Based on your comments, you're the kind who thinks a movie sucks if there isn't a plethora of shootouts, lazer battles, or car chases. God forbid there be any exploration of the human element as well as character development.
You really don't know me very well at all, then, given that my primary criticism of QoS which you edited out of the post you quoted was that it was just a series of explosions with no character development.
You simply fail to understand the concept of pacing. The scenes in question simply went on for too long. Once we had established that Bond had fallen for Vesper, which we could gather from the first few minutes, the rest was redundant.
It certainly did not help that Eva Green was not up to the acting challenge either.
Fine, then explain your earlier comment by what you meant about "the earlier movies" -- Are you talking Connery or Moore, because if you're talking Moore then I stand by my earlier comments about how the Bond franchise became a farce of itself, starting with his tenure.
Hopefully a delay will mean that they can rethink who James Bond is supposed to be and stop rejecting the things that made the early movies so popular.
Agreed. Obviously Fleming's original works translated well to the big screen or James Bond would not have been the phenomenon that it is today.
Interesting, therefore, that this particular story did not make it to the screen in anything like its original form for 53 years.
That's because Hollywood fucked up Bond from the start.