Quantum of Solace

[cured]

Trailer released for our viewing pleausre:

http://www.moviefone.com/movie/quantum-of-solace/26922/trailer?trailerId=2150289

[Deckard]

Looks fantastic.

A few people have been saying it looks very Jason Bourne, but I reckon (besides hiring one of the Bourne guys) a lot of that is just down to the way they've mixed the action clips into the trailer.

I'm glad Marc Forster said recently he was going to be paying tribute to the early Bond look, the whole Ken Adam production design and all that. Hopefully the rest of the film like the dialogue scenes will reflect that.

The Bond-with-a-vendetta thing is starting to get a bit over-familiar, but given the way CR left off, it's entirely justified in this instance.

Now they just need to get a decent theme song.

[BeautifulBurnout]

Now they just need to get a decent theme song.

As I read that, I swear I could actually hear a mix of Beautiful Burnout with a Bond theme running through it :D

[Deckard]

Heh, there's so much potential isn't there!

All they need is you doing the Maurice Binder-inspired dancing silhouetted girly bits at the start. :D

[BeautifulBurnout]

Heh, there's so much potential isn't there!

All they need is you doing the Maurice Binder-inspired dancing silhouetted girly bits at the start. :D

:eek:



;)

[IsiliRunite]

I've told myself I'm not going to watch trailers and just decide to see the real thing on gut and recommendation...they reveal too much in trailers these days. Like Iron Man, lol, the Onion spoofed how they were going to turn the successful trailer into a full-fledged movie.

[cured]

They didn't give away too much in this trailer. But I definitely know what you mean on that one. I saw a preview for "The Guardian" I think it was, and the trailer was basically a quick time lapse, in chronological order, of the entire plot and breadth of each character. I didn't feel a need to see the movie.

[potatobroth]

Trailer looks great. Royale was great. This looks like Royale. I'm pumped for this flick!

[King of Snake]

so...this has been out here since last week. Anyone seen it yet?
I watched it yesterday and although I think I liked Casino Royale a bit better, this is stll a great "sequel" (as it really does pick up the plot right where Casino ended).
Like Casino Royale, the style is reminiscent of the Bourne movies, with lots of gritty fight scenes and very fast editing, which I must admit I found to be a little too much at times cause it made it kinda hard to follow some of the action. But of course Bond is supposed to be a bit of a loose cannon (even more so than usual) in this movie so the frantic editing style reflects that.

[Troy McClure]

Comes out in the US this weekend. I'm looking forward to it. I think I need to watch Casino Royale again to familiarize myself with the plot before heading out.

Jason

[Deckard]

Like Casino Royale, the style is reminiscent of the Bourne movies, with lots of gritty fight scenes and very fast editing, which I must admit I found to be a little too much at times cause it made it kinda hard to follow some of the action. But of course Bond is supposed to be a bit of a loose cannon (even more so than usual) in this movie so the frantic editing style reflects that.
I've not seen it yet, but GOD, I really do dislike watching sequences with that kind of editing. Maybe it's a sign of me getting stuck in my ways, but the last Bourne film was ruined for me by the incessantly shaking camera and frantic editing style. It might be fine in small doses, but it just seems like a cop-out way to convey action, as if they feel that what they're actually shooting is never enough (ha, that sounds like a Bond title!) so they need to shake the camera a bit to hide the flaws and omissions. I know I'm probably in the minority thinking that though.

[IsiliRunite]

I'm starting a rebellion of sorts to that type of editing and over-informative commercials in SE Michigan.
It makes movies poopy.

Vive le resistance.

[Rog]

i agree........;)

[King of Snake]

I just found that Tomato actually did the location titles for this movie :)
Check tomato.co.uk and scroll down the pictures on the right hand side.
It was definitely something I noticed in the movie right away and though "hey that's pretty cool". I had no idea it was Tomato though.

[potatobroth]

oh neat, i didnt know that either. at one point, i actually thought the location was the sign on a building.

[potatobroth]

http://goldenfiddle.com/node/13952

Screencaps of all the Tomato panels.

[Deckard]

I didn't realise Tomato were involved either.

Nice job. They'd even look rather nice framed.

[Sean]

I'm starting a rebellion of sorts to that type of editing and over-informative commercials in SE Michigan.
It makes movies poopy.

Vive le resistance.Yeah, I'm with ya. It's such a cop-out way of filming action. And when it carries over into the non-action sequences, well that's just stupid. I'll do my best to fight it from the inside....

[Rog]

Nice job. They'd even look rather nice framed.

yep!:D

[Deckard]

Second unit director Dan Bradley speaking about his approach (http://commanderbond.net/article/5844) to filming the action sequences in QoS:
"One of the things I really believe is that we shouldn’t try and make everything feel perfectly staged. I’m always saying to my crew, I want to feel like we were lucky to catch a glimpse of some crazy piece of action. I don’t want it to feel like a movie, where everything is perfectly presented to the audience."
Anything other than this impressionistic approach would be spoon-feeding the audience and not pushing the boundaries, I suppose. :rolleyes:

All this does (IMHO) is disjoin the action from the main move, kind of like the naff way that The Sex Scene in some movies would often feel out of place, lapsing into a silly montage of soft dissolves and self-indulgent fleshy close-ups, before returning to the rest of the film.

My preference is that 'involving' the audience in an action sequence shouldn't have to mean obstructing and confusing them, and it should blend a little more gracefully with the style of the rest of the film.

[Caprice]

it wasn't that good. but i am in love with the new bond girl

[Winston]

saw it yesterday, i was dissapointed, no Q again...
below bond level imho
next, duplicity, huge expectations for that