Quantum of Solace [use spoiler tags!]

[Lilaena De'Ville]

http://video.scifi.com/player/?id=210711

SciFi.com has an excellent behind the scenes/interviews with cast and crew video on their site. It explains the name (though Charley already explained it in the title revealed thread here), and gives us an idea of what to expect in the next Bond movie.

Which is, of course, awesomeness. :eee

[Zem-El Vymes]

I already knew that it begins almost immediately following Casino Royale but I'm intrigued as to this conspiracy they bring up. This sounds like they are attempting to retcon S.P.E.C.T.R.E. which, if true, makes me incredibly giddy.

Russian woman playing a lady named Camille? Also intrigued.

In all, I really can't be let down at the moment. I'm really hoping that they gave Bond a PPS for this, but I haven't seen anything yet to confirm/deny.

[Yog]

I'm excited if only because of Daniel Craig revatilizing Bond as a character, and because the last movie had a much better script than most Bond movies. Anyway, I watch these movies each and every time like a clockwork :)

[Mu Satach]

It's Bond, my rear is in the seat opening night.

[Lilaena De'Ville]

http://www.moviefone.com/movie/quantum-of-solace/26922/main

TRAILER TRAILER TRAILER!!!! :eee

[Captain Untouchable]

:crack

Trailery awesomeness!

I would have gone to see Bond on the first day anyway, but now I want to see it even more!

I'm also so excited, I think I need new pants. :uhoh ^_^;

[Jaime Tomahawk]

Oh look, explosions. Funny, I thought Casino Royale ruled because it had a coherent plot.

And memo to AOL - the rest of the world is NOT Here be Dragons. And proxies should not be required to view a frikking ad

[Dasquian Belargic]

It's obviously going to be quite different from Casino Royale, but it looks like it will be good!

[Lilaena De'Ville]

Looks like a vengence fueled rampage to me. :thumbup

[Dasquian Belargic]

The best kind of rampage! Bloody satisfaction ftw!

[Kelly Perris]

Rawr.

That's pretty much all I gots to say.

[Atreyu]

Looks good! :)


Oh look, explosions. Funny, I thought Casino Royale ruled because it had a coherent plot. The trailers for Casino Royale had explosions and all that action stuff too. :) I think it's just a promotion staple for Bond films in general.

[Captain Untouchable]

Isn't Felix from the CIA meant to be the "Bond girl" in this one, or was that just a malicious rumour? I seem to remember Daniel Craig wanting a "Bond guy" at some point...

[Dasquian Belargic]

A Bond guy? whaaat?

[Batdude]

Oh look, explosions. Funny, I thought Casino Royale ruled because it had a coherent plot.

And memo to AOL - the rest of the world is NOT Here be Dragons. And proxies should not be required to view a frikking ad

You must have missed the entire Madagascar opening to Casino, I guess.

[Lilaena De'Ville]

In Mark's world, there was no first twenty minutes to Casino Royale.

:p

I have full faith that Quantum of Solace will have a coherent plot. This is a trailer for crying out loud, its not supposed to reveal the plot anyway!

[Batdude]

It looks like they're doing a film on the style of Lisence to Kill, which if so, is not the worst precedent to fall back on, since that was a rather good one.

[Jedieb]

License to Kill wasn't too bad, but it really dragged at times. I don't think that'll be the case with QOS. I'm really looking forward to see Craig's Bond on the run and out for payback. The trailer gave glimpses of a lot of good action scenes. Enough to probably convince me to stay away from any future trailers. I don't want this spoiled for me.

[Cat X]

Oh look, explosions. Funny, I thought Casino Royale ruled because it had a coherent plot.

And memo to AOL - the rest of the world is NOT Here be Dragons. And proxies should not be required to view a frikking ad

You must have missed the entire Madagascar opening to Casino, I guess.

Given how I've been at pains to crap on how some movies have been a lot of fun BECAUSE of big explosions..... I"m the last person who says the absence of a coherent plot is the sole arbitary factor. Transformers for instance was damn stupid but it had robots beating the crap out of each other. Action delivered.

However, the action of Casino Royale wasn't actually all that good. In fact in a lot of it, it was just plain bloody ridiculous and even that well done, no better than other Bond explody bits which usually define "suck" in this regard. But unlike most Bond movies, it tied explody bits with an actual good movie with some explody and acton bits that were resonably within sanity.

But whatever the explody bits were, unlike the dreck that is most Bond movies, those were by far NOT the point. Casino Royale had a damn good story and good actors that made the story the point.

