I don't understand how you guys don't like it. The longest I was able to keep a straight face was about 5 minutes. (exept for the school scene, that wasn't very funny untill the fight.
Casino Royale (The Movie)
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Posted 14 September 2003 - 01:40 AM
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Posted 14 September 2003 - 11:06 PM
I just wish Peter Sellers had stayed on and made the movie they had originally planned to film...his stuff is still the best parts of CR.
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Posted 14 September 2003 - 11:13 PM
I agree, it's a pity Peter Sellers left. That's one of the main problems for CR. If they had just made him the main focus it would most likely have turned out better. And also if only they had gotten ONE director (and a good one) perhaps this movie would be bearable.
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Posted 15 September 2003 - 01:13 AM
Sellers WAS the main focus in the original script...However he walked off the set over a dispute with Orson Welles and they had to scramble to put something together...
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Posted 09 October 2003 - 09:23 PM
its not supposed to be a serious "James Bond" movie..... it was supposed to a parridy of them thats why it had comedy....... didnt you read the back of the DVD before watching???
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Posted 09 October 2003 - 09:38 PM
Hey folks, Orson Welles was no saint but Peter Sellars was notorious for being an exceptionally difficult personality in almost all his films. He was a comic genius but he was a very difficult person to work with. Put two egomaniacal geniuses like that together and it's inevitable you're going to get a battle.
I think CR is hysterical -- the whole Scotland sequence with Deborah Kerr is the only part where I snooze and fast forward. I just love it because it has a lot of my old favorites in it: Niven, Sellars, Welles, Huston, Holden, Kraszner, Joanna Pettet, even Kerr; and I love watching the young Woody Allen. I enjoy the crazy Bachrach music -- it's *meant* to be silly, folks. And yes "The Look of Love" is great. It's not a Bond film and it's not a good film at all, I just love the total chaos of it and the many faces I grew up watching, and the old 60s look and sounds of my childhood.
I think CR is hysterical -- the whole Scotland sequence with Deborah Kerr is the only part where I snooze and fast forward. I just love it because it has a lot of my old favorites in it: Niven, Sellars, Welles, Huston, Holden, Kraszner, Joanna Pettet, even Kerr; and I love watching the young Woody Allen. I enjoy the crazy Bachrach music -- it's *meant* to be silly, folks. And yes "The Look of Love" is great. It's not a Bond film and it's not a good film at all, I just love the total chaos of it and the many faces I grew up watching, and the old 60s look and sounds of my childhood.
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Posted 09 October 2003 - 10:17 PM
"Casino Royale" is just such a lost opportunity....If only Sellers had stayed.
Jaelle - you are right, one of the joys of CR is spotting all the cameos...If you blink you will miss the actor who played the Spectre strategist in FRWL!
Jaelle - you are right, one of the joys of CR is spotting all the cameos...If you blink you will miss the actor who played the Spectre strategist in FRWL!
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Posted 18 October 2003 - 11:52 AM
I loved Casino Royale, its a really funny film - a laugh a minute. Plus it had a really great cast with Niven and Sellers and it had a perfect score by the legendary Burt Bacharach. I think one of my favourite scenes in when Vesper and Elevlyn Tremple meant for the first time.
Vesper: "Isn't Elevlyn a girls name?"
Tremple: "no its mine actually"
Just perfect.
Vesper: "Isn't Elevlyn a girls name?"
Tremple: "no its mine actually"
Just perfect.
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Posted 11 November 2003 - 09:06 AM
The formula is sing with a 007
He's got a red head in his arms
Those he's a lover, when you are in trouble
He'lllllll be there...
Seven James Bond's at Casino Royale
They came to save the world and a girl at Casino Royale
Six of them went to a heavenly spot
The seventh ones going to a place where its terribly hot....
Kudos to all those clever teddies who loved the movie, and to all those others - you are right. It isn't your typical Bond film. It is more in the vein of Dr Goldfoot and the Bakini Machine (terrible film, great name).
I would have to say I don't really class this film as James Bond. In fact lord knows just what this film should be classed as - wot with the exploading poofs, electronic midgets, and Dr Noah's bactilous - designed to make all women beautiful and destroy all men over five foot one.
But as someone very cleverly put it, for lovers of just wahtever the hell this film was about: Just perfect.
He's got a red head in his arms
Those he's a lover, when you are in trouble
He'lllllll be there...
Seven James Bond's at Casino Royale
They came to save the world and a girl at Casino Royale
Six of them went to a heavenly spot
The seventh ones going to a place where its terribly hot....
Kudos to all those clever teddies who loved the movie, and to all those others - you are right. It isn't your typical Bond film. It is more in the vein of Dr Goldfoot and the Bakini Machine (terrible film, great name).
I would have to say I don't really class this film as James Bond. In fact lord knows just what this film should be classed as - wot with the exploading poofs, electronic midgets, and Dr Noah's bactilous - designed to make all women beautiful and destroy all men over five foot one.
But as someone very cleverly put it, for lovers of just wahtever the hell this film was about: Just perfect.