Is This the Best Bond Film Ever? - First Time Watching CASINO ROYALE!

[@MJE-riffs]

It's amazing to me how close the movie is to the original novel, published in 1953.

[@DuncanEvans-t7q]

@@MJE-riffs I remember my big worry about the movie was how close to the book it could be. Was very happy with the results, well maybe 'happy' wrong word for the torture scene

[@warrenrhinerson6373]

@@DuncanEvans-t7q you gotta admit that scene was ballsy

[@DuncanEvans-t7q]

@@warrenrhinerson6373it certainly left a tear in my eyes

[@jeanine6328]

The thing that struck me the most when I first watched it is that this bond actually had visible injuries after altercations. This wasn’t fancy man 007, this is bad ass MF’r 007.

[@MrMagicianJr]

@@jeanine6328 Connery, Moore and Dalton were the only other ones to show blood on screen in bond, Connery when he got shot in the leg in thunderball, Moore in two movies first where he's cut with a knife to lure the shark and the second time when he's tied with a rope and dragged underwater and gets cut on all the coral and the. Dalton in licence to kill and the end when the injuries are just clearly there

[@Paul_Allaker8450]

This and Skyfall were the best of the Daniel Craig series. This was raw Bond, low comedy high drama. I loved it when it came out and still love it now. Great reaction guys. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[@mrtim5363]

The last time Harrison Ford won an Oscar he called his Stunt Double up on stage, introduced him & said this Oscar is as much his as it is mine. He's on the screen as much as I am.

[@csb7376]

The last time he won an Oscar? He's NEVER won one🤔

[@mrtim5363]

@@csb7376 I'm sorry. You are correct it was another Major award. I've fried too many brain cells to remember the details. Thank you.

[@ianjardine7324]

This movie gave us the one thing none of the old ones did. The reason why he became such a sociopathic stone cold killer who was always one step ahead of everyone.

[@SteveODonnell]

The car crash and roll, actually earned them a guiness world record for the most cannon rolls by a four wheeled vehicle.

[@ianjardine7324]

Only because everything else they tried with hidden ramps failed to flip the Aston it was just too damned stable it kept bouncing back on its wheels. Driving the whole team nuts so they had to compromise the scene and use a ram which you can see bolted under the chassis in the rolling shots.

[@SteveODonnell]

@ianjardine7324 a record is a record. Doesn't matter how they did it. Yes like many car flips and rolls , the launch mechanism is noticeable.

[@ianjardine7324]

@@SteveODonnell That wasn't the point I was making. I was pointing out that the film makers wanted to make the scene as realistic as possible but we're defeated by the Aston Martin engineers who made the car too stable to realistically flip. When professional stunt coordinator's are pissed off they can't make the car crash you know it's a good car.

[@StevenJShow]

@@ianjardine7324 Yes, but this wasn't your comment thread. You were saying it as if you were discounting the achievement. It doesn't discount the achievement.

[@marcusmcgill4423]

Craig's Bond was the closest to how Sir Ian Fleming wrote the character in his novels and the man he was based on that Henry Cavill played in Guy Ritchie's last film.

[@williamquinlan6153]

@@marcusmcgill4423 this was nowhere near the Bond Fleming envisioned. That Bond was not so trigger happy and was a former officer in the British Navy. This Bond was still OK but a stand apart. What happened to him in the last movie definitely is not thematic.

[@marcusmcgill4423]

@@williamquinlan6153 The Broccolis even said it. The guy on whom Fleming based Bond was indeed in the Royal Navy and the Ministry of Defense. Cavill recently played him, but Craig's mannerisms, quips, etc. are how Fleming originally wrote him. He was a blunt instrument as Dench said. Not so much suave and such initially.

[@williamquinlan6153]

@@marcusmcgill4423 I wouldn't trust the Broccolis opinion on anything Bond related. The daughter of Cubby Broccoli, the man who originally produced most of the films, took over the franchise and used Craig to update the Bond character not to everyone's approval. Fleming was the former naval and intelligence officer he based the character on. I've read all of Fleming's Bond novels and Craig isn't exactly a perfect fit. Craig wasn't born when the novels were written.

