Movies this week
Posted on December 2, 2006
Tags: Culture |
I’ve watched a few movies this week. Mainly of the popular variety:
1. James Bond Casino Royale - I’m quite a fan of James Bond, alas not of the new one. I far prefer Pierce Brosnan to the current Bond - Daniel Craig. He is simply trying hard, maybe too hard, but doesn’t have the class and sophistication. The movie comes across disjointed because of that.
2. Mission Impossible III - I’ve not watched it before. And I probably should have left it that way. Nothing special or unique here.
3. War of the Worlds - an OKish movie, some good acting every now and then by most of the cast but lots of cliches, bad sci-fi and a strange ending.
4. Pirates of the Carribean Dead Man’s Chest - Johnny Depp is fine but in this movie the character seems a bit tired. I thought the movie as a whole was quite boring and found myself walking about doing other things at some point.
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couldn’t agree more with 2,3, and 4. However I saw the latest Bond movie yesterday and must say it is an achievement on the order of Dr. No - but only if understand the context of where Bond is in his development as an agent. The film’s marketing effort to educate its audience before they saw the film is that this is how Bond began his career (kind of like what they did for the role Jack Ryan in casting Ben Affleck awhile back). Moving from that premise it’s easy to see why you thought Bond to be unpolished and a bit out of sorts.
Additionally the movie was pretty true to the original Fleming novel of the same name. The early acrobatics at the construction site and at the embassy, the poker scenes, and wild locales kept me riveted. It’s always interesting to see a character’s arc - how they change from the beginning of the film to the end. Most Bond films are famous for not having this arc in its main character - i thought this was a nice change. We won’t see it in a Bond film again for awhile.
Hi David, thanks for the comment. I was aware of the context in terms of the early days of his development. I’ve not read the book so maybe that’s exactly the way Fleming wanted to portray Bond. But IMHO the coarseness that comes through is more deep rooted. It’s like the classes in the UK where you can tell very fast how posh (in the English sense) someone is or isn’t and it usually starts with which public school one attended. Fleming’s Bond went to Fettes College (similar to Eton) and these things carry though in speech and manierism.
I enjoyed the end ing of the movie just after he gets out of hospital. Maybe because the plot was moving fast and Craig is afterall a good action actor.
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