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She really shaped how he approaches his relationships going forward. Edit: in the Books it is referenced that he makes a trip to visit her grave every year.
"Casino Royale" and "Skyfall" are Daniel Craig's best works as James Bond. Also, this goes beyond just being a great James Bond film, it's a brilliant action film in general.
It's a shame these are the only two quality films from this run. Daniel Craig is fantastic as the character, but the writing just doesn't do him justice. And Christoph Waltz as Blofeld was perfect, if it wasn't written so poorly.
Quantum of Solace and No Time to Die both have enough going for them I'd still call them at least "fine" if not also "good", though QoS suffered a lot from the writer's strike and writing is broadly the largest issue with NTtD in my opinion as well. Other than a few action scenes and Lea Sidoux being wonderful though Spectre has basically nothing going for it. Even Christoff Waltz can't save that movie.@@CaptainLuckyLuke
@TehFrenchy29 I suspect my problem is I don’t really get Léa Seydoux or Christopher Waltz as actors. People around me seem to be awestruck and I’m just going, “But her deadpan expression never changes regardless of circumstance. And he does the same things in every movie!! He’s irreverent when doing evil things, speaks in foreign languages a bit, and then there’s long scene where he stares intensely at something to the left off screen with his face pointed slightly down and his eyeline slightly higher!!”.
@@TehFrenchy29 What really ruined Quantum for me was the terrible action sequences - they were edited so badly and so quickly that you couldn't tell WHAT was going on during them.
This movie also brought us Eva Green for a spell, too. This is one of my favorite Bond movies, as it was directed by the person who directed one of my other favorite Bond movies, GoldenEye.
And to think there were Bond fans protesting Daniel Craig's casting as 007. This film was terrific, one of the best of all Bond movies. "Skyfall" was amazing as well.
Imagine being 17 and seeing this at a special screening at your local theatre with only your mates from your rugby club and your boxing gym. So much parkour was attempted in the parking lot after!!
The Astin flip actually set a world record for flips in a single stunt. A number of world records for stunts were set during this glorious evolution of Bond.
I watched a making of documentary for this stunt and they really struggled getting the Aston to flip they kept trying bigger and bigger ramps but the car was just too stable and kept landing on it's wheels so they had to use an air ram mounted under the car something they really didn't want to do because if you look closely you can see it.
A lot of what makes this movie great is the fact that it's a modern version of the actual Ian Fleming novel. Beat by beat, it's in the book, including much of a dialogue. Certain things were added, but if you've read the book Casino Royale, it's almost all there - of course, with the modern set pieces. This is an actual James Bond story. Director Martin Campbell also helps, having done Goldeneye, the first Pierce Brosnan Bond film (and arguably the best of that era). Every performance here is great and I like that the tone is consistent and set from the beginning. Daniel Craig is going to be a more physical, realistic James Bond that is more Fleming-esque (in this film at least). The rest of the films suffer from not having Fleming to draw from, but they get it right here. And yes, the scene where he's tied to a chair is all in the book. I never thought they'd have the, uh, balls to film that.
I read several of the books as a youngster, didn’t really "get" them, I was like 12 or something, but the things that stood out were lots of drinking, Bourbon and Branch was one of his drinks that I recall, and from my memory, he seemed to spend a lot of time recuperating in hospital... that was like 40 years ago, but when I saw this movie, boom! It is the Bond of the books.
Probably the most faithful film adaptation of a book in the entire franchise, except, of course, for the changes required by setting the action in the present day. SMERSH is no longer a thing along with the demise of the Soviet Union, etc. As a curiosity, the line in the movie: "The job is done, and the bitch is dead." it is identical, word for word, to the one in the book. This is how Bond chooses to distance himself from his feelings and make others believe that Vesper didn't matter to him emotionally.
Even Bond getting beat up is straight from Casino Royale. I see a lot of people complaining about how they made Bond weak from the start, and people don't understand he kicks far more ass in this movie than he does in the book. Pretty much the only attempt on his life he solves himself is when he had a silencer to his back, but even then he had to embarrass himself in front of all of Royale to get out of it. In the book, he also wasn't laughing so much during the chair scene, more worrying about becoming a eunuch and hoping that he passes out and dies before he breaks and tells them. I think it'd actually surprise a lot of Bond movie lovers to see just how much more depth he has in the novels, how his motivations are more deeply explored, how he's not perfect but he constantly trains to make himself better to accomplish his mission and destroy SMERSH.
Mads Mickelson said that all of the actors at the table knew how to play cards except for Daniel Craig, so he hated losing to him. He also said the hands had to be ridiculous high cards so the audience could keep up with who was winning.
He was beat up and unrefined because this is Bond's beginning. The longer the bond movies went on the more refined he became. This showed where the name Vesper came from, his love for clothes, the Astin Martin car. This is the beginning of it all.
If you read the book Casino Royale, which is the first book Ian Fleming wrote of Bond too, he gets even more beat up than he does here. Like Bond loses pretty much every fight, and the times he does win he has to publicly embarrass himself to not die. That's why Bond in the books is always improving himself.
59:03 Exactly. This is why Casino Royale will forever be my favorite Bond film. The storytelling is done so well, and Eva/Daniel’s chemistry is unbeatable. Not only do we get an awesome MI6 plot, but the character development with James meeting his match and falling in love for the first time, only to face absolute heartbreak was such a beautiful origin for the future of the character that we all know. Skyfall is a stunning film with an alright story, but it’s a tragedy that no other movie in Daniel Craig’s series comes anywhere close to Casino Royale.
@@NikkiStevenReact That's a weird mistake though, cuz they're so obviously decades apart. I actually thought you were talking about the 2023 tv show and no the movie.
"Suckin on her fingers like that... what other intent could there have been?" ...ummm... to get the blood off. She just said she feels like there is still blood on her even though she washed them over and over. So he did that to make sure they were clean and he couldn't taste any blood on them. She literally said it right before he did it lol
It's also a psychological thing, where washing her hands doesn't make the feeling of blood on her hands go away. So he sticks her fingers in his mouth and licks the blood off - and even though there is no blood there, for her it would probably be a relief that it was now gone.
@@hulkslayer626 No, you said he did it to make sure they were clean and he couldn't taste any blood on them, but there was no blood on them to taste. If you meant that he did it anyway to soothe her, then that's what you should have written.
For this movie to be anyone's favorite Bond movie is so wildly acceptable! Fun fact: Director Martin Campbell introduced Daniel Craig as James Bond in this movie, and also previously introduced the previous 007, Pierce Brosnan, when he directed Goldeneye. (If you had an Nintendo 64 growing up, you've at least heard of the movie for certain.)
