Daniel Craig’s emotional farewell to his Bond crew was very sweet
Craig recorded the tearful goodbye when No Time To Die wrapped filming back in 2019
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Daniel Craig has now been playing James Bond for 15 years, the longest run any single actor has ever had on the character. (Even if that tenure was artificially extended, somewhat, by the long delays that have beset Craig’s final Bond flick, October’s No Time To Die.) And while the actor has occasionally expressed a bit of ambivalence with the relentless shooting schedules, endless rounds of promotion, and generally grueling ordeal of being James Bond—most notably in an interview he gave in the immediate aftermath of filming 2015's Spectre, in which he declared he’d “rather break this glass and slash my wrists” than return to the part of 007—he does seem to be genuinely game about giving his take on the character a proper send-off now.
Craig alluded to some of those previous comments in a video that’s making the rounds online today, in which he bids what appears to be a legitimately tearful farewell to the cast and crew who worked with him on his five Bond movies. “A lot of people here worked on five pictures with me, and I know there’s a lot of things said about what I think about these films or all of those, whatever,” Craig said, presumably alluding to all that previously mentioned “no fucks given” chat. But, he continues, “I’ve loved every single second of these movies, and especially this one, because I’ve gotten up every morning and I’ve had the chance to work with you guys. And that has been one of the greatest honors of my life.”
Per Deadline, the video was reportedly shot back in 2019, i.e., when filming on No Time To Die was actually finished. (As a reminder, the movie was already getting bounced around the schedule even before COVID became a factor, as MGM sought to secure a release date that would give the film the sort of opening a movie this expensive requires in order to make money.) No Time To Die is currently scheduled to arrive in theaters (finally!) on October 8.
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Please refrain from any “No Time to Cry” jokes in the comments.
Will You Only Cry Twice suffice?
That one’s fine.
From Russia With Blubs.
*in Dame Shirley’s voice, to the tune of “Goldfinger”*“Laaaaaaaaach-RYMOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOSIS!”
I will, in that case, Cry Another Day.
Live and let cry, I always say.
Craig’s tenure may be over, but Crymonds are Forever.
You know you did, you know you did, you know you did.
Is The Cry Who Loved Me taken yet?
It’s okay – he has a License to Cry.
Live and Let Cry, buddy.
Octocrybaby
Get all of the crying out of the way today, for Tomorrow Never Cries
I want to have a good Thundercry.
Goldendie (gambling theme)
Cryraker, nah, that sucks
CryFINGAAAAAA!
I’ll get that an UP for sheer audacity, Mr. Dalliard.
Hey, I say Live and Let Cry.
He now plans to spend more quality time with his pile of cash.
I hope he has a special room for it, and in that room is a diving board.
And he’s adding to that cash pile with the windfall from the Knives Out movies. Rich, handsome and married to Rachel Weisz. Tough life.
The last one is the real winner. He gets to be the husband to one of the most talented actresses who never seems to age.
Actually, if he continues with the Logan-Lucky/Knives-Out-Fuck-You-I’m-Going-To-Do-What-I-Want-And-Have-As-Much-Fun-As-Possible-Doing-It streak post Bond I think the real winners will be us.More Craig comedies, please…
Helen Mirren?
No kidding, I didn’t realize she’s in her 50’s when I saw Black Widow. She looks nearly as young as she did in The Mummy 22 years ago.
You know what’s mad? She’s the same age as Elizabeth Marvel. They both were in that Jeremy Renner Bourne film. Weiss looks half as old as Marvel.
If they do a third* The Mummy film, I want Brendan and Weisz back, and Daniel Craig involved somehow. Possibly some sort of evil millionaire who wants some ancient, powerful artifact he’s read about, and for Fraser and Weisz to get it for him.*Shut your whore mouths, people. You shut your filthy fucking whore mouths.
How many The Mummy films do think there are now?*Brendan Fraser disappears*
Maybe Craig can be the bumbling, wisecracking brother in place of John Hannah?
How very dare you suggest anyone can replace John Hannah, you philistine.
How do you figure Tom Cruise will use his residual mummy powers when Russel Crowe’s Dr. Jekyl sends the Universal Monster Avengers out on their latest mission, Professor X style?
I don’t, EdKed.At all.
With a role like Bond, it’s not the money that matters. The real meaning comes from seeing that Funko Pop vinyl figurine of yourself for the first time.
Quantum of Solace and Spectre might have been lackluster, but Casino Royale and Skyfall are top tier Bond films. Here’s hoping he sticks the landing.
