Best. Bond. Ever. The haters made fun of his ears, said his forehead was too big, blah blah blah, but Daniel Craig rocked. The movie, not so much. But don't get me wrong, the movie is good, it has those beautiful European and Caribbean shots, and you should definitely see it. On the big screen.
I don't think Daniel Craig is classically handsome. I think the most handsome Bond ever was Pierce Brosnan, and I still think Brosnan is one of the most handsome actors out there, but he doesn't have half the charm Craig has. And I think that's what Bond should be about. Craig is even a little ugly indeed, but he is scorching hot, and he can act. And his body...
Which brings us to an interesting point. On a lot of Bond movies we do get to see James Bond shirtless, but the sexytime has always been clearly about the Bond girls, about objectifying them; this time, even though we have two hot Bond girls, the attention is clearly on Craig. And it should be. Seriously, you will get a boner with this one.
Craig is so fit, I think he is the Bond who most looks like he can actually get the job done. On all accounts, if you know what I mean...
All right, enough with the drooling, let's get down to business. In Casino Royale we see James Bond becoming a 007. The movie is based on the novel that introduced Bond to the world, but it's set on present day and involves one of the most pressing issues surrounding us right now, terrorism. In the movie, Bond can start to untangle a terror network if he wins this big poker game at Casino Royale in Montenegro.
The plot was just okay, a few of the action scenes felt kinda flat, like they were really shot inside a warehouse. I much preferred the scenes with dialog and more emotional content, like the one in which Bond tries to guess the background of a Bong girl, and the Bond girl kind of outwit Bond.
We had no gay content.
We did have quite a bit of homo-erotic scenes, and I will discuss one disturbingly homo-erotic sequence after the jump; I will give a bit too much away though.
[SPOILER AHEAD]
After winning the big poker game, Bond is kidnapped by bad guy Le Chiffre, played by Mads Mikkelsen. Le Chiffre wants some bank account info out of Bond, so he gets Bond undressed (we see only Bond's profile), and gets him to sit on a bottomless chair, in a way that Bond's balls are hanging out, low.
Le Chiffre admires Bond's body, he says something like: "You take good care of your body, what a waste." And Le Chiffre starts beating him with a knotted rope under the chair (bouncing the rope so that the knotted tip hits Bond right where it matters).
[update on November 23: thanks to Oh La La for the photos above]
It hurts like hell, but Bond pretends he is amused by the pain. Bond tells Le Chiffre people will like to know how he liked to have Le Chiffre "scratch my balls."
Oh, and Dame Judi Dench was everywhere the other day, because of what she said of Daniel Craig's endowment. She said: "It's an absolute monster! Maybe I shouldn't have said that. How uncouth of me!" Fuck it, I'm gonna say it: Bitch doesn't know anything about size. Daniel is fine there (you can see his frontal here, from the movie Love is the Devil, and here - not safe for work, of course), but come on! "An absolute monster"? Anyway, he doesn't go full frontal on Casino Royale, as previously anticipated.
i am not sure about this movie. I just like the old bond movies. i am like that in all movies.
Posted by: casino bonus | Mar 31, 2009 at 11:28 PM
Scot, your comment to Casino Royale almost made me cry -- beautiful! Thank you!
Posted by: Queer Beacon | Apr 06, 2007 at 02:35 AM
Back in the 70's my father read every spy novel printed. Occasionally, I would pick up the books he finished and I almost always enjoyed them. Ludlum, Trevanian, William F. Buckley, Ian Flemming and the likes. While Jason Bourne was by far my favorite, James bond was pretty cool also. He had great gadgets, cool cars, hot babes and, most importantly, license to kill.
In most of the James bond movies I've seen, there was some guy playing at being James Bond (Yes, even Sean Connery!) When I saw Casino Royal all I could think of was THIS IS MY FATHERS JAMES BOND! Damn, I wish he was still alive to see this. He would have enjoyed this movie as much as I did. Check it out, except for the Texas Hold'em - bond always played Baccarat, this is the way he was written.
Posted by: Scot | Apr 06, 2007 at 01:59 AM
Nice movie!
Best Bond!
Talking about Bond actors:
Did u know that Pierce Brosnan have a 20 y.o. singer son?
U should Google it
:-)
Posted by: marcus | Dec 26, 2006 at 09:58 PM
... He may not be classically beautiful/handsome, but he definitely is tremendously sexy. What a facial expression! Not to mention that body...
So I guess I'll wait for «Casino Royale».
Thanks.
Posted by: RIC | Nov 21, 2006 at 03:04 PM
Luv Bond movies!
:-)
Posted by: marcus | Nov 20, 2006 at 06:50 AM