First, it should strike nobody as surprising that I'd blog about how I liked a Bond film. I pretty much like them all -- some better than others -- and can think of a whole lot of worse ways to spend a couple of hours. I believe the principal element that draws me to Bond films, as with other such films, is that I really like plots that take place in several exotic locations throughout a story. What would a Bond film be without at least two or three jaunts to some remote and exotic part of the planet? Mercifully, my dad and I were able to escape the house filled with way too many people and steal away for three hours to go see the first showing, just after noon. I must say that I liked Casino Royale easily as much as any Bond film I've ever seen. For my entertainment, Daniel Craig is the best Bond since Connery, and if he puts in such performances in subsequent films, he might even eclipse the great Sean. Not that I've done any great analysis, or thinking about it, but all attempts to duplicate the gentlemanly class of Connery have failed,...