Vrock wrote:Go watch OHMSS. It's pretty good.
I have to disagree with this. It was a total snoozathon.
mattsteg wrote:I just watched the movie tonight and I've got to say that the whole love story interlude was just weird, and to be honest rather jarring. OHMSS worked much better in that regard, in my opinion. Having the love-lost story told twice does kind of weaken it.
I felt that was the point. The escape to the love story was supposed to feel surreal because it was too good to be true. Also, I felt that the love story worked a lot better here than OHMSS. For one I can understand Bond falling in love with the girl because who isn't in love with Eva Green? Two he loses her in quite a different way here. He had chance to save her (maybe if he had payed more attention to the details, to realize what was going on in the first place, or maybe if he had checked to see if the money had arrived, or maybe if the last action sequence played out a little differently), instead of just a drive-by shooting, and oops she's dead, so sorry.
mattsteg wrote:Oh, and the Aston Martin crash was stupid. Just crash the thing, don't turn on antigravity.
Are you really complaining about one of the most sedated car sequences in recent Bond memory, by saying it was over the top? Plus the crash only lasted for like 5 seconds.