James Bond

[magrat]

There was very few of the original ones that I didn't like - the Timothy Dalton ones never worked for me, Moonraker wasn't bad till it turned into Star Trek, but the rest were great. For some strange reason I particularly liked OHMSS with Lazenby - good story, funny without being as camp as a lot of the Roger Moore stuff, and a much more physical bond not afraid to punch people in the face when required. Goldfinger, Thunderball and Diamonds are Forever were always my favourites from the classic era. Thought Goldeneye was great, and they sort of went downhill a bit from there, the product placement in some of the later Pierce Brosnan ones was becoming unbearably crude.

Think the new ones are just fantastic, actually feel like spy movies again, although I think I died a little inside seeing what they did to the Aston at the start of QoS.

[Peveus]

I have to say this movie was awful.

Not only does it seem making it a sequel was a bad idea, but they CHANGED some of the stuff from the first. WHAT THE!?

And the enemies which seemed like such a large and dangerous organisation in the first movie appear more as low grade terrorists. Their grand evil scheme is so laughable I almost vomited coke and popcorn on the person in front of me.

Truly awful. AWFUL movie. You know its bad because the best part about it was the trailer for Australia before it :\
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[Cerebral]

Didn't like it anywhere near as much as Casino Royale.

The villain looked like a little kid (Lechiffre, even Mr White came off as far more villainous), and the major plot points (least fo which being how they always link X with Y) were sort of lost in a sea of mumbled dialogue. The opera scenes were amazing, but the climax was too rushed and came out a bit weak.

Servicable movie, good action, but wasn't as cohesively drawn together as I would have liked.
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[Spanca]

[Daniel Golding]

Quantum was an interesting film. I didn't like the editing very much. It works in Bourne because the style is about the character; it's about getting us inside Bourne's muddled mind, his instincts and his natural reactions. Bond's action should be elegant rather than based on kinetic energy.

That said, I did like the film as a whole. It felt like a film student has finally made a Bond film. How many references to previous films were there? I can remember at least three:

[diogenes92]

Well, I think Quantum is a great movie. I agree with what Spanca was saying, and I think while I didn't necessarily take a liking towards the main villain from this one, I still thought it was a decent effort to keep the movie on track, and continue to ground it, as well as the story, in some seamless reality, like they did with Casino. I also think it was fairly well done for a direct sequel, tying up a majority of loose ends.

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[Benza]

I watched QS and thought it was awesome, but then I'm in the habbit of thinking anything involving Judy Dench is the bees knees. Seriously I would watch her read the phonebook.
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[pekaboo]

Havn't seen the newest one yet, but looking forward to it. I like what Daniel Craig has done with the bond character.

[notstupid]

I'm a little cut about this movie. I went and saw it, only to find out today that my boss is shouting everybody for a private screening in a Melbourne cinema next tuesday

[Qbert]

I saw it this afternoon and enjoyed it, but didn't think it was anything special. I absolutly hated the fast paced editing in the car chase and fight scene. Actually it was OK in the fight scene as it made me feel uncomfortable and made the fight more brutal and realistic, but I still didn't enjoy not knowing what was happening.

I feel that it was also to short and they didn't felsh out the main plot enough. It felt like they just kept moving from sub plot to sub plot without ever really resolving the main plot.

Overall though I enjoyed it, doesn't come close to Casino Royale and I am mainly dissapointed as it seems like a missed opportunity. Worth a watch, even a re-watch, but I won't be buying it.
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[ObsoletE]

finally saw it yesterday. had planned to see it last weekend, but a migraine (a proper, do nothing but lie as still as possible in the dark migraine, not a "headache") put a stop to those plans.

anyway, loved it, and tbh i don't understand how anyone who liked Casino Royale could possibly say this one was bad, it's simply the second act of the same film - it's one, 4 and a half hour film.

[Macka]

Saw the movie today and I thought it was enjoyable. I also prefer to think of it as the second half of CR, rather than a separate film, because I think on it's own it was pretty weak.

I knew I should have re-watched CR before seeing QoS. But I didn't, and because of this I couldn't remember the plot of CR, which made understanding things a bit hard.

Even still, it was a great movie. I didn't really like the opening theme and the song didn't seem to fit. Unlike most of you though, I actually liked the villian. He played the part well and just looked like a real bastard

The action was great too - definitely a lot more than CR which was good as that was one of the things lacking from that movie. I get that he is driven by revenge which is the reason for the Bourne-like style, but I actually didn't have a clue how he killed that guy on the balcony (the one he impersonated to get the breifcase).

The one thing I can't get past with the reboot is that Bond actually properly kills people now. In the old movies, he'd always find a way to indirectly kill them, eg. in Die Another Day, Bond shot a chandelier which falls on Zaoh to kill him. I know this is all to do with the new take on the franchise, but it feels like it's just turned into James Bourne.
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[Big Pete]

I did myself a huge injustice by ignoring the original and ultimately paid the price as I left the picture theatres feeling a little indifferent. Good Bond, Decent-ish film but one of those films that fails to stand by itself which I've always disliked.
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[Jarrod]

James Bond is Jason Bourne.

QoS was good but it wasn't a very good Bond film, in my opinion. The plot was really very weak and rushed, and the characters were poorly developed. It felt like it was just trying to get to the action scenes and that was about it.

On the note of action, I felt that the climax of the film really wasn't that amazing. I put this down to how 'epic' pretty much every action scene was. Rather than build up to some unimaginably epic action scene to finish the movie, it seemed like 'just more stuff blowing up'.

All in all a good action film, but far too weak on plot and character development. I hope the next Bond takes a note from Casino Royale and the like and balances the action and plot nicely, rather than trying to be a roller-coaster ride of stuff blowing up.
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[Benza]

[Tsargrad]

Bring back the old Bonds. Didn't like Quantum of Solace.

Loved the Dalton and Connery incarnations of Bond, and OHMSS was one of the best films.
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[El Taco]

Does anyone else really like the James Bond song? The Alicia Keys/Jack White one.
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[ObsoletE]

[diogenes92]

I thought the song was so cool ... as well as the intro clip (like Obs was saying). Although the music video for it, was Keys pregnant or something?

[ObsoletE]

wait, there's a "proper" video clip for it to?

what's the f**king point?
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[diogenes92]

yeah, here it is if you're interested ... http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=hM5UJvnbbuY

but i swear, she's either pregnant, or that belt of hers is bulging down her weight, and it makes the whole music video look so ridiculous

[Benza]

I actully thought that the intro to this movie was kind of weak.

Also she didn't look pregnant to me.
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[Sin Ogaris]

That song really doesn't work. The song seems to be written with Jack White in mind and Alicia Keys voice, and style, doesn't really fit that staccato style of vocal. As a result the whole thing sort of fails miserably. It would have worked much better if it was one or the other and it played on their particular strengths, as it stands, it sounds bad and it really doesn't exemplify (I may be pulling this word out of my arse, but it sounds cool) Keys vocal abilities.

[lapzod]