Sunday Blessings - Daniel Craig

For this edition of Sunday Blessings, I decided to devote a post to Daniel Craig in honor of the upcoming Bond film Quantum of Solace, which opens in the US on November 14th - everyone seems to hate the title, but I actually like it. I enjoyed Casino Royale, so I'm looking forward to the new film, even though it appears the franchise is currently ripping off the Bourne films. If you're going to be steal from other action films, at least you're stealing from good ones. Craig was a welcome edition to the Bond series, providing the character with a fierocity and an overall jolt of life. I was never really a fan of the franchise; althought to be fair, I've never actually seen any of the older films, such as Dr. No, Goldfinger, of From Russia with Love, in their entirety, so it might be that I'd actually enjoy the earlier films of the franchise. The newer films from the eighties up through Die Another Day, however, provided me no incentive for exploring those earlier films. That and the fact that I'm not really a big fan of Sean Connery, who I usually find kind of dull. Daniel Craig is by far the sexiest Bond ever, in my opinion - yes sexier than Connery, hell Timothy Dalton was sexier than Connery, but Craig is also a great actor, which is a welcome improvement to the role, after the bland stylings of Pierce Brosnan. His performance in Casino Royale was actually worthy of an Oscar nomination, and hpefully in the new film he will find greater depth in his character, since it's an actual sequal to Casino Royale, where there are repercusions to the events of the first film. It's actually the first sequal of the franchise, since usually the events occuring in the previous film have no effect on the next film. Getting back to Daniel Craig - he's hot - I mean did you see his body in Casino? The scene where he emerges out of the water in the skimpy bathing suit, just plays over and over again in my head. So on this Sunday let's all think back to that scene, and hope there are sequences in Quantum where Craig is wearing just as little, if not less. Actually Daniel Craig should be shirtless in every scene - that should be a law. Praise Jesus!