The Rewatchables: ‘Casino Royale’ | Reinventing James Bond | The Ringer
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- Опубліковано 29 лис 2024
- Do The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Amanda Dobbins look like they give a damn if their martini is shaken or stirred? They put on their tuxedos to revisit the first installment in the James Bond Daniel Craig franchise ‘Casino Royale’ starring Daniel Craig, Mads Mikkelsen, and Eva Green.
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This feels like Bill's friends came over immediately after the Boston game and are desperately trying to keep him from jumping out the window by talking incessantly about something, anything else
Sadly, they succeeded.
This is great that you're putting them back on UA-cam. Much appreciated 👍.
It's Montenegro not Monaco. I don't think there was Monaco in Casino Royale. There was Madagascar, Miami, Montenegro, Lake Como, London, Bahamas.
They don't go to Monaco in Casino Royale. They go to MONTENGRO.
Correct, it was Montenegro.
casino royale was great. spectre was TRASH. no time to die was good. good directors make a difference.
1:24:12 apex for tuxedos was The Tuxedo with Jackie Chan and Jennifer love Hewitt
Wow! They finally did it. I’ve been saying this was my favorite movie for years. Maybe just rewatchable, I know my girl dobbins will love it
Eh?
Martin Campbell doesn't get the credit he deserves. Both GoldenEye and Casino Royale have my favourite style of action. Brutal punches, use of surrounding environment, snappy cuts, etc. I personally prefer it to the action in the Bourne series.
As great as Daniel Craig is in this movie, without Judy Dench, there just isn't the balance needed. Throw in a great villain with Mads Mickelson and Eva Green as the love interest and it was just a home run in casting.
Yeah not a Bond person either like Sean...but this one had a great cast.
Eva Green, in that dress, is the single greatest moment in Bond film history.
uhm...Ursula Andres walking out of the ocean?
@Coco Addams Also great and iconic of course, but Eva Green just left me breathless.
Simp
Halle Berry in the orange bikini was superlative
Bond and Vesper meeting on the train, dueling verbally.
Bond trying and failing to save Vesper from the elevator before she drowns.
Bond chasing Mollaka in the construction site.
The coda. A shot rings out over Lake Como, kneecapping Mr. White, before Daniel Craig introduces himself as the last line of the film.
I can’t wait till The Rewatchables discovers Timothy Dalton in License to Kill,
But I recommend Goldfinger for Connery, Spy Who Loved Me or Live or Let Die for Moore and Goldeneye for Brosnan although I love The World Is Not Enough… Please review a Mission Impossible and Bourne series movie, SO GOOD.
Loving this! Casino Royale is one of my favorite movies ever. not just bond, but favorite movie period. endlessly rewatchable. and i watched "Layer Cake" for the first time about 18 months ago and also loved it.
Austin powers being such a hit in a way was the best thing that couldve happened for this movie and the franchise. Even more so than the success of the bourne films. The filmakers were forced to address the sillier elements of the series while still making it feel like a bond film. Best movie in the series
1:14:02 we did. In 1987 and especially in 1989 with Licence To Kill. You American audience did not give Dalton the credit he deserved🤷♂️
If you guys can, please do a rewatchables of Licence To Kill. For so many reasons, Dalton being the vengeful Bond, a masterful performance. A Bond movie in the summer of 89, a revenge Bond movie with being such a departure from the Bond formula and what could have been if the hiatus of 6 years from 1989 to 1995 did not happen.
Can we get a Layer Cake rewatchables? Also concerning Thomas Vinterberg & Madds Mikkelson, people need to see The Celebration and The Hunt. Also the recent Riders of Justice is absolutely phenomenal!
Second on the layer cake rewatchabled
Yes Please! One of my favorite movies.
Layer Cake rules
Loved The Celebration. One of my all time favorite films of all time.
Seeing the video is great for these. Thanks you 3! We can see Amanda when she starts sliding in that seat Shawn.
Brosnan gave us Goldeye so there's that
You mean the game right…….right?😂😂😂😂
I'll happily defend Tomorrow Never Dies.
"Evil media mogul starts war so he can launch the next evolution of his media empire."
Came out in '97, Rupert Murdoch essentially repeats the trick shilling the Afghanistan and Iraq Wars. He made billions in revenue on "Patriot War" content
That game was ahead of its time but it doesn't hold up today
@@ryancollins7138 Obviously. I got Odd Job first round. Let's fucking gooooo.
@@Chronz yeah but it's clearly the forerunner for so many great games. Every FPS, Multiplayer, and Stealth game after owes a debt to Goldeneye. Like if Draymond ever talked sh*t about Bill Russell, Dennis Rodman, or Ben Wallace I'd slap TF out of him and be like they're the only reason you're in the league.
