Bond and Mathis on the plane leaps to mind, that scene is unrivaled in the series IMO (there's also the lead-in scene directly preceding it at Mathis's villa).
It's a nice scene - it's lovely to see Bond drunk for once - but even then, I think it's edited too tightly. Mathis' dialogue about pills is admittedly quite good, though. Still, I would hardly go calling the scene "unrivaled." It's a nice, brief moment, but it's hardly anything worth calling home about.
The intitial interrogation of White has some nice layering (and there's also the scene directly preceding it between Bond and M that's a bit of alright).
The intitial interrogation of Mr. White is quite rushed, though that's more a fault of the screenplay than anything else. Let's face it, the whole concept of Bond interrogating Mr. White was much more exciting in theory than it was in the finished film, where it was essentially reduced to a brief set-up for an action setpiece.
Bond and Camille have one of the most fascinating Bond/Bond girl relationships in the series, not unlike some others we've gotten but the depth shown in QOS is again unprecedented IMO (no Bond director except maybe Hunt has handled such delicate material as well as Forster in the sink hole scene).
In concept, their relationship is very interesting. In execution, it just falls flat, since it's all skeleton and no meat. Their relationship is ultimately cut down to a few sound bite-full "weighty" conversations, and never given time to satisfactorily breathe.
Bond and Fields has a great arc to it from first meeting to Bond avenging her death by leaving Greene in the middle of a desert with a can of oil.
In theory, yes, but not in execution. Fields is largely a non-entity in QUANTUM OF SOLACE. Nor was she even that interesting conceptually, or really fit in with the overall tone of the narrative.
And then there's Greene. Great villain lots of creepy scenes, love the one where he tells Bond off at the party.
I don't like Greene at the party. It's all "trailer dialogue," so to speak.
Medrano is IMHO the best minor villain in the series: wants to be a dictator, and is a practiced sadist. The reveals on him are as well-done and substantial as for Greene, unnervingly quiet moments contrasted with fits of violence.
Medrano's fine, for yer standard nasty rogue general. Neither particularly memorable or particularly bad, but hardly worth praising to the skies. He's a simple character, simply conceived and simply sketched.
Most Bond films sound like cartoons
Because they
are cartoons. And that's not a bad thing.
