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(Tosca and Yousef confrontation scenes were not too bad though)
paced and too tightly edited, too much action and not enough storytelling and character development. But to say, that the horrid DAD is be a better movie, is beyond me.
- traditional gunbarrel at the begining;
- more presence of the Bond theme in the soundtrack (specially at action scenes);
- Bond ending in bed with Camille.
What I'm aiming to is to a more "formula" structure, while keeping the innovations of its creators and the director.
Anyway, it is what it is and we can not change it... we are not George Lucas.
I will always maintain it's a lame exercise, despite only seeing it the one time, not for the first time, I will always remember leaving the theater the night of release and walking away somewhat disgruntled.
Many people shared similar sentiments and some didn't even stay until the end..
Next years Craig release HAS to be an improvement.
Of course recently Craig thought the script was "cobbled together" due to the strike, so who knows what to believe?
And here's the important thing; Marc Forster gets the style of the early Bonds like no-one else has done. The effortless cool of Goldfinger, the less-is-more approach to action when fights would just errupt and end suddenly, the contrast between serenity and brutality that Terrence Young created - Forster recreates that and updates it for QoS.
While I do not share the extreme enthusiasm of my esteemed colleague here, I have to say it was a good film.
I disagree with this. Maybe in his head it sounded great but the execution of it all was a failure.
It's an average release overall, not beating the first three Brosnan releases and not coming close to CR, but it's worth the watch.
You summed it up nicely, I agree with you here.
To be onist, i think he was the wrong choice of director he never did an action film before and he doesnt do them well. sorry.
What do you think were some great moments in qos?
The editing stuffs up some potential great moments imo.
I agree that the editing really ruins some great moments but I do think that the following were pretty good.
Bond rumbling Quantum at the opera
Bond evading Greene's goons at the opera
Bond and Mathis on the plane
Bond holding a dying Mathis
M confronting Bond at the hotel just before Bond realises Fields is dead
That's all I can think of at the moment.
More Bond movies are worse than TND than aren't, FYI. [-X
Quantum had some really awesome scenes. Personally, I feel like the opening car chase and the opera house shootout are some of the most stylish scenes in the entire franchise. It's not a horrible movie. Better than average.
With QOS it's very frustrating because you can tell there are all the elements there to make a great film - it's just that some elements of the script and basic screenplay are a mess, thus infecting the rest of the film and tainting elements of the film which were on par with CR. Of course, if we use logic or ockhams razor it's obvious to see that the writer's strike thingy had a major impact on QOS.
After watching QOS I was hoping they'd release a directors-cut or something that radically added clarity to the mess of the screenplay or switched pieces of the jigsaw around so they'd fit to make the great film QOS could have been.
But again the director isn't to blame.....maybe he could have delayed the filming so we would have resulted in a better written film but that's all he could have done. Director's don't write scripts and screenplays unless they are auteurs.
QOS is a damn sight better than many Bond films, and indeed arguably most of Brosnan's prior Bond films, and yet; in between Casino Royale and Skyfall QOS will stick out like a sore thumb in Craig's tenure as Bond.