Casey is on point about the whole "he's heartbroken, he'll never trust anyone again." This movie was conceptualized to be about the birth of "the persona" of James Bond. We see hints of it throughout the film---the womanizing, the rizz, the swagger---but Vesper was that glimmer of normalcy pulling him away from that. When she broke his heart and died in front of him, there was no going back---he fully became 007. The music is a great queue to all this. Throughout the movie, whenever he's doing 007 things, you don't hear the iconic James Bond theme; you hear the movie's theme song ("You Know My Name"). It's only at the end, when he's fully accepted his role as 007, together with the delivery of the signature line "Bond, James Bond" that the famous instrumental stinger comes in.
I would have liked to have seen a through line of this to Tracy, a woman who melts away that persona after hardening on, only to be killed and permanently cement it into him for all time.
Pierce Brosnan was the Bond of our childhood. GoldenEye was such a huge part of our lives, the movie and the game. We were skeptical of Daniel Craig initially, but he took 007 to a darker place entirely. Casino Royale was a gamble that paid off in every way.
the news bonds took a leaf from the bourne series with realism which they did really well! everyone was sick of the tropes so to have them included with a lttle sass was spot on
When you say "we" and "our" you're speaking for yourself, right? Because most people's Bond is Sean Connery. And no one I know even saw GoldenEye. Though we did play the crap out of the N64 game.
Goldeneye was kinda wack imo, and it was the first bond film i ever watched. I saw a few with Sean Connery as well, but same wackness. It's just cringey and corny, I'm sure people back in the day enjoyed it, but by today's standards they're just too goofy imo.
Honestly I’d take roger Moore over Brosnan. Imo the worst era of bond movies was the 90s. Goldeneye the game is a classic though agree with you on that
Historical fact. The guy Bond is chasing at the begining of the film in Madagascar is Sebastien Foucan, along with David Belle he created the technique known as Parkour. So that's obviously why the Parkour scene is so awesome, because you have the OG himself playing it. If you want to see David Belle doing Parkour, just watch the French film Banlieu 13 by Luc Besson that came out in 2004.
Banlieu 13 (AKA "District B13) is *fcuking awesome* and criminally underappreciated, and everyone reading this thread should see it RIGHT NOW if they haven't. However DON'T SEE THE SEQUEL *OR* THE REMAKE ("Brick Mansions") they both suck
The animal fighting the snake is (I think) a mongoose. They have a resistance to venom and are kind of known for taking on snakes. There's a well-known short story called Rikki-Tikki-Tavi about a mongoose.
"Rikki-Tikki-Tavi" (1975) narrated by Orson Welles, Animated. Based on a poem by Rudyard Kipling. When I was a child they used to play this on TV every year, it was one of my favorites.
I think Craig delivered every time even if the film didn't always deliver But all 5 are good 2 are master pieces 1 is underrated And 2 aren't that bad and good for a fan boy
The events of Casino Royale and Vesper in the books as well as with Craig's five films as Bond pretty much linger on him throughout his life and will effect him going forward. Vesper only appears in Royale but she haunts him a long time.
This film is 100% a hard reboot of the Bond franchise, completely starting over. The waters get a little muddy because they kept on Judi Dench as M who also played the character in the Pierce Brosnan movies, but that's only because she was so good in the role. She just plays two different versions of the same character.
Its funny how, in Goldeneye, she's the new blood in the agency as opposed to Bond's old, cold war spy and here, she is the old, cold war veteran and Bond is the new blood!
Another thing to remember is you don’t hear James Bond’s theme until the very last scene. When Mr. White is on the phone, and James says we have to talk. As James is slowly, walking up the steps, then, we finally hear his music playing. To signify that he has finally become the man he supposed to be and now he is James Bond.
by far the best of the craig bond series. the cinematography is so good, really captures that old-world beauty and mystique of europe. and i love his very grounded version of bond. behind the charming exterior there’s a very tragic deadness to him. terrified of love, functioning alcoholism. makes perfect sense with his upbringing and how what essentially a human weapon for the state would actually be like. M telling him “then you’ve learned your lesson” after he states he doesn’t trust anyone is so perfect for this iteration of bond
Yeah it's the only Bond where there is some plausibility to the character. He is a government hitman. Being a hitman is not a happy man's job, it would take a toll on you. Even if you think you're doing the right thing. Craig is the only one who acted that part realistically. Craig was also the only one who looks the part (intimidating man of direct action, in other words, a killer). It makes other Bonds seem like boyscouts and childish cartoon characters, with their cheeky quips and smiles. Some people want their Bond that way because they are used to it, I prefered this darker take on it. I think the success of Bourne movies might have affected Bond too. Bourne made old Bonds look ridiculous (and they are, even if they are charming-ridiculous) and the producers & writers of Bond took note of that
@@shredd5705 Yup, it probably owes a lot to the Bourne movies, but at the same time this Bond is closer to the Bond of the original books than the goofy stuff the earlier movies are famous for, and at that time many movies and franchises were going for the gritty, dark and more plausible approach too. There's less gadgetry and cheese in the books, more of a broken, unhinged, jaded shadow of a man that's slightly past it, a functioning alcoholic who survives because of a combination of his massive ego, luck and not caring about whether he lives or dies. Casino Royale really really does a fantastic job of Bond's origin story, setting Craig up as close to the Bond of the books as you can get in a modern setting.
