Sunday 11 November 2012

"You shot him in cold blood and threw him off a roof. I would hardly call that showing restraint!" - M

Movie no 22
Quantum of Solace
2008 - imdb (link) 

Seeking revenge for the death of his love, secret agent James Bond sets out to stop an environmentalist from taking control of a country's valuable resource.

Cast

James Bond - Daniel Craig

Villains - Dominic Greene - Mathieu Amalric
           - Mr White -Jesper Christensen

Henchmen - Elvis - Anatole Taubman
                - Mitchell - Glenn Foster
Bondgirls - Camille Montes Rivera - Olga Kurylenko
              - Strawberry Fields - Gemma Arterton
              
M - Judi Dench
Bill Tanner - Rory Kinnear
Felix Leiter - Jeffrey Wright
Rene Mathis - Giancarlo Giannini

Director - Marc Forster
Writers - Neal Purvis, Robert Wade & Paul Haggis

Theme - "Another Way To Die" - Alicia Keys & Jack White


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21 comments:

  1. Kevin Taylor11 November 2012 at 17:11

    Modern cars are a lot less explodey when the fall down hills than they used to be.

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  2. Kevin Taylor11 November 2012 at 17:14

    Do like the song. Just not sure it's 'Bond'

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  3. Unknown11 November 2012 at 17:15

    I've said this out loud, but for the sake of completeness...

    I think this film gets a bad rap; slating it has become a cliché, like with "On Her Majesty's Secret Service". I enjoy it.

    And it's also a beautiful film; the camera direction, locations, and composition are gorgeous. The direction and choreography in the early fight sequence, with Mitchell is brilliant.

    It's a shame the theme is so dire, but there you go.

    There you are, I'm getting off my soapbox now.

    Carry on.

    There you go

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    1. Anonymous13 November 2012 at 20:55

      Dude, I share the soap-box:

      The Tosca/chase scene with music-over-action editing was awesome. It IS beautiful.

      Totally stolen in Avengers German-museum scene and Seherlock Holmes (II) opera scene.

      They clearly knew it was awesome.

      There is NOTHING wrong with this brilliant movie.

      Now go and watch Hitman to see why Kurylenko is really the nest Bond girl yet...

      ps - comments on Skyfall?

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  4. Unknown11 November 2012 at 17:24

    I get the feeling that, by coincidence, M's language is probably worse on the occasions when she's not on screen.

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  5. Kevin Taylor11 November 2012 at 17:32

    Daniel Craig's Bond really has raised the bar for Bond girls.

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  6. Kevin Taylor11 November 2012 at 17:44

    They've also raised the bar for location card typography.

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  7. Unknown11 November 2012 at 17:44

    Not doing wonders for the CIA, this one. Explains why Felix is looking so F'ed off.

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  8. Unknown11 November 2012 at 18:00

    Marvellous what a trenchcoat can do.

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  9. Unknown11 November 2012 at 18:04

    Oh, there's Felix, with his face like a slapped arse.

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  10. Unknown11 November 2012 at 18:07

    Only Bond can get away with seducing a woman, taking her to a party and then leaving her there while he leaves with another woman.

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  11. Unknown11 November 2012 at 18:14

    I think Craig's Bond is very much a distillation and extension of Dalton's. I like that...Dalton was a good template to build on.

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  12. Kevin Taylor11 November 2012 at 18:16

    I blame relativity but I just don't find airplane fights exciting.

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  13. Unknown11 November 2012 at 18:34

    You can order those door numbers from Next.

    Not-very-fun fact!

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  14. Unknown11 November 2012 at 18:35

    I like Greene here, he fights like a pure-bred nutter!

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  15. Kevin Taylor11 November 2012 at 18:40

    Possibly the most stone cold badass Bond has ever been

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  16. Kevin Taylor11 November 2012 at 18:41

    For the record, if I die, I will in fact care about vengence

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  17. Unknown11 November 2012 at 18:41

    We were chatting after 'The Living Daylights' that it was and interesting grown-up move that Bond got through the whole film and didn't sleep with Kara, the Bondgirl, 'til the end.
    In this one he doesn't sleep with Camille, the publicised main Bondgirl, at all.

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  18. Kevin Taylor11 November 2012 at 18:45

    Much better than it's given credit for. Not a classic or anything but good stuff

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  19. Kevin Taylor11 November 2012 at 18:46

    Favourites so far...

    Film: Casino Royale
    Song: Goldfinger (Shirley Bassey)
    Hottest Bond girl: Eva Green (Vesper Lynd)
    Best Bond girl: Pam Bouvier (Carey Lowell) (Licence to Kill)
    Villain: Max Zorin (Christopher Walken)
    Henchman: Xenia Onatopp (GoldenEye)
    Fight: Stairwell fight (Casino Royale)
    Stunt: The Croc Run (Live and Let Die)
    Pre Title Sequence: GoldenEye
    Pun: “I think he’s attempting re-entry Sir” (Moonraker)
    Locations: Casino Royale
    Gadget: Magnet Watch (Live and Let Die)

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  20. Unknown11 November 2012 at 19:08

    I should finally do one of these...

    Film: Tied Casino Royale and Licence to Kill
    Song: Goldfinger (Shirley Bassey)
    Hottest Bond girl: Pam Bouvier (Carey Lowell) (Licence to Kill)
    Best Bond girl: Pam Bouvier (Carey Lowell) (Licence to Kill)
    Villain: Hugo Drax (Moonraker)
    Henchman: Grant (From Russia With Love)
    Fight: Bond v Mitchell (Quantum of Solace)
    Stunt: The hercules fight (The Living Daylights)
    Pre Title Sequence: Tomorrow Never Dies
    Pun: “Butter hook” (Live and Let Die) [not really a pun, but always raises a chuckle]
    Locations: Quantum of Solace
    Gadget: Rubber nipple (Man with the Golden Gun)...and Blofeld's battlesub.

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