Aki and I saw Die Another Day on friday night. It is a good movie, but the major problem I found with it was the editing. Most of the movie is filmed like other recent Bond films (with superb locations etc), but the action scenes are edited just too quickly. Sure, action scenes always have quicker editing, but seriously, these scenes need to be watched in slow motion. Cuts are too quick, and mixes of double and normal speed are used like that seen in Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels. As the majority of the film is not filmed like this (as LS&2SB is) it detracts from the quality of the film. I found that in the opening action scene, the music was too hard to hear. The only action I found to be actually watchable (in that the audience knows exactly what is happening) is the sword duel between Bond and that evil diamond daredevil (I forget his name). The car chase on ice took days and a lot of money to film, but it only lasts on screen for a very short time (not enough I think, due to too much cutting). Another thing is that I never (conciously) heard the name of the diamond faced man, Yao. Other than these problems, I find DAD to be an entertaining film, but simple filmmaking techniques can make the film more enjoyable. Goldeneye is still my favourite Bond flick.
The other day I watched Dark City. While it has a mind bending different reality storyline, the screenplay suffers from bad senarios and dialog, and the acting of the main character is quite bad. The Matrix possibly took some ideas from this movie, eg the behaviour of the ’strangers’ are similar to that of the Agents. There are some quite good special effects; my favourite was where a some stairs and surrounding walls morphed, making the staircase much longer (similar to the effects in Mario64 and Max Payne); great bending of reality.
I’m still sick 
Oh yeah, and on the way from Hoyts in Rundle Mall to the Pancake Kitchen on friday, some guy in a passing car happened to mistake me for Harry Potter.