By far the best 007 movie and the only amazing one: Casino Royale with Daniel Craig as the masculine 007 is a film I did not have many expectations for.  After all the hype I decided to see it and was very impressed. Firstly Daniel Craig is a fantastic actor and shows the human side of Bond with great accuracy and precision and I felt he was just the Bond Ian Fleming imagined.  His alpha male attitude worked very well and really made the movie feel like the first 'real' Bond movie in a long time.  And I personally was really amazed at the shallowness of so many people who say that Craig is ugly - I personally thought he looked great in the movie and so what if he didn't?  With the level of acting he displayed I would say it wouldn't have made a difference!  Its the actions and characters of men that count at least far more than their physical appearance.  He had an undeniable no-nonsense, real man aura shining from him. There was no real male-bashing or superwoman fetish in this movie.  The director really got it right. It was exactly like the book, torture scenes and all [which as Malebonding said, is right out of the book and was not funny at all] and Eva Green was about as feminine as can be possible given political correctness demands and such.  I mean the Bond movies with Pierce Brosnan [who seemed too smooth for my liking] seemed to have some physically strong or powerful women who beats up grown men and are highly independant of Bond in such a way that it really steals his thunder or appeal if that is the right way to put it.  For example in Die Another Day there was a final confrontation between two women in a sword fight which really felt like a step too far away from the whole idea of James Bond. The stupid idea that women are stronger than men and that whole Lara Croft feeling has been totally vaporised in Casino Royale Bond wants feminine women not women trying to be men - that is not a strong woman!  In Casino Royale I think the smiley face is deserved as Craig as Bond makes this clear in his first conversation with Eva Green as Vesper.  I gathered that although she was subtley shaming him for what he does in between her sarcasm, he was mocking how all the female accountants in MI5 talk down to him and when he says she is not his type he is saying he wants a real woman. Overall this film gives me hope, being the best action movie I have seen in a while, for future films, starring the suave James Bond or not. user: Mr. Doesn'tgiveadamn

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Bond and Vesper: I saw something totally different than AAA, as did many of the men here. For one I don't call likeable female characters "strong women" since that has to do more with feminist jargon than reality. Vesper was a likeable character and her character served a purpose, but her character was not a "strong woman" she was smart and assisted Bond in his job. Nor was she Bond's "equal." She was "the money" just as she stated in the film. Nowhere in the film is it implied that she is Bond's equal(as it should not have been since it is a JAMES BOND movie and not a VESPER movie). It was her job to supply Bond with the finances he needed to do his job. Let us not journey into the dark recesses of so-called "women's equality" where we have feminism rearing its head as women try to match or outdo men in damn near everything by rewriting the rules. I also fail to see how the topic of Bond dominating her or she dominating him came up, or even the comment about her breasts. Those comments just seemed way out of place. The movie really had little to nothing at all to do with Vesper. It seems some of the PC crowd always want to include women in things women have no business being included in. Yes Eva Green did an ok job in the film, but that is all. The film is a "man's film" and there was no, as there should be no, pro-female/women's version of equality being pushed onto the viewers in this film. The movie was not about her, so let's not try to insinuate that she was more than she was. user: Sick of Misandry

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Strong Male/Female Characters: In response to Mr doesntgiveadamnh: It's never actually strong female characters that bother me.  It's only when this is used in a way that ridicules and humiliates men that puts me off. I think Vesper was a strong female character in the sense that she was very mature and smart.  Bond respected her without considering her breasts and she returned it.  She was Bond's equal without dominating or being dominated by his role.  Also, Bond's boss M remained a female (though not in the book), but she was still an intelligent, sensible and likeable character who seemed to harbour a slight motherly affection for Bond. So, we have strong female characters, minus the crotch banging or cutting remarks about testosterone. user: AAA