Saw the new Bond last night. My first ever Bond-movie in the theatre! It was
good, even better than I expected. Daniel Craig was awesome! Very rough around
the edges, which was great. While you could still see the film was a
bond-flick, it had none of the superhero antics of the past few bonds. There
still was some really over the top action, but the general tone and atmosphere
was much more down to earth and even realistic, lots of low key stuff. I loved
it. Some good humour in it, too! Even the Bond-girl was far from the regular
fare in these films. And I loved the way Bond ditched that one girl once he
got the needed information out of her, nice "upside down"-touch.

Some of the score was wayyy too melodramatic and spoiled certain scenes, but
still Casino Royale was the best Bond I've ever seen. Definitely recommended!

Oh yeah. What they did to the Bond-franchise with this new entry reminded me
of what Nolan did to the Batman franchise with Batman Begins. A much darker,
more mature film. I really hope this sort of trend catches on. We have enough
kiddie stuff thrown at us already.