Quantum of Solace Trailer (James Bond)advance reviews added

Website · Post by **Random Sample** » Mon Jun 30, 2008 4:38 pm

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Truth. · Post by **Truth.** » Mon Jun 30, 2008 4:56 pm

looks ill. can't wait.

drizzle · Post by **drizzle** » Mon Jun 30, 2008 4:59 pm

really like the direction they're taking with this

slimebucato · Post by **slimebucato** » Mon Jun 30, 2008 5:19 pm

vigilante bond? count me in. didn't know it was coming out this year, so that's cool

GM Dizzy Skillespie · Post by **GM Dizzy Skillespie** » Mon Jun 30, 2008 6:26 pm

drizzle wrote:really like the direction they're taking with this

woooorrrrrrrrrrrrddddddd
bond has become one of my favorite characters ever because of this new direction.
I could always get on board for some debonair stylistic shit he's about.
but this revaluation of his persona, taking it back to tell the story of how he became 007, is fucking genius.
I love this out of control vigilante bond that has not completely bought into his organization. You know what he'll become someday, which makes this suave but ocassionally crazed version of him all the more interesting.

The Drunken Poet · Post by **The Drunken Poet** » Tue Jul 01, 2008 12:51 am

Kind of an ordinary trailer if ya ask me, but I'll still turn up for the film.

jamrage · Post by **jamrage** » Tue Jul 01, 2008 5:01 am

The Drunken Poet wrote:Kind of an ordinary trailer if ya ask me, but I'll still turn up for the film.

Me too.

I really liked the last one, and Bond as a cold blooded mufucka is definitely appealing. I like that they're bringing back the C.I.A. guy I used to enjoy the recurring characters in the old Bonds as well.

The movie's title is still godawful though.

Website · Post by **Random Sample** » Tue Jul 01, 2008 10:07 am

I have watched this trailer like 5 times, and I can't get enough of it. I am so pumped for this movie.

ALASKA · Post by **ALASKA** » Tue Jul 01, 2008 10:22 am

looks awesome

drizzle · Post by **drizzle** » Tue Jul 01, 2008 10:37 am

jamrage wrote:
The Drunken Poet wrote:Kind of an ordinary trailer if ya ask me, but I'll still turn up for the film.
Me too.

I really liked the last one, and Bond as a cold blooded mufucka is definitely appealing. I like that they're bringing back the C.I.A. guy I used to enjoy the recurring characters in the old Bonds as well.

The movie's title is still godawful though.

felix lighter is the dude's name, according to the bond mythology he's supposed to get some appendages chewed off by a shark at some point

Spartan · Post by **Spartan** » Tue Jul 01, 2008 10:53 am

That happens in License To Kill (or License Revoked the original title).

drizzle · Post by **drizzle** » Tue Jul 01, 2008 10:59 am

Spartan wrote:That happens in License To Kill (or License Revoked the original title).

yeah but they're all over the map, it doesn't look like he's hunting SMERSH in this one.

I wonder if they'll bring in Blofeld and/or SPECTRE into this version. Is Telly Savalas still alive?

Spartan · Post by **Spartan** » Tue Jul 01, 2008 11:47 am

Telly Savalas bit the dust ages ago. The greatest Ernst Stavro Blofeld was played by Donald Pleasance in You Only Live Twice. In a lot of his movies, Pleasance had the gift of elevating average fodder to greatness.

I want a return of S.P.E.C.T.R.E too. Tired of these small fry villains with nothing but millionaire playboy yachts. Want some mega-superstructure hidden complex, a fucking army all over that shit and a proper henchman like Oddjob or Jaws, none of that diamonds in the face shit.

drizzle · Post by **drizzle** » Tue Jul 01, 2008 12:33 pm

Well the trailer hints at some big nefarious conspiracy, so it's a good sign. They definitely need a grand-scale villain, no matter how realistic they try to make this version it still needs a proper Bond adversary.

