YOUR FAVOURITE JAMES BOND: DANIEL CRAIG

My dear readers!!
This week's post will be about the poll I conducted about 3 weeks ago. I asked you who your favourite James Bond was and you guys chose Daniel Craig. In this post, I'll give some brief information about him.

Daniel Wroughton Craig was born in Chester, England in 1968. After attending Hilbre High School there, he moved to London to join the National Youth Theatre when he was 16.

He studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London and graduated from there in 1991. His first leading role on screen was as a co-star in the 1996 BBC Television Serial "Our Friends in the North".

After playing in several English movies, he started appearing in American movies such as "Lara Croft: Tomb Raider(2001)" with Angelina Jolie, "Road to Perdition" with Paul Newman and Tom Hanks, and Steven Spielberg's "Munich"(2005). His last movie before the James Bond series was "Infamous"(2006).

In October 2005, Craig signed a five-film contract with EON productions to portray James Bond. Four of the previous Bond actors supported Daniel Craig as the new Bond. Clive Owen, who was linked with the character, defended Craig, too. Being born in 1968, Craig was the first James Bond to be born after the series started.

His first movie "Casino Royale"(2006) was a huge box office success, being the highest grossing Bond movie with $594 million. After "Casino Royale", Craig played in "Quantum of Solace"(2008), the 22nd movie of the series. Craig stated that his favourite Bond was Sean Connery.

He married Scottish actress Fiona Loudon in 1992, whom he has a daughter from. However, he ended this marriage in 1994. Currently, he is in a relationship with American film producer Satsuki Mitchell. He is a fan of Liverpool FC.

Here is a video about Daniel Craig:

THE LATEST BOND MOVIE: QUANTUM OF SOLACE

Hello dear readers! This week, I'll be telling you about Quantum of Solace, the new James Bond movie which I've been waiting for for a long time. This is the second movie that we see Daniel Craig as James Bond. The movie was directed by Marc Forster and is the shortest movie of the series. At certain points, you will have to relate what happens in the movie with Casino Royale because the two movies are connected to each other. As a matter of fact, the movie starts an hour after the last scene of Casino Royale.

In this movie, Bond and M (Judi Dench) learns about the existence of a dangerous organisation called "Quantum" while interrogating Mr. White (Jesper Christensen), who is a member of the organisation and this is the same organisation as the one that blackmailed Bond's girlfriend in the previous movie.

Then, the agency finds a bank account in Haiti which is related to the organisation. In Haiti, Bond meets Camille (Olga Kurylenko) who also seeks revenge for the death of his family. After that, Camille leads Bond to Dominic Greene, a businessman who is a member of Quantum.

After some investigations, Bond finds out that Greene is helping General Medrano, the murderer of Camille's family, to stage a coup d'état in Bolivia and in return, Medrano will provide him a seemingly barren land which Greene will use to take control of Bolivia's water supply. At this point, Camille and Bond start to cooperate for the thing that they both want: Vengeance.

If you like movies full of well-shot action scenes and if you liked the previous James Bond movies, I suggest you watch this movie as soon as possible!

Here is the trailer of the movie:

A GREAT ACTION REMAKE: DEATH RACE

Dear readers,

Here I am again! This week, our movie is "Death Race", an action movie directed and written by Paul W. S. Anderson. The movie is a remake of the 1975 movie "Death Race 2000". The remake was in development since 2002 but could not be released until this year because of the disputes between Paramount Pictures and the producers. The movie stars Jason Statham(starred in "The Transporter") in the lead role.

In 2012, the unemployment and crime rates in the US are on the rise and prisons are run by prvate corporations. The movie focuses on the Terminal Island Prison where the executives decided to broadcast "Death Race" via a paysite on the internet. "Death Race is not only a race to the finish line; it's a battle where you use cars for not to be killed. As you can imagine, this race grabs the attention of millions of people and helps the corporation make a fortune.

One day, in a race near its end, the car of a well-known racer wearing a mask named Frankenstein, gets destroyed by Machine Gun Joe(Tyrese Gibson), another racer. Eventually, Frankenstein dies. Since Frankenstein is one of the most important reasons for the high ratings, the executives start to search someone who can replace Frankenstein and they find Jensen Ames(Jason Statham), a three-times-championship winning driver whose driving license has been impounded.

One day, after coming home from the steel mill he works, an assasin kills his pregnant wife and attacks Ames. Ames faints and when he wakes up, he finds the weapon in his hands and he notices the police are cuffing him.

This way, Ames becomes a convict of the Terminal Island Prison. Then, he is taken to Hennessey(Joan Allen), the prison warden. Hennessey makes Ames an offer: He can either choose to be a part of this barbaric race to be free, or he will stay and perish inside a prison cell for the rest of his life.

If you haven't watched this movie yet, I suggest you go watch it immediately. If you don't, you will miss a movie with a super original script, great special effects and full of action!

Here is the trailer of the movie:

A RECENT VIDEO GAME ADAPTATION: MAX PAYNE

Dear followers,

This week, I will be informing you guys about a recent video game adaptation, Max Payne. The main reason for my going to the movie was that I liked the computer game a lot and I thought the movie could also be good and I wasn't wrong! I found all I looked for in this movie in terms of a good action movie.

It's time to talk a little bit about the plot...

Max Payne (Mark Wahlberg) is a police officer who works in DEA. He is a happy man who has a good job, a beautiful wife and an adorable child. Unfortunately, this perfect life portrait doesn't last very long.

One day, he finds his wife and daughter murdered in his house. After this violent incident, he starts to feel like a wreck, but he pulls himself together very soon and promises himself to be strong, find the murderer and take revenge!

As he follows the traces of the murder, he meets a woman named Mona Sax (Mila Kunis), whose sister, an acquaintance of Payne, is also murdered. After they get acquainted, they start to cooperate and eventually, they figure out that the two murders are connected.

Max Payne is just the right guy to find the criminals and clean the city from scum and he knows that the revenge he's been longing for is very close!

Here is the official movie trailer of Max Payne: