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In Reply to: I'll say that Casino Royale is the best Bond film... posted by RGA on November 26, 2006 at 04:15:16:
the ridiculous beginning scene where he chases a guy in an embassy all around and then, after ducking automatic weapons fire and using a handgun shoots the shit out of a small platoon, blows up the second and third platoons after they have him in their sights.
Surely, one of the silliest scenes in Bond, or any, film.
The foot chase, of course, was ludicrous also but I'll be kind and not elaborate upon it.
It must be that you and others here are so dying to have a series to love you overlook all the moronic faults. Hype? Yeah, it probably plays a part, too.
How many years did people feel America was winning in Iraq, after all?
The power of the media is a monster.
Follow Ups:
I laughed when he blew up the embassay but it didn't take me out of the film... it was part of the enjoyment. Also that chase scene was a great scene... the guy he was chasing is the originator of those kinds of gymnastic type stunts and it took 3 months to choreograph and film. Sure it was silly... but it was fun.
Don't piss on my shoe and tell me it's raining.
film's producers as well, are arguing that this is a return to a more realistic, more Fleming-esque Bond.
Not.
This film is a bloated whale with no mounting tension. It's a fun film with a teenage sensability: try to have it all. Faster FASTER. Bigger explosions.
Instead of one kind of excess which sank Bond before, we now have another kind.
Pick your poison.
Fun?
Sure.
See Oldboy.
The big payoff scene in this picture is at the card game. Of course there are big stunts chases fight scenes -- it would not be Bond otherwise. However, for the first time in a long time Bond has a character arc, the women are not inept eye candy, the bad guy is not completely idiotic, and Bond is not infallable.With a score of 96% of National film critics who liked the film -- well yeah it probably will tank at the box office and 4% of the critics still didn't like it. However, I can't think of a better Bond film.
game(s) as it's climax... London, we have a problem.
It was not long - and 96% of the professional -- not a hack - didn't seem bothered.
This is a film -- I am comparing it to films and to other Bond films. What does Iraq have to do with it. Your analysis of films is what is truly abysmal.
> > > "It must be that you and others here are so dying to have a series to love you overlook all the moronic faults. Hype? Yeah, it probably plays a part, too." < < <Not by a long shot, tin. I can't speak for RGA, but I for one wasn't influenced by any hype surrounding this film! Furthermore, your suggestion that those who've seen this film and like it WERE sold a bill of goods is just another veiled insult (see my earlier post).
> > > "How many years did people feel America was winning in Iraq, after all? The power of the media is a monster." < < <
Not even comparable. You and I can see eye-to-eye on the realities of Bush's bogus war and how the media and public was manipulated in order to prosecute it, but we'll have to part company on our impressions of this film. No offense, but you really should stick to areas where your opinions appear better informed and more widely received. I mean this in all sincerety because you seem to be on a crusade in respect to the latest Bond film. Note: Since we already have a self-righteous rationale for going into Iraq, why do we need to wage a war of attrition against poor ol' James Bond! ;^)
AuPh
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