Sean is mistaken. A straight flush beats 4 of a kind! A royal flush is the only thing that beats a straight flush.
A royal flush is a straight flush. It's the highest straight flush.
I believe that’s what they said.
RF
SF
4oaK
Boat
The Defibrillator is the best Bond gadget ever!
The guy Bond is chasing in the construction scene is actually a famous parkour athlete, one of the founders of the sport. I forget his name, but he’s legit
Tim Dalton had great Bond Films.
Timothy Dalton is easily my favorite bond. It’s a shame we only got two films with him. He had that stone cold assassin side to him that the previous bonds didn’t really have.
Thank you, everyone still underrates his performances.
Living Daylights is incredible. License to Kill is horrible. But I agree TD is great and I wish we got to see him more.
The second film is dreadful though.
@@howdareyou41 Not really sure why you think License to Kill is bad. Is it because it steers away from the usual Bond movie formula? When I first saw it back in the theaters when it released I wasn’t that fond of it myself, but the more I rewatched it, the more it elevated in my rankings. Personally, I think that movie has the best villains of any Bond movie.
Dalton was fantastic
Casino Royale > Skyfall
This movie is very underrated at this point. I actually think that it might be the superior movie to Skyfall even. Perfect movie for Rewatchables, because it is very…..rewatchable.
Backwards ass take from Craig there at the end. No way does Mission: Impossible take itself more seriously than the Craig James Bond movies.
It might have some infurence from the Bourne franchise, but the movies that they directly take inspiration from within the Bond continuity is the Timothy Dalton ones. The Living Daylights and Licence To Kill were the pre-cursor to what Daniel Craig did.
And its funny how these same American audience dismissed Dalton but now praise Craig for the same thing. Its almost like they could not make up their mind, realised their mistake, so they channeled their apologies to another actor rather than talking about the Dalton movies
I wasn't alive for Dalton, so I would argue that its essentially two different audiences that have made that opinion. I can't say I've watched a Dalton Bond film with a critical eye, I just wasn't the age for that. But when Casino Royale came out I had grown up on Brosnan, seen Austin Powers and Bourne movies and could recognize the changes made in response.
Eva Green is brilliant in this. Has anyone seen Perfect Sense? She is brilliant in that too. Also damn rewatchables, now I'm watching casino royale again lol
Yes, the best Brosnan Bond film is definitely Thomas Crown Affair.
lollllll
I just find it funny how Sean and Bill said that they were never Bond fans.
Like are Americans not fans of movies or series that are not made or originated in America? Are they that snobbish? But then again they will remake other countries' movies and call it their own as well
Nothing gets done without Barbara Broccoli's say so and I hope it stays like that as long as possible
Why do you hope it stays like that?
@@blakeharris58Not the OP, but I would imagine it has to do with how protective the Broccolis are about the franchise. It’s not just another IP to them, it’s not just a paycheck, they genuinely care about Bond, it’s their family’s life-work.
If some faceless corporation gets ahold of the IP then we’ll get another Disney Star Wars or MCU situation where they run it into the ground for short-term profit.
Skyfall is, in part, a remake of sequences from The Dark Knight and Straw Dogs.
The poker scene is unforgivable.
Nit pick: Can all that cash fit in one briefcase?
No
OHMS is probably tied with Casino Royale on the best Bond films.
5:29 Monaco? Wasn't it set in Montenegro?
Exactly, it was Montenegro.
The poker scenes are actually pretty silly, if you know anything about poker.
They have so few big blinds and the last hand is just so crazy constructed. So many big hands and of course, bond has the nuts.
Would be cooler if he uses the tell on lechiffre to call him down with just ace high or something and villain has a pure bluff.
But well, for the majority of people, that would seem lame I guess. So the big hands it is.
Hollywood loves to butcher poker.
14:45 so Timothy Dalton then?
1:33:30 I would actually go this and then straight to Licence To Kill. A revenge Bond movie
18:35 the Prestige as well
Lol they keep saying Monaco even though the film’s neither shot nor set there? It’s set in Montenegro
Re: the Spiderman vs. James Bond discussion: We need another James Bond video game. Goldeneye for the N64 is still a classic, how have they not repeated that success? There have been a lot of successful Spiderman video games and new ones keep coming out. Agree that the James Bond IP is underutilized, and it's weird how the family that owns it is so precious about it when so many Bond films were straight-up garbage, lol
Best Bond movie easily!
No question. Skyfall is good but the ridiculousness of Silva’s plan takes me out of it.