[@marcusmcgill4423]

@@williamquinlan6153 Fleming did not base Bond on himself. He is based on the guy who Henry Cavill plays in Guy Ritchie's last film. Gus March-Phillips is who Fleming based Bond on. And when does an "actor" have to be born when a character was created? Was Tom Holland born when Spider-Man was created? Was Denzel Washington born when Malcolm X was and lived most of his life? That last statement made absolutely no sense whatsoever.

[@stefmyster9038]

Actually,bond was largely inspired by sir Christopher Lee.who was also a real life war hero and expert on espionage.he was a consultant on all things spy related.and later starred as the man with the golden gun.

[@MJE-riffs]

The parkour guy is also in the really good but little-seen action movie The Tournament, starring Ving Rhames.

[@fleason771]

His name is Sébastien Foucan & he is widely known as an early pioneer of the sport of Freerunning, a form of Parkour. I first saw him in a documentary called "Jump London" & he did a follow up called "Jump Britain" where he trained a group of British Freerunners. You can find these documentaries on KZbin especially "Jump Britain"

[@andrewroberts299]

EON productions, who own the rights to make the Bond films, were able to buy back the rights to the Casino Royale novel (which Ian Fleming had sold to a movie producer back in the 1950s in the hope of getting a Bond film made), and the Bond producers decided to film that novel next. They wanted to go back to a darker, grittier Bond, at the beginning of his journey as a ‘00,’ so what better way to show that then by using the source material of the first James Bond novel, ‘Casino Royale.’ The producers went in this direction, mainly in response to how over the top (in terms of gadgets and spectacle) the previous Bond film, ‘Die Another Day,’ had turned out. So Pierce Brosnan was out and Daniel Craig was in! The film follows the novel quite closely. At the beginning of the book, Bond is already in France and about to have his tussle with the villain, Le Chiffre at the casino. All the stuff from the start of the film, right up to when Bond enters the casino, wasn’t in the novel. At the start of the novel it’s mentioned that Bond has only just recently gained the ‘00’ prefix, which allows an agent to kill in the line of his duty. Fleming doesn’t tell the reader who the two kills were, for Bond to gain his ‘00’ status. The stuff with the Ugandans, the stair well fight, Bond drinking the drugged Martini and his subsequent resuscitation with Vesper’s help, wasn’t in the novel. Mathis is an ally of Bond in the novels and is not a traitor. Felix Leiter is introduced in this novel as well, but his character is a straw haired blond white Texan. In the novel (as in the film), Le Chiffre beats Bond and Leiter comes to his rescue with the additional funds. The torture sequence in the film is the same as in the novel, but in the book, Le Chiffre uses a carpet beater to attack Bond’s manhood. The book ends with Bond finding Vesper in bed, dead from a self inflicted overdose, and Bond reads a letter from her which explains why she betrayed him. The last line of the book has Bond on the telephone saying, “The bitch is dead!” Vesper’s death in both the novel and the film hardens Bond to distance himself from true love in his subsequent missions, making him the hard nosed, blunt instrument we’ve all come to love. Did you notice that throughout the film the James Bond theme is never played, especially during the action scenes? We hear little, half snippets of it, but it’s not until the last scene, when the once rough around the edges Bond has become the suave, sophisticated Bond we’ve come to know from the previous 20 films appears, that this is the first time we hear the James Bond theme in its entirety, and only after he says, “Bond, James Bond,” in that way, for the very first time in the film. I loved Craig in this film, but grew to dislike him in his subsequent four films, mainly because those films couldn’t hold a candle to the story and plot of Casino Royale. The reason? Because no one can write a Bond story better than Ian Fleming. Craig was, IMO, given poor story lines with ridiculous villains and uninspiring action sequences (compared to Casino Royale) and by the end, I think most Bond fans were pleased that the Craig Bond era was finally over. I know I was.

