Agreed, it's too long/complicated. If I can't remember the name of the move, why would I want to see it?

 

says one who had their favourite band's latest album title being viva la vida or death and all his friends

 

FAIL

Cannot wait for it to be released :dance:.

Can't wait to see this

Neither can I!, My brother's coming back from the RAF in two weeks, and when he come's back I'm gonna see it with him and it will make it extra special because he has been gone at basic training for nine weeks! :)

the new bond movies suck royal balls.

 

I won't be going to see it.

 

I would rather have gone to the mamma mia singalong.

The new bond movies are so much better than the rest of them.

 

Have fun at Mamma Mia.

they're not at all.

 

they're not as exciting as they used to be,

whenever I used to see a new bond trailer I would want to go and see it.

now they're over produced.

they've gone in a totally different direction and changed what used to make a james bond movie good.

REALLY JD????...Honestly IMO Casino Royale was one of my face bond films ever and Daniel Craig is defienetly my fave Bond! :D, I really want to see QOS, IMO The trailer is a little poor but I have faith in the film! :D

Can't wait. Can't wait. Can't wait. :dance: :dance: :dance: :dance: :dance:

 

Daniel Craig. Best. Bond. Ever. :dead: :dead:

I guess we like films for different reasons then Age Six Racer, but we are allowed to disagree

im looking forward to the new film! i liked "casino royale"..i wasnt really a fan of "die another day"

 

does anyone know what "quantum of solace" means or is? :\

im looking forward to the new film! i liked "casino royale"..i wasnt really a fan of "die another day"

 

does anyone know what "quantum of solace" means or is? :\

Quantum means time. I think it's Latin. Solace is another word for peace or rest. So a time of rest? Guess it's meant to be ironic.

Quantum means time. I think it's Latin. Solace is another word for peace or rest. So a time of rest? Guess it's meant to be ironic.

 

aww okay thanks :D

True dat.

 

Making these Bond movies so often....well...it'll lose the specialness. It'll just be like 'oh it's that time of year again...a new Bond movie...:rolleyes:'

 

Oh come on, a new Bond movie isn't a yearly event :inquisitive:

^indeed... it takes way more than one year to make one of these movies, and they're been coming out at regular intervals since the 60s so it would have "lost it's specialness" a long time ago if it was going to at all. It's the longest running movie series in history.

 

Maybe it seems otherwise if you're young enough to only have become aware of them recently especially where the lag between Die Another Day and Casino Royale was unusually long, but Bond movies usually come out every 2 or 3 years or so.

 

Edit: actually, looking it up they've generally been every 2 years like clockwork with a couple of pauses, mainly after Timothy Dalton killed it for a while: 62, 63, 64, 65, 67, 69, 71, 73, 74, 77, 79, 81, 83, 85, 87, 89,.....95, 97, 99, 02, ...06, 08.

Die Another Day SERIOUSLY SUCKED!, Pierce Brosnan WAS The worst Bond!

OMG! OMG! OMG!....Just Two stars! WTF!

 

THE SUNDAY TIMES REVIEW:

 

2/5 Stars

 

The big question that has always dominated debate among James Bond aficionados has been this — who is the greatest 007 of them all?

 

Now, with the second film in the relaunch of the franchise, they must face a new question — is Quantum of Solace the most boring Bond film ever?

 

Following Casino Royale was never going to be easy, but the director Marc Forster has brought the brand’s successful relaunch crashing back to earth — with a yawn. Even we Bond agnostics could see that Royale had its memorable moments, but Quantum of Solace is $200m worth of bland crash-bang-wallop. It’s an action film on autopilot, one that produces instant amnesia. By the time you have left the cinema, you won’t remember a thing. The trick, of course, is to get a balance between the Bond formula and something fresh. Every time Forster tries to push the feelgood buttons of Bond’s glorious past, however, he totally misses the mark, depriving us of traditional treats. It’s like a panto without a wicked witch.

 

Consider the Bond theme song. Why is it so difficult to write a decent Bond tune? (Answer: because, in the days of John Barry, nobody worried about market demographics.) The latest concoction, Another Way to Die, performed by Alicia Keys and Jack White, is a soulless slice of rock’n’soul sludge. The opening credits, featuring female body shapes emerging from desert sands, look like a cheesy 1970s television ad for a brand of cheap scent. For the big opening scene — a key feature of the Bond film — what do we get? A car chase you can’t enjoy, because the cars and characters disappear in a blur of frantic editing.

 

From this point in, it’s all downhill. The screenplay, by Paul Haggis (Crash), Neal Purvis and Robert Wade, is at times incomprehensible. It’s assumed that you know Casino Royale by heart and understand the intricacies of Bond’s relationship with his true love, the late Vesper Lynd. Did she betray him or try to save him? Search me, guv.

 

And it’s unclear what her relationship was to the secret organisation Bond and MI6 are trying to penetrate, headed by the eco-champion Dominic Greene (Mathieu Amalric), who wants to take control of the water supply of the whole of South America. Greene is a thug who topples governments at the click of his fingers, abolishes the minimum wages of factory workers and sells great hunks of the rainforest for a fast buck. This is a Bond villain? It’s the perfect CV for a career at the World Bank.

