I’m not even sure they plotted out QoS while doing QoS!
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It wasn’t the first, nor even the most recent Bond film to begin filming without a completed script. I think QoS suffered from the wrong director and the fact that P&W were prevented from doing rewrites due to the writers’ strike.
QoS certainly didn’t suffer from a quack director because he wasn’t a quack.
It suffered from hack re-writes and script doctoring. P&W delivered their script in April, Haggis started the re-write a month later and the oh-so-praised was apparently unable to get this done within half a year, delivered what he had an hour or two before the Writers Guild strike started and (according to BB) collected his cheque, went outside, picked up a sign and started picketing.
This forced Forster, MGW and Craig to try themselves at another re-write, and that’s what the movie suffers from.
It’s by no means my favourite Bond movie, but it just doesn’t deserve the trashing it always gets.
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Marc Forster is neither a quack nor a hack director.
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It’s my personal opinion. I’ve never been a fan of Marc Forster’s work and a lot of the issues I have with Quantum are with the directing. But I changed my wording. I apologize, I don’t always phrase things as elegantly as I mean to.
We should try to voice our dislikes without offending someone who cannot defend themselves.
I am no fan of Forster‘s other films but I recognize his talent and his capabilities. I think he did a pretty good job on QOS, and he always said he would have preferred more time in the editing room. But the realities of filmmaking are what they are. We can be lucky that there was a QOS.
Imagine a timeline in which that film would have been delayed - with every following film being delayed or never made.
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As I am sure you all know by now my main problem with QOS is the editing in the action scenes.
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Those drive me crazy. The shaky cam makes it difficult (and nauseating) to follow what’s going on. Additionally, I don’t like the cuts to artsy festival shots either. It distracts from the action on screen.
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Agreed. I feel most sorry for the stunt performer who jumped onto the roof of a bus, but we only see his work for 1 second. I bet they spent an entire day getting that right.
I liked Marc Forster’s “Christopher Robin”, that was a realy nice, sweet movie about an adult Robin who meets again his old friend Winnie the Pooh and friends.
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I must say the PTS car chase in QoS is probably my favourite chase in the series. It’s the only one that has me wincing at times.
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I do like it, but wish that the shaky cam weren’t used. Also, why is his car left hand drive?
Well all things considered, I think the shaky cam helps me appreciate the scene as if ‘from within’.
As for the LHD… I never cared, bc I had not noticed it was RHD before, I’m not one for cars I guess 
Why wouldn’t it be?
He changed cars when he changed suits!
He’s British? And the car is British?
He’s in Italy, though. Looking at the plates the car is registered in Italy. An Aston Martin purchased there would be LHD.
Spectre in Rome:
No Time To Die in Matera:
Again, that car has Italian license plates on it. It didn’t originate in Britain like the above examples. Remember Bond’s AM was destroyed at the end of CR, so it’s not the same car. Look at every other car on the road it that scene. Every driver is LHD…
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Whelp? 
One thing I will say is that it’s bizarre, but Casino Royale got it right by having LHD cars despite driving on the left.
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