Fun fact: #1 the man Bond chases at the beginning of the film is one of the two creators of the sport of Parkour, and he is really doing all of that work himself. DC was doing as much of the stunt work as the studio would let him do. So that really was him chasing that guy and doing that crazy stuff. #2 the car crash scene was not CGI. They took a real Aston Martin DB9 and rolled it for real. It rolled 8 times making it one of the highest number of rolls for a car stunt done practically.
Sébastien Foucan only did the parkour stuff. He had a stunt double for several of his scenes. After all, he's a parkour expert, not a stuntman. The scene with the wheel loader crashing into the construction, and the guy jumping away from all the debris, was his stunt double. The scene of both characters jumping down from the cranes, were also stunt doubles. And yeah, the car crash scene was real. They used 5 cars because they weren't happy with the shots, and on that fifth try, they broke a world record, with most 360° rolls. 7, if I'm correct. They of course used an air gun, or it wouldn't have been possible to roll that car.
@@akyhne That sounds more like an insurance thing than anything, neither of those two stunts comes close to the danger level or difficulty of Sebastien Foucan's greatest runs in parkour. Just a jump away from an object, and a simple pre to roll from a _higher_ point to a lower one? Easy, he used to take those falls without even rolling. But since he's not technically a stunt man and this was 2006, they had to replace him. Nowadays he would've just done that himself, Storror did way more dangerous jumps than the crane doing that Michael Bay movie with Deadpool nobody remembers. David Belle was doing similar stunts earlier, but in movies he produced and in France so insurance wasn't an issue.
@@billbill6094 Those jumps from crane to crane, were done for real. Just with a harness, thst breaks your speed. Sébastien would have had no experience with such a device, which is a good reason in itself, to not let him do the stunt. And again - he's not a stunt performer. He's sn artist, sportsman or whatever you wanna call a parkour specialist. He wasn't even credited as a stuntman in Casino Royale, although he showed his skills. He was only listed amingst the other actors. Daniel Craig did some minor stunts too, but was of course also not credited as a stuntman. It was him running up the arm of the crane, but with a harness. Not a stunt double. If you take the scene fro. Captain America (or one of the films he was in), where he beat the shit out of a handful of guards in an elevator, then jumped out through the glass, those guys were not credited as guards, but as stuntmen. Because despite of yhem having to do some acting before the fight, they were just there as stuntmen, taking a beat. But their role weren't really different from Sébastien's role, he didn't have a single line in the movie. He was just there, to do his parkour,and as an actor.
I remember watching this in theaters, and when Le Chiffe pulls out and starts swinging the rope, every guy in the theater started tensing up or looking at the person next to them lol
This is hands down my favorite Bond movie with Craig - realistic approach, not relying too hard on gadgets, and a ton of super cool and memorable scenes: from parkour and that Bond's glimpse of a smile when he attached the bomb in the airport, to the flipping Aston Martin, to the torture scene. And it was impactful and character driven as well, not just plot driven, which is great. The reaction was awesome: Nikki laughing her ass out as usual, but also Steven's face during the torture scenes, just top notch 😃👍🏻
"Poker? Damn near killed her!" 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Best reaction line I've heard in any video. Ever. Took me two minutes to stop cracking up long enough to continue.
If I remember correctly this was the first movie allowed to film or cruise into the Grand Lagoon in Venice. The city council never allowed previous movies to do that... .
This movie has a scene (in the goat) that is every dudes worst nightmare and yet I still manage to find myself watching that scene every time no matter what😂
Recently watched a Mads Mikkelsen interview. He said that everyone behind that poker table was a profficient poker player. All except Daniel Craig, he was terrible. 🤣
When Nikki said "Oh is this gonna hurt right now?", at the start of the chair scene, I admit I burst out laughing. Gurrrrrrrl, "gonna hurt" is the biggest understatement. 😱😱😱
4:58 That’s a mongoose. They are considered the only natural predators to cobras. Cobras vs. mongooses is one of the most infamous rivalries in the animal kingdom, that’s why some African nations may have a Mongoose/Cobra fight as a spectacle
Snakes, even cobras, have a lot of natural predators. Birds of prey, mongoose and some other mammals as well as other reptiles, especially the king cobra that almost exclusively eats other snakes (including other cobras). 😊
For my money, the best Bond movie. So well-paced, Bond gets a character arc, an intimidating villain, high stakes, brilliant action set pieces, great music, all the style and swagger and zingers we expect from Bond while still keeping a serious tone, and of course the all-time-best-ever "Bond Girl" Eva Green as Vesper. For me it just doesn't get any better.
James Bond was created by Ian Fleming. IRL former government operative who became a best-selling novelist. Casino Royale is the first Bond novel and introduction to this legendary series, published in 1953 aka "The spy novel to end all spy novels". This was Martin Campbell's 2nd Bond film (after Goldeneye). After 40 plus years and 20 films later, filmmakers wanted to bring 007 back to the essence. Daniel Craig is the best Bond since the late, great Sean Connery. All so good as fully connected and well envisioned. There is so many things that connect to Bond's legend and for a lot of people, this was the utmost introduction. Dame Judi Dench as M in a 2nd set of films in a long-running tenure of the character. The Aston Martin is his signature vehicle and having 2 of them (classic and modern) was such a good idea. The late Chris Cornell with the theme "You Know My Name" is top-tier 007 music. Even if you saw the older films or not, Craig's era was a breath of fresh air.
Fleming based his Bond character on his step-cousin. Sir Christopher Lee. Who had a very “interesting” military career. Much of which is still classified today. Lee truly was the most interesting man in the world.
@@fredfredburger5150 Dalton>Connery>Craig>Lazenby>Brosnan>Moore in my book with Connery almost in a tie with Craig, same goes with Brosnan and Moore. It's so funny that in my childhood it was a lot opposite, Moore and Brosnan were my favourite Bonds and I disliked Dalton a lot. Love them all in the end.
Growing up Connery was always my fav. But man once I seen this Craig became my fav this is tied with Skyfall(which I hope you watch) and a few others as my fav Bond flicks. Man such a great movie.
The James Bond producers have always been on the lookout for people who developed new crazy vehicles or extreme sports and put them into their next movie. It mostly ends up in the opening scene, because that one is always not really connected to the rest of the story and so you can make anything work. Jetskis, paragliders, gyrocopters, movie-quality underwater cameras, movie-quality cameras for skiing, movie-quality cameras for skydiving. Often, it was the first time people had ever seen those things anywhere. Being one of the first movie with a big parcour chase was part of a very long tradition.
