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  • DarthDimiDarthDimi Behind you!Moderator
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    I've played that game again recently. I still rather like it, simplistic though it may be.
  • echoecho 007 in New York
    edited December 2022 Posts: 6,275
    QoS is the film I flip-flop on the most. Some days I think it's just shy of being a worthy follow-up to CR, other days I think it's flat-out terrible.

    I think the Vesper/White/Mathis storylines could have been integrated and developed a bit further (these are the scenes that shine in the movie), as well as some of the Camille story and motivation (which is a bit underbaked, especially how she uses Greene sexually), even if it all meant less time spent on all the Bolivian "main plot," GF homage, etc.

    And I'm not sure why Dench kept popping up on location.
  • VenutiusVenutius Yorkshire
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    She's sentimental about him.
  • 007HallY007HallY
    edited December 2022 Posts: 4,104
    Frequent flyer miles perhaps? She does it in CR too to be fair.
  • 007ClassicBondFan007ClassicBondFan
    edited December 2022 Posts: 2,264
    She also does it in TWINE and DAD. I think it’s for the free Holiday destinations.
  • 007HallY007HallY
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    Bet she had to take EasyJet for at least one of those flights too. Not sure why I find that idea funny but I do.
  • RichardTheBruceRichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.
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  • NickTwentyTwoNickTwentyTwo Vancouver, BC, Canada
    Posts: 7,546
    Nice, I've always wanted to see him talk about that role.
  • muzz100muzz100
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    Is there a sequence like this anywhere else in the series? It’s in public, not a bullfight. Posh, actually. [Yes, like a bullfight, actually]
  • VenutiusVenutius Yorkshire
    Posts: 3,147
    I just watched QOS again on ITV. It's an absolute classic. Everything about it. OK, carry on... ;)
  • Creasy47Creasy47 In Cuba with Natalya.Moderator
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    14 years on and QoS still hasn't lost that magic for me. I get so damn excited during my yearly Bondathon as it inches closer and closer to being the next one I watch.
  • NickTwentyTwoNickTwentyTwo Vancouver, BC, Canada
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    Creasy47 wrote: »
    14 years on and QoS still hasn't lost that magic for me. I get so damn excited during my yearly Bondathon as it inches closer and closer to being the next one I watch.

    Nice. It definitely gets better for me every time I watch it, and it's already very up there. Last time I watched it I was just blown away.
  • Creasy47Creasy47 In Cuba with Natalya.Moderator
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    Filming on the Tosca/opera house scenes kicked off 15 years ago today. Where does the time go??
  • Junglist_1985Junglist_1985 Los Angeles
    edited December 2023 Posts: 1,030


    Another absolutely glowing long review of QOS... they demonstrate how the storytelling is smarter than most Bond films.
  • GoldenGunGoldenGun Per ora e per il momento che verrà
    Posts: 7,108
    Had a rewatch of QOS a few weeks ago, it may be my favourite Craig entry of the moment. I think it has his best Bond performance, in CR he’s a bit brutish, SF-NTTD he’s a bit too depressed, I think in QOS he’s perfect.

    As for the editing, didn’t bother me at all really. It reminds me of OHMSS action scenes, and if anything, that’s a big compliment.
  • VenutiusVenutius Yorkshire
    edited December 2023 Posts: 3,147
    Absolutely. CraigBond is a force of nature in QOS. We needed to see him operating on that level for at least one (but preferably three!) more films before SF. Obviously, that can never happen - so bring on Ludovico's graphic novels!
  • MalloryMallory
    Posts: 2,158
    Man, whilst I love QoS, what I would give to see a version of it that had 3 months of extra script time and 3 months of additional post production, July 2009 release.
  • mtmmtm United Kingdom
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    So I mentioned this in another thread, but has it ever been revealed what the idea with the Aston sliding on its side in the car chase was?



    My guess is that it hits the spinning tyre of the JCB which flips it over, but how did it get back down again? Did the windscreen just hit the wall and pop it back onto its wheels? Why?
    My guess has always been that it's the cool Bond moment to end the chase- Bond is reaching for his machine gun in the passenger footwell but can't reach it amid the franticness of the pursuit; a bit of tension created. He then hits the JCB tyre as the two cars pass either side of it, the car flips onto its side, then hits the wall and crashes back onto its wheel violently, flinging the gun over to Bond's side of the car where he catches it, turns, and shoots.
    Is that the intention do you think? The chase does end in a slightly anti-climatic way so I've always wondered if there was supposed to be more to the ending.
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