L U N A T A L K with Eva Moon

Quantum of Evil

November 17, 2008 on 1:59 pm | | In General Musing, Movies

Spoiler alert. If you have not seen the new James Bond movie, you may want to wait on this.

Quantum: The smallest discrete amount of any quantity.

I have nothing against Daniel Craig. Sadly. (I’ve made my husband a deal: For Christmas this year he can have Olga Kurylenko, provided I get equal time with Mr. Craig.) I have nothing against Daniel Craig as the new Bond, either. I went to Casino Royale prepared to be annoyed. A blond Bond? No more Pierce Brosnan? Are they serious?

But there was Daniel Craig and he was so… mmmmm

Pierce who?

Despite the tasty new Bond and the exhausting, nonstop action (Quantum of Solace crams about six hours of explosions into a scant 106 minutes), I have to harumph a bit over the sad state of evil.

What’s gotten into Bond bad guys lately? They used to be truly megalomeniacal bastards with plans to detonate atomic bombs in Fort Knox, incite global nuclear war, incinerate whole cities with death-rays from outer space, destroy all human life on Earth… These guys were seriously and unforgettably evil.

What does our new, steely Mr. Bond face? In Casino Royale, it was a couple of thugs playing cards to get out of debt (hmmm, a plan for the auto industry? Nah, all the auto industry needs is about a million Bonds. At the rate he goes through vehicles, sales would be skyrocketing in no time) And now, in Quantum of Solace, the best they can muster up is an effete bad-dresser with a hankering to be utilities commissioner in Bolivia?

Come on.

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