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WANTED REVIEW
most people are sheep and will rave about any old generic bullshit. an excellent example of this would be comic book movies. oh most of the franchises start out great but eventually i boils down to a big bottle of piss. but when people just start turning out movies that could be good and totally change the movie into a your average generic hollywood blockbuster that ultimately fails.
but every once in a while the hollywood executives get something right. one of those things is wanted. now first i must say that this movie is very different from the graphic novel but what they do change works very well with the story. at first the movie seems to have filled out a manditory action movie check list.
1.nudity
2.exsplovies
3.gunplay
but the movie checked off the 2 optional box on the back side of the paper. and that box is style. the movie presents its self so well. but what makes this movie far better then other action movies is that it combines elements of comedy. it reminds me of the one liners that were used in die hard. it was one of the most enjoyable movies i've ever seen.
QUANTUM OF SOLACE REVEIW
very few things transcend generations and leave a lasting impression one of those things are james bond.this week i went to go see Quantum of solace with some friends. the experience started off great with a spirt trailer for the spirt then the movie just went down hill from there. the movie picks up with a car case with so many cut scenes of the cars with so many motion blurs. i couldn't tell what was what. when there wasn't a motion blur the car took up 3/4 of the screen. then we find out that there's a secret organization with people every where. then bond chase down the traitor and then the story goes through the same thing every bond does
one he finds out the villains plot.the villain is stealing water and causing a draught south america country.
two bond goes to the villains hideout(in this movie its a eco-hotel) and its destroyed in a shot out. god forbid to he leaves some evidence.
i really wanted to like it but it just kept pushing me away. i think it was about an hour in to the movie then came the goldfinger reference. the girl who was sent to send bond back to london except she's seduced and taken to a party by bond and then left behind. she's found later in the hotel room covered in oil. what was the point of this and to add insult to injury she's in the same pose.
when the camera cuts out to a shot from outside the tunnel the scenery is incredible but no lets put the camera in the best possible angle for viewing the grill how exciting. marc foster has also been taking from the jason bourne play book.
the film is mediocre. it takes no risk and doesn't really excite. it doesn't really feel like a bond movie. it seems like any old action movie with an environmental twist but who really cares. it missing the suave of the the sean connery films. you know what for the next bond film they should drop daniel craig and bring back sean connery. thats right i want to see a 78 year old man fight off the bad guys and it will be even more impressive when he does it with a broken hip.