This movie was a direct response to the Bourne films, which were more realistic and grittier than how the Bond films became later in Brosnan's line of films. All the previous bonds had a enjoyable turn in the role, but you need to watch where it began with Sean Connery.
Pierce Brosnan was my first Bond but I really like Daniel Craig’s take on the character. In the original novel by Ian Fleming the Casino Royale is inspired by the Casino Estoril in Portugal, a country that was neutral during WW2 but right in the middle of the conflict and thus a spy hotbed
I love that this movie is grittier, darker. The action is great. I love to see the beginning of Bond. It explains his later behavior better. Great reaction.
Daniel Craig is the best James Bond since Sean Connery. Casino Royale was Ian Fleming's first James Bond novel though this is the first time it has received proper treatment. In the original the game being played is Baccarat, however, the producers felt that at this time viewers would not understand that game and substituted Texas Hold 'Em Poker.
I can’t get over that you call him “the brother of the guy who’s going to play Thrawn”. When Lars first voiced Thrawn in the Rebels cartoon, everyone was all “Thrawn is voiced by the brother of the guy who plays Hannibal.” Plus, Mads was her dad in Rogue One. He was in Star Wars first. More recently, he was Grindelwald in the fourth potterverse prequel film.
I loved Brosnan as Bond, but despite my skepticism, Craig blew me away. He’s my favorite Bond ever. And the best Bond movie, to me, is Skyfall. Absolutely incredible movie with an epic villain. And the snake fight was probably meant to be a snake vs a mongoose, but that was a domesticated ferret they used.
This might have been mentioned already in the comments and, like Anthony mentions, this is the beginning of Bond. And a lot of Craig's mannerisms, choices, etc, reflect the more brutish, unsophisticated stage of Bond where he's still new to his 00 status. They even flip the scene where Bond asks for a martini and the bartender asks if he prefers that shaken or stirred and Bond retorts with a "Do I look like I give a damn?" showing how he has yet to acquire the finer taste he's known for in other traditional Bond films.
"That snake is fighting... a possum? Meerkat? Honey badger?" That's a mongoose, one of the only small mammals fast enough to fight a cobra and win. (It's an even match, they don't always win, but they can) Rudyard Kipling ("The Jungle Book") wrote a children's book "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi" about a village Mongoose in India that defends the villagers from cobra attacks made into an animated movie in 1975
Dude must have been distracted during Skyfall cuz that one is GREAT. No Time to Die is a beast as well. Great reactions though. Look forward to seeing them go through these flicks
This is probably the best film to start off on because it’s kind of a prequel set in the modern age and explains James Bond’s money, suaveness, as well as attitude
This is the second Casino Royale movie, first 1967 was with peter sellers more of a comedy, spoof movie not in the 007 james bond character. Ian Fleming was an agent during WW II and a Naval Commander MI5 before it was MI6. the snake was a cobra fighting a mongoose noted snake killer for its quickness.
35:33 That Aston Martin flipping scene actually held the Guinness Book record for the most number of flips. I remember being both pained and awestruck at how they demolished such a beautiful car on screen.
Unlike the Bond films before, the Craig Bond films have a much tighter continuity and almost seem to be in their own universe (although there are definite nods to the earlier Bond films). Would recommend checking out the earlier Bond films after finishing the Craig series.
Having watched all the Bond movies and being a writer, I think you did a great job of picking a first one for Kacee to see. The Pierce Brosnan and Daniel Craig Bond movies are good enough to hook a viewer so they'll be interested enough to want to see more. I don't feel like a new viewer would have gotten that from the prior movies. Great reaction! Enjoyed! Also, the Daniel Craig Bond movies are one continuous story, or at least, they're all connected. The other Bond movies are all stand alone stories.
there was a writers strike at the time of the sequel to this and it greatly effected how the plot and dialogue went. Daniel Craig(notoriously not a writer) wrote some of that script and some of his dialogue. We're going through a writers strike right now and I wonder which movies are gonna be affected like that movie was.
According to a friend who's a writer the industry works about 6 months ahead so the real impact of this strike won't be seen for another 6-12 months. As a fan of bad cinema I'm rather looking forward to it.
You asked who could think of such a torture with the wicker chair cut out. That scene was taken from the original book written by Ian Fleming. This is one of the few Bond movies that actually follows the book, somewhat, only adapted to modern times. Casino Royale the novel came out in 1953.
If you go back and watch Dr. No, then you'll understand why the franchise has lasted all these years. (Dr. No - 1962 ! ) As you know here in Texas; Y'all be safe. :)
I remember seeing that beginning chase and thinking "this guy has to be some type of stunt guy. It's Sebastian Foucan; he's the founder of freerunning and considered an early developer of parkour.
The people who now defend black Tinker Bell and black Ariel from the Little Mermaid remake because of wokeness don't remember (were not born yet) about the controversy of Daniel Craig being label as "Blond Bond". Nothing to do with race, all about nostalgia and the likeness of the character you always knew.
