Only two to go, and here they are! The World is Not Enough:: Due to a horrible bit of swapped casting, Sophie Marceau now plays the spoiled rich brat and Denise Richards plays the nuclear physicist. Umm…. hello? Do I really need to say more? Okay, I will. I like that M (Judi Dench) is humanized a bit in the story, and I did enjoy a lot of the action sequences, even when they started to get overwrought. But still, …
Bondfest 2006: GoldenEye / Tomorrow Never Dies
Chugging along, like the little engine that could! GoldenEye: Pierce Brosnan takes over the role from Dalton, and in this one, he goes after a rogue 00-Agent who steals a Soviet EMP satellite. It’s the first post-Cold War Bond film, and they make sure you know that. It’s actually a pretty good film, but it’s dragged down by an absolutely terrible music score by Eric Serra (though he has a nice love theme). I like the moment where Bond and …
Bondfest 2006: The Living Daylights / Licence to Kill
Holy crap, I only have like 3 days left to get through six Bond films. I guess I know what I’ll be doing! The Living Daylights: This was weird to watch. It’s Timothy Dalton’s first outing as Bond, and this time he’s up against a corrupt Soviet general – and it takes him all the way to Afghanistan, where he joins up with the Mujahadeen. Yeah, it’s pre-Osama Bin Laden, but hey, go Taliban! (Eeks!!) Licence to Kill: Bond goes …
Bondfest 2006: A View to a Kill
After dinner, Liz and Josh and I decided to watch the next flick in the series, bringin Roger Moore’s stint as Bond to an end: A View to a Kill: Bond takes on genetic superchild Max Zorin (Christopher Walken), and his evil scheme to become the world’s leading provider of microchips by destroying Silicon Valley with a double fault earthquake that will sink it below San Francisco Bay. Basically, it’s a retread of the plot from Superman: The Movie, but …
Bondfest 2006: Octopussy
We were gonna watch The Last King of Scotland, but my dad was tired – so my mom and I watched the next Bond film in the queue: Octopussy: Bond goes to India and joins the circus to stop a rogue Soviet General from setting off a nuke on a US Air Force base in Germany. Along the way he gets caught up with black market jewel smuggler Octopussy (Maud Adams – previously seen as a Bond girl in The …
Bondfest 2006: For Your Eyes Only
Took the red-eye flight back to Boston tonight. As an “experiement”, I ripped For Your Eyes Only to my iPod. It worked rather well, I dare say, except the cinemascope aspect ratio left a bit to be desired – the image was so small! For Your Eyes Only: Roger Moore is getting old, and so while he’s trying to recover the ATAC system from a sunken British ship with the help of a murdered archaeologist’s daughter set on avenging her …
Bondfest 2006: Moonraker
Finally had a chance to swallow one of the worst James Bond films of all time. After Casino Royale, it was hard, but I managed to get through it. Moonraker: Bond goes to outer space to stop a madman determined to wipe out humanity and replace them with his Aryan race of superhumans. Mmmmkay. I really don’t think I need to go into too much more detail on this one, do I? The jokes start coming fast and furious, and …
Bondfest 2006: The Spy Who Loved Me
Now that I’ve seen Casino Royale, I’m continuing with Bondfest 2006, but it’s just gonna be slow and steady from here on out. The Spy Who Loved Me: What is better than a secret evil base? An underwater secret evil base! Yes, Bond takes on Karl Stromberg, a man with an evil plan to destory the world through nuclear war, and force humanity to live beneath the sea. Or something like that. It’s a Cold War morality tale, as the …
Casino Royale
This is the one people have been itching to know my thoughts on. (Well, four of you.) Tonight I had my advance screening of Casino Royale. And I can say, with complete confidence, that this is easily the best James Bond film in over 20 years. I’ll let you think about that for a minute. “The best James Bond film in over 20 years.” Still there? Okay. Good. Now, you ask, why would I make such a bold claim? Because, …
Bondtest 2006: Not Going to Make It
It’s official – I am not going to make my own self-imposed deadline. Hell, I won’t even be able to finish off the Roger Moore Bond films: I still have The Spy Who Loved Me, Moonraker, Octopussy and For Your Eyes Only and A View to a Kill. Why the sudden inability to finish? Because my Casino Royale screening is on Friday. So I just lost seven days!! Gah!!
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