November 14, 2008

Terminator IV: The Bond Ultimatum (Quantum of Solace)

Who ARE you, and what have you done with James Bond?

I was going to post a full defense of the reasons I love James Bond movies today, but then I ended up seeing Quantum of Solace a day earlier than I expected. So, now I can just review the new one through the lens of the old ones.

It must have been in the late 80's that I saw my first Bond movie. I'm not sure how, I'm not sure when (probably some time between The Living Daylights and License to Kill), and I'm not sure which one it was, but it kicked off what would end up being a number of years of watching all of the movies multiple times with my best childhood friend. We loved how Bond would inevitably triumph over some ridiculous villain, always using the coolest gadget weapons and then cracking wise with some play on words before dashing off with the girl. He was like a funnier version of MacGyver, but with a haircut, a fun accent, and a job (as an undercover agent no less).

I quickly gained a liking for the Bonds of the 60's and 70's. At the time I only knew Sean Connery as the old guy who talked funny, so it was a revelation to see him as a handsome action star (I had a similar discovery when I first saw Jon Voight in Midnight Cowboy). I never understood the prevalent sexual innuendo (which is good), but I always knew there was something about James Bond that made him cooler than action heroes like Indiana Jones or John McClane, even if I couldn't put my finger on exactly why that was the case.

Eventually I came to prefer Roger Moore, mostly because he first starred in Live and Let Die, which remains one of my favorite of the series to this day. Although Moore looked more like a news anchor than an awesome secret agent, he brought something new to the character. He could pull of the dashing Bond looks (flirty smirking included), he had a knack for delivering the post-kill jokes (easily the funniest Bond), and he even managed the action scenes admirably. It should be noted, by the way, that Moore was 45 years old in Live and Let Die and 58 years old in his last of the series, A View to a Kill, which despite Christopher Walken's weirdness still remains an underrated Bond movie.

By the mid-90's I was well versed in the older Bonds and simply satisfied with Timothy Dalton's two movies. In fact I was so busy watching the older ones during that period that I didn't even notice a new one hadn't been released in six years. When GoldenEye eventually came out, I was as surprised as I was excited. It wasn't an immediate hit for me when I saw it, but after multiple viewings and what must have amounted to several thousands of hours of playing the N64 game with my friends, I came to include GoldenEye as one of the most watchable of the series. Pierce Brosnan seemed like a great fit, and had it not been for his last three movies in the series, he might have been one of the greats. Of course, it wasn't entirely his fault since by the late 90's Bond had lost his mojo. A new generation wasn't responding to the old tricks, Austin Powers arrived, and Bond became a slick action series instead of a witty spy series. It's no wonder Brosnan's four films each grossed more at the box office than any of the movies all the way back to Moonraker.

If only because I had almost completely lost faith in the franchise after Die Another Day, Casino Royale was a most interesting development. Daniel Craig, whose first starring role was in my favorite movie of all time (The Power of One), did not at all seem like he could do justice to James Bond in my head, but with the help of some solid action and a nod to some of the older Bond movies, I found Casino Royale to be at least as good as anything since GoldenEye, and my enthusiasm returned for the series. Which brings us to Quantum of Solace.

Before addressing the movie, I have to first address my shocking surprise at the amount of Bond backlash I have seen online in the last month, not only among trusted blogger friends of my generation (Fletch and Elgringo, for example), but also in major movie circles. Who knew that so many people disliked James Bond? I'm blinded by my nostalgia for the series, but how can people find not any redeeming quality in a franchise that's lasted four decades? For a character that fights for his country and the world - and makes jokes while doing it (speaking of which, how could you even find anything in Austin Powers funny if you've never seen Thunderball)? For movies that have some of the best stunts and locations of any action movies in history? I don't get it. There are cases to be made against Bond, but I either haven't heard enough of them or I haven't heard any persuasive ones. For the biggest film franchise in history, I dare say it's only fair to judge them on merit according to each other, and not to the popular culture of the day.


"Come with me if you want to live"...

When judging Quantum of Solace only in relation to the other Bond movies, then, you find that it's an almost complete reinvention of both the character of James Bond and the style of the Bond movie. You find, unfortunately, that it's quite awful.

