Sunday, November 9, 2008

Quantum of Solace or Quantum of Misery.....

This movie is pretty disappointing if you ask me. Never expected a Bond movie/flick to take this turn. I saw the trailers and it blew me and expected to be good as Casino Royale. I saw the ratings, ah! A few papers gave it 3 stars. WTF!! @%$, why the heck did those guys give it 3 stars now, I need an answer - did they watch it by any chance. I also heard it broke the box office record on the opening day, what happen to the rest of the week. I'll tell you why, they too must have had the same expectations as I did. The Director ripped it off big time!!

It started off well, kept me to my seat and then half an hour later I dozed off. Am not a person to doze off in the movie hall while watching a movie, especially a Bond flick. There was a boom, a bang and another boom and kha-boom, that woke me up. Luckily I didn’t drop my popcorn. You know what the funny part here is, for a moment I thought I was watching a different movie. Remember the scene where Daniel (Bond) walks with Olga (Camille) in the desert, it reminded so much of "Desperado" (you know, the one that stars Antonio Banderas and who can forget Salma Hayek....)* The only thing that Daniel (Bond) was missing was his guitar case, and Olga (Camille) was looking pretty stunning if you ask me. That's one reason I guess the movie got an extra star.

Frankly speaking, story wasn’t defined at all, and the worst part...it looked as if I wasn’t watching a Bond movie it never had The Bond touch. The only dialogue I understood were "The first thing you should know about us is that we have people everywhere" and then towards the end of the movie a small conversation between Daniel (Bond) and Judi (M) which has no sense or meaning which I must say, but never heard him say the famous dialogues "Bond, James Bond" and "Martini, shaken not stirred" anywhere in the movie. Oh! And by the way, did u hear the title track, it sucked big time. I hope the next movie won’t be disappointing as this one.

I'll give 1 week's time for it to stay in the movie halls. Pretty doubtful, it's gonna stay long enough. But it all boils down to nothing, 250 bucks down the drain. The popcorns weren’t a waste though.

I need Solace for watching this movie now.

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