Author Topic: Four reasons you should go see "Casino Royale"  (Read 33104 times)

Offline ednbarby

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Re: Four reasons you should go see "Casino Royale"
« Reply #90 on: December 16, 2006, 08:26:37 am »
Ah, but James drinks vodka martinis.  :)
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Re: Four reasons you should go see "Casino Royale"
« Reply #91 on: December 18, 2006, 02:04:21 pm »
sure enough. i have no idea if one can bruise vodka. the dilution issue still applies though, i think. not that I'm such a sophisticated drinker to actually be able to tell the difference.
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Re: Four reasons you should go see "Casino Royale"
« Reply #92 on: December 18, 2006, 05:36:16 pm »
another pic interlude?  8)






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Re: Four reasons you should go see "Casino Royale"
« Reply #93 on: December 23, 2006, 02:41:21 pm »
I finally saw this movie last night!  Loved it!  8)

I agree the opening credits were super.  I don't think anyone has mentioned the music, and I thought that added so much, all through the movie.  Sexy, swaggering, brass-heavy--it took me back to the Connery Bond movies.  And because Daniel Craig is so believably dangerous and such a worthy protagonist, it didn't seem to be trying to lend substance to a hero that wasn't delivering it.

I think Barb mentioned this--what I like most about Daniel Craig is his brutal quality, which I think was the secret of Sean Connery's Bond.  He had a cruel look that made you fear and respect him as one who needed to kill as part of his job.  As handsome as he is, Craig's face and eyes remind me of nothing so much as a copperhead snake, deadly and utterly ready to strike.  The more debonair Bonds fade into the woodwork in comparison.

There did seem to be about three endings, making the movie seem longer than it actually was, and I'm also with those who didn't quite buy the love story.  The action sequences were really well done, taut and exciting.  I had a "bleah" moment when I noticed "Crash's" Paul Haggis is one of the screenwriters.  Guess I'll have to get over that.  >:(

I read a number of the Ian Fleming novels in the sixites and remember that scene where they take the bottom out of the chair to torture Bond.  Little did I know I'd see it done on film so effectively.  Wow!  :P

It's been a long time since I've seen an action movie that delivered like this.  How great to see some juice back in the old genre!  8)
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Re: Four reasons you should go see "Casino Royale"
« Reply #94 on: December 23, 2006, 08:17:27 pm »
Hey Meryl ..

Always exciting to read another good CR review!  8)
Glad to hear you liked the film!

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I think Barb mentioned this--what I like most about Daniel Craig is his brutal quality, which I think was the secret of Sean Connery's Bond.  He had a cruel look that made you fear and respect him as one who needed to kill as part of his job.  As handsome as he is, Craig's face and eyes remind me of nothing so much as a copperhead snake, deadly and utterly ready to strike.  The more debonair Bonds fade into the woodwork in comparison.

Exactly.  He looks amazingly 'dangerous' in this pic .. Love it!  ;)



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Re: Four reasons you should go see "Casino Royale"
« Reply #95 on: December 23, 2006, 08:31:34 pm »
Thanks for all the tasty pics of DC, Milli!  Especially the Bo Derek shot coming out of the water!  :P
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Re: Four reasons you should go see "Casino Royale"
« Reply #96 on: December 24, 2006, 01:05:45 pm »
Wow - like a copperhead snake - that's exactly it, Meryl.  Good call.  Yep - I agree that the only other Bond that even compares to Daniel Craig's is Sean Connery's.  Needless to say, that's saying A LOT.

I didn't notice Paul Haggis in the credits.  That woulda taken the wind out of my sails a tad, too.

I'm going to go see The Good Shepherd today.  It gets mixed reviews, but I notice that the reviewers I agree with most often like it a lot.  So I'm hopeful.

I saw The Good German yesterday.  I thought it was kinda blah.  Maybe I should go into detail as to why in another thread so as not to hijack my own.  But to just give some quick reasons, George Clooney continues to do zippity-doo-dah for me as an actor, and Tobey Maguire, as much as I've liked him in the past, wasn't actor enough to carry off this role.  I just don't think he's capable, after all, of insidiousness with a hint of vulnerability.  I just didn't buy him as a really icky guy.  It actually unintentionally gave me the creeps to watch him try.  But even with a better actor in the role, the movie would have fallen flat.  The dialog was flat, flat, flat.  I'm surprised I didn't see Paul Haggis' name in its credits.

