Only one of the best … at least one of the best action films
Thought QOS was ok entertainment, Daniel Craig is good as Bond, the villain is evil and Olga Kurylenko is gorgeous.
I don’t know your age, but I do know Stanton’s and I’m surprised that he likes this movie so much
Without knowing this, I would have said this is a typical Bond movie for the video game generations. Younger people are more familiar with this flashy, pumped-up, noisy style of film making, they want their films to move, and move fast, very fast. I guess I must have missed something, but I have no idea what it could be. I liked some aspects of the story, but they remained underexposed, were sacrificed for the sake of more cranked-up action. There was a good film in this one, and I’m afraid some people are actually admiring this good film that isn’t there. The previous one, Casino Royale, was overlong and had those never-ending card games, but I liked the action scenes of that movie better; okay, they went on too long, but at least the editing wasn’t as choppy as in this one.
I haven’t actually seen Quantum of Solace , I was just commenting on you and Stanton’s opposit opinions.
Well to say the truth I was never a big fan of the Bond franchise, despite all do love the Bond girls, could make the films only with the girls, and something like a Jeanine Bond sounds nice to me.
The character became mutch atatched to Sean Connery and Roger Moore, IMO
From reading scherpschutter’s review of Quantum of Solace I imagine I wouldn’t like it; one of my all time favourite action films is Alfred Hitchcock’s North by Northwest, which seems to be the total opposite to Quantum of Solace .
Well John I also haen’t really haven’t seen the film so I can’t tell ;D but with my already establish prejudice I wont be looking to see it either.
I think that Bond films are a thing of the cold war period, and in this days of whre is your enemy the stories suffer a little. I wonder how cool can it be you open your parachute and the union jack appearing on it, those days are over, so they turn to marketing and video games type of films. Bond is Fleming and Fleming died a long time ago, and there’s no way to get over that
There must be something about this film, my dad is at the same age as Stanton I think and he likes it as well.
The different opinions have made me feel like I should view this one now.
Wel I think the Bond Girls must have something to do with it 
I think that nearly every shot in Quantum of Solace is very carefully constructed, has a great visual beauty, is made with a genuine feeling for rhythm and framing. Even every single one of the very, very short shots for the machine gun cut action scenes. Including those short shots of which JB fans have complained that that what the shot shows is halfway out of the shot.
The story is a basic JB story stripped bare of everything unnecessary (it is the shortest of all Bond films), but all done with intelligence, and (together with CR) with the best dialogues of the franchise (so far). The story is simple and intelligent at the same moment. It even has something to say about how our world is and why so much goes wrong.
The brilliant opening sequence, with the camera flying over the sea towards the tunnel where the action starts, which is intercut with short fragments of the beginning action scene, this sequence alone tops everything seen in any of the previous 22 Bond films.
QoS is indeed very modern, but in a very positive way. I’m surprised that it was so successful as many of the JB fans were embarrassed by the way it was shot, and especially by the way it was cut.
For me it is a piece of art designed for a mainstream audience, and it strangely works damn well. Most likely the only Bond in which the director was responsible for the film and not the producers, who still gave Foster their blessing for his concept.
Ohh, and QoS gets better and better with every viewing. I meanwhile enjoy every fuckin second of it.
And family night in Phil H Towers means the next Bond in the series for us, Diamonds Are Forever.
Connery was showing his age by this point but there was plenty of fun to keep us all amused including that tilting car thing which impressed me and my friends so much back when we were young. Not the best Bond by far but actually better than I remembered.
[quote=“Phil H, post:252, topic:544”]And family night in Phil H Towers means the next Bond in the series for us, Diamonds Are Forever.
Not the best Bond by far but actually better than I remembered.[/quote]
I had the same experience
Didn’t like it when I saw it the first time (on VHS, some twenty years ago), but was pleasantly surprised when I rewatched it not so long ago. Nice pair of homosexual lunatic killers
Some scenes were also shot with Bond and Domino on board the Disco Volante in Thunderball
These scenes were cut from the finished film and were unfortunately lost, all that remain are a few stills
What remains today of Largo’s villa Palmyra in Bahamas in Thunderball, more or less a ruin
The OHMSS Piz Gloria is still going strong today though, it hosts a restaurant were you can eat James Bond breakfast ;D
That’s a nice poster for On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, Lindberg. We can only wonder what it would have been like with Sean Connery.
Or with Michele Mercier!