If you haven't seen Casino Royale, DON'T

[tempestuously]

My eye is driving me crazy. It's like bloodshot red right now, and I can't wear a contact in it again. Which makes me sad because I just picked up a new set of my pretty violets again. I've been wearing brown for several months. I miss my freaky purple. Ah well at least I have one violet eye again.

I saw Casino Royale. All you people who said this was a good movie depress me. This was the complete antithesis of a good movie. It had no plot. The main villain throughout was a stockbroker who funded terrorism and cried blood. Can't forget that. I didn't think anything could ever top "The World is Not Enough" and its media mogul villain, but oh I was so wrong. James Bond was so apart from himself that to maintain any semblance of my sanity, I had to convince myself I was just watching some other spy movie. A bad one. They abused the stair fight idea. The girl, who had some potential to her because of her initial personality, was quickly destroyed. The romance was so drawn-out and disgusting. Even the naked torture couldn't bring me back. I kept asking myself if Bond was being such a rogue agent, why MI6 didn't just cap his ass. They didn't have a Q. They didn't even play the Bond music. The only amusement I got from the movie at all was Felix and only because he made me have Dr. No nostalgia. I understand the makers want to reinvent Bond, but if they wanted to do it to this extent, they should have just picked a new character and made a new movie. I won't even go into the incongruities of the whole "this is supposed to be young Bond" when 9/11 has happened, all the technology is modern and every other dumbass issue the writers were too stupid to take into account. I tried telling myself it was AU in hopes that this would soothe my soul, but to no avail. THIS WAS A BAD MOVIE! Not just a bad Bond movie. A BAD MOVIE!

I had some great things to write today about the nature of writing and how I got into it because a conversation at a dinner I attended today brought the topic to mind, but now I'm just pissed.

And I'm not tainting Geass by putting my speculations on the final episodes and what will happen to Lelouch in this post.

Fuck you, Casino Royale. You stole three hours of my time. I could have spent them staring at the wall.

And now my idiot father wants to drag me over my relatives, even though I told him in no uncertain terms, I don't feel like hanging out with the family. I love how he is so kind as to ask for my opinion before he happily consents to go see those people.

Comments

[catystorm.livejournal.com]

You apparently never read the book, because with an aside to updates for technology's sake, this was Ian Fleming's Bond to a T. All the other movies ... weren't.

And this comes from a hardcore Connery fan.

Also, what incongruities? The only incongruity that bothered me was that Dench was M again. I did bitch about changing baccarat to Texas Hold'em, but in the long run, it works. We could have done without the 20 minute romantic interlude, the movie was a tad long and it could have been trimmed easy.

This was an excellent Bond movie, and a good jumping off-point for the new series, I'm hoping they're going to do Live and Let Die next like I'm hearing rumors about. Craig came out of the gate far stronger than I figured he would, even-numbered Bonds have sunk pretty fast.

Besides, not every Bond agrees with everyone, Roger Moore much? I can't stand the man or his Bond movies. *shudders*

Casino Royale occupies an interesting niche because without the other Bond movies and their expectations it's weaker, but it deviates from the Bond Formula that was way overused to the point of fact that there was a formula.

I, for one, really like Casino Royale and about everyone in my hardcore Bond circle liked it as well. I put it right under Thunderball as one of my favorites, but hey. I don't expect to change your mind or anything, I'm just saying the movie's not worthless. You want worthless, you watch Die Another Day.

[fiore777.livejournal.com]

Ohohoh, I have to blind you further with a wall of text pertaining to Wolf's Rain. Posting it as a random comment because I know no one else on my list has seen the series. XD

I figured out the Darcia=wolf thing! Sort of! Tell me what you think of this crack-theory, huzzah.

Alright, so we know that Wolf's Rain is all about the cycle of life, death and renewal and all that jive. Now, what does this have to do with Darcia and becoming a wolf? If you remember, at the end of Wolf's Rain the only thing remaining of Darcia is his wolf eye. Because this is the only part of him that is truely all wolf it is allowed into Paradise even though the rest of his body is dissapated.

This eye in turn is left to corrupt the perfect water and flowers around it. Is it not possible that reborn Darcia and his lady love wandered to this area contaminated by his past's eye? This corruption could have seeped from the land and water into him and Hermonia. Because Hermonia is pure and has never been aware of the costs of Paradise she is left to dream in her mind of an ever perfect time.

Darcia is different, the resulting contamination may have caused his body to remember the past. Remember when things were different and eventually fell to decay. Remember that once he was close to a Paradise that would not last. And so he alone knows that Paradise is only wishful thinking, but still he goes on because he is destined to repeat the same path. His dream is of one day obtaining Paradise and being able to keep it.

That ball he's holding which he coughs up later? I think it is his past live's eye. So I believe that Darcia is perpetually doomed to loose a part of himself so that his reincarnated or whatever self can once again be tainted and follow down the same path.


Wonder if that made any sense, ha!

[equivalent-t.livejournal.com]

I liked Casino Royale. D: Like Catystorm said...well, it probably would stop Ian Fleming from turning in his grave. I'd surmise the man would've dug a mile wide hole in the cemetery by now. It's not the Movie Bond we know, but it's Bond, all right. As for the villain...well, Bond villains always change with the times, and this version's pretty decent cause-and-effectwise as far as 'greedy capitalist terrorist freaks' go. Part of the 'less threatening might and more threatening power of finances' trend. Though you might like the original Novel Villain better...he was a member of Soviet Intelligence Death Squad, IIRC.

Movie's not without its shortcomings, I'll concede. I'm okay with the UST, but the full-blown Fluffy Romance Scenes strained credibility. Some fight scenes were horribly drawn out. NO Q WHAT. (Although I appreciate the lessening of impossible gadgets that makes science look corny) I wanted a male M if they're really resetting bond. THE AIRPLANE. Some parts could use trimming. Too much exposition sometimes. I don't think you should like it or anything, but it's not so bad?

[evercool.livejournal.com]

Good. Now I won't waste money on it XD