[@chefskiss6179]

47:40 "Old Bond would never"... You need some On Your Majesty's Secret Service in your lives 😂 I just loved this watchalong with the three of you, thanks for that.

[@luckyspurs]

Diana Rigg 'll do that to someone.

[@marcusmcgill4423]

Out of all the M's in the franchise, Dame Judi Dench was my favorite.

[@DuncanEvans-t7q]

Although a bit more buff, he reminds me of the Timothy Dalton Bond. A mean mofo ready to get the job done by any means

[@NathanMian]

Such a good movie! Was fun watching it with you guys.

[@fayesouthall6604]

Love this one. Skyfall is my favourite Craig Bond movie

[@marcusmcgill4423]

The woman who plays Le Chiffre's (Mads Mikkelsen) girlfriend was such a badass in the show "Banshee" with Antony Starr aka Homelander.

[@nupefromdaville]

Yeah... Skyfall was nice!!!

[@fayesouthall6604]

My favourite personally

[@dorkbrandon4422]

Funny thing is Bond does break into her house again 2 movies on .

[@MJE-riffs]

Judi Dench is 89 and still working

[@IsiahBradley]

I was addicted to "As Time Goes By," her sitcom with Geoffrey Palmer. He cameoed with her in one of the #PierceBronsan 007 films.

[@fayesouthall6604]

She’s on Tv Sunday night on Channel 4

[@fleason771]

​@@IsiahBradleyTomorrow Never Dies "Sometimes I don't think you have the balls for this job" The reponse was 😂

[@IsiahBradley]

@@fleason771 :)

[@Talisman09]

I think it's just genetics. Most of us will not be so lucky as to still be reasonably sharp at that age, if we make it to there (and if you even consider it a privilege or lucky)

[@jackanaples]

Bond played baccarat in the past because that was the popular game in casinos when Ian Fleming wrote the novels. He would’ve used something else had that been the game in fashion. Today, Texas Hold’em Poker is the most popular game in casinos worldwide. It’s a superior game to baccarat as well, as Fleming acknowledged. Baccarat relies entirely on luck. Poker is a game of skill. That Bond is a great poker player says something about his character and how smart and competent he is.

[@djbazman69]

It's easily one of my favourite bond movies. Also has the best theme tune.

[@ladyhotep5189]

"I'd squeal yall" 😂😂😂I heard that shit 😂 ****Daniel Craig is sexy dammit.

[@mikeymike1843]

I put Casino Royal level pegging with Golden Eye as the best James Bond Movie. The thing with Bond movies are that are all basically the same plot. What has kept people going back movie after movie is to see how the plot is going to be told this time.

[@cornparade6874]

Most would describe that as "formulaic".

[@mikeymike1843]

@@cornparade6874 Yeah! must remember that " formulaic ". 😊

[@NickGagnon-u1v]

Both are great Bond films.

[@mandylorien314]

Not sure I would agree with that. There are certainly "Bond" tropes that are seen in each film, but as for the plot I would love to see you put a piece together expanding on that. Take Casino Royale, Goldfinger and say A View to a kill and draw a comparison of where the plots meet.

[@luckyspurs]

I love how much they have Daniel Craig and Judi Dench sort of flirting at the start. Both pull it off.

[@matthewcostello3530]

he is Sébastien Foucan (born 27 May 1974 in Paris) is a French freerunner. He is the founder of freerunning and considered an early developer of parkour. Known for his views on the philosophy of parkour and freerunning, Foucan stresses the need for training in the basics of both for individual safety and to maintain a positive public perception of the activities.

[@jb8280]

As much as I love Casino Royale, my all time hands down fave 007 film is Skyfall. It’s everything Bond at its best. All the elements.

[@BiasFree]

Quantum is kinda rough, slow...but it's still a Bond film. Skyfall though...Skyfall is fantastic.

