Cheese
Wednesday, 30. September 2009, 17:14:54
In which pore Daniel has his heart broken...
Posts tagged with "Daniel Craig"
Foolishness
Sunday, 11. January 2009, 03:17:58
In which I enter the zone, and get to spend the evening with Mr. Craig...
Eeek
Tuesday, 25. November 2008, 19:53:49
In which Windows Explorer.exe fails, and again, and again...
Carp
Sunday, 23. November 2008, 01:58:15
In which I am encouraged to sieze the day, rather than carp about it...
Tables turned, tables toppled, tables moved...
Monday, 17. November 2008, 04:29:29
In which tables are shifted, discussed and dismissed...
Fatigue and Beards
Thursday, 16. October 2008, 14:59:45
In which silly associations are made, and DR's probing questions are answered...
Must. Find. Green.
Thursday, 9. October 2008, 00:04:00
In which the search for green is futile, futile I tell you!
Back on track
Thursday, 11. September 2008, 19:22:40
In which strenous efforts are made to get back on track...
I follow in the footsteps of Clean
Sunday, 13. May 2007, 17:15:54
In which my mind wanders far and wide...
Penultimate post 2006
Thursday, 28. December 2006, 23:18:08
In which I wander into my last SRT for the year...
The TAG post {sighs heavily}
Friday, 22. December 2006, 05:01:18
In which Hungry realises that TAG doesn't stand for Translational Acceleration Group here...
Busy saturday
Sunday, 17. December 2006, 07:05:57
a mish-mash of subjects with some links to news and an absolutely gorgeous video of flight patterns in North America. Promise.
Do I look like I give a damn?
Tuesday, 21. November 2006, 07:13:29
...so said James Bond when asked by the bartender whether he wanted his martini stirred or shaken, mind you Bond was in a rush so it was understandable that he was a little bit rude.
So movie review:
The Visceral Review:
PWOARH!!!!!
When Daniel Craig first stepped out of the sea in those shorts of his, well, not only was it a nod to the Ursula Andress scene, it also induced a collective gasp of admiration and stunned shock laced with lust in the theater. Men and Women. Both.
Later after the movie was over, DW1 & 2, ML, ML and I went for a bite to eat. At one point, we talked about the shower scene (there's only one and it's pivotal, and very tasteful) and all of us just stopped, sighed and went all dreamy-like.
The Historical Review:
You see, Casino Royale was the first of the Bond books, and the film makers have gone back to the beginning of Bond. So Daniel Craig plays JB as a newly licensed to kill agent, knowing quite well that their life expectancies aren't particularly long. He's also a bit of a blunt instrument (M's words, not mine) and has lots to learn about controlling his ego. So in the movie, there's an arc which shows how how he becomes the man that is portrayed in the later Bond films. Like why the Aston Martin is his favourite car or how he developed his cavalier attitude to women. In the beginning, he's a bit like a little boy in a man's body, but by the end, he's starting to grow up and begins to realise just what being a double 00 means.
The Shoot-Them-up Review:
Not many explosions, gadgets or fantastic blow-them-up sequences, although there is a brilliant building coming down into water in Venice sequence. It's back to basics for Daniel as he dispatches the bad guys with lots of sweat, muscle and brute force. In one night, I lost count of how many times he had to change his blood-stained shirt in order to continue playing Le Chiffre, the evil financier of international terrorism. The violence is pretty intense and more realistic than it ever was with the other Bonds. The thing is though, DC has the intensity and looks to make you believe that he could and probably would do these things in real life. Oooh-errr.
The Distaff Review:
Then he completely throws you for a loop by suddenly showing that he has another side to him. I won't dwell on this except to say that he's completely believable in comforting Vesper Lynn, the other agent assigned to keep an eye on the money he's gambling with. There was a scene where he was seducing another woman to get information out of her - and he was so obviously being a rake, but when he was comforting VL, it was so clear that it meant something to him. So yes, the women in the audience were swooning over him as well as gasping at his body.
The Bond Woman
Yesh, ostensibly, it's Eva Green who plays Vesper Lynn. Gorgeous looking woman, very good actor too, her character is a smart, acerbic, witty, intelligent woman with secrets of her own. She's good, and the interaction between her and DC sparkles as it should, but you never really quite believe it when they head into the inevitable romantic interlude.
