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Favourite Daniel Craig (non-Bond) film


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#1 JCRendle

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Posted 21 January 2015 - 11:30 PM

The clue is in the title! Which non-Bond Craig film do you consider your favourite?

 

I think this is the hardest for me, I've seen him in several non-Bond films that I love:-

 

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Tintin, Infamous, Munich, LayerCake, Road to Perdition etc - I really can't name a favourite - He genuinely is one of my favourite actors. 

 

What do you think?



#2 tdalton

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Posted 21 January 2015 - 11:54 PM

MUNICH



#3 Vauxhall

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Posted 21 January 2015 - 11:57 PM

Not his best performance in my opinion, but MUNICH is my favourite of the films he's in. In terms of performance, I'd put LAYER CAKE up there.

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Posted 22 January 2015 - 12:00 AM

Damn, I forgot he was in Road to Perdition. I'd have to agree with you there, JC. This is the toughest one. I think it's because I've seen far more of his body of work than the others (save for Sean Connery, but his is a no-brainer). I'd probably say Munich. Others do come to mind though. Archangel is a great, albeit relatively unknown TV movie from before Bond of Craig's that is really good. I'm probably one of the few who likes Cowboys & Aliens and I'll even admit that I enjoy the occasional viewing of Tomb Raider.



#5 JCRendle

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Posted 22 January 2015 - 12:08 AM

I'm probably one of the few who likes Cowboys & Aliens and I'll even admit that I enjoy the occasional viewing of Tomb Raider.

 

CB&A is a fun movie, not one of my favourites, but it's definitely fun and not a bad film.

 

Tomb Raider - I enjoy it after a few drinks ;)



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Posted 22 January 2015 - 03:37 AM

I thought DC was more than serviceable in 'The Golden Compass' and I remember enjoying the film as a whole, but it's too bad the other books weren't adapted into films.



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Posted 22 January 2015 - 05:31 AM

LAYER CAKE



#8 Jim

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Posted 22 January 2015 - 06:55 AM

Enduring Love (I think it was called). The one with "the balloon".



#9 S K Y F A L L

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Posted 22 January 2015 - 07:14 AM

MUNICH

 

THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO



#10 sharpshooter

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Posted 22 January 2015 - 07:18 AM

Tough one - Craig is such a great actor in all his roles. However, I'm going with The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo.



#11 Messervy

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Posted 22 January 2015 - 09:54 AM

Haven't seen much of his non-Bond movies.

I thought Invasion was disastrous.

 

I loved Layer Cake. Very good performance, and overall a very original film.



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Posted 22 January 2015 - 11:05 AM

Probably Munich although he hasn't the lead.

 

Tintin was fun and Tomb Raider is a great action flick, but he played also not the main character.



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Posted 22 January 2015 - 11:30 AM

Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon

 

This movie first made me think Craig should be Bond. Fantastic direction and a terrific leading performance by the great Derek Jacobi as Britain's greatest modern painter.

 

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Edited by Odd Jobbies, 22 January 2015 - 01:05 PM.


#14 seawolfnyy

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Posted 22 January 2015 - 01:26 PM

I thought DC was more than serviceable in 'The Golden Compass' and I remember enjoying the film as a whole, but it's too bad the other books weren't adapted into films.

Well, I will say that Craig was not the reason The Golden Compass didn't get a sequel. That would fall squarely on Chris Weitz's shoulders who both directed and wrote it....poorly. He relied far too heavy on (admittedly terrific) CGI and negated the story. Hence why the film did not even connect with its target audience.



#15 JCRendle

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Posted 22 January 2015 - 01:32 PM

I thought DC was more than serviceable in 'The Golden Compass' and I remember enjoying the film as a whole, but it's too bad the other books weren't adapted into films.

Well, I will say that Craig was not the reason The Golden Compass didn't get a sequel. That would fall squarely on Chris Weitz's shoulders who both directed and wrote it....poorly. He relied far too heavy on (admittedly terrific) CGI and neglated the story. Hence why the film did not even connect with its target audience.

