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Casino Royale biggest global Bond ever... #1 overseas with $224 mil already
deadlinehollywooddaily.com — 007 so far is doing Da Vinci Code-like biz in all 50 countries where it's opened No. 1 (except the U.S. where it opened No. 2). There were 18 new international debuts for Casino Royale (in Paris theater, at left) this week - all #1
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- cell00, on 10/12/2007, -5/+72And it deserves it.
- crunchewy, on 10/12/2007, -14/+8I'm in the minority, I know, but I really couldn't get into the movie. I do think Craig is fantastic as Bond, but the story just didn't capture me. It felt to me like they made it up as they went along. Also, while I can appreciate the idea of making Bond more "real" and more "vulnerable", this Bond seems mostly to survive by blind luck. In parts it's fun, but after the endless poker game I was just waiting for it to end, and it did. Rather, it did 2 or 3 times, "Jason"-style. I still recommend the movie to others, albeit noting that I didn't like it, because I think most people will like it. Indeed, I am still looking forward to the next movie because I appreciate the direction they are taking it and I think Craig makes a fantastic Bond, I just don't think this movie is all that good, certainly not nearly as good as its being reviewed.
- Chuck95, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9@crunch
I respect that opinion. I too had a few points in the movie where I was scratching my head, but over all I give it a huge A+, if only for effort. They could have easily made a rehash of the same old (recent) Bond story and settled for decent money by coasting on the name alone. But they went out on a limb, made something new, went in a totally different direction than they had been going, and for the most part I thought it turned out well.
I thought Craig was awesome. I loved the more raw and gritty side too it and the added realism. I welcomed the move away from all the gadgets and pure action. I've hated how the recent ones are just action movies. I thought the whole card game part of the story was awesome. This one had more of Bond, just being Bond. The story was a little weak at points, but at least they tried. - TimDigg, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I know I'm seeing it
- amandaw33, on 10/12/2007, -7/+2@ Chuck95
Agreed. I just wish they coulda shortened it. Almost 2.5 hours is just too long for me.
- admirabumblebee, on 10/12/2007, -58/+5Yet it was the worst bond ever.
People suck.- dree, on 10/12/2007, -8/+16Most people like it. I thought the love story at the end was a bit too much but overall it was good.
Most critics like it too. - masamunecyrus, on 10/12/2007, -1/+30I'm not sure how you can possibly say that after the disaster that was 'Bond and the big ice palace with a reflective laser satellite thing.'
- Jagdhund, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12Yes well, even though it did follow the worst Bond film ever (and one of my most hated movies), Casino Royale is quite awesome in its own right.
It is of much higher quality in the realism and storyline aspects of moviemaking than the last 3 Bond movies combined. - Haohmaru, on 10/12/2007, -6/+3The worst? Worse than the Peirce Brosnan? The Timothy Dalton?
Hardly.
Although the "chair with no bottom" scene could make it "the worst" :) - pushmouse, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Worst Bond movie ever? Moonraker anyone?
- dree, on 10/12/2007, -8/+16Most people like it. I thought the love story at the end was a bit too much but overall it was good.
- iHateApple2, on 10/12/2007, -16/+1and for that, even I would cry a blood tear!!!!!
- hiney, on 10/12/2007, -24/+3No digg for copying/pasting your description straight from the article.
- diilbert, on 10/12/2007, -27/+1This will be the first on the LONGGGG list of Bond films I will not be watching.
- hiney, on 10/12/2007, -3/+9I mean at least take out the part referencing the picture in Paris that isn't even there! C'mon!
- diggeasytiger, on 10/12/2007, -5/+33It must have been the 250,000 downloads that ruined the box office takings for this movie.... http://film.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,1953896,00.html
oh wait... it made no difference at all. Piracy hurts no one. Anti piracy measures hurt everyone.- aran86, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1i downloaded it, but i also saw it in the theater. the quality of most bootlegs are worth what people pay for them.
- svardineni, on 10/12/2007, -3/+35People really need to stop crying about how it wasn't a bond movie, had a love story, not enough gadgets, etc. I'm tired of hearing it, all they want is cheap thrills. I say go watch XXX or Mi:3 for that! Glad to see Bond back in his roots.