No, the true sparks really, really, really fly when Daniel Craig and Judi Dench are in a scene together - It may have been because both are such good actors, but put those two in a room and the temperature rose by tens of degrees - not in a lustful sexual way - but...oh I can't describe it, just go see the movie.
Feh. Pwoarh. DC is such a good actor that he integrated all these facets and changes in the character completely seamlessly. He's amazing. Completely amazing. Especially considering the other roles he's played in the past.
From Slate, a smattering of reviews extracted from various sources.
So movie review:
The Visceral Review:
PWOARH!!!!!
When Daniel Craig first stepped out of the sea in those shorts of his, well, not only was it a nod to the Ursula Andress scene, it also induced a collective gasp of admiration and stunned shock laced with lust in the theater. Men and Women. Both.
Later after the movie was over, DW1 & 2, ML, ML and I went for a bite to eat. At one point, we talked about the shower scene (there's only one and it's pivotal, and very tasteful) and all of us just stopped, sighed and went all dreamy-like.
The Historical Review:
You see, Casino Royale was the first of the Bond books, and the film makers have gone back to the beginning of Bond. So Daniel Craig plays JB as a newly licensed to kill agent, knowing quite well that their life expectancies aren't particularly long. He's also a bit of a blunt instrument (M's words, not mine) and has lots to learn about controlling his ego. So in the movie, there's an arc which shows how how he becomes the man that is portrayed in the later Bond films. Like why the Aston Martin is his favourite car or how he developed his cavalier attitude to women. In the beginning, he's a bit like a little boy in a man's body, but by the end, he's starting to grow up and begins to realise just what being a double 00 means.
The Shoot-Them-up Review:
Not many explosions, gadgets or fantastic blow-them-up sequences, although there is a brilliant building coming down into water in Venice sequence. It's back to basics for Daniel as he dispatches the bad guys with lots of sweat, muscle and brute force. In one night, I lost count of how many times he had to change his blood-stained shirt in order to continue playing Le Chiffre, the evil financier of international terrorism. The violence is pretty intense and more realistic than it ever was with the other Bonds. The thing is though, DC has the intensity and looks to make you believe that he could and probably would do these things in real life. Oooh-errr.
The Distaff Review:
Then he completely throws you for a loop by suddenly showing that he has another side to him. I won't dwell on this except to say that he's completely believable in comforting Vesper Lynn, the other agent assigned to keep an eye on the money he's gambling with. There was a scene where he was seducing another woman to get information out of her - and he was so obviously being a rake, but when he was comforting VL, it was so clear that it meant something to him. So yes, the women in the audience were swooning over him as well as gasping at his body.
The Bond Woman
Yesh, ostensibly, it's Eva Green who plays Vesper Lynn. Gorgeous looking woman, very good actor too, her character is a smart, acerbic, witty, intelligent woman with secrets of her own. She's good, and the interaction between her and DC sparkles as it should, but you never really quite believe it when they head into the inevitable romantic interlude.
No, the true sparks really, really, really fly when Daniel Craig and Judi Dench are in a scene together - It may have been because both are such good actors, but put those two in a room and the temperature rose by tens of degrees - not in a lustful sexual way - but...oh I can't describe it, just go see the movie.
Feh. Pwoarh. DC is such a good actor that he integrated all these facets and changes in the character completely seamlessly. He's amazing. Completely amazing. Especially considering the other roles he's played in the past.
From Slate, a smattering of reviews extracted from various sources.
Casino Royale (Columbia). Critics are enamored with director Martin Campbell's choice of Daniel Craig as the new James Bond (and their reviews come with Bondisms aplenty). "Mr. Craig's Bond looks as if he has renewed his license to kill," approves the New York Times' Manohla Dargis. "If Mr. Campbell and his team haven't reinvented the Bond film with this 21st edition, they have shaken (and stirred) it a little." The Philadelphia Inquirer marvels, "Craig reconstructs Bond as inscrutable and vulnerable, a secret agent just as likely to wear an untucked shirt as a bespoke suit, one who sweats stuff big and small." In other words, a real, complex man, as The New Yorker's Anthony Lane observes, "Craig has the courage to present a hollow man, flooding the empty rooms where his better nature should be with brutality and threat." And Slate's Dana Stevens commends Campbell's choice "to give us a Bond who's both metaphorically and literally stripped bare." (Buy tickets to Casino Royale.)