Gotta run - I'll file my report later!


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Re: Four reasons you should go see "Casino Royale"
« Reply #97 on: December 29, 2006, 06:11:19 pm »
Wow - like a copperhead snake - that's exactly it, Meryl.  Good call.  Yep - I agree that the only other Bond that even compares to Daniel Craig's is Sean Connery's.  Needless to say, that's saying A LOT.

Thanks, Barb.  Yep, it's a major compliment to DC's Bond that he is able to be put in Sean's company and not pale into insignificance.  8)

Hey, this critic actually puts "Casino Royale" at the top of his list for the best of 2006!  :D

December 28, 2006

Owen Gleiberman, film critic for Entertainment Weekly magazine, picks the ten best movies of 2006.

10. Cars Pixar's witty and gorgeously designed NASCAR fable was the niftiest fantasy in a year of animated overkill.

9. The Death of Mr. Lazarescu was an enthralling human drama from Romania that follows one long night as a lonely old wreck of an alcoholic is shuttled from hospital to hospital.

8. Sweet Land If this movie had Terrence Malick's name on it, it would have been praised to the heavens, as it re-synchs your heartbeat to a pre-technological time, touching chords of collective memory about love and the American immigrant dream.

7. Infamous was that other movie about how Truman Capote entered the stern Kansas heartland to create “In Cold Blood.” It's a bolder, zestier, even more revelatory vision.

6. Deliver Us From Evil You may think you know all that you want to know about the child-sex-abuse scandals of the Roman Catholic Church, but Amy Berg's psychologically transfixing documentary brings us searingly close to the victims, the perpetrators, and the officials who covered it all up.

5. Dave Chappelle's Block Party is the most nimble, accomplished, and blazingly alive concert movie since “Stop Making Sense.”

4. Sherrybaby The finest acting I saw all year was Maggie Gyllenhaal's fearless performance as a dilapidated good-time girl who emerges from prison and tries to reconnect with her daughter.

3. The Good Shepherd Robert De Niro's heady and intoxicating inquiry into the early decades of the CIA transcends the espionage thriller in much the same way that “The Godfather” transcended the gangster genre, though be warned: It's a movie of hints, shadows, and barely glimpsed connections.

2. United 93 For most of Paul Greengrass' amazing, hair-trigger 9/11 thriller, we're not just sitting back and watching a terrorist attack, we're right on that plane, along with the passengers, living their fear as they try to change the destiny of a world that has opened up like an abyss.

1. Casino Royale Yes, I realize it's heresy to say that the year's best film could actually be entertaining, but the beauty of this new James Bond classic, with its indelible performance by Daniel Craig, is the way it revives the primal enjoyment of what action, suspense, and romance feel like when there is something at stake.


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Re: Four reasons you should go see "Casino Royale"
« Reply #98 on: December 30, 2006, 06:00:48 pm »
Wow! Thanks for that post Meryl!  ;)

How about another pic?  ::)





..and for old time's sake .. :P





I hope I can catch one last viewing of CR before it leaves theatres!

Other movies I am yet to check out:
- Blood diamonds
- Apocalypto
- And the new movie with Dame Judy and Kate Blanchett: Notes on a Scandal.

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Re: Four reasons you should go see "Casino Royale"
« Reply #99 on: December 30, 2006, 06:58:51 pm »
I've managed to go see CR over the holidays and I completely agree with the lot of you. I've previously always thought James Bond films were so unrealistic that they've just been boring to me (I haven't sen all that many of them to be honest). Not this one! Very entertaining, exiting, wonderful action scenes, great characters. I've been a fan of Mads Mikkelsen's since the Danish TV series "Rejseholdet" and he didn't disappoint here. And I can't believe how Daniel Craig has managed to stay out of my sights before this....... I mean.....WOW! and GUH!!  :P  :P