father prefers “doorbusters” to forum friendship
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I watched two minutes of commercials and now I can scrub around in Welcome to Me to my heart’s content. I just wish more of it was the show.
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I love when she starts castrating dogs on air
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okay shrug you win I’m on the quantum of solace is good team now, and maybe it’s better than casino royale because it doesn’t turn baccarat into poker and have a bunch of dumbass over explanatory lines during said poker. the action scenes I guess you just have to take a jojo bizare adventure manga approach to and realize you’re just going to have to let your brain zone out and just form a general idea of what’s happening. corporations and the cia are the villains but it does end in a “we just went rogue, ran in and assassinated the bad guy real quick so the “good guys” got promoted and it’s fine now” ending a movie like that is usually going to have
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Quantum is definitely the second best Craig bond at least, which makes it at least top ten overall depending on how much you like Roger Moore’s dumbest work
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Oh that reminds me…I watched Casino Royale last week and was shocked that it was a nearly incomprehensible mess of a film with mediocre action scenes, no tension because it wants to surprise you with shocks rather than set up, and a plot so under-explained and convoluted that they literally had to add a scene at the end to explain what the hell just happened so you found out why everything mattered after it occurred instead of when it did.
And yet it also is a completely conventional 2005 action movie in every conceivable way when it decides to action.
I was floored by how it felt like a real movie and a James Bond movie were having a fight, and then both movies stabbed each other in the gut leaving a null void in place of either in the end.
I don’t think I’ve ever had such a 180 response to the critical reception of a movie except for like, maybe Looper? I had almost no expectations and came out of it just…stunned by how terrible a movie it was.
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I disagree. the under explaining of the chasing bombers and bomb makers around to get to their financiers part at the beginning is one of the better parts of the movie and why the over explaining during poker scenes are dumb, but a spy movie about just sitting around in a casino playing out a game is cool so it’s not all bad. m explaining all of vesper’s motivations at the end is bad though
the action scenes were coherent and establish this bond as a big dumb lugnut. the parkour guy jumps up over the wall, bond just runs through the drywall, etc. most of the people he fights are as smart as he is and he barely wins. pretty good for a bond movie and okay for a 2005 action movie
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Now watch the one from the sixties where Orson Welles gives one of the greatest performances of all time
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I like the scene where james b gets his balls smashed
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This is literally the only part of the movie I liked above “Well at least the camera work is better than Nolan’s”
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had to explain to my partner today that there’s a film where Mads Mikkelsen ties Daniel Criag to a chair and CBTs him and they’re curious about the film now
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Explaining it at the end does suck but otherwise this reads as a compliment to me.
Syriana is another big budget movie with an even more incomprehensible plot and it’s great. Came out around the same time too. I think this is when Hollywood was starting to be willing to be a little more honest about the massive disinformation structure that led to Iraq, it was starting to sink in to the culture. Burn After Reading came a couple years later
But it’s not incomprehensible for any kind of point. It’s just a movie where stuff that happens in a thousand other better movies happen. There’s nothing evocative about it, it just feels like a generic spy thriller with a generic story that wants to act like it’s smart by not explaining it’s incredibly basic plot. But it’s not smart, it’s a shitty bond movie that keeps mugging for the camera asking you to praise it for not being pure camp and being slightly evocative of better movies.
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I mean what if the point is just to give your brain something to do and have you not feel like an idiot. How many big-budget Hollywood spy action-thrillers that don’t treat you like a moron are there, really? I mean sure I’d rather watch Ronin or the French Connection but it’s better than a Bourne movie or whatever. I’m very glad dads the world over had to uncomfortably watch as the camera lingers on Daniel Craig’s glistening manmeat body coming out of the ocean in a shot that would’ve traditionally been reserved for the Bond Girl
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martin campbell is honestly kind of an underrated action movie director. i can’t tell if it’s good or bad that he seems to have settled into this comfy zone of just doing endless Taken riffs. I mean, at least it’s not more Green Lantern.
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Had no idea who this guy was and his imdb is mostly unimpressive but Mask of Zorro? Dude gets full marks from me
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gang we covered all this MUWT 2: The Quickening - #3492 by the_kyphosis_gamer
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