LilLeftBrain · Post by **LilLeftBrain** » Tue Sep 30, 2008 4:15 pm

Jack White & Alicia Keys Theme song

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Pretty damn ill song/video

cascarrabias · Post by **cascarrabias** » Tue Sep 30, 2008 4:52 pm

Looks way better than the last one.

Mindbender Futurama · Post by **Mindbender Futurama** » Tue Sep 30, 2008 6:37 pm

it does look good, and I'm beginning to not mind Daniel Craig as J Bizzy

but that title IS grotesque.

ric · Post by **ric** » Wed Oct 01, 2008 1:24 am

can i get a second on this title being one of the worst in movie history?

LilLeftBrain · Post by **LilLeftBrain** » Wed Oct 01, 2008 1:34 am

horrible post

last bond movie I saw had Halle Berry in it,
and it was awful

:stick:

drizzle · Post by **drizzle** » Thu Oct 30, 2008 6:25 pm

skimmed the rotten tomatoes page, 78%
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/quantum_of_solace/

the empire review below is pretty positive

the consensus seems to be that's it's more action movie than a bond movie, that it's really dark and violent, and that the action sequences resemble bourne movies. these are all things i can live with.

Quantum Of Solace picks up moments after the credits rolled at the end of Casino Royale, with Daniel Craigגs bereaved and blooded Bond in Siena, wrecking his Aston Martin in a pre-credits car chase complicated by thick traffic, twisty mountain roads and emotional Italian drivers. In his car-boot, with a bullet in his leg, is Mr White (Jesper Christensen), a higher-up in the cartel (Quantum) which employed and then killed the baddie of the earlier film, and who Bond blames for the death of the girl he loved last time round. Mr White is taken to be grilled by M, just as the local horse race (the palio) is taking place (obviously, the filmmakers saw the documentary The Last Race too), only for the villain to sneer that MI6 and the CIA obviously know nothing about Quantumגs many well-placed agents, whereupon someone presumably trustworthy pulls a gun ג and Bond is back in action, leaving wounded enemies and allies behind as he barges through crowds, runs up stairs, dangles from scaffolding and dodges swinging girders to get his man.

In an era marked by franchise bloat, itגs entirely admirable that Quantum of Solace is the shortest Bond movie to date ג it drops a great many of the long-running series mannerisms (callous quips, expository lectures, travelogue padding, Q and Moneypenny) as it globe-trots urgently from Italy to Haiti to Austria to Italy again to Bolivia to Russia with stopovers in London and other interzones. The major gadget on offer is a neat trick with a mobile phone, which the film trusts us to follow without a pompous lecture on how it works, and thereגs a nod to traditionally absurd Bond girl names in Gemma Artertonגs Agent Fields ג she refuses to give her real, silly, embarrassing name which we only find out from the end credits (itגs not Gracie or London). Everything in this movie is edited as if it were an action sequence, which means that when the set-pieces come they have to go into overdrive to stay ahead of the game, with Bourne veteran Dan Bradley staging more brutal, devastatingly fast fights and chases. We get striking locations (including primaeval caves and a South American desert) and absolutely gorgeous, stylised art direction ג but thereגs little lingering on the backdrops, since a brief establishing shot is usually enough to set up the nimble, nifty, explosive action that takes place against them.

Previously, the Bond films have been a series, but this is an actual sequel ג an approach Ian Fleming used in his books, but which was dropped from the movies because the novels were filmed out of order. This makes for a film which hits the ground running, but also means we get less to latch onto emotionally since Daniel Craig became the complete 007 over the course of Casino Royale, and here just has to be set loose. The sparks struck between the wounded hero and scarred heroine Camille ג whose revenge-driven sub-plot owes a lot to July Havelock, the girl from the story גFor Your Eyes Onlyג ג donגt match those between Craig and Eva Green last time round because this Bond is human enough to start worrying about how regularly his girlfriends get killed. The slinky, sultry Olga Kurylenko is in fact so fixed on murdering her enemy that itגs possible she technically doesnגt even count as a Bond girl ג sheגs good, but doesnגt get the breakout showcase Green landed in Casino Royale. However, for the diehard romantics, Bond does tenderly hug a dying male friend before disposing of his corpse in a dumpster (גhe wouldnגt careג) and gives Camille handy tips on professionally assassinating the extremely unpleasant would-be dictator who slaughtered her family.

