Casino Royale
Oh My God! What a film. Amazing. Spectacular. Fan-diddly-doodly-tastic. This film puts the two last bond films in the shade by absolutly miles. The settings - fantastic. The Bond - Brilliant. The Ladies - Stunning. The Plotline - Slightly believeable and very interesting, yet still un-complex enough to follow in one sitting. All round it was great to watch, and see it again i may do. I will definatly get the DVD when it comes out.
The final setting, in Italy was an immensly good choice, and the final view it showed was absolutly amazing. The House HAD A WATCHTOWER! There were limited special effects, or at least ones that i noticed, which is a good thing, and those i did see were immaculately done.
Craig makes a really good James Bond, and a better one than Brosnan and Moore. Obviously also better than Lazenby, and although it is a shame Dalton didnt get more films, he is better than him as well. Not as good as Connory I must admit, but if he keeps this up, and isnt just a "one film" Bond he will definatly carry his second place forward.
There were just two slight downers i could pick out of the film. The villians were not particularly memorable, a problem there has been with the recent films since "Tomorrow Never Dies" with Elliot Carver. But the rest of the film obviously compensates for this. The other was Bond's over-commercialisation. Where in the past the corporate sponsorships were slightly subtler, this time round it was far more noticable. He says "Bollinger" when he orders champagne, he has a short conversation about his watch, indicating it is not a Rolex, but something else, the name i have momentarily forgotten, which isnt great news for the company that paid for it. Now I can just about put up with Sony being the sponsor for all the electrical equipment - sony/eriksson phone, viao laptop etc, but the one really poor show was Ford. He was driving a Ford for a short part of the film. (Fear not, the Aston did come back later on). Now this is simply not on. A) It is not English (now i know i am not a massive patriot of the UK in any way shape or form, but when it comes to Bond, it pays to be British) and B) It is a Ford. And it looked completely pants. Not even a "souped-up" Ford. Poor show there, but i guess thats the way filmaking is going nowadays.
But nevertheless, the films supreme-ness makes up for these minor glitches. If you have not yet seen it, see it.
By the way, i also wish to repeat my usual rant about how long you have to wait until the film actually starts.
Hope everyone had a good weekend =)
P.S. One of the train video's on YouTube is up to 100 views! Just search "Lego Train", and my user name is Jon1866 or something like that.
The final setting, in Italy was an immensly good choice, and the final view it showed was absolutly amazing. The House HAD A WATCHTOWER! There were limited special effects, or at least ones that i noticed, which is a good thing, and those i did see were immaculately done.
Craig makes a really good James Bond, and a better one than Brosnan and Moore. Obviously also better than Lazenby, and although it is a shame Dalton didnt get more films, he is better than him as well. Not as good as Connory I must admit, but if he keeps this up, and isnt just a "one film" Bond he will definatly carry his second place forward.
There were just two slight downers i could pick out of the film. The villians were not particularly memorable, a problem there has been with the recent films since "Tomorrow Never Dies" with Elliot Carver. But the rest of the film obviously compensates for this. The other was Bond's over-commercialisation. Where in the past the corporate sponsorships were slightly subtler, this time round it was far more noticable. He says "Bollinger" when he orders champagne, he has a short conversation about his watch, indicating it is not a Rolex, but something else, the name i have momentarily forgotten, which isnt great news for the company that paid for it. Now I can just about put up with Sony being the sponsor for all the electrical equipment - sony/eriksson phone, viao laptop etc, but the one really poor show was Ford. He was driving a Ford for a short part of the film. (Fear not, the Aston did come back later on). Now this is simply not on. A) It is not English (now i know i am not a massive patriot of the UK in any way shape or form, but when it comes to Bond, it pays to be British) and B) It is a Ford. And it looked completely pants. Not even a "souped-up" Ford. Poor show there, but i guess thats the way filmaking is going nowadays.
But nevertheless, the films supreme-ness makes up for these minor glitches. If you have not yet seen it, see it.
By the way, i also wish to repeat my usual rant about how long you have to wait until the film actually starts.
Hope everyone had a good weekend =)
P.S. One of the train video's on YouTube is up to 100 views! Just search "Lego Train", and my user name is Jon1866 or something like that.
Vlogged by Jon at 11:14 PM
2 Comments:
Awesome! I heard he was bad, then I understood the context, and heard he was good.
a) that video was done the week before the halloween party.
b) When i said since elliot carver, i meant that elliot carver was actually memorable. The ones after werent.
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