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Fri, Dec. 8th, 2006 09:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
annarti
Number one, WOAH. So wasn't expecting that, especially not a week before his home game, but there you go. I never liked Martyn anyway.
Number two~ we went to finally see Casino Royale tonight. Well, I say finally, but it only just came out yesterday. Just seems like it's been out for ages since everyone on the internets seems to have seen it.
Anyway. Disappointed. Not a bad movie, but not a Bond movie. There was no Moneypenny or Q, which I knew beforehand and so went in cynical, but there was also no OMFGBIG action scene at the beginning, before the opening credits, there were maybe two one-liners in the entire movie, bloke who plays Bond now is NOT suave, sophistocated or sexy, and they didn't play the Bond theme until the closing credits.
The opening woulda worked for any other movie, but this was supposed to be a Bond movie. There's supposed to be gorgeous locations, possibly with dramatic mountains to almost fly a plane into, explosions and BOOM so that when the opening song starts playing, you sit there and go "wow~~~"
Instead, he was sitting in a chair and just shot the bloke. The action was a flashback of a punchup in the men's. Woulda worked for another movie, but not Bond.
Opening song wasn't sexy. In the last coupla movies they've used Garbage and Madonna. Women with deep, sensual voices. This was a generic rock song by an unknown band whose lead singer sounded vaguely like Robbie Williams.
Moneypenny was replaced by generic Bloke-in-a-Suit. I don't think he ever got a name, even.
M swore a lot oO That was odd.
It was all very blocky, too. There was a huge block of action, followed by a huge block of smex, another block of action, big block of soppy romance (wtf? In Bond? I don't bloody think so), huuuuuuuuge block of high-class casino, block of action, soppy romance, action, action, romance... Yeah, it didn't flow. There wasn't enough pretties. Like, panoramic views of pristine wilderness, sexy women in cocktail dresses, expensive hotels. There was, as I say, one BLOCK of it that dragged and made you THINK there was a lot, but that was it. The rest was all grungey and not-sexy or suave.
This is the movie franchise that has filmed in the grounds of Buckingham Palace. I want my proper high-class, thankyouverymuch =P
I want Pierce Brosnan back, I want Samantha Bond back, and I know it's too much to want Desmond Llewellyn back, but John Cleese at least. The Q scenes are always the best in the entire movie! Everyone loves Q! I don't think Bond was even in Britain for the whole movie, let alone MI6.
So~ yeah. Disappointed as far as Bond movies go. I prolly woulda liked it if his character's name wasn't James Bond, but I was cynical going into it. I miss Q =( And Pierce =( And Moneypenny =(
Number two~ we went to finally see Casino Royale tonight. Well, I say finally, but it only just came out yesterday. Just seems like it's been out for ages since everyone on the internets seems to have seen it.
Anyway. Disappointed. Not a bad movie, but not a Bond movie. There was no Moneypenny or Q, which I knew beforehand and so went in cynical, but there was also no OMFGBIG action scene at the beginning, before the opening credits, there were maybe two one-liners in the entire movie, bloke who plays Bond now is NOT suave, sophistocated or sexy, and they didn't play the Bond theme until the closing credits.
The opening woulda worked for any other movie, but this was supposed to be a Bond movie. There's supposed to be gorgeous locations, possibly with dramatic mountains to almost fly a plane into, explosions and BOOM so that when the opening song starts playing, you sit there and go "wow~~~"
Instead, he was sitting in a chair and just shot the bloke. The action was a flashback of a punchup in the men's. Woulda worked for another movie, but not Bond.
Opening song wasn't sexy. In the last coupla movies they've used Garbage and Madonna. Women with deep, sensual voices. This was a generic rock song by an unknown band whose lead singer sounded vaguely like Robbie Williams.
Moneypenny was replaced by generic Bloke-in-a-Suit. I don't think he ever got a name, even.
M swore a lot oO That was odd.
It was all very blocky, too. There was a huge block of action, followed by a huge block of smex, another block of action, big block of soppy romance (wtf? In Bond? I don't bloody think so), huuuuuuuuge block of high-class casino, block of action, soppy romance, action, action, romance... Yeah, it didn't flow. There wasn't enough pretties. Like, panoramic views of pristine wilderness, sexy women in cocktail dresses, expensive hotels. There was, as I say, one BLOCK of it that dragged and made you THINK there was a lot, but that was it. The rest was all grungey and not-sexy or suave.
This is the movie franchise that has filmed in the grounds of Buckingham Palace. I want my proper high-class, thankyouverymuch =P
I want Pierce Brosnan back, I want Samantha Bond back, and I know it's too much to want Desmond Llewellyn back, but John Cleese at least. The Q scenes are always the best in the entire movie! Everyone loves Q! I don't think Bond was even in Britain for the whole movie, let alone MI6.
So~ yeah. Disappointed as far as Bond movies go. I prolly woulda liked it if his character's name wasn't James Bond, but I was cynical going into it. I miss Q =( And Pierce =( And Moneypenny =(
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Date: Fri, Dec. 8th, 2006 11:26 am (UTC)Sung by Chris Cornell who was in Soundgarden, a pretty big name in the Grunge scene back in the day along with Nirvana :3
Oh, and he's hot *cough* (yes I know he's oolllld. but still hot *_*)
Sad you didn't like it :( I thought it was awesome. I took this film with a grain of salt as it was like... yaknow, shaping up the things that made Bond, Bond. So by the *end* of it, he was Bond.
I want my Pierce back too *_*. But at the same time, I'd be happy to see another Daniel Craig as Bond movie. I'm so horribly shallow.
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Date: Fri, Dec. 8th, 2006 01:47 pm (UTC)It may grow on me, I dunno =/ I do want to know why they ditched Moneypenny, Q and the whole of freaking ENGLAND for the movie tho. Meh .-.
Still, I guess Pierce got much the same response for not being Roger Moore. But he at least had sexy-suave going for him. Mrrr *crosses fingers*