at the movies
50th James Bond anniversary, for the record.
(the date on the poster is not true, it opened last week...but hey that's my birthday date, totally randomly!)
It's not a really good Bond movie, it's a really good movie!
It has the BEST Bond villain ever and Javier Bardem is awesome in it. His character seems like some arch-enemy of some superhero, he's scary and strange and actually really dangerous in ways you can't predict. But he doesn't obscure our Bond James Bond, that Daniel Craig plays at the top of his shape (even too shaped, in my opinion, but anyway).
Both characters kind of play the two faces of the same coin, the black and the white perspective of the same universe, and it was very interesting to see sides of the Bond world that were never really explored before.
But it seemed to me that this film was not totally made with new ideas...some things here and there reminded me of the mythology of Batman, and I have not seen The Dark Knight Rises yet, but friends told me there are many things from there, too. Then, some scenes in the mansion reminded me Apocalypse Now meets The Bodyguard, but that's just me xD
In the end, I liked it. It's a greatly enjoyable spy-thriller-action movie, but complicated, too. It has old and classic Bond things mixed with many new things...shaken, not stirred.
FUN FACT: Ralph Fiennes and Helen McCrory together, both being somewhat nasty...that scene screamed Harry Potter all over the place!
P.S. I like Adele's title song. The last Bond Song I liked this much was The World is not Enought by Garbage, just saying.