[Syberpunk]

(04-26-2019 06:25 PM)Donfitz007 Wrote:  

It pisses me off because Casino Royal is the ULTIMATE feminist bond movie. It features very strong/intelligent women, actual romance, a man getting his manhood destroyed (figuratively and literally) A man losing hope, women being the saviors (as in giving the correct knowledge) and lastly it shows a man being a weapon, a protector, a tool down to the coldest point. AND I LOVE THE MOVIE because they did all this very well, it didn't seem like a feminist movie because they made it a bond movie first.

Spectre came off rapey to me, maybe that's the reason they went this way.

I'm a bit of a fanboy of Casino Royale and I thought I had gone mad when everyone was praising Skyfall, when the film that actually deserved was released 6 years prior, it was like CR didn't exist and Craig was introduced in Skyfall to most people.

I grew up like most here watching an assortment of Connery, Moore and Brosnan films, they always seemed to play the Moore ones (perhaps because he did so many and when I think of Bond, I think of the sheer daftness of him ), but despite always liking them, I never watched them for the storytelling, it was always the gadgets or hot girls....so Casino Royale was a revelation in that it was the first time I actually felt for the character and could follow the story. It was a bit like what I imagine seeing Star Wars or 2001 for the first time was, I didn't KNOW they could do a Bond film that action packed and yet emotional and grounded. They made poker look captivating. It doesn't feel like a rote entry in a numbered franchise. I can watch it as a singular classic film over and over, it flows so well. Lightning in a bottle it was and like most great films the side characters make it too, that cast, the Hannibal actor. Its one of the only films that could be stood outside the series as a classic, in the realms of Die Hard 1, the first Matrix etc. I think its nigh on impossible the series will ever see a films as well done as this again because you can't manufacture real creativity twice...it just happens by the grace of god if you cover enough bases.

It felt like the series at the moment was boldly going to strike out and do its own and continue to be reinvention, but it went right back to cliches. People talk about the Star Wars sequel trilogy being a disappointment, but this series (Bond) looked like it was going do the miracle of actually better than the preceding series (old films) and do it just like the source material always intended.....and its amounted to a load of well shot tripe.


Martin Campbell has a masculine sense of directing as opposed to Mendes. He made everything visceral yet also classical. Craig wasn't acting and wrote like he was 500 years old and over the hill, they aged the characters for the sequels despite being new! He's moping too!

Reboot films are not meant to this good. And yet Eva Green was scorching sensual, legitmately missed in the sequels as a character or actress just to have around.

That rocking theme:

That delivery:

That casino: