Double O

saw the new Bond flick. honestly, the campness of the whole series had me quite turned off--it was entertaining, sure, but tiresomely redundant, and when they tried to move it away from the camp (just a tad) with the Brosnan incarnation, it just didn't work for me...then they re-boot the whole darn thing with this.

i'm not quite sure i'm comfortable seeing Daniel Craig do the romantic scenes; his acting somehow feels clunky to me, particularly when he delivers the cheesiest lines of the entire film...still, elsewhere, there's absolutely no doubt in my mind that he pulls it off.

also, seeing Sebastien Foucan pull a wallclimber makes me think Spiderman a fag.

er, i don't mean that in the good way i usually do.

and aintitcoolnews finally pull off a review, courtesy of Harry, that to my mind is just about spot on my own opinions:

http://www.aintitcool.com/node/30746

this film still needs you to accomodate cinema-logic in quite a few places, but as it's a Bond movie, i found the concessions rather easy to make. and, in the harsh black light of the rest of the film, pulling the focus back on Mr Bond's License to Kill, a lot of fun as well.

oh yes, and Chris Cornell's song works surprisingly well with the uber-cool kaleidoscopic Bond-in-Wonderland gambler-psychedelic opening titles.

and here it is, thanks to the pirating skills of youtubers:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_cLe1TQ0MU

(as i doubt it's anywhere near legal--see the camera-in-my-shoe-or-the-popcorn-as-i-sit-with-the-audience or maybe just-snuck-in-the-projection-booth quality of the video--and may be pulled from the web anytime leaving a gaping black hole in me blog, i've decided against embedding the video, and post the link instead. search for it or maybe better copies off youtube.)

and yes, Paul, Eva Green was off-the-scale HOT. good job they got her instead of, say, Angelina Jolie, who is hot herself, but i doubt would've been anywhere near as right as Ms Green as Vesper Lynd.