Tuesday, February 13, 2007
Casino Royale....(spoiler info. included)
I thought the action and pace of the movie was awesome. Rarely a dull moment, and action that just draws you through the whole thing (other than bit of a hiccup after Bonds gets "saved" from being tortured, when nothing makes sense, which I'll get to later.) Anyway, its the first movie I've seen in a long time that I didn't have a complaint to make to my wife as we walked out of the theatre. However, upon reflection (the next day), the whole girl being "bad" thing does not make any sense at all. If she was bad, then half of her early actions in the movie make no logical sense at all. I'm more okay with this than I normally would be though, because frankly the "twist" of her betraying Bond was not important to my enjoyment of the action, so I cared less than in a movie where the whole plot is based upon the twist and having things be logically consistent. It was an interesting way to go about showing why Bond is so cold-hearted in later movies and has no problem treating women as conquests that deserve no emotional involvement. Probably the best Bond movie I've seen, although coming from me that doesn't mean much, because overall I don't enjoy the Bonds movies.
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I can't disagree with your comments, Chris. I too enjoyed the Bond movie, although admittedly it has been awhile since I saw it. About a year ago I actually read through about the first 5 of Ian Fleming's Bond books. Casino Royale is the first book that Fleming wrote, and I thought it was nice to discover the coldness that Bond has toward females in later installments.
The makers of the movie stayed pretty close to Fleming's original content. One change was modernizing the gambling. In the book Bond plays Baccarat, while in the movie it's the more popular and widely understood game (thanks to ESPN and the World Series of Poker) of Texas Hold'em.
You write very well.
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