007? I think not...

[alanna_shale]

I haven't updated in a while, so I thought, 'Why not? I'll say something.'

I finally saw the newest James Bond movie. Boy am I glad I didn't waste a trip to the movie theater on that one! I mean, I hear it got rave reviews, but I didn't like it at all.

This is probably because I actually SAW most of the other James Bond movies. 'Casino

Comments

[sun_scaffold]

I can't really disagree- I could never quite manage to catch the magic of 007 anyway- but still you have my sympathies. As to no one really wanting to see a man get tortured, I only wish that were true. But it seems there is a torrent of movies with nothing more to offer than just that- people getting tortured. I don't want to write a whole rant (I ought do that on my own, eh?) but people seem to not only be numb to gruesome violence, they crave it. Yuckew.

[alanna_shale]

Yea, people are SO sick.

[kayollie]

Masochists. They're turned on by it, weirdos.

[kayollie]

I agree. I liked the last few Bond films and was just starting to like the character, so naturally they go and totally revamp him. I warned Karen that I sensed trouble.
I was in a store and saw a comerical for this film. When the bartender said, "Shaken or stirred?" Bond said "Do I look like I give a damn?" Or something like that.
Was it in the film? Sometimes they use extra footage for advertisements but leave them out of the flick. They do that a lot with Pirates.
Good news though! The entire orginal cast of Indiana Jones is returning to repice their roles and Steven Spielberg promises there won't be any drastic changes to the characters personalities or styles. They go in search of Atlantis this time. ^_^

yea

[thedrelle]

he did say that.

i was at first trying to convince amy that she was being critical of the new actor and the character changes. i mean, they have changed actors how many times?

then, as it went on, i started realizing that it was more than just the actor. it atctually made me think of Eragon. someone made changes to something already good thinking "I can make this better" and they made it worse.

not only that, but you went through the movie with only a vague sense of what bond's goal was, and he spent more time butting heads with M than working with her.

And where was Q?

[kayollie]

Given that it was a pre-qul they couldn't use John Cleese, I'll give them that, but I agree that they should have found someone. There's a never ending supply of talented young actors who would have probably loved portraying the young version of the original Q.
How was the actress playing M?
I always had this sneaky suspicion, that M stood for Mother. (snickers) Cause she's always looking out for her spies. ^_^

[alanna_shale]

Actually that's another thing they changed. There's a part where James says, 'I thought M was an arbitrary number but..' He was going to say that it stood for something, but in fact, M IS suppose to be arbitrary. The letter is code for the position, she's not even the only M, the position was passed on to her later. Actually, she got some flack for being a woman in the first movie she was in (Goledneye), the first 2 M's were male.. (So I don't really think it means mother, but good guess.)