Craig is the next Bond.

[ddvmor]

What about Manuel, from Fawlty Towers?

He is from Barcelona. He knows nothing...

 

[ddvmor]

I wonder what sort of plots they'll be using for future films?

Maybe they'll use this. It has all the ingredients for a great adventure!

 

[Desdichado]

I don't know about you, but I have yet to see portrayal of latinos in British TV.

Is that really surprising? How many latinos live in Great Britain, anyway?

 

[Desdichado]

But it's not dark! It's superbright! It's campy!

Less so than anything that Roger Moore did.

 

[Morrus]

I suggest an African-American Bond.

An American Bond? No thanks! That's not the character.

 

[mojo1701]

An American Bond? No thanks! That's not the character.

They ALMOST did after "On Her Majesty's Secret Service."

 

[Viking Bastard]

Less so than anything that Roger Moore did.

It was in similar vein as the later Moore movies, yes. Except for Moore's Bond was never
that romantic. But the Moore movies wouldn't be called dark and gritty either. The later
Moore movies were the height of camp. Moonraker, anyone?

License to Kill was an attempt to get a darker Bond, but it failed as it lost the Bondness
in the process and became just another gritty 80s cop flick.

Living Daylights was trying to recapture that and was successful to some extent, but
made him too... soft. Romantic and good natured. Ick.

I've always liked Timothy Dalton, though, even if I didn't like him as Bond.

 

[Truth Seeker]

WAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!! No Miss MoneyPenny, and no Q....WAAAAAAAAAHHHHH!!!

No Miss P & Q

 

[Desdichado]

It was in similar vein as the later Moore movies, yes. Except for Moore's Bond was never that romantic.

Not in my opinion it wasn't. Completely different vein.

But the Moore movies wouldn't be called dark and gritty either. The later Moore movies were the height of camp. Moonraker, anyone?

Exactly my point. Moonraker was so over the top ridiculous that I laughed out loud multiple times at the absurdity of it. Living Daylights, in comparison, was a gritty, realistic spy movie.

License to Kill was an attempt to get a darker Bond, but it failed as it lost the Bondness in the process and became just another gritty 80s cop flick.

Living Daylights was trying to recapture that and was successful to some extent, but
made him too... soft. Romantic and good natured. Ick.

Gritty and dark don't mean the same thing. And you make it sound like Living Daylights was James Bond in Sleepless in Seattle. You're both confusing gritty and dark for the same thing, and also waaaaay exaggerating the "romantic" aspects of Living Daylights.

 

[Staffan]

License to Kill was an attempt to get a darker Bond, but it failed as it lost the Bondness in the process and became just another gritty 80s cop flick.

Living Daylights was trying to recapture that and was successful to some extent, but made him too... soft. Romantic and good natured. Ick.

Except they weren't made in that order. Living Daylights preceded License to Kill.

(Also, you don't need to hit enter to get line breaks. They sort themselves out. Only use that for paragraphs.)