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Casino Royale

I actually can't wait to see this. I haven't really liked the last couple of Bonds but I think this might be a return to form.
 
Just got back from the press screening...

Bloody Nora. That was fantastic. Craig's just supplanted Dalton and Connery as the best Bond, and he blows Pierce out of the water. The really impressive thing about the film isn't the winks to the audience (the vodka martinis, the first appearance of the DB5 and so forth) - it's the fact that they've actually given Bond a character arc with some emotional resonance.


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Anyone who's read the novel will feel a bit of a twinge when Bond offers to give up his life of espionage to stay with Vesper; he's been offered a chance at redemption and squanders it. By becoming the Bond we all know and love - the state-sponsored killing machine - he's damned himself. It's good stuff.

SG
 
elevendayempire said:
Just got back from the press screening...
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I went to this as well and was impressed. The first 10 minutes was jam-packed with action of the highest order. Thought it lost the pace about half way through mut was still miles better than previous Bonds.
 
Just watched a Film 2006 special on the film on the BBC and Jonathan Ross was creaming his pants about it.

Most critics seem to be giving it the thumbs up.

I usually wait for DVD when it comes to Bond movies but I must check this one out on the big screen.
 
Thought it was ok, but it didn't rock my world. Craig is good and the actress playing Vesper Lindt is lovely, but this obviously emulates the Bourne films who do this kind of thing better by now.

I'm getting a bit bored with all this making Bond more gritty and realistic. I miss the megalomaniac super villains, their architecturally outlandish lairs and their freakish hench people. I miss silly gadgets, groan worthy innuendo and gratuities scenes of scantly clad ladies lounging next to a swimming pool.

Bond has become mundane.
 
Reno said:
Thought it was ok, but it didn't rock my world. Craig is good and the actress playing Vesper Lindt is lovely, but this obviously emulates the Bourne films who do this kind of thing better by now.

I'm getting a bit bored with all this making Bond more gritty and realistic. I miss the megalomaniac super villains, their architecturally outlandish lairs and their freakish hench people. I miss silly gadgets, groan worthy innuendo and gratuities scenes of scantly clad ladies lounging next to a swimming pool.

Bond has become mundane.
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Eh? The last film had an invisible car, an ice palace, a villain with a diamond-studded face and a bloody great Space Laser... What sort of world do you live in where that's mundane?

SG
 
Reno said:
I miss the megalomaniac super villains, their architecturally outlandish lairs and their freakish hench people. I miss silly gadgets, groan worthy innuendo and gratuities scenes of scantly clad ladies lounging next to a swimming pool.

Bond has become mundane.
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You might "miss" all of that stuff but I have a feeling that had Casino Royale been more "silly" you would be straight on here calling it a dissaster. :)
 
elevendayempire said:
Eh? The last film had an invisible car, an ice palace, a villain with a diamond-studded face and a bloody great Space Laser... What sort of world do you live in where that's mundane?

SG
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I think he's referring more to the OTT campness of the Moore era.
 
elevendayempire said:
Eh? The last film had an invisible car, an ice palace, a villain with a diamond-studded face and a bloody great Space Laser... What sort of world do you live in where that's mundane?

SG
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...and unlike most people I did quite like that one, though it didn't go nearly far enough in that direction for my taste. I suppose the thing I always liked most about the Bond films were the Ken Adam sets.

For me the best "Bondian" film of lately was actually The Incredibles, which gave me that OTT architectural thrill I've been missing in recent Bond films

RenegadeDog said:
I think he's referring more to the OTT campness of the Moore era.
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The Spy Who Loved Me is my favourite Bond film. :)
 
Actually, although I am looking forward to Casino Royale, I think I would have to agree with you there. It's just about perfect. Moore's last few Bonds were a bit poor, but the first few were excellent.
 