44:26 good guy James Bond giving the dealer the tip of his career. His life was probably drastically changed after dealing cards for the spies and villains in the room.
Having this be the first bond film following the brosnan era and opening with the parkour chase was absolutely wild. This movie was an absolute A++ Hope you guys go thru all the bond movies!
Pretty much my favorite bond movie. Excellent dialogue, great action, great music, and tons of tension. Pretty faithful to the source material as well for the most part. I really appreciate that compared to previous Bond movies, it doesn't rely on gadgetry either. The whole thing was a "back to the basics" for Bond in the best way possible when compared to earlier Bond movies.
Daniel Craig's films are a five part story with beginning and ending. Casino Royale, Quantum of Solace, Skyfall, Spectre and No Time to Die are all linked together.
The actor in the beginning that Daniel Craig chances whose name I can’t remember (sorry) is actually one of the people that set the foundation for what is Parkour …
This is the best bond movie! I love you guys enough that I’ll watch it with you. My dad has passed away but this was one of our favorite movies to watch together! I can’t really watch it alone… this will be the first time sense he passed 5 years ago. Just clicking on yall got me crying. You will love it!
Ok, I get being distracted by the bombshell on the horse on the beach but y’all totally missed the reverse of the Bond trope of hot girl coming out of the ocean into the beach (Ursula Andress in “Dr. No,” Halle Berry in “Die Another Day,”) - in this film they do a reversal and knowing wink to the audience (especially its female audience) by having Bond himself be the eye candy coming out of the water. Yes that Bodyworks exhibit toured around that time - my wife and I saw it in person and it was wild. Others have pointed out that was obviously a mongoose not a ferret. Mongooses often kick the asses of cobras. This film really rebooted the Bond franchise into the modern era - and love that they made him rough around the edges as they show him earning double 0 status and in his early days with his license to kill. Not that the Connery ones weren’t great for their time and set the standard or that the Moore years weren’t fun and campy. And my goodness, Eva Green is a spectacular Bond girl.
Great reaction like always, i was waiting for this reaction for so long, you are gonna love this James Bond movies they are all tied together, and that chase in the beginning with that guy that do Parkour, well that guy is Sébastien Foucan the founder of freerunning one of styles of Parkour. Keep up the amazing work, cant wait for the next one.
The coolest thing is that the next Movie Quantum of Solace starts where Casino Royale ended and tells the Story further...i think that´s the first time in Bonds history that this was done.
This movie rescued the whole Bond franchise. It was dying leading up to this one. And Daniel Craig exploded onto the scene in this one. Brilliant debut. If you like Daniel Craig’s performance in this one, look up one of his earlier films: ‘Layer Cake’. It’s a fun gangster flick and Craig was brilliant in it. It’s probably why he got the Bond role.
I remember when Daniel Greig was cast the press (In England) were up in arms saying he wasn't good enough after the film came out they didn't say anything, I lot of the credit go's to the Director Martin Campbell who Directed Piecre Brosnan first Bond film.
The James Bond films have always used innovators to showcase new and exciting stunts. So in the beginning where Bond is chasing the one guy through the construction site, that IS the guy who created parkour.
The stuntman in the parkour chase at the beginning was Sebastien Foucan, one of the founders of parkour and the founder of urban free running. Those stunts were not CGI.
What a lot of people don't realize is that the author of the Bond books (Ian Flemming) was head of British naval intelligence after working as an agent himself, and Bond was thought to be an amalgamation of people who he worked with who became good friends of his. The original Bond was a chain smoking womanizer who definitely likes his hard liquor. Which is where the whole Martini thing comes from. Understandable considering that these guys probably coped with their kind of work by indulging in these vices to cope. Also Christopher Lee (Saurumon from Lord of The Rings) was his cousin and also worked as an agent, after serving in the long range desert reconnaissance group during the war. The group was heavily recruited from by the SAS at the inception of the famed unit that Bond is described in this movie as being part of. So that also makes sense too. Especially as the SAS work closely and receive training from the MI6 too.
Thank you for doing this film, love your content, few fun facts from the film: 1. Aston Martin gave them 3 cars to use to create the crash stunt, the version we see was the second take when the first one didn't work and was starting to stress the stunt director. 2. The use of the mobile defibrillator was tech that existed but hadn't really been seen by the public at the time. In the UK at least mainly due to the film these quickly became common all over the country in public places because everyone was like - why don't we have this equipment to save lives? 3. The chandlers which they sat under to play poker were props (the room was made), they were purchased by a castle estate in the UK (from Pinewood Studios) which I celebrated my own wedding at, we danced under these (ok not so interesting but cool for us at least! haha).
One of the best things about this James Bond movie is it’s the only one where he never runs away from anyone. He ducks into the stairwell, but doesn’t run away. He’s always running towards something. It’s the only James Bond movie where he’s not chased. I have realized this for years and Kept waiting for someone else to bring it up.
Seriously, this is still, after all the Daniel Craig´s run, the best of him. Skyfall is a close second. Mads Mikkelsen is a fantastic villain, the friction between Craig and dame Dench is pure gold, this intro to Bond, having Craig play him at his beginnings, a more naive, blunt, inexperienced Bond is such a genius move. Not to mention the PERFECT direction by Martin Cambell and Eva Green as Vesper. And on the top of all that, it was the first time the Bond series had a real, serious continuity. I love Sean Connery, I wish Timothy Dalton have had a better luck(and more movies playing Bond), but Daniel Craig really nailed it and I miss him dearly already.
Maybe I'm wrong, but I feel like the most unbelievable part of this movie is that a high-stakes, multi-million dollar poker game would allow a player's spouse to just saunter up to them after walking AROUND the table. Like, she saw everyone's hand and could easily communicate it to him somehow. They're WHISPERING when she does it, for crying out loud. Such a baffling element.
Interesting Fact: The black gentleman doing parkour at the beginning of the film is named "Sébastien Foucan", He was the original founder of freerunning so, they simply didn't pick some a no body. He doesn't have to be a league he damn near inspired they're existences 😉👍 now you know
When this came out, it was a radically different take on Bond on the big screen, but ironically that was because it was _super_ faithful to the book. Small differences like poker instead of baccarat, a rope instead of a carpet beater in _that_ scene, but in terms of the story it's really well done. Big differences, they made Vesper much smarter, the intelligent tete-a-tetes they have here didn't exist in the book. And of course you lose the usual stuff you get from an adaptation when it comes to Bond's inner thoughts, when he's angry or afraid or when he's lying to himself that he doesn't care about Vesper. They still kept the end line from the book in, but he's not nearly as mysoginistic as book Bond because you learn that his apparent hatred is just a shield, and you only know from reading his thoughts. Plus even by "flawed but redeemable character" standards he was kind of excessive with the sexism. Now if they had kept in the chapter on The Nature of Evil it might've been absolutely perfect adaptation, that perfectly showed Bond's motivations in a way that has never been explained in the movies and it ties into the rest of Craig's run. And yeah, "parkour!" is no joke, that guy isn't just an ordinary stunt man, Sebastien Foucan was on the _original_ parkour team with the movement's founder David Belle. He's a little above the paygrade of pro tag.
