Casino Royale - Caravan Of Garbage
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- After Die Another Day it was time for a reinvention of the James Bond franchise. The answer became in the form of the blonde haired blue eyed actor Daniel Craig in Casino Royale. Bringing the character yet again to the modern day it's considered to be one of, if not the best film in the franchise with incredible action, drama, revenge and romance with the inclusion of Vesper Lynd. Plus parkour. But like...good. Thanks for supporting our Caravan Of Garbage review.
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The best Bond movie has to be the Dark Knight, for Heath Ledger's performance alone.
Agreed
Agreed
*Tom Cruise Laugh*
@@PixarNerdStudios Jeffrey Bezos Laugh.
Shut up meg-ladon.
Thanks for the shout out lads! Love your work
Yoooo minimme your videos are mean as🤙🏻
Also you guys should collab for a caravan of garbage for a trashy game, that would be so cool
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60 cigarettes a day? Imagine him sneaking around and the villains can smell him from 50 feet away.
And hear him from 150 from the hacking cough.
to be fair, the villans probably smoked 80 a day so he would have been fine. Also all that smoke would make for good sneaking cover.
@@robertinogochev3682 lol so funny comment 🤣🤣
Walking up the stairs would have been his biggest enemy
I mean in the 50s everyone would reek of smoke
My favourite thing about Craig as Bond is that he wouldn't function as anything else but a 00-agent. He is just the right kind of sociopath for the job.
Seriously, could you picture him working a car salesman or a teacher?
Though he probably could do something like CEO of Activision
They even sort of address that in the movie in a jokey way when he tells Vesper that they have enough money to travel the world until one of them has to take an honest job... “which I think is going to have to be you, because I have no idea what an honest job is”.
I think M basically tells him that when they are talking on the train and she is recounting his backstory for the audience.
It's a pity the writing is catastrophically bad. One great chase scene, one very good fight scene, one very good action scene. That's about it. If you know hold'em, the poker scenes are disastrous. There's zero chemistry between Bond and Vesper. The writing for them is just terrible.
@@johnstrawb3521 False. Objectively one of the best Bond films of all time. Nice try, troll.
Fun fact: in the book, Le Chiffre is using an inhaler not because he has asthma, but because in the 50s, inhalers had amphetamines in them.
Benzedrine? Or something like that.
I remember reading the book and thinking "This is great! Why did they never make this before Daniel Craig's movie??"
@@smaakjeks as much as I liked the chase scene at the end, the books ending being far more subdued and brooding ending with a pill overdose suicide was a bit more ominous.
The author James Ellroy used to eat the content of inhalers to get high, crazy what they used to just sell people over the counter
bennies and yellow tops baybee… Kerouac would buy the Benzedrine inhalers, break them open and swallow the contents, which IIRC was a little rolled up bit of paper saturated with some speed-infused solvent. Just some fun trivia rattling around in my head
"He's that nerd you bullied from high school, he's back!" would be the best angle for a new Bond villain.
“The name’s Bond… James Bond”
“Don’t be daft, Jimbo! It’s me, ol’ Bojo, do you not remember sticking my cock in the House Master’s electric pencil sharpener?”
“Shit”
I mean, we've had evil genealogists, traitor agents, political enemies, and Rupert Murdock. Bullied nerd doesn't sound far off.
You pretty much described Guy Pearce in Iron Man 3...
Or Syndrome from Incredibles
Wasn't that the plot of Iron Man 3?
That "Casino Quarter-Pounder with Cheese" joke was expertly placed in the middle of the video. I've been able to get back to it easily. That's the best joke James has ever told. I'm paused with 7 mins to go. Can't.stop.laughing.
Hows the lockdown?
"I shot Mason in the face"
There's going to be another bond game made by Io interactive (the same people who made hitman)
I haven't got to that part yet. I'll get back to you with how it goes.
Nah, it was ruined by Maso talking over him. His best joke was Saw-con deez nutz
Mm. The boys have made a habit of watching genuinely good movies each week. They're getting too comfortable. We're not going to let them get away with this.
Here starts the global movement to make them redo the Transformers films in Caravan of Garbage so they know their place.
all this talk of transformers, nobody talking about the true evil, the Uwe Boll Extravaganza
Well they got Quantum of Solance next week. Perfectly balanced.
Have they done the Resident Evil series yet?
Make them watch iron fist s1
@@qwellen7521 alright satan calm down
I can't believe they didn't talk about the airport sequence at all, It's literally one of the best action sequences. Even Ben the editor wanted them to talk about it.
