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[sharpshooter]

Flashback of a Fool? Never heard of it. Is this some sort of Lost episode?

[Qwerty]

Is this some sort of Lost episode?

Don't think so.

[Germanlady]

http://br.youtube.co...h?v=Cp-mUYqngRc

Looks good, interesting and involving.

[Lounge Lizard]

And again, Craig is playing a coldhearted bastard who is berated by others for his arrogance. Theme! Theme! And this time he's playing nothing other than a movie star. Flashbacks of a Fool, a cautionary tale by Daniel Craig, addressed to himself?!? Something about this project puts me off, probably the moralistic tone of the title. But I guess it's all in the execution. In a way all of this catharsis-by-flashback stuff is really Dickensian.

Looks like it might be quite a good and interesting film, but then I thought the same about ENDURING LOVE, which turned out to be a preposterous, self-regarding, pseudo-intellectual, flashily-photographed and deeply boring Brit drama of the very worst kind.

So this could go either way. As Yoda might put it, difficult to spot from just the trailer, a decent film is.

Yes. And I thought Venus was going to be a sentimental bore judging from its trailer, yet it turned out to be charming, witty and sincere.

[dodge]

Projected box office take:
Abysmal, both sides of the pond. Yes, yes, I hear the screams of "Quality can't be judged by profit!!!!!" True. But crowd-pleasing movies can have integrity too. Anyone remember a nifty little number with a hero we could root for, known here and there as, quite simply, CR?

[DamnCoffee]

Looks brilliant. Definately a must see for me this year.

[dinovelvet]

Projected box office take:
Abysmal, both sides of the pond. Yes, yes, I hear the screams of "Quality can't be judged by profit!!!!!" True. But crowd-pleasing movies can have integrity too. Anyone remember a nifty little number with a hero we could root for, known here and there as, quite simply, CR?

Dodge, can you also hear the screams of "What are you talking about?" Its a tiny, low budget independent film aimed at a specific, mature audience (i.e. nobody who saw Transformers). I don't understand the CR comparison at all. Does Wild Hogs' box office take mean that its worth two No Country for Old Mens, or four There Will Be Bloods?

[dodge]

Projected box office take:
Abysmal, both sides of the pond. Yes, yes, I hear the screams of "Quality can't be judged by profit!!!!!" True. But crowd-pleasing movies can have integrity too. Anyone remember a nifty little number with a hero we could root for, known here and there as, quite simply, CR?

Dodge, can you also hear the screams of "What are you talking about?" Its a tiny, low budget independent film aimed at a specific, mature audience (i.e. nobody who saw Transformers). I don't understand the CR comparison at all. Does Wild Hogs' box office take mean that its worth two No Country for Old Mens, or four There Will Be Bloods?

My dear friend and one of my all-time fave posters: you're reading too much into the CR comparison. First off, I'm not suggesting that DC should only do big-budget action movies. And I'm equally not suggesting that he only play superheroes like Bond. Budget size means no more to me than whatever he packs in his briefs. I do not give a hoot. BUT...I do care--how shall I put this?--about the use to which he puts his creative monster. The skill with which he wields it. And the creative pow he packs. I'm all for flawed heroes and small-budget films. But Flashbacks smacks of arthouse dud and big-time emotional bummer. And now that he's laughing en route to the bank, do we really need Dan Craig to tell us that life sucks? I'm still in his corner and rooting for Dan to make a decent movie, FAST, in between his Bonds. Go, Dan! Meanwhile, are we still pals and would you like to go bowling some day?

[Germanlady]

My dear friend and one of my all-time fave posters: you're reading too much into the CR comparison. First off, I'm not suggesting that DC should only do big-budget action movies. And I'm equally not suggesting that he only play superheroes like Bond. Budget size means no more to me than whatever he packs in his briefs. I do not give a hoot. BUT...I do care--how shall I put this?--about the use to which he puts his creative monster. The skill with which he wields it. And the creative pow he packs. I'm all for flawed heroes and small-budget films. But Flashbacks smacks of arthouse dud and big-time emotional bummer. And now that he's laughing en route to the bank, do we really need Dan Craig to tell us that life sucks? I'm still in his corner and rooting for Dan to make a decent movie, FAST, in between his Bonds. Go, Dan! Meanwhile, are we still pals and would you like to go bowling some day?
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So - now that he is doing well for himself, he is not allowed to do films anymore, that deal with personal problems or problems at all???