Vesper's actress is Eva Green. She starred in "Penny Dreadful", which, coincidentally, also starred former Bond Timothy Dalton. I think you would have a great time with the series if you ever gave it a chance.
For the longest time, I always referred to From Russia with Love as my favorite 007 film even after this was released. This film has finally supplanted FRWL as my top favorite 007 film. FRWL is still a classic, but this has a great story, amazing action scenes, and more contemporary film making techniques.
The classic James Bond music doesn't play until the very end and into the credits because this is very much Bond's origin story. He isn't yet the mythical super-spy he's known to be. But by the end of the film, he's truly become "James Bond."
2:52 I think the part everyone misses when they watch that part is that he was actually going to say, 'Well, you needn't worry. The second is always easier' after he told Bond, "Made you feel it, did he?" Bond's saying "Yes, considerably," was in response to what he was going to say.
I love the many ways they show that Bond is truly not a hired thug, but uses quick thinking and ingenuity to get out of sticky situations. His first interaction with Vesper also shows how he reads ppl.
26:11 Maverick was actually originally a tv series in the 60s. The main character, Bret Maverick, was played by James Garner, who played Marshal Zane Cooper in the Gibson movie.
If you want to see something else with Eva Green (Vesper), I highly recommend checking out Penny Dreadful! It's three seasons of horror...a mashup of Dracula, Frankenstein, Dorian Gray, etc. And she is absolutely fantastic in that show.
A friend of mine didn't know what was going in the torture scene. He thought Bond was in pain because the sharp parts of the chair that were left after the seat had been cut away were digging into him 🤣🤣🤣🤣
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That's a mongoose, a notorious cobra killer
It gets better. Vespa is running theme. I think you'll love what comes next.
Shower finger sucking ? 36:29 - 'It's LIKE... I'VE got blood on my hands, but I can't get it off.'
Mythbusters tested jetwash doing that years ago now. It's absolutely a real thing. You Don't drive behind any running engines at power. lol.
Will you guys watch the bear.
That man doing hardcore parkour isn't just a guy. He's one of the creators of the sport. So yeah, he's pretty fucking good at it.
Sébastien Foucan
"What kind of parkour is this!?"
"I *AM* the parkour!"
@@OriginalPuro He created a sport out of it.
So basically just a guy then.
@@MamadNobari You are just a guy too.
Can you do it?
Vesper probably the most meaningful Bond girl with depth in the whole series
And one of the hottest
@@RedDeadGunslingerOutlaw nah she’s mid
@@selfishstockton6123 Objectively incorrect. Sorry this is how you found out you were blind and emotionally vacant all in the same comment 😢
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She really shaped how he approaches his relationships going forward. Edit: in the Books it is referenced that he makes a trip to visit her grave every year.
Guys it wasn't a ferret it was a mongoose...and they're famous for killing snakes.
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They were pretty ignorant there wtf...
@@peppyd Yep love a bit of Kipling. 🥰
When he said that didn't seem like a fair fight, I was like, "You're right. It's not a fair fight... for the snake." Lol
I So ❤This Movie!
"Casino Royale" and "Skyfall" are Daniel Craig's best works as James Bond.
Also, this goes beyond just being a great James Bond film, it's a brilliant action film in general.
I’d argue they’re his only good Bond films. The other 3 are pretty bad and they seem to get worse with time.
It's a shame these are the only two quality films from this run. Daniel Craig is fantastic as the character, but the writing just doesn't do him justice. And Christoph Waltz as Blofeld was perfect, if it wasn't written so poorly.
Quantum of Solace and No Time to Die both have enough going for them I'd still call them at least "fine" if not also "good", though QoS suffered a lot from the writer's strike and writing is broadly the largest issue with NTtD in my opinion as well. Other than a few action scenes and Lea Sidoux being wonderful though Spectre has basically nothing going for it. Even Christoff Waltz can't save that movie.@@CaptainLuckyLuke
@TehFrenchy29 I suspect my problem is I don’t really get Léa Seydoux or Christopher Waltz as actors. People around me seem to be awestruck and I’m just going, “But her deadpan expression never changes regardless of circumstance. And he does the same things in every movie!! He’s irreverent when doing evil things, speaks in foreign languages a bit, and then there’s long scene where he stares intensely at something to the left off screen with his face pointed slightly down and his eyeline slightly higher!!”.
@@TehFrenchy29 What really ruined Quantum for me was the terrible action sequences - they were edited so badly and so quickly that you couldn't tell WHAT was going on during them.
Le Chiffre: "All I need from you is the password."
Nikki: "It's your mom!"
I'm dying 🤣
This was quick witted and hilarious🤣
Besides this movie being fantastic, it is also the movie that brought Mads Mikkelsen into the mainstream. And I'm forever grateful for that.
His old Danish comedies are also amazing.
I always think it's hilarious to see him as serious villains now.
@@Yora21He was also amazing in the movie “The Hunt”
Another Round is also well worth a watch. Great movie
This movie also brought us Eva Green for a spell, too. This is one of my favorite Bond movies, as it was directed by the person who directed one of my other favorite Bond movies, GoldenEye.
And to think there were Bond fans protesting Daniel Craig's casting as 007. This film was terrific, one of the best of all Bond movies. "Skyfall" was amazing as well.
I literally watched skyfall again 3 times this past week and weekend 😂
Imagine being 17 and seeing this at a special screening at your local theatre with only your mates from your rugby club and your boxing gym. So much parkour was attempted in the parking lot after!!
PARKOUR! PARKOUR! -- The Office
HAHAHA your group probably got into The Office level of parkour stuff. Thank you for sharing your experience.
@@pairofpintsHuh?
Steven: “That was intense”… me patiently waiting for the rope/chair scene.
2:57 No, that guy was Bond's 2nd kill, to earn his '00' status.
The Astin flip actually set a world record for flips in a single stunt. A number of world records for stunts were set during this glorious evolution of Bond.
I watched a making of documentary for this stunt and they really struggled getting the Aston to flip they kept trying bigger and bigger ramps but the car was just too stable and kept landing on it's wheels so they had to use an air ram mounted under the car something they really didn't want to do because if you look closely you can see it.
