Links and Accomplishments, December 2015

[lisefrac]

Originally published at Lise Fracalossi. You can comment here or there.

Much belated! So belated you don’t even get any links. Womp womp.
Accomplishments

Writing
- Wrote 351 words on Lioness
- Wrote 2 blogs posts: Meditations on ESO - Cyrodiil, Imperial City, and Pledges and Lise watches a star war, and talks about it

Reading
- Started and abandoned

Comments

[qnmark]

My condolences on Spectre. Such a terrible film.

[lisefrac]

See, I didn't go in expecting a "film." I just wanted to look at Daniel Craig for 2.5 hours. In that, it succeeded admirably as extruded James Bond product. It even had bonus Christoph Waltz with questionable sartorial choices!

It is a terrible "film", but it's perhaps a decent "movie." Perhaps even a "flick."

[qnmark]

I don't think it's a decent flick, either. The plot suffers from sequel escalation: Christoph Waltz has to be bigger than the previous Craig villains, and it just doesn't work. The part where Bond has to get help from Mr. White is about the only good thing about the film - not because of the death (it doesn't elicit any emotional reaction), but because it actually shows us how the current villain is bigger than in Casino Royale and Quantum of Solace. In contrast, with the main villain it doesn't work - he has this ridiculous monologue about how he personally wrecked all of Bond's relationships and pulled the strings behind the previous Craig villains, which could almost work in a superhero flick, in which the supervillain's main goal is to break the hero, but fails in a Bond flick, in which the supervillain's main goal is world domination. The mainline action genre, including James Bond movies but specifically not superhero flicks, is all about the villain and their plan. This is what makes classics like T1 and Die Hard work - the