Pound her ovaries out? Ewwww. Is that a reference to a movie or song?
Mild spoilers for The Dreamers, not Casino Royale:
Very hot! Twisted? Well, yeah. The French are Different. Let’s put it this way…incest is implied but not shown. The “plot” (such as it is, which is not a criticism) centers on a French brother and sister and an American exchange student they befriend, who of course has the hots for the girl. It’s been a while since I’ve seen it but I seem to remember that the siblings didn’t have sex with each other, but that they enjoyed each other’s sexuality, and took it for granted. An attitude of “yeah, isn’t my sister hot?!” rather than “You think my sister’s hot? Ewww!” They also loved to prank around and play erotic mind games with the American. Definitely don’t watch it if menstruation grosses you out (it certainly doesn’t seem to bother the two males…they’re not Into It, which would be REALLY gross, but they treat it as perfectly normal when she starts her period during sex with the American, and when she’s free-flowing while taking a bath…with them. I was a bit grossed out but at the same time I thought it was a very refreshing attitude. Menstruation is a normal bodily function, and the guys understand that). However, that’s a very tiny part of it. Eva Green was very good, exceptionally hot (and I say that as a hetro female) and I absolutely LOVED the time frame. It’s set in Paris at the time of the Cinémathèque française protests, when the director Henri Langlois was fired and the resulting ruckus caused the center to be shut down. The 3 are huge cinema fans and spend almost all their free time at the movies or talking about films. They even try to re-create certain film scenes, such as the running-through-the-Louvre scene in Bande à part (which I’ve never seen, unfortunately). Totally useless even more off-topic trivia: Quentin Tarantino’s production company is named A Band Apart after that movie. Bande à part, not The Dreamers.
Back to Casino Royale, like Pochacco (I remember your post about Steve McQueen!) I’m also very pleased with the response the movie is getting by critics and the public, based on people in this thread and other, non-Bond message boards (I haven’t checked what the hard-core Bond fans are thinking). It’s still 94% on the Tomatometer, and could end up being the best-reviewed widely-released film of the year! (right now it’s 4th of all films released this year, after the 3D re-release of The Nightmare Before Christmas, The Queen and the documentary Deliver Us From Evil, both in limited release)
It might sound wacky, but it’s not out of the question that Daniel Craig could get an Oscar nomination. Stranger things have happened. I’m not an Oscar trivia person so I don’t know what other action/adventure stars might have gotten nominations in the past. Sigourney Weaver got one for Aliens, which is horror/adventure-ish, sorta. He wouldn’t win, but it’s a possibility. If not for this one, then maybe one of the next two (he’s definitely signed up for them) if the scripts don’t let him down.
In my opinion, Craig is the first Bond actor good enough to get a nomination, for playing Bond, at some point. Connery won an Oscar for The Untouchables, but was never nominated for a Bond film. I like Connery as an actor, but he’s always, well, Sean Connery. You never forget that it’s Sean Connery, no matter the role. Connery was never typecast as James Bond, because he’s always been typecast as Sean Connery. I also think Craig is good enough that even if Casino Royale makes him a star, which it should, he’s not going to get typecast as either James Bond or Daniel Craig.
I will prognosticate and bet Craig gets a Golden Globe nomination.
