Quantum Of Solace Trailer

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Just seen it. Well nearly all of it, 3/4`s. Walked out. Boring.
Made a joke to my mates as we sat dowm to watch it. Pretended to of forgotten what it was we had came to watch, so I asked if it was `The Little Mermaid`. Wish it had of been.
 
Just came back from seeing it. Well, most of it. Walked out about 1/2 way through. Really boring and slow and didn't seem typical Bond. Dan Craig, however hard he tries, just doesn't live up to the suavity and coolness to play Bond.
 
Good film, but swamped by the unnecessary action sequences. The plot was a touch hard to follow as well.

I'm in great danger of becoming a die hard purist for the novels... I've really very little time for the old Bond films, and I'm hoping the new ones don't go that way too.
 
regulus said:
Just came back from seeing it. Well, most of it. Walked out about 1/2 way through. Really boring and slow and didn't seem typical Bond. Dan Craig, however hard he tries, just doesn't live up to the suavity and coolness to play Bond.
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He's not supposed to be suave. Well, not in the books anyway.

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Just got back from seeing QOS and trust me anyone who's thinking about going to see it.... you need to have seen Casino Royale first! Seriously the entire film is more or less based on Bond searching for those responsible for the death of Vesper Lynd in the last film.

In terms of comparing the films side by side I do have to admit this aint as good as the last film, story isn't as easy to get to grips with and the action scenes aren't as good either. Having said all that though the Bond series does continue along the same kind of gritty trend that Casino Royale started in this film rather than going back to the camp Pierce Brosnan over the top gadget fest that dominated The World Is Not Enough and Die Another Day and that's a good thing and as a stand alone film it aint bad and well worth the cinema price.
 
Tom84 said:
Just got back from seeing QOS and trust me anyone who's thinking about going to see it.... you need to have seen Casino Royale first! Seriously the entire film is more or less based on Bond searching for those responsible for the death of Vesper Lynd in the last film.
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Indeed. I'd wanted to watch Casino Royale this week, but didn't get round to it. Wish I had, as bits of QoS would have made more sense.
 
Wife and I saw it this afternoon - she's not a bond lover, but did enjoy it.

For me - Good film, but no bond film - all the trademarks were missing, although I do have to say I liked it.

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i didnt like it :( it just seems as though they tried to fit as many different locations and action sequencies in as possible, at the expense of any story telling. It wasnt a patch on Casino Royal in my opinion :/
 
Possibly the worst film I've seen all year. I'm an absolute Bond fanatic and Casnio Royale is one of my favourite action films of all time, but this was just atrocious. It felt horribly unbalanced as if they'd cut out half of the scenes... Stuff was happening but we didn't know or care why. The first quarter of an hour was good, but other than that, it was utterly shocking.

I give it 3/10 at best. :(
 
People that walk out of a film really do confuse and concern me? You go out and pay for a movie, make your mind up within an hour and then leave? You don't even get to see what happens or anything? I've watched some terrible films in my time at the movies but never even come close to thinking 'hey let's leave' - very strange!
This product placement crap is now starting to litter the big screen and it's really annoying - wish they could ban it. Cool cars is one thing, but having Ford plaster their crap all over the screen is wrong!
 
Clipsey said:
People that walk out of a film really do confuse and concern me? You go out and pay for a movie, make your mind up within an hour and then leave? You don't even get to see what happens or anything? I've watched some terrible films in my time at the movies but never even come close to thinking 'hey let's leave' - very strange!
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My wife and I walked out of 50 First Dates at the cinema. We'd not chosen the film and knew from the outset we probably wouldn't like it. Nothing could have prepared us for how bad it actually was though.
 