There’s been a Star Trek-like pattern of bad/good/bad/etc starting with Die Another Day so hopefully this holds true for No Time to Die.
Skyfall continues to be my go to Bond film for background noise that I will eventually just drop whatever I’m doing and watch to the end. I grew up watching the Turkey Day marathons on TBS/TNT/USA whatever cable network it was, where they would run them straight from Dr. No through whatever the current one was with my dad and older brother, and it was always great. Flip over the the Lions/Green Bay (?) game between commercials just to check the score and then go right back to Bond.
Skyfall…top tierEhhhh…
Skyfall will always get an extra bump from me because it did something very important: It actually made the case for why Bond existed and how he could be of value in a 21st century setting.And then Spectre forgot it ever happened…
Skyfall will always get an extra bump from me because it did something very important: It actually made the case for why Bond existed and how he could be of value in a 21st century settingIt made a case, and blew the opportunity it had to demonstrate that case. What was the theme of Skyfall? It was that HUMINT is still valuable in the age of ELINT and SIGINT……and it blows the opportunity to show that.What was the catalyst for the movie?It was that the entire agent list – let’s call it, oh, I’ll just pull a completely random sequence of letters from my arse, the NOC list – getting nicked, and every agent on the planet getting their cover blown. And this was used as justification for GCHQ to become Blighty’s primary intel agency – no agents in the fields means no human vulnerability. Well, little save for sports bags in bathtubs. That’s a pretty big threat to GCHQ nerds.So, every MI6 agent on the planet is now exposed. How do you fight that?The only way not to be threatened by exposure would be to be……dead. Hmmm. Imagine if, instead of a gap year where Bond spends his time catching new and exotic forms of gonorrhoea on beaches, we get to see Bond be a spy. A human spy. What better way to prove the value of human agents than to have Bond do what no algorithm or nerd with a skin condition in a basement can do? He goes out, on his own, and gets the fucking list back. Dead, cut off, no orders, just skill, loyalty – things no algo has. We’d see some tradecraft, not gadgets. We’d see Bond making and working contacts, infiltrating, building a new identity – all the good spy stuff we lost in between Bond falling in love with chicks on trains and crying. Instead of the Home Alone ending, we get Bond returning triumphantly with the NOC list, and Silva’s head. That would’ve been a fitting film for the 50th anniversary of Bond – it would’ve been just Bond. James Bond.
“and it blows the opportunity to show that.”Not when all you have left is the climactic final showdown. They’re laying down a marker for the series, not the remaining 45 minutes of screentime.
This is why I said it was Spectre that blew the opportunity.
Not when all you have left is the climactic final showdown. They’re laying down a marker for the series, not the remaining 45 minutes of screentime.
This is kind of the problem with Craig’s whole run, though. Bond as a franchise just isn’t built for this kind of serialization, yet the Craig franchise has routinely gone “okay, now that that’s out of the way, we can finally give you a proper Bond story next time.” That was kind of novel with Casino Royale, but at this point it’s just exhausting.
I forget SPECTRE ever happened, so…..
Let’s see…it had a Drax, but not the Space Shuttle one. Oh, and they made an excuse for why Bond’s some a cunt-hungry cocksman (“IT’S NOT HIS FAULT! THE DENTIST FROM DJANGO UNCHAINED DRILLED HIS CAPACITY FOR LOVE!”)Also, Bond fell in love with some bitch on a train AGAIN, failing to learn anything from Casino Royale.
Casino Royale is the ONLY good Craig Bond movie. Skyfall is quite mediocre, but at least it’s not the utter fucking catastrophe that Spectre was.
QoS did give us the only Bond movie to have a foot chase, car chase, boat chase, and plane chase in the same movie. (I also generally think it’s underrated mainly because Casino Royale was always going to be a tough act to follow.)
All these years and I still can’t get over how stupid the title of this movie is. I hope at one point Bond sustains what should be a fatal wound and just keeps going because he does not have time to die.
I believe it’s meant to be ‘No Time to Die’ as in ‘This is no time to die,’ not ‘James Bond has no time to die.’ Although I could sort of see the moment you describe actually working, in the right context…
Then I blame the song for confusing me with the lyrics “There’s just no time to die”
No. Time to Die! (The “, Mr. Bond” is implied.)
Could also be. ‘No time. To Die!’
Where ‘Die’ is actually the name of a location that features prominently in the movie.
