![]() ![]() ![]() Released just prior to the Summer of Love, just before societal and political tumult dragged the world into the seventies, the movie is the ultimate sixties party: excessive and uncontrolled, stoned out and hung over, deliriously exhausted. ![]() If James Bond was at the forefront of the Swinging Sixties as the decade achieved liftoff, then perhaps it’s fitting that Casino Royale heralds the era’s crash landing. – Woody AllenĬasino Royale is either going to be a classic bit of fun or the biggest fuck-up since the Flood. There is no seriousness or maturity of approach. It is silly like an old Berle sketch as opposed to a fine Nichols and May sketch. There is no involvement or story or importance to any of it. I think the film stinks, as does my role. And they screwed it up by listening to all the so-called geniuses-the directors, the writers, the whole complex. Which he could have, by copying the book, because the book was a good book. When I spoke to …I said he should make a straight Bond, find a new actor, and have one shot and he’d make a lot of money. ![]()
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