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Hey, he drove a Toyota in one of the scenes as well.

This is not your fathers Bond??

Double oh-no-he-din't?

My son, who has just been initiated to Bond, picked up on it. I spent a good 15 minutes trying to explain how uncool that was for Bond.

Then, of all things, I could not ID the flashy sports car he drove later.

Ditto on the critique of the movie. My main complaint was that it felt like three different movies, with unnecessary plot twists thrown in for apparently no reason. I know that's probably how the book was written, but the plot twists just felt a little contrived today.

Still, I agree with the Daniel Craig assessment. He's definitely a much more gritty bond than Brosnan was. I enjoyed him in the movie and think he'll last more than a couple of movies in the role. But, my fear is that they'll try to upgrade the series to be more realistic - - it was the campy fun that I enjoyed about Bond. Supervillians, ridiculous locations, nonsense quasi-scientific plots, double-entendre laden leading ladies, etc. Formulaic, but good.

I also agree about Daniel Craig. I like the "new" hard-nosed Bond. It's funny, they've reinvented the character in the movie that explains his start as an agent.

I think the Bond movie "campiness" went too far when they wanted me to believe Denise Richards was a nuclear scientist, or physicist, or whatever she was supposed to be. . .

Yeah, Denise was pretty bad. For me, she's just not hot enough to be such a bad actor.

So true, Capn!