it was so much fun to see pierce brosnan totally dismantle the james bond mythos in a mere one-and-a-half hours. while watching this movie, one has to wonder, "yeahhh...why does 007 sleep with all those women? what's he hiding?" mr. brosnan's work here was more engaging, charming, and real than all his super-spy movies put together...with work like this, why would he want to be james bond anymore? if that tired serial had one iota of the character development that goes into mr. brosnan's julian, maybe 007 wouldn't be such a cardboard cut-out of a bygone era. and even though i felt the movie took a rick moranis-y turn when julian spends the night at danny and bean's house, it comes out aces in the end. great, great, great.
Sunday, February 05, 2006
post 192. the matador.
it was so much fun to see pierce brosnan totally dismantle the james bond mythos in a mere one-and-a-half hours. while watching this movie, one has to wonder, "yeahhh...why does 007 sleep with all those women? what's he hiding?" mr. brosnan's work here was more engaging, charming, and real than all his super-spy movies put together...with work like this, why would he want to be james bond anymore? if that tired serial had one iota of the character development that goes into mr. brosnan's julian, maybe 007 wouldn't be such a cardboard cut-out of a bygone era. and even though i felt the movie took a rick moranis-y turn when julian spends the night at danny and bean's house, it comes out aces in the end. great, great, great.