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shmokes:

--- Quote from: Vigo on November 17, 2006, 04:46:37 am ---
This is Daniel Craig and musician Thom Yorke. I think there is a resemblance.


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There is almost no resemblance between Craig and Yorke that I can see. 

By the way, as the reviews continue coming in the rating just continues going up.  With 92 reviews counted we now stand at 88 good reviews and 4 bad reviews.  Tomatometer rating = 96%

I can't believe you weirdos are lamenting the loss of Pierce Brosnan.  Did you see the last three James Bond movies?  THEY.  ARE.  AWFUL.

Daniel Craig gives us the best Bond movie in more than 20 years.  He gives us a James Bond movie that is better than anything Brosnan, Dalton, or Moore were able to do.  And because he's not metrosexual enough he is deemed unworthy to wear the Bond crown?  That's just nutso.

Get a load of this (extremely minor spoiler ahead): I heard a review that said that when he orders a martini and the bartender asks him if he wants it shaken or stirred he looks at the bartender and says, "Do I look like I care?"  LMAO  It sounds to me like we're just getting a James Bond that isn't a pansy ass.

Grasshopper:
I'm trying not to build my hopes up too high about this film because everytime a new Bond is introduced we're told that he'll be a tougher, grittier, more Connery-like character than his predecessor, and everytime I'm disappointed. That being said, all the reviews I've seen so far (including a woman at work who went to an advance screening) say it's very good indeed.

And I totally agree with Shmokes point about less being more when it comes to action. Maybe it's a sign of my age, but I'm bored with films that are non-stop action. You can only see so many car chases, fights etc. before boredom sets in. And frankly it would be a mug's game for them to try and outdo the stunts that were in the films of the 60s and 70s which I don't think can really be bettered. Those stunts were mostly done by real stuntmen who were genuinely taking risks with their lives and it shows on screen. These days the money men would insist that it was all done with half-assed CGI. A case in point is Die Another Day. The quieter first half of the film was decent, good even. But halfway through the director started swamping us with some of the most atrocious CGI action scenes I've even seen and that totally destroyed the movie for me.

Grasshopper:

--- Quote from: shmokes on November 17, 2006, 12:21:00 pm ---By the way, as the reviews continue coming in the rating just continues going up.  With 92 reviews counted we now stand at 88 good reviews and 4 bad reviews.  Tomatometer rating = 96%

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Hmm, several reviewers are saying this film is the Bond equivalent of Batman Begins. That sounds very promising.

NIVO:
heh..... was daniel craig singing Karma Police by chance?

Texasmame:
Good flick.  A bit long but I really can't come up with any parts they should/could have cut out.  I guess the length is necessary here to tell the story.

Some great Bond history and also interesting to see him make mistakes (as he's new to this 00 thing).

Craig is plenty good.  Even the wife, who was dreading a blue-eyed Bond, dug him.

BTW, the opening minutes are in B/W.  I think this was a stroke of genius as it allowed you to see Craig as Bond for the first time without being "distracted" by him not looking what Bond is "supposed to look like."  You don't see him in color until the very end of the opening credits.

Overall, well done and Craig's a fit.  Can't wait for the next one.  :D

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