30 minutes free internet at Frankfurt...

So, I have 30 minutes of internet, but that should be enough. Flight from Milan arrived late, so I've only got about 30 minutes until boarding commences, anyway.

Grabbed Scotch in duty free, have food. Looking forward to getting home. Soon. :)

Home

And, home again. Now I just have to try and stay awake until a reasonable enough time to re-set my schedule. Hopefully the party this evening will help with that. :)

Skyfall

(probably spoilery if you haven't seen the movie)

Skyfall, the latest Bond movie, was available on the flight home, so I watched it. I am underwhelmed.

Ok, it has the usual Bond tropes -- vehicle chases, and casinos and beautiful women. But, it seems, also, such a small movie. We don't have a threat to the east-west power balance, we don't have a threat to world peace, or of world domination, or anything like that. We have a purely internal to MI6 threat, revenge of an ex-agent on the boss who let the enemy take him. Bond isn't saving the world, or even western civilization -- he's saving his job. Oooo.

And while it pass the Bechdel Test, there were a couple times where I went, "oh no you didn't just go there... oh yes, you did". Severine (Raoul Silva [the villain]'s moll): Bond identifies her as someone scared, as someone who has been brand as a prostitute, and someone who has been used as a child prostitute -- essentially slavery -- and yet, he still surprises her, naked, in a shower, from behind, with sexual tough. UGH. And then when Raoul is interrogating Bond... male-male touching. 2 horrible messages there: being touched by a man is so offensive it is torture. And, the standard, the villain is the one who is gay. UGH and UGH.

I know it is Bond... the flirtation and seduction between Bond and Eve... that's classic Bond. I might shake my head a bit, but it is expected with the genre, not progressive, but ok. But the other bits -- nope.