Double Ohhhh Yeah, and A Book-inspired Oh No
CASINO ROYALE - After a gritty black and white prologue teaser that screams “this ain’t your momma’s dandy Bond,” you have to sit through the absurd title sequence and flacid yet grating wails of the bottomed-out Chris Cornell. All hope quickly gives in too skepticism. Until… You are richly rewarded with the next scene–a balls out Bond chasing a bomb maker, featuring some mighty fine parkour work.
Gone are the annoying stakes of world-domination, in Casino Royale Bond is hunting some financiers of terrorism. That’s all, and that is enough. Outside of a few sarcastic nods to the franchise, this Bond doesn’t play half the movie like he’s smirking at the audience. He takes a few beatings, actually bleeds, creams a few frocks, and kills lots of bad guys with his bear, uh…. bare hands. Craig is the hottest Bond ever. Sorry Sean, but I love me this manly man. He’s gritty, devlishly charming, and ripped. And there’s nothing like a dirty boy in a nice, pretty suit. I give Casino Royale a big w00t, no make the a w00f.
FAST FOOD NATION - I consider the book a must read for anyone who says they are a “foodie” or gourmet or some such bullshit. Because being “in to food” means more than having a set of Henckels or buying organic–it means fighting against the tyranny of soylent foods. But this movie…well, my friend Don Sefton says it best:
The book is actually compelling and I consider it a must-read. This movie has relatively NOTHING to do with the book. It is crammed with the cheap trilogy that hollywood loves: drugs, sex and violence. Anyone who has read the book would be, like us, absolutely perplexed why the movie and book share the same title.
Read the book…forget the movie. Obviously I have strong feelings about the movie…because this film helps to discredit ANY legitimate credentials that the book perports. Just terrible (see me wagging my head, and a little vein starting to pulse in my temple…)!
November 21st, 2006 at 11:21 pm
My gosh! A reference to Soylent Green! Didn’t think anyone else remembered. - And Charleton Heston no less! Who out there gets it??
November 25th, 2006 at 5:43 pm
Don’t scream. I got to wait on this new Mr. Bond recently. He replaces Benicio Del Toro as my new man love. He was cool, polite, and had every woman and gay in the place drooling. I think I even turned gay there for a good half hour.
December 1st, 2006 at 11:11 am
Humm have to disagree…I thought the bond title sequence was rather well done. I really liked the flat look of it. It was retro but also very modern. I know a few video game people that have been inspired by it and think that its “look” would be great for a game.
April 11th, 2007 at 4:00 pm
I haven’t gotten much done these days. So it goes. What can I say? I’ve just been letting everything pass me by. Basically not much going on lately, but it’s not important. I’ve basically been doing nothing worth mentioning.