Episode 24: Casino Royale (2006)
Added 2022-01-04 21:58:20 +0000 UTCWhat happens when Mads Mikkelsen's attempt to invest Joseph Kony's money on shorting airline stock is foiled? Well, he'll have to organise a high-stakes poker game at the Casino Royale in Montenegro, of course!
And there's only one man who can possibly infiltrate the game and stop him (Due to, and im not kidding here, the reasoning 'someone said you're the best at poker at the office').... James Bond.
It's another reboot, it's another guy, it's another Casino Royale!
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Comments
I forgot how many black people are killed in this film. That's disturbing. That Madagascar chase/fight also has the most destruction and civilian death in the entire Craig run? Like...it's the second thing this bond does. The first is murder two guys for the british government. The Second is going rogue and blowing up an occupied building site, an embassy, and illegally shooting a black guy unprompted. And the first two murders are given more dramatic weight than all of that...
The Butterfly Composer
2025-04-08 18:10:30 +0000 UTCI love repeating "14,500,000" in that very swiss man's voice
Man2quilla
2024-09-09 18:48:42 +0000 UTCIt's a Kansas City Shuffle
Man2quilla
2024-09-09 18:32:57 +0000 UTCFun fact: the bomb maker was played by the guy who INVENTED PARKOUR
Andrew Dunn
2024-05-23 08:51:34 +0000 UTCFwiw, the asthma inhaler is in the novel
Andrew Dunn
2024-05-23 08:43:41 +0000 UTCAlso I agree with Phoebe's interpretation of "the bitch is dead", and I'll add that I think it was meant for M, since M was telling Bond that if he needs time or whatever, this was Bond's way of closing M out from his emotional state. I don't think he really thinks of Vesper in that way aside from an irrational anger at her for dying. Obviously maybe giving the film way too much credit, but that just feels more correct than to say Bond decides he hates women now because of this.
Mel Vitta
2022-01-20 15:42:27 +0000 UTCI actually think Alice was right about the Unprovoked Violence, mainly because of the early scenes of Bond killing people and causing mayhem in Madagascar. He kills multiple people on a construction site, presumably civilians minding their own business, blows it up, then moves on to the Nambutu embassy and blows that up. Sure, there was that guy on the construction site who tried to fight him, but still that was just some guy, not an enemy. I feel like given all that, especially the optics of an agent of the British Empire invading an embassy to extrajudicially execute a person of color, really should have pushed this one up to at least a 6. So yeah, totally agree with Alice, just don't think she managed to articulate well in the moment why.
Mel Vitta
2022-01-20 15:33:22 +0000 UTC[At the climax, Daniel Craig turns towards the camera, breaks the fourth wall, and recites...] This movie was sponsored by Skillshare! Skillshare is an online learning community with over 25,000 classes. If you want to learn how to play poker, you should try the Skillshare course "How to Play Poker with Oscar Isaac." Get two months free with the code "JANEBOND." Link in the description!
Elsie Hupp
2022-01-08 15:41:44 +0000 UTCim scared to listen to this one, I was already burned once...
An Actual Dog woof woof
2022-01-07 20:02:20 +0000 UTCI'm hoping you can explain the hotel in the middle of nowhere in QoS. Because why???
Cate Kneale
2022-01-07 18:00:56 +0000 UTCCan't stop imagining Bond as Yoshikage Kira with his newly developed hand fetish.
ALPetter
2022-01-06 02:49:45 +0000 UTCand rich. That was suprising
vendula juříková
2022-01-05 23:05:32 +0000 UTCWith the number of Metal Gear Solid references this podcast has dropped, will we get an episode on it?
The9til5Wizard
2022-01-05 22:39:20 +0000 UTCGreat episode, well worth the wait. I'm imagining Carter in bed with Castro, after a marathon session of truly revolutionary Cuban lovemaking. Carter is just absolutely spent. Castro reaches over to his bedside table, picks up a cigar, and lights it up. Carter's eyes widen as he realizes which cigar it is. He screams, "NOOOOOO!" The Presidential Palace in Havana goes up in a Michael Bay-level epic explosion.
