'Underneath'
A place to talk about movies--old and new, good and bad, high art and high cheese. It's the place to place your kittens on the award winners, gossip about upcoming fims and discuss DVD releases and extras. Spoiler policy: White font all plot-related discussion until a movie's been in wide release two weeks, and keep the major HSQ in white font until two weeks after the video/DVD release.
I ended up seeing Happy Feet, at the request of my sister. So cute! Don't kill the penguins, they TAP DANCE!!!!
You're from MS? I did not know this.
Tupelo, MS. Lived there from 3 to 18, and family is there for the duration. It's home, no matter how much I sometimes wish it wasn't.
Not that it's a bad place. Just... a small Southern town.
I saw Casino Royale today as well. Lots of fun, and Daniel Craig fits the brutish Bond of the novel better than Brosnan would have, sorry as I was to see the latter go. Scenery was absolutely beautiful, as was the parkour chase and the fight at the Miami airport. I suppose Bond's quick recovery from the poison wasn't as ridiculous as some escapesin previous movies, but it seemed really out of place in this less campy film.
I realize that my estimation of women's beauty might be suspect, but in a casino full of dazzling arm candy the only reason half the people at the poker table would have been watching Vesper is because Bond doesn't seem the sort to bring a crossdressing adolescent boy as his date for the evening. Did I miss a line about the casino being on Bizarro World for her to be considered the most lovely woman in the room?
Especially in that hideous dress.
Not that I don't like the idea of a Bond Girl's appeal being linked to her competence and snarky repartee rather than how much of a knockout she is, but if that's the way you cast it would be best to find something else to compliment her about.
Not that she displayed much competence. Boobs, yes. Snark, yes. Competence--merely told and not displayed.
You're misestimating just how nice those knockers looked.
I saw it again, b/c I had nothing better to do this afternoon and commercials made me go. The pacing is not as bad when you know how long it's going to be. Not that the ending gained any more grippingness. Also, Strega, did you think the guy in glasses at the end was Le Chiffre? He was just another random villian who looks villianous.
Wait--you think they looked good, or bad?
Knowing the pacing aforehand, does the schmoop still feel interminable?
Just that she was fairly distracting because of those. I thought she looked ravishing, but even if you hate the dress, few straight men can really avoid staring at her chest. ETA: sorry, I missed your whitefonted line about her chest as well.
W/r/t the schmoop-- it's better. Because there's only five scenes in a row that seem to have the same point. One in Lake Como where he reveals the code to Vesper and the banker; a sex scene that reveals his balls are in working order; the scene on the beach where he decides to quit MI6; on the yacht where she looks furtive and sad; and the hotel room where she receives the phone call. It's not even that long in time, but without any action, you wonder where it's going.
Fair enough. I spent considerable time looking at her breasts and hoping that mine weren't ever that...in front of me. I will have to ask my companion what he thought of them. Hers, I mean.
So no one's seen Deja Vu? C'mon, people. Help a sister out.
Those five scenes you mention needed to be no more than three, in my estimation, and not consecutive, if you could help it. Breaking it up with flower arrangement would have been an upgrade.
Has anybody heard anything about the Pursuit of Happyness, Will Smith's new movie? The trailers are breaking my heart. It would o0nly be more broken if the movie turned out to suck.