Review: Casino Royale

FRESH RATING: 4.5/5


Rating Scale: Excellent - Very Good - Good - Average - Poor

Players
Actor: Daniel Craig - Excellent
Actress (Bond Girl): Eva Green - Very Good
Supporting Actor (the Big Bad): Mads Mikkelsen - Good
Supporting Actress (M): Dame Judi Dench - Excellent

Main Elements (for Action Flick)
Action - Very Good
Suspense - Excellent
Romance - Very Good (I almost gave it a "Good" but to tell you why would ruin a particular part of the movie for you.)

Extra Credit
Main Characters' Smart Ass Remarks
Additional "Edge of Seat" Action Moments
Twist at the end
Vehicle: Aston Martin. Makes you want one.

Deductions:
Overt description of poker. Needed, but breaks up the flow of the movie
Ew factor from blood/eye. You'll see what I mean.

Recommendations:
Worth: Full price Theater
Purchase DVD? Yes. The moment it comes out


Quotes:
BLB & GPB at the first appearance of the Aston Martin: "ooohhhhhh."
LSG's Tennis Partner: "You know, I didn't think he was that good looking at the beginning of the movie. But by the end, I was like, 'Wow. He's really attractive!'"

Additional Comments: The only reason I didn't give this 5/5 is that Batman Begins is (so far) my favorite action movie, and the one by which all others are compared.

Review: Batman Begins

FRESH: 5/5

Rating Scale: Excellent - Very Good - Good - Average - Poor

Movie: Batman Begins (2005)

Players
Actor: Christian Bale - Excellent
Actress: Katie Holmes - Average
Supporting Actor: Michael Caine - Excellent
Supporting Actor (the Big Bad) : Liam Neeson - Excellent
Supporting Actor (Little Baddie): Cillian Murphy - Very Good

Main Elements (for Action Flick)
Action - Excellent
Suspense - Excellent
Romance - Average (Thanks to Katie Holmes)

Extra Credit
The Tumbler
Smart Ass Remarks by Christian Bale
Morgan Freeman & Cillian Murphy
Wayne Manor/The Batcave

Deductions:
Katie's patronizing "know it all" tone

Recommendations:
Purchase DVD? It should already be a part of your library.

Bond. James Bond

A while ago I started a Yahoo 360 page (because, between my blog and MySpace, I just needed one more page to keep up. )

Because I don't keep more than one opinion/journal blog, I thought I'd use the 360 as a "running log of movies I want to see" page. It didn't offer enough space to format the page as I would have liked, so I moved the contents to a blogger page that I used to modify when playing around with templates.

In moving the content over, I've found the Craig as Bond controversy (of which I was blissfully, completely unaware). Now, there's a member of my family that absolutely disagrees with me. She thinks Craig is not attractive at all. I'm (yes, I'll admit it) on the other side of the fence on this one, because I love "Elizabeth," in which he has a small, but significantly scary part. So, I know he can act. (Pierce Brosnan was suave, but act? not reeeaaallly.)

So, I put up for a frivolous vote for those reading.

Daniel Craig: Attractive?
	Yes
	No
	He grows on you
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