The Casino Royale Effect

Absolutely_Cart

The momentuous popularity of Casino Royale '06 correlates with both the movie before it (Die Another Day) and the movie after it (Quantum of Solace) being unpopular. TWINE and SF have a buffer between them which protects them from extra scrutiny.

I could just imagine Malcolm Gladwell writing a 300 page book called the Casino Royale Effect about how lesser known events that sandwich groundbreaking events are given less credit.

Peppermill

Congratulations on your 100th topic started!

Absolutely_Cart

Did you actually count? Haha.

Oh, wow, you did.

Peppermill

No, seriously, it this really is your 100th topic started. You can see it in your profile. I thought it was something to congratulate you on

Absolutely_Cart

Oh, why, Thank You!!

AlphaOmegaSin

Peppermill

I think you touch on a very interesting subject here. I had never really thought about it this way but I was very enthusiastic when I saw CR in the cinema. After DAD it was such a breath of fresh air that I enjoyed it immensely, however, after several viewings it has slipped quite a bit on my top 24.

GoldenEye was the first Bond film I ever saw in the cinema and I thought (and still do) that it was amazing. After that high point the next three Brosnan movies were a bit of a disappointment an CR was a welcome change.

Asp9mm

Yeah, congratulations on starting even more useless threads than that idiot Higgins. It takes some doing and in return, I doff my hat to you Sir

Absolutely_Cart

No offense taken.

Virgil37

CR is definitely is a very special case. A totally unexpected classic. I agree it might dwarf a bit the movies before and after, but the movies were simply not as good . If CR was good but more like average-good (as SF for instance), DAD and QoS would still be perceived as inferior. That said, I can tell that DAD if vastly inferior to QoS, CR or no CR.

77007

Absolutely_Cart

^ Hahahha!

Lady Ice

The gap in time and the 'clean break' helped Casino Royale enormously. It reflects the era in which it was made pretty well, with modern cynicism and keeping the glamour that people enjoyed and dispensing with the well-worn innuendos.

Charmed & Dangerous

Asp9mm wrote:

Yeah, congratulations on starting even more useless threads than that idiot Higgins. It takes some doing and in return, I doff my hat to you Sir

You look different to how I imagined, Asp 9mm ... )

Barbel

Haven't found six similar threads. Not closing this one.

Higgins

) ) )

I am sure that there will be one today, where you can put your teeth in,Barbel

AlphaOmegaSin

Sounds painful )