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Wow, I don't think I have ever seen it ranked that high before. Is there anything in particular that caused you to love it so much?
I agree with you there. Every time I watch that scene I'm bedazzled by Craig. He has the intensity of Dalton there.
The best ending to Bond film, for my money anyway. Leaving Greene to his devices in the middle of the desert with just a can of oil to sustain him is one of the most sinister moments Bond has had in the franchise, and before that the film has the guts to actually show Bond contemplating a murder-suicide rather than burn to death in the fire. Certainly much more interesting material than the blatant fan-service employed in the endings of the other Craig films.
Following that up with a great confrontation with Yusef in Russia, I don't think they've ever ended a Bond film in a better way.
And also, Bond evolves. By the end he's become the Bond I know. Sends bloody shivers up my spine. And all this basically written on the fly. Amazing.
DO IT LIVE!!
Maybe EON should have dumped Mendes and brought Forster aboard Spectre when the script problems began. They could have let him and Craig rewrite the film on the fly. Couldn't have turned out any worse. ;)
Boys, I think we've found the writer of Bond 25:
Somebody call Barbara, Michael, and Daniel. We'll have this baby shot and ready for theaters by Christmas.
That is not what I would call build-up. In fact it is a juxtaposition of completely different tones/atmospheres/states of tension.
-Sienna chase: Begins with a shot
-Knife fight: Begins with knife being flicked
-Plane chase: Begins with them getting shot at
and so on.
I get what you are trying to say and for maybe one or two scenes it would be fine. But the problem with QOS is that it just kept doing it, having all these action scenes come out of nowhere instead of arising naturally. And a lot of this action doesn't really know if it's action - elevator fight, shootout with the motorbike police - it starts up very quickly and then ends immediately. QOS just gives a very start-stop feel. An irate child who for one moment is lazy and doesn't want to do anything, then moments later has a fit, over and over.
I agree. The dialogue is surprisingly good for a film that endured a writer's strike. Far superior to the latest effort. It's not even close. There's something very 'old school' about QoS's dialogue. It's intelligent to my ears. Mature even.
Totally agree. Have been a big QOS fan since the day I first saw it. Massively underrated Bond film.
I partly blame that massively overrated film critic, Mark Kermode.
It's #3 for me.
If I had to guess, I'd say OHMSS is his #1 and CR #2.
It's my number 2, behind CR.
Well done. :D
I aim to please. ;)
One of the reasons I love QoS is because there's no bs. It really doesn't pull any punches and gets straight down to business. It's somewhat hardboiled and gritty but has an elegance and degree of sophistication to it that really distinguishes itself from the other 23 films. The scenes with Mathis are incredible and I love the controversial dumping of his body in a dumpster. The opening car chase with Arnold's score is absolutely fantastic; yes, it has a few editing issues but I can forgive it simply because of how visceral it is. The Tosca shootout is a standout, that's different, dynamic and unpretentious. I REALLY need to find time to do a CR/QoS double bill sometime soon.
Let's have some more strikes, please. ;;)
Exactly right. When you look at the amount of plot holes and discrepancies in Skyfall, you do wonder.
I don't think there are as many as people claim.