Steve Bunnell
2022-01-05 21:55:06 +0000 UTCpersonally i didn't think casino royale (1967) was a fakeout, it was just an honourable delivering of every bond film, as the podcast promised i was more afraid by all the build up deception where you had to say repeatedly you weren't covering it
Christine Pizan
2022-01-05 16:35:56 +0000 UTCI just want to give a shout out to a friend of mine whom, many many years ago, made an absolutely hilarious GIF about Nintendo’s release lineup where they announced ‘Wii Music’ using an amazing bit of this movie. I can’t find the gif right now, but gods I will try.
david hobson
2022-01-05 14:00:22 +0000 UTCListening to this podcast has made me realise how posh Abi is
The Beak TM
2022-01-05 13:20:06 +0000 UTCSuggestion for the Craig t-shirt tagline: "it's finger-licken' good!"
BanditCrab
2022-01-05 11:37:18 +0000 UTCSlightly disappointed you didn't pull Craig's line: "They'll know you died scratching my balls" Which was the only line I actually laughed at in this film
Myla
2022-01-05 08:09:16 +0000 UTCThe Bene Gesserit are all trans and the Voice is them dropping their voice training for a moment
Antti Helin
2022-01-05 07:51:24 +0000 UTCAt the time this came out, I didn't mind much that they switched the game to poker, but I did mind that they switched it to Texas Hold'em, compared to the more classic draw poker I grew up with, or the classy stud poker they played on Star Trek. Of course, in the meantime I've learned that actually everything the Bond franchise does is fad chasing, and if anything seems classy it's just due to the passage of time.
Brian Danger Hicks
2022-01-05 05:06:35 +0000 UTCNow I wanna see the Craig shirt be the finger sucking panel from DiU but with Craig Bond
Lay-Tex-Lips
2022-01-05 03:36:52 +0000 UTCwas smirking in wide eyed frozen fear @ Abby thinly threatening to use the voice, like fucking Ulfric Stormcloak slaying Toryg
oranjest1
2022-01-05 03:27:21 +0000 UTCAfter how on point you all were for Live and Let Die, I feel let down by this episode. You spent more time talking about the lack of working fire exits in a stairwell than the movie's complete disregard for the lives of its African characters. This movie says that it is okay to endanger African civilians, assault an ambassador, and blow up an embassy to preserve not-Boeing's stock price, and you barely even gave that a mention.
Osirion
2022-01-05 02:34:22 +0000 UTCWait. Finger sucking. A thing for hands Daniel Craig is yoshikage kira
Foxing around.
2022-01-05 02:32:09 +0000 UTCOn Craig's voice- it's actually mostly identical to Bill Nighy's. I didn't realise this until I listened to Nighy's audiobook of Moonraker, where it was impossible not to picture Craig as Bond because they have almost EXACTLY the same voice.
dm
2022-01-05 00:40:55 +0000 UTCThis movie made me think it was considered hot to suck someone's fingers. IT REALLY ISN'T
dm
2022-01-05 00:27:07 +0000 UTCI have trust issues
Rosalind Northey
2022-01-05 00:06:52 +0000 UTCA great movie
Philip Brooks
2022-01-04 23:45:18 +0000 UTCthis is going to be the 1954 tv movie I know it
Alfie Hall
2022-01-04 23:35:52 +0000 UTCIt blew my mind to find out that the same guy directed this one and Goldeneye and none of the other modern Bonds. Those are the only two Bond movies that are actually good movies! Why don't they ever call him back to do a second movie? Is he the director version of Lazenby?
OvO Hoot
2022-01-04 23:14:31 +0000 UTCAll right, it's been fun. But I'm gonna hit play now, and I swear to God...
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2022-01-04 22:17:00 +0000 UTCI love you
Justine
2022-01-04 22:04:13 +0000 UTC
