Has anyone seen it yet?

I left the cinema wondering a little over the 5 star reviews, some claiming QoS is 'the best Bond ever'. Ok, it is a good film - not a patch on Casino Royale in my opinion, just an averagely decent fast-paced thriller that doesn't really feel like a Bond film. I can see what the director is trying to do, this reinvention of a post-millenial Bond, but by the end credits, I felt that the film maybe takes itself a little too seriously. Craig is excellent but the film didn't exactly grab me, if I'm honest.

And the theme tune is dreadful.

JB

Zettel has done a review of it. Saw it the day it came out, and it was an enjoyable evening, but not a particularly memorable one. The close editing of some of the chase scenes really bugged me - much too short.
And, of course, he's such an ugly dude.


- NaomiM

I completely lost the plot. Who are the baddies?
I think the test of a good piece of art (be it writing, song, dance, visual, whatever) is would you consume it again. I wouldn't watch QOS again, even if free. Sorry.
dave.

Who gave it 5 star reviews? None of the papers I read! Well, you know I hate Bond and would never go to see another one after I sat through the last. And everyone said that one was good, whereas no one has said this one is.

Haven't seen it yet

Sarah

No gags, no gadjets, no memorable girls - even M seemed wet in this one,to me.

Yet i adored the theme tune!

Craig says 'wait for the next film' which apparently gets more on track.

But this was not a Bond - i mean, since when did 2 Bond films have the same villain and carry on a previous story, what's that all about???

And worst of all, no swimming trunks;

x

I read in the reviews that M was supposed to have got shot. Uh??? I thought she did, but there was no convalescence scene with her arm in a sling. She must have the constitution of a horse.

I thought the women were complete drips in this film, Judi Dench included. Very disappointing. Bring back Grace Jones,that's what i say:0

x

The main problem for me was that there was too much action - by the time the finale came round, it couldn't hope to top what had come before it. Bond seemed to punch, shoot, chase, punch again for twenty minutes before uttering a word.

Also it was too serious and humourless for me, I don't want a return to the Austin Powers days, but a little shade and light would have been nice - Casino Royale seemed to manage the right balance.

All that said I still enjoyed it, and found it to be a superior action movie.

Kris

M's constant clucking grated overmuch. She is the head of M15 for Q's sake and her chiding Bond over all these 'nasty deaths' etc seemed a bit unrealistic. Then again, the movie did have it's own laughable Bondesque plot devices, didn't it? The oh-so-convenient fall from a crashing aeroplane into the exact sinkhole where Dominic Greene has his evil little reservoir, the hotel built with what basically amounts to a small hydrogen bomb in every room, constructed in the middle of a desert - whose bright idea was that?

I mean, if you're gunning for credible, at least be credible!

This one undid much of the expectation conjured by Casino, if I'm honest. I really do think it's all just heading back to the same place.

Not a bad film, no, but a poor show after the promise of it's predecessor IMHO.

JB

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And the Goldfinger reference - black gold anyone? - seemed a touch contrived too.

Hmm, i thought the girl covered in oil was homage to the girl covered in gold all those years ago. A small glimpse of traditional Bond, that scene was.

There were only two jokes that made me laugh. One was about them being teachers who'd won the lottery and... I can't remember the other.

I agree though, i wouldn't want to go back to the wink wink, nudge nudge days of Roger Moore.

x

Looks like there is nothing for it - we'll have to write the next one?

Sarah

I vote it's time for another one set in outer space. With alien Bond girls. And by now astronauts just wear swimming trunks

x

Oh, I don't mean to slam the film, it's just I have no middle ground, or if I do, it's so narrow you couldn't walk it.

I'm all for outer space. I'd like to see the new Bond films revive Blofeld and SPECTRE. Now that would be something!

JB

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And I love Alicia Keyes and the White Stripes. Just maybe not together...?

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I do actually have a plot for a Bond movie. Have done for a few years now, but don't think I'd ever get round to writing it!

You should

Think I was 13 the last one I wrote I'd forgotten all about it...

SPECTRE would be good.

Sarah