'Casino Royale' appears a triumph

stevepopyak · #1 11-18-2006, 09:21 AM

Good flick, saw it last night ... Daniel Craig does a fine job.

Crown@club · #2 11-19-2006, 12:04 PM

Good film. Craig brings his own style. No Connery's esque. No anyone else. It had a great start, but it dragged the last 30 minutes of the film. Great torture scene. It had all elements to it, including comedy. The movie introduced all Bond characters involved in the movie perfectly, and I mean perfectly including an old friend introduced. Keeping Judi Dench was fine with the way the film worked.

I wish I had never read the reviews. I believe the one I did read was from the USA Today Tuesday or Wed. It gave away too much. Especially 2 things that I waited for during that last antaganizing 30 minutes of the film.

My wife hates James Bond. I think she hates the Bondisms. Said she enjoyed the movie until the first Bondism came out, and that happened about 90 minutes into the film. I actually find that encouraging.

#3 11-25-2006, 10:51 AM

It was the best Bond since Goldeneye. I had my doubts about Daniel Craig but he did the role justice.

I was kind of upset there wasn't an invisible car in this one.

ELA · #4 11-25-2006, 11:04 AM

What I thought was ironic was when I read that the original Casino Royale book was written about 8 years or so before Daniel Craig was born. Just got a little laugh out of that. I don't remember when the original Casino Royale movie was done but from what I've heard it would not have been difficult to improve off that one. LOL.

Eric

pmayjr · #5 11-25-2006, 01:36 PM

This movie rocked the f'n kasbaugh. I liked it's striped down plot more than anything. It has an open-ended ending to it too. I've already warmed to Craig. He'll have a nice run as long as there's some half-way decent writing to go along with threse movies.