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Movie Focus- Flaws, Good Points and Plot
I watched the movie a second time, and liked it a little better than the first time I watched it. Still, the biggest thing for me was I wasn't satisfied with how they explained, as they barely touched on, the development of Bond's feelings with Vesper, and Vesper's own.
Also, while I didn't have much of a problem with the opening scene itself, I thought the song that followed was the least, or among the least Bond movie-like songs for the opening scene. I grew up with Pierce Brosnan, but have caught up with all the others, and I enjoy them all, and Tomorrow Never Dies and For Your Eyes Only were good opening songs, and for the reboot I was okay with Casino Royale, but the rap song Another Way To Die hardly fit this movie, let alone a bond movie-- except the message you can't trust your co-worker in this movie.
But, while the action scenes were done well, in the sense they put a lot of work in to them, but I really didn't care about the action scenes except I liked Bond's flipping rope move to shoot his gun at the agent from Mr. White's Interrogation, but otherwise the only action scene I appreciated was the boat scene, and the firefights at the end, BUT---the movie was 95% action about, leaving very little to appreciate the plot, as mostly the movie is running, fighting, driving... and the entire plot summed up and literally put together by occasional semi-vague one liners in between every other action sequence. They just made it hard to get sucked in to the plot and appreciate it. I was not satisfied with how they failed to elaborate on finer story details.
Also, I hardly think of these girls as Bond girls, but good for Vesper, if they made that story stronger in QoS.
Poor story explanation, poor villain creation, no tech, poor opening song, poor bond girls... and I really thought they should have said something more about both Vesper and Mathis, from their previous film appearance.
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Apr 13 2013, 4:45 PM EDT by Anonymous
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The gun fights
Now I love the gun fights. Favorite gun fight list: The Beginning where he captured Mr White. 2: where he shot those body guards. 3: The gun fight at the hotel. Quantum of Solace had a lot of action in it.
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Mar 17 2013, 12:27 PM EDT by
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Good action and fight scenes
I loved the intense action. I loved the fight between 007 and Mr. Slate. I loved the gun fights.
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Jan 23 2013, 1:38 PM EST by Anonymous
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Robert Pattinson would be a GREAT 007
Daniel Craig needs to stick to a supporting roles like in Tomb Raider, not star as a 007 with NO PERSONALITY!
The only thing that even relates to the Bond films with Craig is that they call him 007, otherwise it's a generic action movie. Skyfall did leave me with hope. The new 'M' is terrific, and the villian was superb.
Now if Robert Pattinson could just replace Daniel Craig who was quoted "I have been trying to get out of playing 007 since the first film" which is a SLAP IN THE FACE to the franchise, that would be awesome.
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Nov 24 2012, 11:05 AM EST by Anonymous
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Quantum of Solace is good; surprised?
The Biggest question I have is HOW THE **** IS THIS A TERRIBLE BOND MOVIE!?! I love Bond all Bond movies, even the stinkers (Diamonds are forever, Moonraker, The world is not enough, Die another day), and I thought this was a pretty good one. Casino Royale did a good job at re-introducing Bond, but I thought QOS did a good job by bringing Bond back as 007. In Casino Royale we saw Bond get poisoned, lose at poker, get a gruesome torture, and quit MI6; The classic 60's Bond would never have that happen. I mean, I swear I'm on the verge of calling CR OVERRATED, and I'm already calling QOS underraated. I bet you if this came after DAD yall appreciate it. So go ahead and give me as many thumbs down as you possibly want, end the end its just an opinion.
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Nov 14 2012, 1:08 AM EST by Anonymous
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mission
hello 007
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Aug 31 2012, 11:04 AM EDT by Anonymous
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great bond. great movie??
