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Can Danny Boyle Save James Bond From His Quantum Disappointment?

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Quilt
03/05/09

In reply to Can Danny Boyle Save James Bond From His Quantum Disappointment?
Why they ever made Bond more "realistic" is beyond me. The past 2 Bond films were boring travesties (excluding the chase at the beginning of Casino). Instead of trying to cover new ground, Bond is treading in Bourne's wake.

Bond is doing a terrible job of it too. Trying to be more realistic, while at the same time having an idiotically impossible aerial battle between a fighter plane and a cargo plane, all culminating in Bond diving into the sky and opening his parachute only 100 feet before the ground? Bullshit. Bullshit, bullshit, bullshit.

I'll likely go see the next Bond film. I can't help but give it a chance. I will have no reservations about walking out on the movie and asking for my money back though.
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d_r_e
03/04/09

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Dear Mr. Boyle,

Please stay away from this repetitive and worn out franchise and make & direct the sequel to 28 Months Later.

If you do so, I shall bake you some cupcakes. And you bet your sweet ass they're delicious!!!

- Me
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ZetaCrossfire
03/04/09

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Casino Royal SUCKED! HORRIBLE! I want another golden eye :D
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Quilt
03/05/09

@ZetaCrossfire: You're not alone.
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Pessimippopotamus
03/04/09

In reply to Can Danny Boyle Save James Bond From His Quantum Disappointment?
I... liked Quantum of Solace? I liked it thoroughly, although I do agree. It could've been better. It just needs sprinklings of much more ridiculous villain, (although I think Mathieu Amalric looked suitably mad enough) and Q and Moneypenny. I sincerely hope they rehire John Cleese as Q. He was the best thing in (cough) Die Another Day.

And more Aston chases are always welcome. Quantum's was top notch.
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LittleDragon
03/04/09

@Pessimippopotamus will steal you a ★ for 50 coins: JC was R. Q died. I liked QoS as well. It would have used a little more flushing out but was still good.
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tetracycloide
03/04/09

@Pessimippopotamus will steal you a ★ for 50 coins: as a fellow appreciator of quantum of solace i am patently unwilling to agree that 'it could have been better' on the grounds that it is irrelevent; everything 'could have been better.'
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Pessimippopotamus
03/04/09

@LittleDragon: John Cleese became Q in Die Another Day.

@tetracycloide: I don't see how Wall-E could've been better.
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tetracycloide
03/04/09

@Pessimippopotamus will steal you a ★ for 50 coins: i'll admit, sometimes the ways a thing can be made better are more obvious than others.
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OlavRokne
03/04/09

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Quantum was a better Bond movie than anything that starred Pierce Brosnan. I'll leave it at that.
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tetracycloide
03/04/09

@OlavRokne: i don't know, i liked goldeneye a lot. then again, i haven't seen it in at least 10 years and i was an idiot back then...
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Pessimippopotamus
03/04/09

@OlavRokne: Die. Another. Day. Those three words can shut down any Brosnan fan.
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tetracycloide
03/04/09

@Pessimippopotamus will steal you a ★ for 50 coins: that doesn't make any sense, producing a totally reprobate work doesn't invalidate everything else the person has ever done.
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Disate
03/05/09

@OlavRokne: BULLSHIT !!!

Golden eye was better that that piece of shit.
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Quilt
03/05/09

@Disate: Goldeneye was f*cking awesome. You people are insane. Casino Royale and Quantum of Solace are made of epileptic seisures and boring characters.
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ManchuCandidate
03/04/09

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-A larger than life Bond Villain

-A plot that just makes enough sense in the real world for folks not to question it

-Fight scenes that don't cause epileptic seizures

-Bond acting like Bond, not Bourne or the Trainspotter or whatever the fuck is in vogue action series.
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tetracycloide
03/04/09

@ManchuCandidate: i, for one, agree with meredith and manchu. we need to see a return of the larger than life, the campy, the gadget filled, the oversexed, the 'real' bond. to that end we obviously need to fire this craig asshole and see if timothy dalton can be persuaded to reprise the role.
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kingmanic
03/04/09

@tetracycloide: You lost the argument at "timothy dalton". While craig isn't the best he is better than dalton in fact IMHO only George Lazenby was worse. Quantum lacked something and that was any real resolution. The ending sucked and the villainous plot sucked. Craig was alright.

If you want a new bond I'd look to someone like clive owen.
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tetracycloide
03/04/09

@kingmanic: i was being sarcastic, timothy dalton was supposed to be the tip off.
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tetracycloide
03/04/09

In reply to Can Danny Boyle Save James Bond From His Quantum Disappointment?
the plot lines in quantum were only disjointed if you weren't paying attention. this could be the fault of the film if you found it boring for not grabbing and holding your attention but it would not be accurate to say the plot sequence didn't make sense.
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Quilt
03/05/09

@tetracycloide: "the plot lines in quantum were only disjointed if you weren't paying attention"

Nope. It was definately disjointed. It was actually fairly easy to follow what was happening in the film, it's just that it was all plotted out so poorly. That, and nearly every scene in the film had a stupid action sequence attached to it, which drew attention away from any semblance of character or plot.
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alphanumeric1971
03/04/09

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Agreed, Quantum showed the extreme limitations the new format puts on the James Bond franchise.

Plus what was wrong with how they were making the films before? I watch James Bond for James Bond. If I want to see a Bourne movie I'll go see a Bourne movie.

Exploding hotel? Bitch please.
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Quilt
03/05/09

@alphanumeric1971: +1
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