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Originally Posted by Cadaverous Pallor
All I know is, I heard NirvanaMan didn't like it, which means that I'm going to love it.  You probably think I'm kidding... |
This is quite true. Both Babette and I came out feeling very unimpressed by the flick, but NA and GC loved it...so I definitely think its getting some mixed reaction, thought more seem to be in the 'love it' camp. For me, it was a fine action flick, but not an enjoyable bond flick.
Personally, I like my Bond's a bit ridiculous and fun. I did not care for this new 'vulnerable' side of bond and have no interest in seeing him fall in love and all that mushy crap. While amused a bit by the ocean scene, I prefer the Bond chicks to be the sex symobls (but that likely has more to do with the fact that I like boobies than anything else). I like my Bond's to be whitty, intelligent and omniscient. I didn't like seeing this new bond as rather gullible. I like it when bond knows all and has a plan for everything. I like the gadgets. This one didn't have any. Except for the one thing he needed to save his life...convenient. And while convenient gadgetry is nothing new to Bond flicks, I am more forgiving when there is a wide array to choose from and Bond invents clever ways to use it. And sin of all sins, there was no Q!
To look at it from another angle, I think they missed a spectacular opportunity here to go back and tell the backstory of bond. They could have done a lot of interesting stuff here, but they chose instead to have him go from not 00 to 00 in the next scene, and barely acknowledge it.
So in the end, I don't think it was a bad action movie. Well, maybe I do. Hmm, it was rather repetitive and extremely predictable. A bit longer than it should have been given how thin the story was. Frankly, a bit dull at times. But most of all, it just didn't feel like a bond movie to me.
I respect the efforts to make a more realistic bond, but maybe it's just not what I wanted. I think that concept worked amazingly well for Batman begins but felt it fell flat in this execution.
Bring back Brosnan and some of the more absurdities that make Bond gloriously fun to watch. Umm, but you can keep that last movie. You know the one where the Jaguar and invisibile Aston were crashing through that ice castle. That offended even my rather lienient absurdity meter.