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I watch Quantum a lot. I just love its fast pace and Craig is just so good in it. 👍
Firstly they needed 10-15 minutes more for characters and story to build slowly.
Secondly i love the energy and action choreography but fast jump cuts, disoriented techniques ruined it and action Scenes needed more room to breathe.
That being said Casino Royale parkour chase is how action should be done and still remain best action Scene of Craig Era for me.
Oh definitely. The parkour sequence is fantastic. One of the best action sequences in the series IMO.
But I really love the Quantum PTS for sheer visceral energy.
Absolutely, but I love the scaffolding fight, and also the plane sequence. I didn't like the boat chase initially, but its grown on me!
They’re all meh.
Agreed! Love the camerawork done on the boat chase sequence. Also love the Slate fight.
The aesthetic of Bond walking through the desert in a suit is also a big win IMO. One of those things that doesn't make any sense on it's own but it occurs naturally within the film. That this is also when he realizes that Greene's after the water rather than oil (as well as everything else in the film that's happened up to this point), it's a kind of symbolism of Bond wading through his own harsh realities.
The boat sequence and Slate fight are the worst for me. Could be from any film. Nothing Bond about them.
Add in the lack of dialogue and the line at the end that is a nice little throwaway rather than a cheap double entendre and there's the added surprise of finding Mr. White in the trunk. It reminds me of the minimal dialogue in classics like FRWL, GF and OHMSS.
The boat chase is very poorly done, overall - but it is bookended by one of my favourite "low key" moments in the Craig era, which is everything from Bond moving off in the boat, looking down at Camille unconscious, then transitioning to the coastline and Bond handing Camille over on the dock. A really nice marriage of images and music, and the lack of a quip from Bond makes the scene unique, I feel.
Hmm actually I can see your point. I like them but they’re not particularly Bondian. The slate fight I like because of the deadly efficiency I associate with Bond but otherwise it could be from any action franchise.
Would like to see a new era of lean, stripped back plots, smaller casts and 1hr 45min running times.
QOS really is the closest we've had in spirit to those first 2 or 3 Bond films for a long time.
Its like a band handed compliment really, Craig is fantastic here but I definitely think he had much more of range to do in CR and also I prefer him in SF but if you think this is the best the period had to offer you most likely wouldn't agree with that.
That being said it is infinitely better than SP, there is some effort to make a good film, unlike SP which comes across as being that the director had lost interest and the star wasn't enjoying himself (regardless of what he says now).
QOS really isn't for me and others wasn't the proper realised full blooded sequel it should have been and calling it his best shows your contempt for his time in the role.
I like to love all four Craig Bond missions. Looking forward to the next one.
I love the DC era I just see liking QOS the best not really being that complimentary of it, especially when how successful CR and SF are.
I like QOS it just isn't entirely convincing at what it is trying to achieve, it has great moments and moves at a fair old pace but the best this era has to offer, no chance.
I couldn't like SPECTRE if I tried, I bloody hate it, Brosnan would have been better in that it was his kind of film. I can't wait for NTTD though.
I don't have contempt for his era but I am disappointed with the direction they took after QOS. It's neither maintained the energy of the Craig reboot, nor rekindled the fun and entertainment value of the Connery and Moore eras. I feel Mendes took Craig down a dead end and that his characterisation lost its mojo after QOS.
I don't feel the Bond of CR and QOS is really the same as SF and SP. I suppose that's what Mendes would call character development.
Weirdly I feel a little bit the same way about Brosnan. I'm probably unusual in thinking TND was Brosnan's best effort. I actually thought in the first half that they'd really begun to get a grip on Bond again. But then TWINE and DAD were both just really awful.
SF and SP are much better than TWINE and DAD but they're not as good as I was hoping they'd be.
It really feels like we were robbed by not getting the Craig Bond at his peak, transitioning from new OO to weary, burnt-out Bond. And although I am trying to stay spoiler-free for NTTD, I feel like the latter will yet again be exploited. Although it makes since as it is Craig's last Bond film.
Maybe this is another mark in favor of QoS as it's the closest we got to that peak.
Ah well, there you go. I've been saying pretty much the same thing since 2008.
I agree with your points.
There's also something very TB-feeling about how the initial Greene moments in Haiti are shot and scored...I just wish the film around them had been stronger. I think if they had done another draft or two, we would have been saying, "Wow!"
And I like the fact it climaxes with an assault on an exploding baddy base. QoS is quite traditional in some respects.
I love that scene with Mathis on the plane especially.
Top ten Bond for me.
One of my main issues with Mendes is that at least 25% of his Bond films just feels like pointless padding. Waffly dialogue. Nice looking but overlong sequences that don't move the plot along.
Love these two scenes as well.
it's one of my favorite moments in any Bond film,