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Casino Royale on November 17th

Jason Preston · 1 min read ·

The new bond film, with the new bond (Daniel Craig) is slated to open on November 17th. I just caught a new preview of the movie here.

It’s a pretty cool looking trailer.

At first I was worried about Craig being Bond. But I think he’ll make a good Bond, if a bit more towards the book character than Brosnan was. In any case, it’ll take at least a movie for me to get used to seeing him in this role. I think the problem is that I’ve seen him in a fair number of other stuff already, and it’ll be hard for me to really picture him being 007.

Generally speaking, the movie looks like it could be pretty awesome. At this point I have just a few worries:

  1. I think it’s too bad that they changed the game to make them play texas hold-em at the casino.

  2. I worry that they’re going to make Bond to human re: the bond girl. Every time they try to make Bond care the movie falls a little flat (License to Kill, Tomorrow Never Dies).

  3. I’m also worried that they’re going to keep going with the more “urban” feel of the last Bond movie (which hardly deserves the name). Bond movies work a lot better with a touch of class.

I guess I’ll just have to wait and find out.