Casino Royale

[rm]

I am so not near cogent enough to really write about this right now.

However.

Dude. Did I really expect to spend huge chunks of this film thinking about Daniel Craig's balls? Did I expect everyone else in the tehater to be thinking it along with me? No. No I didn't. But yes, this is what I can say about the new Bond movie. This observation brought to you by myself, kalichan and hofnarr. They never post, so I have to do the dirty work.

Also, OMG, Tobias Menzies -- for like a second and a half, but I adore him. Fic in the offing.

also, why didn't someone warn me about ALL THE EYE THINGS. UGH.

_and_ on the way home, my bus driver got busted for drunk driving.

Comments

thinking about his balls?

[haya.livejournal.com]

I haven't seen it yet, but WHAT?

Re: thinking about his balls?

[rm.livejournal.com]

Among other things -- torture scene. Very specific torture scene.

Re: thinking about his balls?

[heron61.livejournal.com]

Which I found to be an interesting counterpoint to the whole male-power-fantasy angle of the film. I didn't like what happened after that scene, but the scene was part of an interesting (if imperfect) deconstruction of the genre that was part of what made the film (to me at least) quite good. All the eye things were however simply gross.

[feyandstrange.livejournal.com]

I just saw it this afternoon, and noted that myself. Dude. I never really needed the phrase "James Bond's itchy balls" to cross my thoughts.

And yeah, the eye thing was kind of gross.

Re: thinking about his balls?

[rezendi.livejournal.com]

Oddly, that torture scene (and Vesper's name) was about the only thing in CASINO ROYALE taken fairly faithfully from the book.

Re: thinking about his balls?

[feyandstrange.livejournal.com]

I hadn't read it in ages (and made a point not to before the movie), but it did seem familiar. Thanks for confirming; I don't have Flemings lying around the house and would've forgotten to look it up elsewhere. People have been saying this was 'very true to the books', but aside from that scene I wasn't seeing it.

Re: thinking about his balls?

[coyotegoth.livejournal.com]

I think that's more a matter of general tone (plus the fact that not enough people read Fleming these days), rather than specifics of plot. I could be wrong, though; haven't reread CR in *coughmumble* years.

[heron61.livejournal.com]

I just saw it this afternoon, and noted that myself. Dude. I never really needed the phrase "James Bond's itchy balls" to cross my thoughts.

Now I'm imagining that phrase as some sort of astoundingly pulpy epithet: "By James Bond's itchy balls!!!" Or, maybe not...

[tsarina.livejournal.com]

That scene made me cringe.

Did your bus driver get arrested?

[rm.livejournal.com]

Yes. For driving with an open Heinekin! The best was when other random bus passenger says, "the MTA don't play that."

[tsarina.livejournal.com]

Bwahahaha. That is so terrifying!

[crazycatlady.livejournal.com]

I, as you know, don't have balls, but when I was watching that particular scene, my non-existent ones were singing with pain.

[melebeth]

There are eye things? Thank you for telling me. This, along with my basic inability to stay awake through Bond films, overwhelms my interest in going to see this. I do love Dame Judie, and new Bond is awfully pretty, but... no. You are queen of useful warnings, and I send you gluten free electronic cookies.

[rm.livejournal.com]

hahaha. I am severely eye-phobic and this was very hard to take.

[mizg.livejournal.com]

I'm never clear on your level of fondness for Jane Austen, BUT. They are making a new Persuasion, due out next year, and it has some cool castings. I point you there specifically because you mentioned Tobias Menzies, who will, I notice, be playing William Elliot (Mr. Elliot, as opposed to Sir Walter Elliot). There's actually quite a bit of interesting casting, take a look: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0844330/

See you Sunday?

[rm.livejournal.com]

I like Jane Austen, but it's not the reason I'm into teh period. However, I have this weird, irrational fondness for tobias Menzies, so I'll totally go see the new Persuasion just on those grounds alone. And, of course, the hope of good costuming.