Seemingly Random Thoughts
Friday, 17. November 2006, 06:59:09
Mind is whirling. Like a Dervish.
1) Spin. Spin. Spinning around. Just like Kylie.
Speaking of whom. She's restarted her Show Girl tour, which was postponed last year when she was diagnosed with breast cancer. So keep this in some back part of your reading noggin - it'll be important later. Yes. Kylie - comeback. Remember.
2) What, I ask you, could be more irritating than having a second cold coming right upon the heels of your first one of the season - I blame thingy whose kids were ill, and who came to work coughing and hacking away. FehTM. Any guesses? No, it's not getting a flu shot just as your second is coming to a halt, which gives you some minor symptoms. No, it's developing not 1, but 2 zits right on the edge of your nose so you either suffer intense pain when you sneeze or blow your nose OR run around with your nose dripping. FehTM. Not to mention, I now have a canker sore on the inside of lip as well. FehTM
3) Am starving, craving a piece of toasted white bread with NO FIBRE. NO FIBRE. NO FIBRE, dripping with butter and jam. Instead, only have whole wheat bread in the house. How boring.FehTM
4) Went to barber last week; was made to feel old and decrepit because out of nowhere, barber (in chirpy, matter-of-fact-lovey-type-voice) said out of the blue:
They're NOT that bushy. FehTM
5) Revolution RunTM last night. Dry, but windy. Trees blown down all over the place. We went running in the trails with headlights on anyway. Went off trail twice - puddles the size of Lake Superior. Wet feet, shoes. Squelch. But dinner after was loverly. Vegetarian chili, salad, baked spuds, brownish rice, good bread, butter, and of course, my buttery (with a tad of cheese) apple crumble.
6)Today, feet a bit sore, shoulder aching for some reason. Went to see G, the RMT and he most sadistically used his elbow to get the kinks out of my back. Ouchies. Was feeling a bit out of it after. Put key in keyhole of apartment, made mental order to turn key and nuffink. Repeat. Finally the neurons kicked in the third time.
7) Bought tickets to Casino Royale. Yesh. Showtime is tomorrow. Double Yesh. For those of you may not know what all the fuss is about, well. Let me tell you.
Daniel Craig is Bond. Yesh. He's a most excellent actor. But that doesn't stop him from looking good in a scene that must be a nod to the Ursula Andress scene when she comes out of the sea in years past. I won't lower the tone of this post by putting pictures of DC without clothes up. Just click on the link if you're curious enough to.
PWOARH!!
Yes, yes, yes, I know what you're saying. 'E don't look like Bond. He looks too sensitive and too soft to be Bond. Etc etc etc.
All I can say is that Mr. Craig is the consumate actor, and he becomes the character in all the movies I've seen - except that one mistake he made - Tomb Raider with Angelina Jolie. That little abberation aside, he's one of these actors who people don't remember because it's the part he plays that makes the impression. Kind of like a male Helen Mirren really. But I digress. Doesn't he look all menacing-like and actually look like a Bond who's just a bit out of control and who could actually beat you up?
PWOARH!!
I bought advance tickets today for tomorrow's show - DW1, DW2, ML and I are going. CA supposed to go too, but he's going to a birthday party then to a bar to watch a concert video of Kylie on her comeback tour. See. Told you to pay attention.
8) And yesh, the critics (those with taste) lurrve the movie so far; it's got a 90+ rating on Rotten Tomatoes. The critic from the San Francisco Chronicle is jumping enthusiastically out of his chair. The critic from New York is all fluttery and her heart is going all pitter-patter.
Consensus from Rotten Tomatoes:
9) And even better - I was messing aroung with my new phone and guess what they gave me as one of my ring tones? Why, none other than the new James Bond Theme.
Synchronicity or what eh?! 
