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<blockquote data-quote="Arnwyn" data-source="post: 3191199" data-attributes="member: 7701"><p>Just saw it. Wow... it's George Lazenby all over again.</p><p></p><p>Seriously, though, I have mixed feelings about Casino Royale. It was a barely mediocre Bond movie, but a pretty good generic spy movie.</p><p></p><p>Lots of problems for my particular taste, though. The plot was overly convoluted (starting about halfway through) and there were too many parts that just <em>dragged</em>. I found the whole casino sequence to be twice as long as it should have been, and then again with the hospital/beach scene to be horrendously dreary as well. Other problems I had was that if this was meant to be a "re-start", then the casting of Judi Dench as "M" was a poor idea (and I <em>love</em> Judi Dench - and she was great, with a good amount of screen time in this movie. Mixed...feelings...killing...me). But really - if you're going to have a re-start, then have a damn re-start. Finally, the idea that removing the "gadgets" to make it more "realistic" was somewhat... misguided. It was not realistic in any way, shape, or form (nor am I expecting that from any spy movie, much less a James Bond movie). Needless to say, if "realism" was their motiviation, it failed miserably.</p><p></p><p>This was no Bond movie IMO, but a reasonable facsimile thereof. It definitely was a pretty good generic spy movie. They had all the great standard spy movie tropes: Ritzy train at night? Check. Goofy slide-out car gadget? Check. Car chase? Check. One-liners? Check.</p><p></p><p>A lot of the dialogue was really great, IMO (my favorite: "That last hand nearly killed me." Heh). I also found the cinematography to be among the best out of any Bond movie, by far. That whole parkour sequence at the beginning had great wide-open camera shots with long-running takes (no herky-jerky cutaways and shaky-cam nonsense). Further, I found the music in this one to be excellent (and it's rare I notice music in a Bond movie). No surprise though - it was composed by David Arnold (Stargate, among other things).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Arnwyn, post: 3191199, member: 7701"] Just saw it. Wow... it's George Lazenby all over again. Seriously, though, I have mixed feelings about Casino Royale. It was a barely mediocre Bond movie, but a pretty good generic spy movie. Lots of problems for my particular taste, though. The plot was overly convoluted (starting about halfway through) and there were too many parts that just [i]dragged[/i]. I found the whole casino sequence to be twice as long as it should have been, and then again with the hospital/beach scene to be horrendously dreary as well. Other problems I had was that if this was meant to be a "re-start", then the casting of Judi Dench as "M" was a poor idea (and I [i]love[/i] Judi Dench - and she was great, with a good amount of screen time in this movie. Mixed...feelings...killing...me). But really - if you're going to have a re-start, then have a damn re-start. Finally, the idea that removing the "gadgets" to make it more "realistic" was somewhat... misguided. It was not realistic in any way, shape, or form (nor am I expecting that from any spy movie, much less a James Bond movie). Needless to say, if "realism" was their motiviation, it failed miserably. This was no Bond movie IMO, but a reasonable facsimile thereof. It definitely was a pretty good generic spy movie. They had all the great standard spy movie tropes: Ritzy train at night? Check. Goofy slide-out car gadget? Check. Car chase? Check. One-liners? Check. A lot of the dialogue was really great, IMO (my favorite: "That last hand nearly killed me." Heh). I also found the cinematography to be among the best out of any Bond movie, by far. That whole parkour sequence at the beginning had great wide-open camera shots with long-running takes (no herky-jerky cutaways and shaky-cam nonsense). Further, I found the music in this one to be excellent (and it's rare I notice music in a Bond movie). No surprise though - it was composed by David Arnold (Stargate, among other things). [/QUOTE]
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