That was such a good joke, too ...


I also like how the high-stakes game of bluff and one-upsmanship continued past the poker game to the truly ultimate confrontation between Bond and his nemesis.


This fim really set me off. I've watched three other Bond movies since Friday!



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I loved it. I have always loved the Bond movies, but they'd lost me lately. I didn't like Dalton in the role at all, and had never seen one with Brosnan in it in the theatres, and never really liked him in the role either.

Daniel Craig, however, was exceptional. I think he may be my favorite Bond.

I will say he was the beneficiary of what I want a James Bond movie to be. Plot lines with madmen and superweapons had always annoyed me (Goldeneye, The Spy Who Loved Me, etc), and I had preferred the plots with cold war or greed as a motive (Octopussy, For Your Eyes Only, and Goldfinger, for example). This was a simple and believable plot, which made me able to look past holes or parts I found to be ridiculous (does it ever happen in real poker that there's a full house beaten by a higher full house beaten by a four of a kind beaten by a straight flush? Anyway....).

So, long live the reign of Daniel Craig as Bond.

I can't believe "Happy Feet" beat "Casino Royale" this weekend. Hysterical.
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I'm thinking it's because HF was shorter...

Wow. I saw lines a'plenty for Casino Royale, and none for Happy Feet (in my scientific sampling of 2 theaters.)

Not so coincidentally, those are the two movies I saw over the weekend ... with most of America, it seems.





Happy Feet was very happy, but I'm not sure whether happy enough for its own thread.

Just got back from Happy Feet and I declare it great. So my two movies this week were both good, but I'm much happier with Happy Feet than with Bond. Though I am looking forward to the next Bond movie but hope they don't feel compelled to make a second Happy Feet.

(GC, not only is Happy Feet a half hour shorter than Casino Royale but it is also on 400 more screens; on the other hand the percentage of child priced tickets was likely much higher for Happy Feet. For some reason, IMDb says Happy Feet is 87 minutes long when it is actually 108.)

The trailer for Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix is being shown infront of Happy Feet, so that could have influenced a couple moviegoers. The new HP trailer will be online tomorrow.

Free running stunts. I'm not sure how much of it was camera tricks, but I know that the dude in the first serious action sequence is famous for doing those kinds of runs and jumps. He was in either a jeans or tennis shoe commercial where he his cohorts jump off a building by vaulting from fire escape to fire escape. His physicality is impressive and I felt the visual effects were seamless with the live action. So as far as contemporary action films go, I stand by my earlier statement that it's the most believable looking action I've seen in a good long while. It beats the pants off of Tom Cruise jumping from one skyscraper to the next in MI3.

Here's some info I found on this kind of stunt work:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkour

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sebastien_Foucan (this is the dude form the film)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZiaCU7TGSU

He's also featured in a recent Madonna commercial, I think.

The trailer was kinda lackluster. Felt a bit too tossed together. Not that I'm any less excited. Poor, A.R., Snape is looking as unhealthy and jowl ridden as he did in the second film. Yikes.

I haven't seen the free-running commercials, but the stuff was also featured in the recentish French film Distict B-12, which I likewise haven't seen (but it's queued up).

And the HP trailer pleased only in the respect that Daniel didn't look as poorly as he had in photographs, and he's still one very attractive Brit.


Speaking of very attractive Brits, and getting this thread back on subject...
Actually, Bond was shorter.



Heheh, at 5'11", Daniel Craig is the shortest Bond yet ... but that doesn't stop him from being another very attractive Brit.


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