James Bond movies have such a long list of crazy stuff done the first time on film.
@@ianjardine7324 That's a good problem to have for a car lol. "This car is so safe, it's so hard to flip for this stunt!"
A lot of what makes this movie great is the fact that it's a modern version of the actual Ian Fleming novel. Beat by beat, it's in the book, including much of a dialogue. Certain things were added, but if you've read the book Casino Royale, it's almost all there - of course, with the modern set pieces. This is an actual James Bond story. Director Martin Campbell also helps, having done Goldeneye, the first Pierce Brosnan Bond film (and arguably the best of that era). Every performance here is great and I like that the tone is consistent and set from the beginning. Daniel Craig is going to be a more physical, realistic James Bond that is more Fleming-esque (in this film at least). The rest of the films suffer from not having Fleming to draw from, but they get it right here. And yes, the scene where he's tied to a chair is all in the book. I never thought they'd have the, uh, balls to film that.
Yeah, having read the book, when I saw them cut the bottom of that chair out… 👀
I knew. 😖
I read several of the books as a youngster, didn’t really "get" them, I was like 12 or something, but the things that stood out were lots of drinking, Bourbon and Branch was one of his drinks that I recall, and from my memory, he seemed to spend a lot of time recuperating in hospital... that was like 40 years ago, but when I saw this movie, boom! It is the Bond of the books.
I mean, it's not really that outrageous of a scene to include in the film though. It's not like "that" scene from Stephen King's It.💀
Probably the most faithful film adaptation of a book in the entire franchise, except, of course, for the changes required by setting the action in the present day. SMERSH is no longer a thing along with the demise of the Soviet Union, etc.
As a curiosity, the line in the movie: "The job is done, and the bitch is dead." it is identical, word for word, to the one in the book. This is how Bond chooses to distance himself from his feelings and make others believe that Vesper didn't matter to him emotionally.
Even Bond getting beat up is straight from Casino Royale. I see a lot of people complaining about how they made Bond weak from the start, and people don't understand he kicks far more ass in this movie than he does in the book. Pretty much the only attempt on his life he solves himself is when he had a silencer to his back, but even then he had to embarrass himself in front of all of Royale to get out of it.
In the book, he also wasn't laughing so much during the chair scene, more worrying about becoming a eunuch and hoping that he passes out and dies before he breaks and tells them. I think it'd actually surprise a lot of Bond movie lovers to see just how much more depth he has in the novels, how his motivations are more deeply explored, how he's not perfect but he constantly trains to make himself better to accomplish his mission and destroy SMERSH.
The chair-rope torture scene is from the original James Bond book, Casino Royale by Ian Fleming.
"THE CAR!!!!!"
Yeah we *all* pretty much thought that too.
How about the stunt woman in the road she was almost run over by the car,the tyre was a few inches next to her.
Filmmakers go out of their way to avoid unnecessarily endangering people. So I'm not sure what you are talking about
"I need to find out what he does with his little finger" Thirsty Nikki is top tier!!
Laughed way too hard at that 🤣
“They hit them with the ahooga..” 😅😅 I was in stitches when she said that😂 Hilarious
Yea, definitely a giggly mood. LoL
Mads Mickelson said that all of the actors at the table knew how to play cards except for Daniel Craig, so he hated losing to him. He also said the hands had to be ridiculous high cards so the audience could keep up with who was winning.
That makes sense. Gotta make it so as many people understand what’s happening
He was beat up and unrefined because this is Bond's beginning. The longer the bond movies went on the more refined he became. This showed where the name Vesper came from, his love for clothes, the Astin Martin car. This is the beginning of it all.
If you read the book Casino Royale, which is the first book Ian Fleming wrote of Bond too, he gets even more beat up than he does here. Like Bond loses pretty much every fight, and the times he does win he has to publicly embarrass himself to not die. That's why Bond in the books is always improving himself.
59:03 Exactly. This is why Casino Royale will forever be my favorite Bond film. The storytelling is done so well, and Eva/Daniel’s chemistry is unbeatable. Not only do we get an awesome MI6 plot, but the character development with James meeting his match and falling in love for the first time, only to face absolute heartbreak was such a beautiful origin for the future of the character that we all know. Skyfall is a stunning film with an alright story, but it’s a tragedy that no other movie in Daniel Craig’s series comes anywhere close to Casino Royale.
"A Vodka Martini!"
"Shaken or stirred?"
"Do I look like I give a damn?"
Best line ever in Craig's second best Bond-movie.
True Lies is ages older than this. True lies was like 1994 or something. Casino Royale is 2006.
You beat me to it lol
Yeah, that threw me off a bit lol. I thought they had to be just messing around and joking, but I don’t think they were lol.
Why would we be joking about that? Mistakes happen. Especially when you watch something so far from its release date.
@@NikkiStevenReact That's a weird mistake though, cuz they're so obviously decades apart. I actually thought you were talking about the 2023 tv show and no the movie.
I only meant to bring it to your attention. I meant no disrespect
"Suckin on her fingers like that... what other intent could there have been?" ...ummm... to get the blood off. She just said she feels like there is still blood on her even though she washed them over and over. So he did that to make sure they were clean and he couldn't taste any blood on them. She literally said it right before he did it lol
Yeah I mean how can anyone miss that, unless he didn’t hear what she said that’s odd.
@@WhiteHawk77 to be fair... Eva Green was wet and in a shower, so it IS distracting lmao But Nikki should have known lol
It's also a psychological thing, where washing her hands doesn't make the feeling of blood on her hands go away. So he sticks her fingers in his mouth and licks the blood off - and even though there is no blood there, for her it would probably be a relief that it was now gone.
@@mickesmanymovies ....that's what I just said lol
@@hulkslayer626 No, you said he did it to make sure they were clean and he couldn't taste any blood on them, but there was no blood on them to taste. If you meant that he did it anyway to soothe her, then that's what you should have written.
For this movie to be anyone's favorite Bond movie is so wildly acceptable!
Fun fact: Director Martin Campbell introduced Daniel Craig as James Bond in this movie, and also previously introduced the previous 007, Pierce Brosnan, when he directed Goldeneye. (If you had an Nintendo 64 growing up, you've at least heard of the movie for certain.)
Goldeneye for the N64 remains one of the best FPS games ever made. Seriously innovated the genre in a way decades of COD games could only dream of.
Fun fact: #1 the man Bond chases at the beginning of the film is one of the two creators of the sport of Parkour, and he is really doing all of that work himself. DC was doing as much of the stunt work as the studio would let him do. So that really was him chasing that guy and doing that crazy stuff. #2 the car crash scene was not CGI. They took a real Aston Martin DB9 and rolled it for real. It rolled 8 times making it one of the highest number of rolls for a car stunt done practically.