It out-Bourne's Bourne.
It's a tribute to how great Casino Royale is that the airport sequence, despite being so good, is one of the less memorable parts of the film.
I am living for the Piers Morgan footage being used for the outraged Brits, he really is the worst of us.
Truly a walking trash can of a human being.
A bloated sack of warm cottage cheese.
A warm pile of misery and lies.
Countryside
Piers fled to America, only to realize we didn't want him either. Say our countries split the difference and dump him in the middle of the Atlantic?
Little known fact: "Baccarat" is actually pronounced "Texas Hold 'em"
nice
obviously they didn't expect anyone would notice that they were playing Texas hold 'em and not baccarat.
Hold'em Nutz
It is baccarat in the book, though. Not "Bacharach", however😂 As a matter of fact, I learned to play baccarat from the long passage in the book where Bond describes the game to Vesper...
I think they changed it because a. nobody plays baccarat anymore but everyone knows the basic rules to poker so it's more relatable, and b. poker is a more visually interesting game to follow, based as it is more on skill than just memorisation of strategy.
One other reason for the change in direction of the series from Die Another Day to Casino Royale was the Austin Powers films. Daniel Craig said in an interview once that those films were responsible as they were big parodies of the Bond films, and after their releases Bond probably wouldn’t be taken seriously anymore by audiences. So the reason for going in a grittier direction, Bond just murdering anyone he could, the brutal torture sequence and just getting beat to shit is because they not only needed to keep up with modern spy thrillers, like Bourne, but because people wouldn’t be able to take Bond seriously after Austin Powers. So they really had to show people this wasn’t going to be a Brosnan/Moore pun quipping comedian.
And tbf they were right. Brosnan’s films, especially Die Another Day, were hilariously bad.
Funnily enough, I happened to watch "Spectre" last night and decided to watch "Austin Powers" today and this comes up!
Which is kinda weird when they are actually copying elements from Austin Powers by the time Spectre comes around.
Please don't compare Brosnan to Moore
Tru but i think the first two Bourne movies were the biggest reason and thankfully they came along though of course they had to be inspired by past movies as well..the great film circle of life continues..i actually love Die Another Day and i even liked the Madonna song and cameo but there's no denying the series had grown stale at that point and needed a restart and Casino Royale did it flawlessly...2002 was a year of spy movies when i think about it..while i love Bourne Identity there's something about XXX that i can't get enough of..sorry to yap
Fun fact: Mads Mikkelsen really bled from the eyes! How dedicated to his craft!
Fun fact: Mads Masolsen really bled from the eyes from James Clement Bond talking about anime ! How dedicated to his craft!
Daniel Craig was actually poisoned in that scene too! He died, RIP. Great actor.
I just love how this fanbase has the exact same sense of humor James and nick have
Eva Green as well, she actually drowned, very dedicated to her craft too
Mads also made the difficult decision to develop asthma. What a guy, true gem of an actor.
I remember how much the tabloids HATED Craig, it was fucking stupid. Me and some friends watched Layer Cake and were like "...he is a pretty good actor, i'll give him a chance" and low and behold it was fucking great, and the Tabloids quickly 180'd...because of course they fucking did... (begins to rant about the UK press for several hours) ... anyway it's a Great movie!
I had only seen him as a villain in a single scene from Lara Croft Tomb Raider I caught on tv.
I didn't know what to expect and was pleasantly surprised.
@@EasyCure0 You know i'd completely forgotten he was in that until you just mentioned it. I think i saw Tom Raider after Bond happened for him...actually i don't remember much of TR now i think about it.
I think I’d probably seen him as the bad guy in Road to Perdition as well by that point but he always struck me as a decent actor. Of course, the main reason the tabloids went nuts was because he had blond hair 🤦♂️
@@shelbyvillerules9962 If memory serves me well didn't one of the tabloids set up a phone line for people to call and vote on if the blonde hair would be good or bad for bond films? I may have gotten some of that wrong...but it sounds like something they'd done.
Layer Cake is fantastic and honestly I might prefer it to his Bond films. It has the gritty/realistic feel that so many early 2000's action movies had, but it was fun and stylish enough to leave a memorable impression
James we all salute you for that casino quarter pounder joke. Danny from grease is proud of you.
Thanks Danny! I loved you in Grease but not Grease 2
Yeah, but what do they call the whopper?
