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I have yet to read Ebert's review, but I imagine I share the same sentiments regarding Bond movies vs. Bourne movies
I like Daniel Craig a lot as Bond, and hopefully the next time out there will be more fun to be had besides the witty mother-son exchanges between he and Dame Judi Dench...
"No Homo" or whatever, but it would be nice to see this dude, who's so hot with the wimmins in real life (if I hear one more woman talk about how Daniel Craig "could get it," I'm going to shoot myself), get a little more action on screen than kissing a woman's back (I'm talking this movie only, I don't care about "but but but he boned Vesper at the 1 hour, 6 minute mark of Casino Royale")
The ladies were suitably hot, and I liked the fact that Bond didn't judge ol' girl for how she got down
That opening was confusing and only made me think of the car chase at the end of Bourne Supremacy
I suppose that we should be grateful that we don't have another 2.5 hour Bond epic to have to sit through, but this one still felt really short at 1:45, including the opening titles
(btw, the Jack White/Alicia Keys song isn't bad, per se, but it could use more bottom, more bass of some sort)
ALSO DON'T SAVE THE FUCKING TRADITIONAL OPENING FOR THE END
See, ^'s the kind of shit I'm talking about when I express dismay at this "gritty new Bond direction." They're too busy stripping away the BOND trappings in order to stay "relevant"... "hey, let's just JUMP RIGHT INTO the action, fuck Daniel Craig shooting at us in a tux"... "see, y'all, it's not the Same Old Bond!"... "but then we'll go and put in a PRETTY BLATANT Goldfinger homage."
Cmon, EON Productions, you can't have it both ways. Either go whole hog with this Stone Cold James Bond, a cat who can whoop ass and kill at will like Ice Cube, drink drinks with lemon twists (?), has verbal jousts with his mum-esque boss, and only bangs out one woman per movie, or just forget it... we don't need the "nods" to previous Bond films just to satisfy the "old heads"...
All that said, I still enjoyed myself, lol... ________________________________________________________________________ <------ That's it, that's all.
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