Beginning as it should with a frenzied action scene, we confirm that we're watching what amounts to deleted scenes from Casino Royale. This is no surprise, of course, as the movie is meant to be a full-on sequel. Producer Michael Wilson simply made up the plot for Quantum of Solace during the production of Casino Royale, and the same screenwriting team is back, along with Paul Haggis (Crash, In the Valley of Elah). Ian Fleming? His influence is nowhere to be found.

Aside from being too confusingly edited (which continues throughout the movie, I might add), this opening scene is also way too serious - a real harbinger of the mood to come. Bond is all business now, and he's got no time to have fun or crack a joke about the car he sends off a cliff. As the pre-title sequence ends, we're indeed emotionally "shaken, not stirred".

I first heard about the rumors of the new Bond song at Craig Kennedy's Living in Cinema (I just realized it was actually this thread that produced the Bond series idea, Craig). When the artists were finally confirmed as Jack White and Alicia Keys, I was...curious. Turns out I had good reason, as "Another Way to Die" is possibly one of the worst Bond songs to date, hampered even further by a terribly unimaginative, weirdly futuristic title sequence. I couldn't wait for the beginning to end.

Director Marc Forster (The Kite Runner) doesn't seem to add much new to this production either, aside from some unnecessarily artistic location subtitles and a cloak of confused depression over the entire production. As Bond travels from location to location, we rarely get the same jet-setting feeling present in so many older Bond productions, where we knew we were in a different place because of obvious cultural stereotypes (the gypsy fight in From Russia With Love) and an exotic new Bond girl. The best Forster can offer is Bond's brief time in Port-Au-Prince, Haiti, where the hotel clerks inexplicably speak with Jamaican accents.

As Quantum of Solace moves into the heart of the production, we begin to recognize a smidge of Casino Royale and a hint of the old Bond spirit. Some of the same characters float in and out, with a boring new Bond girl (Olga Kurylenko) and a completely dispassionate villain (Mathieu Amalric). There is the obligatory grand party scene (an outdoor opera) and the always creepy villain's sidekick. A boat chase is a particularly welcome sight, but while it's better than the one in From Russia With Love, it's not nearly as much fun as those in Live and Let Die or even The World Is Not Enough. Most of the attempts at capturing the Bond spirit either feel lazy (a complete ripoff of Jill's death in Goldfinger) or accidental (the taxi scene and amusing arrival at the hotel in La Paz was pitch perfect). More than anything else, in fact, Quantum of Solace reminded me a lot more of non-Bond movies.

The scene similarities to The Bourne Ultimatum, for example, could hardly be more obvious, including the hotel room hand-to-hand combat, the cobbled rooftop chases, and even the exact same rear view balcony-to-balcony jump stunt. This James Bond has no gadget weaponry, no tricky killing schemes - not even a cool car! Like Jason Bourne, he's just an amazing athlete with a chip on his shoulder who knows how to use a gun, and like The Terminator, he uses the gun with the same amount of emotion that we use operating a calculator. That the piercingly blue-eyed Daniel Craig doesn't smile one time throughout this movie is about all the proof you need that this isn't good ol' Bond.

Good ol' Bond has a witty line after every elaborate kill (silent after the boat chase?). Good ol' Bond is a charming lothario in the bedroom, not a cold-blooded robot awkwardly trying to crack a joke about not being able to find stationery. Good ol' Bond actually seems to like his job, believe it or not. And really, we don't know much more than that about good ol' Bond, because the old Bond movies aren't actually about James Bond, just like the old Batman movies weren't actually about Bruce Wayne. But now we have The Dark Knight and Quantum of Solace, two attempts to breathe new souls into decades-old characters. Both movies also come as sequels to "new" interpretations of a character (Batman Begins is to The Dark Knight as Casino Royale is to Quantum of Solace).

And while both movies are top-notch cinematic productions, The Dark Knight worked well for me because I have no connection to the Batman character of decades past. Tim Burton's Batman was the start for me, just as GoldenEye was the start for many current Bond fans. But for those people who have an appreciation for Ian Fleming's Bond, for Albert Broccoli's Bond, for Sean Connery's and Roger Moore's Bonds, I can only be surprised if they also enjoy Quantum of Solace. I suppose I should expect that many people have been waiting for the dark side of Bond to emerge, but I'm just not one of them.


