Quote:quantum of solace, amazing movie. I was lucky to have seen it one day after watching casino royale for the first time. I was never a Bond guy and thus didn't see the latter in theaters. I really think seeing it the night before is what made me love quantum so much. I was amazed when i found out how many people didn't like it. I guess it truly is one of those situations where everyone has different tastes, because my tastebuds thought it was a flawless movie.

Quote:A LOT of Bond fans disliked QoS for the same way they didn't like License to Kill. Too dark and too edgy. I'm sorry but I totally bought Bond's revenge mission and the movie played it out well.

Of Craig's two Bond's so far I think CR is a little better than QoS but both are solid efforts.

I thought Casino Royale was flawless. As near-perfect as a Bond movie will ever be. Quantum was solid, but let down IMO by a weak villain and the fact that Bond didn't get the girl at the end (in fairness, this happened several times in the Ian Fleming stories, but it's just a bummer in the movies). Also, while "dark and edgy" is okay to an extent, Quantum did take it a little too far to suit me. I am thinking especially of the scene where Bond puts Rene Mathis' body in the trash dumpster, and the camera just lingers on the scene, staring down with a bird's-eye-view of the dumpster. There had never been any other Bond movie -- not even Licence to Kill -- where that scene would have happened in that way.

Another thing: Does anyone else remember when the Bond theme songs were hits on the pop charts? From "Goldfinger" by Shirley Bassey to "A View to a Kill" by Duran Duran, there were several hits from the Bond movies. Some of them ("Live and Let Die," "Nobody Does It Better") became iconic in and of themselves, apart from the movie. But really, when you think back on all of the Dalton/Brosnan/Craig films, all of the music was completely forgettable.