Fun facts : Two Danish villain actors in the same film, with Mr. White (Jesper Christensen) killing the villain (Mads Mikkelsen) and with Mr. White returning as a villain in the sequel to Casino Royale, Quantum of Solace from 2008 and also in the James Bond film Spectre from 2015. It has happened before in the big TV series Game of Thrones where the villain/hero Jaime Lannister (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) and villain Euron Greyjoy (Pilou Asbæk), end up in a duel, where Jaime Lannister kill Euron, but suffer a mortal wound himself.
Apparently the reason for "shaken, not stirred" is because the water sits at the top, meaning if you sip it you won't get drunk too quickly even though you're drinking.
I've been watching Bond movies since Roger Moore. Can't seem to get enough of Bond...James Bond🤪 The guy who fronted Bond the money is his future friend and collaborator Felix Leiter. I say continue the series although two fell short for me, but overall, they're fun and entertaining movies. Definitely watch the Quantum of Solace. A few months ago, I finally watched No Time to Die and really enjoyed it.
Maybe the Oscar Academy is afraid that it would encourage people to do death-defying stunts to try to top everyone (of which, some would end up in actual death) so they don't want to be responsible for that. Sometimes stuntmen injure themselves or even die
"Why do English people call 'ass' 'arse'?" Well, I'm an Australian and arse is correct when talking about the human body. ASS is another name for a donkey and used solely by residents of the USA!
Bond's introduction in the book has M telling him that 006 has failed the mission so he is being dispatched and 008 will come in if he is incapable of completing the mission (a polite way of saying "if you die.").
Great Reaction....... Kool that you started Kacee with this movie, When Daniel Craig assumed the role they treated it as a "Soft-Reboot" for the series, keeping Judy Dench as "M", a role she we already playing.... Although each movie has it's own mission, there is an underlying Sub-Plot throughout the Daniel Craig Bond Movies. Earlier Actors/Directors that played the role "Tweaked" the character to suit their acting/directing style (Campy/Serious/Sly), I believe there are 25 or 26 total Bond Films.......
Don't forget that Casino Royale was the first time Bond was a double-0. He was very raw and he still needed to learn his trade and learn some hard lessons, along the way. You see him make mistakes and get through things in a fairly roughshod way, since he's not fully the agent he will become.
Also the situation that turns his heart to stone and his armour back on is a little homage to an earlier bond movie tradgedy. Bond was married once in the older movies and as you can probably guess it ends with him heart broken. The idea is he starts to see people as assets instead of friends or loved ones and becomes isolated so he can't be hurt again.
This’s is a reboot of all the original movies with some changes. Lechiffe was bonds first enemy from another series that introduced James Bond before he got own series in the 40s-50s
_Mads Mikkelsen_ is Pride of Denmark, extremely talented He was Fabulous, Fantastic & even more Dangerous in Show *Hannibal* After _Anthony Hopkins_ played Hannibal in Movies _Mads Mikkelsen_ has gone 1 step even further as character Hannibal in TV Series Must Watch in near future!!!
*You should really start at the beginning if you've never seen any James Bond films. At least watch 1 or 2 films from each actor: This would be a great series! Especially to get thru all the cheesiness and chauvinism thru the years. lol* *Sean Connery - 'Goldfinger' and 'Thunderball' (both are too good to choose)* *George Lazenby - 'On Her Majesty's Secret Service'* *Roger Moore _ 'Live and Let Die and ' 'A View to a Kill' (Same...both too good)* *Timothy Dalton - 'The Living Daylights'* *Pierce Brosnan - 'GoldenEye'* *Daniel Craig - Skyfall"*
People feel like they haven't got the confidence for a bow tie, but the bow tie gives you the confidence. I haven't got a tux but I have a 1920's white tie tailcoat that my father found in a thrift store, iirc my great grandmother adjusted it for his measurements and since I'm identical to him when he was my age it fits me so well.
You are absolutely crazy if you don’t think Skyfall is the is the best Daniel Craig bond film. It’s like saying the Dark Knight isn’t the best Christian Bale Batman movie.
Yes, Casino Royale is a reboot of the James Bond franchise. After the series had become overwrought with over-the-top absurdity (Bond ends up driving an invisible car and windsurfs on a poorly-rendered CGI tsunami caused by a space laser), critics and audiences responded negatively. So inspired by Christopher Nolan's Batman Begins, it was decided to reboot the franchise, stripping away the silly gadgets and bombastic special effects to tell Bond's origin story of how he became 007. In fact, the movie's shooting title was "Bond Begins."
Best of the Daniel Craig's Bond movies. Sequels get more and more unbelievable because stupid plots. Eva Green is so hot with the low voice and English accent for some reason. She's great in Penny Dreadful. 🖤 -💀
Sir Richard Branson made a cameo appearance in Casino Royale 2006 in exchange for providing a plane for the film's production in Prague, Czech Republic.
This is basically a reboot the, original was part of a TV show called "CLIMAX" staring Berry Sullivan as Jimmy Bond As a American spy (1954). Then in (1967) Woody Allen as Jimmy Bond also started David Niven and Peter Sellers.