Casino Royale had one of Flemingגs best plots to stick to, but Quantum of Solace is on its own, taking only its title from the 1960 story. Extrapolating from hints dropped in the earlier film about who ran the late LeChiffre, it introduces Quantum, a SPECTRE-type organisation which ought to be good for a few more movies. The notion of an international alliance of high-stakes criminals with heavy political ties is Flemingesque, but gets a credible, cynical 21st Century spin in that the American and British governments (and security services), above criticism in Flemingגs day, are perfectly happy to get in bed with killers and megalomaniacs so long as the oil keeps flowing ג which forces Bond out on his own, pursuing a crusade either for utterly altruistic (helping drought-blighted Bolivian peasants) or utterly selfish (getting his own back on the one small fish directly responsible for Vesperגs plight) motives. Quick jabs evoke highlights of the earlier films, as Craigגs sea-bathing in Casino Royale referenced Ursula Andress in Dr No; one major characterגs fate is a stark black updating of one of the most famous early Bond images, and signals which commodity has become most prized in a world where Goldfinger or Blofeld would seem like jokes.

Daniel Craig continues to be his own man as Bond, though this instalment scarcely gives him breathing room between strenuous activity to show off his more stylish or snobbish aspects. When he chugs his signature martini (take notes as the bartender rattles off the recipe) even devoted allies worry that seven brain-numbing drinks in a row might not be good for the agentגs long-term mental state or ability in the field. Craig looks good in a tux, blending into the crowd at an opera first night where the villains have convened to mutter evilly through Tosca, and wears his bruises and scratches like badges of honour. He shows a certain expense account flair in turning down a modest La Paz pensione to check into the poshest hotel in the city by insisting that the גteacher on sabbaticalג he is pretending to be has won the lottery. But, presumably coached by Bradley, he is at his most elegant in tiny action moments ג upending an idling motorbike to send a minor thug flying, casually stepping off balconies and walking along ledges, efficiently crippling a liftful of agents trying to arrest him.

With all the ills of the world down to Quantum, the baddies we see are ג like those in Dr No, From Russia With Love and Thunderball ג junior associates of archfiends who operate at such a high level we donגt even get to meet their cats. The French Mathieu Amalric makes the smarmy fake environmentalist Greene a suitably loathsome character, as much for his persistently cruel treatment of his mistress Camille as his complicated scheme to overthrow the government of Bolivia and grab the countryגs natural resources; like Mads Mikkelsenגs LeChiffre, heגs young and fit enough to hold his own in a scrap, but has a nice line in craven delegation, posing a minion with a gun to face certain death as he tries to escape the climactic spectacular conflagration, and gets some of the smart, threatening, witty script patches we assume Paul Haggis dropped in. A nod also to the Mexican Joaquin Cosio, who plays a South American would-be dictator whose filthy foreign habits (like celebrating a big deal by raping a waitress) Fleming would have enjoyed despising.

Verdict
A pacy, visually imaginative follow-up. If it doesnגt even try to be bigger than Casino Royale, thatגs perhaps a smart move in that thereגs still a sense at the end that Bondגs mission has barely begun and heגll need a few more movies to work his way up to destroying the apparently undefeatable Quantum organisation. The only real caveat is that while itגs exciting, itגs not exactly anyoneגs idea of fun. To keep in the game, perhaps the next movie could let the hero enjoy himself a bit more.

4 Stars (out of 5)

Tweak Da Leak · Post by **Tweak Da Leak** » Thu Oct 30, 2008 6:39 pm

sounds good