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