Saw it the other day, here's the film in a nutshell:

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- Car chase. DBS. Camera man falls over edge of cliff with car.
- Weird credits with awful theme tune and bizarre bullet-following sequence.
- Interrogation: We have people everywhere. Har har har you don't know anything about us. OMG highly-skilled double-agent misses a point blank shot at M.
- Bond chases someone and kills him. Bond gets told off.
- M gets annoyed at Bond
- Overly-long and complicated dialogue which loses me for the next 20 minutes. But it's ok because there's some explosions and a hot girl.
- Over-long shot of Bond's arm. OMEGA! And Sony phone!
- Bond kills someone else. Bond gets told off. Next few lines already heard in trailer.
- Bond's passports and credit card are stopped. S'ok, he finds an old CIA friend and uses his. OMG SONY.
- Car chase through streets. Ford, Sony, GPS tracking, but it's ok because Bond has an Omega.
- MI6 try to arrest Bond. They fail.
- Bond kills more people, and OMG it's water not the cliche oil.
- SONY! Why hasn't Bond's phone crashed yet like mine?
- Hotel gradually explodes as Bond runs through it. Baddie dies in desert.
- End

So....I thought it was pretty much a half-bond film. Not a touch on /any/ other Bond film, and basically felt a bit silly really. There wasn't much to the plot, and all the good lines and action sequences were seen in the trailer. Infact, all the good stuff was in the trailer. There was nothing else! I was expecting the interrogation of Mr White to be more than "we have people everywhere..." BANG BANG *White runs off* :rolleyes:

No classic Bond stuff, no decent Bond girl hotness, no gadgets, nothing apart from every 25min Bond and M talking about how M doesn't trust him and how don't worry it's ok, he knows what he's doing.

:(
 
Beansprout said:
no decent Bond girl hotness
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Gemma whatsherface was OK. True, she was no Eva Green, but still... I would! ;)

I enjoyed the film. A nice continuation of Casino Royale, and we've got a bit more on this new SPECTRE-esque organisation, who are presumably going to be the background baddies for all the Craig Bond films (assuming he does more, which I hope he does)
 
It's an apparently barren piece of land that just happens to have a MASSIVE river running through it that sustains more than one country...and a few kilometers away desperate people work the well to obtain a few drops of precious water. Maybe I missed something, I dozed off and woke up just at that point. Casino Royale is a masterpiece compared to this.
However, I didn't notice any of the product placements, I couldn't care less if Sony flashed up a dozen times. In fact I only really just realized the remark Vesper makes about his Omega on the train in CR - no wonder everyone here seems to want one. I also couldn't care less that there were no classic bond trademarks - good. One thing that did annoy me was the holographic star trek computer nonsense at MI6, tell tale sign that the 'cheesiness' of later Brosnan films is creeping back in.
This film has a lot of good ingredients, awesome ingredients in fact, but it just adds up to less, much like the collaboration on the tune with White/Keys. There are some brilliant moments full of action but they're just wasted on me. The most interesting thing for me was the talking between Bond and M. There appears to be a certain chemistry there probably due to their acting abilities (?).
I could tell from interviews with Mr Craig that the film wasn't all it's cracked up to be as he seemed to be a bit subdued, also the heavy promotion on radio and beaming reviews elsewhere was a bit 'Oasis - Be Here Now'. Maybe it's one to rewatch a few times.
With regards to 'not being a patch on /any/ of the old Bond films' - that's a joke. There have been a few awful awful Bond movies, in fact to be perfectly honest I can hardly sit through the old ones anymore, their boring now. Octopussy for example - rubbish. Even Goldfinger is a bit tiresome in places. Only the first three Roger Moore films are any good, On Her Majesty's is awful, Thunderball is quite weak, and the only decent film Brosnan made was Goldeneye (although the beginning of Die Another Day is superb).
Daniel Craig is beginning to bore me, I was all for him being Bond after watching Layer Cake, couldn't understand the protest beforehand at all, and at the end of Casino Royale I trully thought he'd absolutely nailed the part and I was convinced he would be the reincarnation of Connery in this film - but I still feel as though I'm watching a young Bond, not a man. There's something about him I now despise slightly (maybe in the same way that Fleming began to hate his creation, the man he wished he was), I can't put my finger on it, it's almost as if there's too much arrogance and the intensity of this 'emotional turmoil' just gives off he impression that he's about to crack under the pressure all the time - okay, we get it, he's driven. You'd think Bond would be clever enough to get some sleep as well. I hate to say it, but there's a certain sense of 'star' quality that is missing, that Connery just pulls off effortlessly.
Maybe I'm just getting too old for this nonsense and I'm just not easily impressed anymore.

Also, it's not like we've not had continuity in Bond films before, Diamonds are Forever was basically the same fundamental plotline - revenge for the killing of his wife in On Her Majesty. But unlike QoS, Diamonds pulled off the feel of a stand alone film.
 
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