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#2 The airport sequence in Florida where Bond goes after Carlos
#3 The sinking house in Venice. Yes it's sometimes ridiculous, but there's plenty of action and Eva Green's drowning really leaves a lasting impression
#4 Madagascar chase with the bomb maker (Mollaka ?), it's also ludicrous, but has plenty of action to get involved in and suspense
#5 When Bond gets poisoned in Montenegro and Lynd has to save his life for him. They were quite frantic scenes
5.) The ending- "Bond. James Bond."
4.) The PTS
3.) Bond wins the big pot
2.) The chase in Madagascar
1.) Bond and Vesper first meet
2. The Madagascar chase, from the exotic location to Bond's improvisation. What a great start.
3. The stairwell fight. Grainy footage in the right places, plenty of blood- you can't get a more realistic fight scene than this.
4. The card game, with cleverly placed interludes to keep us interested.
5. The final moment and line of dialogue. Bond is back!
Honourable mentions:
* Craig, for silencing the haters... considerably.
* YKMN, backed by a fresh and memorable title sequence.
* Bond in the Bahamas- my future home.
* Mathis. Such a likeable character.
* The DBS's incredible nine flips. Another Bond stunt record.
* The editing/transitions, especially when one shot fades into another, giving it that 60s touch.
5) The stairwell fight
4) The poker game scenes
3) The airport sequence
2) Bond's first two kills
1) Title sequence by Kleinman, just superb and You Know My Name song
5. Stairwell fight and aftermath
4. The whole damn poker game
3. Torture Sequenxe
2. Freerunning chase in Madagascar
1. PTS
Honorable mentions:
Title Sequence & Song, Airport fight, Stairwell fight prelude, Bond orders the first Vesper, "Bond, James Bond", Bond tries to revive Vesper, M's rant about Bond.
I think that about covers it.
The final scene
The fight on the swinging cranes
The torture scene
The mts
4. Bond meets Mathis, René Mathis
3. The PTS
2. Bond and Vesper on the train
1. Craig's acting in two lines: "Allow me" and "The job's done and the bitch is dead".
LIST 2: Your 007 favourite OT sequences by Maurice Binder
LIST 3: Your 007 most annoying moments in a Bond film
LIST 4: Rank the Aston Martin cars from the Bonds
LIST 5: 007's 007 coolest moments
LIST 6: Rank the non-Barry/Arnold scores
LIST 7: Your 007 most sexy moments in the Bonds
LIST 8: The 6 best moments of Bond in London
LIST 9: The 007 best uses of the Bond Theme
LIST 10: The 5 worst faces made by the Bonds
LIST 11: Your top 10 PTS
LIST 12: The 6 best scenes in OHMSS
LIST 13: David Arnold's 6 finest moments in the Bonds
LIST 14: The five nicest folks who ever played a part in a Bond film.
LIST 15: Ranking the Glen directed Bonds.
LIST 16: Rank the Blofelds (including NSNA and FYEO)
LIST 17-61: The 5 worst moments in DN - The 5 best moments in CR.
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<font color=green size=6> <b>The 5 worst moments in QOS.</b></font>
4 - Haha! The jars with tomatoes have dropped on the floor. I'm laughing my brains off. Seriously? The shot of the woman lamenting is four times as long as the longest shot in the actual chase. Even if you think this is funny, it's still out of place in the movie we're given.
3 - The CGI glass.
2 - Back-and-forth cutting between a chase and a totally irrelevant horse race. Artistic arrogance.
1 - The OT: an abomination both musically and visually. Who let these people get away with such madness?
Really? Why do people have to always put it like that? Despite the misdiagnoses, ADHD is a genuine disorder suffered by some. This statement always comes across as mocking to me.
I have more than 5. This movie is crap.
10 - Amalric isn't allowed to do anything to make his villain memorable. Fantastic actor wasted by the director/producers being idiots. This has always pissed me off.
9 - A hotel. In the desert. Where nobody will ever find it. Therefore NO BUSINESS EVER.
8 - Hey, speaking of the hotel, let's build it out of fuel cells! That couldnt possibly go wrong!
7 - CGI parachute jump. That couldn't possibly be survived by a human being.
6 - No resolution for the Mr. White character. This had better be fixed before Daniel leaves the role.
5 - M in the field, wherever Bond goes.
4 - Horribly edited chase scene. The cut to the horse race is retarded and makes me burst into laughter every time I see it. I thought M was shot the first time I watched the film. I genuinely cannot tell what the hell is going on until Bond and Mitchell are on top of the church.
3 - No gunbarrel at the beginning for literally no reason whatsoever. And the gunbarrel we do get is complete shit.
2 - The theme song. Could it be the worst song ever committed to tape? There's a strong case for it.
1 - The worst edited piece of cinema ever: the opening car chase. I counted something like 300 cuts I think. It's appalling. At least Tamahori made his movie so you could understand what's going on.
2. The editing throughout is awful and all over the place.
3. Field's death. An homage to GF that was meant to be both shocking and emotional. It was neither!
4. The plot. Or lack of. Who cares about some bad people who are now main utilities provider for Bolivia. What?!
5. So the organisation Bond is chasing is called Quantum. Oh that's really clever, I see what you've done there. The film is called Quantum of Solace. Yes, bravo(!)
6. DAD gets a lot of stick for the awful para-sailing scene. Likewise, QoS deserves a lot of flack for the green screen parachute sequence.
7. No gunbarrel at the start. Acceptable in CR given the story but here it is unforgivable. (SF won't fare much better either).
