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Retikle t1_ja64zen wrote

The film that finally got the book character right: a willful, besotted brute with a patriotic, if hobbled, heart.

And one of the greatest -- if not the greatest -- chase scenes ever filmed.

Parkour on a hi-rise crane. Epic.

We hadn't yet seen anything in the Bond series like the raw violence of the opening pre-credits scene, which told us in no uncertain terms what we could expect from the new Bond, and how he would go about solving problems. No more improbable gizmos saving the day; no more baseless, magical power over women; just raw masculine power and the willingness to get down in the dirt.

This is also the Bond film that perfectly defines love: after fighting two assassins down a stairwell, getting slashed by a machete, being poisoned, actually dying, and being defibrillated back to life, the first thing Bond says to Vesper as he regains consciousness is "Are you okay?"

That's profound. No posing, no manipulating, certainly no self-worry -- just immediate, sincere, selfless concern for Vesper. She can't compute it. I love that scene.

 

>You left that theater with goosebumps and a feeling of so much swag.

Totally. Saw it with a friend, and we were so stoked coming out of the theater.

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Looper007 t1_ja7abgn wrote

"Shaken or Stirred" "Do I look like I give a Damn" that line just summed up Craig's Bond perfectly.

I like that at times he showed his Bond to be the most human of the Bonds, something that I don't think a lot of old school Bond fans liked. But I certainly did. I also liked he didn't sleep with every woman he met, that's why I liked QOS more then most. Olga Kurylenko character like Bond is grieving and that's what drives both of them and they both get what they want in the end and it's refreshing to see Bond doesn't sleep with her.

His chemistry with Eva Green is off the wall. And they are heart of the film. And when she betrays him and he finds out, seen Bond heart break gives CR a different feel.

That's why he's my favourite Bond why someone like him was needed to give Bond franchise that clean break from the past and bring him into the future.

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shaoting t1_ja7ufz0 wrote

> Parkour on a hi-rise crane. Epic.

I love the part during the parkour chase when the villain slips through a high window and Bond simply bulldozes himself through the wall underneath while in pursuit.

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Stegasaurus_Wrecks t1_ja7zxl6 wrote

and the bit where he throws the gun at bond who catches it and throws it back, hitting him.

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