| stranne said: I strongly disagree. The first 30 minutes (including the great intro credits) or so were great, but then it was quite bad. And the ending was very poor. I think it was too much XXX (which was almost unwatchable) and too little Bond. |
I think fans and critics alike would disagree with you, though I can definitely see your point about the ending, which was questionable to some.
I thought the Bond franchise has done a good job of reigning in on itself, because it was absolutely out of control in some of the later Brosnan flicks. Substance had simply disappeared and they only thing getting people into the theaters was the gadgets, the girl, and the name Bond.
We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers…Also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls. The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. –Raoul Duke
It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...." Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson
