Casino Royale - 2006

Drolgin Steingrinder · February 17, 2006, 12:05 pm

Interesting casting for this, the next Bond movie. Daniel Craig is going to be the first blond 007 ever, and we've got a Danish actor as Le Chiffre, the bad guy; Mads Mikkelsen. I'm not getting my hopes up too high as Bond movies in general have lost a lot of the style they used to have, but...it could be good. Casino Royale was the first 007 book Ian Fleming wrote, but the Broccolis (the owners of the 007 movie franchise) couldn't get the rights to the book back in the day - instead it was shot with a different, rather odd, cast as a semi-parody: Peter Sellers, David Niven, Orson Welles.

The new version of the movie should be more true to the original book, and I'm hoping Craig can bring the style back to Bond.

007:

Le Chiffre:

Truant · Post by **Truant** » February 17, 2006, 2:35 pm

I'm anxious to see this

kyoukan · Post by **kyoukan** » February 17, 2006, 3:13 pm

is the villain a political cartoonist?!

noel · Post by **noel** » February 17, 2006, 3:15 pm

Just saw this article on People:
http://people.aol.com/people/articles/0 ... 15,00.html

Either that's a horrible, horrible picture of her, or she's the ugliest bond girl I've seen in quite some time.

Funkmasterr · Post by **Funkmasterr** » February 17, 2006, 3:20 pm

noel wrote:Just saw this article on People:
http://people.aol.com/people/articles/0 ... 15,00.html

Either that's a horrible, horrible picture of her, or she's the ugliest bond girl I've seen in quite some time.

I agree.. she kind of looks like a troll.

Aslanna · Post by **Aslanna** » February 17, 2006, 3:43 pm

Who cares. Bond girls need sophistication and not just bimboness. Stop being miir.

Looks like she'll do fine.

noel · Post by **noel** » February 17, 2006, 4:46 pm

Like I said, Aslanna...

noel wrote:Either that's a horrible, horrible picture of her...

Funkmasterr · Post by **Funkmasterr** » February 17, 2006, 5:27 pm

Ditto, those pictures are much better, a bit pale for my taste, but much better.

Homercles · Post by **Homercles** » February 17, 2006, 5:35 pm

People still watch Bond movies?

Kwonryu DragonFist · February 17, 2006, 5:46 pm

All the modern day Bond-girls are nothing special and so-so imho.

They looked more the part in the older Bond movies.

Mads is good as the villain but the fellow playing Bond seems a bit on the light side!

He looks as if he can't even bench 160 pounds!

Then again, who knew what Ian Fleming envisioned in his Bond char?

Nick · Post by **Nick** » February 17, 2006, 7:06 pm

The new Bond was in Layer Cake and he was fucking great in it. Should be a good film.

Winnow · Post by **Winnow** » February 17, 2006, 7:44 pm

I'd hit hit...then recast it.

Kwonryu DragonFist · February 17, 2006, 8:17 pm

That's a better picture tho

laneela · Post by **laneela** » February 17, 2006, 9:04 pm

Funkmasterr wrote:Ditto, those pictures are much better, a bit pale for my taste, but much better.

She's gonna be heartbroken when she finds out.

Mads is le rawr.

Cotto · Post by **Cotto** » February 17, 2006, 10:28 pm

I lost a good deal of faith in the last film, right around the surfing the wave scene.
"WTF....its all CGI, fuck this!"

Kwonryu DragonFist · February 17, 2006, 11:02 pm

Cotto wrote:I lost a good deal of faith in the last film, right around the surfing the wave scene.
"WTF....its all CGI, fuck this!"

Can't compare with the old classic Bond movies nowadays

masteen · Post by **masteen** » February 22, 2006, 8:38 pm

The fucked up part is that Pierce Brosnan seemed like the protypical 007. They did OK jobs on the first 2 films, but since then they seem to forgot that these are supposed to be spy thrillers. Where are the crazy villains? Dr. Evil is a more convincing bad guy.

Aslanna · Post by **Aslanna** » February 22, 2006, 9:24 pm

It seems not everyone is happy!

http://www.craignotbond.com/

Whaaa?

Dregor Thule · Post by **Dregor Thule** » February 22, 2006, 10:01 pm

Heh, apparently a stuntman cracked two of Craigs teeth while doing a scene recently. Whoops!

Kwonryu DragonFist · February 23, 2006, 5:15 am

Dregor Thule wrote:Heh, apparently a stuntman cracked two of Craigs teeth while doing a scene recently. Whoops!

Maybe he didnt like the choice as Craig as the new Bond either!

miir · Post by **miir** » February 24, 2006, 2:55 pm

Yogurt-face can't even drive stick.

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/article/ds29513.html

Funkmasterr · Post by **Funkmasterr** » February 24, 2006, 3:04 pm

Pathetic.

Aslanna · Post by **Aslanna** » February 24, 2006, 3:28 pm

Yeah how pathetic that not everyone knows how to operate a manual transmission. OMG fire him quick!

Funkmasterr · Post by **Funkmasterr** » February 24, 2006, 4:33 pm

Well its kind of a vital part of him being in the role he is in, and there is no way you are going to get me to believe he didn't know that coming into the role.

It's not like driving a manual is really all that hard anyhow, I think it took me about 2 days of light driving to get to the point where I wasn't stalling the car or jerking when I shifted gears.

Nick · Post by **Nick** » February 24, 2006, 4:50 pm

Kwonryu DragonFist · February 24, 2006, 5:22 pm

Hehe, people have to understand that this is a normal person, an actor.

Not the REAL James Bond!

An actor isn't guaranteed to know every thing a superspy like James Bond knows from the start!

But he'll prolly grow into the role with some training.

Bond fans will just have to give him a chance and see the movie.

That's what's so wonderful with the movies, you can make it look real.

In the movies, you can make an actor look like a real martial artist/fighter with some choreographed moves he/she been practicing for a month!

miir · Post by **miir** » February 24, 2006, 6:55 pm

That still doesn't change the fact that his face looks like it was carved out of yogurt.

Aslanna · Post by **Aslanna** » February 24, 2006, 7:24 pm

Funkmasterr wrote:Well its kind of a vital part of him being in the role he is in, and there is no way you are going to get me to believe he didn't know that coming into the role.

It's not like driving a manual is really all that hard anyhow, I think it took me about 2 days of light driving to get to the point where I wasn't stalling the car or jerking when I shifted gears.

So if it's not really that hard... Don't you think that he'll be able to learn? He's an actor. It shouldn't matter what his driving abilities happen to be. That's what they have stunt drivers for anyway. I don't see really how his driving abilities would be relevant to the casting process.

noel · Post by **noel** » February 24, 2006, 8:33 pm

Given that he was *the* driver in Munich, I'm surprised he didn't learn to use a manual for that.

Kwonryu DragonFist · February 25, 2006, 1:48 am

miir wrote:That still doesn't change the fact that his face looks like it was carved out of yogurt.

The look we agree on 100 %!

Totally not what you'd expect for James Bond, older, blonde etc.

BUT if they think they can make shinies on this, more power to them, just as long as they think they know what the Bond-fans want.

I could care less. Only thing surprising is that they chose this fella as Bond!

Maybe in the next Bond episode he'd be 60 years old,brown skin and dreadlocks!

Asheran Mojomaster · February 27, 2006, 3:21 pm

I think I remember something about Pierce not being able to drive stick before he was Bond. Regardless though, I don't think this guy looks the part for Bond either.

noel · Post by **noel** » February 27, 2006, 4:29 pm

Asheran Mojomaster wrote:I think I remember something about Pierce not being able to drive stick before he was Bond.

No.

Chidoro · Post by **Chidoro** » February 27, 2006, 6:03 pm

I have no knowledge of the DB5 but aren't newer luxo-sport cars coming w/ paddle shifters?

Regardless, newer shift cars take so little time to learn compared to the older, shitty car shifters. It's almost a joke how easy modern day cars are to shift. I'm sure as a professional actor, he'll be more than suitable in a couple of days doing intense training.

laneela · Post by **laneela** » November 19, 2006, 10:01 am

I just saw this last night and was incredibly impressed. It's quite possibly my favorite 007 movie in a long time. Craig's Bond is raw, magnetic, flawed and extremely human (and by far the hottest to date). His delivery of the very few cliche lines was done comedically and was the first Bond *ever* to make me laugh out loud.

