I just saw the new Bond move Die Another Day, and it kicked ass. It had everything one expects from a good movie: gunfights, explosions, cool cars, neat gadgets, hot women, and humorous one liners when a bad guy is killed. This time Bond fights the evil North Koreans just like we’re going to do in real life, but, in the movie, they have a super space laser. Of course, that’s too much for some Brit to take on by himself, so he teams up with an American NSA agent played by Halle Berry. By the end of the movie, all the bad people are dead, so it’s a very happy ending. It’s not up to par with Goldfinger (then again, what is) but definitely one of the better Bond movies.
I also just saw Enemy at the Gates on DVD. It was really cool with snipers putting bullets through each other’s eyes while everything is getting bombed around them. The only problem is that the movie was about the Nazis and Commies fighting over Stalingrad, so who the hell are you going to root for? That’s like having to choose between evil and eviler. To really get into a move, I had to have a side I liked, instead I was supposed to sympathize with the Commie sniper over the Nazi sniper. What could have made the movie much better, is, right after the Commie sniper, after losing many friends and nearly his own life, finally defeats the well trained Nazi sniper who was out to kill him, you suddenly hear a second gun shot and he falls dead. The camera then pans over to show Patton was standing right behind him with a pistol. He exclaims, “Take that, you goddamn Commie!” and then American troops swarm the area killing both sides. That would be so cool. Note to Hollywood: I am available for rewrites in the future.