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Casino Royale was so awesome. I was excited about it all day yesterday. I had the best day too. I had lunch with Ma at a fish and chip shop. Then we played Rummikub for rest of the afternoon, which is one of the favourite games. It's also the only game we've found that Ma doesn't kick my arse at. She's 92, so perhaps I should be suggesting a game like Memory. I was always pretty good at that, and all her years of gaming experience wouldn't help her with that. But Rummikub is still good, and we're closely matched. We had tea and chocolate biscuits, which nicely rounded off my carbohydrate lunch.

Then I was off to mum's house for expensive cheese and pesto pasta. We listened to some Bob Dylan. Usually we get drunk on Cointreau and complain about Liberal party politicians, but tonight we couldn't because I had to leave early for James Bond. So mum dropped me at the station and I was off.

I arrived just in time for the ads to start. Anmol had to wait for me, and I felt a bad. Fortunately there were 30 minutes of ads, so we didn't miss any of the movie.

And what a brilliant movie it was. It started out with a cool black and white killing scene. Overall, I really have to complement the film on it's killings. They were so well done. All original. Sometimes with guns, sometimes with knives, or nail guns, or explosives, or elevator cages, or suffocation. Somehow of a higher calibre than normal Bond films. Although that goes for everything with this film. At the end I was even trying to work out holes in the plot. I've never thought about the plot of a Bond movie before. Normally you just revel in the inconsistencies and implausibilities. But I was really asking about character motivations and causes and effects in this one. Things didn't just happen.

It was the first Bond I've seen where the woman was more than just pretty. I think that was supposed to be the main real difference. Although after all her talk about intelligence and independence, she didn't really follow through. So perhaps it isn't that different. Normally some pretty articulate woman claims she isn't interested, but quickly changes her mind. In this one a pretty articulate woman with a real job claims she isn't interested, but changes her mind. I'm assuming that isn't giving anything away.

The stunts were the best. Hardly any noticeable computer graphics, except in the first chase scene. Although I didn't really mind because it was probably the coolest bit of the film.

There were a lot of mobile phone scenes in it, and they were really pivotal to lots of plot points. I'm not sure if that was just Sony getting involved a bit too much, or if they were figuring that modern espionage is mostly conducted by mobile phone.

The defibrillator in the glove box was a bit dumb.

But it was great great. I've seen a bunch of tops Hollywood action movies this year. MI3, Miami Vice and now this. I reckon maybe Hollywood has worked out some of the stuff they've been doing wrong for the last few decades. People like to see people shooting each other and getting beaten up, but that doesn't always mean we're morons who don't care about anything else. Although sometimes it also does.