Rave Redux: Casino Royale

[AdmiralKird]

We'll find out in Quantum of Solace.

[omaha_red]

We'll find out in Quantum of Solace.

okay.. so it was a confusing cliffhanger of sorts there at the end??

i loved the movie but the last half hour kinda got on my nerves..

[letsgocards89]

I think I'm the only person in existence that didn't like Craig playing 007 as much as I liked Brosnan. I always pictured 007 as a smooth, stealthy spy, not a kick-ass spy. If I wanted a kick-ass spy I'd watch Bourne Supremacy or Hitman. That's not to say I didn't like Casino Royale, it just wasn't what I'd hoped for.

[AdmiralKird]

I think I'm the only person in existence that didn't like Craig playing 007 as much as I liked Brosnan. I always pictured 007 as a smooth, stealthy spy, not a kick-ass spy. If I wanted a kick-ass spy I'd watch Bourne Supremacy or Hitman. That's not to say I didn't like Casino Royale, it just wasn't what I'd hoped for.

It's a reboot; Bond is a very raw, blunt instrument right now. Give that smooth, stealthy spy awhile to develop.

[letsgocards89]

Sweet. That's what I was hoping for. I hoped this was a film depicting an early-career Bond.

[Hungary Jack]

Bump.

This film gets better every time I watch it, even at 4am.

I found this bit of news about Venice to be a propos of the film. Hopefully none of the tourists met Vesper Lind's fate: high tide floods Venice

[ghostrunner]

Bump.

This film gets better every time I watch it, even at 4am.

I found this bit of news about Venice to be a propos of the film. Hopefully none of the tourists met Vesper Lind's fate: high tide floods Venice

Your link goes to a different story, HJ.

[Hungary Jack]

Bump.

This film gets better every time I watch it, even at 4am.

I found this bit of news about Venice to be a propos of the film. Hopefully none of the tourists met Vesper Lind's fate: high tide floods Venice

Your link goes to a different story, HJ.

Oops. Actually she's the one who is now running M16.

Here is the link.
high tide really floods Venice, causing James Bond to go swimming

[Maclowery]

I walked out of Quantum of Solace really disappointed. I know they'll never go back, but I still enjoy watching a sort-of-campy Connery one with chase scenes that didn't send me half into seizures. To me, the Bourne movies were like Bond-for-this-millenium, and this newest Bond was just a mediocre Bourne ripoff.

The Casino Royale scene where he chases that fellow all over the construction site was incredible. One of the strengths is that it paused long enough for viewers to see just how amazing these stunts were. The new one had more blurry cutting than any movie in my memory. Just really took away from the setpieces to me. Why bother to have a chase scene in scenic Italy when you can't see what the hell is going on?

I won't even get started into Craig being a believable, blunt out-of-control assassin/spy. But his small amounts of Bond-Charm I saw in Casino Royale were gone in QoS. Blech.

Casino Royale: A action flick, B Bond flick
Quantum of Solace: B- action flick, C- Bond flick

[Hungary Jack]

One reason I like CR so much is the absence of cheap, gratuitous stunts, special effects, and gadgetry. The heart-attack scene was superfluous, but beyond that the film did nothing to distract the viewer. This was a huge departure from previous Bond films since Roger Moore started playing 007. QoS obviously deviated from this quite a bit, which I too found disappointing.