AJB live commentary on QUANTUM OF SOLACE

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  • The Spy Who Never DiesThe Spy Who Never Dies UKPosts: 644MI6 Agent
    Shady Tree wrote:
    Gemma Arterton really well cast.


    Surely they would send someone more assertive? She does get better admittedly.
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 36,324Chief of Staff
    Just Fields...
  • Shady TreeShady Tree London, UKPosts: 2,969MI6 Agent
    Great cue by Arnold as Bond checks out the hotel room with Fields.
    Critics and material I don't need. I haven't changed my act in 53 years.
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 36,324Chief of Staff
    Shady Tree wrote:
    Great cue by Arnold as Bond checks out the hotel room with Fields.

    Music “Field Trip”
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 36,324Chief of Staff
    Amalric is ok as sleazy, unconvincing as threatening
  • Number24Number24 NorwayPosts: 21,795MI6 Agent
    Lovely Gemma Arterton

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  • The Spy Who Never DiesThe Spy Who Never Dies UKPosts: 644MI6 Agent
    Great timing by Bond
  • Shady TreeShady Tree London, UKPosts: 2,969MI6 Agent
    The party sequence, with Greene's pompous speech, Camille raining on his parade, Felix glowering from the sidelines, Fields mixing it... this is all very good stuff.
    Critics and material I don't need. I haven't changed my act in 53 years.
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 36,324Chief of Staff
    "My friends call me Dominic"
    "I'm sure they do"

    Great exchange
  • Thunderbird 2Thunderbird 2 East of Cardiff, Wales.Posts: 2,777MI6 Agent
    Fields “Oh My Gosh!!” Brilliant comic delivery....
    This is Thunderbird 2, how can I be of assistance?
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 36,324Chief of Staff
    What the hell is the point in Elvis's wig falling off?
  • The Spy Who Never DiesThe Spy Who Never Dies UKPosts: 644MI6 Agent
    Love Fields tripping him
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 36,324Chief of Staff
    Shady Tree wrote:
    The party sequence, with Greene's pompous speech, Camille raining on his parade, Felix glowering from the sidelines, Fields mixing it... this is all very good stuff.

    Yes, agreed.
  • Shady TreeShady Tree London, UKPosts: 2,969MI6 Agent
    Amalric's mad stares are great, and he plays Greene's essential insecurities very well.
    Critics and material I don't need. I haven't changed my act in 53 years.
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 36,324Chief of Staff
    This is a poor end for the Mathis character. Built up so well, played superbly. And so not true to Fleming.

    Music “Forgive Yourself” echoes of Vesper's theme
  • The Spy Who Never DiesThe Spy Who Never Dies UKPosts: 644MI6 Agent
    A moving scene with Bond and Mathis.
  • Number24Number24 NorwayPosts: 21,795MI6 Agent
    edited June 2020
    Barbel wrote:
    What the hell is the point in Elvis's wig falling off?

    I think Elvis was supposed to be a comic henchman, but like so much else it's shot and edited so badly it doesn't work.
  • Shady TreeShady Tree London, UKPosts: 2,969MI6 Agent
    The two biker cops are great casting as corrupt officers.
    Critics and material I don't need. I haven't changed my act in 53 years.
  • Thunderbird 2Thunderbird 2 East of Cardiff, Wales.Posts: 2,777MI6 Agent
    It’s an action sequence? No a bloodbath.
    The penultimate holdover from CR-06. Mathis’s Loss is truly sad.....
    This is Thunderbird 2, how can I be of assistance?
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 36,324Chief of Staff
    Music “DC3”
  • Shady TreeShady Tree London, UKPosts: 2,969MI6 Agent
    Barbel wrote:
    This is a poor end for the Mathis character. Built up so well, played superbly. And so not true to Fleming.

    Music “Forgive Yourself”

    I do wonder whether this unsatisfactory final stuff with Mathis was one of the scenes hit by the writers' strike and where Craig and Forster were having to wing the dialogue.
    Critics and material I don't need. I haven't changed my act in 53 years.
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 36,324Chief of Staff
    I'll pause
  • Shady TreeShady Tree London, UKPosts: 2,969MI6 Agent
    Tim Piggott Smith coming up as the Foreign Secretary... priggishly English but no more moral than Beam.
    Critics and material I don't need. I haven't changed my act in 53 years.
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 36,324Chief of Staff
    "Your mother?"
    "She likes to think so"

    And there we have the plot of "Skyfall"- deliberate foreshadowing?
  • Number24Number24 NorwayPosts: 21,795MI6 Agent
    The plane fight is cut to pieces and so is the jump into the sink hole.
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 36,324Chief of Staff
    Timestamp, someone?
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 36,324Chief of Staff
    I'm at Craig and Camille in the plane
  • Shady TreeShady Tree London, UKPosts: 2,969MI6 Agent
    The plane fight does include a few longer external shots... but not enough.
    Critics and material I don't need. I haven't changed my act in 53 years.
  • Thunderbird 2Thunderbird 2 East of Cardiff, Wales.Posts: 2,777MI6 Agent
    Urgh.... and Bond’s psycho analysis starts...

    “Your Mother?” “She likes to think so!”

    It’s an action sequence? Something involving Planes, suicidal parachuting and dreadful CGI....
    This is Thunderbird 2, how can I be of assistance?
  • Number24Number24 NorwayPosts: 21,795MI6 Agent
    Imagine what a three second wide shot, especuially from above, could have done for the plane fight ....
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