Showing posts with label james bond. Show all posts
Showing posts with label james bond. Show all posts

Thursday, December 27, 2012

Where has James Bond been?

Not sure why exactly but James Bond wasn't even a blip on my radar screen this year. It got squeezed between The Dark Knight Rises and next year's Star Trek into Darkness. And there's more than enough time to watch the Star Trek sequel next May.

I'm big into genre movies especially action and science fiction. In fact if there were any two movie franchises that have been long time favorites over the years it's Bond and Star Trek. It's even more puzzling to me that not a lot of focus on my part was put into the latest Bond effort entitled Skyfall.

I went to see Skyfall recently at River East near Navy Pier. It was pretty good and it almost seemed like a classic bond film with an old school sounding theme song and of course there's the Ashton Martin that was a fixture in the Bond films of the 1960s. It was certainly a nice touch at the end where the offices Bond enters into near the end of the movie simply went retro!

I've been a Bond fan for a long time and it's very regretful that no trailers were shown here on this blog prior to its release. Besides trailers for Star Trek and The A-Team had been shown here in the past on this blog for example. Why was I too slow for Skyfall?

James Bond will return in the near future and I promise to do much better in the future.

Saturday, November 29, 2008

Quantum of Solace

I saw the movie tonight and I liked it. It was very action packed, but I'll discuss more over at The Movie Cabinet. I saw Daniel Craig's earlier effort, Casino Royale and I reviewed it there as well.

Now I'm just ready for the new Star Trek movie. Just before I entered the actually auditorium to see the James Bond film there were a couple of posters featuring Zachary Quinto as Mr. Spock and Chris Pine as Captain Kirk. The new film is scheduled to be released on May 8, 2009.