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Daniel Craig was already a very different Bond from Roger Moore.

Although the Sovjets are the bad guys again...

Craig was arguably more like the Bond in the books - a government assassin. I grew up watching the bond movies with my Dad (who'd read the books), and to me Sean Connery was the real bond, since he came first, but Roger Moore playing it for laughs was entertaining too. I never cared for any of the others.

I thought Roger Moore played the sociopathic side of Bond quite well; the same level of bon mot whether he's playing cards or just sliced someone's head off.

He was also I think the first big internet casting controversy, although everybody's kind of forgotten that now.

Such quaint times. Nowadays every media release has some people having extremely intense feelings of hatred towards it, amplified several fold by the Algorithm.

Before we all watched the movie, "Who was the idiot that picked Daniel Craig as Bond".

After we watched it "Who was the genius that picked Daniel Craig?"

Now I miss him. Often thinking if Tom cruise could do so many MI, I am sure Daniel Craig could do just one more Bond.

Layer Cake was basically is Bond audition

Am I the only one who thinks Craig could have been a hell of a Russian spy villain in the original franchise?

I've always thought Craig could play Putin in a movie, or his brother.

Next Bond movie: circa-1990 with Craig as KGB-era Putin.

Start a tradition where previous Bond actor gets one turn as a baddie.

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