So, one year on!
#1
Posted 22 October 2009 - 08:19 PM
I remember it like it was yesterday. I saw it on the 1st November 2008, at the 2:00pm showing. I couldn't see it on October 31st, because I was at a Halloween Party on the night. I went as the Joker.
I loved Quantum when I first saw it. There's nothing like sitting down in the cinema after anticipating a movie for months and months. On November 1st 2009, Bond was back! At least for me anyway!
Too bad it didn't last, well.... It did. But subsequent viewings wasn't as good as the first showing. It's the same for any move really!
EDIT: Could a mod please change the title to 'One Year On!', Just incase i'm criticized on something else.
#2
Posted 22 October 2009 - 09:12 PM
#3
Posted 22 October 2009 - 09:14 PM
#4
Posted 22 October 2009 - 09:34 PM
Such an amazing feeling isn't it, when you see new footage from a Bond movie!
#5
Posted 22 October 2009 - 09:45 PM
#6
Posted 22 October 2009 - 09:52 PM
Having watched it on Blu ray at the weekend I very much enjoyed it and found it was served better bookending Casino Royale.
#7
Posted 22 October 2009 - 09:53 PM
#8
Posted 22 October 2009 - 09:59 PM
#9
Posted 22 October 2009 - 10:01 PM
I tend to toss and turn at every opportunity.
#10
Posted 22 October 2009 - 10:02 PM
Interesting isn't it. Blu Ray really makes you appreciate the film more.
You're right, I have come to appreciate that PTS so much more, when I watched it on DVD it seemed too fast but watching it on BR I could follow it and appreciate it so much more
I've now come to think of it as one of the best PTS of the series and that opening sweep across the lake is easily one of the best opening shots of any Bond film.
Having viewed it properly on blu ray all the way through, I'd just watched the PTS a couple times before that I found it was only the sink hole sequence that doesn't cut it for me and maybe all the dripping taps and peasants sequence jars me a little but QOS is a damned good Bond film in my view.
Edited by bond 16.05.72, 22 October 2009 - 10:04 PM.
#11
Posted 22 October 2009 - 10:13 PM
#12
Posted 22 October 2009 - 10:55 PM
#13
Posted 22 October 2009 - 10:58 PM
#14
Posted 22 October 2009 - 11:14 PM
Too bad it didn't last, well.... It did. But subsequent viewings wasn't as good as the first showing. It's the same for any move really!
Erm, no, it isn't. Plenty of movies get better with subsequent viewings. Heck, some of my favourite films are films I didn't even like the first time I saw them. Sometimes it takes a couple of viewings to "get" a film. Some films need to "sink in". I wasn't 100% sold on CASINO ROYALE the first time I saw it, but by my third theatrical viewing I knew that it was a masterpiece. Many viewings later, it continues to hold up.
Alas, QUANTUM OF SOLACE loses more charm every time I watch it, although I wouldn't go as far as to say that I dislike it.
#15
Posted 22 October 2009 - 11:23 PM
It's not like CR, though, with regard to multiple viewings. I never get tired of CR but QoS is just not that way for me. I watch it about every six months.
#16
Posted 22 October 2009 - 11:40 PM
Had QUANTUM been his debut, I'd have been all over it. Rookie agent James Bond, on his first major mission as a Double-O, is sent to Haiti to investigate a possible dastardly organisation after his botched capture and interrogation of a Mr White in Italy. In Austria, 007 ends up killing a member of Special Branch, causing M to remark that she knew it was too early to promote him. In Bolivia, our hero meets prickly CIA agent Felix Leiter. And so on.
And then you'd have CASINO ROYALE as the EMPIRE STRIKES BACK-ish followup with a dark and shocking ending. This order works better for me not only because I consider CASINO ROYALE a far superior film to QUANTUM OF SOLACE, much richer in characterisation and substance, but also because QUANTUM OF SOLACE is a lean, mean bullet of a film as opposed to the more epic CASINO ROYALE. It's the DR. NO to CASINO ROYALE's THUNDERBALL.