8. Dominic Green. Bland, bland, bland.
9. 30mins into the film and we already have a car chase, a foot chase, a boat chase and a fight to the death. I don't suppose we could have some plot at all Mr Director? Oh sorry, I forgot. There isn't one!
10. Some humour would have been nice. TD often gets unfairly criticised, especially in LTK, for being too serious but here DC just comes across as RoboBond.
4. No Gunbarrel
3. Drab main titles artwork
2. The editing, especially in the first 30 mins or so.
1. CGI parachute jump, and it's abrupt ending.
2. I would have liked the boat chase to have been much longer and whenever i watch it, i always feel annoyed that i cant see whats going on properly..it's far too jumpy, but that can be said for the car chase and quite a few other scenes aswell though..
3. Terrible theme song, and one of the worst in the entire series..
4. Very bland and unmemorable villain..
5. A weak plot..
I'd also like to add that i personally think that the running time was far too short for a Bond film, particularly for the modern day films. I like my Bond movies to feel epic, and i like to be taken on a long adventrue. It should have been at least 30 minutes longer, and without all of that cutting and jumping..
1. The death of Mathis. Why, oh why did they have to kill off such a great ally so soon? Why don't we just snuff Leiter too while we're at it.
2. The editing during the car/foot/boat chase needs some of that slo-mo from Dredd. That should get it back to normal pacing. Not the kind of rush I want from a Bond film.
3. The overall length needs another 15 minutes added to it. Fixing the editing as mentioned above, plus all the left out shots on the cutting room floor would've seen QoS hit the two hour mark.
4. Do you expect me to survive this fall into the sink hole? No, Mr Bond. I expect you do die.
5. Mathis, Leiter and Camille are all strong characters, but there's a serious lack of memorable villains here.
[11. (too?) high level of blood perhaps]
10. CGI parachute
9. That speedy gunbarrel...
8. The title might be from Fleming , it's still awful.
7. Lack of humour, "why so serious ? "
6. The annoying Dominic Greene character, overacted by Mathieu Amalric
5. The stupid tribute to Goldfinger ( Fields death)
4. Waste of the plot and some characters (Mathis, Leiter, Fields) -which wasn't that bad at the beginning, needed more work
3. Daniel Craig's perf (acting badly like a robot)
2. The TS and song
1. The editing in general
Roger Moore described it like a big commercial...I'm on his side.
2. The Editing. Too quick, it needs to breathe.
3. The Death of Mathis and Fields. Two possibly returning characters wasted.
4. The Plot. It's too real world and boring for my tastes. It's like TMWTGG. If I wanted to watch real world problems, I'll watch the news thank you very much.
5. The Villains. There not fleshed out enough and there mainly glorified Henchmen.
6. The CGI freefall scene. that was just painful to watch. Could have been a nice chance to do a cool homage to Moonraker but gave us the true successor to Brosnan's Pain face.
7. During the climax there's a brief shot showing in between a woman's legs. (for the longest time I thought it was an actual nude shot but this is Bond, not porn.)
8. The ever changing font's that tell us where Bond is. (Save the fonts for the film titles.)
9. The ripped from Bourne rooftop foot chase.
10. Giving the viewers a look into M's bathing cycle... Why....just why!?!
EDIT: I have one more thing I don't like about qos.
11. The MI6 building. It's way to advanced. the touch screen interfaces and computer interfaces are way too futuristic. This is something you'd see in Abrams Star Trek or Die Another Day.
EDIT 2: Changed number 10.
That's a great one @Murdock. It's always annoyed me too. And in general, why do we need captions telling us "London", "Siena", "Bregenz" etc. It's treating the audience with contempt in thinking we're too dum to realise what city/country the action is currently in.
Well It's fine to tell us where Bond is. Casino Royale did it in a more subtle way. But I thought one of the fonts was a Sign attached to a building and it just confused me. One font for telling the viewers where Bond is, is fine.
4. Some of the editing.
3. Seeing Mathis go.
2. So-so villain
1. The song 'Another Way To Die'
I really like QOS, but these are the things that always stick out for me.
This is another good point. The touch screens are reminiscent of the Zion control interface in the Matrix. The first time I saw it, I felt they went too far, and could possibly hurt continuity when faced with the inevitable task of scaling back the tech for SF.
I think that's why MI6 was blown up in Skyfall. However to be fair. There are such things as touch screen computers, there not magic scanner tables.
4. The overly-political plot.
3. The gunbarrel goes at the FRONT, people.
2. The editing, especially in the beginning. The car chase looks like an epileptic fit, and the needless cuts away during the interrogation and chase are infuriating.
1. The title
4. Too little of Felix Leiter.
3. Mathis death, such a unnecessary waste of a great Fleming character.
2. Bond not getting to bed Camille in the last reel.
1. Opera being sung over an action sequence!
Having said all this, I still really love QOS and the fast pace editing no longer bothers me!
4. Lack of the Bond theme
3. The way they cut the scene of Bond at Talamone (and pretty much of the whole editing but this particular moment annoys me)
2. Fields getting 'goldfingered'
1. Gunbarrel at the end
Oh dear Soundofthesinners expect a rebuke in the post for trivialising a serious illness:
1) The editing, obviously the director was a fan of the Blair Witch Project ...and it's just chopped up too much; this film was short on content and not lovely to watch for the most part (opera scene excluded) I wasn't getting into the story, I was watching a director direct - and I really hate that
2) The theme song - so bad, it is painful and a lousy way to start a Bond film
3) A weak villain; Greene is just a schmuck, not menacing at all
4) Mathis's death - unnecessary and disheartening in an already downbeat film
He could have, should have, been in one more Bond film as an ally
5) The rather boring storyline, plot; the whole script actually with only a few parts excepted