Casino Royale '67--Wow

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  • DragonpolDragonpol https://thebondologistblog.blogspot.com
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    Going to watch the '67 one tonight I think just finished my Bondathon 13 days and 23 films first time I've done it, Is it anything like the '06 one? Dont ruin it for me!

    Is chalk like cheese? There's your answer @hullcityfan!
  • saunderssaunders Living in a world of avarice and deceit
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    Going to watch the '67 one tonight I think just finished my Bondathon 13 days and 23 films first time I've done it, Is it anything like the '06 one? Dont ruin it for me!

    Trust me it's ruined without us saying a thing! ;)
  • DragonpolDragonpol https://thebondologistblog.blogspot.com
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    saunders wrote:
    Going to watch the '67 one tonight I think just finished my Bondathon 13 days and 23 films first time I've done it, Is it anything like the '06 one? Dont ruin it for me!

    Trust me it's ruined without us saying a thing! ;)

    Kudos. That's a good one! It also happens to be true.
  • 4EverBonded4EverBonded the Ballrooms of Mars
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    Well just say pretty much NOTHING like the 2006 CR.
    This one tries to parody Bond and fails astoundingly.
  • DragonpolDragonpol https://thebondologistblog.blogspot.com
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    Well just say pretty much NOTHING like the 2006 CR.
    This was tries to parody Bond and fails astoundingly.

    True, though that said, there's probably more of CR the novel in the '67 version than in the YOLT, TSWLM and MR film versions, in all honestly.
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    True, that. Most of the novel is here, indeed. The trouble is, it's drowned by the rest. I enjoy it, but I recognize it's not to the taste of everyone.
  • hullcityfanhullcityfan Banned
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    Watching this now the song is catchy!
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    Ronnie Corbett's performance is rather good in a sexually perverse kind of way. I've never seen anything quite like that! It's er... different.

    Barbara Bouchet would have made a great Bond girl in the official series. She was rather hot! (slight understatement, that).

    I think the score does elevate the film. Burt Bacharach put his heart and soul into composing for the film. His style is so far removed from John Barry's but it's still a great score. The Look Of Love is a timeless classic. That song should have been Oscar nominated. It's one of the greatest songs ever. :)

    But looking at the overall film, yeah, it's a huge stinker. LOL Absolutely bonkers film with a nonsensical plot. You could argue it's one of the worst films ever made with one of the best soundtracks. Hard to imagine many other films with such a cool soundtrack but the actual content of the film is so bad.
  • DragonpolDragonpol https://thebondologistblog.blogspot.com
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    fanbond123 wrote:
    Ronnie Corbett's performance is rather good in a sexually perverse kind of way. I've never seen anything quite like that! It's er... different.

    Barbara Bouchet would have made a great Bond girl in the official series. She was rather hot! (slight understatement, that).

    I think the score does elevate the film. Burt Bacharach put his heart and soul into composing for the film. His style is so far removed from John Barry's but it's still a great score. The Look Of Love is a timeless classic. That song should have been Oscar nominated. It's one of the greatest songs ever. :)

    But looking at the overall film, yeah, it's a huge stinker. LOL Absolutely bonkers film with a nonsensical plot.

    There are some good/funny parts to be sure, but you're really not wrong in describing the plot as bonkers!
  • DarthDimiDarthDimi Behind you!Moderator
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    What plot? There's like six plots in the film and they hardly ever cohere. When they do, during the crazy climax, it doesn't make me happy. But, taken each one individually, I can dig this stuff. It's an acid trip, like Zardoz, or Exorcist 2. One has to be high on [insert alkaloid] to go with it. :P
  • DragonpolDragonpol https://thebondologistblog.blogspot.com
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    DarthDimi wrote:
    What plot? There's like six plots in the film and they hardly ever cohere. When they do, during the crazy climax, it doesn't make me happy. But, taken each one individually, I can dig this stuff. It's an acid trip, like Zardoz, or Exorcist 2. One has to be high on [insert alkaloid] to go with it. :P

    Yes, I think the writers, directors, actors and producer must have been on something. Well, it was the late 1960s!
  • hullcityfanhullcityfan Banned
    edited May 2013 Posts: 496
    Well I've not even made an hour yet and bored already had more fun playing poker dont even know whats going on all I remember is a lion on a car, a house getting blown up and Jimmy Bond (Woody Allen) and Bond (David Niven I think) and Vesper Lynd (Ursala Andress) going round on a pink spinny thing.
  • DragonpolDragonpol https://thebondologistblog.blogspot.com
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    Well I've not even made an hour yet and bored already had more fun playing poker dont even know whats going on all I remember is a lion on a car, a house getting blown up and Jimmy Bond (Woody Allen) and Bond (David Niven I think) and Vesper Lynd (Ursala Andress) going round on a pink spinny thing.

