Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: shawn Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2025-03-08 (Saturday) Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2025 11:51:58 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 45 Message-ID: References: <2135062861.763267056.260320.anim8rfsk-cox.net@news.easynews.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2025 16:51:59 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="d451ef78ef95dd8fe77adaa350f82cf5"; logging-data="1507284"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19GIXlRVA1OFbbDlFVgt5huSv7WlMzpRSc=" User-Agent: ForteAgent/8.00.32.1272 Cancel-Lock: sha1:oVgsD/ZChXsWQ/QZWepOeZzz0J8= Bytes: 3093 On Mon, 10 Mar 2025 07:49:54 -0700, "Ian J. Ball" wrote: >On 3/9/25 10:47 PM, Arthur Lipscomb wrote: > >> On 3/9/2025 7:43 PM, anim8rfsk wrote: >>> Dimensional Traveler wrote: >>>> On 3/9/2025 6:39 PM, Adam H. Kerman wrote: >>>>> Dimensional Traveler wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> 'Quantum of Solace'.  Bond blows up a hotel for astronomers because >>>>>> some >>>>>> guy wants all the water in the driest desert on Earth. >>>>> >>>>> The real villain is the director. Has to be the movie with the shortest >>>>> average shot length I've ever seen. It made it impossible to tell what >>>>> was happening during any of the major set pieces. >>>>> >>>>> I despise this movie. >>>> >>>> Well, it is the shortest of the Bond films so far.  Every other film has >>>> been ~2hr 10min while this was about 1hr 40min IIRC. >>> >>> It only feels like it’s an hour longer >> >> I don't hate the movie the way others do.  But one thing I learned >> recently was the movie was made during a writer's strike.  That >> obviously doesn't make the movie any better, but it may help explain why >> certain obvious problems may not have been fixed. >> >> https://pagesix.com/2024/12/02/entertainment/daniel-craig-says-this- >> james-bond-was-a-f-king-nightmare-with-a-terrible-script/ >> >> Right before the last writer's strike someone posted a list of all the >> movies and show that came out during the one before and suddenly a lot >> started to click.  "Quantum of Solace" was on that list. > >Do you still have that list handy? Might be fun to take a look... https://www.vulture.com/article/10-movies-writers-strikes-impacted.html https://uk.movies.yahoo.com/movies/movies-impacted-2007-writers-strike-144507373.html https://www.reddit.com/r/movies/comments/135rq3q/movies_that_were_impacted_by_the_200708_writers/