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The peremise was quite interesting, a monopoly for water in a developing country seems cruel enough, far more original than most of the plots.
The story simply needed to be told in a more interesting way.
The villians were extreamly poor in Quantum, a bunch of bland, charisma less characters with bad lines. Craig delivered a fine performence dough, the leading ladies however were mediocore to say the least. It seems to me that the series is out of gas, which is not suprising after a nearly 50 year run, as they are running out of ideas for stunts, locations and evil plot. Despite this, there are still some interesting things to do with the character, the problem is, they keep on going in circles, repeating themselves by feeding us with Jason Bourne style action and fight scenes. Bond never played Tennis for instance, this could have been an interesting opportunity for some dialog between 007 and his adversary because of the sence of rivaly the game has. Perhaps a henchmen could have placed an explosive device in a tennis ball in an attempt to murder the protagonist in the good old fashioned way :) . If they made the series formulaic, why not stick to it, its already to late to make major changes. The unique style, ridiculousness, specific humour and gadgetery are strongly associated with Bond. I have always treated these films as a pleasent getaway from the real world.
QofS will probably be the worst of DC's tenure but the movie does have its moments; GA, DC and Giancarlo Giannini.
"I felt “Quantum of Solace” completely lost its way. We were lucky on “Casino Royale”, it was the origin story of Bond-"
This is 100% false. CR is the first novel, not an origin story for Bond. I don't think this is what Campbell meant, or I hope not.
When Royale (novel) began, Bond was already the fully formed secret agent (his early inspection of DIY burglar alarms suggest an experienced professional 00).
In regard to his "Quantum" comment though, I find it hard to disagree with him.
I left very confused.
Maybe this is the Bond equivalent. A good action film, took itself serious, blood galore and all that but I thought I went to a Bond film.
I left very confused.
Oh...and the title of course.
If QOS is taken as a standalone fBond flick then it's not too bad, apart from the out of place ultra fast and close up (aka Bourne) editing.
My views have somewhat mellowed although I still think QOS should have been made in the same style of CR.
Doesn't make sense to me because the overall quality of the writing, directing etc would still be present whether it was Bond's first 00 case or not.
Anyway, I don't think QoS was that bad of a film. Honestly I can't say which is the worst Bond film because I love them all.
Decent (5—6/10)
15. Live and Let Die (1973)
16. The Man with the Golden Gun (1974)
17. The World Is Not Enough (1999)
18. Quantum of Solace (2008)
19. Moonraker (1979)
I've already watched it several times and still can't appreciate what is so great about it, but since many respected members of this forum and other Bond forums I participate in seem to like it, I'll have to give it another go. Still don't see the appeal, though.
What we got was a story that only really addressed the avenging of Vesper at the end of the film, and even then it felt like it came out of left field. The main narrative seemed to sidetrack into Greene's story and plan to drain the Bolivian water supply for most of the movie, which would have been fine, but as a plot for a standalone film. More time could have been spent connecting Bond's motives for revenge and how it ties into Quantum. We're merely teased with the concept of Quantum in the opening scene and in the Tosca sequence.
I may be bigging this scene up, but it deserves it.
And there is too much that is right with QoS for it to be considered worse than maybe half a dozen other Bond pictures.
This is a trained assassin, telling this young girl about how to shoot someone for real, giving her advice he knows works b/c he has been there himself. It's a nice moment. I agree there needs to be a director's cut b/c most scenes feel short and truncated but we got what we got and there are moments of greatness in this film.
As for having the Bond theme in there making it better, not at all. If it's rubbish, it's rubbish, regardless of what music is played over the scene.