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Four reasons you should go see "Casino Royale"
Meryl:
Thanks for all the tasty pics of DC, Milli! Especially the Bo Derek shot coming out of the water! :P
ednbarby:
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!
Meryl:
--- Quote from: ednbarby 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.
--- End quote ---
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.
http://www.ny1.com/ny1/Living/movie_reviews.jsp
Lumière:
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.
Mikaela:
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
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