Daniel Craig doesnt cut it as Bond.

When Daniel Craig was pinned to be the new James Bond - I just new I wasn't going to be a fan anymore. Firstly he comes out saying he doesn't like Bond - and hates guns. Not that I condone firearms, but how can they have such an actor play Bond. In my books, only two actors played bond successfully - Sean Connery and Pierce Brosnan. Not because of who they are as actors but because of the charisma and believability they brought to the character. They were Bond - full stop. They played the role like they were born to it. I know it would be hard for any other actor to walk in those shoes - but Daniel Craig looks more like he belongs in soap than Bond. When peeps told me of the new Bond movie - I was totally disinterested. Casino Royal is a great story by Fleming - unfortunately Daniel Craig played Bond. Frankly I think he's bullshit as Bond. Of course this is my opinion.

However check out this article:

Daniel Craig will have a problem playing the new James Bond - because he hates guns.

The actor will wield 007's famous Walther PPK in the movie Casino Royale.

But he revealed in OK! magazine: "I hate handguns. Handguns are used to shoot people and as long as they are around, people will shoot each other.

"That's a simple fact. I've seen a bullet wound and it was a mess. It was on a shoot and it scared me. Bullets have a nasty habit of finding their target and that's what's scary about them."

Nor does the 37-year-old share Bond's love of Martinis shaken and stirred.

"I love a Martini straight up. I don't think anybody makes a Martini stirred any more," he said.

Craig was unveiled earlier this month as the successor to Pierce Brosnan.

He will play a tougher, grittier 007 in Casino Royale, which is based on Ian Fleming's first Bond book.

Craig is not the first Bond to reveal a hatred of guns.

Roger Moore, who played the superspy from 1973 to 1985, said after quitting the role that he hated "that awful pose" of Bond with his gun which has become an iconic movie image.

The actor later became an ambassador for children's charity Unicef and declared: "Today I am completely opposed to small arms and what they can do to children. I played every role tongue-in-cheek because I don't really believe in that sort of hero. I don't like guns."

More:

Daniel Craig, the new James Bond, wants critics to give him a chance.

"If I went onto the internet and started looking at what some people were saying about me - which, sadly, I have done - it would drive me insane," the British actor says in an interview in Entertainment Weekly magazine.

"They hate me. They don't think I'm right for the role. It's as simple as that. They're passionate about it, which I understand, but I do wish they'd reserve judgment."

A group of James Bond fans have launched a website, www.craignotbond.com, to protest Craig replacing Pierce Brosnan in the 007 film franchise, and to boycott the upcoming Casino Royale.

While filming Casino Royale, the 38-year-old actor was uneasy about uttering those famous words: "The name is Bond, James Bond."

"People kept asking, 'Have you done the line yet?'" Craig tells the magazine.

"But honestly, I didn't rehearse it at all. I didn't practice it in the mirror every morning or anything like that. I didn't want to even think about saying it because I didn't want it to be this weight around my neck. I just wanted to get on with it and not blow it."

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If there's a an Ian Fleming book where Bond dies - I hope its Craig. Tougher Bond - fo sure! - but how do you play a character you don't like? There's a reason why Bond fans - don't dig you man - you don't like Bond cause you could never be him - and you're acting - no matter how good the script is - shows that!