Guys good show! I appreciate Kacee's first watch and her first take of James, she hit it right on the money! You guys should definitely watch each of the others. Anthony, if you don't recall too much, you haven't watched them in depth and really need to. Now especially with Kacee, but, (spoiler) they totally continue on the same story line and you will have to pay close attention as they give you bits and pieces as you go. Thanks Kacee for keeping the romance part in this. Enjoy!
Reboot is the best word for this movie. Daniel Craig's 5 Bond films make up one long story chronicling Bond's entire career. Also, the reference to Bond not giving a Damn how his martini is prepared IS a joke, s you thought, but it's also an indication that this is still early in his career at MI6. This job and the lifestyle he has to portray is still new to him. All the most famous Bond tropes get sprinkled through the Craig films little by little. Bond's preference for his martinis being shaken, not stirred is introduced in a later film.
Good catch - that was a Richard Branson cameo in the airport. His new Virgin airliner made a cameo as the bomb target, but they dressed it up as a fictional brand. Casino Royale and Quantum Of Solace are the best 2 Daniel Craig Bond films, IMO. The rest kinda devolve into cliches, but I like the originality and brutality of his rebooted origin stories.
Here’s a fun fact The Aston Martin, he is driving had such an incredible handling that no matter how hard he tried to swerve it would not flip So eventually, they had to set up like a small ramp
I loved this movie. I’d recommend people who haven’t watched any Bond movies to familiarize themselves with the older movies or at least the concept of Bond (running jokes, storylines, suaveness, feel of the movies) before watching the Craig Bond movies. Or, if you’ve already watched them, look at the older stuff and then come back to Craig. There are SO MANY references, details, jokes based on what has been published. If you want to dive deep, read the books, but I don’t think that it’s necessary for the older movies and while Craig’s Bond is closer to Fleming‘s Bond (and there are some direct quotes), the callbacks are mostly related to the movies.
I have seen all the Bond movies and I honestly think its the best one of them. The old ones have great parts and iconic scenes plus made movie history at the time but once you strip the nostalgia factor out I would say this is the best one.
The guy Bond is chasing through the construction site at the beginning was kind of a stuntman... he's credited with helping create parkour, which was relatively new then, which is why the chase went the way it did.
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"That was so creative, who would have thought of that?"
Ian Flemming. The torture scene was lifted almost wholesale from the book. ✌
Casey is on point about the whole "he's heartbroken, he'll never trust anyone again." This movie was conceptualized to be about the birth of "the persona" of James Bond. We see hints of it throughout the film---the womanizing, the rizz, the swagger---but Vesper was that glimmer of normalcy pulling him away from that. When she broke his heart and died in front of him, there was no going back---he fully became 007. The music is a great queue to all this. Throughout the movie, whenever he's doing 007 things, you don't hear the iconic James Bond theme; you hear the movie's theme song ("You Know My Name"). It's only at the end, when he's fully accepted his role as 007, together with the delivery of the signature line "Bond, James Bond" that the famous instrumental stinger comes in.
I would have liked to have seen a through line of this to Tracy, a woman who melts away that persona after hardening on, only to be killed and permanently cement it into him for all time.
Pierce Brosnan was the Bond of our childhood. GoldenEye was such a huge part of our lives, the movie and the game. We were skeptical of Daniel Craig initially, but he took 007 to a darker place entirely. Casino Royale was a gamble that paid off in every way.
the news bonds took a leaf from the bourne series with realism which they did really well! everyone was sick of the tropes so to have them included with a lttle sass was spot on
@@mildcorma Dalton married realism, brutality and Bond tropes and gimmicks quite nicely
When you say "we" and "our" you're speaking for yourself, right? Because most people's Bond is Sean Connery. And no one I know even saw GoldenEye. Though we did play the crap out of the N64 game.
Goldeneye was kinda wack imo, and it was the first bond film i ever watched. I saw a few with Sean Connery as well, but same wackness. It's just cringey and corny, I'm sure people back in the day enjoyed it, but by today's standards they're just too goofy imo.
Honestly I’d take roger Moore over Brosnan. Imo the worst era of bond movies was the 90s. Goldeneye the game is a classic though agree with you on that
Historical fact.
The guy Bond is chasing at the begining of the film in Madagascar is Sebastien Foucan, along with David Belle he created the technique known as Parkour.
So that's obviously why the Parkour scene is so awesome, because you have the OG himself playing it.
If you want to see David Belle doing Parkour, just watch the French film Banlieu 13 by Luc Besson that came out in 2004.
Banlieu 13 (AKA "District B13) is *fcuking awesome* and criminally underappreciated, and everyone reading this thread should see it RIGHT NOW if they haven't.
However DON'T SEE THE SEQUEL *OR* THE REMAKE ("Brick Mansions") they both suck
Foucan wanted to do every stunts himself, but for some they used safety gear because laws.
Also I remember Yamakasi as fun movie
Pretty sure Michael Scott from Dunder Mifflin invented Parkour my guy.
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Not at all. Google it.
It was invented by David Belle and the group of free runners (of wich Foucan was part) the Yamakasi.