I couldn't say enough about Mads Mikkelsen's Le Chiffre. He was brilliantly desperate and creepy. The character was quite complex and I found that the scariest thing about him was his desperation. I don't think that'd be too easy to pull of but Mads conveyed that amazingly. Also, Craig and Mikkelsen played beautifully off each other in a few scenes. I love when I see two actors have that kind of rapport.

The story seemed a lot more plot-driven and realistic and less reliant on gadgetry than any other - in fact, there are virtually none. And the movie was extremely fast-paced without having an excess of action sequences. I didn't really notice how long the movie was until the last 10 minutes.

If you've become accustomed to the older Bond format and go in with those kinds of expectations, you might be disappointed (though my money is on "pleasantly surprised"). Their intention was to re-format the 007 franchise and they succeeded - and did it with style.

PS
Eva Green was a fucking bombshell in this movie. She's a better Bond girl than the likes of Halle Berry and Denise Richards could ever hope to be.

PSS
Drolgin - Another Dane is in it too: Jesper Christensen.

Side note: if I ever rave about an action movie, you can bet your ass it's a fantastic one since I don't tend to be a big fan.

Keverian FireCry · Post by **Keverian FireCry** » November 19, 2006, 8:02 pm

I just saw it last night at the Cinerama in Seattle (huuuuge screen). It's probably my favorite Bond movie ever. I've never been a huge fan of Bond in the past. Primarily because there's just too damn many, and they became so focused on the gadgets and gizmos that it got pretty rediculous. Though I do remember LOVING the gadgets when I was a kid.

I'm glad they've reinvented the series with this one in a similar fashion to Batman Begins, making it a bit more dark and 'real'. I thought Daniel Craig was fucking awesome and Eva Green is the most beautifu and intelligent Bond girl so far.

Fairweather Pure · Post by **Fairweather Pure** » November 20, 2006, 12:23 pm

What a great flick. Daniel Craig has a fantastic screen presence. Easily my favorite Bond movie since I was a kid. It's funny, because when I saw him in Layer Cake, I mentioned out loud to my wife at one point "I think he'd make a really good James Bond".

Daniel Craig did to Bond, what Christian Bale did to Batman.

To the above homo/emo men capping on this guy's looks. Well, lol. He's a good looking guy with a damn fine physique. (Kwon can back me up on that!) I don't understand where any of your hating came from. I doubt you'll even admit it even when he starts showing up on "sexiest men alive" polls next year.

I don't have a man-crush on him or anything, I'm just saying...

Xatrei · Post by **Xatrei** » November 20, 2006, 3:35 pm

I saw it this weekend and thought it was brilliant. I'm having a hard time deciding where to place it on my "best bond movies" chart. For my tastes, I think you need to go all the way back to Connery to find its equal or better, and I grew up on (and loved) Moore's Bond. Craig makes an phenomenal 007, and the lack of reliance upon gadgetry and villains who parody themselves was tremendous. My only (minuscule) complaint is that I could have done with about 5 minutes less poker action and a bit more Felix. I don't think trimming a bit of the poker would have taken anything away from the plot.

kyoukan · Post by **kyoukan** » November 20, 2006, 3:58 pm

James Bond does not play fucking poker.

Lalanae · Post by **Lalanae** » November 20, 2006, 4:51 pm

I haven't seen the movie, but the trailer is the first Bond trailer I've seen that actually made me want to see the film. It felt far more stylized than any Bond movies or trailers I've seen. I know a trailer isn't much to go by, but it WILL be the first Bond film I Netflix

Xatrei · Post by **Xatrei** » November 20, 2006, 6:06 pm

kyoukan wrote:James Bond does not play fucking poker.

But a no limit 150 million dollar baccarat tournament just doesn't have the same ring these days.

