The Casino Royale / Daniel Craig Thread

[adam]

Yeah, I've really seen the high-suspense poker games done better. That Matt Damon movie did it better and that wasn't a very good movie itself. I thought that angle was underdeveloped.

[stimpee]

I agree that the poker could have been done better. At least they broke it up into sections to try and liven it up a bit. I did like how the special effects were less obvious than the last 4 Bond's tho.

[big screen satellite]

Originally Posted by stimpee

I agree that the poker could have been done better. At least they broke it up into sections to try and liven it up a bit. I did like how the special effects were less obvious than the last 4 Bond's tho.

i'll agree that the last two Bond's were special effects laden, but i think that the effects in Goldeneye and Tomorrow Never Dies were not any more or less 'special' than this movie...and lumping all of the last four together for this purpose is perhaps giving a disservice to, at least, the Goldeneye Movie, which after all is great...

and as for Eike's glowing review if that's his overall opinon then that's fair enough but compared to most of the movies of this ilk from the past 2 years its way better than that and compared to at least the last two Bond's it was better as well...

its not and never will be the best movie ever made, after all the plot and the premise behind the Bond franchise will always put paid to that

but if you like Bond as a series and as a character its a good fun film

i'm glad its out of the way, because i think the next one will be better and more 'Bond' than this one...

[adam]

Originally Posted by stimpee

I agree that the poker could have been done better.

I was just thinking about how it could have been done better, and I imagine this is one of the more difficult tasks in movie direction. I think it would be harder to make a really good poker scene than, say, a really good action sequence - and I don't consider well-executed action sequences to be easy.

What to show, and how to show it, to direct the audience's thoughts, create and build tension...it would be tough to do well.