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I just read the book on the plane (while my seatmate was reading an article in, I think? American Cinematographer about the cinematography in the movie), what didn't make sense? Not that I'm saying it made sense; I maintain the stock shorting scheme was particularly inane.
I kind of want to see it again. It was so pretty!
I saw it again last night. craig is just as hottttttt on the second viewing.
There just doesn't seem to be any plan in the movie that's very well thought out.
Like, why does Le Chiffre react to his stock shorting scheme going south with "I know, I'll win it back in a POKER GAME!" Why doesn't MI6 have any backup plan? Why does the Treasury not run background checks on their agents before sending them into the field with millions of dollars? Why were the winnings transferred at the hospital instead of right after the game? If Vesper is really in love with Bond, what's she being blackmailed over? (And if she's in love with Bond but still fond enough of her ex to be blackmailed about him, why not just ask Bond for help getting out of it?) And if she IS still in love with her Algerian boyfriend, why involve him Bond all? Why not just steal the money and disappear? Where the hell was the CIA after the game when they were supposed to be apprehending Le Chiffre? What happened to the tracking device Bond planted on him earlier?
Yeah. YEAH. Everything Jessica said. With an extra ?!
And still, I want to see it again. As much for supporting its NOT!like previous Bond movieness as for its pretty pretty.
Not that I didn't still really enjoy it, mind. Any movie where Daniel Craig walks mostly naked out of an ocean TWICE can have as many plotholes as it likes.
Yeah, I decided that letting my tongue loll out at Daniel Craig was better than letting my brain go 'splodey from the non-sense making plotholes. Not to be mistaken for potholes, which is what it felt like everytime my commonsense tripped over the plotholes. Where's the spackle? I need to fix this.
I found it very plot-what-plot? on the whole, which was fine for me, because Daniel Craig was just ridiculously gorgeous to look at.
Not that I didn't still really enjoy it, mind. Any movie where Daniel Craig walks mostly naked out of an ocean TWICE can have as many plotholes as it likes.
Amen. (Saw it today.)
Also, as I Have A Type, Vesper didn't annoy me at all. I kind of wanted to just curl up and nibble her, I think.
One thing that amused me was seeing Paul Haggis's name on the credits. Based on that and due South, I've determined that he has some weird finger sucking fetish.
Although, IMO, it's way hotter when it's Paul Gross doing it.
Vesper was ridiculously gorgeous.
Speaking of Paul Gross, fay and I watched seasons two and three of Slings and Arrows yesterday (or some version of yesterday) and have determined that he is just ridiculously pretty omg. Also, the BBC has it right, because they are running a due South marathon this Saturday (!!). PG does the tongue thing in every. single. role. And it never fails to make me wibble and die.
Someone said that CR had more naked manflesh than any previous Bond, and possibly all the Bonds rolled up together; conversely, it was the one with the least naked womanflesh. Interesting.
I dunno, I think expecting that kind of coherence in a Bond movie is like... expecting coherence in a Bond movie. They work on dream-logic. I'm impressed if they can get from A to B to C in a way that I can follow while I'm watching; making logical sense after the fact is way beyond my expectations.
This is the franchise that gave us, "I know, I'll kill her by painting her gold!"