As it stands, I see QUANTUM OF SOLACE as the unsatisfactory "bridging" film between CASINO ROYALE and BOND 23, in which - presumably - Bond's origin story arc and also the story of Quantum will come to an end. I wish QUANTUM were the start of the Craig Bond saga as opposed to the comparatively thin sequel to the mighty CASINO ROYALE. I think it'd play better that way.
#17
Posted 22 October 2009 - 11:43 PM
I remember seeing it first on a Wednesday afternoon, but the following day was better, because I saw it at the old Ritz cinema in Randwick as part of a red carpet Charity Screening. There was a helicopter and Aston Martin outside the front of the cinema, and inside, we drank champagne and auctioned off a signed QOS poster (signed by Marc Forster).
#18
Posted 22 October 2009 - 11:57 PM
should have opened the film !)
#19
Posted 23 October 2009 - 12:01 AM
#20
Posted 23 October 2009 - 12:34 AM
/end mush
#21
Posted 23 October 2009 - 12:37 AM
i saw a couple of shots of the film in tv spots like a shot from the car chase and one of bond sitting on the boat and the only news i knew was that olga was the bond girl, alicia keys was doing the song, the possible length (i saw one site list it at the correct length and another list it as over 2 hours), that it was a direct sequel, and the director and writers. beyond that i was ignorant about the story and the rest of the characters.
it made for a real treat as i really loved the film as i think it is one of the most unique bond films in the series. i enjoyed it even more on subsequent viewings and it has probably become one of my most watched bond films. some of my friends also loved the movie while others did not like it as much. it has really been a polarizing film but it is one that i am glad that we have and will continue to enjoy.
#22
Posted 23 October 2009 - 12:39 AM
We've gone on the first day to each Bond film since GE.
It was great fun as this was our first midnight showing. I've grown to appreciate this movie more with each viewing.
#23
Posted 23 October 2009 - 01:26 AM
And a year later we have no news on a new film, the series may be out to pasture again and just (mostly) positive memories.
Agreed, Loomis. I can point out Blade Runner as one of my prime examples of a movie I wasn't thrilled with early on but grew to like more and more. Twenty some years ago, FRWL and DN would have been near the bottom of my list of favorite Bond films, and now they rank near the top of the list.Too bad it didn't last, well.... It did. But subsequent viewings wasn't as good as the first showing. It's the same for any move really!
Erm, no, it isn't. Plenty of movies get better with subsequent viewings. Heck, some of my favourite films are films I didn't even like the first time I saw them. Sometimes it takes a couple of viewings to "get" a film. Some films need to "sink in". I wasn't 100% sold on CASINO ROYALE the first time I saw it, but by my third theatrical viewing I knew that it was a masterpiece. Many viewings later, it continues to hold up.
I don't buy into that Pauline Kael line of only seeing a film once and basing one ultimate opinion on it from that single viewing.
#24
Posted 23 October 2009 - 02:18 AM
Equally as memorable is the seemingly nonstop overflow of news articles we had to keep up with on the main page. Insanely busy, but fun nonetheless.
EDIT: Could a mod please change the title to 'One Year On!', Just incase i'm criticized on something else.
Done.
#25
Posted 23 October 2009 - 02:56 AM
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Posted 23 October 2009 - 03:34 AM
#27
Posted 23 October 2009 - 04:30 AM
#28
Posted 23 October 2009 - 07:02 AM
Bond 23 needs to get a move on....
Edited by Peckinpah1976, 23 October 2009 - 07:04 AM.
#29
Posted 23 October 2009 - 08:33 AM
#30
Posted 23 October 2009 - 09:01 AM
Tremendoudsly enjoyed it second time around on DVD, third time too, but still it is a letdown from Casino Royale no matter how I try to look at it. Bring on Bond 23.