"007" is simply the model number of this robotic killing machine...

"Bond, I need you back," presses M as Bond walks out into the snowy night at the end of the movie. "I never left," he says as he drops Vesper's pendant in the snow. Um, is there any better proof that you did leave, James? Since when were you driven by vengeance and a broken heart, like Jason Bourne? Well, I suppose since Casino Royale, which is meant to precede all of the other Bonds anyway. It's just that I still have trouble accepting that this Bond becomes the old Bond, because he seems like a completely different person. Hopefully, the dropped pendant is the end of this chapter in Bond's life.

Please move on, because I need you back, too, Bond.

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30 comments:

  1. Bland. James Bland.

    Just came home from it. Wow, so disappointing and I was going in with lowered expectations.

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  2. I'm not sure what to think. Roger Moore has fallen from the only Bond when I was a kid to my least favorite Bond now. He DOES look like a news anchor!

    I welcome a seriousness of tone closer to Ian Fleming's books, but you have me worried they've gone too far.

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  3. Also...forgot to add: N64 Goldeneye. Best. Game. Ever.

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  4. Great point about Roger Moore looking like a news anchor. Damn, that is so completely true.

    I don't think the "darkness" is going to turn that many people off. The lack of plot and character development following Casino Royale, however, most likely will.

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  5. Bore. James Bore.

    I like the early Connery's a a few of the Moores. But this latest film is absolutely horrendous. It's nothing but car explosions and mindless pyrotechnics. Daniel Craig is listless, and don't believe anybody who tries to tell you that there's more than meets the eye with him. He is vacuous in a vacuous role. Nuff said....
    Good luck Dan with this retro, you are doing a splendid job with the writing.

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  6. Well, Sam and Alexander, I can only feel validated that I wasn't out of my mind in disliking this movie, especially in relation to the older Bonds but even as its own stand-alone action flick.

    I won't try to persuade you on Moore, Craig. He was one of the first that I latched onto, and as you've noticed I appreciated his humor as much as anything else.

    I like to think of N64 GoldenEye as more of a "life experience" than a simple video game. Ten years later and I'd love to get into again right now.

    The video game for Quantum of Solace might as well be Duke Nukem.

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  7. Ouch. Youse guys are scaring me.

    I'll find out tonight...

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  8. It's hard to tone down my disappointment, Christian. I don't know about anybody else. Obviously in anxious suspense for other verdicts here.

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  9. I skipped my press screening of it to study for an exam, lol, and will only be able to see it next weekend now, but I don't mind, not if it sucks this bad. I like the old Bonds, I really do, and I liked Casino Royale, but have no clue if I want to bother seeing something that will taint the entire franchise, but perhaps I should just see it, and if I don't like it, just forget about it.

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  10. Quantum of Solace was entertaining for sure, but sometimes i got the feeling that the movie was making fun of itself... everywhere pane of glass Bond crosses was broken, he can't get a gallon of milk from the store without it turning into a chase scene, and every time he punches someone in the face, they die

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  11. Haitian people speak English mostly with a Jamaican accent.
    I am Haitian and people always think that I am from Jamaica.
    Here is your explanation

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  12. Well, Nick, I won't go so far as to say it taints the entire franchise, but I definitely don't think it improves on anything. Obviously I'd love to hear what you think if you also like the older Bonds!

    Haha, media boy, that about sums up the obsession with the action, alright. Seriously, he had like a toxic touch in this, having to promise M that he wouldn't kill anyone, just like, oh, the Terminator to John Connor: "He'll live."

    Thanks for commenting, anonymous. Maybe you're right - I mean obviously you are, you're Haitian. I just haven't heard the patois in the accents of the native Haitians I know, and when I was in Haiti in the late 90's, those who spoke English sounded much more like they had a French accent, I assumed that being an influence of Creole.

    In any case, maybe it was a stretch to call out Forster for that in particular (even though it really wasn't filmed in Haiti). I just didn't get the travel thrill in QoS that I did from the other Bonds.

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  13. Danny, my review of QOS is up now...and I found it pathetically directed and edited miserably. I like MARC FORSTER a lot. He just shouldn't be allowed to helm an action movie.

    EVER AGAIN.

