I just finished watching the latest installment from everyone's favorite British agent. And I have to tell you - I thought Daniel Craig was great, but I have no idea what the movie is about.
We watched a lot of James Bond movies growing up. My mom is a big fan, which, thinking about it is kind of strange because if you knew my mother you would never guess she would love 007. But I always tend to have the feeling about halfway through these movies, that, while entertained, I've lost the thread of the movie. Or maybe I never had it to begin with.
I confess Casino Royale had me baffled from the get go. Despite the stellar opening action sequence on the scaffolding of a half-built building outside an embassy in Madagascar, I wasn't able to grab hold of why Bond was chasing this guy. And then, the bad guy seemed to shift about 100 different times in the movie. There was a lot of poker playing. A lot of text messaging. The romantic plot, dropped quite unbelievable from the sky three-quarters of the way through (following the literal ball-busting scene that was so torturous, I had to cover my face).
Shortly after that, the credits were rolling, and, while I was quite sure that Bond had saved us all, I wasn't sure from what.
Saturday, March 24, 2007
Idiot Royale?
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I know. All that action in the begining, then nothing for so long in the middle. And what was it? Terrorists? Arms dealers? Certainly not the take-over-the-world plot I was expecting. And why start the 007 stuff now? In the present day? It made no sense. He was pretty hot, though, especially in his bathing suit. And for a guy his age.
It was so much easier to watch Bond when the Cold War was the de facto bad guy.
But the tiny trunks? Dee lish.
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