@@Pusher97 Burger King didn't pay for the product placement
@@Pusher97 Le Whopper
@@cubidee8393 hungry jacks mate
Daniel wears a life vest…
“This man’s a coward!!” 😂😂😂😂😂
A real thing that actually happened haha
"No lifevests we die like men"
One of the greatest MrSundayMovie moments was the time they talked about how Daniel Craig would brutally murder Indiana Jones and every other James Bond
@@Matt90Nine I love that Bond, and always thought it was brutal.
@@Matt90Nine he friggin throws Benny deltoro into a grinder. He gets ripped to shreds. It's amazing
I really needed Mattis explaining the card game, so it didn’t bother me.
Yeah it's both exposition and for vesper so it's not bad.
@@qwertymanor Except Vesper is stated to be a poker expert
The thing about your friend Mattis, is that he’s really…. *my* friend Mattis.
@@Pusher97
😮
Honestly the poker scenes really drag this film down for me, since it really drags down the pacing for me. I still think its a great movie, but I kind of just have to slog through the poker scenes.
6:34 "I mean, he's better looking than 99% of people on the planet"
Shows a picture of James and Mason
Ben....I love you
Daniel Craig in Casino Royale was, for me, EXACTLY the Bond of the books. Minus the smoking and excessive booze, obvs. Perfect casting imo.
Be nice to Dalton. He's my favorite Bond. License to Kill is amazing. The living Daylights is fine lol
I feel the opposite way but yeah.
Mason’s just outed himself as a man of the world, talking about Camden Market
For Skyall, Mason has to say “James Bond, more like James bombed - MI6 headquarters”
Was always impressed how much the movie managed to get away from the blasted poker table and make essentially pottering round a hotel so watchable.
Yeah. I'm still figuring out how they pulled that off. I've watched this movie so many times and I never feel bored for a moment. Perfect balance of action, tense poker scene, meaningful character moments. It's so damn good.
How dare you not mention Mads Mikkelsen by name and display his entire IMDb?!
He does briefly mention him when talking about the video game. But I agree--Mads should always be highlighted.
Mads is fantastic.
I this movie M calls Bond a "blunt instrument" which is a perfect description for his behavior in the opening scene where he's crashing through things after the parkour bomber.
My favorite part of the poker scenes is when Bond tips the dealer with money that isn't his. It's a winner take all tournament. The game wasn't over.
Just watched the scene again that you’re talking about. That was the end of the tournament, Bond had just won the game. So the game was over and he would be allowed to tip the dealer. Although you’re still right, that money isn’t his, it’s MI6’s/CIA money. So he’s still giving away money that isn’t his either way.
@@chrisgerhard4425 also tipping the dealers as the winner is considered good manners
It was the end of the tournament... he had just won the entire thing. However no you can’t tip with tournament chips, they’re not actual cash casino chips they’re special just for tournaments with zero cash value.
@@danielson5182 Well, I've only actually won a half dozen or so live poker tournaments myself and only at 4 different casinos here in Vegas but I sure was allowed to do it every time.
Perhaps your personal experience is different than mine.
@@Adamdidit you tipped a dealer with chips that said “tournament chips, no cash value” ?
I loved the Quantum of Solace game. They used the COD4 engine, but added a cover system that became a 3rd person perspective. The mechanics of the game are really smooth and it was a good game.
Bad movie in trade of good game
This game was my childhood haha
The PS2 version was all in third person and a lot better actually, but i played and liked both lol
They should've called it Casino Royale because that was, like, 3/4 of the game. But yeah I loved it too! I had the PS2 and PS3 versions and the multiplayer was like a fun discount COD with some truly excellent maps.
@@little1big1planet I was in my early-20s working at a GameStop when this came out and I checked out a pre-owned copy we got in and I was really surprised at how well the game played.
*"That's all you need, man. You don't need a laser..."* (No you really don't.)
*"...You need the PEOPLE'S laser!!"*
10/10
The weird thing for me with casino Royale is there's like 4 first acts before getting to the second act (casino Royale).
It gives a complete story because each act functions as a story by itself.
Gives that really nice complete feeling , couldn't ask for more from this movie.
Appropriate for the 4 third acts it has.
@@DimaJeydar 1st act ends with James stopping the bombing
2nd act ends with la chifre dying
3rd act end with vesper dying (climax) and then the finishing things off obviously ends when Mr white gets shot .
"And you're Stephanie Broadchest-"
"I AM NOT!"
"You're gonna have to trust me on this"
Makes me laugh every time. Craig's chemistry with Eva Green was so good, I was sad to see her go
To be honest, I like the idea of you guys excruciatingly having to record 3DS footage.