And thence someone who usually thinks Bond movies are a waste of time rather liked Casio Royale and liked where the series could be going.


This is a trailer for crying out loud, its not supposed to reveal the plot anyway!

Owl rly? Funny how in say Wall-E I can get quite a good idea of the plot.Or The Dark Knight.

[Lilaena De'Ville]

:rolleyes well it DOES reveal the basic plot of Bond going AWOL on a rampage.

And of course the first trailer to Wall-E revealed SO much plot. <-- sarcasm :p First trailers are called teasers for a reason.

[Batdude]

If you needed a teaser/trailer to know what Quantum of Solace was going to be about, then you need to watch Casino Royale some more.

I did a run-through on the teaser, but still don't see a PPS :(

[Lilaena De'Ville]

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[Jaime Tomahawk]

If you needed a teaser/trailer to know what Quantum of Solace was going to be about, then you need to watch Casino Royale some more.

I did a run-through on the teaser, but still don't see a PPS :(

^ See the above? Told me a plot exists. And what it is.

That's a bit more like it, looks to be a decent Casino Royale follow up :D Perfect!

[Charley]

Looked amazing! I will frame-by-frame this later tonight :D

[Yog]

That was a great trailer.

[Charley]

Has anybody picked up any buzz about what gun that Bond will be using? I am trying to see if he's going to be paired with a PPS in this release, or if that's for a future movie, or if he's going back to a compact at all. I really hope he does.

[Jedi Master Carr]

Looks like the bad guys are a Spectre type of organization. Kind of cool going back to the original books.

[Captain Untouchable]

Hurray - from the trailer, it actually looks like they're planning to use an Aston for a decent car chase, rather than a pansy little stunt!

I'm a bit annoyed by M's high-tech computer screen wall thing: for the most part, the tech in Royale was relatively close to believable. It'd be a shame if they slipped back into the gimicky gadgets and laser watches. It was fun in the old films, but it really doesn't fit the style of the new ones.

[Dasquian Belargic]

Ahhhhh that looks sweet :crack

[Mandy with an I]

The new theme song is up.

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It's interesting, and I love Jack White, but mneh. :-/

[Csephion Draxus]

I like it. It's moderately sophisticant-sounding and has those awesome crunchy guitar riffs that I think should be in more Bond songs and not less.

[Jaime Tomahawk]

The new theme song is up.

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It's interesting, and I love Jack White, but mneh. :-/

What the hell is this crap? That's a parody of a Bond theme.

At least it's not Madonna....

[Mandy with an I]

It was supposed to be Amy Wino so *shrug*.

[Miranda Tarkin]

ugh... not my kind of music at all. I'm not a fan of Alicia Keys music to begin with but O_o

[Yog]

Not my style of music either, and it did not sound like a Bond theme.

[Dasquian Belargic]

I kind of like the music, but the vocals... don't say Bond to me. Overall it sounds too much like a White Stripes song, rather than a Bond song.

I honestly think Amy Winehouse has a better "Bond theme" voice - shame she is such a wreck.

[Droo]

I echo Dasquian's sentiments. The melody is right, the vocals are rubbish, and Amy Winehouse's voice is perfect for a Bond theme but I'd rather she waited until when she finally returns to planet Earth and with a better theme song than that.

[Crusader]

Rule one!
Don't judge the bond song till you see the choreography :D

[Atreyu]

TIME International has it's review out (WARNING SPOILERS):

http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1855662,00.html

Sounds good, though I'm a bit disappointed that they appear to have renamed SPECTRE as 'Quantum' (assuming of course that the latter is supposed to be the former - the review doesn't really make it clear).

[Jedi Master Carr]

TIME International has it's review out (WARNING SPOILERS):

http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1855662,00.html

Sounds good, though I'm a bit disappointed that they appear to have renamed SPECTRE as 'Quantum' (assuming of course that the latter is supposed to be the former - the review doesn't really make it clear).


Well I do wonder if the rights to SPECTRE is still controlled by another company still. It and Blonfield used to be controlled by another movie studio. Of course maybe they just want a different group this time.

[Sanis Prent]

That's a really minor issue to be at odds with, to be honest.

[Captain Untouchable]

Woo. Seen it. :D

:dance :dance: :dance :dance

Quantum of Solace gets four out of five happy dancing people, for an evening well-spent. There were parts of it I didn't like, but a lot of it I very much did. I'm very fond of the new Bond (well, "old" I guess, since these are supposed to be "Origin of Bond" type films) - the fact that he isn't perfectly suave, and hasn't quite worked out all of his polish, that he gets the stuffing beaten out of him regularly and such really appeals, adds realism, and such. He seems to have settled into his job a little better since Casino Royale though, so there is a little more of the expected Bondness; even a few of his trademark witty lines.

