Watching Casino Royale again off dvd :-)
There's a new Bond film coming soon and one thing I like to do before watching sequels is to remind myself of the film(s) that came before. Now it's the turn of Casino Royale, which is where the quote in the post title comes from. It's from the end of the dinner where Bond meets Vesper Lynd, describing :
"How was your lamb Mr Bond?"
"Skewered ... on sympathisers"
Great line. Decent film too, they took a very long running series that was getting seriously tired and revamped it rather satisfactorily. And a very good excuse to sit in front of the telly chilling out for a couple of hours instead of getting tempted back into the PC. I've been on that rather too much over the weekend :
Saturday - 12 hour Settlers II game - stable but Damn ! 12 hours for one game is a seriously long time for a game that should really be done in a third of that :-) Not a bad game Settlers, they get you thinking strategically without being as frenetic as most Real Time Strategy games are. Good thing Olympics were on the telly too, followed by DS9 and Voyagers off recording or I'd have gone a leetle nuts. Yep - more nuts.
Sunday was more game, this time World of Warcraft. I'm with a better guild this time, much more talkative and the members actually help each other. I still miss the old Mercs days, I think because it was something I was greatly responsible for setting up and building in the early days. It was my baby, which is why I got rather emotionally involved. What I don't miss are all the politics that kicked off between the various little cliques that formed in the Mercs and were eventually responsible for destroying the guild.
Cliques are bad ...
More film :
"There are dinner jackets and dinner jackets, that is the latter" - Vesper
I used to have a habit of including a random quote on my game forum signatures, taken from whatever made a grin hit me. I don't do that so much any more, mostly because I'm only really bothered about one forum nowadays :
Violence Reborn - has a quote that's going to stay forever :-) (will post it sometime)
Eve - Assti - not too impressed with how these guys behave, so not making the effort here
NWR - similar but the disenchantment is for completely different reasons
PXF - never really got to know these guys
Mercs forum - dead & buried
Right - pizza's gone, Ba'al is doing the dealer's job in Casino Royale (very different to his Go'auld persona) and I need to get my popcorn popping so I finish it before the end of the film !
PS Last time I did this it was with Batman Begins and Dark Knight. Cracking film Dark Knight, even though I find The Joker rather disturbing. Heath Ledger is outstanding in his final role, although I must watch Knight's Tale again so that becomes the memory I'll keep of his acting.
I agree with you on Casino Royale and the revamping of Bond. After the Pierce Brosnan/Halle Barry one, I had sworn I wouldn't watch another - but my husband convinced me to give this one a go - SO glad I did. I like Bond again!
ReplyDelete-by the way, Michele sent me :)
Yeah - Die Another Day was one of the few Bond films I'm not too bothered about.
ReplyDeleteToys are fun but a film should really be about the characters primary, instead of the characters being secondary to the flashier toys ...
I own Settlers II as well, so I know all about how that game literally snatches hours of your day/night away without you even realizing it.
ReplyDeleteI got to the point where I said "right no more! I have to do laundry and other chores that have been building up over the last couple of days."
However, there is something strangely satisfactory about building up your village and army, and then watching as your huge army goes to kick the living daylights out of opposing villages armies lol.
I have the original Settlers 1 manual with the rest of my manuals :-) Complete with copy protection done with 3 icons on the top and bottom of each page ...
ReplyDeleteMasters of Orion 2 gets me like that - it's such a good strategy game that I keep on going back into it. I'm managing to restrict myself to just one Crushing Victory over the computer before having a break but that Crushing Victory takes like 2 days to play through :-)
Settlers IV is probably a better game than Settlers II because it's more free form (no roads) but there's a sense of satisfaction that comes from knowing your ring-road system gets things moving well around your settlement.
Erm - my GeekStatementAlert just went off with that mention of ringroad systems !
I need to curl up with a few DVDs. Thanks for the encouragement. I have no idea what I'll watch - it could probably be anything at this point. I just need to carve out the time. I need a break from the merry go round.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the motivation!
I think one of the problems with the modern world is that our communication and connectivity is so much better than it used to be that it takes a special effort to be on our own for a while.
ReplyDeleteBefore mobile phones and email and online games, when that front door closed, we could quite happily shut the world out. Now, it's not quite so easy ...
I think it does us good to have a little Me Time occasionally, that's why I'm having a week off work this week - I get kinda burned out sometimes. Still, it'll be good to get back next week and be said "hello" to by the blonde lady who is the latest victim of The Grin (tm) :-)
If you're looking for lighthearted fun dvd - can't go wrong with anything Pixar ;-)