    It's all a bit like The Magic Roundabout...though on LSD!
  • DarthDimiDarthDimi Behind you!Moderator
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    Dragonpol wrote:
    DarthDimi wrote:
    What plot? There's like six plots in the film and they hardly ever cohere. When they do, during the crazy climax, it doesn't make me happy. But, taken each one individually, I can dig this stuff. It's an acid trip, like Zardoz, or Exorcist 2. One has to be high on [insert alkaloid] to go with it. :P

    Yes, I think the writers, directors, actors and producer must have been on something. Well, it was the late 1960s!

    What happened on (and off) the set of the Adam West Batman series is legendary. Well, with all the lovely ladies around on the set of CR67, who knows what happened. ;-)

  • hullcityfanhullcityfan Banned
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    Bought it today I watched some of it on the computer it bored me but I just couldn't move when I watched it on DVD. It's quite funny like when they drive from London to Berlin then he see's his daughter and ask's that guy if he speaks English and he say's no sort of funny but when she get's abducted by the UFO and the giant fight at the end in the Casino also when Vesper Lynd get's kidnapped and Bond say's "Have you seen a girl in a green dress"? and the guy by the door say's something about her with a black sack over head taken by two uncivilized men. Do they all die at the end? Feel like writing a review but it seem's a bit sad and is there a website for writing one? Great film , quite funny though , it had load's of good 60's actors like Bernard Cribbins , Peter Sellers , David Niven , Woody Allen, Ursla Andress and that guy who played Kronsteen in FRWL.
  • The producers were indeed relieved upon seeing the film, in that it did prove the Bond name could draw a crowd without Connery's name attached; the film did have a buzz attached to it even though it was a dog.

    There was a 007 mag that went into the making of the movie, with the other half of the mag given over to the other unofficial Bond, NSNA. One was for sale in the movie shop on St Martin's Lane recently for £30, shame I didn't snap up a copy but I hesitated.

    Another aspect later used: Bond's home is destroyed.

    IMO it's the first part of the film that sinks it, the stuff with a stuttering Niven on the Scottish estate, and Deborah Kerr and her girrrrls is just so awful, with 'comical' music attached, it goes on forever. Once it gets bonkers, things pick up a bit but goodwill is killed by that point.
  • TheWizardOfIceTheWizardOfIce 'One of the Internet's more toxic individuals'
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    It's quite funny like when they drive from London to Berlin then he see's his daughter and ask's that guy if he speaks English and he say's no sort of funny but when she get's abducted by the UFO and the giant fight at the end in the Casino also when Vesper Lynd get's kidnapped and Bond say's "Have you seen a girl in a green dress"? and the guy by the door say's something about her with a black sack over head taken by two uncivilized men.

    I like the way as a homage you have managed to create a sentence that is just as staggering in its mind numbing incoherence as the film you are talking about.
  • DragonpolDragonpol https://thebondologistblog.blogspot.com
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    It's quite funny like when they drive from London to Berlin then he see's his daughter and ask's that guy if he speaks English and he say's no sort of funny but when she get's abducted by the UFO and the giant fight at the end in the Casino also when Vesper Lynd get's kidnapped and Bond say's "Have you seen a girl in a green dress"? and the guy by the door say's something about her with a black sack over head taken by two uncivilized men.

    I like the way as a homage you have managed to create a sentence that is just as staggering in its mind numbing incoherence as the film you are talking about.

    MI6 is still free to view for this content?!
  • hullcityfanhullcityfan Banned
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    Dragonpol wrote:
    It's quite funny like when they drive from London to Berlin then he see's his daughter and ask's that guy if he speaks English and he say's no sort of funny but when she get's abducted by the UFO and the giant fight at the end in the Casino also when Vesper Lynd get's kidnapped and Bond say's "Have you seen a girl in a green dress"? and the guy by the door say's something about her with a black sack over head taken by two uncivilized men.

