Casino Royale 007Follow

I haven't seen it but I heard that Craig sucks as Bond.

/shrug

Haven't seen it either, but plan too once on DVD. He looks like a great Bond. But the best? Not possible to top Sean. He is the original. Trailers are spine tingeling.

Are the Bond gurls already famous or unknowns?

Craig's the first Bond in a long time who actually reminds me of Connery. Same feel to the way he plays the character. Kind of a lanky casualness to the role that's hard to define, but very noticable. Every Bond Since Moore has tried to be too snippy and "british".

Dunno. I thought he makes a good Bond.

While Craig might bring back some roughness, I think they overdid it. He looks more like a Green Beret than a British spy, to be honest.

The army haircut and blond style doesn't go well with the character James Bond. A spy, yes, but also a gentleman and playboy as well.

Comparison:

Sean Connery
Roger Moore
George Lazenby
Timothy Dalton
Pierce Brosnan

Daniel Craig

He doesn't look like a Bond. He doesn't have that slick playboy look the other Bonds had. Perhaps he's a great actor, but you need the looks as well. He looks more like the super villain than Bond.

Perhaps if they let him grow his hair and color it a dark brown.

Watched it yesterday and thoroughly enjoyed it.

Craig gave Bond new facets - 2 in particular; brutality and vulnerability. Much more 3 dimensional character than we've seen before. Connery he ain't, but I was impressed.

The main reason I liked it was it was the best screenplay since Thunderball. Apart from a few witticisms and throwaway gags, there was none of the silliness that marred the last dozen or so films. Decent plot, slightly far-fetched but no more than the original books, and little reliance on gadgets and CGI.

The fight scenes were more violent and raw than in any Bond movie yet and they kept the pace going well.

Well worth seeing.

I really hope this one is good. The past few have been terrible. It makes me not want to see this one. I'll wait for some more reviews before seeing it or I'll just try and download it.

Yeah, I think that's one you just have to accept or at least overlook. I think I remember hearing that she had signed to do a certain number of films and when Brosnan quit she was already locked in, but I'm not sure if it was true. I think they figured since M is a supporting character, they'd get away with it.

It will be interesting to see where they take things from here.

With this new movie, they retconned the series quite abit. In this film, Judi Dench is the only 'M', Bond never used his 'beloved' .25 Beretta that he was forced to give up at the very beginning of Dr. No (instead using a Walther P99), the fact that he is using cell phones with text messaging, the reference by 'M' to 9/11 (when she mentioned that Le Chiffre profited after the airplane atttacks), and definately by the fact that Felix Leiter was portrayed by a black actor (Jeffrey Wright) despite having been white in all the other 'offical' Bond films.

Honestly, I doubt that the producers could have done Casino Royale differently, if they wanted to use this film as a 'roots' film for Bond. The first Bond film was Dr. No, which came out in 1962, and I honestly don't see how they could have made this film connect to a modern day Bond audience if they therefore set Casino Royale during the 1950s.

As such, I think that while there are several plot holes in the film, it's more 'deliberate' than not on the part of the producers.

Casino Royale is hands down the best Bond film in years, if not the best period. While Connery is the template by which other Bonds are cut and measured, Craig, for my money surpasses even him for being the British agent the Ian Fleming wrote about.

Let's face it: Bond films were becoming ridiculous for the techi-ness of the gadgets, wherein all laws of time and space were being suspended by the amazing Q and his fantastic shop. Casino Royale makes Bond human again in every sense of the word. He bleeds, he makes mistakes, he shows emotions beyond smarminess, and yet displays an arrogance that you expect a James Bond to wear like a well tailored suit.

The stunts were well done, not over done ala Pierce Brosnan and the Incredible Frozen World that he did with Halle Berry. He bedded the women without being foppish and creepy ala Roger Moore. Craig wasn't the limp wristed **** that Dalton was, and not throwing trite quips like Connery.

Last, but not least, the two and a half hour length of the film allowed for the plot to develop, rather than moving directly into the point in the story where lasers are about to cut Bonds legs off just as he drops into the shark infested tank.

If you didn't like this Bond you prolly are the type that went out and bought Dude, Where's My Car? after seeing it ten times in the theater. Yeah, you're that gay.

Totem

On a positive note, however, he does have all his his teeth. And they are pearly white to boot, FleaJo1.

Totem

Heheh.

Totem

Perhaps it's like Batman Begins. While I found the movie quite good (Christian Bale fan), it didn't have that Tim Burton atmosphere the old Batman movies had.

Perhaps Casino Royale is the same. A new type of Bond movie.

I'm going to go watch it, but Daniel Craig still looks like a Polish/Russian villain and not a British spy/gentleman.

Misspelled 'charm' so I might as well replace it with 'atmosphere'.

Edited, Nov 28th 2006 1:25am by Mazra