Monday, December 18, 2006
connery, lazenby, moore, dalton, brosnan and craig
alright 2 movies spanning the holidays.....Guess I am getting back to the usual self of watching movies in the cinema than DVDs...... Got roped in by Derek to watch this with QP and Cheryl past midnight....not that I am complaining about it....It is pretty alright but I am not for this type of genre... #1 Independent movies #2 Drama movies #3 Mystery/Suspense movies #4 Horror movies #5 Crime movies #6 Action movies #7 Comedy movies #8 CHICK FLICKS/Romantic Comedies Note: If movies at #8 has the names Jennifer Love Hewitt, Scarlett Johansson, Gwyneth Paltrow or Nicole Kidman, I might bring it up to #4.... Synopsis - Amanda(Diaz) and Iris(Winslet) lives in California and Surrey respectively and they both fell out of love and decided to exchange house online (Do people even do that in real life). So they reached their respective houses and both fell in love within 2 weeks.....wow! Talk about fast.... Throughout the movie, I yawned intermittently.....maybe because of the movie or just because it was a midnight movie..And then end I found out that the whole movie was more than 2hrs.. For a romantic comedy...come on.....it was obvious that the director was expounding on Cameron Diaz and Jude Law. Their scenes were far boring....Everytime I would say to myself...Give me Winslet and Black.......... Cameron Diaz is so so so annoying!!!!!! She seems to be able to only act ditzy and pretty.....you can see that she is aging and that would not be an appropriate time to act ditzy and cute....And as much as Jude Law is charming as hell and I would say that myself....his movie roles seem to only focus on the way he combs his hair...... Ok thats enough bad points for a movie....The only THE only saving grace was Kate Winslet...She was able to portray Iris so well...and it was almost like real....I felt like I was watching Iris and her acting is so endearing and real......and it became really obvious when they switched from Winslet to Diaz.....cos the disparity in their actings is huge.... And it is so sad that Diaz is paid 20 million for a flick while Winslet is not(not even close I think)......well I guess this is Hollywood....with all being said I give this movie 2 stars (Winslet owns the 2).
Casino Royale
A very anticipated movie - 1) being a James Bond movie and 2) being Daniel Craig's first attempt as Bond.......I am never a fan of James Bond...probably because I think he has it good.....slick cars, sexy women, a far fetched job ..pretty unrealistic....but when is a movie really realistic....
Anyway...I enjoyed Casino Royale....It is a truly popcorn entertaining movie and Craig I must say is pretty good considering people's qualms on him being Bond - too short, too blonde, too ugly......He is not as pretty as the previous Bonds but he is a bad ass and that alone makes it hard to compare with the others.......
Lovely sceneries, Eva Green and just for pure entertainment...Casino Royale is there..... I give it 3 stars
PS: I just loved the first chase scene.....I almost crap in my pants......
The Holiday
One look at the poster you know what you are in for.....Big time CHICK FLICK......and it prolly ends up with a "and they live happily ever after" ending...