Note on Judi Dench's M(s) - she canonically played two different people.
In the Brosnan era, Dame Judi played Barbara Mawdsley - as revealed in the tie-in books, which are considered canon.
In the Craig era, she played Olivia Mansfield - as revealed in Skyfall.
So technically, the Barbara Mawdsley M could still be alive.
@@tcaudiobooks737 She very well could be
Her conical performance has always been on point
I went into this movie almost completely oblivious to the press around it. What I did know was that EON productions never pass up an opportunity to do the bare minimum, the theme I heard online was meh, and they had replaced baccarat with poker. I was, to put it simply, resigned to it being average at best.
Boy was I wrong. The theme song worked, poker worked, and EON had actually adapted a bond story properly for the first time in decades.
It’s still my favorite Bond film (with OHMSS & Goldfinger right behind it).
The funny analysis that Craig’s Bond is basically Bourne remakes, is that now Craig’s Bonds are literally Mission Impossible.
Bond's got ways to go if it wants to catch up with mission impossible fallout.
To be fair mission impossible basically copied off of the fast and furious and old bond movies lol.
@@RichardHorpe I'd take skyfall over any mission impossible movie .
@@Anthonycheesman33 wasnt mission impossible a 60s show then an early 90s reboot?
Actually, it's the other way around, the last MI film is a copy of numerous Bonds bunched togher.
I saw this movie for the first time in theaters with my grandfather when I was like idk 12 and it’s to this day one of my fondest memories. It brought me and my grandpa closer through a renewed enjoyment of a film series he adored as an adult
Probably my favourite Bond film of all time, just does everything perfectly!
I’m with you, I’ve seen all the Bond films and this is my favourite by far.
I like Daniel's Craig Bond for being a machine of a man, he'd destroy the rest of the Bonds in a death match.
Lazenby would cabbage Craig in a fight, no trouble.
@@tcaudiobooks737 Shit forgot about him.
The Chinese woman in "Casino Royale", Madame Wu, who appears at the card games but never speaks, played by Tsai Chin (she's also in Shang-Chi & the Legend of the 10 Rings), was the girl responsible for 007s "first death" in Sean Connery's "You Only Live Twice" in the pre-title sequence.
The opening to Casino Royale is a classic now, have rewatched it so many times
For the next one, instead of playing another Bond game, can we have James restarting his own heart with a defib? In a car?
As a Brit, I appreciate your excellent collection of clips showing the conspicuous fails of some of our more excitable/incompetent journalists and broadcasters.
The worst is like a cockroach though, he will be back.
Even as an American I really gotta hand it to the Brits, no one does bad journalists better, or worse, or whichever.
I would love a disconnected straight up drama of a young Bond in WWII joining the secret service. Just an awesome action drama period piece. Less Kingsman and more Band of Brothers. With a young, brash ahole as the main character. But obviously being young, a lot of that swagger is still clearly brovado to cover the fact he's essentially still a kid.
I like how this channel is slowly becoming a Let's Play channel, but only specifically for movie-to-game adaptations.
Caravan of garbage used to be them playing a lot of shit games
I love how little I care about James Bond (the movies are fun but I really just don’t care much) and you guys still manage to make me laugh so much throughout the whole video. Good on ya guys 😂
Been a huge Bond fam since I was a child, watched them all many, many times. Casino Royale is easily my favourite Bond movie, and also one of my favourite movies of all time.
Flawless action masterpiece.
Ben, I need an animation of Mason fighting that lion
Can't wait for everyone to ask why the extended audio is actually shorter
We need to know!!!
They mentioned how Australia isnt actually a real place
@@saintniccage2818
They’re in the matrix.
@@PittsburghSonido the good matrix with the green tint? Or the new matrix where everything looks bright and wet?
Fun fact: the $100000 chip in poker is light blue, and because of the movie's plot surrounding winning the poker game to bankrupt mads mikkelsen the movie was originally called Blue Harvest which is also the original name for the first star wars movie
The quarter pounder with cheese joke is the best material you have ever uploaded. You’ve peaked
That minimme shout out wasn’t expected but very welcome
I think the way this movie presented 45 minutes of poker was brilliant. Surrounding this “high stakes” poker game with the highest stakes of life and death was so well done. The changes of pace from a stairway fight to the death back to playing a card game was fantastic. And it kept me engrossed to what was happening on the table along with what was happening beyond it. This movie is so good.