Definately worth seeing at least once, imo.

[Morgan Evanar]

No Bond theme will ever beat Goldfinger.

[Cneidon Mako]

I disagree. I fancy "You Know My Name" every bit as much as my other favorites of Goldfinger, From Russia With Love, and View to a Kill.

[Dasquian Belargic]

Am I the only one who likes the song from "GoldenEye"?

[Yog]

You're all wrong. On Her Majesty's Secret Service - "We have all the time in the world" - Louis Armstrong. Great song, movie sucked. Not to mention, the same movie had the timeless theme with John Barry Orchestra which is an icon of the entire Bond mythos.

[Droo]

You Know My Name and Goldeneye are my personal favourites. And as for the Quantum of Solace, I saw the film on Saturday and I think I should see it again before I make an informed decision on it. There is much to admire but there is also much that is lacking; it's nowhere near as good as Casino Royale but it's still a solid action film. I'm just not sure how strong an instalment I think it is in the Bond franchise.

[John Jackson]

You Know My Name and Goldeneye are my personal favourites. And as for the Quantum of Solace, I saw the film on Saturday and I think I should see it again before I make an informed decision on it. There is much to admire but there is also much that is lacking; it's nowhere near as good as Casino Royale but it's still a solid action film. I'm just not sure how strong an instalment I think it is in the Bond franchise.

I'm not sure its less good than Casino Royale. While I definately enjoyed the first installment of the new Bond, I found the entire section with the poker game was a bit... slow. Granted, the plot was a little easier to follow, but I found myself less 'bored' during QoS as compared to CR.

[Dasquian Belargic]

I think I agree with Droo on this one. I did enjoy Quantum of Solace but I left feeling a little unsatisfied in terms of plot. I understand that they were trying to show Bond's internal development as he comes to term with the loss of Vesper, but it felt the overall narrative of movie (i.e. foiling QUANTUM) felt a little short of thrilling. I can't really fault the action, however. We had Bond in a car chase, Bond in a boat chase, Bond in a plane chase, Bond on a motorbike... I really enjoyed the initial chase with Mitchell across the rooftops in Italy.

My favorite line of the whole movie goes to M, I think: "I don't have a *crap* about the CIA." (she used a slightly more vulgar word.. something about Judi Dench saying that really tickled me :lol) It was a very nice touch I thought, too, to have Fields covered/filled with oil as a nod to the earlier movies Goldfinger.

[Captain Untouchable]

I think I have to agree with my sister's assessment on this front: Quantum of Solace feels like the middle installment in a trilogy. It's enjoyable enough if you were sitting down to watch the full set in one go, but doesn't really work as a stand-alone film in its own right.

That's a deviation from the normal Bond film formula: you can usually just grab a Bond movie and watch it without any kind of context, but there's no way you could watch QoS without having seen Casino Royale first.

On the one hand, it's nice to have the continuation from story to story, but on the other it isn't what you'd expect from Bond.

[Dasquian Belargic]

^ Right. I went with my parents and on the way home, their main complaint was that it didn't feel like a 'Bond movie'. Why? Not enough guns, gadgets, girls and one-liners. Also, they think it lacked a "proper bad-guy". I haven't read any of the Bond books, but its my understanding that these Daniel Craig movies are supposed to be closer to the original idea of Bond, yes?

As far as the villains go, I'm not sure what my parents expected or wanted... someone campy and with some-kind of physical deformity or eccentricity, I guess? (Blofeld, Jaws, etc) I like that there seems to be more grit and realism to these movies, both with Bond himself and with the challenges he faces.

I like that the movies have moved beyond clear cut division of Bond, Bond Girl(s) and Bond Villain(s). The characters seem more believable now - and really, anyone who doesn't think these last two movies are an improvement on the few preceding them needs their head checked out. Die Another Day and The World Is Not Enough were pretty awful. Just one thought of "Doctor" Christmas Jones is enough to put me off having any more 'traditional' Bond girls for life.

[Byl Laprovik]

I haven't read any of the Bond books, but its my understanding that these Daniel Craig movies are supposed to be closer to the original idea of Bond, yes?

Yes, Craig's Bond is probably the closest interpretation of Fleming's Bond that we've been able to see. Timothy Dalton came close to it, but the notion of Bond is that he's not really the type of guy you'd want to be your friend. He's probably a sociopath to some degree, and he's really good at living the life to get close to people that he probably has to kill.