Casino Royale ** INLINE SPOILERS ** - Page 3

Morbo · #21 11-22-2006, 08:55 AM

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Even though I saw the ending double-cross coming, it was still refreshingly powerful to see the origins of James Bond's emotionless resolve after being both betrayed and losing someone he loves.

And there's something so perfect about the scene - I won't ruin it for you - where Craig gets to utter those famous three words for the first time: "Bond. James Bond."

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That must be one hell of a scene, since the double-crossing was worth ruining, but the scene wasn't. Guess I should know better than to read these sort of threads, but whatever.

Jeff_B · #22 11-24-2006, 12:29 AM

Ouch yeah that sucks that thats ruined for ya
but yea

The blind was 1 million I saw it about an hour ago and I had to explain to my girl why he got the 500k card back when he raised it to 2 million.

It was A6.

My girlfriend also told me to "stop laughing" when he was talking about the bluff minraise. Hmm lets see I have to win like 5% of the time for a call to be correct. I fold.

Yeah Great Bluff!

Also I am the only one who thought it was funny...

Poker over all not too bad. Kind of wish they had LESS seeing as how my girlfriend doesn't understand the game and I have to explain alot.

I also thought it was funny when villian loses the astin martin and it looks like that table sits 6 tops.. LIVE 6 max game perhaps?

Maybe just bad perspective.

Good movie though.

SGravel · #23 11-24-2006, 06:15 PM

Anybody remembers the hand where Bond wins his Aston Martin?

Jeff_B · #24 11-24-2006, 07:12 PM

kk vs aa bond (aa) turned set and villian rivered set I believe

Enrique · #25 11-25-2006, 04:08 PM

I think Bond had the set at the flop. Not sure though.

Triumph36 · #26 11-26-2006, 02:36 AM

Just saw this - solid film. The poker scenes were as well done as they could be. Craig's definitely a great choice for Bond - or at least for this character of Bond, who's still clever, but certainly a lot more edgy.

Sad to see 'Q' (or 'R') go, but I didn't miss him either - the Bond franchise was straddling the fence between goofy, cartoonish nonsense and serious action film - a few clunkers in a row made them have to decide one way or the other, and I feel like they picked the right one.

renodoc · #27 11-27-2006, 07:33 PM

What was supposed to be in the suitcase at the end? Please don't tell me it was $120M!! Also, I thought that the top prize was $150M- did they take $30M in rake??? That's Harrahsesque.

pryor15 · #28 11-27-2006, 07:46 PM

i just saw this.

i'd like to see poker scenes where you don't need the pure nuts to win, but whatever. just once, i'd like to see the hero call w/ 22 on a 3677J board because he knows villain has AK, but that's me.

Craig is great, as I suspected he'd be. this is a Bond I find really interesting to watch.

one thing I noticed: Bond movies are always pushing, pushing, pushing the technology for obvious reasons, but this one was refreshing in that the technology is advanced enough on its own that they can do cool stuff without stretching too far. Dude gets a text message. That I can get behind.

that last big scene is going to make a great video game level

diebitter · #29 11-27-2006, 08:06 PM

I just saw this movie at the weekend, and really enjoyed it. Good to see the world's biggest badass is British [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

It was a radical departure for Bond. They sort of tried to be this edgy with Dalton, and a little with Brosnan in Goldeneye, but veered away from it in the past, but looks to me they finally grasped the nettle and settled for a new take. Works well, I just hope they have the character developing from an intelligent flyboy into the suave agent we know and love over the course of a few films, so we can see Bond growing into the figure that was Connery in Dr No and From Russia with Love (or something like it - a dangerous dude wrapped up in a suave overlay).

I did have an issue with the card scenes, but not because of the over the top hands...didn't mind that, it's a movie, after all. My gripe is that they were quite flat. They could have been much more tense and exciting with a little opportune music, editing, and unusual angles.

Good Bond, would have liked to have seen Bale or Owen there, but not disappointed with Craig.

LuckOfTheDraw · #30 11-27-2006, 10:32 PM

I just saw it. While, all in all, I definitely enjoyed the movie and think it's one of the better Bond films, there's a je ne sais quoi that bothered me about it. It wasn't anything in particular, like the poker, which did suck (to be expected), but it was just throughout the entire film. I will definitely be thinking about this, trying to find what about the film was rubbing me the wrong way. I might have to see it again to figure it out.

Anyways, I think Craig was great as Bond. I think he embodies Bond better than Clive or Bale. So, he's probably the best aspect of the movie. The worst, probably the song in the opening credits. Am I the only one who thinks that song was completely bland and sucked hardcore?