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Casino Royale

Discussion in 'Anything goes' started by Christopher_Walsh, Nov 17, 2006.

  1. Oops - Ian Fleming. Brain fart.
     
  2. dixiehack

    dixiehack Well-Known Member

    You're up awful late. Don't you need rest before transcribing Coach Barbie quotes tommorrow?
     
  3. PeteyPirate

    PeteyPirate Guest

    I saw it last night and it was extraordinary. For those of you who have actually read the Bond books, Daniel Craig portrays Bond as he was originally conceived by Ian Fleming. Sean Connery first and then Roger Moore reinvented the character into the amusing playboy, but Fleming's version was much colder and more brutal than that. In this film, Bond bleeds for the first time. It also rains for the first time, or so I read. He uses his fists a lot more than fancy technology, and the chase scene through the construction site, although a bit too long, was very entertaining. The only unsettling scene was the poker game, which seems to take an eternity, and threw me off because I was waiting for Norman Chad and Lon McCheachern to comment.
     
  4. Duane Postum

    Duane Postum Member

    Airlume? Nevin? C'mon, man!
     
  5. Riddick

    Riddick Active Member

    Didn't Bond bleed in the last movie, during the opening torture scene?
     
  6. JR

    JR Well-Known Member

    I got them as soon as they were published in paperback back in the 60's.

    I picked up one a few years ago and started re-reading it--I think it was Casino Royale.

    I was embarrassed that I enjoyed them so much as a kid. Fleming was one godawful writer. I mean cartoon-character awful.
     
  7. Bubbler

    Bubbler Well-Known Member

    I just saw it.

    I'm a huge Bond geek and also about as hard to please a Bond fan as there is.

    Given that, this movie kicked ass.

    It is something I've been begging for years from a Bond movie -- depth. It definitely evokes the Connery Bond period, and is From Russia With Love-ish in its pacing, locations, and some of its characters.

    Craig is a fantastic Bond. And he almost plays the role backward through the Bond series as the movie moves the character forward, a lot of the special effect/outlandish stuff is early -- like the Brosnan movies -- character development dominates the later part of the film.

    I wonder how people my age and younger will take this? We've always known the cartoonish (Moore) and tech-dependent (Brosnan) Bond's, this is a real departure from that. I hope it does well, because this is real return to form -- and as Pirates mentioned, true to Fleming's books.

    If my bias towards the early movies in the series didn't pervade my brain, you can make a case that it's one of the best Bond's. It's that good.

    Check it out, you won't regret it.
     
  8. slappy4428

    slappy4428 Active Member

    Nevin?

    Like Phil Nevin's uncle?
     
  9. novelist_wannabe

    novelist_wannabe Well-Known Member

    Another shout out for Green, who was absolutely smokin'. And I really enjoyed the movie, which had slightly darker overtones than previous ones, and thankfully lacked any weapons from space.

    Very cool.
     
  10. Clever username

    Clever username Active Member

    So the torture scene wasn't unsettling? A woman left the theater and my balls still hurt today after seeing it yesterday. Sympathy pain I suppose.
     
  11. Haven't seen it yet but I found it interesting that it is already at #226 of IMDB's Top 250 Movies of All-Time

    http://www.imdb.com/chart/top
     
  12. Bubbler

    Bubbler Well-Known Member

    I don't know if I'm more shocked by that, or the fact that it's ahead of iconic Scarface. I've somehow never seen that list before, it is quite fascinating.

    My fave -- Once Upon A Time In The West (Cera Una Volta) -- clocks in at No. 24.
     
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