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2006/11/7-8 [Finance/Investment] UID:45210 Activity:kinda low
11/6    The new 007 doesn't have a strong handsome look like Sean Connery
        and Timothy Dalton. Instead he looks like an average Joe, like me!
        This makes me feel really good about myself. Hooray!   -average joe
        \_ Have you watched any of the Sean Connery Bond films recently?
           Casino Royale is technically the first of the Bond stories, since
           it begins before Bond is a double-0 agent.  I think that as a nod
           to this they cast Daniel Craig who is more in the Sean Connery mold,
           i.e. strong and something of a bastard, than either Timothy Dalton
           or Pierce Brosnan who, compared to Connery are kind of pussies.
           -dans
           -gay dans
           \_ I for one welcome the change. I'm sick and tired of my gf
              saying how handsome Piercie looks.        -jealous dude
           \_ I don't think that Craig is really in the Sean Connery mold.
              He seems too muscular and brutish, more like a thug than an
              intelligence officer. I'm willing to give him a chance, but
              I don't really have high expectations b/c the trailer makes
              the movie look like yaActionFlick, which is not what a Bond
              movie is/was. I actually liked Brosnan in GoldenEye and TND,
              but he was terrible in the last two movies. I'd say he was
              my 3d favorite bond behind Connery and Moore (yes I liked
              Roger Moore, he was humorous).
              To OP - I don't know many "average Joes" who look like this:
              http://entimg.msn.com/i/gal/CasinoRoyale/CasinoRoyale_400.jpg
              (but I am gay, so YMMV)
              -stmg
        \_ A lot of women I know seem to think he's pretty handsome, although
           most of my female friends who care were hoping for Clive Owen or
           Robbie Williams (?!?)  One even mentioned Ewan McGregor but I guess
           he's too much of a prettyboy.  -John
           \_ Obi-Wan as 007?!? Inconceivable! -stmg
              \_ What?  I see no mention of Alec Guinness anywhere in this
                 thread.
                 \_ Okay, Young Obi-Wan as Young 007!?!? Inconceivable! -stmg
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