Casino Royale

[Doctor Strange]

I saw it with my son on Friday night - it's the first Bond flick I've seen in a theater since "A View To A Kill". My old roomates - two of the biggest Bond fans on the planet - had both recommended it. I was dubious, but my son (who went through a Bond-interest phase a couple of years back) had never seen a Bond film in a theater...

(Understand that I loved the Sean Connery films as a kid, put up with Roger Moore during his tenure but wasn't happy about it, and paid no attention to Dalton or Brosnan. Oh, I saw their films on TV and noticed that they were still the same formulaic schlock. A series of interchangeable action set-pieces with absurd plots, campy villains, and a cartoon hero who was never afraid or ruffled at the center.)

I was very impressed with the new film. Yes, there were pacing problems, it was too long, the story was too convoluted, some of it didn't quite work... But I still found it exciting and fun, and for the first time since Connery, I found myself *believing* that I was watching a secret agent, not a cartoon character. Daniel Craig did a fine job. And as to the modernizing aspects - it's a new century, let 'em use cell phones and computers, and play current-style poker (face it: NOBODY in a contemporary American audience could relate to baccarat). Why not?

A very successful reboot to a long-uninteresting series. I'm curious to see the next one...

 

[LadyDeWinter]

Gosh, as a young man he looked exactly like Vladimir Putin-

 

[mysterygal]

Like the rest of the film isn't? Hehe! We all know Bond is Captain Scarlet in disguise - most people would be crippled or dead from all the beatings he gets but not only does he survive, he can also 'satisfy' a woman after having his unmentionables mashed to a pulp.

What a guy!

lol Well, he wouldn't be Bond if he couldn't undergo that kind of torture!...ALL of the guys in the theatre were cringing and going "OHHHHHH!' There were for sure a lot of sympathizers in that crowd....the movie,especially that scene ended up being a bit comedic with the help of some teenager sitting right in front of me...I have to admit, they got me laughing pretty hard, considering

 

[Quigley Brown]

I finally got around to see it last night...

During the scene at the Miami airport I spotted Richard Branson in the metal detector and told my friend a Virgin airline plane will probably be shown soon and sure enough......

I don't think I'll be buying a new Aston Martin. They look like they roll over too easily.

 

[MudInYerEye]

Rented it the other night. EASILY the best Bond flick since the Connery days. You'd have to be a real blockead not to love this one. Great to see some life breathed back into a long-irrelevant franchise.

 

[carebear]

Rented it the other night. EASILY the best Bond flick since the Connery days. You'd have to be a real blockead not to love this one. Great to see some life breathed back into a long-irrelevant franchise.

I didn't see it in the theatre, don't tell me how it ends. lol

Just kidding.

It may not be a real theatre but my buddy's big screen with the uber-stereo system should be the next best thing. The whisky that flows like a river will probably tip the scales.

Might even entice the fellow viewers into a friendly little game of poker. mwa-ha, mwa-ha-ha-ha...

 

[vintage68]

Saw it in the theater, really liked it, but the torture scene near the end will give me bad dreams to the end of my days...

 

[Quigley Brown]

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[HadleyH]

LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL Quigley Brown!!!!! lol :eusa_clap

 

[scotrace]

Finally saw this last night - great Bond flick.

 

[SinatraStyle]

I finally saw it this weekend. One of my favorite parts of the movie was when Bond referred to his tuxedo jacket as his "dinner jacket". Kudos to the writers!

 

[Twitch]

Saw it the past weekend. The new guy is Ok. I found 007 to be more believable in many ways than some previous efforts. This Bond is a stone cold killer with no conscience as any operative of that class would be. The tone down of the gadgetry and car chases is welcomed too. The clinical brutality is far more believable than the glib, tongue-in-cheekiness of many past incarnations.

 

[Jovan]

Pardon me if this has been answered before, but having seen the movie three times now... where is this supposed nudity? I mean, considering part of the reason for rating it PG-13 in the US was nudity, but I cannot see anything. In fact, this seems to a be a film in which even Eva Green keeps everything covered.

 

[scotrace]

You have to let go of your assumptions.

Craig was nude. The girls were not.

 

[Alan Eardley]

I finally saw it this weekend. One of my favorite parts of the movie was when Bond referred to his tuxedo jacket as his "dinner jacket". Kudos to the writers!

No Swiss Scotsman would call it a tuxedo, surely?

Alan

 

[Feraud]

Did anyone dislike Casino Royale or am alone in this?

Casino Royale was one of the best Bond films in the last decade or two, but as an action film I thought it was a extremely generic.

I will take Way of the Gun and The Bourne Identity over C.R. any day.

 

[Jovan]

You have to let go of your assumptions.

Craig was nude. The girls were not.

No, I considered that. You don't see anything at all though.

 

[Harp]

Finally saw Casino Royale. Although Craig has some edge and is the
most credible Bond since Connery, the film lost me when 7 proved he
couldn't see a bluff telegraphed in bright lights across a poker table.

 

[Jack Scorpion]

Did anyone dislike Casino Royale or am alone in this?

Casino Royale was one of the best Bond films in the last decade or two, but as an action film I thought it was a extremely generic.

I will take Way of the Gun and The Bourne Identity over C.R. any day.

There was a time when Bond movies weren't action films.

 

[Hemingway Jones]

Did anyone dislike Casino Royale or am alone in this?

Certainly not alone, but outnumbered.

I despised it for a myriad of reasons, as stated earlier in the thread.

I have since watched it again and I like it less.

I hold a special disdain for those filmmakers who get close to an ideal, but lack the command of their characters to keep a film consistent and credible. To me, this was an overly stylized film that pretended to be more than it was.

My major objection is this, do any of us for a moment think that the thug that Craig played could ever develop into Sean Connery's Bond? Certainly not.

Great clothes, though.