Quantum of Solace

Rather than bothering to write a new blog entry for this movie, I might as well just have you read my previous entry about Casino Royale. OK, so it wasn't exactly the same movie, but I really have nothing new to say about Quantum of Solace, right down to my disbelief at seeing James Bond in a Ford, which is just so wrong.

I lied. I do have one thing to say about this movie. It was surprising to me that it is a direct sequel to Casino Royale, following Bond's response to Vesper Lynd's death (which centers around revenge). I asked Hud whether this was the first Bond movie treated as a sequel (he knows lots more about Bond movies than I do) and he agreed that it was.

Casino Royale

This was the usual James Bond fare; entertaining fluff, a little bit of eye candy. It was funny to find that, though I'd since forgotten, I had watched this movie before. Before (re)watching it I couldn't remember anything about it (except for the obvious things that I probably would have known even if I hadn't seen the movie--for example, that it starred Daniel Craig). I guess you could say it didn't make much of an impression on me (neither last time nor this time), and I'm pretty sure it won't be one of those movies I watch over and over again, even though we own it on DVD.

A few things of note: a fun parkour scene in the beginning as Bond chases an African bomb-maker through a construction site. The bomb-maker was a much more skilled free-runner, but Bond showed himself to be the more intelligent a few times. Also, I stared in disbelief as I saw James Bond headed down a road in the Bahamas driving a Ford rental car (the sacrilege!!) but he soon regained my respect by winning a beautiful old silver Aston Martin in a poker game (whew!!)