Quantum of Solace

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  • obieone
    obieone Posts: 5,077
    edited April 2009
    I was disappointed. Can't say why, I just was. It didn't 'grab' me like I was expecting.
    The sfx were pretty good. Gave my rcvr. a nice workout, but other than that...eh!

    Btw, does anybody else besides me, miss the GADGETS?! I wasn't that big of a Bond fan as of late, but, until you take them away, you don't really miss the cheese.
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  • BlueFox
    BlueFox Posts: 15,251
    edited April 2009
    This just arrived in the mail this week, and I am now watching it, but currently on a beer break. Gotta love DVDs.

    Anyway, this is the first DVD I have played in ages that has a DTS soundtrack. Also, the standard DVD transfer appears great so far (Bond is in Haiti at this point). And, this is a sub-on movie with great sound. The LSi15s, LSiC, and PSW1000 are doing a great job of going from soft to loud, with crisp, clear, clean dialogue.

    Time to get a beer, take a leak, and watch some more!!! Gotta love DVDs.
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  • netfiltering
    netfiltering Posts: 4
    edited April 2009
    obieone wrote: »
    I was disappointed. Can't say why, I just was. It didn't 'grab' me like I was expecting.
    The sfx were pretty good. Gave my rcvr. a nice workout, but other than that...eh!

    Btw, does anybody else besides me, miss the GADGETS?! I wasn't that big of a Bond fan as of late, but, until you take them away, you don't really miss the cheese.

    I was very disappointed with this movie too. I was expecting great things from Daniels, but unfortunately one man alone can not make a good movie. The plot was not there, *some* of the action was good, with the car chase for instance, and there was nothing surprising really. As as action movie, not just a Bond movie, I thought it was lacking.

    And I agree, it felt a little too much like Bourne in a few instances. I missed the gadgets too, and that probably ads to the Bourne feel.

    One partly redeeming quality was the bad guy played his part well.
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  • steveinaz
    steveinaz Posts: 19,538
    edited April 2009
    It was close, but I slightly preferred Casino Royale. As much as I like Sean Connery, I thought he was a cheesy Bond. I liked Roger Moore, and that series of stories where he played Bond. Didn't care for Pierce Brosnan or the other swizzle-stck at all. Daniel Craig does a real fine job, and is more hard core.
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  • Hilbert
    Hilbert Posts: 316
    edited April 2009
    Craig is the best Bond since Connery, and the only Bond imo who survives comparison with Connery, but the I thought the latest flick was poor. Couldn't clearly follow the plot, for one thing---who was the guy whom Bond killed upon arrival in Haiti? I'm still not sure, even after reading a synopsis on the All Movie Guide. I much prefer the older convention whereby M (Dame Judi is a terrific actress, but M is a man) calls Bond into his office and spells out the problem.

    Then there is the head-in-the-sand unreality. The big problem security agencies face is not capitalists scheming to corner the Bovlivian water market, or whatever the QS bad guy was trying to do. The big problem is terrorism, and as long as Hollywood ignore this blindingly obvious fact, and choose for their villains western rogues of one sort or another (mad generals, CIA agents, etc), their thrillers will fail to grip.
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  • cfrizz
    cfrizz Posts: 13,415
    edited May 2009
    I finally got this movie today & I thought that it was very good. I will have to rewatch it a 2nd time to miss some of the stuff I know I missed the first time around.

    They really gave M a work out this time around, and it had a good mix of action & storyline, with the story trumping the action, which is how it should be.

    I really am starting to like DC as Bond, and they are really letting us get to know the character as a human being & not just as some agent who goes around killing bad guys & bedding women.

    Welcome to the 21st century James Bond!
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  • bobman1235
    bobman1235 Posts: 10,822
    edited May 2009
    Finally got around to watching this, thought it was typical modern "action" flick. No real story or soul. Yeah I understand it was all about Bond's "revenge" story or whatever but that whole plot was so back burner to fast-paced action that it just bored me to tears.

    Plus, to the directors of the world - it takes NO SKILL WHATSOEVER to make action out of half-second snippets of film. NONE. Even the NON-action scenes in QoS can't hold a camera angle for more than a second at a time. I just can't pay attention to a movie when it moves like that.
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