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Skyfall

November 10, 2012

Alex, David and I went to see the new James Bond movie tonight and it was quite fun. It is truly amazing how such a long-running series that revolves around basic ideas I disagree with (violence everywhere and lots of expendable sex objects women running around), can be so continually entertaining. I won’t go into any details for fear of the dreaded spoiler, but I will say that Bond, does get to introduce himself at least once as, “Bond, James Bond”, he also drinks a shaken martini, seduces several women, gets shot, shoots people in return (although this Bond seems to much more a fan of beating people up and then strangling them or dropping them off high places).

Also the theme song is by Adele and far and away the best Bond song yet. Here’s proof: