Nov 15 2008
Bond. James Bond.
Or, should it be, Bond. Daniel Craig. I would argue the latter!
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Quantum of Solace
Daniel Craig rocks! This new iteration, the Daniel Craig iteration, of Bond just blows everything else away!The old James Bond was great for what it was—a Comic book quality of spy and espionage and the New James Bond is like real spy stuff. People get killed. Bond takes a beating, gives a beating, and himself gets bruised and bloodied! So do the new Bond women.
Now, I find Craig a devilishly sexy man with a killer body. But, interestingly enough if Craig was a woman I would say he was a Butta-face. I can’t explain why exactly he’s so damned good looking—he just is! Maybe it’s his eyes, maybe it’s just that he’s so tough and brutal…
Story-line itself is a little convoluted, but it works for me because Daniel Craig is such a bad ass!
Bond babes are H O T—Hot and they both (there are two of them in Quantum Solace) work—chemistry is there with Craig, but also with the audience.
This movie takes place where Casino Royale left off—literally in Italy. There are some reoccurring characters, some we’ll see again, but some we won’t.
There are some good chases including an outstanding boat chase. I also liked the inside peak into the new headquarters of British Intelligence and computing of the future.
You know that the capability of technology in the movie seems possible today, but you know that it currently doesn’t happen that way yet—not even at the highest level.
I don’t think they completely followed the path they set up, but maybe it will be tied to future story lines.
I think that the reason it might not have gotten glowing critical reviews is because the bad guy is using Green earth and global warming as a cloak. As in, there is evil every where, even behind good causes.
I can’t wait for the next one!
Other Voices:
Ultimate James Bond Fan Blog Review: Quantum of Solace by Deborah Lipp
James Bond (Daniel Craig), having shot Mr. White (Jesper Christensen) at the end of Casino Royale, interrogates him and learns of a secret organization known as Quantum. Following sparse leads, Bond finds Dominic Greene (Mathieu Amalric) and pursues him to the Bolivian desert. Directed by Marc Forster.
The Wardman Wire Quantum of Solace: Review By David Keen
The AllMovie Blog Quantum of Solace: The AMG Review by
The Huffingtonpost.com “Quantum of Solace” Green Review (with Spoilers) by Dave Burdick
Fausta’s Blog: Quantum of Solace
Ace hated it
And it’s very, very left-wing politically, for no good reason.
I wasn’t sure WHAT the general was supposed to be, which probably means Ace is right in not liking Quantum of Solace.
Sample quote– the very lame villain, who seems more like an aging Eurotrash party boy who tried to slip your sister a ruffie than a threat to global stability, on why he’s undermining a left-wing Bolivian government to install a right-wing general:
“After all, we can’t let governments just keep giving resources to the people, yes?”
Oh, so subtle.
I agree with it all! He is TOTALLY hot!! The entire movie I just kept telling my husband how hot he was, and not once did he murmur a denial… I will say though, that I saw an interview with him and the producer, and he was kind of nerdy, not so manly-man… and I liked it!
Quantum of Solace is entertaining at least… a lot of high quality visuals, but the movie as a whole could stand to lose six or seven fewer chase scenes
Oh, you liked it didn’t you! The smell of whiskey on his breath, and you LIKED IT!
Gabby, couple of things:
You and your husband should get a room—okay! This is a family blog! Second your husband might have a thing for Daniel Craig. Back off he’s mine!
I highly recommend that you don’t take your kids to this movie regardless what YOUR friends tell you!
Reality Check:
—iChef Cinema
Patrick,
If you take 6 or 7 chase scenes out all you have left is Daniel Craig and the Bond girls…
Mmm, okay, I guess I can live with that!
—iChef Cinema
family blog, huh??
Oh, and we did take the kids. I figured if they saw Casino Royale, how much worse could this be? And except for the fight scenes ~yes, very violent~ very few curses, only 1 that I remember, and the sexual scene was quite mild….
Gabby, you are not allowed to tell my kids that your kids got to see it! Good lord, woman, the energy I have expended keeping them uncorrupted… though of course they can watch all the animal sex they want on David Attenborough’s “Life of Mammals.”
iChef Cinema, so actors are, what, here to amuse you? Like a clown, they amuse you? They make you laugh, they’re here to fuckin’ amuse you? What do you mean funny, funny how? How am they funny?
Yes, that’s right, like clowns, but the funny clowns not the scary ones!
Although, Killer Clowns from Outer Space was pretty damned entertaining and those clowns were definitely the scary clown variety. Also that clown Captain Spaulding from that Rob Zombie movie The Devil’s Rejects is darn scary too.
That Bozo was an entertaining clown, comparable to say, Sean Penn! Big hair big feet, disguised in dead man’s makeup—don’t trust’em!
—iChef Cinema
Daniel Craig, oh heck yeah!