Posted on 11/04/2012 6:46:36 AM PST by Perdogg
Like most origin stories, “Casino Royale” makes for great storytelling. Unlike most origin stories, however, it is executed with near perfection.
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Real men don’t “emulate” other men. A man isn’t really a man until he becomes himself.
I understand, but what I meant was aspiring to the style, the class, the dress, the attitude. Craig doesn’t inspire.
I always thought Gabriel Byrne would have been a very good Bond.
Mrs. Dash - nature's true aphrodisiac.
Casino Royal was two movies tied together with some plot connections. The first half was the best Bond film ever. I’ve watched it many times. It ends when the girl left the restaurant. The rest is a puzzling and unnecessary coda. They missed a great opportunity to end the movie there.
I’ve never read the books, and grew up with Sean Connery although I’m not a die-hard fan of his. Connery was the best until Craig, but Craig is simply a better actor, and the Bond he creates is more believable and interesting to me.
Flame away if you think my input is even worth it.
You didn’t like Sean Bean in Goldeneye?
This Bardem villain seems like a psycotic version.
He and Famke were good.
As I’ve said before I think Jonathan Pryce was too hammy.
I think Sophie M worked as a villain, Pierce busting a cap in her was one of his best scenes as Bond. Robert Carlye was boring and it’s too bad, the character had potential, a guy that couldn’t feel pain.
The Korean guy who became a White guy and got into a sword fight in DAD was just funny.
The 2 Craig villains so far were okay but not especially “memorable”. I think that’s why we have a blond Javier Bardem this time, even if he stinks it will probably be memorable.
“You didn’t like Sean Bean in Goldeneye?”
Unmemorable. I remember him more for his small role in Ronin than Goldeneye.
Havier = blehh... Besides, I read the Wiki for Skyfall, so I have no need to $pend. I’ll take those dollar$ and put it towards drugs, gummy bears and KFC. Or buying the DVD of Raising Arizona.
Sophie M = HAWT!
Famke = HOT!
“The Korean guy who became a White guy and got into a sword fight in DAD was just funny.”
That made my brain lose 2.3% of it’s carbon.
SHAWN CONNERY 4EVA!!!
Sean Bean was OK, but he’s faded so much in my memory that as GOPster said, he’s become unmemorable. I think the female villains are far more stand-outs. Famke’s Xenia Onatopp having an orgasm while gunning down people was a jaw-dropper. It seems like you can do things with female villains now you couldn’t get away with in a male villain today.
I don’t think I could’ve shot Sophie, she’s just too hot (and to quote her character to Bond, I’d miss her too much). Seeing her in the scenes with the “evil” Carlyle, it was just embarrassing. She was far more sadistic to the man responsible for her Stockholm Syndrome than he could portray as a menacing character (indeed, you almost felt sorry for him - although perhaps that brought an added dimension to him, I’m not sure that’s something I wanted to see in him... made him too weak). Another problem with Carlyle is that he has such a working-class guy persona, it’s like you’d run into someone like him at your local bar/pub. I prefer the bigger-than-life types.
I know a lot of folks loathe “A View To A Kill”, but I think Christopher Walken was magnificent as Zorin. He’s probably the last to portray an old-fashioned villain. If they had cut some of the silly stuff out, sacked the pretty-but-vacant Tanya Roberts in favor of beefing up the role of the gorgeous Fiona Fullerton and replacing a too-old Rog for Timothy Dalton, this could’ve easily become one of the top 3 films in the entire franchise.
As for Javier Bardem, I think it will be singularly impossible for him to top Anton Chigurh. If he was reprising Chigurh (who didn’t die at the end), that would be great.
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What is your opinion of Jack Vincennes?
From “L.A. Confidential” ? What does that have to do with JB ?
It’s your new name, Jack.
No.
Yes. I plan on bombing your FB page later...hehehehehehehehehehehehehehe
Um, please don’t. I’m hardly on it and I don’t want to waste my time with cleaning up silly nonsense.
Ok Jack, I’ll be nice.
Tell me about Mrs. Dash.
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