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Worst Bond by a non-Bond


daniel "no Bond" craig (lowercase out of sheer disrespect) is NOT Bond. He's the opposite of Bond. Bond, as Fleming intended him, was tall (daniel "no Bond" craig is not), had dark hair (daniel "no Bond" craig does not) and was handsome (daniel "no Bond" craig is not) and a womanizer (daniel "no Bond" craig is not, probably gay tbh).

So we've established that daniel "no Bond" craig is NOT Bond.

On top of that this movie sucks harder than a Nilfisk. The only thing I can remember of this movie are dreadfully long boring scenes in some casino with a guy who's crying. Utterly boring. Even the original Casino Royal, the spoof with David Niven, is more fun to watch than this (and that spoof was horrible in itself!).

I don't understand why so many think that this movie belongs in the top 5 or so of Bond movies, probably millennials who have never seen a proper Bond movie and just think it's a cool action movie. Likely they've never heard of Ian Fleming to begin with and don't even know how to spell the word 'book'.

On top of that barbara cauliflower (yes, out of sheer disrespect) ruined the whole Bond franchise by making Bond a boring action here, no more funny remarks, no more bedding of countless women, no more Bond theme, no more gun barrel opening scene.

daniel "no Bond" craig ruined it and barbara cauliflower finished it.

Bond is dead.

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I've said it before but the problem with this film was that it essentially sold out the cinematic Bond franchise for a one trick pony.

Yeah, we also saw the hard edged "Bond" and could marvel at the modern Borne-esque pacing / styling but then after you've been fed that once there's nowhere else for it to go.

Which is how you land up with an unwatchable snooze-fest follow up. And then subsequently the derivative, absurd turkey of Skyfall, and it's embarrassing Joker-lite, which followed.

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