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Films used in this episode:
Casino Royale, 2007, dir. Martin Campbell
Die Another Day, 2002, dir. Lee Tamahori
Spectre, 2015, dir. Sam Mendes
Skyfall, 2012, dir. Sam Mendes
Casino Royale was the first Bond film I ever saw in the cinema, and I think because of that it will always be my favourite.
In the ten years since then, I have grown more of an understanding for why Casino Royale is seen as the much needed soft-reboot to propel the series away from Die Another Day and the rest of the films in this super series.
Casino Royale succeeded because it changed things. Things that had never been changed in the half-century life span of the series, it threw out and subverted every tired trope, and it did it with intensity and violence.
This same theme of dissecting and changing sacred cows continued to varying degrees over the next two Daniel Craig films, until 2015’s Spectre grinded this fresh take to a halt.
What I hated about Spectre was that it tried to be an homage to the classic films, by bringing back the thrown out tropes like recognizable villains, and love-at-first-sight paper thin women.
It baffles me that the same director of Skyfall, which changed the Bond movies probably more than any others, went on to direct this boring and redundant sequel.
CULT POPCORN! 60 second video essays which focus on film, television and any other type of media we consume and devour handfuls at a time.
All external media in this video is used for educational purposes
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Films used in this episode:
Casino Royale, 2007, dir. Martin Campbell
Die Another Day, 2002, dir. Lee Tamahori
Spectre, 2015, dir. Sam Mendes
Skyfall, 2012, dir. Sam Mendes
Casino Royale was the first Bond film I ever saw in the cinema, and I think because of that it will always be my favourite.
In the ten years since then, I have grown more of an understanding for why Casino Royale is seen as the much needed soft-reboot to propel the series away from Die Another Day and the rest of the films in this super series.
Casino Royale succeeded because it changed things. Things that had never been changed in the half-century life span of the series, it threw out and subverted every tired trope, and it did it with intensity and violence.
This same theme of dissecting and changing sacred cows continued to varying degrees over the next two Daniel Craig films, until 2015’s Spectre grinded this fresh take to a halt.
What I hated about Spectre was that it tried to be an homage to the classic films, by bringing back the thrown out tropes like recognizable villains, and love-at-first-sight paper thin women.
It baffles me that the same director of Skyfall, which changed the Bond movies probably more than any others, went on to direct this boring and redundant sequel.
CULT POPCORN! 60 second video essays which focus on film, television and any other type of media we consume and devour handfuls at a time.
All external media in this video is used for educational purposes
