Casino Royale
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Topic: Casino Royale
Posted By: Freak
Subject: Casino Royale
Date Posted: November 18 2006 at 13:46
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Easily the best Bond film in a long time! It's a genuinely good film too, not just a good Bond movie. Craig steals the show, and Eva Green is one of the best Bond Girls ever. There's a great tone going on throughout this movie, and those two's chemistry is real in a way that hasn't been captured since On Her Majesty's Secret Service. Le Chiffre is a great villain - that torture scene is brutal! I'm so relieved that Bond isn't a laughable parody of the early flicks anymore!
Oh, nearly the entire audience cheered at one line that I won't spoil for you, but you'll know it when you hear it. ------------- 
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Posted By: Drew
Date Posted: November 18 2006 at 13:49
And boy is he sexy! ------------- |
Posted By: stonebeard
Date Posted: November 18 2006 at 15:27
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1. Best bond film since the 60s, hands down.
2. Ties with Goldeneye as my favorite Bond film ------------- http://soundcloud.com/drewagler" rel="nofollow - My soundcloud. Please give feedback if you want! |
Posted By: Mikerinos
Date Posted: November 18 2006 at 15:36
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I'll hopefully be seeing it tonight.
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Posted By: sleeper
Date Posted: November 18 2006 at 19:02
A contradiction in terms?  ------------- Spending more than I should on Prog since 2005 
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stonebeard wrote:Posted By: stonebeard
Date Posted: November 19 2006 at 00:23
Best asthetically for sure, and less cheesy than Goldeneye, but I think Goldeneye is still my personal favorite, but that may change with time. ------------- http://soundcloud.com/drewagler" rel="nofollow - My soundcloud. Please give feedback if you want! |
Posted By: salmacis
Date Posted: November 19 2006 at 11:48
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Yes I saw it today, and terrific it was too. It's possible Daniel Craig will easily prove to be the best since Connery, and I'm delighted he's proved his detractors wrong. His performance was faultless, managing charm, sensitivity and being a hard case perfectly. In fact, based on this, Craig's could be the hardest Bond of them all- the action scenes are an unqualified success, being raw and hard edged. There's one particularly brutal scene too, which is far removed from the follies of some of the Moore era and some of Brosnan's. This film did remind me a lot of my personal favourite, On Her Majesty's Secret Service (THE Bond masterpiece, and I won't hear a word against it), with an intriguing Bond girl in Vesper Lynd and for once, a believable romance. Superb opening credits scene and very classy opening titles.
And if the line you mean was at the end of the film, I agree, that was pure class. 
Class sums up the film perfectly- on repeated viewing, I bet this could be in my Top 5, easily. An unqualified success. |
Posted By: Scapler
Date Posted: November 20 2006 at 08:03
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He did an excellent job as Bond.
Anyone else find it disturbing to be whipped in the balls repeatedly with a wet, knotted rope? ------------- Bassists are deadly 
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Posted By: NutterAlert
Date Posted: November 20 2006 at 08:14
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I thought David Niven was fantastic in lead role.
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Posted By: Gravity Eyelids
Date Posted: November 20 2006 at 15:55
I didn't know if I should laugh, or cringe.  ------------- Into this wild Abyss the fiend Stood on the brink of Hell and looked a while, Pondering his Voyage. |
Posted By: Scapler
Date Posted: November 20 2006 at 16:33
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Cringe, but he did have a classic line: "now everyone will know you're the guy who scratched my balls" Unfortunately, new Bond doesn't appear to like his martinis shaken, not stirred. ------------- Bassists are deadly
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Posted By: Asyte2c00
Date Posted: November 20 2006 at 16:38
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Eva Green is soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
attractive.
She puts all actresses to shame.
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Posted By: tardis
Date Posted: November 20 2006 at 16:50
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Posted By: Aaron
Date Posted: November 20 2006 at 20:57
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i thought the quality of this movie was overhyped, and i think the movie itself was quite mediocre
peace
Aaron
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Posted By: mystic fred
Date Posted: November 25 2006 at 03:42
I loved the Sean Connery Bond films, they were very convincing and enthralling, but the Roger Moore ones in the 70's were a joke. Ironically Fleming liked Roger Moore's Bond character. The best latter- day Bond was Pierce Brosnan, and the new one looks very convincing - seeing it next week!
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Posted By: Jared
Date Posted: November 25 2006 at 14:27
yeah, that's the only James Bond I've ever seen from start to finish...
Woody Allen was my highlight..
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Posted By: Logos
Date Posted: November 25 2006 at 17:18
| Okay, I saw Casino Royale tonight. What can I say - it was fantastic. Daniel Craig is the perfect Bond. |
Posted By: The-Bullet
Date Posted: November 25 2006 at 21:00
I believe Fleming died in 1964 Maybe it was his family who liked Moore ?------------- 
"Why say it cannot be done.....they'd be better doing pop songs?" |
Posted By: Bj-1
Date Posted: November 26 2006 at 11:29
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Was about to see that one yesterday, but I was broke. Im gonna see it next week I think. ------------- RIO/AVANT/ZEUHL - The best thing you can get with yer pants on! |
Posted By: Kotro
Date Posted: November 27 2006 at 06:24
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Bond movies have been following a patern that atracted a lot of fans to the action-gadget-babe-packed genre and not so much to the espionage plot. In that sense, I would have to say it is far from being the best "Bond-Movie" ever, but it might just be (along with the underated "On Her Majesty's Secret Service") the best "Bond-Story" ever. Daniel Craig was not perfect, but he is getting there. Let's just hope they don't commit the same mistake as with Lazenby and ditch him after one movie. ------------- Bigger on the inside. |
Posted By: Jim Garten
Date Posted: November 27 2006 at 07:10
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I've never been a fan of Bond movies at all, but the reviews I've read & the posts here make it the first one I may actually go out to see... ------------- 
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Posted By: JJLehto
Date Posted: November 28 2006 at 02:05
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Wouldn't know...
I saw Borat last time I went to the theaters and THAT was a hilarious movie. Although, the Bond film looked pretty good, and I'm not even a fan.
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