I am really, really looking forwards to this!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FREBR6FH1rg

Who is going to be the producer who does a "No Time to Pie" parody?

in the absence of other candidates, i nominate YOU!!!

Well, last night I finally got to see it, with Lady Jasmine, Evelyne, and Felicity, on the mighty XPlus screen at the Showcase Cinema. And it's utterly mindblowing! Lots of action, complex plot that asks some fairly deep ethical questions, amazing set pieces, and a truly incredible ending. And also a brilliant demonstration from Nomi (Lashana Lynch) on exactly how to deal with racists - execute the fuckers.

James Bond 007. The greatest franchise in film history. 60 years, 25 movies, and WOW!!!

https://youtu.be/BboMpayJomw

https://youtu.be/QU32Wpk8v3w

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51iNsTs9jMM

I already died waiting.

But do you shake the Heineken or do you stir it?

Important achievement!

I went to see "No Time to Die" in the theater today, Thanksgiving Day, 20211125.
Ended my 13-year gap, since I saw "Quantum of Solace" in December 2008.

This may seem like nothing to all of you, but to me,
who has EXTREME anxiety about spending money on non-essentials,
ESPECICALLY about non-essentials that I can get FOR FREE
from the library 6 months later, it really took a lot of force to get me to spend
money to see this in the theater.

TMI: I was celebrating this new drug: a powder to mix with water: Cholestyramine
working spectacularly well this week at stopping raging chronic diarrhea
+ lower intestinal agony, that absolutely nothing else worked.
Started the drug this past Monday.
So, as a test of the effectiveness of this new drug, what better way to test/celebrate
than to see if I could sit calmly for 3 hours without running to a bathroom. Test successful!

Movie experience less so. Needless to say, today will be the VERY LAST time I ever
spend money on or set foot inside a movie theater again.
Perfectly fine staff. Perfectly fine other customers. A noon matinee: $10.60 with tax.
(I miss $4.50 matinees at this same Regal Cinemas in the 1990s.)
Customers were perfectly quiet during movie. To my surprise, about ten or a dozen
others showed up to this movie. Movie ended 3pm sharp.

But, movie theater was too cold. The sound was too low.
And the screen is just small. Nothing like the big screens I remember from my youth:
1960s 1970s. So, my 29-inch tv screen at home takes up more of my angular vision
than the theater screen does. Plus, there's no ability to rewind and read subtitles,
something I do obsessively when watching free rented dvd movies.
Plus can't skip over a half hour of previews at the theater.
So, I deliberately paid for an overall WORSE experience, because I felt bad for the movie
theaters.

From what I could make out from the low-volume of the movie:
I felt kind of depressed afterwards, and I don't know why, exactly.
I felt like not much happened, even after 2.5 hours, and they rushed through the resolution.

SPOILER! I felt sad that Felix Leiter died. And, I felt sad that Bond dies at the end.
(Or, does he? I watched through all the credits to see "James Bond will return." at the last frame.)

I like the dialog. I felt it was natural. But, I am confused about the villain Safin's plans exactly. Moreover, I was confused by how he intended to execute his final plans.
SPOILER! Was it to use bionanobots specially targeted to one's DNA to kill people?
Or was it just poison, as the characters referred to it several times, that was to be used against the world?

SPOILER! Madeline Swann emphasizes that the little girl is NOT Bond's daughter.
But, Safin says she is. Who is lying? Who is correct?

I feel like they crammed all the action (or at least the best action) into the 3-minute trailers.
I felt like the movie was very "quiet", for lack of a better word, and I don't just mean
the theater's low volume.

I recognized several previous Bond movie music themes/motifs in the background throughout the movie, most notably the movie ends with Louis Armstrong's rendition of
"We Have All the Time in the World from 1969's "On Her Majesty's Secret Service".

I literally have NO memory of the opening title sequence, least of all its musical number "No Time to Die". Music must have not been so good.

I went in WANTING to like the movie, and I believe I STILL COULD if I watch it again (for free, next time, of course, from the library), and read subtitles.

Also, I got a small panic attack seeing how they treated Ernst Stavros Blofeld,
already confined in a small phone-booth-sized cage, but having his arms handcuffed down.
SPOILER! He dies, too, in a surprising way.

Figured, what better way for the last time I see a movie in a theater than to see the last 007 James Bond movie.