Why did Casini Royale represent the peak rather than the start of the Craig era?
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mariakelly-04164 — 9 years ago(December 20, 2016 07:14 PM)
Casino Royale was the first James Bond novel, and since it describes his first mission, the producers may have thought it would be a good way to introduce Daniel Craig.
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Melton1 — 3 months ago(December 27, 2025 10:26 PM)
Because Craig was new and hungry, and the film was based on Flemming material.
As time went on Craig became more powerful and had more of a say in the films, so he lazily dialled back the fight scenes and obnoxiously dialled up the woke.
At the same time, they had no more Flemming material to provide a solid foundation, so Barbara Broccoli’s worst creative instincts were unmoored. She allowed Craig to dictate terms, and as a woman leaned into the emotion-relationship-family storylines which are anti-Bond (Blofeld is Bond’s long lost step-brother? Really?)
By No Time To Die Bond was a loser who got dominated by tough women instead of ****ing them, and lost and died. Cubby Broccoli is spinning in his grave
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CountJohn — 2 months ago(January 29, 2026 11:11 PM)
Most Bonds peak early on, within the first 3 films. Eventually you need new blood to change it up. Don't see what the big deal is. Connery's first three are clearly better than the next three. TSWLM for Moore, GoldenEye for Brosnan, and then Casino Royale and Skyfall for Craig. If they'd waited a year for the writers strike to end I think QoS could have been up there as well, good basic concept but they needed to smooth the script out.