I should check when I get home on whether the Netflix sleeve hyphenates the title correctly. When it was in theaters the official title was ungrammatical, as seen on the main title of this IMDB page.
"Do you know how I know you're gay?" is:
A. Homophobic
B. Homoerotic
C. Offensive
D. Hilarious
E. evocative of Kevin Smith movies
F. some combination of all of those
I never had a car in Boston. The other day I found an old journal: I'd forgotten how frequently I went on first or second dates in 1998-1999 (the very beginning of the on-line personals era).
In the poker scene everyone is holding five cards. I predict that this is the last major movie poker scene to depict draw poker rather than hold em. (The Casino Royale remake -- which I haven't seen -- apparently used hold em in plcae of baccarat.)
How much time passes between the scene in which the 16-year-old claims that the protagonists are always having sex, to the scene in which she tells Andy that she can tell he's a virgin?
Two hours, thirteen minutes seems too long, and yet I could see myself watching three straight hours of Dateapalooza, even (especially?) as improv comedy.
I will save the two most interesting observations for actual conversation with my wife, but probably add them here later this week.
Posted by Matt Bruce at December 6, 2006 12:15 PMYes, Casino Royale does use hold-'em poker. I wasn't paying close enough attention to it, but I'm positive there's comedy gold in there.
Posted by: crodgers at December 6, 2006 09:50 PMPeople will thumb their noses at it, and some of it struck me as hokey, because I'm in the business (so to speak), but honestly I thought the poker content was good. The visual aesthetics of the relevant scenes (and the rest of the movie) were excellent, the action was unrealistic but sensible, and... I dunno, it just worked more than well enough for me.
BTW, I highly recommend the movie, and I don't think I've ever enjoyed a Bond movie before.
--Nate
Posted by: Nate at December 8, 2006 12:09 AM