ferret scene, there’s totally a blond white surfer dude in the crowd of locals and it doesn’t appear to be a tourist destination.? Something that was just weird and/or WTF y’all: In the opening cobra vs. I love the scene where Felix offers to stake 007 and turns down potential winnings - “Does it look like we need the money?” THANKS, AMERICA. Sound familiar? The Bond torture scene when he finds out Mathis is a double-agent is very Guantanamo Bay/Abu Ghraib How it’s aged: This Bond is very post-9/11 War on Terror, especially when Bond taps into some NSA-like system to search “Ellipsis” in call/text log metadata, then M says that the administration doesn’t want to know what they do, just that they want them to do the dirty work. Plot in twenty words or less: If Bond botches this big time poker game, the terrorists are going to win. One can hope, but Skyfall was also over 2 hours, so perhaps I shouldn’t hold my breath any time soon. And what better place to turn the trend back to concision with the Bond franchise. I wish the movie and publishing industry in general would realize that even in our oft-distracted culture, longer does not mean better. Look, the world does not need a Bond movie that’s over 90 minutes.

The only downside to this movie is it’s just too damn long. Earlier in the movie, Bond mentions he’s aware 00-agents have short life spans, which reminds me of the question of the continuity theory… but I’ll leave that continuing debate to the more passionate Bond fans. My only issue with him is that he makes me slightly misty for the quippiness of earlier Bonds like Roger Moore.

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