Quantum of Solace

[Sergeant Hartman]

No thread yet? This comes out in cinemas tomorrow in the UK.

Who's going to see it? I'll be going with Manus on Saturday.

So uhh, discuss.

[Ouch!]

Doesn't come out stateside for another two weeks, that's why there's no recent thread, I'd wager.

I'm going to go the midnight showing.

[Rostum]

Hopefully I can find my gold class tickets and I'll go see it.

[Dreddz]

Yep, definitely seeing this. Casino Royale was great.

[Slothy]

Have to see it. I'll be seeing it as soon as I get back in town on opening day. If I was going to be back a day sooner and didn't have to work I'd go to a midnight showing, but responsibilities and such...

[Big D]

It doesn't open in my neighbourhood till around the US release date, but I'll go and see it as soon as I can. Should be pretty awesome. There's something great by default when the peons are complaining about a movie 'cause there're too many big words in the title...

And as a bonus, the first full trailer for next year's Star Trek re-boot is meant to be coming out with Quantum of Solace. That'd be a neat bonus.

[demondude]

I'll be going on Sunday.

[I Don't Need A Name]

i will go when i can be arsed to see it. not to excited cause it looks worse than Casino Royale

[edczxcvbnm]

Comes out in two weeks over here and it is my most anticipated movie of the year. I have some high hopes just for awesome action. I think I will be a little disappointed because I was expecting them to build up this story so that it would be more like SPECTER and have him work his way through operations and high ranking operatives over the course of a few movies. Looks more like he just goes and gets everyone right away :/

I still think it will be good.

[Dreddz]

I saw it today. I thought it was ok. Not nearly as good as Casino Royale. All I really liked were the action scenes. This doesn't really feel like a Bond film. Its rougher and grittier than the Brosnan films for sure and ends up being more like a Bourne film than a Bond picture. Very little humor, less womanizing and no gadgets. They also had to include that bloody shaky cam crap which still pisses me off more than ever.

Goldfinger is still the quintessential Bond picture, and that didn't have much action at all. I was hoping we were going to enter a new golden age for Bond pictures but they are so detached from the rest of the franchise that I don't really see them as Bond pictures anymore. We had the Brosnan films which were too reliant on the action and gadgets and now we have none of that at all. There hasn't been a happy medium in the last 13 years.

[Raebus]

It was an awesome film, I like the direction the new james bond films are going in.

[Boney King]

This realistic, shaky-cam way of shooting action scenes pisses me off greatly. I couldn't even make spacial sense of the opening car chase.

However I enjoyed (SPOILER)the opera scene and the bit where Fields is discovered submerged in oil.

Quantum of Solace is not as good as Casino Royale.

[MadeOfApples]

This realistic, shaky-cam way of shooting action scenes pisses me off greatly. I couldn't even make spacial sense of the opening car chase.

However I enjoyed (SPOILER)the opera scene and the bit where Fields is discovered submerged in oil.

Quantum of Solace is not as good as Casino Royale.

I echo all three of Boney's comments.


The opening car chase really made my head ache. The scene seemed awesome by the bits I was able to make out but even those parts made me wish they would of just used a steady long-distant shot. Actually, a lot of the action scenes in the movie would of been better that way in my opinion. Well... at least the stuntwork.

I did enjoy the film but I am glad I didn't pay to get in. Being a Bond fan I felt disappointed.

[Del Murder]

I thought it was ok. The continuous cuts in the action scenes, especially in the opening scene, also pissed me off and made me a little dizzy. Why do they do that?

I agree that it was more like a typical action movie than a Bond movie. Casino Royale was much better.

Craig is a much different Bond than Brosnan. Much more gritty and hardcore. I like it but it kind of takes some of the magic out of Bond.

[Tavrobel]

I liked it better than Casino Royale, if only because it was funnier (in my opinion) and the flow of the movie was more consistent. I found myself thinking through Casino Royale that "is that it, what is the point of this scene?" Maybe it was a thematic step down, but I enjoyed it more than the previous.