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Post by Rachael on Nov 19, 2006 0:45:44 GMT -5
Go see it. Seriously. Even if you've never seen a Bond film before. Especially if you've never seen a Bond film before. Briefly: Bond has depth and real flaws. The Bond girl has layers and brains. The violence is serious rather than cartoonish. The villains are believable rather than, well, again with the cartoons. The martini is...well, let's just not spoil it for you.  The sex is about quality, not quantity. The dialogue is, well, Bond. The acting is amazing. And the twist...well, I didn't see it coming, though in retrospect I was smacking myself in the head. Oh, and...everyone has a tell. Even a Bond film. Let me know if you figure out what it is, 'cause Dave and I have at least one Bond film "tell" figured out. Oh, and Daniel Craig? Mine. Craggy and British is the new hot, it seems. |
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Post by Sara on Dec 1, 2006 10:31:40 GMT -5
Go see it. Seriously. Even if you've never seen a Bond film before. Especially if you've never seen a Bond film before. Briefly: Bond has depth and real flaws. The Bond girl has layers and brains. The violence is serious rather than cartoonish. The villains are believable rather than, well, again with the cartoons. The martini is...well, let's just not spoil it for you. The sex is about quality, not quantity. The dialogue is, well, Bond. The acting is amazing. And the twist...well, I didn't see it coming, though in retrospect I was smacking myself in the head. Oh, and...everyone has a tell. Even a Bond film. Let me know if you figure out what it is, 'cause Dave and I have at least one Bond film "tell" figured out. Oh, and Daniel Craig? Mine. Craggy and British is the new hot, it seems. That when it seems like Bond might have a glimmer of hope for future happiness, it just means something's about to go horribly wrong? When Bond noted Vesper was wearing an Algerian love knot warning bells went off in my head, and later when they were sitting together on the lawn I said to my uncle "I still have a bad feeling about this" (which I'd said earlier when she was summoned by Mathis). So while I didn't guess the specifics of the twist, I was certain we were about to get one. Besides, she was wearing a red dress—just like the last woman Bond got hot 'n heavy with. And we already knew how things turned out for her. Oh, and interesting side note: Daniel Craig and Eva Green will be reuniting (sort of) onscreen in the not-too-distant future. He's playing Lord Asriel in the film adaptation of Philip Pullman's The Golden Compass, while Green will be the witch Serafina Pekkala. The cast also includes Nicole Kidman as Mrs. Coulter and Ian McShane as the voice of Iofur Raknison, the king of the panserbjørn during Iorek's exile. |
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Post by Rachael on Dec 1, 2006 14:58:40 GMT -5
Go see it. Seriously. Even if you've never seen a Bond film before. Especially if you've never seen a Bond film before. Briefly: Bond has depth and real flaws. The Bond girl has layers and brains. The violence is serious rather than cartoonish. The villains are believable rather than, well, again with the cartoons. The martini is...well, let's just not spoil it for you. The sex is about quality, not quantity. The dialogue is, well, Bond. The acting is amazing. And the twist...well, I didn't see it coming, though in retrospect I was smacking myself in the head. Oh, and...everyone has a tell. Even a Bond film. Let me know if you figure out what it is, 'cause Dave and I have at least one Bond film "tell" figured out. Oh, and Daniel Craig? Mine. Craggy and British is the new hot, it seems. That when it seems like Bond might have a glimmer of hope for future happiness, it just means something's about to go horribly wrong? When Bond noted Vesper was wearing an Algerian love knot warning bells went off in my head, and later when they were sitting together on the lawn I said to my uncle "I still have a bad feeling about this" (which I'd said earlier when she was summoned by Mathis). So while I didn't guess the specifics of the twist, I was certain we were about to get one. Besides, she was wearing a red dress—just like the last woman Bond got hot 'n heavy with. And we already knew how things turned out for her. Oh, and interesting side note: Daniel Craig and Eva Green will be reuniting (sort of) onscreen in the not-too-distant future. He's playing Lord Asriel in the film adaptation of Philip Pullman's The Golden Compass, while Green will be the witch Serafina Pekkala. The cast also includes Nicole Kidman as Mrs. Coulter and Ian McShane as the voice of Iofur Raknison, the king of the panserbjørn during Iorek's exile. Yup, I knew that. And the "tell" is even more specific. Just three little words. If Bond says them, you know you're doomed. My mother had it figured out after the torture scene, actually. I was just disgusted with myself for not picking up on the red dress until after the reveal.  |
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Post by Sara on Dec 4, 2006 14:11:12 GMT -5
Yup, I knew that. And the "tell" is even more specific. Just three little words. If Bond says them, you know you're doomed. My mother had it figured out after the torture scene, actually. I was just disgusted with myself for not picking up on the red dress until after the reveal. "I love you"? The torture scene itself is what made me start suspecting her—because if they really did intend to use her pain as leverage then they'd inflict it on her in front of him, let him see her scared and bleeding. That she was kept entirely offstage for the process, as it were, and then didn't appear to have a scratch on her afterward is what pretty much sealed the bad feeling I was getting about her. What I did wonder the other day, though, was how much of Bond's torture was not to get the info from him but instead to induce her to cooperate. 'Cause she would know full well he'd only scream like that if he was in serious pain, regardless of whether she could see what they were doing to him. So maybe the main point of the endeavor was to break her, not him. |
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Post by Rachael on Dec 4, 2006 16:52:16 GMT -5
Yup, I knew that. And the "tell" is even more specific. Just three little words. If Bond says them, you know you're doomed. My mother had it figured out after the torture scene, actually. I was just disgusted with myself for not picking up on the red dress until after the reveal. "I love you"? The torture scene itself is what made me start suspecting her—because if they really did intend to use her pain as leverage then they'd inflict it on her in front of him, let him see her scared and bleeding. That she was kept entirely offstage for the process, as it were, and then didn't appear to have a scratch on her afterward is what pretty much sealed the bad feeling I was getting about her. What I did wonder the other day, though, was how much of Bond's torture was not to get the info from him but instead to induce her to cooperate. 'Cause she would know full well he'd only scream like that if he was in serious pain, regardless of whether she could see what they were doing to him. So maybe the main point of the endeavor was to break her, not him. Maybe. Though it looked to me like he was really about to lose Little James there, before Mr. White popped in for a visit. |
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