This return to form for
007 had my daughter mostly mesmerized from the opening gun barrel shot, which
she greeted with, “Finally! It’s about dang time!”
The insane oner that in
the pre-credits sequence helped to establish that focus. The destructive ending of it before the theme led
her to proclaim:
“Oh my gosh he broke the
building!
*more explosions*
“Sigh…he broke Mexico.
They can’t take him anywhere.”
The discovery of the telltale
ring was not as clear as the producers probably hoped however.
“It's a ring…with a
brush on it? Oh, it’s an octopus. I
thought it was a ghost. Cuz…Y’know…Spectre.”
Confusion continued
through the credits with a lot of
“why are you….”
And
“what does that…”
during the tentacle
stuff.
Her response to James
being “grounded” showed she knows the franchise:
“That’s a lie. In like… a day… they’ll be all, ‘007 we have
something for you.’”
There was a whole lot of
cheers when Q (Now known as “Sass-ay Q”) and Moneypenny’s arrival. This was
followed by another thrilled greeting for a regular:
“Tanner!!!!
Side note from me: As we
went through these films I kept thinking I recognized Tanner from
somewhere. I finally realized I didn’t,
but Rory Kinnear resembles his dad Roy, who appeared in two of my favorite
films with Gene Wilder. (He’s Veruca Salt’s father in Willy Wonka, and Moriarity’s giant hand wielding assistant in Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother.)
As to be expected the Q
scene was full of cheering. There was a brief emotional switch when the Aston
Martin DB10 was introduced:
“It's a vroom!!!!”
And then stated to be
earmarked for 009:
“WHAT!?!?!?!”
But then she applauded
wildly when Bond asked if the watch did anything and Q’s reply was:
“It tells the time.
Might help with your punctuality issues.”
Followed by predicting- on Q’s return, “I don’t think the DB10 is there now because James…yup.”
Further proof arrived
that we’d taken too long to continue watching these. When the subtitle identified Christoph
Waltz’s character as Blowfeld. I groaned
and she said:
“That’s not gonna give
anything away, because I don't remember who that is.”
She did however,
immediately identify Dave Bautista in silhouette, because she recognized,
“Drax’s head.” She called his eye gouging technique, “Ewwwwwww, that was really
cool! But nasty!”
During the whole car
chase she kept a running chain of emotional outbursts.
*Gunshots*“Aah! No not
the car! Oh, I forgot it’s bulletproof!”
*Bond pushes a button*
“Cool! Oh, it doesn’t work, well he did steal it.”
*Bond pushes a button
with flames* “Fire? WHOAH! Yes!”
*The car crashes* “NO
nonononono! Oh my gosh! Back at MI6,
twelve people are going to strap him down and smack him.”
The altercations between
M and C showed how much she had allied herself to the new leader since the last
film. Besides calling C a “buttface” most of the time, M’s explanation of how a
license to kill is also a license not to kill earned:
“Preach, M!”
The tendency of some of
the older films to pad a bit led to a conversation between us when Bond reached
the snow covered location:
Anabelle- “Please no
skiing. I have PTSD.”
Me- “It could be worse.
What about scuba?”
Anabelle –“Don’t even
bring it up.”
She joined in Bond’s
evaluation by Doctor Swan:
Doctor- “Do you consider
your employment to be psychologically stressful?”
Bond- “Sometimes.”
Anabelle – “Ooooooh,
yeaaaaah!”
Doctor- “How much
alcohol do you consume?”
Anabelle- A lot!”
Bond- “Too much.”
Anabelle- Yee ha!”
But then she did cheer
when James finally ordered a vodka martini “shaken, not stirred.” Then cheered
even louder when Q showed up to order 007 a prolytic digestive enzyme shake.
When Bond told the
bartender to, “Throw that down the toilet, cut out the middleman,’ she
empathized:
“Oh, that poor man.”
Bond’s follow up meeting
and travels with Doctor Swan basically had another character in the conversations.
Swann- “Go to hell!”
Anabelle- “Sweetie, he’s
already going there. He’s a sinner, remember.”
James asks- “This
organization, do you know what it’s called.”
