Tainted

I went and saw Casino Royale the other day; probably one of my favorite Bond films to date! Daniel Craig does a bang-up job as the new JB. There’s a really sweet Parkour-style chase scene at the beginning (with none-other than Parkour co-founder Sebastien Foucan!) that got me pretty psyched for the rest of the film. As always, Bond is suave as a mother*%$#@& and just fun to watch.

I’m starting to suffer from the curse of knowledge though. I realized this more while I was watching the movie. Here I am, watching this crazy action film and I’m critiquing the technical aspects of the film! I’m looking at the composition of the frame, the use of contrast, silhouette, the cropping and carre, principle of thirds, use of perspective, et cetera, et cetera, and how it adds to the scene visually. Now instead of enjoying a movie what it is, I’m starting to enjoy it for what it’s composed of. I’m not quite sure if that is a good thing or a bad thing yet, only time will tell I guess.

I’ve also found myself complaining about the choice of font (Papyrus in particular) on advertisements and commercial buildings. The worst part about that being that I’m actually not all that fond of typography to say the least! :D