Sunday, November 23, 2008
Just watched the movie with my parents at Cathay Cineplexes at Damansara a few hours ago. All I got to say is the movie was really awesome. Not "Dark Knight" awesome, but it is very close. Although I haven't really followed the plot as much (who the hell is Vesper?) and that I wasn't really expected to watch the movie today (my brother bought me and my parents a Platinum Movie Suite for us, which was nice of him as he did treat all of us for dinner prior to that.....) So anyway, I think Daniel Craig performed quite well as James Bond in the movie, but I'm just not sure if either he or Pierce Brosnan was the better James Bond. Also, I think some of the action scene was left to be desired. There were one or two scenes that had some bad special effects, or some dialogues gone wrong although I think they were just minor mistakes than anything......
As for the "Bond Girl", Olga Kurylenko was quite okay in the movie, although I do feel her role feels a little left out compared to the other bond girls, but it does make it seem more interesting that the average bond girl. But damn, I feel really ripped of knowing the movie only lasted about 1 hour 45 minutes, compared to some of the other movies that are usually 2 hours plus! But it must have a lot of scenes cut from the movie...... What was worse was that some of the foreign dialogues had no English subtitles! I mean what the fuck man, I can't believe they left that out, and yet the could translate those dialogues into Malay and Chinese....
Meh, whatever. Its getting late and I need some sleep. Will post more stuff later......
Continuing from the post:
Well after a good night sleep and giving a few more suggestions for the review, now I'll try to make out a review the plot for some of the scene. The first one has got to be the car chase scene between the Aston Martin and the Alfa Romeo. That scene itself was quite nicely done and all, but I can't help wonder that one scene where the police van got shot off the road and fell over the cliff, with James Bond being chased by the guys in the Alfa, suddenly that same van crash in front of him. At that point it clearly reminded my of that scene in Tokyo Drift where the guy in the 350Z fell of cliff and the exact same thing happened. Yeah, not what I call "original" though...... =P Also after the end of that chase, James Bond open the boot of his car to find a guy sitting inside there being tied up...... Got a good laugh out of that, I wonder how did he even manage to stay alive in that boot after all that action......
The next thing I want to get to is the boat chase scene, maybe it does look a bit better than some of the other scene and has got to be one of the better scenes that I enjoyed watching. Maybe the only thing bugging me was how did the villain's boat got onto James Bond's boat and he used only a rope and made the boat flipped. Not sure about that one, looks really suspiciously done. Then there is also the part where James Bond meet Dominic Greene for the second time, and where James Bond took Camille and left Fields there with Greene. I mean I swear they had to cut at least 15 minutes from that frame, as suddenly James Bond got pulled over by the cops and open the boot of his car to find René Mathis unconscious at the back of the car. What later made appalling was when the MI6 Agent found Strawberry Fields inside his hotel room died after being drowned in oil. What the hell happened to them!?
The dogfight at the desert also was a bit of a meh from me, I don't really particularly like that part of a reason or two. Firstly after what was looks like to be a conversation between Bond and Camille, there happened to be a fighter pilot trying to gun them down in an old aircraft. It was so sudden and kinda unexpected, but nevertheless I just followed the story. The battle between a Douglas DC-3 propeller plane and aAermacchi SF-260 fighter (with the Bell UH-1 helicopter making an appearance later) was really a no brainer there. I mean even if James Bond manage to fend of the attack, it was highly unlikely he would have survived in that old airplane. Also being mentioned several times was also the parachute scene where they pull the chute just what look liked to be a few feet before they hit the ground. Although it could be done, but I think you could only come out second best.......
Anyways, maybe thats about it from me. I'm sure the soundtrack and the similarities with this movie and The Bourne Ultimatum has been mentioned a lot......
As for the "Bond Girl", Olga Kurylenko was quite okay in the movie, although I do feel her role feels a little left out compared to the other bond girls, but it does make it seem more interesting that the average bond girl. But damn, I feel really ripped of knowing the movie only lasted about 1 hour 45 minutes, compared to some of the other movies that are usually 2 hours plus! But it must have a lot of scenes cut from the movie...... What was worse was that some of the foreign dialogues had no English subtitles! I mean what the fuck man, I can't believe they left that out, and yet the could translate those dialogues into Malay and Chinese....
Meh, whatever. Its getting late and I need some sleep. Will post more stuff later......
Continuing from the post:
Well after a good night sleep and giving a few more suggestions for the review, now I'll try to make out a review the plot for some of the scene. The first one has got to be the car chase scene between the Aston Martin and the Alfa Romeo. That scene itself was quite nicely done and all, but I can't help wonder that one scene where the police van got shot off the road and fell over the cliff, with James Bond being chased by the guys in the Alfa, suddenly that same van crash in front of him. At that point it clearly reminded my of that scene in Tokyo Drift where the guy in the 350Z fell of cliff and the exact same thing happened. Yeah, not what I call "original" though...... =P Also after the end of that chase, James Bond open the boot of his car to find a guy sitting inside there being tied up...... Got a good laugh out of that, I wonder how did he even manage to stay alive in that boot after all that action......
The next thing I want to get to is the boat chase scene, maybe it does look a bit better than some of the other scene and has got to be one of the better scenes that I enjoyed watching. Maybe the only thing bugging me was how did the villain's boat got onto James Bond's boat and he used only a rope and made the boat flipped. Not sure about that one, looks really suspiciously done. Then there is also the part where James Bond meet Dominic Greene for the second time, and where James Bond took Camille and left Fields there with Greene. I mean I swear they had to cut at least 15 minutes from that frame, as suddenly James Bond got pulled over by the cops and open the boot of his car to find René Mathis unconscious at the back of the car. What later made appalling was when the MI6 Agent found Strawberry Fields inside his hotel room died after being drowned in oil. What the hell happened to them!?
The dogfight at the desert also was a bit of a meh from me, I don't really particularly like that part of a reason or two. Firstly after what was looks like to be a conversation between Bond and Camille, there happened to be a fighter pilot trying to gun them down in an old aircraft. It was so sudden and kinda unexpected, but nevertheless I just followed the story. The battle between a Douglas DC-3 propeller plane and aAermacchi SF-260 fighter (with the Bell UH-1 helicopter making an appearance later) was really a no brainer there. I mean even if James Bond manage to fend of the attack, it was highly unlikely he would have survived in that old airplane. Also being mentioned several times was also the parachute scene where they pull the chute just what look liked to be a few feet before they hit the ground. Although it could be done, but I think you could only come out second best.......
Anyways, maybe thats about it from me. I'm sure the soundtrack and the similarities with this movie and The Bourne Ultimatum has been mentioned a lot......
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