@@davidmeir9348 It was joke, reference to Office
The animal fighting the snake is (I think) a mongoose. They have a resistance to venom and are kind of known for taking on snakes. There's a well-known short story called Rikki-Tikki-Tavi about a mongoose.
Yeah it is a mongoose the one of the only animals fast enough to dodge and kill a cobra
Correct
@@DarthKay093 That's interesting. I just did some googling and it's fascinating. They basically defend squirrels.
"Rikki-Tikki-Tavi" (1975) narrated by Orson Welles, Animated. Based on a poem by Rudyard Kipling. When I was a child they used to play this on TV every year, it was one of my favorites.
Thank goodness someone knows this.
Casino Royale, Skyfall, and No Time to Die are Craig's best works as Bond.
That no time to die was something tho. Never expected that movie to be the way it is
I think Craig delivered every time even if the film didn't always deliver
But all 5 are good
2 are master pieces
1 is underrated
And 2 aren't that bad and good for a fan boy
The events of Casino Royale and Vesper in the books as well as with Craig's five films as Bond pretty much linger on him throughout his life and will effect him going forward. Vesper only appears in Royale but she haunts him a long time.
This film is 100% a hard reboot of the Bond franchise, completely starting over. The waters get a little muddy because they kept on Judi Dench as M who also played the character in the Pierce Brosnan movies, but that's only because she was so good in the role. She just plays two different versions of the same character.
Its funny how, in Goldeneye, she's the new blood in the agency as opposed to Bond's old, cold war spy and here, she is the old, cold war veteran and Bond is the new blood!
Another thing to remember is you don’t hear James Bond’s theme until the very last scene. When Mr. White is on the phone, and James says we have to talk. As James is slowly, walking up the steps, then, we finally hear his music playing. To signify that he has finally become the man he supposed to be and now he is James Bond.
by far the best of the craig bond series. the cinematography is so good, really captures that old-world beauty and mystique of europe. and i love his very grounded version of bond. behind the charming exterior there’s a very tragic deadness to him. terrified of love, functioning alcoholism. makes perfect sense with his upbringing and how what essentially a human weapon for the state would actually be like. M telling him “then you’ve learned your lesson” after he states he doesn’t trust anyone is so perfect for this iteration of bond
100%
Yeah it's the only Bond where there is some plausibility to the character. He is a government hitman. Being a hitman is not a happy man's job, it would take a toll on you. Even if you think you're doing the right thing. Craig is the only one who acted that part realistically. Craig was also the only one who looks the part (intimidating man of direct action, in other words, a killer). It makes other Bonds seem like boyscouts and childish cartoon characters, with their cheeky quips and smiles. Some people want their Bond that way because they are used to it, I prefered this darker take on it.
I think the success of Bourne movies might have affected Bond too. Bourne made old Bonds look ridiculous (and they are, even if they are charming-ridiculous) and the producers & writers of Bond took note of that
@@shredd5705 Yup, it probably owes a lot to the Bourne movies, but at the same time this Bond is closer to the Bond of the original books than the goofy stuff the earlier movies are famous for, and at that time many movies and franchises were going for the gritty, dark and more plausible approach too. There's less gadgetry and cheese in the books, more of a broken, unhinged, jaded shadow of a man that's slightly past it, a functioning alcoholic who survives because of a combination of his massive ego, luck and not caring about whether he lives or dies. Casino Royale really really does a fantastic job of Bond's origin story, setting Craig up as close to the Bond of the books as you can get in a modern setting.
This movie was a direct response to the Bourne films, which were more realistic and grittier than how the Bond films became later in Brosnan's line of films. All the previous bonds had a enjoyable turn in the role, but you need to watch where it began with Sean Connery.
Pierce Brosnan was my first Bond but I really like Daniel Craig’s take on the character. In the original novel by Ian Fleming the Casino Royale is inspired by the Casino Estoril in Portugal, a country that was neutral during WW2 but right in the middle of the conflict and thus a spy hotbed
Brosnan was also my first but man Craig is just the best, that's a fact
I love that this movie is grittier, darker. The action is great. I love to see the beginning of Bond. It explains his later behavior better. Great reaction.
Apparently it was very funny. Because i only heard laughter, and irritating laughter at that, more like screeching... Bad reaction.
If Kacee love the 3rd act... I strongly recommend watch the whole saga.
She's going to love it!!!
And yes, is a whole story!!!!
It is a cobra versus a mongoose, And the mongoose is one of the few natural predators that a cobra has to worry about in a natural environment.
It’s worth watching this whole series. They’re a complete set across the six, and worth it for that.
six ? they're five total.
Daniel Craig is the best James Bond since Sean Connery. Casino Royale was Ian Fleming's first James Bond novel though this is the first time it has received proper treatment. In the original the game being played is Baccarat, however, the producers felt that at this time viewers would not understand that game and substituted Texas Hold 'Em Poker.
I love Dalton in the role and his Flemingesque vibes.
They play Baccarat in Golden Eye. But in that it was just a brief moment, here it's more integral part of the scenes
@@shredd5705 as it was in the novel Casino Royale.