    I thought JUDI DENCH, GIANCARLO GIANNINI and JEFFREY WRIGHT were all fantastic.

    DANIEL CRAIG CAN DO NO WRONG. It wasn't his fault. He gives it his all. It was the film that let him down.

    He's still one of the finest actors of his generation. BY FAR. He's got those cool azure eyes, that maddeningly distracting physique and that solid masculine presence.

    He's the perfect BOND. This wasn't his fault.

    So I adored him regardless.

    Also loved: the JACK WHITE/ALICIA KEYS song, James' relationship with M, the ending (PERFECT) and the retro stylings of the classic JOHN BARRY theme over the closing credits.

    Aside from the wonderful acting that I pointed out previously in my post and the other things that I outlined that were great, everything pretty much blew.

    But there's always next time. I won't give up on DANIEL so easily.

    I'll be reviewing BOND films all week at CINEMATIC PASSIONS.

    So y'all come have a look if you're into it...

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  14. Minutiae: The Bourne people were pretty happy with themselves with the balcony jump you mention, they actually had the camera man jump too, in Bond I noticed they don't. Ends up being a little cooler in Bourne.
    I heard the new Bond theme a while back, I think on Sound Opinions and I felt the same in the theater as I did the first time; meh. I can't really see how people get fired up to actively dislike it, but it doesn't do a ton for me either. I remember kind of liking the little gun smoke swirls graphic design thing they had going so I may have missed the overall aesthetic and its pairing with the song.
    I wonder if the question with the intro relates or expands to all these questions we're asking. Are people looking for that retro feel redone again but still fresh? It may be an unfair ask of the series at this point but regardless a bad movie is a bad movie.
    I thought the locations were alright, they had those location announcements that were stylized and kind of blending into the first shot. I think they met there requirements for jet-setting, he's in Port-Au-Prince and then that opera adn then gives Mi6 a little head fake when they turn off his credit card and meets his buddy before they go to Bolivia or whatever. The problem I had is with the plot, as evidence by that horrible timeline I just gave. I didn't really know what was going on and if I did, then it was pretty lame. If Haggis is so good, how did he get mixed up in this hot mess? The big plan of this extensive evil organization that nobody knows anything about is to hoard Bolivia's water? And then replace dictators until someone is willing to pay their prices? Wow, that's boringly obtuse.

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  15. Oh, and the cell phone as the gadget gimmic was lame and he didn't use that sweet gun from the poster.

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  16. I can't comment on this film because I probably won't see it until it comes to cable (which is how I finally saw Craig's Casino Royale).

    The problem with the franchise is that audiences ain't what they used to be. Audiences no longer need a globe-trotting James Bond to take them to worlds they'll never explore--they can see it on the Internet. Explicit sex on theatre, tv, and computer screens is so ubiquitous that Bond's nymphomania seems kind of quaint, as does the notion of a "Bond girl." Diabolical conspiracies in the age of irony and political correctness makes people like No and Goldfinger objects of parody or scorn. I might even argue that the successes of feminism have made unfeeling action heroes unacceptable even as it has made automaton women in films like Aeon Flux and all of Milla Jovovich's oeuvre very cool (and I say that as a fan of many of these films).

    I loved James Bond at his inception because it was the spy era - Cold War intrigue was everywhere, on TV, in movies, in books, in Mad magazine! In my adolescent, getting a hold of an Ian Fleming book was the same as sneaking looks at pornography. Who cares about spies anymore? It's a cultural artifact that few people, save for our blog host Daniel, want to relate to. Even I've moved on, finding the Bond films too thin for my enjoyment anymore.

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  17. Unbelievable week happening. Almost forgot I had a blog.

    Miranda, I have a full load of yours to catch up on, and I'll definitely link to all of them, albeit a little late. I agree that Craig wasn't really the issue here. I haven't seem him emote a whole lot in any particular role, but in interviews he seems pretty loose. They just wrote him as a robot here.

    So you LIKED the song? I'll read more about at that CP...

    TB, the Bourne jump wasn't just better - it was first. They should have been proud.

    The opening sequence overall just bored me. The song didn't grate on me necessarily, but paired up with blah visuals I found it pretty pathetic. Even just looking back at the Casino Royale intro on YouTube - even though they discarded the "classic" intros with naked women doing gymnastics, they still kept your attention with shattering bodies.

