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I still recall the boat chase scene making no logical sense (how Bond gets away). I remember slowing it down and everything and just going "how?"A ★★ review of Quantum of Solace (2008)
This was really close to getting lower, trust me. To say the production of this film was troubled is putting it mildly. On top of the normal production issues of casting choices falling through, as well as directors, a little thing happened at the beginning of filming called the Writer's Strike...
The Bond movie that is a boring Jason Bourne clone, and is somehow worse than the fourth Bourne movie (the one with Hawkeye in it). I've only seen this movie twice in my life and never again.A ★★ review of Quantum of Solace (2008)
This was really close to getting lower, trust me. To say the production of this film was troubled is putting it mildly. On top of the normal production issues of casting choices falling through, as well as directors, a little thing happened at the beginning of filming called the Writer's Strike...
See, I kind of like this movie. I agree with most of the criticisms of it, but there's some stuff in it I really like. I think the opening car chase is a banger, I like the decision to make Bond and Camille kindred souls rather than have her be another Bond girl, I like the scenes with Mathis and Bond more or less reconnecting despite the note they left on last time, I really like the scene at the Opera and I might be one of the six people on earth who likes "Another Way to Die".A ★★ review of Quantum of Solace (2008)
This was really close to getting lower, trust me. To say the production of this film was troubled is putting it mildly. On top of the normal production issues of casting choices falling through, as well as directors, a little thing happened at the beginning of filming called the Writer's Strike...
I liked the opening car chase somewhat, but I felt like it had the opposite problem of some Bond openings where they begin too slow, in that it's so immediately into the action that I had absolutely no context for what was going on until after the action was done. I quite liked Camilla as the Bond girl for that reason. I liked that scene with Mathis, but it was soured for me by what ultimately happens, and the mood whiplash of that scene. Finally, the opera scene is the highlight of the movie by far. "I think you should take this meeting elsewhere." takes pictures of everyone who stands up
Not seen this movie in ages, but yeah, that was the only bit I remember liking.
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The trivia on IMDb for this movie is pretty interesting too. Long but worth a read.
So far you and DT are the only ones I trust about reviewing this movie. Everybody else is treating the film is like the spawn of Satan, or "Disney's worst movie ever made of all time!" (When it's not!).
I'd say the sentiment is less about the movie itself and more about what this implies about Disney. This was supposed to be Disney's answer to Spider-Verse, Arcane, Puss in Boots: The Last Wish, and TMNT: Mutant Mayhem. But in stead of commiting to a new different artstyle, they still are only willing to dip their toe in, resulting in a rather half baked look.
I already knew the movie was originally going to be 2D and then they backed out on that. Like they did with Tangled. Yet it shouldn't cause this much crying from the rage baiters, the click baiters, and the part of the "animation commentary community" (who act like they know everything, and they don't.). I never once saw Wish to be the equivalent of any of those movies. I don't know what height Disney was doing, but I never once bought into it. For better or worse, people of all kinds across the internet and real life, either bought into it or gaslighted themselves into believing will be the best thing ever, just hoping for something good, or to exceed their "expectations". What we got at the end of the day it's just an average movie or Disney played it safe and did their usual virtue signaling. Now I will say people are starting to finally realize how risk-averse Disney is, but still shouldn't cause all this much chaos. You got all these people act like they lost their lives or something. It's their own fault for being that invested in the first place, and that more than half of these commentary jackasses don't actually give a crap. They're feeding into their usual echo chambers.
Tarantino has said that some of his movies are his take on reality. The others are the sort of movies those in his reality might watch themselves. I'd put this one in the "reality" world and at the top of that portion of his films.
I went to see the movie without knowing anything about it, aside from a small preview that I saw when I saw Elemental over the summer.
Fair enough, I suppose.
The only reason I knew about the movie was because my local theater had the poster up back in late 2022. Other than some screenshots, I have not seen a single clip of this movie.
