It's not easy being Bond

Poor Daniel Craig. I haven't seen the guy in much, aside from Munich but I can see how he might just be a good James Bond. For the Connery die-hards there isn't much you can do but beyond that it seems only fair to give the guy a chance.

Now some meanies have started up an anti-Craig website and announced they'll boycott Casino Royale without having seen a single frame of it.

This is all in addition to some stuff I noted the other week (at the risk of quoting my own self...)

-First your last director gets arrested for soliciting a prostitute and then word gets out that you've started filming your next exciting blockbuster but no leading lady wants to be your Bond girl and you have yet to cast a villain

(Now they finally have both.)

It was nice of Roger Moore (the acknowledged worst Bond, but I have a soft spot for him) to defend the poor guy.

There are still, finally, the problems about how cookie cutter Bond has become and how they've turned down offers from the likes of Quentin Tarantino to write and/or direct. Clive Owen might have had the right idea by not taking the role. The upside keeps diminishing, eh?

This much I do now. It will sure as heck be better than the original Casino Royale which was directed by John Houston (of all people) and somehow managed to star Woody Allen, Orson Welles, Peter Sellers, William Holden and others without being even remotely funny or entertaining. Craig's version should be a cakewalk.