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Originally Posted by svandamme

I don't understand how some people called him the closest Bond to the novel when CR came out.

how the hell was he anywhere near the Bond novel is beyond me.
Fleming wrote Bond to be like him as the spy he wanted to be.
Fleming was a dandy.

Lazenby was a dandy, Craig is closer to "thug" then to "dandy".
there is not one scene in any Daniel Craig Bond movie where he looks remotely elegant enough to be a true James Bond..
He's to short, to muscular and his head looks like he's a bouncer in a night club, you can never get the idea of "pitbull" ready to bite out of the scene when he is in it.
And that's just not Bond like.

The franchise has hopelessly derailed, it's so far away from what Ian Fleming had in mind, it's a sad thing really.

Good to bring this up. EVERY Bond enthusiast should read the book The Life of Ian Fleming by John Pearson (written in 1966). I finally got around to reading it just this last year. It might make one change their thinking of Bond, his feelings (Bond character) and what Fleming himself was about, fantasy, relationships and will add... complications from alcohol. You also get an idea of the mechanicals -- how the Bond story came to be, writing, book deals to TV and the movies. Well worth the read.

---Skyfall. Enjoyed it and well done.