I realize that Casino Royale is already almost done. I realize that Pierce Brosnan and other Bond actors have endorsed Craig’s performance. I also realize that this thread is going to get me a lot of hate because Craig is already popular, has impressed people in Layer Cake and Munich, and is garnering a lot of support in response to people like me. However, I simply do not believe Daniel Craig is suited to the role of Bond. And it is because he is simply not handsome enough.
Look at this enhanced image. This is an image that some trickster created, showing what Daniel Craig would have to look like to portray James Bond, and then comparing that enhanced face to his actual face. A cheap trick, yes. But he is right on the money. The face that he digitally created is symmetrical and even and looks unquestionably handsome. Craig looks like a troll next to him.
Many, many, many people on IMDB, a horrible forum but the only comprehensive one when it comes to movies, are rallying in support of Craig and shooting down anyone who claims what I am claiming, which is that Craig is not good-looking enough. I believe that the number one reason for this defense of Craig is that most of the male posters are too ashamed to admit that another man can be handsome. They’re too ashamed to admit that Pierce Brosnan is handsome. To do so would make them “gay.” Therefore they’re going with the ugly duckling so as not to be accused of admiring another man’s features.
I am as straight as a man can be, but I am fascinated in an aesthetic sense by the features of both men and women. I have no problem discussing men in terms of their physical attractiveness, and I have no shame about saying that a man is sexy looking or handsome. Pierce Brosnan is handsome. He looks like he could seduce a woman with his looks. Not with his charm or his confidence, with his LOOKS.
Daniel Craig looks like Vladimir Putin. He has droopy eyes and looks like he is sad all the time. He looks Russian. He also looks awkward in a suit. I have seen a million pictures of him in tuxes and suits linked to by people saying “CRAIG IS HOTTTT!!!” - he looks awful and weird in a damn suit! He has a great body, I admit this. He is rugged looking, and he looks good without a shirt on. But Bond needs to look good in evening wear. I don’t know what it is about this picture of Daniel Craig but he just does not look right at all - maybe his head is too small or his shoulders too broad, I don’t know, but he just doesn’t look right. And I’ve seen many others and I can say the same thing about nearly all of them.
Daniel Craig’s face looks good in some pictures, but there are many pictures in which it does not look good - in action, for instance, he looks strained and craggy and not handsome, whereas Brosnan looked good all the time. His face kept looking good no matter what he was doing in the movies.
A lot of people are saying that Daniel Craig is the best choice because Ian Fleming described James Bond as looking like Hoagy Carmichael, and Daniel Craig supposedly resembles Hoagy Carmichael. These people are completely insane. Hoagy Carmichael does not even remotely resemble Craig - he much more closely resembles Sean Connery, who had the dark looks and the traditionally handsome face suited to portraying Bond.
I know this is a controversial issue - in fact, the very controversy surrounding it proves my point. How can a man whose attractiveness is being debated by hordes of people portray James Bond? Nobody debated whether Pierce Brosnan was handsome enough to take the role! I realize, as I said before, that the movie’s basically already done, and that this is crying over spilt milk. I still resent their choice of Craig.