I've never been that bothered who plays Bond, because I find him a rather uninteresting character. He's an adolescent boys fantasy of what a man should be like and as such not terribly interesting to me. Bond himself is just what all the fun stuff revolves around. I actually care more about who plays the girl and the villian. Eva Green in Casino Royale was one of the better Bond girls and an improvement on the ever insipid Halle Berry from the last one.
 
I've only read On Her Majesty's Secret Service. The plot was basically drink; sex; car chase; drink; sex; ski chase; drink; sex... Maybe it was because this was the stage in Bond's life where he falls in love, but I was bored throughout.
 
I read Dr No when I was in my teens and quite enjoyed it, but not enough to read another one. The film sticks fairly closely to the book, but misses out a giant killer octopuss due to budgetary reasons.
 
BlackSpecs said:
You've finally got it ! ;)
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I have no idea what you are trying to tell me by simply repeating something I said.

Why would I finally have gotten something I always knew ? :confused:
 
What i am trying to tell you Reno is : that's why men love Bond!

Guns , converting lesbians ( pussy gallore moment) , explosions , fast cars , etc.

Simple formula that has worked for ages !!!
 
BlackSpecs said:
What i am trying to tell you Reno is : that's why men love Bond!

Guns , converting lesbians ( pussy gallore moment) , explosions , fast cars , etc.

Simple formula that has worked for ages !!!
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I know that.

What I've been saying is that I like Bond films, but not necessarely for all the same reasons that most men do, so there was nothing to "get".
 
Reno said:
I know that.

What I've been saying is that I like Bond films, but not necessarely for all the same reasons that most men do, so there was nothing to "get".
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Point taken .... no harm done !
 
Utopia said:
my girlf has always said I look like Mr Craig!!, dunno if thats a good thing:confused:
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Yes yes yes! This is a very good thing! I'm sorry but daniel craig is unbelievably gorgeous! I think you should post a pic...

Just for comparison purposes of course! ;)
 
emwilk said:
Yes yes yes! This is a very good thing! I'm sorry but daniel craig is unbelievably gorgeous! I think you should post a pic...

Just for comparison purposes of course! ;)
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Daniel Craig spends quite a bit of time in the film naked, getting his balls pummeled. Very strange scene that.
 
Orang Utan said:
Who's seen it then? Can anyone tell me if there's a character in it called Fisher? Is it a big part?
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Played by a Daud Shah according to IMDB.

Haven't seen it yet so can't really comment.
 
Hot off the press from North America: something finally came along to knock Borat off the top at the box office. A penguin movie? WTF?:confused: But it's pretty damn close...

Weekend estimates:

1. Happy Feet $42,320,000
2. Casino Royale $40,600,000
3. Borat $14,350,000

Daniel Craig's simply stunning. Hey, I'm a breeder male, but I think "it moved" when I saw this man naked. :) At the screening, my wife - quite obviously moved herself, to the point of nearly passing out at the sight of Mr. Craig - only half-jokingly grabbed my crotch and said "Come on, this has got to be causing some sort of reaction down there...". There was actually an audible gasp throughout the theatre, from both women and men, when this man "presented" himself.

I think we have a new James Bond, folks. I'm sure he'll be around for the next few, taking this franchise into a different level of suave-ness...just as Barbara Broccoli intended. Case in point: as I stated, I'm a hetero male...I haven't even mentioned Eva Green yet. :D

Sorry Wookey, as much as you'd like to keep Mr Bond all to yourself, looks like you're gonna have to share him with the world.:)
 
i'm sorry but i still can't get over the fact that Bond is no longer dark haired, I mean Connery was silver but this new guy has the face as craggy as the Cliffs of dover and hair the colour of a 70 year old smoker.

I might be straight (just about) but I can judge a guys looks and this mofo is not pretty on the eyes.
 
Wookey said:
Just got back from seeing this. I think I'm in lust with James Bond!

:eek: :eek:
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Hands off - he's mine. :D

I defy any man not to feel inadequate on seeing this film. The man is sex on legs, and the film is a big "fuck off" to all the critics who said he wasn't sexy enough to be Bond. He's a great actor, too.
 
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