Anabelle- “I’m gonna
take a guess here and say, Spectre?”
James is apologizing to
Swann for bringing her there as he digs into the wall:
“Well, then I'm sorry.”
Anabelle- “Is he gonna
blow up the hotel?”
Later when she informs
James: “Don't think for one moment this is where I fall into your arms, seeking
solace for my dead daddy.”
Anabelle- “I like her.”
James *drinking and sees
a rat on the floor* - “Who sent you? *Points gun* Who are you working for?” *it
goes into the wall* “Now, where did you go?”
Anabelle- “It’s a
rat. Why are you interrogating a rodent?
Do you have a little too
much of that alcohol?
The answer to that is
always yes. “
*007 Discovers the tape
marked “Vesper”*
Anabelle -“We’re going
to have a pouty James Bond again. Pout
pout pout!”
For everything coming together at the end she got even further into it, having more heated reactions to M and C facing down.
Anabelle- “I really
don't like him! Am I supposed to?”
C-“In light of the new information
I've given him, he's decided to close down the double-0 program with immediate
effect.”
Anabelle- “No. I’m
not. Does he die? I hope so.
Come on M, Avada Kadavra
him.”
Back with Bond and
Swann, she noted on the train how the film was going back to the classic
series:
“Oh wow, what a shock. She’s
wearing a pretty dress and he’s drinking.”
When the fight started
with Mr. Hinx I mentioned it was a call back to From Russia With Love, and she asked, “Was that the train
one?” Shortly thereafter she was
completely involved in the fight:
“YES! Throw the green
beans!”
Of course at the end of
the fight when the question was asked, “What do we do now?” Anabelle’s
suggestion was “High five?”
*cut to Jamesbonding*
“No. That is not a high
five.”
The revelations and
emotions came fast and furiously when “Franz Oberhauser” had Bond captive
Anabelle- “Hey that’s
the same picture. Wait a gosh dang diddly darn minute! I see a plot twist!”
*Franz’s Meteorite alone
in space making an impact speech*
Anabelle- “He’s gonna do
a ‘like me’ isn’t he?”
Franz taking
responsibility for all the evils of the Craig era films- “It was all me, James.
It’s always been me.”
Anabelle- “Well, he’s
not creepy at all.”
“He is a nasty man. I
know I said it. But needs reinforcing.”
The cat shows up when he
identifies as Blowfeld:
Anabelle-“Kitty! Oh the kitty man!! I know who he is now!”
Bond’s torture led to a
lot of yelling no about the “pointy things” and
“That is scary
looking. Sharp pointy!!! Pointy are bad!”
Though she calmed down
enough to have her usual level of snark for Blowfeld revealing he killed his
own father for favoring James:
“That's…extreme. They
could have sat down had tea.”
When we learn that the
watch Q provided does have an extra feature and explodes:
“Woo hoo!” I want one!!!!”
“Yeah Q, we don't do
that anymore my butt.”
“I like these movies.”
“Did kitty man die? *building explodes* “I’ll take that as a
yes.”
The cheering went on
through the climax, especially when Tanner, M and Q teamed up.
“Ooh! It's the
squad! Well, most of the squad! Where’s Moneypenny?”
*she shows up later*
“THE SQUAD!!!”
She rated C”s “M for
moron” comment as “Not a very good sass” and cheered mightily at his plummet.
She had some control,
reacting to learning the building will explode in three minutes with a deadpan-
“Of course it will.”
However, she spent most
of the end of the film alternating between going, “AAAAAAAAAAAAH!” and
cheering.
Bond walking off to retire
garnered some unsolicited advice:
“How well did this go
last time James? Turn around and go back
to M.”
But him driving off in
the Aston Martin DB10 (a concept car specially made for the movie, how cool is
that?) ended on more uncontrolled cheering.
I guess we can say
Daniel Craig did a good job, since my daughter went from refusing to watch his
movies for two years, to viewing all of them in under a week and then
complaining she has to wait over a year to see the next one like the rest of
us.
Oops, I guess these later ones did expand in to full “kid’s eyes” reviews. It's a Heisenberg thing. Now that she’s older, once my daughter realized her reactions were being observed, she went into performance mode.
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