 

Then there is 007 himself. James, what have they done to you? He has been stripped of any traces of charm, wit or intelligence, and is just another modern hero, concerned only with his own hang-ups and emotional issues. Feelings of grief and guilt over Vesper — not any notion of duty — propel him into action. He’s a thug with a broken heart, trying to find closure through killing. James, get over it and get back to work. Would any kid, or middle-aged fantasist, want to be like this back-to-basics Bond? The glamour is gone; the crack of broken bones has replaced the clink of martinis. In the most recent film, we saw his testicles whipped; here, they are removed. Not, I hasten to add, by a villain, but by the screenplay. The great thing about being 007 is that you get to sleep with beautiful women — all the time. In the new age of Bond realism, however, he gets a quickie with Agent Fields (Gemma Arterton) and nothing with his leading lady, Camille (Olga Kurylenko). Bond directors, take note: more sex, please, we’re British.

 

At the heart of the story is a question: who can you really trust? The Bond series has finally embraced what might be called John le Carré relativism: the notion that the “good” guys are as morally grubby as the “bad” guys. Indeed, one of the characters says, “There is no good and evil” — as if this were a daring proposition. Yet every film these days says it. It would be more daring to suggest that there are no shades of grey, only right and wrong. So, Bond ends up being hunted by both MI6 and the CIA as if he were the villain.

 

You would expect some memorable performances from an actor’s director such as Forster — the man who made Halle Berry look talented in Monster’s Ball — but the casting is a mess. Kurylenko is cute and capable, but Amalric, while he looks like a young Polanski, has the menace of a mouse. The weakest link, though, is Craig. Yes, he looks good in a tuxedo, and is terrific when it comes to action sequences. Paradoxically, however, even though we’re meant to have a very human Bond on display, he moves through the film with the cold, mechanistic manner of Schwarzenegger’s Terminator. No comic quips or human touches are capable of piercing the armour of those tight, puckered lips. In Craig, the 007 franchise has found a great face (and body), but it has not found a voice or a visual style it can call its own. Bond has been stripped of his iconic status. He no longer represents anything particularly British, or even modern. In place of glamour, we get a spurious grit; instead of style, we get product placement; in place of fantasy, we get a redundant and silly realism. Craig makes an attractive corpse, but Bond is dead.

 

12A, 106 mins

12A, 106 mins

 

 

you allowed to see it Si? :rolleyes:

you allowed to see it Si? :rolleyes:

 

:dozey:, Anyway here is the Daily Mirror's review which is better and has given it 4 stars!:

 

THE STARS

 

Daniel Craig, Olga Kurylenko, Mathieu Amalric, Judi Dench, Gemma Arterton, Jeffrey Wright, Giancarlo Giannini.

 

THE STORY

 

Intelligence surrounding an MI6 traitor who almost kills M (Dench) sends James Bond (Craig) to a bank in Haiti, where a case of mistaken identity introduces him to beautiful Camille (Kurylenko), a woman with her own vendetta.

 

She in turn leads him to ruthless businessman Dominic Greene (Amalric) who is also linked to the mysterious organisation that blackmailed the woman Bond loved.

 

Bond's mission takes him to Italy, Austria and South America as he discovers Greene is conspiring to take control of one of the world's most important natural resources and must find a way to stop him.

 

THE VERDICT

 

Quantum of Solace opens hot on the heels of the last Bond movie, Casino Royale. A battered and bruised Bond is being chased over dangerous Italian mountain roads, his Aston Martin weaving its way through traffic while dastardly bad-guys blast away at him with machine-guns.

 

Rattling around in his boot is baddie Mr White, the man responsible for the death of Vesper Lynd - the girl Bond loved in the last film. At the catacombs beneath Siena, Mr White hints at the power of the sinister cartel Quantum.

 

A typically blistering fight sequence sends Bond off into action - and sets the trend for this thrilling spy adventure... just when you take a breath, it leaps pulse-poundingly into action.

 

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With an electrifying Daniel Craig now firmly established as everyone's favourite British spy, the film-makers take Bond into a 21st Century where danger to the environment is the real threat.

 

Bond globe-trots from Italy to rainy London and then to Haiti, Austria and finally to Bolivia.

 

He teams up with sultry secret agent Camille, who is so tied up in her own plans for revenge that Bond's sex-appeal barely registers.

 

Instead, Bond's lissome lover this time is fresh faced Agent Fields (Gemma Arterton), an MI6 agent who is tasked with sending Bond home. But she's no match for deadly cartels and her fate brings a darker tone to the story.

 

These days the Bond films lack the playfulness of their predecessors. M (Judi Dench, as wonderful as ever) gets the few funny lines, but it's all about Bond getting over his pain and lust for revenge.

 

In previous films it has been about Bond saving the world - this time round, the world saves Bond.

 

Rest assured that the stunning locations, bruising action (some of the close-up fight scenes are astonishing), cool clothes and unrelenting sense of style are all intact.

 

Daniel Craig's Bond is a self-assured, martini-swigging spy who wears his cuts and bruises with pride.

 

Quantum of Solace confirms the strength of the Bond franchise... I can't wait to watch it again!

 

4 STARS

 

FINAL CUT

 

A brilliant, breathless action romp. Daniel Craig is electrifying. Opens Friday, October 31 (12A, 106 mins)

Give me Bourne over Bond anyday

The Times are normally spot on with their reviews

 

I agree actually The Bourne Trilogy was amazing

And they are making the 4th Bourne book into a film as well :D

That is excellent news

Judging by the reivews it seems that the whole Bond thing is just riding on the crest of a wave following the huge success of Casino Royale. They should have left it a while before releasing another one, or actually bothered to make this one decent.

The Times' review was actually hilarious, I love The Times :D