Casino Royale

Daniel Craig= BEST BOND!

I loved the film, It was brilliant, loved it from start to finish. Well worth the trip to the cinema. Daniel Craig was fantastic :D
 
So you think they kidnapped her boyfriend and then went in and rescued her? Or did she agree to help them without that, and then she changed her mind and held back the money, and then they kidnapped her boyfriend so she switched sides a 4th time? It's a bit convoluted, isn't it?
 
Apparentely the film following Casino Royale will be a direct sequel, with the events still carrying an impact on Bond, and certain people reappearing, so it should be interesting to see.
 
Yes I like the sound of that (providing Casino Royale is actually good, of course, which according to early reviews it is.) It should give the movies more of a focus, like the Connery-era did with SPECTRE.
 
I saw this film last night and I actually preferred it to previous offerings for the exact reasons why you disliked it. To be honest I thought Daniel Craig did a very convincing job as he did play it as a "cold fish" character. After all you would expect a trained killer would need to have that element to his character to survive. I am not generally a Bond fan as I found all the previous films to be very predictable - he always got the girl and always did the job without any real problems. This film was different from that - he actually made mistakes and this made a nice change.
 
Sorry to go off topic slightly, but the choral version of the bond theme in the trailer doesn't appear to be in the Soundtrack listed on iTunes, do we know if it has been released anywhere or at least somewhere i can get it :) I think its the best rendition of the theme i've heard in a long time. Much better than the version on the new soundtrack at least!
 
I went to see it yesterday, I thought it was fantastic.

It was quite violent for a 12A the bbfc must have been very lenient because it was a Bond film.

I have to agree with what you say, he didn't utter the line Bond, James Bond until the the last line of the film, and Vesper when characterising him said he was the poor man at his school and all his traits come from there. Clever.

Daniel Craig is an absolute genius choice for the part.

At the start they had the new Ford Mondeo which he drove upto the Hotel, that car isn't released until May, just in time for the DVD release?
 
I always thought that as well - (I've never read the books) as to the film I thought it was brilliant - I said to the OH that I thought it was the best Bond film I'd seen and he said it wasn't that it was the fact that it a damn good film bond or not - in my humble opinion the more recent bond films had too many gadgets and too many special effects & bond had become too much of a pretty boy - the new bond is terrific
 
I loved all the James Bond films but the last film DAD was AWFUL in my opinion I couldn't believe Bond got captured and tortured and also that invisible car, stupid in my opinion, oh and madonna couldn't act at all either.
I heard there was torture scenes in this film that got cut or removed, this wasn't bond was it?
 
That doesn't follow. None of them was playing Bond when he was young. It's fine to have an old actor playing an old Bond.

Sean Connery's first film, Dr No, came several years after Casino Royale in book-sequence. Live and Let Die and Moonraker came between. If Bond was 28 in Casino Royale and there is one book a year, Sean's Bond would have been 31 and Sean was about the right age to play him. Bond already had the 00 prefix at the start of that film. He was relatively experienced as an agent.
 
the thing is she didn't try to do an english accent but what the US think the english sound like

just watch colm meaney in Die Hard 2 is another example

any why did Bond say "cell phone" :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek:
 
I thought Daniel Craig was superb as bond. I thought it was fantastic. I was disappointed that they changed the game from baccarat to poker. In the book the explained baccarat so i knew what was happening but i don't understand poker. Ok i am probably in the minority there and understand why they did it.
I take it bond 22 is going to carry on from that.
 
I love that theme, it's interesting to hear people on it for the first time. I'm sure it'll be available somewhere, pity it's not on the soundtrack.
 
Thought it was reasonably entertaining, good action sequences and Craig was superb.
However, deep down cutting through all the hype, it's effectively a 'remix' of all the elements that have been flogged to death in the previous 20 films - Tux? Check! girls? Check! Exotic locations? Check! Rampant product placement? Check! You get the picture...
Yes, that's what Bond is about but really, there are other stories to tell aren't there?
And I haven't read the book but the concentration on the romance element smacked more than a little of The Bourne Identity to me.

Considering that Bond goes from hard git to softy and back again in this, I can't see where they can take the new more human Bond next...
And did anyone spot the following continuity error? Vesper attaches the red wire to the defib machine, Bond comes around and it's out again, then a split second later it's back in again! Nerdy of me I know, but it's there...
 
I went to see this film with 2 of my teenage kiRAB at a cinema about 100yarRAB away a cinema(not anymore) from where I saw my first Bond film. I mentioned to them that the first Bond film I saw was Goldfinger(1964) at about 1970, the queues went around the block. Back then Bond Films didn't get put on TV and were repeated at the cinema. Going to see that was a cinematic experience as was going to see the others, I thought Connery was going to hit me when he flew through the screen in DiamonRAB...

Last night's outing was well worth the money and a true experience.
 
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