20 min in…gotta rewatch before I go further. Thanks for doing this one!!
People forget that the Pink Panther was an effort to cash in on the original Connery Bond film from 1962. But Peter Sellers in the comic relief role stole the show from the serious urbane spy, David Niven, and it leaned into full comedy in teh Pink Panther sequels.
I've always wondered why Niven agreed to do the 1967 Casino Royale as another Bond spoof.
Pink Panther and James Bond also share fantastic jazz-based theme songs
As far as the next Bond in another 5 or 10 years, I really think an unknown/up & coming star type is the best bet. Something new & seemingly out of nowhere as far as the casting, style, tone etc. It's hard not to speculate or attempt to look into the future, but the best & most rewarding experiences are those which fill a hole we previously weren't even aware existed.
I also cannot understand people's rejection of Spectre.
Yeah I don't get the Spectre hate. Personally the one I feel was the weakest of Daniel Craig's is Quantum, it's just runs too long for me and it's just not that compelling a storyline. Have to admit the opener is spectacular though.
Agree when they do another re- launch of Bond, a relatively unknown could be the way to go.
But I don't think they'll ever have another M that I enjoyed more than JDench.
Recently marathoned all the Craig Bonds, and Quantum only works if it's put on immediately after Casino. It's still not great, and I remember hating it in theaters, but after watching them all in order recently I don't think it's nearly that bad.
I've always enjoyed Quantum, even at the theaters. Plot is very scattered but it's a quick watch. Not qualified to be an all-time great yet far easier to watch than the last two.
@@ko9655 Among big Bond people, On Her Majesty's Secret Service has emerged as a dark horse favorite after years of being a punchline. I think Quantum will get there. It's an odd movie to be a Bond movie because it's a character study.
24:42 its Martin Campbell. Jeez is anybody going to stop Bill from butchering the names?
56:54 of course Le Chiffre wants the money but he doesn’t know exactly what’s going on with Bond and Vesper. He’s literally a corrupt banker like you all said at the beginning. Quantum/Spectre were the ones to whom he really owed the money, hence Mr. White. Le Chiffre didn’t know that Vesper was working for them too.
I think the Brosnan films are underrated for what they are. They are meant to be just way watching action flicks, like Rambo etc. and they do that fantastically. Great actors and billionaire villains, amazing cars and gadgets, and I think Brosnan portrayed the most suave, cool-headed bond up until that point in the franchise. They are by no means perfect, but Goldeneye and Die Another Day are two of the ten best bond films of all time with goldeneye probably top 3 behind Casino Royale and Skyfall imo, plus it spawned one of the greatest movie licensed video games of all time with goldeneye on N64
TOTALLY agree, Sean that the Craig Bond films influenced the Mission 4-8
Loved the discussion about CR, my favorite bond movie ever and one of my favorite action movies. However, if you are a true fan of film-making, please dont dismiss Across the Spiderverse out of hand without seeing it because it's an "ip" movie. It's easily one of if not the most beautiful animated movie ever made and is a true work of art that also tells a beautiful story. The prologue for the movie alone is worth the ticket, even if you hate spiderman and you hate superheroes. Its something special and different. Loved the podcast
Super. I enjoy this movie more each time I rewatch it.
Bill I grew up with the saying that spilling salt was bad luck and I’m your vintage. I always thought it was because salt was traditionally a valuable commodity.
Does sean even know how to play poker, i mean who doesnt know a straight flush beats four of a kind😂😂😂😂
Also has my favorite bond song. RIP Chris Cornell
10000%. Love love “You know my name” and Chris!
Eva Green as Vesper Lynd is the ULTIMATE Bond girl for me...
The Rewatchables: Band of Brothers... you're welcome 😉
Eva green does the best acting in the whole franchise. Almost a Blanchett level of performance
I never found it believable that JB falls in love so quickly. It happens so fast for the sake of the plot that it just doesn’t seem plausible
Fun fact: the martini order he places is a rendition of what becomes known as The Vesper Martini..
It was actually the third fast and furious; Tokyo Drift, that came out in ‘06. My personal favorite of them all but definitely not the best from a box office standpoint
bill, i love you, but how TF did you not realize he was getting hit in the balls during the torture scene??
There is no Monaco in this film. Casino Royale is in Montenegro. The clue is the part of the movie when the location is explicitly written on screen.
Interesting that they didn't note the part where Bond loses all MI6's money, says "Get the girl out," and is on his way to just gut Le Chiffre with a steak knife as a favorite scene.