Yes! This film has such a great balance of intense action, the psychologically tense card game, and quieter moments where we get to know the characters. It's such good writing and there's not a wasted or boring moment in it.
I got to see this and skyfall in imax before NttD
David Arnold's score for this is top-notch, one of the best of the Bond movies.
I’m with James and Mason on this one, I’ve seen all the bond films and Casino Royale is by far my favourite.
Vesper theme is beautiful and City of Lovers is a great tribute to John Barry.
I just realised that they'll have to repurchase a physical copy of 007 Legends to show off the Skyfall level for the Skyfall episode since they snapped the disk in the Die Another Day episode.
That is something I also recently realized
I’ve got a soft spot for the Quantum of Solace game. Always have fond memories of the opera level. Would love to see you play that next week 👍🏼🤞🏼
This is my favorite Bond film, no question about it. I grew up watching the Brosnan Bond films, but this one totally won me over. Little bit of trivia for you guys, when Bond and Vesper are sailing into the Venice canal, that was the first time anyone sailed into the canal for centuries.
This movie was a game-changer for the Bond franchise. Gritty, grounded and real. 21st century Bond. No gadgets just grit, blood and guts. Well done.
@@Bale4Bond in comparison to Die Another Day?
@@Bale4Bond neither is pretty much any movie, even movies likes Private Ryan. You know what he meant, its a more grounded and real, in comparison to Bond going into space. That's true.
A 31 minutes video?!? I don't have time for this! I don't even have time to die!
In the casino scene there’s a rando guy in a tuxedo in the background and he’s actually a very famous swiss rapper : Carlos Leal ! Great isn’t it ?!
I remember going to see this with a friend who was back in town, I had woken up early to hang out with him all day but by the evening when we got the theater for this I was just ready for a nap, so I leaned back and slept. Only to be awoken by the grunts of a naked James Bond tied to a chair getting whipped in the ass by a horse cock on a rope. Then we saw a play at our old high school, was a weird day.
Sony: "What are they going to do with one Bond movie?! We get Spider-Man!"
MGM: [laughs in Daniel Craig]
You’re hugely missing out if you haven’t seen the Dalton movies. They’re the best in the series imo.
Especially License to Kill, which was ahead of its time and still holds up.
@@dc8rdecoded my favourite for sure. That’s like the perfect bond film for me
@@TheRausing1 I like Dalton and recognize the seriousness of "License to Kill", but I think the best thing from his run was the cello case sledding down the mountain in "Living Daylights". I loved that scene so much. :)
And I think that TLD is great, a classic Bond right there.
Dalton really just got the character of Bond like no actor before or since. All the claims that Craig is the definitive Fleming Bond I put down to lazy journalism, and fans parroting that lazy journalism.
Any plans to do the Goldeneye remaster that replaced Brosnan with Craig and incorporated the same MI6 operating system?
00 god.....i rented that and took it back a day early
Caught this movie again while hanging out with my dad and he put it perfectly.
"Any man with any sense would quit their job to go to Venice with Eva Greene."
Also the videogame sort of resembles the Rainbow 6 Vegas series. First person with third person cover mechanics.
I think it's cute that James and Mason seemingly saw a bunch of these movies together in theaters back in the day.
Green trivia*
Please never kill that.
Also, the working title for Star Wars was Blue Harvest, in case you didn't know.
Such fond memories of that game, playing local multiplayer with mates for hours
I am binging these videos because I am seeing No Time to Die in 4 hours and haven’t seen any James Bond movies. Thanks for having my back, and I love the podcast, too!
Surprised they didn’t even talk about the airport sequence and the building colapse in Venice at the end of the film. Both are amazing action sequences in their own right!
Maybe (Spoiler Alert)
A chance to talk about Vesper’s death after what happens in Venice prety much solidifing her has the best writen Bond girl in all these movies! To bad being it they don’t mention it as it is one of the most emotional scenes in any Bond movie ever. Guess more backlog for next week.
Hot take: Mission impossible 3 (2006) and Casino Royale (2006) were both doing the same thing, trying to revitalise their franchises by taking from Bourne. Bond kept on leaning towards that but Mission impossible didnt and instead kept a lot of the goofiness. So its sorta like what James Bond would be nowadays of it hadn't kept going so dark
No one going to mention that Bond tipped the card dealer $500,000 dollars?
Ben putting James and Maso on screen when James says Craig is more handsome than most people 😂😂
You can tell Jame’s friend is British because he immediately stereotyped a polish looking guy as a plumber. Classic.