    I like the way as a homage you have managed to create a sentence that is just as staggering in its mind numbing incoherence as the film you are talking about.

    MI6 is still free to view for this content?!

    If you've seen the film it say's that.
  • DragonpolDragonpol https://thebondologistblog.blogspot.com
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    Dragonpol wrote:
    It's quite funny like when they drive from London to Berlin then he see's his daughter and ask's that guy if he speaks English and he say's no sort of funny but when she get's abducted by the UFO and the giant fight at the end in the Casino also when Vesper Lynd get's kidnapped and Bond say's "Have you seen a girl in a green dress"? and the guy by the door say's something about her with a black sack over head taken by two uncivilized men.

    I like the way as a homage you have managed to create a sentence that is just as staggering in its mind numbing incoherence as the film you are talking about.

    MI6 is still free to view for this content?!

    If you've seen the film it say's that.

    How ironic.
  • hullcityfanhullcityfan Banned
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    Dragonpol wrote:
    Dragonpol wrote:
    It's quite funny like when they drive from London to Berlin then he see's his daughter and ask's that guy if he speaks English and he say's no sort of funny but when she get's abducted by the UFO and the giant fight at the end in the Casino also when Vesper Lynd get's kidnapped and Bond say's "Have you seen a girl in a green dress"? and the guy by the door say's something about her with a black sack over head taken by two uncivilized men.

    I like the way as a homage you have managed to create a sentence that is just as staggering in its mind numbing incoherence as the film you are talking about.

    MI6 is still free to view for this content?!

    If you've seen the film it say's that.

    How ironic.
    Well no not really , it's not really ironic. Anyway back on topic please people.

  • DragonpolDragonpol https://thebondologistblog.blogspot.com
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    Dragonpol wrote:
    Dragonpol wrote:
    It's quite funny like when they drive from London to Berlin then he see's his daughter and ask's that guy if he speaks English and he say's no sort of funny but when she get's abducted by the UFO and the giant fight at the end in the Casino also when Vesper Lynd get's kidnapped and Bond say's "Have you seen a girl in a green dress"? and the guy by the door say's something about her with a black sack over head taken by two uncivilized men.

    I like the way as a homage you have managed to create a sentence that is just as staggering in its mind numbing incoherence as the film you are talking about.

    MI6 is still free to view for this content?!

    If you've seen the film it say's that.

    How ironic.
    Well no not really , it's not really ironic. Anyway back on topic please people.

    I meant your monstrous misuse of grammar.
  • hullcityfanhullcityfan Banned
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    Dragonpol wrote:
    Dragonpol wrote:
    Dragonpol wrote:
    It's quite funny like when they drive from London to Berlin then he see's his daughter and ask's that guy if he speaks English and he say's no sort of funny but when she get's abducted by the UFO and the giant fight at the end in the Casino also when Vesper Lynd get's kidnapped and Bond say's "Have you seen a girl in a green dress?" and the guy by the door say's something about her with a black sack over head taken by two uncivilized men.

    I like the way as a homage you have managed to create a sentence that is just as staggering in its mind numbing incoherence as the film you are talking about.

    MI6 is still free to view for this content?!

    If you've seen the film it say's that.

    How ironic.
    Well no not really , it's not really ironic. Anyway back on topic please people.

    I meant your monstrous misuse of grammar.

    Where may I ask?
  • DragonpolDragonpol https://thebondologistblog.blogspot.com
    edited June 2013 Posts: 18,348
    "It's quite funny like when they drive from London to Berlin then he see's his daughter and ask's that guy if he speaks English and he say's no sort of funny but when she get's abducted by the UFO and the giant fight at the end in the Casino also when Vesper Lynd get's kidnapped and Bond say's "Have you seen a girl in a green dress"? and the guy by the door say's something about her with a black sack over head taken by two uncivilized men."

    I make that seven cases of greengrocer's apostrophe in just one paragraph.
  • hullcityfanhullcityfan Banned
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    Dragonpol wrote:
    "It's quite funny like when they drive from London to Berlin then he see's his daughter and ask's that guy if he speaks English and he say's no sort of funny but when she get's abducted by the UFO and the giant fight at the end in the Casino also when Vesper Lynd get's kidnapped and Bond say's "Have you seen a girl in a green dress"? and the guy by the door say's something about her with a black sack over head taken by two uncivilized men."

