Comments on: Lepton of Disappointment

By: HieroHero

HieroHero — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 23:50:45 +0000

Well I wasn’t a huge fan of Casino Royale either but I pretty much agree with everything you said.

“The action sequences were all basically five minutes of 3-second cuts followed by one long shot in slow motion that let you know something dramatic just happened. I still don’t know what made half those cars or boats flip over.”

This drove me nuts! Especially the first 30 minutes. I think I’m gonna go watch the first 15 minutes of Altman’s “The Player” to get over it.

By: jmackley

jmackley — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 04:47:52 +0000

I’m with you Chuck. I thought the opening from Casino Royale was awesome. A real break from dozens of films opening with silhouettes of dancing naked women.
The opening sequence from QOS encapsulated what I disliked about this film. It was a return to undistinguished formula, only the evil villain’s plot was lame and the movie’s plot was almost unintelligible. If you’re going to go back to Brosnan style movies, then it needs a Brosnan style plot.
Craig is great, but this one was a big step back.

By: Chuck

Chuck — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 08:01:39 +0000

Well, the theme to Casino Royale is my favorite of the Bond themes next to “Live and Let Die.” And it could be just because I hated the Jack White wankery at the beginning of QoS, but I couldn’t get into the visuals, either. It just struck me as Photoshop Tutorial material that’s already going to seem dated by next year.

I can’t remember if they actually did the swirly-lines-expanding-over-a-silhouette thing, but if they didn’t, you could tell they really wanted to.

By: Jake

Jake — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 21:48:39 +0000

One thing that notably improved from Casino Royale is Quantum of Solace’s title sequence. The song was equally annoying, but the actual visuals and the style were exactly what I wanted — a nod back to the 60s jet-set / Modern design stuff of the old Bond sequences, with a decidedly modern treatment.