With Lost on a two-week hiatus, and not really caring all that much about any of the current Dancing with the Stars stars, I'm thinking it's a good time to get caught up on my movie watching (which nowadays strictly occurs during treadmill sessions, unfortunately).
Today it was Quantum of Solace. I'd seen criticisms of it all over the place that the editing was awful--it was trying to do the Jason Bourne thing, but took it a little too far. I'd have to agree that many times it was almost impossible to figure out who was shooting at what, or what boat was crashing into what car. And I didn't really care that much about the plot or the characters--Craig's Bond is too much of an automaton, suspiciously T-1000-like. But basically the initial criticism succeeded in lowering my expectations, and I ended up liking the movie OK. Daniel Craig is still a potentially appealing Bond, so we'll see how the third movie shapes up.
Two more complaints about this one, though. First, if you're building a hotel, reconsider hydrogen fuel cells as the power source. Seems to be a class-action lawsuit in the making. (That was vague to avoid spoilers.)
Secondly, I realize that they were attempting to avoid the "type-on pseudo-computer terminal" titles to identify where Bond was at any point in time, but I really didn't like them doing it in a variety of fonts and sizes, as well as trying to incorporate it into the film (e.g. the "London" title was in the road). In fact at one point, it was incorporated so well (the La Paz title) that they had to fade it out early to make sure you didn't think that the La Paz airport had this giant glowing "La Paz" sign in front of it. They did (do?) the same thing with "Fringe" on Fox--didn't like it there, don't like it here. Yes, I am old.
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