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I'm fifty.
Cleese was good in Die another day
Casino Royale is still my favorite bond film
Quantum of Solace is underrated
Goldfinger is Overrated
and Never Say Never again is horrible cool title thought
I never had a problem with Richards- she looks great, her acting isn't wooden, and plausible as a nuclear scientist. What her character needed was to be fleshed out a bit more.
About Cleese- I like him as an actor, I like R/Q, and his casting was a no-brainer, but I really dislike the interaction between him and Q in TWINE. The whole "I think-/You're not here to think" moment is awkward and feels out of place in the film, as it absolutely humiliates the R character. I mean, have R catch his coat in the door and roll around in the sphere like a klutz while Q responds like he's talking to Bond- but don't have Q hand his balls to him. He's a grown man ffs.
That's controversial for sure in my eyes, as I'm sure it is for a few others. Worse than other typically-hated Bond films, like DAD, MR, and AVTAK?
At least DAD is an enjoyable and funny popcorn movie (as long as you convince yourself you're not watching a Fleming's Bond movie but a parody of Bond movies). QoS has too many plot holes which make it difficult to understand.
Way better than the 80's Moores.
Ten Gazillion Miles worse than those 3 films (2 of which, MR and AVTAK, I actually rate quite well). I gave it a re-watch last night, as it was on TV. I have to say it is worse than I remember. Mathieu Amalric is absolutely crap as a Bond villain. That stare he gives Bond in the opera scene when he sees him in the staircase is such bad acting, it summed up the performance of the whole cast in my eyes, including Saint Daniel. Cringe worthy. A failed attempt at making a grounded action flick, with the drabbest setting ever in a Bond film, a boring plot with few twists and little invention. Bond himself barely speaks in this film. The editing is awful, the action is un-original and flat. The theme song is vomit-inducing. Unimaginative dialogue, and very little humour, dry or obvious. Olga Kurylenko is wooden and dull. Craig himself does not portray any emotions at all and his character is so un-Bond like it may as well not be a Bond film.
Whatever gave you that impression my friend?
Let me assure you,that whatever problems you have in understanding QoS have nothing to do with alleged plot holes, since it really hasn't got them ( in stark contrast to CR and especially SF). What it has are crudities (admittedly in abundance).
No wonder you are a fan of SF!
QOS is one giant A-Hole
And no wonder you're a fan of QoS!
You're a plot hole. :))
Not my fault. There was a writer's strike in 1976. ;-)
Just like QoS. :-bd
Bolivia, enough said. And you barely see any part of Bregenz.
Drabbest setting is probably North Korea in DAD, but I think that was the point. It's hardly an exotic place. It was meant to look bleak.
Oh, and add me to the list of people that don't really like QOS. I can enjoy it, it's good looking, stylish and it has some great moments. But it has a lot of problems and all the good bits are lost in a sea of badly edited action scenes. I think it's also very pretentious, it's a film that thinks it's much more clever than it actually is imo, which annoys me. It also tries to cram way too much into it's run time and as a result none of the different story strands (Bond getting over Vesper, Quantums water plot, Camille's revenge, etc) feel really well done. And then you have stuff like the theme song, Mathis being a code name, etc. I don't want to rant about it now so I'll just say this: I like QOS more than I used to (used to think it was the worst one), but I don't think it's quite as good as it's biggest fans think it is.
Imo, it's not the worst Bond film, but (while I can enjoy it) it is one of the worst, and it's the most pretentious and probably, for me (since I wasn't around when DAF came out) the most disappointing (I was expecting much better after CR.
Exactly. I have watched the film many times looking for all the plot holes that supposedly are there. When I don't find that many I almost feel dissapointed... ;)
QoS is one giant plot hole.
Not so much a giant plot hole more of a giant cgi sink hole !.
The skydiving sequence and the part where Bond and Mitchell fall. That's about it.