Dont get me wrong. its a good movie, as any bond movie is but i just found it one long action sequence. AND I LOVE ACTION! its just so strangely different. its more action then dialoge. sometimes, and this will sound sad, i will watch a bond scene and later i will go between the lines and go all emotions about it. all i got from this movie was, as M said, blind inconsoulable rage. i quite like near the end where bond spares domanics life to save camille. it gave me the feel that it wasnt all about his personal revenge streak. it is the only humanity you see in bond for about 96% of the movie. its a good bond movie, just a different one. i still recomend those who havnt seen it but here is two points:
1) watch casino royale first or it will mean nil to you
2) be ready for violance
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Apr 22 2012, 10:52 AM EDT by
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I can see it working
I can see Robert Pattinson pulling off 007. I really can! I mean, after getting a haircut, I think if you slapped on some cologne, a tuxedo, and a silenced Walther P99 he could make an excellent Bond. He's got the traditional brown hair (unlike Craig)
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Dec 24 2011, 9:26 PM EST by Anonymous
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Worst Bond Movie?
It's not that it breaks all the rules, the problem is that it breaks rules that are good rules, rules that should not be broken. Even worse than that though, is you don't get any creative benefits as a result of the rule-breaking. Gunbarrel sequence at the end instead of the beginning, for example. Adds nothing.
We were watching it again last night and, okay, now I understand how he managed to find Yusef. Dominic Greene told him all about it in the car ride out to the middle of the desert. The Yusef scene still has a tacked-on-to-the-end feel to it. And the money. Second half of Casino Royale was all about the money...where is it, who gets it, how's Bond going to get it back. QoS doesn't even mention the money.
The action scenes are a fail. I fear they might be filed away as something else, since it's clear they were photographed that way to make trailers. Good for trailers. Bad for movie. The villains are a fail. They're just not menacing. The evil plot is a fail. Water monopoly -- pfeh.
Worst of all, though, this isn't really a Bond movie. I have the other 21, plus Never Say Never. I waited a full two years before adding this to the collection. It just doesn't fit in.
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Nov 24 2011, 12:26 PM EST by
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Q branch
Please bring back Q and Q labs. Please give little more importance to gadgets.
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Jun 19 2011, 6:28 AM EDT by Anonymous
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Pattinson
No they surely wouldn't be that stupid that's like having Dame Edna as the Bond girl it would turn everyone off the series permanently
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Jun 1 2011, 3:56 AM EDT by
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Daniel Craig is a closet Homosexual
Daniel Craig is a Closet Homosexual.
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May 20 2011, 2:23 AM EDT by Anonymous
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Where did they turn the movie?
Where did they shoot the hotel scenes in La Paz and in the Bolivian desert? Do those hotels really exist?
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May 3 2011, 9:39 AM EDT by Anonymous
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Robert Pattinson, go back to Twilight land and suck it!
I would kill myself if they did this. It would ruin every Bond movie ever made. It would destroy the legacy. What the hell were you thinking? I will never watch Bond again if they do this.
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Mar 13 2011, 1:53 PM EDT by Anonymous
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James Bond
Who the hell says Robert Pattinson can't slick his hair down some for the part of James Bond. He changed his hair in Water for Elephants and still looked DAMN good!
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Dec 29 2010, 11:21 AM EST by Anonymous
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NOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!
NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, !!!!!!!!!!!
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Jun 20 2010, 11:55 PM EDT by Anonymous
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noo
rob would be the worst james bond
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Jun 7 2010, 12:08 AM EDT by Anonymous
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Quantum of Solace
Until number 23 is finished, Quantum will have to do. I have see it twenty times now and it does grow on you. I would have love to see all the old movies remaked with a real world flare. I love it.
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May 30 2010, 10:14 PM EDT by
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NOOOOOOO!
Really? Great way to kill a franchise.
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May 20 2010, 1:17 PM EDT by Anonymous
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Best Quote
The best quote from this film in my opinion was:
DOMINIC: (to bond) my friends call me dominic
BOND: i'm sure they do
Overall this film was sadly dissapointing (and the shortest so far).
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May 7 2010, 10:30 AM EDT by
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