Sunday, November 30, 2008

Quantum of Solace made very little economic sense

I don't understand it. By stockpiling the water for an entire country, an evil fake environmentalist plans to profit off the sales of utilities to the Bolivian government. A government, I may add, that has fuck all for cash anyway. A country, I may add, that is harshly divided (like many South American countries) between Government/military and poor traditional tribesman.

So what the fuck was the plan here? Charge more for water, ya I get it. Does anyone think this would go unnoticed? I mean blocking underground rivers and whatever is fine in the short run, but I seriously doubt that that one giant underground river feeds Boliva exclusively. Ya, I get it, Quantum is some big huge organization that controls practically every government in South America. Wait. So basically the plan here is to charge... for water... a human necessity... to a continent.

For some reason I don't see that going over well. What happens when people are dying and cant AFFORD to pay the ridiculous prices? I mean this is, at best, the worlds shortest sighted scheme for domination. People get dehydrated and die in a teeny tiny amount of time, which means this brilliant scheme will dry up (laugh track) so fast that the enormous cost of DAMMING A SERIES OF UNDERGROUND RIVERS will completely bankrupt this collection of well dressed dipshits.

All in all though this movie had better just be the mediocre chapter between two very good action-thrillers. And get rid of this annoying camera-shaking fight scenes. It worked for Matt Damon, but its getting old.

If you want to see a movie that gets it right, watch this clip, it's from a movie called "Old Boy" and you will agree with me when I say:

The directors of American movies have no fucking idea how to represent the brutality of violence actually found in their subject matter. They are ignorant pansies who think this gritty camera shaking is a replica for actual story telling and clever cinematography. Shape up.

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