    I make that seven cases of greengrocer's apostrophe in just one paragraph.

    I always was terrible in English anyway have you ever seen the film?
  • DragonpolDragonpol https://thebondologistblog.blogspot.com
    edited June 2013 Posts: 18,348
    Dragonpol wrote:
    "It's quite funny like when they drive from London to Berlin then he see's his daughter and ask's that guy if he speaks English and he say's no sort of funny but when she get's abducted by the UFO and the giant fight at the end in the Casino also when Vesper Lynd get's kidnapped and Bond say's "Have you seen a girl in a green dress"? and the guy by the door say's something about her with a black sack over head taken by two uncivilized men."

    I make that seven cases of greengrocer's apostrophe in just one paragraph.

    I always was terrible in English anyway have you ever seen the film?

    I'm not getting at you, just pointing out what Mr Ice was referring to there. If you follow my grammar advice you'd get better at English. PM me if you want to and I'll give you some tips.

    Yes, I've seen the film and while there are some good parts, on the whole I'd say it's a heap of dung!
  • hullcityfanhullcityfan Banned
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    Dragonpol wrote:
    Dragonpol wrote:
    "It's quite funny like when they drive from London to Berlin then he see's his daughter and ask's that guy if he speaks English and he say's no sort of funny but when she get's abducted by the UFO and the giant fight at the end in the Casino also when Vesper Lynd get's kidnapped and Bond say's "Have you seen a girl in a green dress"? and the guy by the door say's something about her with a black sack over head taken by two uncivilized men."

    I make that seven cases of greengrocer's apostrophe in just one paragraph.

    I always was terrible in English anyway have you ever seen the film?

    I'm not getting at you, just pointing out what Mr Ice was referring to there. If you follow my grammar advice you'd get better at English. PM me if you want to and I'll give you some tips.

    Yes, I've seen the film and while there are some good parts, on the whole I'd say it's a heap of dung!

    It's not it's great I'll PM you later.
  • DragonpolDragonpol https://thebondologistblog.blogspot.com
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    Dragonpol wrote:
    Dragonpol wrote:
    "It's quite funny like when they drive from London to Berlin then he see's his daughter and ask's that guy if he speaks English and he say's no sort of funny but when she get's abducted by the UFO and the giant fight at the end in the Casino also when Vesper Lynd get's kidnapped and Bond say's "Have you seen a girl in a green dress"? and the guy by the door say's something about her with a black sack over head taken by two uncivilized men."

    I make that seven cases of greengrocer's apostrophe in just one paragraph.

    I always was terrible in English anyway have you ever seen the film?

    I'm not getting at you, just pointing out what Mr Ice was referring to there. If you follow my grammar advice you'd get better at English. PM me if you want to and I'll give you some tips.

    Yes, I've seen the film and while there are some good parts, on the whole I'd say it's a heap of dung!

    It's not it's great I'll PM you later.

    That'll do, mucker.
  • TheWizardOfIceTheWizardOfIce 'One of the Internet's more toxic individuals'
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    Dragonpol wrote:
    "It's quite funny like when they drive from London to Berlin then he see's his daughter and ask's that guy if he speaks English and he say's no sort of funny but when she get's abducted by the UFO and the giant fight at the end in the Casino also when Vesper Lynd get's kidnapped and Bond say's "Have you seen a girl in a green dress"? and the guy by the door say's something about her with a black sack over head taken by two uncivilized men."

    I make that seven cases of greengrocer's apostrophe in just one paragraph.

    Superb Mr Dragonpol superb! Alas your advice is utterly wasted on the cretin and he continues to inflict his inanity on the rest of us.
  • DragonpolDragonpol https://thebondologistblog.blogspot.com
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    Dragonpol wrote:
    "It's quite funny like when they drive from London to Berlin then he see's his daughter and ask's that guy if he speaks English and he say's no sort of funny but when she get's abducted by the UFO and the giant fight at the end in the Casino also when Vesper Lynd get's kidnapped and Bond say's "Have you seen a girl in a green dress"? and the guy by the door say's something about her with a black sack over head taken by two uncivilized men."

    I make that seven cases of greengrocer's apostrophe in just one paragraph.

    Superb Mr Dragonpol superb! Alas your advice is utterly wasted on the cretin and he continues to inflict his inanity on the rest of us.

    Thank you, Mr Ice. I am but an apprentice to your mastery.
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