[@NickGagnon-u1v]

Watching all the Bond films again and Quantum of Solace really sticks out as the only awful Bond film in my opinion.

[@fleason771]

​@@NickGagnon-u1v There's a great Bond film stuck in there but it just doesn't get going & then it ends. You can clearly see that Daniel Craig & others finished the script but that was the result of the writers strike during filming but Skyfall is just superb 👌 👏

[@NickGagnon-u1v]

@@fleason771 It had potential for sure.

[@Talisman09]

Oh this is quality, you guys clearly kmow what you're doing. I wish you success and I'll join your patreon soon

[@cgayle126]

This was my intro to Jeffrey Wright back in the day 😍

[@janewatkins9801]

Daniel Craig is my favourite Bond. He's real. In a fight he gets bruised. As Bond he injects tension. We do not know if he will get badly hurt, so we are anxious, we want him to survive, and win. Every other Bond before him was barely touched by bruising or vulnerability. Daniel Craig is exactly what the movie franchise needed. Doesn't hurt he's gorgeous either. He's married to Rachel Weiz and Mark Strong was best man at their wedding 😊❤.

[@marcusmcgill4423]

I like how they had Craig's Bond as a cold-blooded assassin in his films rather than a Commander in the Royal Navy Reserve. The funny thing is that Craig is an honorary Commander in the British Royal Navy since 2021.

[@HermaphroGynandro]

36:37 Actually, that guy did speak earlier after Bond ordered the martini. After he described how he wanted it, one guy said "You know, I'll have one of those." And then that guy said "So will I."

[@NickGagnon-u1v]

Casino Royale was the first Bond film I saw. It really is one of the best of the series.

[@BlotRorschach]

Go back and watch the scene where Bond opens the suitcase. Watch Vesper's face as she realizes the password.

[@Gallenthero]

To rebuttal homie’s comment in regards to why they are rebooting the franchise it isn’t because of the super realistic style. It’s simply because Daniel Craig is too old and tired to continue in the role. The man was born for five films in the span of almost 15 years and in that time, his body took way too much damage doing his own stunts. Now. As to the films if you do continue, they do in fact, get better with the exception of two out of the five films. Quanto solace, which is the next film after casino Royale does feel very slow in terms of plot, but you could fault that due to the writer’s strike of 08, and the films script was left to be written by Craig and the Director. But once you get to Skyfall, which is arguably the best of the Craig Era, the remainder of his tenure is for the most part smooth sailing.

[@ValenAlder-it5ow]

No spoilers for later movies but I actually seen the latest Bond “No Time To Die” the last movie with Daniel Craig and I strangely kinda liked it. I didn’t know what the fuss was about. Despite the amount of negative backlash it got. And I’m not even that much of a bond fan but I was impressed.

[@willfanofmanyii3751]

There's more than enough explanations online that detail the numerous problems with that movie. Both Skyfall and Spectre worked better as a conclusion to Craig's era than that movie.

[@dominiquedevereux7205]

This movie is what REALLY got me into James Bond 👨🏼‍💼 🔫! I grew up watching the old James Bond films as a child & liked them, but they WERE campy & you never felt that James was in danger. Plus, James was non-emotional & one dimensional. He was just about completing the mission & getting draws 👙💁🏼‍♀️. With Daniel Craig's introduction into the franchise with this film, he kept that debonair nature of the other incarnations of Bond, but gave him a relatable human side with him actually having a RELATIONSHIP with Vesper in this movie. It really made you care what happen to him & added so much richness to the franchise. Daniel Craig is my FAVORITE "Bond" --- HANDS DOWN! Next is Sean Connery's "Bond." Roger Moore was OK as Bond. Nothing at all grabbed me about Pierce Brosnan's or Timothy Dalton's interpretation.