[DamnCoffee]

If this movie is a success, which I'm sure it will be. Do you think Daniel Craig will be offered the part of Associate Producer on a later Bond Movie?

[Qwerty]

-----UPDATE-----

Daniel Craig Discusses His 'Flashbacks' Fading Star Character

'...maybe we can push it--play with the dark side a bit more.'

I'm liking the trailer for this. Definitely interested in checking it out once it hits theatres.

[Single-O-Seven]

As an aside, his character in this film shares the same name as my father, except we're Scotts with two T's. Can't wait to tell him!

[danslittlefinger]

Flashbacks of a Fool Movie Stills



Click on link on page to download folder with great pics of Dan on set and interview.


(Credit to Dtd)

[Qwerty]

[Moderator's Note: Topics merged]

[Orion]

has anyone noticed the name of the production company thats listed on the quick news article about winning tickets to the premier...

"© MMVII SHAKEN, NOT STIRRED FILMS LTD. AND DRS ENTERTAINMENT LLP ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Distributed by Miramax International."

could it possibly be what Craig has listed as he's working as exectutive proucer?

Edited by Orion, 03 April 2008 - 10:14 PM.

[Qwerty]

Noticed that as well when I checked out the official site a few days ago. It surely must be connected with Craig in one way or another...

[danslittlefinger]

[quote name='Orion' post='856868' date='3 April 2008 - 22:12']has anyone noticed the name of the production company thats listed on the quick news article about winning tickets to the premier...

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[Qwerty]

In the current 21 limited edition cover issues of Empire, there is also a brief bit with actor Harry Eden, who'll be playing the young Daniel Craig character in the film.

[Qwerty]

-----UPDATE-----

Daniel Craig To Attend 'Flashbacks Of A Fool' Premiere On 13 April

Win tickets to the event at London's Empire Cinema

[dodge]

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[Qwerty]

I'm not sure what it is about this movie that's drawing me to it. It's not just because "Daniel 'James Bond' Craig is in it, so it must be good", but the storyline and the trailer seem intriguing.

Hope it gets a US release soon.

[danslittlefinger]

http://www.dailymail...in_page_id=1773

Lily Allen's 'hospital gown chic' at premiere... but Daniel Craig looks dapper
Last updated at 01:10am on 14th April 2008

It was the glittering world premi

[Qwerty]

-----UPDATE-----

Daniel Craig At The 'Flashbacks Of A Fool' Premiere

'The film touches on a lot of things we all went through...'

[Qwerty]

Daniel Craig: 'Just getting on with things'

Daniel Craig took time out from filming the latest Bond movie Quantum of Solace to attend the premiere of his new film Flashbacks of a Fool.

He plays a washed-up Hollywood star who tries to come to terms with his troubled past as he revisits the seaside town where he grew up.

Craig spoke to Newsbeat about his own ego and why, considering all the fuss over those blue trunks in Bond movie Casino Royale, he's stripping off again.

It seemed like Flashbacks of a Fool was quite a passion project for you?

Baillie Walsh, the director, is my best friend so I've kind of believed in his talent for a long time. I wanted him to do a feature film to shut him up mainly. And this script is something that he wrote five or six years ago, with me in mind. Thankfully we've managed to pull it together.

If your best friend writes a film with you in mind and it's as a faded actor, who is an egomaniac and very vain - how does that make you feel?

You can see what sort of friend he is. The fact is that the character's a fading movie star... he's not even fading, he's perfectly capable of working, he's screwing up his life - I mean he's a mess.

Was there ever a time when your ego got a bit out of control?

No.

Really?

Yes. Really.

They do say that movie stars can be stroppy - are you always nice to normal people, real people?

I behave the way I do, I mean I don't try and behave like anything else. If I believe in something then I'll say. I can't answer that question, "Are you different now?" I just get on with things.

You seem to be quite comfortable with the level of fame. But when you first got Bond, it appeared you didn't really like it very much, you didn't like the press attention.

Who would? I mean I don't know who would like that kind of press attention - it's very intrusive. But I mean, I realised that's what would happen and I had to just shut up about it and get on with things. The main thing is that we managed to do the film and we managed to make a good film. That was always my aim and I've just got to try and do another one now.

