Damn, we need a new film.
I'm just gonna say that I thought Bond displayed a good amount of humour in QOS. His first few lines are quips: "It's time to get out", "don't bleed to death", "If they wanted his soul, they should have made a deal with a priest".
What's remotely funny about these lines? There's no double meaning or wit to them.
Context.
1. Bond steps out of his half-wrecked Aston Martin after a brutal car chase to open the boot to a battered Mr White, a significant member of one of the world's most dangerous criminal organisations. He then smiles and says "It's time to get out." like a parent says to a child that has fallen asleep at the end of a long car journey.
2. The way Bond nonchalantly dumps the very injured Mr White while sarcastically saying this line, rounding it off by casually straightening his tie and cuff.
3. "I promised them Le Chiffre and they got Le Chiffre" "They got his BODY" "If they wanted his soul, they should have made a deal with a priest." That is certainly wit.
I see what you mean.
They do sound better when expounded up above, but I think my main problem is Craig's delivery. It's too nonchalant for it's own good, and comes off as bored, as if the lines are a chore that have to be done.
I get what you mean, but that kind of delivery in those beginning scenes works for me, given what Bond's frame of mind is at the time. It has to be cynical, dry, dark. I don't think doing the smarmy, one raised eyebrow quip delivery style of Moore/Broz would have been appropriate.
No, but they could have pulled a middle ground. After all, denial is one of the phases of mourning. It didn't have to be entirely morose.