10 Things Nobody Wants To Admit About Daniel Craig's Bond Movies

8. Spectre Is Just A More Elaborate Quantum Of Solace

Quantum Of Solace, the follow-up to Casino Royale, was exactly that: a follow-up. Which is to say, it wasn't really its own isolated Bond movie as much as it was an epilogue to Casino Royale; for the length of its runtime, it feels - in almost every way - like a half-assed short story Bond movie or something. A kind of final reel for a longer Casino Royale flick that never was. As such, the film was called out. And it turns out Spectre is more of the same. The only difference is that Spectre is better at trying to cover this fact up; whilst Quantum Of Solace never really attempts to be anything other than an epilogue, Spectre goes the other way entirely; it pretends that it was supposed to be there all along, waiting in the darkness - a revealing final chapter that - shocker! - ties all the Daniel Craig Bond movies together. For all the critical acclaim that Spectre was met with, though (in Britain, at least), the film is just a gargantuan Quantum Of Solace. It's bigger and more bombastic (and it has a larger sense of its own importance), but essentially the pictures are warped reflections of one another. The weird thing is that very few seem willing to admit that the comparison exists.