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[doubler83]

The Sun?

HA!

Should call it The .

[Blonde Bond]

Yes.

This review made the movie seem worse than I expected.


The reviewer couldn't even get his fact straight regarding 'The Line' and the killing of... how many people again to earn one's licence to kill?

Anyway... pretty disappointed with what I read... if true... this review is...hmmmmh?

Search my feelings, I must. Through the Force, see the movies yet to be seen, hmmmh.

[doubler83]

The Sneak would like to give you a figure on the body count . . . but it was impossible to keep score.

Because you haven't seen the film.

[Harmsway]

What a terrible excuse for a review.

[MarkA]

I know for a fact some journalists were shown a twelve minute preview of the film last week. I bet this was based on just that.

[Tarl_Cabot]

BS or not I'm getting more and more excited...

[RivenWinner]

violence of "rambo proportions" Oh-uh. I'm going to go ahead and assume there is some exaggeration since this is The Sun, but this does have me worried. One of the main things that bothered me about the Brosnan era was how it was filled with too many scenes of him just shooting people down. I mean, he would pick up a submachinegun and just mow people down. That's not James Bond. Not one bit. At least not for me.


also, everyone keeps declaring how this is the first Bond sequel. I mean, yes, it is a direct sequel from the previous films, but some of the earlier Bond films were follow up sequels as well. You Only Live Twice--On Her Majesty's Secret Service--Diamonds Are Forever, for example. Loosely of course, but still.

Edited by RivenWinner, 25 September 2008 - 07:29 PM.

[Qwerty]

Well, it's short and a review I'd expect to read on The Sun, but I guess it gets the point across.

[Safari Suit]

If that's a negative review, it wasn't a very good one.

I feel dirty.

Just reading this crap.

That the sun wrote.

Or rather it's inept reporter.

I'm going to throw up now.

Now I'm going to throw up.

God I hate The Sun.

It's not as bad as the Mail. At least there is a slight optimism to The Sun - which sells by the bucket load. The Mail though is a hateful, stirring rag under the pretence of being something more than that.

Great freebies though

I think the Sun always do this with the Bonds and, I daresay, all the other popularist films. Their desire to offer the first reviews is laughable when the results are like this.

Yeah. I still remember their ludicrously glowing "review" of THE PHANTOM MENACE.

Hardly a crime only they are guilty of though.

[Invincible1958]

violence of "rambo proportions" Oh-uh.

I think the guy who wrote this has never seen Rambo.
Some people even say that Dalton's Bond in LTK is like Rambo - and he's nothing like it.
So many people just take the "Rambo"-thing to say "Hey, it's more real than the average Bond film". But that doesn't mean, that it will be an orgy of violence.

I think they just don't get the character.

[Agent 76]

At least it's not a "my god, the franchise is dead, this movie is awfull" type of review.

[Germanlady]

At least it's not a "my god, the franchise is dead, this movie is awfull" type of review.

I think they are not known to be especially positive about anything, because negative normally does interest people more - as bizarre as it is. So this might be considered as a mighty good review, as they didn´t trash it - was too good for that - but of course, they couldn´t say its bloody great either.

[zstoneVII]

this is not a review and the journalist is useless. this "review" has annoyed me!

[Captain Tightpants]

At least it's not a "my god, the franchise is dead, this movie is awfull" type of review.

I think they are not known to be especially positive about anything, because negative normally does interest people more - as bizarre as it is. So this might be considered as a mighty good review, as they didn´t trash it - was too good for that - but of course, they couldn´t say its bloody great either.

"There's no news ... like bad news"?

Maybe Elliot Carver actually got something right ...

[HH007]

By the sounds of it the Sun forgot to watch CR before they watched QOS. Hmmm......They seemed confused as to who Vesper and Mathis are. Not cool. Bond is more Rambo here????Well at least they didn't mention Bourne..EDIT: They did.

Not encouraging, but it is only one review, lets hold out here.

I knew it wasnt going to be good as CR

I bought a lottery ticket, can you tell me if I'm going to win? Since you seem to be clairvoyant.

While you're at it, can you tell us who will win the U.S. Presidential election?

[Tarl_Cabot]

McCain will squeek by with a win.

Taxism, not racism will cost Obama the election.

[Eddie Burns]

No mate...Obama will win it. But it'll be close...

[Tarl_Cabot]

I think it's a coin flip. I know so many people who are pro Obama...but not really because they like his platform. They like his good looks, charisma and speaking abilities. It's a pretty shallow reason to vote for a guy if you don't at least investigate his agenda, which really looks alot like Jimmy Carter's(ugh).

FYI,I don't like either party. I'm voting Libertarian but I'd give Ron Paul a lever pull if it was an option.