You mean “DC” for Daniel Craig
@@JasonZakrajsek Oops. Yes I did. I'll fix it.
Sébastien Foucan only did the parkour stuff. He had a stunt double for several of his scenes. After all, he's a parkour expert, not a stuntman.
The scene with the wheel loader crashing into the construction, and the guy jumping away from all the debris, was his stunt double. The scene of both characters jumping down from the cranes, were also stunt doubles.
And yeah, the car crash scene was real. They used 5 cars because they weren't happy with the shots, and on that fifth try, they broke a world record, with most 360° rolls. 7, if I'm correct.
They of course used an air gun, or it wouldn't have been possible to roll that car.
@@akyhne That sounds more like an insurance thing than anything, neither of those two stunts comes close to the danger level or difficulty of Sebastien Foucan's greatest runs in parkour. Just a jump away from an object, and a simple pre to roll from a _higher_ point to a lower one? Easy, he used to take those falls without even rolling. But since he's not technically a stunt man and this was 2006, they had to replace him.
Nowadays he would've just done that himself, Storror did way more dangerous jumps than the crane doing that Michael Bay movie with Deadpool nobody remembers. David Belle was doing similar stunts earlier, but in movies he produced and in France so insurance wasn't an issue.
@@billbill6094 Those jumps from crane to crane, were done for real. Just with a harness, thst breaks your speed. Sébastien would have had no experience with such a device, which is a good reason in itself, to not let him do the stunt. And again - he's not a stunt performer. He's sn artist, sportsman or whatever you wanna call a parkour specialist. He wasn't even credited as a stuntman in Casino Royale, although he showed his skills. He was only listed amingst the other actors.
Daniel Craig did some minor stunts too, but was of course also not credited as a stuntman. It was him running up the arm of the crane, but with a harness. Not a stunt double.
If you take the scene fro. Captain America (or one of the films he was in), where he beat the shit out of a handful of guards in an elevator, then jumped out through the glass, those guys were not credited as guards, but as stuntmen. Because despite of yhem having to do some acting before the fight, they were just there as stuntmen, taking a beat.
But their role weren't really different from Sébastien's role, he didn't have a single line in the movie. He was just there, to do his parkour,and as an actor.
"When you go all-in, and you lose your money, it's a horrible feeling" - I feel you there Steve, as a fellow poker player.
I remember watching this in theaters, and when Le Chiffe pulls out and starts swinging the rope, every guy in the theater started tensing up or looking at the person next to them lol
This is hands down my favorite Bond movie with Craig - realistic approach, not relying too hard on gadgets, and a ton of super cool and memorable scenes: from parkour and that Bond's glimpse of a smile when he attached the bomb in the airport, to the flipping Aston Martin, to the torture scene. And it was impactful and character driven as well, not just plot driven, which is great.
The reaction was awesome: Nikki laughing her ass out as usual, but also Steven's face during the torture scenes, just top notch 😃👍🏻
"Poker? Damn near killed her!" 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Best reaction line I've heard in any video. Ever. Took me two minutes to stop cracking up long enough to continue.
MONGOOSE IN THE BEGINNING , ferret would not have been a fair fight to bet on. Mongoose vs Cobra is a fair fight in nature.
That would NOT have been a...ferret fight! 😅 🥁
😂😂😂😂😂
If I remember correctly this was the first movie allowed to film or cruise into the Grand Lagoon in Venice. The city council never allowed previous movies to do that... .
Nikki is on it. I can't stop laughing! She's quick! "Poker? Damn near killed her"! LMAO😂😂😂
This movie has a scene (in the goat) that is every dudes worst nightmare and yet I still manage to find myself watching that scene every time no matter what😂
Meh.....eheheheh. 🐐
A little to the right
It scratches an itch.
Imagine that is the last thing You Do in your Life😮....a little to the right😵💫
Recently watched a Mads Mikkelsen interview. He said that everyone behind that poker table was a profficient poker player. All except Daniel Craig, he was terrible. 🤣
The chair torture scene was pure Ian Fleming, lifted directly from the novel.
When Nikki said "Oh is this gonna hurt right now?", at the start of the chair scene, I admit I burst out laughing. Gurrrrrrrl, "gonna hurt" is the biggest understatement. 😱😱😱
4:36 actually it’s a snake and mongoose(the ferret) fight… and in nature, mongoose actually hunt and eat snakes… lol😮😂
"Every well brought up mongoose hopes someday to be a house mongoose....."
the black guy in the opening chase scene is the originator of Parkour....
4:58 That’s a mongoose. They are considered the only natural predators to cobras. Cobras vs. mongooses is one of the most infamous rivalries in the animal kingdom, that’s why some African nations may have a Mongoose/Cobra fight as a spectacle
Snakes, even cobras, have a lot of natural predators. Birds of prey, mongoose and some other mammals as well as other reptiles, especially the king cobra that almost exclusively eats other snakes (including other cobras). 😊
For my money, the best Bond movie. So well-paced, Bond gets a character arc, an intimidating villain, high stakes, brilliant action set pieces, great music, all the style and swagger and zingers we expect from Bond while still keeping a serious tone, and of course the all-time-best-ever "Bond Girl" Eva Green as Vesper. For me it just doesn't get any better.
James Bond was created by Ian Fleming.
IRL former government operative who became a best-selling novelist.
Casino Royale is the first Bond novel and introduction to this legendary series, published in 1953 aka "The spy novel to end all spy novels".
This was Martin Campbell's 2nd Bond film (after Goldeneye).
After 40 plus years and 20 films later, filmmakers wanted to bring 007 back to the essence.
Daniel Craig is the best Bond since the late, great Sean Connery.
All so good as fully connected and well envisioned.
There is so many things that connect to Bond's legend and for a lot of people, this was the utmost introduction.
Dame Judi Dench as M in a 2nd set of films in a long-running tenure of the character.
The Aston Martin is his signature vehicle and having 2 of them (classic and modern) was such a good idea.
The late Chris Cornell with the theme "You Know My Name" is top-tier 007 music.
Even if you saw the older films or not, Craig's era was a breath of fresh air.
Connery>Dalton>Brosnan>Craig>Moore>Lazenby
Fleming based his Bond character on his step-cousin. Sir Christopher Lee. Who had a very “interesting” military career. Much of which is still classified today. Lee truly was the most interesting man in the world.
How boring
@@fredfredburger5150 Dalton>Connery>Craig>Lazenby>Brosnan>Moore in my book with Connery almost in a tie with Craig, same goes with Brosnan and Moore. It's so funny that in my childhood it was a lot opposite, Moore and Brosnan were my favourite Bonds and I disliked Dalton a lot. Love them all in the end.