    Hmm, interesting point about the location titles filling in for the jet-setting. They didn't do those before, though, so this seemed kind of lazy. However, the actual shooting locations were pretty cool - I saw part of the "making of" thing on Comcast.

    I don't want to call Haggis overrated because I still stand by Crash, but between Million Dollar Baby, Letters from Iwo Jima and In the Valley of Elah, I find some of his writing...haggard.

    Marilyn, I really love all of those thoughts. Definitely this is a new era. The Cold War is over and spies are ridiculously captured in garbage like Body of Lies instead. I guess all I'm holding onto, as you say, is a cultural artifact for the sake of nostalgia. I guess I just couldn't put my lamentation of the franchise in such concise words as you did!

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  18. It's ok, Daniel. I didn't mean to make it sound negative, only to put the Bond franchise in context.

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  19. That's alright, Marilyn. I didn't read too much negativity in your comment. It just got me riled up as you explained the Bond "backlash" that I referenced in the post. I still say people don't know what they're missing if they've only seen the new ones, but I admit it's a lot harder to introduce someone to something like Goldfinger or You Only Live Twice in 2008.

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  20. There is one thing I find really interesting about Goldfinger: murder by gold dust. It seems unique, even today, but a film from the 1930s that I reviewed on my site, Bedlam, actually has a similar action. It's silver dust and used as a costume rather than a method of execution, but the entire film is about the mistreatment and murder of inconvenient inmates in an insane asylum, so it definitely tracks pretty closely with Goldfinger. It makes me wonder if there have been other films that have used this unusual device.

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  21. Weird. I have to say I've never encountered it anywhere else. My understanding from Goldfinger was that it actually suffocated the skin and not directly the lungs, which never made physiological sense to me. If you ever see Quantum of Solace, you'll see a lazy reinvention of that same scene from Goldfinger...

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  22. I liked it more than most, it seems.

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  23. I'm not really sure what skin suffocation is, but that was my understanding, too; silver is also toxic and could poison the system in large quantities.

    Daniel, if you haven't read Rod's review of Dr. No on my site, I think you should - it really gets to the heart of the Bond franchise.

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  24. Well, I guess then that I have to feel validated by the meh reviews as well. :)

    To clarify my stance, though - I didn't have negative feelings about the quality of the film so much as I just wasn't on board with the amount of hype it was receiving (especially when combined with how much love the last got, which I didn't fully grasp).

    I will surely be waiting for the DVD.

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  25. Well, depends on how you frame it, KB. Maybe more than most of us in this particular blogging circle, but I've definitely seen enough people defending it, yourself included.

    Thanks, Marilyn. I have that one waiting for me in my reader. I'm sure it will be a great look back on the first Bond film.

    Let's just say we're both validated, Fletch. You in calling the overhype, and me in calling the misdirection of the franchise after the glory years.

    I wonder where it will go next...

    P.S. I just realized that this was my 300th post!

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  26. Congrats Danny, on your 300th post, and the fact that your reviewed a film I feel so indifferent towards I doubt I will ever bother reviewing.

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  27. Thanks, Nick! I didn't realize it was an accomplishment until I saw others celebrating 300. In hindsight I can see the significance. It's been a lot of work, as you well know.

    Don't go out of your way to either see or review this anytime soon. The market has been saturated and people are Bonded out. But maybe I should speak for myself...

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  28. “that Moore was 45 years old in Live and Let Die and 58 years old in his last of the series, A View to a Kill, which despite Christopher Walken's weirdness still remains an underrated Bond movie.”

    A View to a Kill is one of my favorite Bond films.

    “what must have amounted to several thousands of hours of playing the N64 game with my friends, I came to include GoldenEye as one of the most watchable of the series.”

    Friends on mine played Bond so much they had the reemerge points memorized.

    I don’t think I have ever seen Thunderball , sorry, but I still found Austin Powers funny. Casino Royale all in all is probably my favorite Bond film.

    “This is no surprise, of course, as the movie is meant to be a full-on sequel.”

    I agree and it is about time they followed the story for the preceding film.