Fun activity: Tack on the Casino Royal ending to any Daniel Craig movie to make it instantly better. Works especially well in Layer Cake.
“Does he have a good watch?”
“No, he has the *best* watch!”
…aChTuAlLy
"They got my letters!" is a great running bit I still think about
Mason threatening to fight 100 year old lion was what I needed today
Casino royale is by far my favorite bond film and I never even noticed the goldfinger references. That's a spot on Easter egg
Mads has been cast as the guy with eye problems for life!
Bond, dr strange, polar, fantastic beasts
....that walking simulator on ps4
The Mads Bad Eye Cinematic Universe.
@@anubusx dude fix the door when ever is best for you....cause im rolling at that comment
@@saintniccage2818
Cheers man.
Don't forget Valhalla Rising, where he literally played a character named " One Eye"
@@IloveGorgeousGeorge its going on the list G.I.F
I will never not call Daniel Craig The Polish Plumber from this day forward.
Love it when they do Bond! Can’t wait for them to inevitably do Connery and Moore… in like 200 years when they finally make another Bond
There’s a Bond film coming out this month, my friend.
I recently watched Casino Royale with my wife who's only seen Goldeneye and she was on the edge of her seat when Bond had a heart attack. She thought he was gonna die. She turned to me and said "they kill him in the first film of the reboot" Casino Royal is better than I realized. Still not the best though. Three way Tie between License to Kill, GoldFinger, and the Spy Who Loved Me.
Less gooo casino Royal, I love the sound track to this movie, "you know my name" is the best Jerry, the best!
60 cigarettes a day you say? Who’d have guessed he and my old man had something in common.
I say ‘had’ because he’s now dead.
Love that you still consider Craig bond as a monster like you did back in the bond vs Jones video
Haven't even started the video yet but Ben is the best editor ever
It's almost as if they hired the team that shot the action sequences from The Bourne Identity but gave them more money! Oh wait they did, they did do that! :) Yah agreed, Casino Royale is easily the best.
Best Bond theme-song is Metal Gear Solid 3's "Snake Eater".
I would much rather see the vague levels from this game, i think that's way more interesting.
“He’s not everyone’s favourite”
I’m pretty sure he’s definitely most people’s top 3. His only real competition is Connery tbh
With Chris Cornell it will forever be the best theme of all James Bond... Skyfall is a good song too, but since then they got stuck with the melancholic songs...
The thing about 00 status being given to those who are ASSIGNED to kill two people confused me when I was younger, I was like “why can’t James just shoot whoever he wants and get a promotion?”
12:15 I'm okay with the poker replacement, if only because the intent is to have the game itself be a source of tension, and the whole planet knows poker while baccarat is used in Bond specifically because it's snooty and high-falootin' just like his suits and his martinis and his machine gun bulletproof cars.
In poker, if he gets a straight, I'm like, oh man, a straight. But in baccarat they're like "cinq pour la banque" and I'm like, whatever.
Also because Poker has more player agency involved that works well to heighten tension as opposed to Baccarat's guessing game.
So, one time, I met Mads Mikkelsen outside of the Fairmont in Toronto, he was having a smoke with Mr. Nathan Drake himself, Nolan North and I got to talking with them. I told Mads I was a big fan of his work in Hannibal and loved him in Bond, but I felt the puffer took away from the character's toughness and made him seem like, as you guys said, the nerd bullied in HS.
Nolan, the gentleman that he is, disagreed and said actually it's the puffer that makes him such a great villain. He said that it made Le Chiffre seem more human instead of the normal mustache twirling villains seen in old Bond movies and I've done a 180 on how I thought about Le Chiffre prior!
You met Mads Mikkelsen *and* Nolan North? Holy shit dude!
I actually like how abruptly the villain dies.
I LOVED this movie when it came out, and I still love it today. It was one of my favorite theater experiences. So one of my favorite channels covering it (hilariously)... Chef's kiss! This channel is legendary and I'm glad to be here. Thanks The Weekly Planet! You've made quarantine with a newborn bearable. Thanks again.
0:21 I feel weird just glossing over Simu Liu as a stock photo model.
That’s exactly what I came here to ask. I was like wtf?!
30:16 I had a blast with that game as a kid.
Spitting out that quarter pounder and cheese joke before he could get cut off made me LOL
There was also a 1954 Casino Royale--a one-hour episode of "Climax!" with an American (Barry Nelson) Bond and Peter Lorre as Le Chiffre. That was the first Bond on film, even if it was for the small screen and just one year after the publication of the novel.