Sat 22 Nov 2008
What’$ My Motivation?
Posted by anaglyph under Hmmm..., Movies
[15] Comments
OK, so I’m in Hollywood, and a good friend of mine takes me to see the new James Bond film Quantum of Solace at the premier Hollywood theatre The Arclight (did I remember to mention that I am in Hollywood?)
Anyway, the film is a big boofy blow-up-everything-in-sight action piece. Lots of car chases, lots of gunfights, lots of (relatively new for Bond, and quite irksome) naval-gazing and self-reflection, and the requisite pantheon of bad guys and hot babes. Well, not nearly enough hot babes for my taste, but you get the picture. Lots of money spent on lots of excess.
The lights come up at the end of the film and the girl sitting next to me says to her friend “So. what did you think?”
He ruminates for a second… “Nah. Too Hollywood.‘”
Well, Bond, after all, was a British creation. Where’s Mr. Connery when we need him?
Alex, I will take “Anal Bum Swords” to block!
I jus like th idea o chicks & their friends ruminatin tgether.
Catalyst: My sentiments exactly.
Malach: Well, that’s about the most impenetrable comment you’ve ever made.
Joey: It was a very quick rumination.
No way it was as bad as The Ring. Talk about the worst movie ever. Especially the sound on that one. I swear, the guy who worked on it must have been deaf.
Having now seen the movie, I feel qualified to comment. I loved the movie. None of it was very plausible, and of course the conspiracy is huge and not completely thought out, and of course Bond knows how to do certain specialized things that you would not assume a spy would know (like flying a DC-3 in a tactical situation). Then there was the women hot beyond all comprehension. I liked that. So, yeah, it was Hollywood. But it was a fucking Bond movie.
I had to hang out with spooky people here and there in my life and I can say that they were all completely average forgettable chubby and almost universally boring. Thank God for Hollywood.
What does it mean to be “Hollywood?” I live there and I don’t know. o.o This is very interesting to me. Hehe!
Atlas: At least there was a really hot chick in The Ring.
Casey:
>>So, yeah, it was Hollywood. But it was a fucking Bond movie.
Well, that’s my point of course – I kinda don’t know what those folks were expecting… (Oh, and what – you can’t fly a DC-3?)
Lexie: My impression is that it means you have to have a car that is four times as big as you need it to be, pretend to be a lot more competent than you actually are, and drink far too much soda. I could be wrong.
Hve not seen this one yet, but the moment I saw the last one I loved the new Bond. He’s a throwback to Connery, and the best since the first Bond. Thank God the Roger Moore “smirky” Bond is gone.
Polanski should be the new Bond. Then maybe I would give a shit about these movies.
It made me giggle thinking that it was too “Hollywood” and Bond is a British character.
I’m actually doing a report for school on California’s “exportation of culture.” How California has influenced the rest of the United States and the rest of the world. That’s why I was wondering. ^_^ Thank you.
Yeah. I shoud be th new Bond.
I mean … I awready got my own way o dliverin th classick Bond line.
Ah, Reverend. I saw this and thought of you.
Joey: It could work. You’d just need a tuxedo and a martini. Oh wait, then how would I tell you from Dean Martin?
Colonel: Oh dear. It seems you know me all too well.
No guys me is a real James Bond 007!
I think Quantum of Solace is not so bad as many people say