Saw a trailer for ‘Twilight’ earlier today. You know what’s already bugging me? I get the lead vampire guys all look like the Jonas Brothers because it’s mainly a movie for teenage girls, but how do they get all their man-makeup and hair gel properly applied without reflections? Or is this another everything-you-know-about-vampires-is-wrong thing? I dunno…when was the last time there was a vampire movie where all the ‘rules’ were already in place to begin with?

also: Now that ‘Captain America’ has a director and two writers (Joe Johnston and the Narnia scribes, respectively, in all three cases, alarmingly good if on-the-nose choices) thoughts now inevitably turn to casting. Let me weigh in one of the bigger sticking points right off the bat: I think Captain America should be played by an American actor; not because of some notion of patriotic symbolism… i just know it’ll be annoying as hell to have to hear that particular question and stick-answer come up in every damn interview for the next year and a half.

Casino Royal had no jokes, no inside references, no gadgets, no henchmen, no nicknamed bad guys, no funny-name Bond girls, no SPECTER, no hideout etc. Quantum of Solace has a couple of jokes, one insider reference to Goldfinger and cracking well-done by the way, a couple sorta-gadgets, a sorta-henchman, a bad guy who’s sorta-nicknamed (mock environmentalist named ‘Greene’), one sorta-funny named Bond girl, the suggestion of a very SPECTER-like Quantum society and something almost resembling a hideout. My question: At this rate, is it going to take two or three more sequels for James Bond to turn back into James Bond instead of a slightly less whiny-bitch version of Jason Bourne?