Re: What Did You Watch? 2025-03-08 (Saturday)

On 3/9/2025 7:43 PM, anim8rfsk wrote:

Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:

On 3/9/2025 6:39 PM, Adam H. Kerman wrote:

Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:
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'Quantum of Solace'.  Bond blows up a hotel for astronomers because some
guy wants all the water in the driest desert on Earth.

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The real villain is the director. Has to be the movie with the shortest
average shot length I've ever seen. It made it impossible to tell what
was happening during any of the major set pieces.
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I despise this movie.

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Well, it is the shortest of the Bond films so far.  Every other film has
been ~2hr 10min while this was about 1hr 40min IIRC.
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 It only feels like it’s an hour longer
 

I don't hate the movie the way others do.  But one thing I learned recently was the movie was made during a writer's strike.  That obviously doesn't make the movie any better, but it may help explain why certain obvious problems may not have been fixed.
https://pagesix.com/2024/12/02/entertainment/daniel-craig-says-this-james-bond-was-a-f-king-nightmare-with-a-terrible-script/
Right before the last writer's strike someone posted a list of all the movies and show that came out during the one before and suddenly a lot started to click.  "Quantum of Solace" was on that list.