Oulu's new eight-screen cinema, The Plaza, opened in the centre of town last Friday. Come Saturday I was there with my boyfriend. I haven't had a better movie experience since living at my parents' place in Norway, where a travelling movie theatre came to our little village twice every month.

There, the movies were shown in the gym room. We enjoyed them in a more or less horizontal position - on thick, very comfortable gym mattresses. I had never expected to have a comparable movie theatre experience again, so I'll share this one with you.

Good seats and enough space for my extremely long legs are important. Actually my legs are extremely short, but there's the satisfaction of knowing that if I had long legs, I could stretch them out.  Also, space is an advantage for those of us who prefer to arrive in the last minute to avoid commercials. When no one has to get up to let us to our seats, we really don't create that much annoyance.

The Plaza has plenty of space for long feet and rude people arriving late. And it has extremely good seats. They're wide and comfy. Even my boyfriend, who normally complains about his bad back after half an hour in a seat in the movie theatre, managed to sit still for two and a half hours without as much as a peep.

Comfortable, then - but what about the movie? We watched Casino Royale, the new Bond movie, directed by Martin Campbell (of Goldeneye, The Legend of Zorro), and based on Ian Fleming’s first novel about James Bond, of the same name. I liked it a lot.

I guess this is because I'm easy when it comes to movies; good means entertaining. And James Bond is nothing but entertainment. I especially liked the opening scene’s climbing and jumping. Bond is less snobbish than before. He doesn't care whether his martini is shaken or stirred. He makes mistakes, even falls in love.

I have to admit that Bond's love confessions to Vesper were a bit too soft for me though. At least until I remembered that the movie is based on the first Bond novel, so it all makes sense. James falls deeply in love, and gets hurt so badly that he never can get emotionally attached to a woman again.

As I said, I'm pretty easy to satisfy, so I'll skip the wannabe movie expert talk about camera angles and deeper hidden meanings. I think you'd have to search very deep and long to find a deeper meaning in this movie anyway. I’ll jump right to the conclusion: Casino Royale is a very entertaining movie, better than the two or three other Bond movies I've seen so far. More importantly, Daniel Craig has a nice bod. Very nice. It’s almost worth the 10€ movie ticket alone.