 

 

I saw a fantastic adaptation of His Dark Materials - Northern Lights - (I hate the name Golden Compass - it's not a compass!) done by the National Theatre with Timothy Dalton in the role of Asriel - the second time Daniel Craig has played a role previously held by Dalton.



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Posted 26 January 2015 - 03:02 PM

Now THIS is a tough one. 'Layer Cake'...'Munich'...'The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo'...'Enduring Love'...

 

I go for the role that won me over post 'Casino Royale' when I wanted to catch up on his films was 'Layer Cake'.

 

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Posted 26 January 2015 - 11:33 PM

By far The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo and Layer Cake. Archangel is actually very good and Munich is one of the few Spielberg films in the last ten-fifteen years that I actually like. Though it's dismissed quite a lot, Cowboys & Aliens is nothing but silly fun.



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Posted 27 January 2015 - 11:32 AM

Layer Cake is a film I adore. Have done since I first saw it almost ten years ago (first film of Craig's I watched after he was cast as Bond). I also have a special place in my heart for Archangel as it's the first time I properly took notice of Daniel Craig and what a fantastic actor he is. It is a shame that he has decreased his film output over the last few years, seemingly wanting to do small cast theatre pieces following the (huge) undertaking of Bond movies.



#19 Odd Jobbies

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Posted 27 January 2015 - 12:42 PM

By far The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo and Layer Cake. Archangel is actually very good and Munich is one of the few Spielberg films in the last ten-fifteen years that I actually like. Though it's dismissed quite a lot, Cowboys & Aliens is nothing but silly fun.

Craig is good in the movie and the film has an excess of Fincher motifs, which is a good thing.  But what an earth was up with that final act - a kind of elongated 20 minute epilogue which seemed to have little if anything to do with the films plot which had already wrapped up. If it did have relevance then i'd be grateful if you could enlighten me; i had a run in with a noisy member of the cinema audience midway and may have missed something that made this epilogue relevant, though i'm thinking not.

 

Cut the last 20 minutes and its a great movie, which incidentally had that year's best trailer - a Kubrick-esque wordless montage of short images cut to led Zeplin's Immigrant Song which i must admit i completely ripped off for a tv edit i did recently :)

 

Maybe if Fincher ever gets round to the proposed sequel we'll find out what that epilogue was about (assuming it isn't already self explanatory)


Edited by Odd Jobbies, 27 January 2015 - 12:44 PM.


#20 seawolfnyy

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Posted 27 January 2015 - 07:27 PM

Though it's dismissed quite a lot, Cowboys & Aliens is nothing but silly fun.

My thoughts exactly. It's perfect for a lazy Sunday, when you just want to shut your brain off for 2 hours.



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Posted 27 January 2015 - 10:51 PM

 

Though it's dismissed quite a lot, Cowboys & Aliens is nothing but silly fun.

My thoughts exactly. It's perfect for a lazy Sunday, when you just want to shut your brain off for 2 hours.

 

I shut my brain, my eyes, my ears and somehow it was still shyte!



#22 x007AceOfSpades

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Posted 28 January 2015 - 01:37 AM

 

 

Though it's dismissed quite a lot, Cowboys & Aliens is nothing but silly fun.

My thoughts exactly. It's perfect for a lazy Sunday, when you just want to shut your brain off for 2 hours.

 

I shut my brain, my eyes, my ears and somehow it was still shyte!

 

To each their own.



#23 tdalton

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Posted 28 January 2015 - 04:30 AM

Though it's dismissed quite a lot, Cowboys & Aliens is nothing but silly fun.

My thoughts exactly. It's perfect for a lazy Sunday, when you just want to shut your brain off for 2 hours.

I shut my brain, my eyes, my ears and somehow it was still shyte!


Agreed. I thought it was terrible as well.

The first part of the film, before the aliens showed up, wasn't all that bad, as I remember it. Too bad it completely fell apart after that, though.