01. SERIOUSLY THE BEST BOND MOVIE EVER, HANDS DOWN.
02. Daniel Craig, I want to have ten thousand of your Bond babies, omg. *flails* Seriously, maybe it’s because I’m ovulating right now that I’m having this reaction, but never before have I actually had a deep and undying love for any particular Bond. Sean Connery was my preferred Bond when I was pressed to choose, but otherwise I was fairly indifferent to all of them. But Mr. Craig has completely stolen my spy-loving heart and holy crap is he absolutely fantastic in the role. He’s not smarmy like Brosnan or a smart-ass like Connery, he’s all emotional and penetrating (PUN INTENDED YEAH YEAH YEAH). LKJAS:LKL:KAJSD:LJKAS.
03. FELIX LEITER!!!! Holy crap, that took me by surprise and I had a gasp of excitement when he revealed his identity. The better part is that in this movie he’s totally not a card shark and in a previous Bond film he gets eaten by a shark, which makes for some nice symmetry. [Or not.] Also? HE’S THE GUY WHO PLAYS BASQUIAT, HAHAHA.
04. Eva Green is kind of hot and I didn’t hate her the way I hated her in Kingdom of Heaven. Then again, everything about that movie was completely loathesome, so maybe it really wasn’t her.
05. Any guesses as to what M’s real name is? I’m going with Mildred on this one because it’s absolutely dreadful, but I’m sure there’s something worse it could be. Actually, it would be really awesome if her name was something like Marissa or Madison, hahaha.
06. You saw his thighs, right? THOSE THIGHS COULD KILL, OMG.
007. I love a Bond who gets emotionally invested in his women. [George Lazenby, woot!] And of course you’re just sitting there going “Okay, she has to die because Bond isn’t allowed to be happy nor can he continue being a double-oh if he doesn’t have a huge void in his life to fill” and he was so TRAGIC when she died and ugh.
08. Related to #007, my absolute favourite part was when he goes back to the hotel room after he’s killed the two guys from Uganda (I think?) and she’s sitting in the shower, fully clothed and a complete wreck, and he goes in and sits with her to comfort her. *FLAIL FLAIL FLAIL* HI I LOVE YOU, MR. BOND.
09. AWESOME TITLE SEQUENCE OMG.
10. The card game was awesome.
11. Mads Mikkelsen was freaking awesome. HE CRIES BLOOD. I know it’s totally cliché to have the main villain have some sort of fucked up ocular problem, but do I care? Not really. SCARS AND BLOODY TEARS, BABY.
12. Further to #11, his tell with the chip flipping was freaking awesome. I intiially hoped it would be a faux-tell with the real tell being his inhaler, but I was wrong. And that’s okay.
13. Chris Cornell’s theme is kind of really lame and not Bond-y enough. Not unlike Madonna’s theme for Die Another Day. They revamped the generic Bond theme for the closing credits and it’s quite brassy and fantastic.
14. I adore that Bond was the actual Bond girl in this movie, what with his Ursula Andress appearance in the water.
15. I loved how he won the Aston Martin in the card game, although I was slightly annoyed since everyone knows Bond had a Bentley before he had an Aston Martin.
16. Why do I want Mr. White to be either a) working for SPECTRE or b) Bloefeld (pre-eye disfiguration) himself?
17. That dude with the one-lensed glasses was really fucking lame.
18. I cringed when that beautiful Venetian building crumbled into the sea.
19. I absolutely LOVE IT when movies shoot in Lake Como because they always use the exact same location as they did in Star Wars: Attack of the Clones and every time we see it, we can’t help but start going “OMG SCHOOL RETREAT!” I hate sand, it’s rough and course and irritating, and it gets everywhere…
20. Bond and Vesper are kind of OTP. When they’re getting ready to go down to the poker game for the first time, their little dialogue about what to wear and what they’ll be doing sort of slayed me. And when they first meet on the train? LKAJSDL:KAJSDLKJ.
21. Because of their accents, I actually thought her name was Vespa, so when he asked her if she hated her parents for calling her that I was like “Well yeah, she’s named after a fucking scooter.”
22. PHENOMENAL ACTION. I loved the frog guy in the opening chase sequence who would just leap from object to object, it was astounding. And I loved that Bond did the exact same thing but often missed his mark oh-so-slightly. They keep going on about how he’s an imperfect Bond, a Bond who actually bleeds, and while this is true, it’s what makes him so much better than every other Bond ever. EVER.
23. I hate that Mathis was Inspector Pazzi in Hannibal because that’s all I could think about every time he was on screen.
24. I adored when the bartender asked Bond if he wanted his martini shaken or stirred and he was like “Do I look like I give a damn?” LMAO.
I could keep going on and on but this movie kills me. This movie is only a shade less awesome than The Departed so take note, folks.