@@PUARockstar Don't forget Bob Houlness he was bond
I can’t get over that you call him “the brother of the guy who’s going to play Thrawn”. When Lars first voiced Thrawn in the Rebels cartoon, everyone was all “Thrawn is voiced by the brother of the guy who plays Hannibal.” Plus, Mads was her dad in Rogue One. He was in Star Wars first. More recently, he was Grindelwald in the fourth potterverse prequel film.
I loved Brosnan as Bond, but despite my skepticism, Craig blew me away. He’s my favorite Bond ever. And the best Bond movie, to me, is Skyfall. Absolutely incredible movie with an epic villain. And the snake fight was probably meant to be a snake vs a mongoose, but that was a domesticated ferret they used.
This might have been mentioned already in the comments and, like Anthony mentions, this is the beginning of Bond. And a lot of Craig's mannerisms, choices, etc, reflect the more brutish, unsophisticated stage of Bond where he's still new to his 00 status. They even flip the scene where Bond asks for a martini and the bartender asks if he prefers that shaken or stirred and Bond retorts with a "Do I look like I give a damn?" showing how he has yet to acquire the finer taste he's known for in other traditional Bond films.
This movie is a big part of what helped bring parkour to the US, showing it off in mainstream media. Was obsessed ever since!
"That snake is fighting... a possum? Meerkat? Honey badger?"
That's a mongoose, one of the only small mammals fast enough to fight a cobra and win. (It's an even match, they don't always win, but they can)
Rudyard Kipling ("The Jungle Book") wrote a children's book "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi" about a village Mongoose in India that defends the villagers from cobra attacks made into an animated movie in 1975
One of the best Bond villains ever. Mads Mikkelsen is so good
Dude must have been distracted during Skyfall cuz that one is GREAT. No Time to Die is a beast as well. Great reactions though. Look forward to seeing them go through these flicks
7:54 that guy basically brought parkour to limelight
They used the Virgin Airlines Terminal to shoot all the airport scenes in. So they gave owner Richard Bransen a cameo as a thank you
This is probably the best film to start off on because it’s kind of a prequel set in the modern age and explains James Bond’s money, suaveness, as well as attitude
This is the second Casino Royale movie, first 1967 was with peter sellers more of a comedy, spoof movie not in the 007 james bond character. Ian Fleming was an agent during WW II and a Naval Commander MI5 before it was MI6. the snake was a cobra fighting a mongoose noted snake killer for its quickness.
This was a reboot for the franchise in response to the success of the Jason Bourne movies.
They made all 5 of Craig’s movies interconnected. Pretty cool. This is still my favorite. Great reaction, Kacee! Keep going! 👍👏🫶😁
35:33 That Aston Martin flipping scene actually held the Guinness Book record for the most number of flips. I remember being both pained and awestruck at how they demolished such a beautiful car on screen.
That's my dream car...that scene would have hurt me less if he just pancaked vesper 😂
You know my Name is still the best Bond song.
Yes，the next installment is a sequel, basically all Daniel Craig series is kind of related unlike previous series.
The ball-busting torture with the chair with a hole in it is actually from the original novel which came out in the 50s.
I love this movie! I hope you guys see the movies from the James Bond actors as well. So many fantastic movies in this franchise!!
Unlike the Bond films before, the Craig Bond films have a much tighter continuity and almost seem to be in their own universe (although there are definite nods to the earlier Bond films). Would recommend checking out the earlier Bond films after finishing the Craig series.
You should start at the beginning with sean Connery
George Lazenby,
Roger moore,
Timothy Dalton
Having watched all the Bond movies and being a writer, I think you did a great job of picking a first one for Kacee to see. The Pierce Brosnan and Daniel Craig Bond movies are good enough to hook a viewer so they'll be interested enough to want to see more. I don't feel like a new viewer would have gotten that from the prior movies.
Great reaction! Enjoyed!
Also, the Daniel Craig Bond movies are one continuous story, or at least, they're all connected. The other Bond movies are all stand alone stories.
there was a writers strike at the time of the sequel to this and it greatly effected how the plot and dialogue went. Daniel Craig(notoriously not a writer) wrote some of that script and some of his dialogue. We're going through a writers strike right now and I wonder which movies are gonna be affected like that movie was.
According to a friend who's a writer the industry works about 6 months ahead so the real impact of this strike won't be seen for another 6-12 months.
As a fan of bad cinema I'm rather looking forward to it.
Took his money, his car, his girl, and his life.
You asked who could think of such a torture with the wicker chair cut out. That scene was taken from the original book written by Ian Fleming. This is one of the few Bond movies that actually follows the book, somewhat, only adapted to modern times. Casino Royale the novel came out in 1953.
I absolutely love Bond. And The Daniel Craig Bonds are my favorites. You should absolutely watch the rest.
If you go back and watch Dr. No, then you'll understand why the franchise has lasted all these years. (Dr. No - 1962 ! )
As you know here in Texas; Y'all be safe. :)
I remember seeing that beginning chase and thinking "this guy has to be some type of stunt guy. It's Sebastian Foucan; he's the founder of freerunning and considered an early developer of parkour.
