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Post by fierano on Nov 24, 2006 23:08:07 GMT -5
Somehow, seeing it makes you: 1. forget that The last Bond drove BMWs... 2. ignore the fact that Daniel Craig is blond (very blond in some scenes!), 3. figure out why Bond never formed lasting relationships.
And in a good way, mind you.
What do you think?
On a rather obscure and bizarre side note, I wonder how Le Chiffre's special torture method (you'd have to see it to understand) would carry over into a "Carsino Royale" version. XD Or is it that I really don't want to know, or that it really cannot be explained in automotive terms?
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Post by ChibiJaime on Nov 24, 2006 23:18:15 GMT -5
Mreh.
I'm totally all-for Connery-Bond. This new one does not intrigue me.
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Post by Tracker89 on Nov 30, 2006 18:54:17 GMT -5
Just saw it today and it was...different. James Bond used to be this series of movies that barely took itself seriously, with sci-fi villains and crazy gadgets and witty one-liners and all that jazz. Just look at Die Another Day: It had a car that turned invisible, a huge space laser, an ice palace, and chicks using passports as weapons. Casino Royale has none of that(well, except for that crazy African guy at the beginning), yet still manages to keep that James Bond 'feel'. I don't know how, but they managed to pull it off. I'd recommend it to anyone with an open mind. Only two things about it ticked me off: -The pacing. Some parts in the middle of the movie and towards the end just seemed to stretch longer than they should. -The Aston Martin's treatment. Actually, his method is rather simple, if brutal as hell. Maybe the oil pan would work?
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Post by fierano on Dec 1, 2006 0:05:12 GMT -5
Probly. Still, the Aston Martin got off plenty easier than the Z8 from The World is Not Enough. THAT destruction constituted cruel and unusual punishment. XD But yeah, the "ending" was pretty long. Though it kinda lured you into that traditional Bond-ending complacency before shooting you in the face with a new twist. Coolest "remix" was that of the famous gun-barrel scene, though.
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Post by Tracker89 on Dec 3, 2006 10:12:47 GMT -5
I haven't seen The World is Not Enough, but it isn't the destruction of the Aston that bothered me, but the fact that we barely saw anything of it before the destruction. That is the one part where I think the makers were trying too hard to make this different from the previous Bond movies.
And yeah, half of our theater left during the scene where Bond and the chick(already forgot her name...nice to see that Bond girls are still disposable) were lying on the beach. Missed the entire Venice scene and true ending.
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Post by fierano on Dec 3, 2006 10:22:42 GMT -5
It really helps to think... "That's it? Maybe if I stay around there'll be more." Years of hanging around for the outtakes and epilogues during the credits can do that to a guy.
But yeah, if you watch The World is Not Enough you'll essentially see the rather painful (automotively speaking) demise of a BMW Z8, and subsequently, the notion of the embodiment of British masculinity driving such a car.
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