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[gurdymonkey]

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Not happy. A perfectly gorgeous Saturday with a memorial service stuck in the middle of it. Not happy at all.

I have reaffirmed the conclusion that James Bond movies Are Dumb. Encore's been running a bunch of them and my patience for Sean Connery is only marginally better than my patience for the wooden and sexless smirkitude of Roger Moore. I came in toward the end of Goldfinger the other night and howled at the gassing of Fort Knox sequence with the formation flying Piper Cubs. Dumb, I tell you, DUMB! I got through a record 37 minutes of Live and Let Die (which, let's be perfectly honest, was playing second fiddle to clamps, cane and wood glue) before retreating to the safe haven of the garret. Surely the contents of my spam folder are more interesting than Jane Seymour with too much gold eyeshadow and stereotyped people of color. I know generations of (mostly male) fans love this stuff, but every time someone hints that I should give Double Oh another chance, I am reminded of The Dumb. I actually read one or two of the Fleming novels a very long time ago. Bond on the page is not Bond onscreen. Connery comes close to sheer bloody bastard as imagined by Fleming. I am your worst nightmare, Mr. Bond: a woman with decades of practice at being invisible. You'd be remorselessly neutralized (without the obligatory speech in which I reveal who, why and how, of course) in a heartbeat if I were a superspy.  (Can we have a Dirty Harry marathon next? Please? He's a sheer bloody bastard I can kinda appreciate.) 

Ladies looking for a harmless little romance flick might enjoy "Talk of Angels," a little nothing I stumbled upon last night with Polly Walker and Frances McDormand. Irish governesses in proto-Civil War Spain, forbidden romance between Walker's character and the married son of the rich man whose children she cares for. A young and possibly unknown-at-the-time Penelope Cruz plays one of the daughters.

Comments

[gurdymonkey.livejournal.com]

I've seen Craig in other things and liked him. He could be the Bond that changes my mind.

[spearweasel.livejournal.com]

Check out Casino Royale, his first Bond movie. Quantum of Solace was a much weaker sophomore effort, but Casino Royale was a fine restart for the series. Oh yes, restart. It is set at the beginning of Bond's career, just prior to earning 00 status.

Good flick. Four our of five spears, two weasels up, whatever.