Also, Quantum is overdue for reconsideration. It's a character study and sort of like Bullitt in that way- he's saying he's doing one thing, actually doing another, and inside him there's turmoil. It's all Craig acting with his face. not what people want in a Bond movie, but that's not the movie's problem.
Oh STFU that movie is terrible and had a fruity Director
I've still never seen any of the Bonds except the Daniel Craig series - so I think he was a "great Bond" but wtf do I know. Really it was just a fun set of movies. It's like the John Wicks - loved 'em, still don't really care that much about seeing the originals.
I just rewatched Casino Royale this week! What timing lmao
Love love long pods!
I’ve only seen the original “Casino Royale” with Peter Lorre (the 1954 television adaptation of the 1953 novel), but now I’m curious. 🤔🤷🏻♂️
The Body world thing is being sold here as weird but it was actually an amazingly cool exhibit that was hugely popular and not really weird at all unless you consider human (and there was a non-human version as well with various mammals) anatomy to be weird. The way our bodies are put together is something most people take for granted because we are all covered in a skin sheath. There was a bit of controversy however when it was learned that the cadavers used in some of the exhibits were former political prisoners who may or may not have been wrongly executed.
BOND WILL HAVE TO GO ALL IN TO CALL HIS BLUFF
Craig is a more commercial successful Dalton. They are the only Bonds that showed him being seriously hurt and in pain. Plus they both look like actual assassins.
Too bad you didn’t watch all the Bond movies before commenting on them. Multiple times you bring up things you enjoyed in the Craig era that were done previously thanks to the 2 films with Timothy Dalton.
I would have doubled it with the other casino royale movie. But if it was playing in the cinemas, I would put the Craig one on first, so that people who watched the first movie version could walk out without missing the best Bond move. My favourite Bond is Tomothy Dalton. What is the difference between his Bond and Craig's?
Bond is described as being between 25 and 30. So Henry Cavill would have been nearer in age than any of the others.
Great rundown of a classic, and peak BS cheekiness!
Had to turn this off after 2 mins Amanda’s voice drills right through my ears !
All Straight Flushes beats four of a kind in Texas Holdem. You dont know this?
Royal Flush is just the best Straight Flush.
Quantum Of Solace is not that bad
I haven't seen it in a while, but I remember thinking that the money is what didn't make any sense in the last poker hand. Isn't Bond short stacked? How did he win the tournament when the blood weepy guy out stacked him?
Fast 9 and X are the best in the franchise because they've embraced the absurdity, you gotta watch them as action comedies.
The new Q is trash R.I.P Desmond Llewellyn
I'd commit unspeakable acts for Eva Green.
I love this one
In Brice Lees last movie, they have a shot of his actual funeral so thats at keast 1 other time a real dead body has been on film
12:13 well they needed a reboot anyway, and Die Another Day was such a big mess that they had to do something else. But the producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael G Wilson loved Pierce and lets not act like Pierce didn't bring EON Productions a boat load of money
My sister threw the remote control at me and hit me so hard in the balls that I threw up.
Should they really be critiquing the quality of the poker in the movie if they don't even know if a straight flush beats quads?
The first poker hand is fine because there's no reason to believe the first villain is going to play like a pro. He's just a hothead who thought Bond didn't have a pair of aces, the only hand that could beat him. Losing aces full to quad jacks is fine, too. It's rare, but it's a cooler. There are a lot of bad beat compilations on UA-cam that are worse. The reason the final hand is bad is because it's all sort of ridiculous: four-handed, LeChiffre and Bond have exactly the same stack, and Bond gets called but gets to reveal last. If that hand happened in real life, we'd all investigate the dealer for foul play.
Sean....not "nut tap." LOL
The all black James Bond movie is called Black Panther
Dalton in a Larry Bird jersey in the background is super distracting
poker table seat: michael cera as tobey maguire
38:33
'I like trains, i spent alot of time on them as a kid as a childhood divorce'
'Oh, that's nice'
😂😂😂😂
*Clive Owen should have been James Bond!!!*
A straight flush does indeed beat 4OAK.
Also: Craig is the best Bond of all time.
Yep, only way he could’ve lost would’ve been with Maverick’s royal flush.
The lack of poker knowledge from guys pretending to have poker knowledge is at an all time high here. Bill and Sean should formally apologize and promise to never speak about poker again.
Pete Rose cameo at the poker table
Venice is San Antonio w better food lol!
“Venice is like san antonio with better food”lmao and without them big oh women
better tuxedo moment: jackie chan in The Tuxedo
So that's what they look like!
More 'normal' looking than I imagined.
Few things in the world bum me out as when I’m reminded that Amanda is married. God, she’s so awesome. 🙌🏽😁💜