*CONTAINS SOME LITTLE SPOILERS* (Doesn't change much though, you shouldn't waste a single minute watching it.)
Ceph wrote:zlk wrote:I liked the movie
You are wrong to like it, of course. Some random internet user said it's garbage.
Who said that - they were bang on in their assessment!
Let's not bullshit, it's insulting when someone with poor taste in films calls people who criticise a useless film 'stupid'.
If anything, the entire notion of this thread points to just the opposite.
Quantum of Solace isn't just a bad Bond film, it's a bad film full stop.
Without stealing 1up's thunder, he states the obvious. The action sequences, which the director clearly understood to be the only significant thing tying the film together, were cut to within an inch of their life. It was beyond a serious case of Bourne-envy, it was just downright poorly done.
At certain points I was sitting in the theater thinking "right, WTF is actually happening now - I have no idea," and that's unforgivable for an action sequence. It loses all sense of urgency and purpose when it leaves the audience behind.
All this crap about the portrayal of Bond being new, fresh and edgy is seriously misunderstood - not least by the producers. Casino Royale, for the first time in about thirty years, rebooted Bond because they actually had an Ian Fleming novel to work with. Despite being updated, it hearkened back to the classic elements of the Bond audiences love. It was a well paced, well directed film.
Quantum of Solace had none of those sensibilities.
The plot is horrific. It was convoluted to the point where you don't actually understand exactly how it's all falling together - which is purposeful, because if you actually realised that the bad guy is draining small impoverished villages of their water supplies by creating underground reservoirs, you might laugh yourself out of your seat.
Ultimately, it WAS crap - no doubt about that. I was bored watching a mechanical Bond run through an even more mechanical routine in an almost routinely bad blockbuster movie. To boot, he was stripped of any kind of character, and the dialogue was...well, can you remember any decent one-liners? (It's a Bond film after all.)
Why we all accept, put up with, and pay for this crap (see Die Hard 4, Transformers, and yes, even the overrated Dark Knight) I don't know.
I do take offense to this thread promoting the worth of this movie. I'm not all Stanley Kubrick, I understand that action movie's have an important place in Cinema, and those that have come before (Die Hard, Robocop, Total Recall, Predator) have deserved the status they've achieved.
But Quantum is seriously sub-standard fare.
The critics who panned it are far from the idiots - they are informed and educated, and we should respect the fact they've saved a lot of people £7 for for a night of derivative movie boredom.
Though truth be told, despite having glimpsed bits and pieces of a bunch of the Bond movies (mostly via the aforementioned marathons), I'm having trouble recalling ever watching one all the way through. Then again, from what I've seen I've never been particularly interested in seeking out more of it, but I'm definitely in the minority.
