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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Curlew on November 19, 2008, 01:12:12 PM
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Yes the new bond, loved it
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Loved it too... though i must admit, this was the first Bond movie where at the end I didn't have the thought "man, it sure would be sweet to be James Bond."
I have to say though... the character Fields stole the movie for me :aok
(http://moviesmedia.ign.com/movies/image/article/848/848237/quantum-of-solace-20080129071310852.jpg)
she was awesome, and wasn't even the "official" Bond girl from the flick...
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I read somewhere she was born with twelve fingers.
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Both Bond girls are... ok... :D
(http://img2.timeinc.net/ew/dynamic/imgs/080108/gemmaolga_l.jpg)
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Loved it too... though i must admit, this was the first Bond movie where at the end I didn't have the thought "man, it sure would be sweet to be James Bond."
I have to say that I like the "reality" based Bond a lot more that the previous ones. No sci-fi gimmicks, and gone are the obligatory endings that has Bond pumping the Bond Girl (whether on the space shuttle in zero g, or submarine escape pod, or whatever) while Q runs interference so the Queen, or M, who's standing by to congratulate him, doesn't catch on to what's going on... :D
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Some minor spoilers here -- you've been warned.
I thought it was overall a good flick, but it didn't blow me away. The initial action sequence was imo the best, after that they got a bit superfluous. (I didn't like the boat chase at all :( ) Also, I don't think they pulled off the "Lets make this plot seem believable and a political statement." Too many plots and side stories mixed in together in an incoherent manner, which came across as half-arsed and hurt other aspects of the movie. (IE character development...did anyone care at all what happened to anyone but M?)
I guess I'm just squaring this one up against Casino Royale, which was in my mind phenomenal. QoS did a good job of going back to bond roots -- action, girls, explosivo -- but lacked some of the quality of the last one.
It's still worth checking out.
Note to self -- don't stay in explosive hotels.
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it was ok, the one before was better
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Loved it too... though i must admit, this was the first Bond movie where at the end I didn't have the thought "man, it sure would be sweet to be James Bond."
I have to say though... the character Fields stole the movie for me :aok
(http://moviesmedia.ign.com/movies/image/article/848/848237/quantum-of-solace-20080129071310852.jpg)
she was awesome, and wasn't even the "official" Bond girl from the flick...
(warning spoilers)
Shes a babe, cant beleive they killed her off, she would have been so fun to watch her and bond go romping around
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I saw it when it came out in the UK 2 or 3 weeks ago, it was great :D
I loved the DC-3.
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I saw it when it came out in the UK 2 or 3 weeks ago, it was great :D
I loved the DC-3.
yah, i wish our c47s could fly like that and take that much damage, mine falls apart when you spit on it
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I saw it when it came out in the UK 2 or 3 weeks ago, it was great :D
I loved the DC-3.
First thing I thought when I saw the movie was: This is why you have to take your goon NOE..... Now release the troops!
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***Mild spoiler warning***
TOO MUCH SHAKY ACTION CAMERA. ARRRRRRRRRGH.
It was damned impossible to enjoy any of the action scenes because you couldn't tell what the hell was going on. Apparently they hired the Bourne guy, which will be immediately obvious to anyone who sees the movie. Infuriating.
Fields was ridiculously hot. Far hotter than the faux-Bolivian girl.
The Bolivian propfighter pilot must have been incompetent. Also, because of the shaky camera it was impossible to tell how Bond mysteriously forced him to crash into the side of a mountain.
Anyway... very disappointing movie. Depressingly shallow.
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***Mild spoiler warning***
TOO MUCH SHAKY ACTION CAMERA. ARRRRRRRRRGH.
It was damned impossible to enjoy any of the action scenes because you couldn't tell what the hell was going on. Apparently they hired the Bourne guy, which will be immediately obvious to anyone who sees the movie. Infuriating.
Fields was ridiculously hot. Far hotter than the faux-Bolivian girl.
The Bolivian propfighter pilot must have been incompetent. Also, because of the shaky camera it was impossible to tell how Bond mysteriously forced him to crash into the side of a mountain.
Anyway... very disappointing movie. Depressingly shallow.
Didn't you catch it. He bled his airspeed down to stall levels...
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I must have missed the half-second extreme closeup blurry shot of it.
Of course, that makes perfect sense. Everyone knows Bolivian pilots are incompetent, and will gladly drop to stall speeds to kill a goony. ;)
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I must have missed the half-second extreme closeup blurry shot of it.
Of course, that makes perfect sense. Everyone knows Bolivian pilots are incompetent, and will gladly drop to stall speeds to kill a goony. ;)
I can't count how many times in AH I've seen people auger all around my C47... :lol
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I must have missed the half-second extreme closeup blurry shot of it.
Of course, that makes perfect sense. Everyone knows Bolivian pilots are incompetent, and will gladly drop to stall speeds to kill a goony. ;)
wouldnt we all
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LOCK before you give the ending away spoilers. :rolleyes:
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Haven't seen it yet, but I will. It seems there's a universal thumbs down for the director. All he could do was quick cuts with the wobble cam.
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gets better as it goes along i thought , kinda fast paced at first tho!! hope i didnt give it away!!
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I caught it over the weekend and liked it well enough. The Shaky cam was bugging me in the opening scene, but I guess I got used to it because I didn't notice it so much on the Boat or Plane chases.
I thought that the writing was decent. I didn't notice the mis-mash of sub-plots that were referenced earlier. Sure it wasn't as water-tight as you might want, but everything seemed to come back to the main theme of Bond's coming to grips with 1. Letting himself get too close to Vesper, and 2. Not being able to protect her. It's the same device they used in "On her Majesty's Secret Service" when they killed off his wife.
I was also pleased with what I thought was the modernizing of SPECTRE into Quantum. It gives us a sense of Mystery as each movie hopefully takes us a little deeper into who these people are, and how they operate. I think that in the 2000s, the whole global cabal of conspirators plays really well. I mean, how many people watched that Zeitgeist video and bought it hook, line and sinker?
There were some missed opportunities out there. For example, why spend so much time and energy painting Bond as having gone off the reservation then just let it all drop with M saying "He my agent, I trust him"? That was a long run for a short slide, but I suppose in the over-arching storyline (it seems that these new bond movies will be more serialized than the previous one or two off affairs of the past) it probably works.
It wasn't my favorite Bond flick by any stretch, but I did like it quite a bit, and would easily put it in the upper half.
-Sik
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I havn't seen it yet, thats why I just scrolled over everything. I did see that the second girl is hot, but idk just yet. But I did like the first one, she gets a 9.5 on my vote. :D
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It was ok... pretty darn confusing
I've never seen a bond movie with so much action, there was barely any break from it for a story line to develop, there was just about 30seconds of non action in between the chase scenes, of which there was a chase scene in every mode of transportation (foot, motorcyle, boat, plane, car) lol
not the classic bond that i grew up loving, i know the guy who played Q died but can't they at least get a new guy or have M give him so cool gadgets, would have loved to seen a new "bond car" (stupid stock astin martins lol)
I liked the concept of making it more realistic but if thats going to be the case, bond should have died 20 times in that movie or at least broken some limbs, so if youre going to make it realistic, make it a tad bit more realistic, if not, bring back the gadgets, then i'll be happy with him surving anything.
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The problem is the last few Bond movies before Casino Royale relied TOO much on gadgets. It's not just that the two Craig movies are more realistic, they're also much closer to Flemming's original Bond.