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13-Oct-2016, 5:56 PM

Casino Royale.

The best bad movie ever made.
The one film they should use to teach everyone what NOT to do. EVER. UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES.
A bomb if there ever was one, a dud, beyond a mess, throwing in the kitchen sink doesn’t even begin to describe it…a production that was a complete nightmare and should have had the plug pulled at any time…
And yet…
God help me I think it is a masterpiece. It gets better every time, it is full of charm, you see flashes of what a Niven Bond would have been like, there are genuine funny moments, the score is a masterwork and has staggering fidelity, the cast is beyond a dream even if most are cameos, and ultimately the painstaking patching together of the mess of materials in the edit bay actually does work in a weird way.
This is the 60’s in a bottle, combined with old studio system excess and spymania.

Thank heaven it exists. It always helps to wash away the bitterness of the increasingly stupid Austin Powers gags.

I may be the only person in the world who feels this way and watches it at least yearly.

And oh dear god, the Colgems stereo USA LP is one of the finest sounding things you will ever hear. Fidelity that knocks you down flat!

And the mono mix is preferable to the 5.1 despite the latter perhaps being from the 70mm run.