[@fleason771]

The bomb maker at the beginning was a Parisian Freerunning pioneer called Sébastien Foucan from France 🇫🇷 who is considered as an early developer of Parkour!! In Britain 🇬🇧 I first saw him years before in a Ch4 documentary called "Jump London" where he demonstrated Freerunning around our capital city. There was a follow-up documentary called "Jump Britain" where he also trained UK Freerunning across Britain. I have found "Jump Britain" in full 🤯 on KZbin but "Jump London" is harder to find in it's entirety but I fully recommend watching one of them!

[@stuartarmstrong5190]

Really enjoyed the reaction. More Bond please! I wasn't sure when they announced Daniel Craig but he really won me over. The other films with him are probably not as good but Skyfall (his third) is another excellent one. As for other Bonds - Timothy Dalton (who did two films) was very underrated - he combines the smoother element of others Bonds with a more serious, cold-blooded killer vibe - his films are well worth look.

[@jeanine6328]

Wow, nice catch on Bronson! I’ve overlooked it every time I watched this! … But my eyes were kinda focused. 🤣. They keep getting better, believe it or not.

[@mandylorien314]

It's actually Richard Branson and not Bronson. 🙂

[@jeanine6328]

@@mandylorien314 well, Duh….. 🤪 I was just testing you. You passed. I get stupid with Bronson vs Branson, I’m gonna use the excuse that it’s because I’m more familiar with Bronson. 🥸

[@vonvard]

As an English man. I can't wait for you to do Skyfall. Loved this reaction ❤❤❤

[@Ade2bee]

The Daniel Craig bond was always meant to be a reboot, or a prequel of a type set in the modern world

[@philb2085]

Best Bond, best Felix and one of the best Bond movies. Sadly, the sequels don't live up to Casino Royale IMHO. The rectangle chips are known as Plaques or Placards 😊

[@kimcottingham8043]

Excellent movie. Excellent reaction 😊

[@akyhne]

Sebastien Foucan, the French black guy, Craig chased in the beginning, is not a stuntman. He's parkour elite and inventor of parkour freerun. He had his own stunt double, for many of the scenes (distant shots from the crane, etc.).

[@jb2839]

Hell yes!!! ❤ the reaction

[@agoodday9247]

I hope you carry on to see Skyfall, the best James Bond movie ever made imo.

[@luckyspurs]

The difference between how little Bond cares when Caterina Murino dies and how much he does when Eva Green does. Is that what they call character growth.

[@JimsScience]

My personal favorite is Skyfall with daniel craig, looking forward to you guys reacting to that.

[@tubekulose]

I really enjoyed your reaction. 🙂👍 Just two notes: Brigitte Nielsen's first name is pronounced "Pri-kittae". And nope, Venice doesn't depend on inflatable dinghys in the basements of its buildings. That was made up for the movie. Venice has been standing on underwater pillars for about 1.500 years and it's still safe to visit. The only menace are the summer tourists there. 😁

[@davidvoisey4531]

Greatly enjoyed this. Can you also review Sky Fall that I think is the best recent Bond movie.

[@Rea3443]

Loved the reaction :) so much fun I love him as Bond! People don't like him? Huh?

[@John_Locke_108]

I grew up with Roger Moore but Daniel Craig will always be my favorite. For me it doesn't get better than No Time To Die but this is virtually tied with it.

[@nupefromdaville]

A good time was had!

[@IsiahBradley]

EVERY. SINGLE. WEEK. This is not a request, @Syntell :)

[@nupefromdaville]

@@IsiahBradley lol

[@jeanine6328]

For die hard fans, the change in the feel from sophisticated and gentlemanly traditionally darker hair, more attractive… Craig was a big change and the grittiness I think was off putting… at first. I was one of those die hard s that didn’t care for how the previews looked but watched anyway. I was sold just as quick as you guys were. THIS man is a real spy, he’s what 097 shoulda been all along. Also, though I don’t think he was at all attractive in the previews, by the end of the movie, he was the sexiest man I’d ever seen.