- Septimus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+22Agreed. Plus the whole hair colour thing, he had light coloured hair in the Flemming originals.
- Zique, on 10/12/2007, -0/+28Damn right. It seems some people want to see just another run-of-the-mill no-brain action movie. I'm so glad Casino Royale is much more than that.
- jeriqo, on 10/12/2007, -19/+1But... where is the Aston Martin?
- ruskin, on 10/12/2007, -10/+2@jerico ... if you are asking that you have not seen the movie. Won't spoil if for you.
thought it was excellent
only thing that spoiled it for me was the product placement - the watch scene and the car ... urghh: bond in a ..@&^% %$&&@^ ! - batmanjr, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3@ruskin
Actually if you watch other bond films, usually when he is state side, he is in a rental car, and it will usually be an American made car. Sorry to tell you, the car is only one of his awesome rides when a car is essential to the story line. - Spacejack, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0That's okay, they'll inevitably listen to the few complaints and put funny clown Q guy back in for next time and maybe there will even be an appearance by Sherriff JW Pepper! And an invisible plane!
- philz, on 10/12/2007, -12/+7Isn't it #2 in the US, following Happy Feet?
(Penguins FTW!)
EDIT: it is! :-) - lokimon, on 10/12/2007, -1/+24It was a different type of Bond, much more gritty. I kind of wanted more of that. Daniel Craig was an excellent choice.
Overall, a pretty good movie. The ending could have been a bit more put together, but as long as you don't think about it too much, it was good.- Septimus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+14It's a 2 parter, but agree you couldn't really tell from that ending.
- keyrat, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1diehards are just worried that they're making Bond into a brainless thug, instead of the invincible classy guy that he should be. As long as the next one has him evolve into an really classy guy, then it's alright. If they take this brute, crass Bond and make him the standard, it kinda does stoop to the lowest common denominator.
- knodi, on 10/12/2007, -26/+3I hated this new Bond he's way to emo to be a Bond.
- Ellsass, on 11/05/2008, -8/+3Way too use correct grammar.
- cell00, on 10/12/2007, -8/+7to*
- aragami, on 10/12/2007, -2/+13i loved it,
theres alot of people refusing to watch it/hating it for such pathetic reasons
"bond isn't BLONDE"
"the cg stuff at the start is unbelievable"- aragami, on 10/12/2007, -1/+21wtf it didn't post half my post :(
heres the rest lol
"m is a woman"
"theres no gadgets"
"he doesnt bang the bond girl"
"the guns wrong its meant to be a berreta"
i love those reasons because, they forgot to notice all the cell phones, pda's, laptops, cars, gps stuff etc and focus on the gun not being the gun bond would have in 1950, (completely missing the fact the films set in 2006), the stuff at the beginning = parkour which is a actual sport and perfectly believable (sebastian foucan is one of the guys who invented the sport the other main guy being david belle) and currently the head of mi6 is a woman, and so was her predecessor so i dont see the problem there,
and because he's ugly and no gadgets? so ***** what? if you want to see a pretty boy prancing around with loads of funky gadgets etc watch tom cruise or nicolas cage or vin diesel.
i personally loved it and im a big bond fan, daniel craig gave bond that more believable grittier edge he's been lacking for years, perfect choice for a reboot, much like christian bale was the perfect choice for batman begins :-) - sylentmode, on 10/12/2007, -5/+5"cell phones, pda's, laptops, cars, gps stuff " funny, did you notice how EVERYTHING in the movie with the exception of cars is branded "Sony"?
- ShakeWell, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7nick cage is a pretty boy?? since when?
- NakedSnake, on 10/12/2007, -6/+4Since always. Nick Cage certainly can't act! Being the nephew of Francis Ford Coppola certainly has its benefits.
- aragami, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6@sylentmode
you mean all the sony products
in a movie made by mgm who is owned by...
sony?
if they had nokia stuff and dell notebooks do you think the sony exec's would be very happy? :p
plus sony ericsson phones rock anyway lol - CharlesSaint007, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Just so you know, Bond's original gun WAS a Baretta. He was forced to use a Walther PPK by M later; apparently the baretta almost got him killed.
- aragami, on 10/12/2007, -1/+21wtf it didn't post half my post :(
- quentinp, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Good Bond movie IMO. I like Daniel Craig, and the whole new relaunch thing. The movie lags a bit in the middle, but other than that it was quite good, and I'm looking forward to seeing more!
- toranoko, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5Not a Bond fan, but picked the movie since I knew it would satisfy my two guy friends who love the series. I think they walked away fairly satisfied. I walked away pretty happy too. I was expecting more action and what not, since that's what my friends hyped up with the Bond movies, and I was a little disappointed with some of the sequences. However, Daniel Craig was sex, which totally made up for it. Would see the movie again purely for that factor.
- Sammy20, on 10/12/2007, -6/+4Anyone else love the penis whipping scene?
- estacado, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6it's actually balls whipping.
- njdube, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12When Goldeneye came out they where playing old bond movies on TNT. I was about in my mid teens. After that I was hooked on Bond films. Even the old one's. I have all the old ones on VHS. To be honest I was starting to get disappointed with the ones after Goldeneye. They seemed like they where made for the A.D.D generation. While I'm 26 now, I still enjoyed the 1960 bond movies. After seeing this latest Bond the first thing that I said after the movie was, "About God damn time they make a real Bond film again!" Best Bond film yet!
- smiertspionam, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2It wasn't penis whipping, it was ball whipping. If he was just hitting him in the dick, it wouldn't have hurt...
- armbar, on 10/12/2007, -2/+11You obviously aren't speaking from experience.
- jmchez, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5I think you forgot to add "as much".
- mcphatty, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1i havnt seen the movie yet so i cant criticize too much, but isnt this movie supposed to take place before all the other bond movies? i just dont like how young bond is played by old looking daniel craig.
- JohnKFisher, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4No. This is a reboot, not a prequel. Think Batman Begins, not Episode I
- soham, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6New Bond rocks so much more than all the others
- smiertspionam, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0The way in which he was swinging that rope, Le Chiffre would've merely been smacking the bottom of his dick upward, which wouldn't have hurt, unless Bond was maintaining a rock hard errection for some reason. Trust me, he was smaking him in the balls.....
- mrfreeziexp, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6It made No. 2 in the US because [us] Americans rather see animated dancing penguins(Happy Feet) over a real movie. I hate the US..
- bobbyi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Happy Feet was also a very good movie. Don't knock it if you haven't seen it.
- ScottMaximus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1The story was suprisingly deep, and go suck an egg.
- batmanjr, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I thought it was a cool movie, it had great action.
In all honesty though, the plot was WAY too complicated for a bond film. They introduced too many "bad" guys.
The pacing was off, it felt as though it should have ended in about 3 spots, and then where it did end, left me very unsatisfied.
I had no problem with them taking the Bond franchise to a gritty level where he gets down and dirty with the bad guys and kicks there ass in the process. I liked that he made some rookie mistakes.
I can forgive the no gadgets(although it did hurt slightly), but I have a hard time forgiving the lamest of lame on screen romances that seemed so forced, and the whole scene in Venice seemed so last minute and just added in there, that I had a hard time enjoying it.
It is a great action movie, I thought the way they did the opening scene was top notch. I just didn't think it was a great Bond film.
Definitely see it.- Sundownvf111, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0way to complicated for a bond film.....
Brosnan era films--- for self indulging wieners
Everything else **EXCEPT THE LAST 2 Roger Moore movies and both Dalton flicks-- for connoisseurs
- Sundownvf111, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0way to complicated for a bond film.....
- bombadier337, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I'm sorry but I haven't been so bored during a movie for a long time. I didn't mind Daniel Craig, but why did it have to be about a game of poker??? It took like an hour for the game to end.
- GrahamStw, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1In the original book, the plot centres around a game of Baccarat, which would have been a lot more boring to a modern audience as most of them wouldn't know the rules.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casino_Royale_(novel)
- GrahamStw, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1In the original book, the plot centres around a game of Baccarat, which would have been a lot more boring to a modern audience as most of them wouldn't know the rules.
- estacado, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1They way they edited it was a bit confusing. I thought there was a scene that was sensored when they cut the poker scene. They should've given a warning during the scene transition (like fade to white) so that viwers know that the cut was intentional. Other than that, the movie was excellent.
- abcdefghij, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Goldeneye: great movie with much european nuance, okay story, still got the touch.
Tomorrow Never Dies: dumb
The World is not Enough: dumber with BMW ad
Die Another Day: dumbest with Aston Martin, Bollinger, Omega, Thunderbird
Casino Royale: A+A+A+ (maybe as a result of coming out of three shipwrecks), a return to Bond roots. “Is that a Rolex?” “No, Omega” - ajck, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2The one clear lesson from this new Bond is:
BRITS RULE! YES!
"Rule Britannia, Britannia rule the waves...."
Lets face it, only Brits have the balls to be James Bond.... - rheaume, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2No ! Wait! Daniel Craig is a failure! Happy Feet beat him first weekend! Wahhh!
That was Drudge Report and FauxNews last monday. F them - postal21, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I work a theater with 7 digital projectors... and this movie is tight on it..
It has some of the over-done bond vs the world moments, but they are fairly minimal and make it one of the best bonds since the days of sean connery. - Seidoger, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Whatever.
I mean new movies will constantly make more money than the previous ones with time! The prices always go up.
So the next James Bond will outdo this one probably.. - otaleks, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Its defientley a lot different from recent Bond films,
but i seemed to really like it. - Vigilo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1They said this Bond was more hardcore. Other than certain fight scenes being modernized to look "hardcore" the character himself came across as a little stupid hardly able to pass as a diplomat or high roller.
The best was when he told the new bond girl she had removed his armor then he gives in his resignation all at the end. What a mess. Don't believe the hype i loved "Layer Cake" and the actor but he is a crap ass bond.- kden, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"They said this Bond was more hardcore. Other than certain fight scenes being modernized to look "hardcore" the character himself came across as a little stupid hardly able to pass as a diplomat or high roller."
He just became a Mi6, of course he isn't going to be perfect at the start. Casino Royale was good because it made bond look more human and not invincible like in the Pierce Bronson 007 movies.
My favorite part, when he got poisoned and the girl saved him and he goes back to the poker game. "That last hand nearly killed me."
- kden, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"They said this Bond was more hardcore. Other than certain fight scenes being modernized to look "hardcore" the character himself came across as a little stupid hardly able to pass as a diplomat or high roller."
- seansshack, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1So Daniel is not longer bash worthy. Amazing turn around. EA didn't even make a video game of this one and movie was being written of critically.
I agree it is a little long winded and would have been much better with about 20 minutes shaved off... - dysonlu, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1After seeing the kind of numbers "Die Another Day" (arguable the worst Bond movie ever) posted (http://www.boxofficemojo.com/franchises/chart/?id=jamesbond.htm), I thought this series had reached the point of no return in terms of mediocrity and that the Bond fan-base was monopolized by stupid monkeys seeking cheap thrills.
I'm glad I was wrong. - dysonlu, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Sorry, Digg screwed up the link. Here it is again:
http://www.boxofficemojo.com/franchises/chart/?id=jamesbond.htm - Brokenmonkey, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Come on guys.. reboot? prequel? It's James Bond. Just because Die Another day was far ahead in tech.. (WORST 007 EVER) doesn't mean this is a prequel. Remember the 007 were theres a hotel in space? That was way in the future. 007's are not really a before or after. I don't think they ever recall exact previous moments in any movies.
Anyways.. Awesome movie, kinda long ( I know thats lame but there was so many times were it fades and your like that was a good movie, and boom more)(lol)
Go 007 - ggrove, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0if you want to see extended scenes and interviews about this movie go to "updatehollywood.com".
- shmoviewatcher, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0i would like to know why were some of the hands of poker in the last scene of the movie not correct
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