Taking a break from political news for a moment. The newest James Bond film was released on DVD yesterday. While I loved its immediate predecessor "Casino Royale", I thought "Quantum of Solace" was probably the most disappointing Bond film to date. While CR is a new classic that ranks in quality alongside the best 1960s Bond films, QOS left me nostalgic and longing for some of the weaker Roger Moore and Pierce Brosnan 007 flicks. John Nolte's review pretty much sums up my reaction to it.
To: ReformationFan
Action sequences were annoyingly long. Pointless. Villians sucked. Girl was sooooo unbelievably hot though.
2 posted on
03/25/2009 12:05:17 PM PDT by
exist
To: ReformationFan
I thought "Quantum of Solace" was probably the most disappointing Bond film to date. Yup. That and "The Dark (and in need of a film editor) Night" and "DREAR∙E WALL∙E" made is a bad year for movies for me....
3 posted on
03/25/2009 12:07:42 PM PDT by
Yossarian
(Everyday, somewhere on the globe, somebody is pushing the frontier of stupidity...)
To: ReformationFan
QOS was supposed to shake the mold of Bond and remake it slightly. I think the story was a 2-star story and barely worth the effort of filming. And as for DVD purchases...this would be one of the last movies of that year that I’d ever buy to have in my library.
To: ReformationFan
The villian of “Quantum” is an environmentalist fraud who in some scenes is lit to look like Al Gore. A LOT of Libs didn’t like it for that reason.
It’s not the best Bond, but still a lot of fun. Some dynamite locations, pretty fair stunts, Craig and Judi Dench in good form.
And a very nice surprise at the very end.
8 posted on
03/25/2009 12:39:39 PM PDT by
JennysCool
(Once is happenstance, twice is coincidence, three times is enemy action - Ian Fleming)
To: ReformationFan
I watched it last night. The music sucked and I could not follow the plot at all. The dialog was spoken so low that I could not understand what was being said.
And yeah, the always excellent Jeffrey Wright, as Felix Leiter, was ill used.
It was dispapointing to say the least.
10 posted on
03/25/2009 1:25:05 PM PDT by
Virginia Ridgerunner
(Sarah Palin is a smart missile aimed at the heart of the left!)
To: ReformationFan
It wasn't that bad of a movie -- but the HOTEL HINDENBURG at the end was just plain silly.
12 posted on
03/25/2009 1:40:58 PM PDT by
BenLurkin
(And oh (hey) I've been travelin' on this road too long)
To: ReformationFan
Well, I did like the opening sequence.
To: ReformationFan
Quantum is the 24th James Bond film. These writers let the produces just count the ones they made. I call BS. If Never Say Never with Sean Connery is not a Bond film, then none of the others are either.
15 posted on
03/25/2009 1:46:30 PM PDT by
nufsed
(Release the birth certificate, passport and school records.)
To: ReformationFan
QofS would be the second worst Bond film. Die Another Day was laughably bad.
16 posted on
03/25/2009 1:50:34 PM PDT by
GSWarrior
(Posting bandwidth consuming jpgs since 2000.)
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