Casino Royale - I know I'm 18 months too late....

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sparklyjenna7

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But I just watched this for the first time on Sky on the weekend and was completely blown away.

Sorry, I know how far out of the loop I am but as someone growing up with cheesy Roger Moore and non descript Timothy Dalton I avoided the later Bond films. I liked Pierce Brosnan in Golden Eye but then it all became a bit silly.

So i thought, after all the fuss had died down, I'd give Casino Royal a try. Now to be honest I have to admit I always knew that CD would make a good Bond purely because he's a great actor. I saw in him Our FrienRAB in The North about 10 years and Enduring Love a coupe of years back just thought then that he was amazing. But I have to say that he was magnificent as Bond, he blew me away.

Like I said, sorry that this thread is like 2 years too late but I just wanted to put my two-pence worth in ;)
 
I only just recently managed to watch this too.
I thought it was fantastic, a hell of a lot better than I was expecting and quite possibly the best Bond movie i've ever seen.
 
Really? I liked it because it was really back to basics. I liked the fact that he had had was himself - I liked it that he was as hard as nails yet still got battered.

I'm sure that they gadgets will come back eventually but probably on a more realistic level - I mean the invisible car was just getting a bit ridiculous, IMO.

I thought the opening scene was fantastic but you're right, there was'nt as much action as previous BonRAB but I think that's because this was more about setting the background of Bond the man. I'm sure more will come in the next one
 
As I said in my previous post, as far as I know there is no unedited version in the UK or in Asia. The version given to the BBFC for classification was passed uncut with 12 cert for both cinema and DVD release. This same version was distributed globally.

There is no extra footage.

And I find the film too long as well.
 
The UK version was cut on the advice of the BBFC as you say.

The US edition was cut even more.

All these missing bits are on the R3 dvd and the Oz and Dutch Bluray discs
 
I was never a Bond fan though I've seen all the films on TV at one time or another, then I went to see Casino Royale in the cinema and it was much better than I'd expected. I ended up buying the 2-disc DVD when it came out! Daniel Craig is much closer to the concept of Bond as written by Ian Fleming - I had a hard time ever believing Roger Moore could be a secret agent, he was way too suave - now the character is far more believable with Daniel Craig in the role.
 
Dont forget if you want to see Casino Royale completely unedited then check out the R3 dvd or for Bluray the region free discs from Australia or Holland.

The R2 dvd is cut (as per the cinema version) and the R1 is cut even more
 
Exactly, which gives weight to the fact that you have to look at CR as independant of the previous films. When you have the producers actually stating before the film's release that it is a reboot not a prequel, then the arguement is kind of over. At the end of the day viewers can make up their own mind, but the filmmakers never intended it to fit with established continuity, and so if you do look at CR as a prequel it totally undermines stuff in other films. Just because Judi Dench is playing M again doesn't mean the films are connected.
 
I liked it.
The only odd thing about it was Judi Dench as M.
It was like her character was meeting Bond for the first time and that did not sit well from a continuity point of view given she was in all the Pierce Brosnan Bond-movies.
 
You can rectify this by saying she's playing a different character; another "M".

It's happened several times before with the Bond films (Maud Adams in Octopussy and The Man With the Golden Gun).

Admittedly, Dench doesn't seem to be playing it as a different character...but there we are.
 
Whatever that DVD seller is saying (they are either mistaken or deliberately misleading - to be fair I'm guessing the former), the BBFC made no cuts to the UK release whatsoever.

See the BBFC entry: here.

Note the judgement:



The MPAA in the USA made 22 seconRAB of cuts for violence, but the in UK the film was passed uncut.
 
Casino Royale is a stunning reinvention of a franchise that had fallen into laughable self-parody. I'm actually excited about the Bond franchise again - something that hasn't happened for me since a-Ha did the theme to The Living Daylights.
 
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