To Die!’To the what, exactly?.
And using The Love Boat font, no less.
i for one would love to see james bond on the love boat!
Gopher did an imaginary James Bond thing once. Really.
He’d blow it up
It’s also the “Au bon pain” font (that’s a US cafe chain that isn’t doing very well these days if you don’t recognize it). It’s Futura Black if you want to know the name of the font
Daniel Craig is Cpt. James Bond in: NO LOVE TO BOAT
“Doc” would have made a helluva “outside the box” Bond baddie. Isaac would be Felix. Julie the Bond girl. Gopher as Moneypenny. And Charo as a nuclear scientist. Obviously, Cap’n Stubbing is M.
Gotta admit it seems exciting and new…
Its made worse because of covid. Lot of people had time to die.
He’s teaming up with Blain from Predator, and will not be upstaged in the self-aggrandizing one-liner department.
Hey, it’s still better than “Quantum of Solace”
Comfort can only exist in discrete values, apparently.
I had to watch that move eight times before I understood the plot. The perfect combination of confusing and boring.
To this day it’s the only movie I’ve ever fallen asleep in a theater watching. I remember there was a desert and the whole villain plan revolved around oil I think but I couldn’t tell you who the villain was or any memorable setpieces.
I AIN’T GOT TIME TO DIE…
sounds like any other Bond title. they are supposed to be cheesy titles.
Well originally it was called Shatterhand, which sounds like a latter day Queensryche album. I was relieved when they changed it to this.
Or a kick-ass Jaleco game for your Nintendo Entertainment System.
I did not know that, and yeah that is worse.
Well, not all Bond titles can have the subtle wit of “Octopussy”.
Heh. Just now, today, for the first time, I realized that it’s just an extension of “octopus.” I feel sooooo stupid.
I was listening to the 372 Pages We’ll Never Get Back, and in a book they were reading called “Trucking Through Time “ (it’s exactly as it sounds) the word “thundersnow” was mentioned and I started cracking up because I thought it was fake (and like Thunderball, a great AC/DC song name). It turns out it’s a real weather phenomenon. So I earned my dunce cap that day.
The marketing time tried combining them with “No Time For Pussy”, but, it didn’t test well.
“Look, Cubby, the Yanks are never gonna let us release a movie called Eight Cunts in their cinemas.”
“Well, I do know ONE director who might…”And John Waters directs his first Bond movie.
The twist is, of course, that none of the women in that film have actual cunts.
Should have been “ain’t got time to bleed.”
No, that belongs to the former Libertarian Reform Party Governor of Minnesota.
As a title, how seriously different “No time to die” than “You only live twice” or “Die another day”, or worse than “Octopussy” for that matter?
Yes, but Bond’s too busy chasing around, killing henchmen and blowing shit up, to just lie down and die like a (retired) good secret agent should.
Actually, Craig’s is the first James Bond I can believe actually takes time off and convalesces.
His Bond films have been uneven in quality, but he’s always been great in the role, even if he looks like he’s always wearing a suit that’s two sizes too small.
I’ve always been more concerned about the haircuts.
…I’m going to go out on a limb and guess you’re American…
Not only did Covid artificially extend his Bond tenure, there was four years between Quantum and Skyfall, as well as four years between Spectre and the original release of No Time To Die. Compare that to Pierce Brosnans films, in which five films were released in seven years, and Roger Moore starring in 7 Bond movies over 12 years.Basically, they took their sweet ass time making the Craig bond films.
It’s funny, I always looked at the six-year gap between the Dalton/Brosnan era as this huge thing, and in hindsight…not so much. Dalton absolutely could’ve returned for GoldenEye, though it was also probably the best call to start fresh in the mid-90s for a new era.On the Craig era, on top of all the rights and distribution challenges, I assume it’s just gotten harder to craft something original for the franchise. EON, at least pre-Amazon, also isn’t the massive machine that Marvel Studios is; they’re fairly content to put a movie out, leisurely kick around ideas for a year or more before getting down to business.
At least it had a 50 percent hit ratio. Moore couldn’t quite do that by the end.
Brosnan was awesome, but he really made only one really good Bond flick. Maybe it is best to stretch them out some.
Yeah Goldeneye was great. I will not vouch for literally eveything else. I’d rather watch the majority of Moores films then Die Another Day or World Is Not Enough.
Die Another Day is good, campy fun. I have no idea why it gets so much flak.
Yeah, I’m with you there.