Canelek · Post by **Canelek** » November 21, 2006, 4:28 pm

Looking forward to seeing this--Mads Mikkelsen was great in Flickering Lights and Green Butchers(nice hair, Svend!).

Hesten · Post by **Hesten** » November 21, 2006, 6:44 pm

Canelek wrote:Looking forward to seeing this--Mads Mikkelsen was great in Flickering Lights and Green Butchers(nice hair, Svend!).

Hehe, yep.

Have you gotten around to see any of the other danish movies we reccomended yet?.

Canelek · Post by **Canelek** » November 21, 2006, 10:20 pm

No, because I could not find list--had been meaning to ask yall to re-post or link to the list....have not been around too much lately.

I certainly would appreciate it!

taktaktaktaktak

Hesten · Post by **Hesten** » November 22, 2006, 8:34 am

Hehe, you started the thread yourself:)
Here it is:

http://www.veeshanvault.org/forums/view ... ght=pusher

Oh, and since then, i seem to recall Pusher 1-3 coming out in US movie theaters as a 6 hour feature.

Nick · Post by **Nick** » November 24, 2006, 5:11 pm

What Laneela said!

My favourite Bond movie so far.

kyoukan · Post by **kyoukan** » November 25, 2006, 1:37 am

I thought this was probably the best bond ever. Although I liked Goldeneye a lot. Casino Royale seems to be taking the Bond paradigm in the diraction I thought they were taking it in Goldeneye, where everyone around Bond (including himsefl, I thought) looked at him as sort of an anachronism and un-needed since the end of the cold war, with no more cartoonish super villains to try to stop from building death rays in order to take over the world.

Then in the next three movies he fought cartoonish super villains and stopped them from building death rays to take over the world.

So maybe they won't go that route again this time with Daniel Craig. Although I doubt that they won't. In the next one he will probably be fighting islamic fundamentalist super villains or something equally lame. The people in charge of producing these films always fuck it up.

Canelek · Post by **Canelek** » November 26, 2006, 5:13 pm

True, they do end up fucking it all up...and I as well liked Goldeneye--at least conceptually. I think they may squeeze a couple good films out of Craig before they go all batshit and ruin a good story. As far as Islamic Fundamentalists, I am sure the upcoming Rambo movie will cover that.

Hmmm, now that I think about it--how about Remington Steele as the next Bond antagonist? At least he would put up a mean Baccarat battle before placing an easily captured--yet not easliy killed 007 in a sofisticated laser-death machine.

Winnow · Post by **Winnow** » March 23, 2007, 7:14 pm

Finally saw this last night. Best Bond movie I've seen imo with the Roger Moore Bond movies being next on the list.

Not sure I need spoilers at this point but:

[hide]Who the hell thought, "why don't we tie Bond up naked in a chair with an open bottom and then whack him in the nuts five or six times with a large knotted rope as torture?"

...you just don't mess with 007's family jewels like that! Of all the methods of torture they could come up with, they settled on crushing his balls? Wow.[/hide]

The action in Casino Royale was entertaining but Bond took twice the beating in this movie that any other Bond took over the course of two movies. He was more superhuman than agent at some points. The stunt work was excellent though.

They did a good job of touching on the traditional lines and characteristics of 007 without going overboard.

[hide]As it turns out, his love interest wasn't a traitor but if she was, a great scene would have been Bond reviving her from drowning, and then killing her again after getting off a good one liner.[/hide]

88/100

Dregor Thule · Post by **Dregor Thule** » March 23, 2007, 8:05 pm

Hmm, for some reason I thought I'd already commented on this. Anyways, I have to agree, was probably one of the best Bond movies made. Daniel Craig blew me away as 007, far surpassing my initial reaction to his casting news. And Eva Green.. well... she's just fucking fantastic. The French and Swedish should mate more often.

Fairweather Pure · Post by **Fairweather Pure** » March 31, 2007, 6:28 pm

After watching the DVD, I'm still amazed at how good this is. I'm also itching to see where this franchise is headed.

"Vodka Martini"

"Do you want that shaken or stirred?"

"Does it look like I give a damn?"

That line right there summed up the difference between the new and old Bond flicks.

Huzzah for the new Bond! Huzzah!