    “Aside from being too confusingly edited (which continues throughout the movie, I might add), this opening scene is also way too serious - a real harbinger of the mood to come. Bond is all business now, and he's got no time to have fun or crack a joke about the car he sends off a cliff. As the pre-title sequence ends, we're indeed emotionally ‘shaken, not stirred’.”

    I’m glad they took the film and its action scenes seriously. I was so sick and tired of the quips that no one would make in a highly stressful situation. Imagine if The Dark Knight had not taken itself serious. We would have another Batman and Robin, shudder.

    "Another Way to Die" is possibly one of the worst Bond songs to date, hampered even further by a terribly unimaginative, weirdly futuristic title sequence. I couldn't wait for the beginning to end.”

    I agree. That song is MI6 poodoo. They should have kept Amy Winehouse, even with her “problems”. GoldenEye had the best opening song. They should hired Tina Turner again.

    “with a boring new Bond girl (Olga Kurylenko) and a completely dispassionate villain (Mathieu Amalric)”

    During the fire finale, neither were boring or dispassionate to me though during the rest of the film, maybe.

    “This James Bond has no gadget weaponry, no tricky killing schemes - not even a cool car! Like Jason Bourne, he's just an amazing athlete with a chip on his shoulder who knows how to use a gun, and like The Terminator, he uses the gun with the same amount of emotion that we use operating a calculator. That the piercingly blue-eyed Daniel Craig doesn't smile one time throughout this movie is about all the proof you need that this isn't good ol' Bond. ”

    Thank god the “cool car” bs was dropped. I was sick of the bond films promoting BMW or some other car company filled with gadgets perfectly suited for just the sort of situations Bond encounters. It was nonsense.

    Why would Bond be smiling? He is in pain, mourning. Do you smile at funerals or when someone close to you dies? I can not believe you mentioned him not smiling. His heart was ripped out of his chest by betrayal and then he had to contend with the betrayer’s death. What do you expect from him? He is a human being and he finally acts like one.

    “a cold-blooded robot awkwardly trying to crack a joke about not being able to find stationery.”

    He should not have slept with Agent Fields in the first place.

    “Since when were you driven by vengeance and a broken heart, like Jason Bourne?”

    At the beginning of Diamonds are Forever is when Bond is driven by vengeance. He is enraged at the death of his wife, Contessa Teresa di Vicenzo, at the hands of Blofeld in the Bond film that preceded it, On Her Majesty's Secret Service.

    “Please move on, because I need you back, too, Bond.”
    Stay buried old joke master, please. “Fall into shadow.”

    I will say though that the jump out of the plane was horrible. They should have used stunt people and done it for real. The editing of that scene needed some work.

    I was disappointed by some aspects of the film but as I say in my review: Quantum of Solace is to Casino Royale what the Two Towers was to the Fellowship of the Ring.

    “The lack of plot and character development following Casino Royale, however, most likely will.”
    @Alexander Coleman. I thought Bond was developed a little more in this film. We got to see that he is not made of stone. That he does feel emotional pain.

    @Miranda. You liked the Alicia Keys song? Lol!
    @teeblah. The water plot could have been modified. And you’re right, he didn’t use the gun from the poster. I guess they were referencing the end to the last film with that.
    @Daniel. Haggis deserves the accolades he has received for films you listed.
    @K.Bowen. Me too it seems.
    @Daniel. I’m almost at 500 posts.

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  29. Wow, an exhaustive review of my review - thanks for reading all the way through it.

    So we seem to agree on some of the weaknesses of QoS - notably the song and some technical pieces. But we clearly differ on the presentation of Bond in this film.

    I should have made it more obvious if I hadn't here, but my preference for Bond definitely points toward the campy Roger Moore years, which many people despised. But even the Connery, Dalton, and Brosnan films had at least a smidge of humor and wit, not to mention the gadgets.

    And that's why I think QoS was such a shock to my system. Had it been a stand-alone movie outside of the franchise (excluding Casino Royale), I might not have been so critical. But to me it went against everything that I knew about the character.

    Essentially I think it comes down to a line drawn between Bond fans who prefer the old or the new, and we happen to be on different sides of the line.

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  30. What can I say? I had a lot to say about the film. My own review for the film was so long people barely bothered to read it.

    I could tell you liked the campy Bond from your review.

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