[JackWade]

The only thing about this so-called review that makes me think it's legit is the use of the line “if we refused to do business with villains, we would have no one left.” I don't think that's been heard anywhere else, so unless the writer completely made it up, it's a snippet of dialogue that might give some credibility to the poor old Sun.

[Captain Tightpants]

The only thing about this so-called review that makes me think it's legit is the use of the line “if we refused to do business with villains, we would have no one left.” I don't think that's been heard anywhere else, so unless the writer completely made it up, it's a snippet of dialogue that might give some credibility to the poor old Sun.

It sounds like an extension of the line from the airport scene in the theatrical trailer about knowing who Greene is andstill wanting to do business with him.

[marygoodnight]

the few reviews so far are probably real, a lot of these test screenings and special invites by the producers and studios are sometimes made with stipulations that much not be given away. you won't hear many reviews till the real deal premieres anyway.just keep your pants on.

[Elvenstar]

This review made the movie seem worse than I expected.

By now, I've resigned myself to expect another TND. It's a real shame, however, that after all the effort to do something special with Royale, they seem to have done a 180o turn. I'm especially pissed @ Mr Forster, who after first saying how he liked the new approach to Bond, has made a point of changing everything andeveryone.

My thoughts exactly.
I was especially dissapointed about the reviewer's thoughts on Forster.
No mention of acting at all... I can't believe Amalric, Taubman, Gianini, Dan of course are all supporting elements to action...
The time will tell.

By the way their review of CR expressed everything so right that Im not doubting this review ("opinion" is a better word).

P.S. I haven't followed CR so can someone tell me when the first media and Aint it cool reviews started to come? If this reporter has seen the movie at a real screening there should be others.

[stamper]

You people talk as if action = TND.

To me action = Bourne or True Lies or Die Hard quality, TND only fails because the script is totally wasting the original idea which is excellent, trimming off all the edges, making the vilain a parody of a Bond vilain.

QOS is gonna be BIG.

[Invincible1958]

The only thing about this so-called review that makes me think it's legit is the use of the line “if we refused to do business with villains, we would have no one left.” I don't think that's been heard anywhere else, so unless the writer completely made it up, it's a snippet of dialogue that might give some credibility to the poor old Sun.

I can imagine that the SUN was invited to watch a 20 minutes show reel last weekend - just like Ain'tItCool.Com and all the other websites and journalists. And now they pretend they saw the whole movie.
So this line could have been in this 20 minutues of footage that they were shown.

[photographer]

I do not believe that the guy from "The Sun" has seen the whole movie, only the 20 minutes presented at last week by a regular press event.
His review doesn't go into the plot or the benefits of the actors and actresses.
Also there are no references to the work of director Marc Foster, who is the first director, who is not from the British commonwealth. I think a remark how "british" or "non-britisch" QOS had became under Foster will be discussed by the regular media.

[Pierce - Daniel]

The only thing about this so-called review that makes me think it's legit is the use of the line “if we refused to do business with villains, we would have no one left.” I don't think that's been heard anywhere else, so unless the writer completely made it up, it's a snippet of dialogue that might give some credibility to the poor old Sun.

I think it's just a paraphrase of the Felix/Beam excange.
"You know what Greene is like and you want us to go to bed with him?"
"You're right we should only deal with nice people"
It's just a bad paraphrase, it happens to usall, we think after we're seen a movie we can remeber the line but it always sounds different later. I still talk to people who think Bond said "Do I look like I care" when he orders his vodka in CR. It makes no difference but still is very noticalbe.

The review is likely based on the 20minutes extended trailer footage. A review usually will talk about pacing, and most importantly the acting. Is Craig any good? Who's Camille? What's Greene all about? No mention of the art-house film Forster has promised us either, they only talk about the action. I presume the 20 minute reel would focus highly on the action elements of the film anyway just to leave the reporters pumped, the rest of the info comes straight off Bond fansites otherwise.

[marktmurphy]

I know for a fact some journalists were shown a twelve minute preview of the film last week. I bet this was based on just that.

Sounds about right; I could buy that.
As someone else said, it probably is doubtful that the movie's finished yet. These folks tend to have everything coming together at the last minute.

IAlso there are no references to the work of director Marc Foster, who is the first director, who is not from the British commonwealth. I think a remark how "british" or "non-britisch" QOS had became under Foster will be discussed by the regular media.

I bet very few people will discuss that; it's not really very interesting or surprising.

[Vauxhall]

If EON were going to provide any publication with a first look at the movie, it wouldn't be The Sun, who have a proven track record of trashing Bond movies with ridiculous speculation and lies.

[stamper]

Who says you have to go to the preview at the Sun's name ? Many journalists work for several publications, and use nicknames. He probably used another mag as "cover".

[007Bond007]

Thank God, i almost got worried for the film.