Are all those Daniel Craig haters eating crow? Cause I want them to have to choke it down.

We're going to see Stranger than Fiction at Arclight tonight. Woot!

And we're finally seeing Borat at...the United Artists theatre in Emeryville!

I'm not going to be able to finish Citizen Ruth before I have to leave for Hollywood tonight but so far it is excellent. Such a great cast.

Are all those Daniel Craig haters eating crow? Cause I want them to have to choke it down.

THIS.

All the naysayers are gonna havta take it all back. He rocks like a rocking thing. Looks. Intensity. Wearing the tux. And those eyes...I've said it before, and I'll say it again. Whoa.

Just saw Bond-- a very good version, though I was a bit disappointed by several things. However, if anyone is concerned, I don't think it's that violent, and certainly not as gross as, say, Licence to Kill.

I guess as for what I *didn't* like about it, the several hours following the first hour dragged a bit. It was hard to care about the final scenes.

ETA: though I appreciated the scene seemingly imagined by Tom of Finland.

Stranger than Fiction was indeed great. Wonderful performances by everyone! I finished up Citizen Ruth when I got home and that too I recommend.

Here's the take on the Bond movie we had--dude, could the camera love Craig more? There's more manflesh, just his, than there is cumulative womanflesh in the flick. All the cheesecake is become beef. Hysterical.

Costumer loved him too, and hated all the women, most especially Le Chiffre's consort--how much more low end stripper could she get? Horrible.

I despised the schmoop bits. I think it's because Eva Green was so damned flat. The total weak link in the movie.

I wished very hard that Bond had been ready to kill Vesper when she betrayed him, and I really thought we were to think that, but then he goes beserk trying to rescue her, and my cold heart was disappointed.

I have to admit, listening to myself talk about the movie to the friend I went with, I sounded really callous and capricious. It's just that I reflexively thought that when Vesper fell in love with Bond, the leverage the baddies had on her disappeared. I had to be reminded that that was more than a bit dispassionate. Still, she did piss around for a month before handing over the money. That's not nice.

Oops.

I really liked Craig as Bond. Those EYES. (Although the female half of the couple we went with was fixated on his lips, so I guess there's a plethora of yummy on display). The two fellows thought he was funny-looking, and he kinda is, but that is totally outweighed by the smoking hottitude. The dude can really wear a suit.

I actually liked Green's performance as Vesper, ita. I felt the character was thinking, unlike many a Bond girl in the past. And I liked the schmoop, but that's because I am a big ginormous sap.

I LOVED the parkur chase at the opening of the film. So well-shot and thrilling to watch. I also loved the fight in the cabin of the truck.

Damn good movie.

I'm going to go see the new Bond over Thanksgiving!