Comments on: Will There Be Gadgets For 007 In Quantum Of Solace? http://www.geeksaresexy.net/2008/10/11/will-there-be-gadgets-for-007-in-quantum-of-solace/ tech, science, news and social issues for geeks Sat, 21 Nov 2009 20:58:33 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: Scalextric http://www.geeksaresexy.net/2008/10/11/will-there-be-gadgets-for-007-in-quantum-of-solace/#comment-112463 Scalextric Thu, 23 Oct 2008 21:01:43 +0000 http://www.geeksaresexy.net/?p=6140#comment-112463 Can't wait to see Quantum of Solace! Also looking forward to the game on the PS3. Not played a Bond game since Goldeneye on the N64, I hope it lives up to it! Can’t wait to see Quantum of Solace! Also looking forward to the game on the PS3. Not played a Bond game since Goldeneye on the N64, I hope it lives up to it!

]]> By: Preston L. Bannister http://www.geeksaresexy.net/2008/10/11/will-there-be-gadgets-for-007-in-quantum-of-solace/#comment-110484 Preston L. Bannister Sat, 11 Oct 2008 17:52:16 +0000 http://www.geeksaresexy.net/?p=6140#comment-110484 I have real trouble with the "disregarding special effects ... in favour of credibility and a gritty realism" description, as some (most?) of the action sequences in the last Bond were improbable in the exteme. Too many not-physically-possible sequences made it hard maintain belief in the story. One of my favorite Bond films is the early-1960's "Goldfinger" precisely because it just might represent a story that really have happened (just a shade improbable). Successive Bond films have included increasingly improbable action sequences, and the last Bond film was by far the worst (for lack of realism). The change in mood in the last Bond film I do not mind, but the departure from reality slid from "highly improbable" to "not physically possible", and was just too much at times. All the fantastic elements aside, Bond is meant to represent a real human character, and in the last film did things even a very-able and impossibly-lucky human could not. A lack of "credibility" and "realism" was precisely my problem with the last Bond film. I have real trouble with the “disregarding special effects … in favour of credibility and a gritty realism” description, as some (most?) of the action sequences in the last Bond were improbable in the exteme. Too many not-physically-possible sequences made it hard maintain belief in the story.

One of my favorite Bond films is the early-1960’s “Goldfinger” precisely because it just might represent a story that really have happened (just a shade improbable). Successive Bond films have included increasingly improbable action sequences, and the last Bond film was by far the worst (for lack of realism).

The change in mood in the last Bond film I do not mind, but the departure from reality slid from “highly improbable” to “not physically possible”, and was just too much at times. All the fantastic elements aside, Bond is meant to represent a real human character, and in the last film did things even a very-able and impossibly-lucky human could not.

A lack of “credibility” and “realism” was precisely my problem with the last Bond film.

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