Casino Royale revisited
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Had the chance to watch CR again over the holidays and here are some thoughts:
The PTS and the Madagaskar scenes are pure joy!
YKNM reaches the top of my favorites now it climbed higher on each listening. IMO, the song is pure sex!
Caterina Murino is absolutely gorgeous - I wish that I've seen more and longer from her!
The Bahamas sequences are phantastic captured - feeds the escapism factor!
I still find the bodyworld setting and the Miami airport scenes a bit pointless but still enjoyable
Arnolds score is still great and the YKNM bits are very Barry-esque (forgive me Barbel) placed.
EVA Green annoys me more and more. Some of her extravagant stylings are simply over the top for her character and her face.
The only time that I find her adorable are the scenes in the bathroom sequences.
While she's more or less ok in terms of looks, I don't like the way that she's speaking. It's not her voice, it's her facial expression when she speaks.
I find Bond's behavior with her mostly immature and not sarcastic like it's clearly meant to be. The falling-in love part, which is so beautifully written in the novel does not convince me at all and peaks in a negative way in the armor - little finger crap talk. Bond should not shift into "childish" in his behavior with women and I see it sometimes in their banter.
The too short car case is beautifully staged and the torture scene is the best reference possible to Fleming.
Mads Mikkelsen is a phantastic villain, what a great and cool actor!
Mr White to me is not really dangerous, this would have been done much better by Waltz or my dreamcast Ulrich Mattes
Now to Craig: He visually bulked up a lot - a bit too much in my opinion and gives a phantastic debut!
But seeing him in SF, I must say: Man has he aged in those 8 years!!!!!
All in all the movie is still pure enjoyment - a bit of a backdraw was Eva Green to me, but I know that many will disagree with me here.
The PTS and the Madagaskar scenes are pure joy!
YKNM reaches the top of my favorites now it climbed higher on each listening. IMO, the song is pure sex!
Caterina Murino is absolutely gorgeous - I wish that I've seen more and longer from her!
The Bahamas sequences are phantastic captured - feeds the escapism factor!
I still find the bodyworld setting and the Miami airport scenes a bit pointless but still enjoyable
Arnolds score is still great and the YKNM bits are very Barry-esque (forgive me Barbel) placed.
EVA Green annoys me more and more. Some of her extravagant stylings are simply over the top for her character and her face.
The only time that I find her adorable are the scenes in the bathroom sequences.
While she's more or less ok in terms of looks, I don't like the way that she's speaking. It's not her voice, it's her facial expression when she speaks.
I find Bond's behavior with her mostly immature and not sarcastic like it's clearly meant to be. The falling-in love part, which is so beautifully written in the novel does not convince me at all and peaks in a negative way in the armor - little finger crap talk. Bond should not shift into "childish" in his behavior with women and I see it sometimes in their banter.
The too short car case is beautifully staged and the torture scene is the best reference possible to Fleming.
Mads Mikkelsen is a phantastic villain, what a great and cool actor!
Mr White to me is not really dangerous, this would have been done much better by Waltz or my dreamcast Ulrich Mattes
Now to Craig: He visually bulked up a lot - a bit too much in my opinion and gives a phantastic debut!
But seeing him in SF, I must say: Man has he aged in those 8 years!!!!!
All in all the movie is still pure enjoyment - a bit of a backdraw was Eva Green to me, but I know that many will disagree with me here.
President of the 'Misty Eyes Club'.
Dalton - the weak and weepy Bond!
Dalton - the weak and weepy Bond!
Comments
The Bodyworld part always bothered me since Dimitrius and Bond have a knife fight in the middle of the room in front of the public (though subtle its hardly realistic and would have preferred they did this in a quiet corner or restrooms). Kind of seemed flawed!!
Agree Eva Green looks best when in bathroom / less slap on her face
It and LALD are fantastic songs. That's why it's my #2 Bond film. {[]
Ditto.
Unlike our Germanic trainer-challenged friend, I like the 'I have no armour left' scene...it's a good piece of writing...
Why does that not surprise me the slightest?
Dalton - the weak and weepy Bond!
Because you know I'm right -{
Dalton - the weak and weepy Bond!
Markus you are spot on about a lot of things… and that DC is agining fast – is Sepctre is last ??? og are we ending in a RM AWTAK kind of area ??? a man too old for the role
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I suspect he'll do two more. They will get him back with the money. A man can age very quickly in those eight years.
Casino Royale is pretty flawless to me.
If Daniel Craig does appear in two more after SPECTRE, he will comfortably break Roger Moore's record of thirteen years from official announcement to retirement. Who would have thought that in those turbulent days and weeks after Craig was officially announced as Bond #6?
My opinion. Most likely (but not definite) one more after SPECTRE.
Like most hard core fans, for years and years I was desperate to see an Eon version of CR. Then when it happened in 2006 I was not disappointed. It is just such a class act from start to finish. I can't believe that it is a coincidence to have the best Bond of the modern era based solely on a Fleming novel. For me, the highlights all come in the Bahamas, but my favourite single scene is on the Pendalino as I think I have said before.
The Pendalino scene inspired me to take my then partner to Paris on the Eurostar in business class. I was expecting the Bondian standard of service. How wrong I was. Even in business class it felt like the least glamorous way to travel. Only Babs and Mickey could make train travel ooze sophistication! Love it.
Other highlights are...
All the Bahamas scenes - really want to stay at The Ocean Club sometime!
Pendalino.
Venice.
Grand Hotel.
Car chase, although I agree it is too short.
The suspense generated in the casino scenes. Never been replicated in any eon film.
And I have better taste in watches too
And trainers :007)
Who doesn't
Can we get Sir Miles banned?
Dalton - the weak and weepy Bond!
Dalton - the weak and weepy Bond!
Bloody hell !, and I wasn't involved.
Yeah you missed all the fun
Dalton - the weak and weepy Bond!
Daniel Craig completely revitalizes James Bond as a character. I wish, though, that he'd been given more opportunity to both emote and use humor -- his Bond is quite cold, and as I've commented before, almost autistic in his narrow range of emotions. (This is not just a Casino Royale specific issue -- he continues to play Bond that way in the next two films.) He is very much Bond-like in the first card playing scene against Dimitrious. He seems relaxed and confident, but that's really the last time we see him that way until, arguably, the dinner scene right before Vesper is kidnapped.
Some lines have a modern hokiness to them -- the bit about "you've got your armor on," for instance, sounds like something from a freshman writing class or maybe a comic book. It's not the kind of thing anyone over 30 would say, I hope. There also aren't the sorts of meaty lines one might find in more classic Bond films. But then the writing has been the weakest element of any Bond film for at least 30 years.
Action scenes, in some cases, are derivative. The airport truck chase is a lot like the truck chase from Raiders of the Lost Ark, for instance. I wish we'd seen more parkour -- the editing of that scene often implies more than it shows.
This is really about it, and given the total, amounts to relatively little.
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