007 : casino royale 1 of the greatest movies of all time?

[zidane1strife]

Great movies stand the test of time. You can always look at "best movies" lists and see people who voted that their favourite move of all time was the hit movie that came out a few months ago, but that's just really the flavour of the moment, and many will simply not be remembered in a year or two. You get the same short-term fashions in music and clothes polls.

There no doubt Casino Royale is a good film. It's a very good Bond film, which is hardly surprising as so many of them were sucky, or now very much dated as a product of their times. Is it an all time great? Will it be remembered in the same way that the Peirce Brosnan Bond movies will be remembered when people were lauding them as the best Bond movies ever? Will it be remembered with the same plaudits as a Lord of The Rings, Star Wars, Casablanca, Philadelphia Story, North by Northwest, Blade Runner, Alien, To Catch A Thief, Some Like It Hot, etc?

It doesn't matter whether they're remembered as classics or not, the masses are a bunch of mindless lemming like fickle creatures that change from classic to classic basically on a whim that spreads like a wild ravaging fire, or a virus. So long as one kid, a single mind cherishes it as his most precious or favorite movie, it will be so in his eyes, and in the eyes of the beholder... of all beholders given time they too shall understand his point of view, and why it had value and merit and how it commemorated all other movies in its own twisted, for the time and times when it was not accepted, way.

 

[DuckThor Evil]

I haven't seen it, but bond alone makes the movie one to remember forever and ever, forever and ever... at least for bond fans, or fans of agent 007, it appears I'm saying the same thing using different words. For me even that which is unknown is the greatest for I believe that girls hell even movies that I don't know, I try not to judge a book by its cover or its content, or at least I try, I try, yet I prefer they live forever in bliss and me forever in hell or twilight from time to time to get a glimpse of them.

I respect the dead but more than that the living and their living wills, yet I hope for an even brighter tomorrow. That is why I respect the works of others be they alive or dead, they live on through their works or through continuing said works. To question the work of someone, Is but a nigh unforgivable insult that could drive some to commit suicide, even innocent fans.... yes even innocent children could be driven down the path of rape, crime, drugs, mass murders, genocide, global annihilation... all spawned from a single insult to a single actor, writer, or creator of content.

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[vazel]

Oh man his babbling has me laughing 'til my gut hurts.

 

[Bouncing Zabaglione Bros.]

Oh man his babbling has me laughing 'til my gut hurts.

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[Dresden]

LSD flashbacks are NOT your friend.

You're my absolute favorite member. Never stop posting.



NEVER!

 

[DuckThor Evil]

LSD flashbacks are NOT your friend.

Quotet for truth and I would also say that they are not friend to this discussion board either. It was "fun" for a few posts, but I don't want to hear about cannibalism, or giant of destruction etc.
ever again.

 

[Tim Murray]

Situation resolved. Back on topic, please.

 

[DuckThor Evil]

Situation resolved. Back on topic, please.

Very nice!

Anyways about the Bond movie. I did like it, the action was more in your face than usually and Daniel Craig was good choice for this film, I did however feel that the story was on a back seat while the introduction of a new Bond actor was sitting in front, the story wasn't all that great imo and the poker scene lasted too long and less surprisingly they always monster hands with the last heads up having four of a kind and straight flush. :smile:. I did enjoy this movie, but I still liked Miami Vice more.

 

[icecold1983]

imo the action scenes were amazing, especially the fight scenes. very realistic and gritty. how did he have trouble holding onto his gun? he only lost it in 1 fight, and its very understandable how he lost it.

goldeneye was easily the best brosnan bond movie, but this is miles better.

 

[Bouncing Zabaglione Bros.]

imo the action scenes were amazing, especially the fight scenes. very realistic and gritty. how did he have trouble holding onto his gun? he only lost it in 1 fight, and its very understandable how he lost it.

Off the top of my head, he loses his gun in the opening scene, the stairwell fight, the airport fight, and the collapsing Venetian building. I suppose it's more gritty if there are two guys slugging it out rather then one guy who shoots the other from six feet away and it's all over.

It does however remind me of that running joke on the "Fast Show" where two guys just do nothing but punch each other in a parody of the Hollywood movie.

 

[Malo]

Some great fight scenes in the movie, and overall very well done, easily one of the better Bond movies.... but that damn zoolander look was really distracting the whole way through. I didn't know whether to chuckle or puke after I realised it was going to be his "bond look" throughout the movie.

 

[Bouncing Zabaglione Bros.]

The only good thing about GoldenEye was that Brosnan proved to be a fairly decent Bond. The movie itself, well, it was literally the first time in my life that I ever dosed off during a movie.

On the other hand, I loved Tomorrow Never Dies, which I rank as one of the best Bond films. Then again, who am I - I also liked A View to a Kill a lot, even though it's completely not done to like Roger Moore bond films.

That was my point. When Brosnan took over, everyone was saying "fantastic, best Bond ever, best Bond movie ever, resurrected the franchise, etc". Looking back from a few years hindsight, it's a case of "meh, mostly pretty good, nothing outstanding".

 

[Xmas]

If this is an attempt at wit I'm not getting it.

No, that's a serious question. What ties to Hollywood does a movie need to have to be called a "Hollywood movie"? I wouldn't call Casino Royale (or any other Bond, for that matter) a Hollywood movie, despite the involvement of MGM and Columbia Pictures.

 

[nintenho]

I hated it, the story went nowhere and had a whole bunch of twists that weren't bond-like.

Goldeneye is a classic because it's just testosterone and bullets, this not so much.

 

[icecold1983]

Some great fight scenes in the movie, and overall very well done, easily one of the better Bond movies.... but that damn zoolander look was really distracting the whole way through. I didn't know whether to chuckle or puke after I realised it was going to be his "bond look" throughout the movie.

zoolander look??? uhhhhh.......

when does he ever have this look

 

[icecold1983]

also 'you know my name' is 1 of the sickest songs ever

 

[Skrying]

Best bond movie? Maybe. One of the best movies of all time? You're joking.

Seriously, it was a really good Bond movie. But I've never considered any (including Casino Royale) to be that great of movies.

 

[icecold1983]

what movies is 1 of the greatest of all time, probly a movie from the 1950s?

 

[Frank]

Well, it was a nice movie. In retrospect, the nice bits were mostly well executed. The stupid things stand out more.

 

[Bouncing Zabaglione Bros.]

zoolander look??? uhhhhh.......

when does he ever have this look

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