Let's get it straight, Jackie Chan invented all that. Those who followed just gave it a name
The people who now defend black Tinker Bell and black Ariel from the Little Mermaid remake because of wokeness don't remember (were not born yet) about the controversy of Daniel Craig being label as "Blond Bond". Nothing to do with race, all about nostalgia and the likeness of the character you always knew.
'why do English people say arse and not ass?' um because they are English and its an English word?????
Masterpiece ever. Great
Fun facts : Two Danish villain actors in the same film, with Mr. White (Jesper Christensen) killing the villain (Mads Mikkelsen) and with Mr. White returning as a villain in the sequel to Casino Royale, Quantum of Solace from 2008 and also in the James Bond film Spectre from 2015. It has happened before in the big TV series Game of Thrones where the villain/hero Jaime Lannister (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) and villain Euron Greyjoy (Pilou Asbæk), end up in a duel, where Jaime Lannister kill Euron, but suffer a mortal wound himself.
7:55 That's Sebastien Foucan, he is credited as responsible for popularizing parkour :)
Apparently the reason for "shaken, not stirred" is because the water sits at the top, meaning if you sip it you won't get drunk too quickly even though you're drinking.
I've been watching Bond movies since Roger Moore. Can't seem to get enough of Bond...James Bond🤪 The guy who fronted Bond the money is his future friend and collaborator Felix Leiter. I say continue the series although two fell short for me, but overall, they're fun and entertaining movies. Definitely watch the Quantum of Solace. A few months ago, I finally watched No Time to Die and really enjoyed it.
The guy with those wild stunts is one of 2 guy creadited with inventing parkour
Agreed with what you said about stunt men, there should be an Oscar for stuntmen something huge cause they go so unnoticed
Maybe the Oscar Academy is afraid that it would encourage people to do death-defying stunts to try to top everyone (of which, some would end up in actual death) so they don't want to be responsible for that. Sometimes stuntmen injure themselves or even die
Little bit of trivia for you. The Aston Martin stunt broke the Guinness world record for car flips.
"Why do English people call 'ass' 'arse'?" Well, I'm an Australian and arse is correct when talking about the human body. ASS is another name for a donkey and used solely by residents of the USA!
Good catch. That WAS Richard Branson at airport security.
Bond's introduction in the book has M telling him that 006 has failed the mission so he is being dispatched and 008 will come in if he is incapable of completing the mission (a polite way of saying "if you die.").
Good catch
That was Richard Branson
He also did a cameo in Superman returns
He was one of the pilots on the space shuttle
Great Reaction.......
Kool that you started Kacee with this movie, When Daniel Craig assumed the role they treated it as a "Soft-Reboot" for the series, keeping Judy Dench as "M", a role she we already playing....
Although each movie has it's own mission, there is an underlying Sub-Plot throughout the Daniel Craig Bond Movies.
Earlier Actors/Directors that played the role "Tweaked" the character to suit their acting/directing style (Campy/Serious/Sly), I believe there are 25 or 26 total Bond Films.......
Mongoose always wins. A metaphor for Bond perhaps.
Craig's Bond run was amazing and his Bond arc really comes full circle in the last one, all five are linked and worth watching! 😎
Don't forget that Casino Royale was the first time Bond was a double-0. He was very raw and he still needed to learn his trade and learn some hard lessons, along the way. You see him make mistakes and get through things in a fairly roughshod way, since he's not fully the agent he will become.
Also the situation that turns his heart to stone and his armour back on is a little homage to an earlier bond movie tradgedy. Bond was married once in the older movies and as you can probably guess it ends with him heart broken. The idea is he starts to see people as assets instead of friends or loved ones and becomes isolated so he can't be hurt again.
5:47 ...coz that "small rodent" is a Mongoose. They're carnivores famously known for killing snakes.
This’s is a reboot of all the original movies with some changes. Lechiffe was bonds first enemy from another series that introduced James Bond before he got own series in the 40s-50s
5:49 the Mangoose wins 9 out of 10 times. Forget weight class. Snake is breakfast already.
_Mads Mikkelsen_ is Pride of Denmark, extremely talented
He was Fabulous, Fantastic & even more Dangerous in Show *Hannibal*
After _Anthony Hopkins_ played Hannibal in Movies
_Mads Mikkelsen_ has gone 1 step even further as character Hannibal in TV Series
Must Watch in near future!!!
*You should really start at the beginning if you've never seen any James Bond films. At least watch 1 or 2 films from each actor: This would be a great series! Especially to get thru all the cheesiness and chauvinism thru the years. lol*
*Sean Connery - 'Goldfinger' and 'Thunderball' (both are too good to choose)*
*George Lazenby - 'On Her Majesty's Secret Service'*
*Roger Moore _ 'Live and Let Die and ' 'A View to a Kill' (Same...both too good)*
*Timothy Dalton - 'The Living Daylights'*
*Pierce Brosnan - 'GoldenEye'*
*Daniel Craig - Skyfall"*
People feel like they haven't got the confidence for a bow tie, but the bow tie gives you the confidence.
I haven't got a tux but I have a 1920's white tie tailcoat that my father found in a thrift store, iirc my great grandmother adjusted it for his measurements and since I'm identical to him when he was my age it fits me so well.
