Would this movie be judged more kindly if it wasn't followed by Kino Royale?

Would this movie be judged more kindly if it wasn't followed by Kino Royale?

Naw. It was objectively shit.

It's pretty shit and that's saying something because the Bond Franchise itself is pretty fucking shit

This was the first Bond film I saw in the cinema.
It was OK, I guess - a bit sci-fi-y, but so were previous Bond films as well, in particular Moonraker.
Some cool action scenes, crappy theme by Madonna.

But Casino Royale is shit.

Your taste is shit - assuming you are telling the truth and not baiting of course.

I saw this when I was younger and still way into the 007 series and even then I knew it was garbage.
Even Tomorrow Never Dies was better and that was a complete piece of shit.
I still like Goldeneye and TWINE though, fite me irl faggots

Is it just me or did the villain in TND look an awful lot like Steve Jobs?

Bond was a slow rolling little bitch in Casino Royale. All of them were slow rolling like motherfuckers.

Wasn't that the point?
Were you being sarcastic?

I don't know - I found this article claiming he is supposed to be based on Rupert Murdoch & Bill Gates. I get the Rupert Murdoch similarity, but he is much closer to Jobs than Gates tbh.

Jobs is viewed as a good guy by most compared to Gates, so it stood out to me that they made a Bond villain look like him.

look at it and call it bad again
it was too modern for its time

I really don't know what the fuck they were playing at with James Bond during the Brosnan era when it came to finding the director for each of these films.

After Martin Campbell's brilliance with GoldenEye, they then give the franchise to Roger Spottiswoode, a literal nobody whose greatest claim to fame was Turner & Hooch. Spottiswoode, apart from having the weirdest fucking English surname I've ever seen, was also responsible for the worst Stallone movie ever made (Stop or My Mom Will Shoot!) which made trash like Driven and Rocky V seem like Oscar bait in comparison. Who the hell thought he would make a good James Bond film?

After that, you had Michael Apted with The World is Not Enough. Apted is definitely the most competent of the latter 3 directors but his forte was and still is documentaries. He is not the man you give a high-octane action franchise to. It's sorta like if you gave Fast and Furious to Richard Attenborough or the latest X-Men installment to Werner Herzog. Yes, they could do it, but isn't there a whole field of directors who would be better qualified for the job?

Finally, it seems they went all out for Die Another Day when they decided on Lee Tamahori, a gas-huffing Kiwi who basically ended up making an Austin Powers film minus the intentional comedy or cast of the AP franchise. Of his whole career, this is Tamahori's 3rd best film from a critical perspective. Only 2 of his films; his debut indie flick about a group of abos (Once Were Warriors), and a generic action joint from the late 90s (The Edge) have a Fresh rating on RCuck, and in the case of the latter, just barely (60%).

I was always under the impression that Jobs and Gates were about equal in the loved/hated department.
They sure as hell fucked up if they were going for a Gates look though, I can agree there.

I'm not sure how tech literate people view them, but I've always had the impression that Jobs was viewed as a good guy in the eyes of normies; - Apple is the cool and hip company, whilst Gates & Microsoft is seen as oldskool, out of touch, and part of the establishment.

Who cares if Gates and his wife have donated millions (if not billions) to charity?

Not him, Eva Green is a shitty actress

Shit taste fam

Apted showcased skills in action with Gorky and Thunderheart, which are not amazing in explosive antics but empathize drama a lot, still if you know him surely you will see his trademark frames and panoramic views are very absent in TWINE
And he casts actors personally, so i highly doubt he gave Denise Richards and Bullion a contract. The rest were ok to great

My words exactly, Brosnan had bad luck with his scripts, but at least he showcased his job in TWINE, unlike Dalton which didn't have the time unfortunately.

it looks like Jonathan Pryce to me

People used to HATE Gates, like viscerally, but could never give you a reason other than "He's really rich." Jobs, though, was thought of as some God-figure, because Apple was hip and cool and not Microsoft, which is why he got two biopics, one after the other. Then people saw the biopics, and realised "Oh, he was actually a massive cunt." After that, there was a surge in articles about Gates' philanthropic endeavours, and how much of his money he's just given away to disease research without ever talking about it for virtue-points.

It was a fun couple of weeks watching people wring their hands over something so trivial.

the old one is kino in its purest form.

No one watches her to see her act

Is that Porce Brisnan?

Gates is basically like John Rockefeller: a totally fucking scumbag judged by everyone who had to deal with his bullshit when he was active, but history has softened his image by way of the fraction of the money he exploited out of people "given back" to shit he can plaster his name all over into perpetuity.