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.