Never seen such a transformation mid film, D.Craig went from an OK, solid actor to a fkn phenomenal one in a single film! Brilliant performer.
that conversation between Bond and Vesper on the train is fantastic!!! you should re-watch it-- its really good dialogue and chemistry!!!
It's a fight scene - using dialogue. And Bond loses. It's wonderful.
Skewered.
Growing up Connery was always my fav. But man once I seen this Craig became my fav this is tied with Skyfall(which I hope you watch) and a few others as my fav Bond flicks. Man such a great movie.
Skyfall is a cinematic masterpiece.
The James Bond producers have always been on the lookout for people who developed new crazy vehicles or extreme sports and put them into their next movie. It mostly ends up in the opening scene, because that one is always not really connected to the rest of the story and so you can make anything work.
Jetskis, paragliders, gyrocopters, movie-quality underwater cameras, movie-quality cameras for skiing, movie-quality cameras for skydiving. Often, it was the first time people had ever seen those things anywhere. Being one of the first movie with a big parcour chase was part of a very long tradition.
I saw this one in the theatre … it was a lot of fun!
Saw it opening night. Been my favorite Bond flick ever since.
Saw every DC Bonds in the cinema. CR was a magical experience
this and skyfall absolutely slap, so pumped you're watching
I like how Bond tipped the dealer a half million tournament chip like, that's any useful. 😂😂
Pretty sure dealers are allowed to cash in chips used as tips.
@@billbill6094 Tournament chips would have no cash value.
Of the rebooted series this was by far my favourite. So glad you guys are reacting to it. 👏🏻👏🏻
Absolutely love Casino Royale. Definitely in my top 3 Bond films. I really like how this film feels like it has two distinctive parts.
44:26 good guy James Bond giving the dealer the tip of his career. His life was probably drastically changed after dealing cards for the spies and villains in the room.
"he coulda got some real fast, I mean come on...." Lmao love ya Nikki
Having this be the first bond film following the brosnan era and opening with the parkour chase was absolutely wild.
This movie was an absolute A++
Hope you guys go thru all the bond movies!
Pretty much my favorite bond movie. Excellent dialogue, great action, great music, and tons of tension. Pretty faithful to the source material as well for the most part. I really appreciate that compared to previous Bond movies, it doesn't rely on gadgetry either. The whole thing was a "back to the basics" for Bond in the best way possible when compared to earlier Bond movies.
Daniel Craig's films are a five part story with beginning and ending. Casino Royale, Quantum of Solace, Skyfall, Spectre and No Time to Die are all linked together.
"They hit him with the Awoogah" 😂😂😂😂 i can't
This is probably my all time favorite James Bond movie, most of the bond films after this one haven’t been very good but this one was great 👍🏽
The actor in the beginning that Daniel Craig chances whose name I can’t remember (sorry) is actually one of the people that set the foundation for what is Parkour …
Chances are...he IS one of the founders... 🎲 🎲 🎰
This is the best bond movie! I love you guys enough that I’ll watch it with you. My dad has passed away but this was one of our favorite movies to watch together! I can’t really watch it alone… this will be the first time sense he passed 5 years ago. Just clicking on yall got me crying. You will love it!
I think you guys completely missed the "Mathis is my friend" quote because you seemed shocked when Bond had him tased
And I guess they also missed the fact that the actor playing M's aide (Tobias Menzies) also played that idiot uncle of the Stark kids in GoT.
Ok, I get being distracted by the bombshell on the horse on the beach but y’all totally missed the reverse of the Bond trope of hot girl coming out of the ocean into the beach (Ursula Andress in “Dr. No,” Halle Berry in “Die Another Day,”) - in this film they do a reversal and knowing wink to the audience (especially its female audience) by having Bond himself be the eye candy coming out of the water.
Yes that Bodyworks exhibit toured around that time - my wife and I saw it in person and it was wild.
Others have pointed out that was obviously a mongoose not a ferret. Mongooses often kick the asses of cobras.
This film really rebooted the Bond franchise into the modern era - and love that they made him rough around the edges as they show him earning double 0 status and in his early days with his license to kill. Not that the Connery ones weren’t great for their time and set the standard or that the Moore years weren’t fun and campy.
And my goodness, Eva Green is a spectacular Bond girl.
Great reaction like always, i was waiting for this reaction for so long, you are gonna love this James Bond movies they are all tied together, and that chase in the beginning with that guy that do Parkour, well that guy is Sébastien Foucan the founder of freerunning one of styles of Parkour. Keep up the amazing work, cant wait for the next one.
The coolest thing is that the next Movie Quantum of Solace starts where Casino Royale ended and tells the Story further...i think that´s the first time in Bonds history that this was done.
45:40 Nikki that was everyone in the theater when this came out.. lol
I'm sorry guys I stumbled onto your channel not long ago and I must say you guys reaction to movies, and shows are priceless! Absolutely love it!
Definitely watch Rikki-Tikki-Tavi, a very grown up cartoon from the 70 we all watched at school in the 80s/90s about Mongooses vs Cobras.
Such a classic indeed.
Created by Rudyard Kipling, author of The Jungle Book.
Yes -- I second that!
I was thinking the same thing during that opening scene. Rikki-Tikki-Tavi was great. would love to see them react to it.
Also, it was directed by the great Chuck Jones.
This movie rescued the whole Bond franchise. It was dying leading up to this one. And Daniel Craig exploded onto the scene in this one. Brilliant debut. If you like Daniel Craig’s performance in this one, look up one of his earlier films: ‘Layer Cake’. It’s a fun gangster flick and Craig was brilliant in it. It’s probably why he got the Bond role.
Hi Nikki and steven
Are you going to continue the whole series?
One of the best movie franchises in the world
That would be great❤️😆
Plan is to watch all the Craig Bond movies
I remember when Daniel Greig was cast the press (In England) were up in arms saying he wasn't good enough after the film came out they didn't say anything, I lot of the credit go's to the Director Martin Campbell who Directed Piecre Brosnan first Bond film.
'Poker, damn nearly killed her' 'How can you remember your password'? Tell me you'll ever forget that password.
44:36 "...Come on, I'm famished"
l like that. Nobody says 'famished' anymore! 😊
The James Bond films have always used innovators to showcase new and exciting stunts. So in the beginning where Bond is chasing the one guy through the construction site, that IS the guy who created parkour.
I thought David Belle "created" parkour?
This film has my favorite Bond villain and the most plausible Bond villain plot because it's based on things that really happened.
