Mind you, "QUANTUM OF SOLACE" had its flaws (uneven pacing in the first half and . But the story, at least for me, was the right follow-up to the semi-tragic ending of "CASINO ROYALE".
It looks like this thread has been dormant for ....... a while, but it fits what I'm posting about. Earlier today I watched Calvin Dyson's video about the TWINE's 25th anniversary. He mentioned the back and forth during editing of TWINE if the Bilbao sequence should be the whole PTS or the London scenes should also be in front of the title sequence. It struck me that there is no real need for the Bilbao scenes. There are some good lines ad an underwhelming stunt, but that's all. The action in London is far more impressive. Bilbao isn't really needed for the plot either. Start the PTS with Bond walking into M's office with the suitcase full of money, Perhaps ad a line or two and it would've worked better than what we got. The PTS would've been closer to the length of most PTS' too.
Yes I don’t entirely disagree. If it were a good sequence I’d save it, but it’s all so dreary with nothing stylish about it and some pretty horrible dialogue. I still can’t believe that’s the set they used in the first scene of a Bond film too: a boring, small office.
And why on Earth isn’t it set in Switzerland??
Just for a change you could have had a fun scene with Moneypenny ticking him off about complaints about some ridiculous sequence of stunts he pulled whilst getting the money but which we're only hearing about for once.
Moneypenny or M could ask him, and 007 would make a quip. Anything the audience imagined would probably be better than what we got. Cutting the Bilbao would be more effective. I think the scene was shot in Bilbao and not Switzerland because of the Guggenheim Museum we see for a few seconds.
The minutes saved by cutting the Bilbao stuff could instead be used on fleshing out the Christmas Jones character and the relationship between Renard and Elektra, and possibly Elektra and Bond.
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On a related controversial note, I think the Dench-Craig relationship is the best M-Bond relationship in the entire series.
It looks like this thread has been dormant for ....... a while, but it fits what I'm posting about. Earlier today I watched Calvin Dyson's video about the TWINE's 25th anniversary. He mentioned the back and forth during editing of TWINE if the Bilbao sequence should be the whole PTS or the London scenes should also be in front of the title sequence. It struck me that there is no real need for the Bilbao scenes. There are some good lines ad an underwhelming stunt, but that's all. The action in London is far more impressive. Bilbao isn't really needed for the plot either. Start the PTS with Bond walking into M's office with the suitcase full of money, Perhaps ad a line or two and it would've worked better than what we got. The PTS would've been closer to the length of most PTS' too.
Yes I don’t entirely disagree. If it were a good sequence I’d save it, but it’s all so dreary with nothing stylish about it and some pretty horrible dialogue. I still can’t believe that’s the set they used in the first scene of a Bond film too: a boring, small office.
And why on Earth isn’t it set in Switzerland??
Just for a change you could have had a fun scene with Moneypenny ticking him off about complaints about some ridiculous sequence of stunts he pulled whilst getting the money but which we're only hearing about for once.
Moneypenny or M could ask him, and 007 would make a quip. Anything the audience imagined would probably be better than what we got. Cutting the Bilbao would be more effective. I think the scene was shot in Bilbao and not Switzerland because of the Guggenheim Museum we see for a few seconds.
The minutes saved by cutting the Bilbao stuff could instead be used on fleshing out the Christmas Jones character and the relationship between Renard and Elektra, and possibly Elektra and Bond.