I don’t dislike Die Another Day, but there’s probably a reason for that. It was the first Bond film I saw in theaters, and the Aston Martin V12 Vanquish is a fav of mine. Plus, Brosnan was my Bond growing up as a 90’s kid so I’m partial to all of his films.
I will agree the V12 was a great car. It was also featured in the 007 Nightfire game so that’s nice.
I loved that game. It’s probably the last Bond game that I really enjoyed playing, too.
Same. It might have been a remix of Moonraker but damn was it a lot of fun.
I’ve always given him two good ones (Goldenye and Tomorrow Never Dies), one bad (Die Another Day) and one not bad (World)
Yes, but it’s not the movie everyone thinks it was. Tomorrow Never Dies and the World Is Not Enough are both better than Goldeneye.
Ugh, can’t agree on those picks. Tomorrow Never Dies was so unabashedly awful in the final scene with Pryce and Brosnan.“You forgot the first rule of mass media!…..”One of the worst climax dialogue pieces ever written.And “The World is not Enough” had that terribly written submarine reactor scene. I mean, I guess if you have no idea how a reactor works you could enjoy that scene….
I will still say that Jonathan Pryce would make a really good Rupert Murdoch. That’s basically who he played anyway.
Yeah. Saying he’s had the job “longer” is utterly meaningless, since multiple actors have been in more films. Technically, Timothy Dalton “had it” from 1987 to 1995, but his last movie was in 1989, so it’s meaningless to count those years when there were just no Bond films at all as part of his “tenure.”
Whenever I hear the title, my brain tacks on the JCVD line “…except for all of the people I am going to kill.”
Like all those asshole bosses say: if you got time to die, you got time to clean.
Or if it’s a fast food place, you can keep the rhyme with “if you’ve got time to die, you’ve got time to fry.”
I’m ready for a new take on Bond. But I really have enjoyed Craig’s run for the most part.
Casino Royale: Awesome theme song, awesome movieQuantum Of Solace: Bad theme song, meh movieSkyfall: Awesome theme song, good movieSpectre: AWFUL theme song, meh movieNo Time To Die: Awesome theme song……(Yes, I’m aware that “Writing’s On The Wall” was a last minute replacement, but it still sucked, HARD)
Agreed with your assessments, though I didn’t see Spectre and don’t plan to given how tepid the response was. And they could’ve used the excellent song that Radiohead put together, so the garbage they went with being a last minute replacement is no excuse.
OMG the Radiohead song is soooooo much better than that Sam Smith abomination.
Skyfall is an excellent theme. I love Chris Cornell’s voice, but I’m kind of on the fence about his Bond song. But don’t listen to me, because I have a very unpopular confession to make: I actually liked Madonna’s “Die Another Day”. The movie sucked, but I think the song’s really catchy. I can’t think of the theme to Goldfinger without thinking of The Life Of Brian, or Crow T. Robot singing “CHAAARRED FINGAAAA!”.
Skyfall is an excellent theme. I love Chris Cornell’s voice, but I’m kind of on the fence about his Bond song.I thought it was perfect…but like CR itself, it was a massive fuckin’ bait-and-switch with what actually happened to the Craig series. It was the perfect intro to a new Bond, a reboot – with a James that was a blunt object in a Savile Row suit.Instead, of course, we got Emo Bond.
Skyfall is an OK theme that would have been great if John Barry had been alive to punch it up a tad; just a slightly higher tempo and some “Barry stings” for “punctuation” would have made it perfect and one of the all-time classics. As it is, it starts the slide into dull-ass ballads that has continued into the last two movies (yes including the one the article’s about).
Spectre’s is distilled dullness in a bottle, but that’s how I feel about Sam Smith’s music in general. On the other hand, I was looking forward to what Billie Eilish was going to come up with, but found the snoozy-ass weepy ballad thing we ended up hearing a massive disappointment.“Another Way to Die” is looking so much better in hindsight at this point.
Writings On the Wall is a bottom three Bond song. Its so bad, the lyrics are jibberish in a dull kind of way and Smiths voice doesn’t work for the style. Man with The Golden Gun theme was even better. Maybe.
1. Connery; 2. Craig; 3. Brosnan; 4. Moore; 5. Dalton; 6. Lazenby; 7. Niven
Dalton over Brosnan!
Niven Say Niven Again.
Reminds me of the end of Nolan’s Dark Knight saga, where Christian Bale took the time to emotionally hurl abuse at the entire cast and crew.
Truly, he’s a thespian of the people.