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Nov. 17th, 2006 03:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
vintage_belleWent to a 12:01 showing last night. Didn't wake up until 1:00 - having slept right through my alarm and missed my class.
But it was so worth it, because HOLY SHIT Casino Royale is the best new Bond movie since Sean Connery played the part. They went back to basics with this one - no more space lasers set to destroy the world and other crap like that. This one is about money, money and nothing but money. Well, with maybe a hint of how money is power, but that's it.
This is the also the first Bond since Liscence to Kill to have been based on actual Ian Flemming work, and it's the first film since The Living Daylights to use Ian Flemming's original title as the title of the movie. It's also the first time you won't see Moneypenny and the second time you won't see Q. Which means that the plot has more to it than big explosions, car chases, and sex.
Daniel Craig has even perfected the Connery Inflection when he says "Bond. James Bond"! There is parkour and a machete fight in a stair case, and a few excellent back up characters. Naturally Dame Judy Dench is bloody fantastic - M has the ultimate Granny Power for this movie, including one of the best lines in Bond movie history.
Go see it. Go see it now.
But it was so worth it, because HOLY SHIT Casino Royale is the best new Bond movie since Sean Connery played the part. They went back to basics with this one - no more space lasers set to destroy the world and other crap like that. This one is about money, money and nothing but money. Well, with maybe a hint of how money is power, but that's it.
This is the also the first Bond since Liscence to Kill to have been based on actual Ian Flemming work, and it's the first film since The Living Daylights to use Ian Flemming's original title as the title of the movie. It's also the first time you won't see Moneypenny and the second time you won't see Q. Which means that the plot has more to it than big explosions, car chases, and sex.
Daniel Craig has even perfected the Connery Inflection when he says "Bond. James Bond"! There is parkour and a machete fight in a stair case, and a few excellent back up characters. Naturally Dame Judy Dench is bloody fantastic - M has the ultimate Granny Power for this movie, including one of the best lines in Bond movie history.
Go see it. Go see it now.