[@ladyhotep5189]

Yes lawd!!!!😂

[@DuncanEvans-t7q]

Bruce Wayne? You need to see Mask of the Phantasm

[@denysmace3874]

One thing you get from the opening scene: this ain't no Roger Moore!

[@strettoasino9006]

One of the older Bond stories

[@byteme007]

Not Bronson, but Branson, Richard Branson. And well spotted!

[@danielcollinson4456]

In the UK we have free health care and live longer than US citizens. You can keep your insurance based health care.

[@marquistenichols5627]

Any more appletv shows coming up??

[@jazzx251]

Incredibly - this was directed by Martin Campbell, who also directed Pierce Brosnan's first movie Goldeneye .. two completely different takes on James Bond

[@NickGagnon-u1v]

Both great Bond films. And both very well made.

[@autoclearanceuk7191]

Yes it is. CR is a great movie.

[@daryl772003]

It's not an asthma inhaler. It's Benzedrine

[@jb2839]

Continue with part 2

[@AddSerious]

this is the best James bond... until you see Skyfall, then it is that one!

[@jackbenton9374]

You really should've watched quantem of solace straight after I didn't like the next one as many didn't till I watched a yt video explaining why it is actually a great movie and a big part of it is looking at it as casino royal part 2

[@ColinRichards1]

Actually your comment about where the FBI works, I had a buddy who was in a some sort of very specialized unit of the military. He told me that the when the CIA needs to ...take care of people... That are needing to be very quietly done. They actually use very specialized people from the FBI to send to "resolve" the issue. I dont know if this is true, but I have no reason to disagree.

[@phunkjnky]

Syntell, he didn't tip him anything. Tournament chips have no cash value at the casino They are literally only made and used for poker tournaments. If you look at chips, you won't find a "$" on there anywhere. It is one thousand chips, not one thousand dollars.

[@phunkjnky]

I believe they are called "plaques" or "placards... And what is the obsession with min raising? 500K to 1 Mil to 2 Mil, when was the last time you saw two min raises the wasn't two people fucking around?

[@michaelellis1819]

Is that Steel from Juice 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@williambranch4283]

This new actor portrays the degree of sociopathy of people in this business ;-) Le Cheffe looks like Putin. First 4 movies in this series are great, 5th movie is a letdown.

[@JulianP311]

No. But Skyfall is!

[@KatrinaMacGregor]

I love your channel and hate to be negative, but I could not hang in there with a guy eating with his mouth open constantly.

[@RobinsonDavy-c9w]

Marks Valleys

[@duncantanguay4820]

Read the books!

[@strettoasino9006]

Giancarlo Giannini 🧑‍🍳💋

[@shawnjohnson2837]

Damn.. y'all yap to much..miss a lot of dialogue

[@overthewebb]

THe first few Bond's of Craig were good, however recently they've made the last few movies for 'modern audiences' and Bond is feminine and is constantly saved by 'strong female characters' the kind that appear in all modern movies and the reason why movies and cinema is currently dying on it's ar$e. The real audience doesn't want it, it's why Star Wars has been utterly derstroyed and why the likes of Top Gun Maverick killed it at the box office. I have zero hope for the future of Bond. The Franchise is dead and will be for the next 10 or 20 years until Hollywood stops putting identity politics into everything

[@IsiahBradley]

"Could you believe trying to explain that to Jesus?" LOL!!!! @nupefromdaville , you ain't right!!! LMAO!!!! "Did you see what he did to that car?" LOL!!!! "She didn't even give him the 'hawk tuah!'" LMAO!!!!!! Yeah, not any more :( THANKS for this, @syntell @syntellreacts !!! To answer your question, my vote would be for #Skyfall! We'll see what you think soon :) , 'cause y'all doing this once a week, right? :) #DanielCraig #007 #JamesBond #JamesBondreboot #JamesBondrebranding #JamesBondrevival #JeffreyWright #JamesBondYearOne #Yagotstobemorecareful