'The name's Bond . . . . James Bond'

17 years ago

The grandson who was supposed to go with me today to see Happy Feet came down with a bad cold so I went to see Casino Royale instead. And when the film was over, I thought, "Bond's back!" Daniel Craig is the best Bond since Connery. Rober Moore was bloody awful, Tim Dalton even worse, and Pierce Brosnan was fine with me though he played the role in such a droll fashion I was always sure his tongue was going to get stuck permanently in his cheek. But Craig is terrific. If I recall correctly, there was some controversy when Daniel Craig was chosen for the role because Adrian Paul got the most "votes" from folks hitting the "select" button on their computers as the cast was being assembled and folks were asked to select an actor for the role. But the people who make the movies apparently recognized that Craig has more acting chops than Paul, and the choice was a good one. He's not handsome, though he is certainly buff (grrrowlll!) and those blue eyes got a lot of camera time. He's not the same kind of sex icon that Connery was, but he'll certainly do. And did I say he is buff? No wonder there's a scene where he's nekkid.

The film opens with a chase, on foot, that had my adrenalin flowing like a tidal wave. If you suffer from vertigo, this one will have your stomach in knots. And the rest was, well, "Casino Royale" on electronic steroids. I was never the biggest Bond fan, have seen maybe half of them, but now that they have incorporated cell phones (probably the least sophisticated of the gadgets) and all kinds of electronic devices, the strategies and techniques are a wonderment.

No spoilers from me, but if you know Bond at all, you know that "over the top" is normal in this series. A good film when you don't want either "heavy" or "cartoons" but you do want to keep your imagination in full swing. I greatly enjoyed the film and the applause from the audience at the end indicated that I was not alone in my appreciation.

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minnie_tx
17 years ago
I adored Timothy Dalton as Bond. Favorite was Connery. This new Bond has gotten rave reviews from men on men's boards /forums. They even liked the lack of big bosoms and the old sex angle.
I'm planning on seeing it.
agnespuffin
17 years ago
Thanks Pidge! I have always liked Sean in the role and hated the others. So I might just stir myself into going to the movies. It's been a long time!
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ell_in_or
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Good to know you liked it! I LOVED Pierce Brosnan, and have been mumbling things like "silk purse...sows ear..." ever since they chose Mr. Craig for the 007 role. I want a good-looking Bond for criminy sakes!! LOL! We're planning on seeing it soon. I'll report back. Nekkid you say... hmmmm. Maybe we'll see it twice if he's that buff. ;-)
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17 years ago
ell, I also loved Brosnan, but I did think he played Bond, a role he really, really wanted, as if he were still Remington Steele or that art thief in a film the title of which escapes me. Craig plays it much more as if he were Bond for real and he never goes for humor the way Brosnan did (though there is some humor). As for the sex angle, it's there but it's totally built in to the story line, nothing gratuitous on any level.

Judy Dench as M is good, as usual, and the costume designers did a great job of "minimizing" her slight heftiness, made her look very cool and still very much in the middle of the action.
andie_rathbone
17 years ago
This is one that I definitely want to see - at the show - teh way I've seen all the Bond movies, which, unfortunately marks me "of a certain age." Since it starts with action, I might even get DH to come with me, as his criteria of what makes a moive great is if something blows up in the first 60 seconds of the movie.
ell_in_or
17 years ago
pidge, it was the Thomas Crown Affair - another great favorite of mine. We just watched a bit of Die Another Day on TV. It may have had the second silliest scene in any Bond film, but I really liked Halle Berry's character in that one.

First silliest scene: In Moonraker when the space shuttle falls out of the upper atmosphere but Teeth survives the fall and is just fine.

Second silliest: That ridiculous snowboarding scene in Die.
agnespuffin
17 years ago
Congratulations Pidge! You actually got me out of my chair and to a movie. That hasn't happened for years.

As usual, the sound system was turned up to the nth degree of volume. The DH turned his hearing aids off. Lucky guy!

I think that this film would get the all time award for the most property destroyed in any movie not considered a war movie.

I agree that he is a vast improvement over the last few Bonds. I couldn't stand anyone except Sean C. I would even enjoy watching him as an elderly Bond.
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17 years ago
Anyone else notice that Casino Royale was never a "real" Bond movie, but actually a spoof of spy movies with David Niven?

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agnespuffin
17 years ago
I always felt that ALL the Bond movies were a big spoof of spy movies in general. All the fancy doodads and the bosomy females lolling all over the place were not the usual true to life "spy" movie.
andie_rathbone
17 years ago
Too true, but then the Ian Fleming books were hardly "true to life" either. Unlike John LeCarre, they are spy pulp fiction novels.

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