Please continue! So excited for this journey!
You are absolutely crazy if you don’t think Skyfall is the is the best Daniel Craig bond film. It’s like saying the Dark Knight isn’t the best Christian Bale Batman movie.
Yes, Casino Royale is a reboot of the James Bond franchise. After the series had become overwrought with over-the-top absurdity (Bond ends up driving an invisible car and windsurfs on a poorly-rendered CGI tsunami caused by a space laser), critics and audiences responded negatively. So inspired by Christopher Nolan's Batman Begins, it was decided to reboot the franchise, stripping away the silly gadgets and bombastic special effects to tell Bond's origin story of how he became 007. In fact, the movie's shooting title was "Bond Begins."
The dude Bond is chasing at the beginning of the film is one of the inventors of parqkore.
The bomb maker he was chasing at the beginning is Sebastien Foucan, the founder of freerunning and an early developer of parkour.
Best of the Daniel Craig's Bond movies. Sequels get more and more unbelievable because stupid plots. Eva Green is so hot with the low voice and English accent for some reason. She's great in Penny Dreadful. 🖤
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One of the best Bond movie ever.
Sir Richard Branson made a cameo appearance in Casino Royale 2006 in exchange for providing a plane for the film's production in Prague, Czech Republic.
It was a mongoose they had fighting a snake. Mongooses are like the anti-snake of the natural world. They're arch-nemeses.
This is basically a reboot the, original was part of a TV show called "CLIMAX" staring Berry Sullivan as Jimmy Bond As a American spy (1954). Then in (1967) Woody Allen as Jimmy Bond also started David Niven and Peter Sellers.
Guys good show! I appreciate Kacee's first watch and her first take of James, she hit it right on the money! You guys should definitely watch each of the others. Anthony, if you don't recall too much, you haven't watched them in depth and really need to. Now especially with Kacee, but, (spoiler) they totally continue on the same story line and you will have to pay close attention as they give you bits and pieces as you go. Thanks Kacee for keeping the romance part in this. Enjoy!
49:33 Yeah, that scene is well done. It is unique as how it makes me feel.
Reboot is the best word for this movie. Daniel Craig's 5 Bond films make up one long story chronicling Bond's entire career. Also, the reference to Bond not giving a Damn how his martini is prepared IS a joke, s you thought, but it's also an indication that this is still early in his career at MI6. This job and the lifestyle he has to portray is still new to him. All the most famous Bond tropes get sprinkled through the Craig films little by little. Bond's preference for his martinis being shaken, not stirred is introduced in a later film.
This is sort of an original. the first casino Royale starred David Niven and was a spoof of sorts of Ian Flemings James bond novel.
There was an SNL sketch where James Bond was calling people he slept with to tell them they needed to get tested for STDs. "All of them."
honestly you're the first person i've seen who picked up on Vesper this quickly, its usually a huge twist for people :P
Good catch - that was a Richard Branson cameo in the airport. His new Virgin airliner made a cameo as the bomb target, but they dressed it up as a fictional brand.
Casino Royale and Quantum Of Solace are the best 2 Daniel Craig Bond films, IMO. The rest kinda devolve into cliches, but I like the originality and brutality of his rebooted origin stories.
Here’s a fun fact
The Aston Martin, he is driving had such an incredible handling that no matter how hard he tried to swerve it would not flip
So eventually, they had to set up like a small ramp
I loved this movie. I’d recommend people who haven’t watched any Bond movies to familiarize themselves with the older movies or at least the concept of Bond (running jokes, storylines, suaveness, feel of the movies) before watching the Craig Bond movies. Or, if you’ve already watched them, look at the older stuff and then come back to Craig. There are SO MANY references, details, jokes based on what has been published. If you want to dive deep, read the books, but I don’t think that it’s necessary for the older movies and while Craig’s Bond is closer to Fleming‘s Bond (and there are some direct quotes), the callbacks are mostly related to the movies.
The 00 status comes with an official licence to kill
It's why this is movie 26 in the franchise over 6 decades... they keep getting it pretty much right...
@Dos Cavazos Don't forget Mads was also Jyn Erso's father, the main guy behind the Death Star, in Rogue One.
Great reaction!!
The bomb maker's name is Sébastien Foucan, he's one of the original practitioners of Parkour and the founder of Freerunning.
I have seen all the Bond movies and I honestly think its the best one of them.
The old ones have great parts and iconic scenes plus made movie history at the time but once you strip the nostalgia factor out I would say this is the best one.
56:17 Casino Royale and Quantum of Solace are two parts of the same great story. The other movies are not good.
FYI: there are 5 Daniel Craig Bond movie: casino royale, quantum of solace, Skyfall, Spectre, No Time To Die.
Quantum of Solace is very good, it's the next in continuity, give it a chance.
Chris Cornell wrote and performed the greatest Bond theme of all time. Rest in peace, Legend.
The guy Bond is chasing through the construction site at the beginning was kind of a stuntman... he's credited with helping create parkour, which was relatively new then, which is why the chase went the way it did.
This Bond Saga is the best, you gotta keep watching 👌