10) And this is the last item because must go to sleep early tonight so can be up relatively early tomorrow. Must fold laundry and do dishes still. And make some toast.
Die spambots, die
1) Spin. Spin. Spinning around. Just like Kylie.Speaking of whom. She's restarted her Show Girl tour, which was postponed last year when she was diagnosed with breast cancer. So keep this in some back part of your reading noggin - it'll be important later. Yes. Kylie - comeback. Remember.
2) What, I ask you, could be more irritating than having a second cold coming right upon the heels of your first one of the season - I blame thingy whose kids were ill, and who came to work coughing and hacking away. FehTM. Any guesses? No, it's not getting a flu shot just as your second is coming to a halt, which gives you some minor symptoms. No, it's developing not 1, but 2 zits right on the edge of your nose so you either suffer intense pain when you sneeze or blow your nose OR run around with your nose dripping. FehTM. Not to mention, I now have a canker sore on the inside of lip as well. FehTM
3) Am starving, craving a piece of toasted white bread with NO FIBRE. NO FIBRE. NO FIBRE, dripping with butter and jam. Instead, only have whole wheat bread in the house. How boring.FehTM
4) Went to barber last week; was made to feel old and decrepit because out of nowhere, barber (in chirpy, matter-of-fact-lovey-type-voice) said out of the blue:
I'll just trim your eyebrows shall I?
They're NOT that bushy. FehTM
5) Revolution RunTM last night. Dry, but windy. Trees blown down all over the place. We went running in the trails with headlights on anyway. Went off trail twice - puddles the size of Lake Superior. Wet feet, shoes. Squelch. But dinner after was loverly. Vegetarian chili, salad, baked spuds, brownish rice, good bread, butter, and of course, my buttery (with a tad of cheese) apple crumble.
6)Today, feet a bit sore, shoulder aching for some reason. Went to see G, the RMT and he most sadistically used his elbow to get the kinks out of my back. Ouchies. Was feeling a bit out of it after. Put key in keyhole of apartment, made mental order to turn key and nuffink. Repeat. Finally the neurons kicked in the third time.
7) Bought tickets to Casino Royale. Yesh. Showtime is tomorrow. Double Yesh. For those of you may not know what all the fuss is about, well. Let me tell you.
Daniel Craig is Bond. Yesh. He's a most excellent actor. But that doesn't stop him from looking good in a scene that must be a nod to the Ursula Andress scene when she comes out of the sea in years past. I won't lower the tone of this post by putting pictures of DC without clothes up. Just click on the link if you're curious enough to. PWOARH!!
Yes, yes, yes, I know what you're saying. 'E don't look like Bond. He looks too sensitive and too soft to be Bond. Etc etc etc.
All I can say is that Mr. Craig is the consumate actor, and he becomes the character in all the movies I've seen - except that one mistake he made - Tomb Raider with Angelina Jolie. That little abberation aside, he's one of these actors who people don't remember because it's the part he plays that makes the impression. Kind of like a male Helen Mirren really. But I digress. Doesn't he look all menacing-like and actually look like a Bond who's just a bit out of control and who could actually beat you up?PWOARH!!
I bought advance tickets today for tomorrow's show - DW1, DW2, ML and I are going. CA supposed to go too, but he's going to a birthday party then to a bar to watch a concert video of Kylie on her comeback tour. See. Told you to pay attention.
8) And yesh, the critics (those with taste) lurrve the movie so far; it's got a 90+ rating on Rotten Tomatoes. The critic from the San Francisco Chronicle is jumping enthusiastically out of his chair. The critic from New York is all fluttery and her heart is going all pitter-patter.Consensus from Rotten Tomatoes:
Casino Royale disposes of the silliness and overplayed gadgets that plagued recent James Bond outings, while Daniel Craig delivers what fans and critics have been waiting for: a caustic, haunted, intense reinvention of Bond.
9) And even better - I was messing aroung with my new phone and guess what they gave me as one of my ring tones? Why, none other than the new James Bond Theme.
Synchronicity or what eh?! 10) And this is the last item because must go to sleep early tonight so can be up relatively early tomorrow. Must fold laundry and do dishes still. And make some toast.
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