The stuntman in the parkour chase at the beginning was Sebastien Foucan, one of the founders of parkour and the founder of urban free running. Those stunts were not CGI.
What a lot of people don't realize is that the author of the Bond books (Ian Flemming) was head of British naval intelligence after working as an agent himself, and Bond was thought to be an amalgamation of people who he worked with who became good friends of his. The original Bond was a chain smoking womanizer who definitely likes his hard liquor. Which is where the whole Martini thing comes from. Understandable considering that these guys probably coped with their kind of work by indulging in these vices to cope. Also Christopher Lee (Saurumon from Lord of The Rings) was his cousin and also worked as an agent, after serving in the long range desert reconnaissance group during the war. The group was heavily recruited from by the SAS at the inception of the famed unit that Bond is described in this movie as being part of. So that also makes sense too. Especially as the SAS work closely and receive training from the MI6 too.
lol I always giggle at Nikki making herself laugh lol
Thank you for doing this film, love your content, few fun facts from the film:
1. Aston Martin gave them 3 cars to use to create the crash stunt, the version we see was the second take when the first one didn't work and was starting to stress the stunt director.
2. The use of the mobile defibrillator was tech that existed but hadn't really been seen by the public at the time. In the UK at least mainly due to the film these quickly became common all over the country in public places because everyone was like - why don't we have this equipment to save lives?
3. The chandlers which they sat under to play poker were props (the room was made), they were purchased by a castle estate in the UK (from Pinewood Studios) which I celebrated my own wedding at, we danced under these (ok not so interesting but cool for us at least! haha).
I love Connery and I love Craig...but Timothy Dalton is my favorite Bond.
One of the best things about this James Bond movie is it’s the only one where he never runs away from anyone. He ducks into the stairwell, but doesn’t run away. He’s always running towards something. It’s the only James Bond movie where he’s not chased.
I have realized this for years and Kept waiting for someone else to bring it up.
Seriously, this is still, after all the Daniel Craig´s run, the best of him. Skyfall is a close second. Mads Mikkelsen is a fantastic villain, the friction between Craig and dame Dench is pure gold, this intro to Bond, having Craig play him at his beginnings, a more naive, blunt, inexperienced Bond is such a genius move. Not to mention the PERFECT direction by Martin Cambell and Eva Green as Vesper. And on the top of all that, it was the first time the Bond series had a real, serious continuity.
I love Sean Connery, I wish Timothy Dalton have had a better luck(and more movies playing Bond), but Daniel Craig really nailed it and I miss him dearly already.
"they don't keep forks in bathrooms" ahahah
Maybe I'm wrong, but I feel like the most unbelievable part of this movie is that a high-stakes, multi-million dollar poker game would allow a player's spouse to just saunter up to them after walking AROUND the table. Like, she saw everyone's hand and could easily communicate it to him somehow. They're WHISPERING when she does it, for crying out loud. Such a baffling element.
Awesome reaction of my favorite James Bond movie!!!!!!!😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊
Interesting Fact: The black gentleman doing parkour at the beginning of the film is named "Sébastien Foucan", He was the original founder of freerunning so, they simply didn't pick some a no body. He doesn't have to be a league he damn near inspired they're existences 😉👍 now you know
One of the best Bond movies. Quantum of Solace hits better if its watched immediately after this.
I love hearing when people acknowledge the unheralded legends such as Clay Guida. Obviously a hardcore fan.
True Lies came out a decade before this.
When this came out, it was a radically different take on Bond on the big screen, but ironically that was because it was _super_ faithful to the book. Small differences like poker instead of baccarat, a rope instead of a carpet beater in _that_ scene, but in terms of the story it's really well done.
Big differences, they made Vesper much smarter, the intelligent tete-a-tetes they have here didn't exist in the book. And of course you lose the usual stuff you get from an adaptation when it comes to Bond's inner thoughts, when he's angry or afraid or when he's lying to himself that he doesn't care about Vesper. They still kept the end line from the book in, but he's not nearly as mysoginistic as book Bond because you learn that his apparent hatred is just a shield, and you only know from reading his thoughts. Plus even by "flawed but redeemable character" standards he was kind of excessive with the sexism.
Now if they had kept in the chapter on The Nature of Evil it might've been absolutely perfect adaptation, that perfectly showed Bond's motivations in a way that has never been explained in the movies and it ties into the rest of Craig's run.
And yeah, "parkour!" is no joke, that guy isn't just an ordinary stunt man, Sebastien Foucan was on the _original_ parkour team with the movement's founder David Belle. He's a little above the paygrade of pro tag.
Vesper's actress is Eva Green. She starred in "Penny Dreadful", which, coincidentally, also starred former Bond Timothy Dalton. I think you would have a great time with the series if you ever gave it a chance.
For the longest time, I always referred to From Russia with Love as my favorite 007 film even after this was released. This film has finally supplanted FRWL as my top favorite 007 film. FRWL is still a classic, but this has a great story, amazing action scenes, and more contemporary film making techniques.
The classic James Bond music doesn't play until the very end and into the credits because this is very much Bond's origin story. He isn't yet the mythical super-spy he's known to be. But by the end of the film, he's truly become "James Bond."
2:52 I think the part everyone misses when they watch that part is that he was actually going to say, 'Well, you needn't worry. The second is always easier' after he told Bond, "Made you feel it, did he?" Bond's saying "Yes, considerably," was in response to what he was going to say.
"OH Fuuuuck. That. Shit!"
The sympathy is MUCH appreciated.
"Poker? damn near killer her" go Nikki - lost the beer i was drinking to that one. Great as ever guys and what a great movie
Mongoose, not a ferret. The only mammal that can take down a cobra.
I love the many ways they show that Bond is truly not a hired thug, but uses quick thinking and ingenuity to get out of sticky situations. His first interaction with Vesper also shows how he reads ppl.
26:11 Maverick was actually originally a tv series in the 60s. The main character, Bret Maverick, was played by James Garner, who played Marshal Zane Cooper in the Gibson movie.
If you want to see something else with Eva Green (Vesper), I highly recommend checking out Penny Dreadful! It's three seasons of horror...a mashup of Dracula, Frankenstein, Dorian Gray, etc. And she is absolutely fantastic in that show.
Not to mention Josh Hartnett and Timothy Dalton! Such a rad horror series. Jeez, I would LOVE to see them react to that show.
Best Bond , Best Bond girl, Best Bond movie… one of my favourite movies of all time.
A friend of mine didn't know what was going in the torture scene.
He thought Bond was in pain because the sharp parts of the chair that were left after the seat had been cut away were digging into him 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Bless that friend's heart