You famously hated that everybody concentrated on you and your blue trunks in the Bond movie. Yet for the first 10 minutes of this film you're naked and you walk around quite happily naked.

The hypocrisies of life. You're suggesting that I hated that moment, I mean I don't hate it. It's fine. I think everybody thinks that I hate it. It works. It's just the fact that it's the only thing people choose to talk about, that's what bothers me. I get my kit off because that's where this guy is at the beginning of the movie.

And that is obviously what people will talk about when it first comes out as well.

I don't care.

Flashback of a Fool also stars Claire Forlani, Keeley Hawes and Mark Strong. It is released in UK cinemas on 18 April.

http://commanderbond...n...&item=46341 - Radio 1

[tambourineman]

Flahbacks of a Fool flops disastrously:

http://au.rottentoma...1/news/1723574/

he failure of Daniel Craig's Flashbacks of a Fool is the big box office story of the week, with the film flopping so spectacularly it didn't even make the top ten.

The film revolves around Daniel Craig's fading Hollywood star Joe Scott, who returns home for a friends funeral and looks back over his life - cue self-obsessed naval gazing from a narcissistic Craig.

Critics were decidedly unsure about the film; many praised the performances and technical aspects, but slammed the general premise, with Little White Lies' Danny Bangs labelling the film "a two-hour whining session" and Empire's Sam Toy describing the screenplay as 'malformed'.

However, maybe marketing was a bigger problem than bad reviews for the film -- a silly title, an oblique, talky plot where little actually happens, and having the current James Bond in a role that isn't James Bond must surely have confused the public to such an extent that they gave the film the widest of berths. And good luck to them.

To manufacture a laboured segue, another film with fool in the title made a much bigger splash in cinemas. Fool's Gold -- a daft rom-com with genre experts Matthew McConaughey and Kate Hudson playing estranged lovers bought together by a treasure hunt (genius!) obviously tickled audiences' fancies, despite an almost insultingly ridiculous plot and slapdash direction from Andy Tennant (thought of by many as the worst director in Hollywood).

Nonetheless, with the rain pouring down and the threat of a looming recession, it seems our nation's cinemagoers would love nothing more than some perky, sun-drenched, escapist nonsense to get them through these oh-so-troubling times.

That's maybe the reason for another of these weeks' theatrical success stories - Mike Leigh's Happy-Go-Lucky - which came in at number nine in the chart but took by far the highest amount of dough-per-screen. Leigh's optimistic and cynicism-free tale of a school teacher from North London won of the hearts and minds of both jaded critics and audiences - a fact that makes the usually grumpy RT feel warm inside.

Is it a surprise though? A movie of this sort was hardly going to set the box office on fire.

[David Schofield]

Sadly, the bulk of the reviews I've read suggest that Craig should have told his friend, the director and writer, that the story was lousy and that it would be better if he didn't waste his time associating his name with it and raising funds to get it made. That that would have been a kinder act of friendship.

Personally, as with all the Craig films I've seen, they tend to be varied and at least intersting, so I'll wait to see it before I judge it.

[Loomis]

Yeah, it sounds like a half-baked, self-indulgent flick that's interesting only as a curio for Bond fans.

One for DVD, or, better yet, I imagine it'll be showing for free on Film4 before you can say Jack Robinson.

[marktmurphy]

Doesn't sound great, but I think stories of it 'flopping' are a little unfair- it's not the kind of film that's supposed to be number one at the box office and has only got so much promotion because it's got James Bond in it. It's pretty much on a level with his previous stuff like The Mother etc. which didn't get stories of how badly they 'flopped'.

[tambourineman]

Thats where the James Bond curse comes into play... Craig has said he wants to keep doing these little indie movies, but is it possible? Pre-Bond, this movie would have gone unnoticed by the media as just another little indie film, and its performance would probably have been what was expected... But with Craig's name, these little films are going to be noticed, and their publicised "failures" cant be good for Craig's career.

[honeyjes]

I think that you will find that if only one person saw this movie, Daniel Craig would class this as a success, there are some actors who enjoy their craft enough to take on projects that interests them and which they know will not have global appeal.

Daniel is one of those people who is willing to give others the opportunity to showcase their talent by utlising his fame to put back something into the profession he loves.