Tuesday, November 18, 2008

New Bond Issue

I saw Quantum of Solace today. It's good, but for me it's no Casino Royale. Lotsa, lotsa, lotsa, lotsa action, if that's what you're after. A few comments:

Opening titles are interesting.

An early scene is set in Siena in the town square, a place I have actually visited! Bond, unlike me, though, does not spend over an hour wandering aimlessly trying to find his bus stop. I, on the other hand, did not get attacked by bad guys, so there's that. Our experiences of Siena do not run parallel.

There's a bad guy with a distractingly awesome bad bowl haircut. (Spoiler alert: it's a hairpiece!)

The villain, Greene, bears an uncanny resemblence to my cousin, Claude. This kept throwing me out of the movie-watching experience, because I kept wondering if Claude thinks this guy looks like him too, or have enough people he knows seen the movie yet that someone may have told him. whatever.

The main Bond girl did not appeal to me. I found her uninteresting. Miss Fields, though, is perky and cool, in her limited number of scenes. And has great boots. More Strawberry Fields would've improved the movie for me.

The Canadian agent is rather meek and quiet. And polite. A stereotype in every way.

Not related to the movie just the theatre: There were 5 people in line. Two ladies ahead of me, followed by me, and two ladies behind of me. So what happens? The two ladies behind me tried to cut in front. I said "there's a line". And they backed down. Fuckin' people who go to Cavendish Mall.

10 comments:

Anonymous said...

You say Bond is attacked by bad guys in Sienna, but are you sure that's what happened? Bond and M were questioning someone -- I'm almost certain of that -- but then someone shot everyone, killing no one, but knocking M down with the sheer force of nearly being shot. Then someone, Bond, I think, chased someone somewhere and pretty soon two nearly identical guys in dark suits were falling off a scaffolding and Bond wanted to do something and then, uh, they were all in London. No, wait, before that Bond and M were back in the dungeon talking about how the guy they were questioning was gone, and he must have gotten away while M was recovering from not being shot. And then they went to Haiti to get to Austria because Bond didn't have a passport so he had to go to Italy again.

Anonymous said...

....sounds more like "The Amazing Race" if you ask me. Did anyone have to run around with a Travelocity gnome???

JAW fan

Nanuk of the North, older but no wiser said...

Silly goose. They had to go to Austria to talk to each other on little ear phones while sitting in a very public place. That's what bad guys do!

And don't forget that Bond had to kill a blond guy in Haiti 'cause all white guys look alike. Then he had to shoot the Travelocity gnome. Between the eyes.

Nanuk of the North, older but no wiser said...

One other point, when they are all talking to each other DURING the opera, it's a good thing JAW Fan wasn't there because he would've killed them all. By shushing them and glaring at them. And huffing and puffing.

Anonymous said...

THEY TALKED DURING THE OPERA!!!!!!!

This better have been the bad guys and not Bond...'cause if heroes are being shown doing what I consider to be unforgiveable behaviour, then I am afraid I might have to boycott this flick (unless, of course, there's a hot Bond butt or bathing-suit shot)

I guess it would be asking too much of you to know what opera they were watching...

JAW fan

Nanuk of the North, older but no wiser said...

Tosca.
And yes, it was the bad guys talking.
No butt, no bathing suit this time. Sad to report.

Anonymous said...

this is why I never go to Cavenyidish mall. I know that sounds bad, but hey, I'm anonymous today. =)

Nanuk of the North, older but no wiser said...

Oy vey.

cityofmushrooms said...

cavendish mall rats?

Anonymous said...

I have a friend (let's call her Hennifer) who used to work in a book store at Cavendish Mall. Hennifer has never had a bad word to say about anyone, except for the older ladies who frequented her store (let's call them Hewish Hentas)...If Hennifer had it in her to kill, it would have been them!!!You can just imagine the stories. (e.g. attempting to return books weeks after the purchase date that have obviously been read.)

JAW fan