I have an itch...

James Bond has been renewed and I hadn't seen it yet. I couldn't imagine not seeing Batman Begins but the Batman movies were hardly an institution. Bond, on the other hand, was a 20-strong series of albeit non-continuous but canonical films that are pretty damn popular. The actor has always changed, hence the lack of continuity, as has the time and setting, and the bugger doesn't seem to age. But never mind, I don't understand what caused the revamp. Oh yeah, JASON BOURNE.

Casino Royale 2006 is the third adaptation of the first Fleming novel. It was done just after it was written, satired in the 60s and then now created properly the studio that satired it in the first place. We have Daniel Craig in the role of Jamesy B, and he's pretty good. Connery is, and always will be, James Bond, no matter what people say. I honestly don't thing Craig's big ears and Gordon Ramsay expressions are handsome enough to warrant women swooning over him and he doesn't look at all British. I know it's breaking the mould for Bond, but I quite happened to like the old mould. No matter how misogynistic and indulgent it was. Well, I'm lying, I was never arsed in the first place and I never will be. James Bond, in my eyes, will always be for Mastermind contestants and racists. (I'm biased as the only people I know who like James Bond happen to have been on Mastermind, and be incredibly racist)

Die Another Day was labelled Buy Another Day due to ridiculous product placement, but this film is no different. I spotted Sony Vaoi (sp?), Sony Erricson, Rolex...no...Omega (2for1 in that scene, kids) and many more. Also, it may be all modern with it's parkour and DBWhatevers but I really can't see the difference between this and GoldenEye's bungee jumping and Z3? Why the new timeline for Bond? And continuity over films? The last time that happened, George Lazenby was Bond and he was shit, and they sharp got Connery back in the Bond boots.

Enough rambling, I liked Casino Royale. It's a good film. I just prefer the Bourne movies when it comes to snappy action, and I prefer the old Bonds for snappy and sexist dialogue. (I just think of that 'You've had your six' bit from Dr. No. Amazing)