{"id":690,"date":"2008-11-13T05:00:04","date_gmt":"2008-11-13T05:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/revblogs\/geekcurmudgeon\/2008\/11\/13\/and-i-thought-i-was-being-harsh\/"},"modified":"2012-08-17T05:19:33","modified_gmt":"2012-08-17T05:19:33","slug":"and-i-thought-i-was-being-harsh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/revblogs\/geekcurmudgeon\/2008\/11\/13\/and-i-thought-i-was-being-harsh\/","title":{"rendered":"And I thought I was being harsh…"},"content":{"rendered":"

In my recent review of Quantum of Solace<\/span><\/a>, I worried that I was being overly critical when I called the film "a mediocre addition to the Bond mythos" or when I declared "the most disappointing movie of the year." But after reading Robert Wilonsky’s review in City Pages<\/a>, I realized I wasn’t critical enough.<\/p>\n

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At 106 minutes, it’s the shortest of the Bond films, but it feels like one of the longest as it bounces hither and yon only to wind up stranded in a Bolivian desert, where baddie Dominic Greene (The Diving Bell and the Butterfly<\/span>‘s Mathieu Amalric) is sucking the sand dry of its underwater river. Yawn. Used to be, Bond villains were larger-than-life Evil Geniuses who at least had Grand Aspirations to take over the world, bwah-haw-haw; now, the bad guy’s just a phony environmentalist with a thing for deposed dictators and dry wells.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

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And you know what? He’s right on. I should have been far more critical but I allowed my love for Bond and Casino Royale<\/span> to unduly influence the review. I soft pedaled it.<\/p>\n

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Some more spot on critiques courtesy of Wilonsky:<\/p>\n

"Quantum<\/span> is a spastic, indecipherable, unholy, and altogether unwatchable mess."<\/p>\n

"[It is as though they] filmed Quantum<\/span> on a roller coaster and cut the movie with a food processor set on ‘unintelligible.’" <\/p>\n

"[T]here’s no need to worry about where Quantum of Solace<\/span> fits in the Bond pantheon\u2014it’s easily one of the worst."<\/p>\n

Ouch.<\/p>\n

While I realize this will fall on deaf ears, wait for the video. Stay home… read a book.. play some games… do whatever else and save your hard earned money. Quantum<\/span> promises nothing but disappointment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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