It seems financially the public has taken this new Bond with open arms. And I think I'd rather have no more Bond films if they went back to what the casual fan wants. Craig and company are just too good.
Agreed. I embrace a Bond film like QoS, which is a complex film made by adults for thinking adults. But I suppose we must allow that some fans prefer gadgets and pussyfoot fights and Carry On-style one-liners.
That it has broken opening records is not surprising given the size of marketing campaign. That has no relevance to the disappointment many feel.
It is also quite wrong to suggest those who feel the film failed want "gadgets and pussyfoot fights and Carry On-style one-liners."
I am yet to find one person who can explain the plot to "control the world's water supply." Can you, as you are obviously a "thinking adult" ?
The global supply of water is going to be a much greater source of conflict in the next fifty years than the supply of oil and may well be the cause of mass migration. Whoever controls a country's water supply will control said country. There, that wasn't too complex for you, was it? But the plot is secondary in this film to Bond's emotional journey; and rightly so.
That is stating the obvious. Please explain HOW Quantum are going to "control the world's water supply."
You're missing the point. For the purposes of this movie, I don't need to know. Quantum of Solace is about James Bond's emotional journey, not Quantum's nefarious scheme. But clearly this concept is beyond the grasp of some and all we're doing is going round in circles.
If you didn't need to know what the bad guy was doing and if it the plot made sense or not, because the movie had so much depth in Bond's emotional journey, that's fair enough. Do you even know if Bond got the right guy? Or doesn't that matter either?
I refer you to my answer in the other thread.
