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- May 30, 2003
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Fair enough. For the life of me I can't understand how anyone could think Casino Royale is worse than something like View to a Kill or Octopussy, but to each his/her own! I'm guessing you didn't like the more somber take on the character?
I never got the Skyfall love? Was bored throughout the film.
What is it about goldeneye that makes it on so many of your top 3 lists?
I mean, I liked it too but I don't know if it stood out as such a unanimous decision. Was it that brosan shot some injection into the franchise as the new bond at the time?
I still like Skyfall a great deal better than his other two but I can't put it above Casino Royale. For me it's more that it just sort of felt like Sam Mendes was trying to do his take on a Christopher Nolan Bond film before Nolan ever got a chance to. But I did feel it executed what it was trying to do, Home Alone/Dark Knight story beats notwithstanding. With Spectre it felt like he was trying to do the same thing but it felt more like a soulless storyboard checklist than a working Bond film. Also it utterly wasted Christoph Walz which is a cardinal sin. Even Horrible Bosses 2 utilized him better.I think the first half of Skyfall is the best we've seen of Craig. Great opening, solid intrigue, visually compelling scenery, interesting angle with a potential Bond girl, dashing-and-charming-yet-dangerous villain. But once it turns into the Dark-Knight-esque "he wanted to be captured" it just becomes a vacuum of awful, highlighted by a grown-up version of Home Alone.
like the other guy said, it's a Bond movie with no flaws. Excellent intro, superb villain who is sympathetic instead of generically evil, all-time great Bond girl/henchwoman in Xenia, excellent action scenes, lots of good dialogue to chew on, interesting gadgets that aren't over-the-top, great music. And it made a great N64 game.