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Another look behind the scenes of QUANTUM OF SOLACE!!!

I really liked by Stevie Grant	Mar 19th, 2008 11:36:29 PM
the the first one, hope this doesn't disappoint.
Daniel Craig's Face Is Pants by MasterBateman	Mar 19th, 2008 11:39:40 PM
Keep it alive!
I gotta admit by Stevie Grant	Mar 19th, 2008 11:40:08 PM
Marc Foster's scarf doesn't lead one to infer, "Hey, this is a director that understands Bond is manly," but...
i agree by vaudeville villain	Mar 19th, 2008 11:40:18 PM
Casino Royale sparked an otherwise non-interest in Bond for me... definitely looking forward to a bit of Solace.
FIRST!!! by Nairb The Movie	Mar 19th, 2008 11:41:08 PM
is what Stevie Grant should have said...
I've never said by Stevie Grant	Mar 19th, 2008 11:46:27 PM
"FIRST" and I never will. Most likely because I read the article before posting... and don't like to showcase the embarrassing number of times I check this site daily. I swear I have a life.
On the contrary by second cousin of phartegod	Mar 19th, 2008 11:52:58 PM
I think his name is pretty bugnuts.
NAME by second cousin of phartegod	Mar 19th, 2008 11:53:23 PM
I meant face
Pants? by FlyinHawaiian30	Mar 20th, 2008 12:01:14 AM
I won't be able to sleep tonight until somebody explains to me what "Daniel Craig's Face Is Pants" means.
someone's insecurity is showing by frankenfickle	Mar 20th, 2008 12:04:54 AM
xyz masterbateman.
Dame Judi Dench.. by nolan bautista	Mar 20th, 2008 12:09:35 AM
..is a girdle
Ashok0 by FlyinHawaiian30	Mar 20th, 2008 12:09:53 AM
You're looking mighty cardigan today. Myself, i feel a bit jock strap.
Olga Kurylenko by Horace Cox	Mar 20th, 2008 12:11:25 AM
Yummy. I'll be taking my special popcorn bucket with the hole in the bottom to this one.
Richard "Jaws" Kiel= by nolan bautista	Mar 20th, 2008 12:18:38 AM
giant underwear
I'm a touch Edible trousers myself.. by conspiracy	Mar 20th, 2008 12:21:40 AM
1. Director seems a self important prick...Black sweaters and a scarf Mexico or S. America in March? screams fuckwad. 2. Where's the half nude, easily spread bitches? 3. Where is the fucking Aston? 4. Where the flying fuck are some sick gadgets? And Finally...if I have to sit through another 15 minute episode of homo-erotic BDSM like in Casino...I'm gonna hurl.
"Quantum of Solace" comes from... by TopHat	Mar 20th, 2008 12:40:32 AM
...a short story in the James Bond book FOR YOUR EYES ONLY. Bond is hanging around after a party at a governor's house and the governor tells him a story while he waits for his cab. Its about a man falling in love with a woman, marrying her, and then she cheating on him. She flaunts what she's doing to the entire town and humiliates him. When he comes back from a buisness trip he's completely changed and asks for a divorce. Then he systemactically ruins her until she has to resort to prositution just to eat. The "Quantum of Solace" is a term the governor uses to describe what happens to a person when they are not treated with any humanity, like the way the husband was. And how that can make a person cold and vicious, like the way the husband became. They'll probably have some character give a shorter version of the story in the movie, to explain the title.
TopHat by Stevie Grant	Mar 20th, 2008 12:52:27 AM
Thanks for the explanation. I have read every story I have come across concerning this film, and none have brought this up. It's good to know the title is based on something from the books (instead of some focus group finding those words cool).
Still Desperate...? by TroutMaskReplicant	Mar 20th, 2008 01:14:15 AM
All this over presentation. What other film needs to cuddle up to you this much? It's not even a mark against the film, it's just over-marketing...;-p
Gemma Arterton by second cousin of phartegod	Mar 20th, 2008 01:17:08 AM
I wouldn't mind sweeping her chimney.
sigh why do so few English-speaking people... by The Grug	Mar 20th, 2008 01:33:09 AM
understand English? Here's 'the pants' put in context for you: "Compared to most talkbackers, The Grug's English is the pants"
Marc Forster... by The Grug	Mar 20th, 2008 01:34:09 AM
And is it just me or is Marc Forster the gayest acting and sounding straight man you've ever seen?
Most of the modern Bonds have taken little more than the title f by 23GreatWoundsAllGotInBattle	Mar 20th, 2008 01:34:42 AM
The opening scene of Casino Royale was the best thing in a Bond movie in the last ten years. The rest...eh, not so much. I absolutely hated the scene where he sucked on the chick's fingers in the shower. That was so fuckin' creepy and not Bond-like at all. My interest in Bond kinda peaked with Goldeneye. I went back and watched all the old ones (Moore..blech!), read all the paperbacks, and then the one with Michelle Yeoh came out and it pretty much sucked. Series has been downhill since. I gotta see more of this upcoming one.
The Pants? How stupid. Bees Knees are better. by xevoid	Mar 20th, 2008 01:42:01 AM
As in, compared to comparing something to "the pants", this comparison is "the bee's knees".
Why cant people get that Bond is a relic now? by wowsah156	Mar 20th, 2008 03:06:42 AM
They had their chance to make Bond relevant for the 21st century in Csino Royale and they failed. Bond works best has an anti hero, and the movies dont deal with that. Meh. Bring on another Bourne movie please.
Royale with no Cheese by board shitlez	Mar 20th, 2008 03:07:54 AM
Flick was ace. Incidentally it's the Dog's Knees or the Bee's Bollocks. Get it right.
I hear this one is about Connect Four by skywalkerfamily	Mar 20th, 2008 03:17:52 AM
Bond enters a high stakes Connect Four game.
Worst Grammar Ever by Frijole	Mar 20th, 2008 03:33:37 AM
So this is all y'all got? Just a bunch of random, knee-jerk fanboy rantings? Safely anonymous hatings on a project, any project, just cause? This gets you off, does it? I'm so thrilled to be a part of such an important internet fan-based chat site where we can exchange bon mots about our favorite projects. You know... I'm all for the random dissenting opinion, but this hating for hating's sake is retarded. Keep talking your shit... you know as well as we that you'll be there opening day. In the mean time, keep your sad little 4-inch chubbies in check, cause you know this shit talk gets you off when you tell all your other "cooler-than-thou" buddies all about how you "totally slagged the new Bond movie on a fan-based website." Sigh. I'd recommend a hobby, but it sounds as if your local chapter of Magic the Gathering is sick of your shit already. The Bond franchise has been totally re-invigorated, re-imagined, given a whole new supply of plasma to the bloodstream, and kicks major ass upon anything since Connery first lit a cigarette and said, bored, "Bond... James Bond." And if you don't understand why it does than I'm not going to waste the time to eludicate to your narrow-minded viewpoint. To those of you who are in support of this continuing project: I don't think any true thanks is in order from the likes of me... you reward yourselves by enjoying this effort. And Trick_Ster... go back to school and actually stay awake during your 4th grade grammar class.
Trik-ster.. by CeejayNightwing	Mar 20th, 2008 04:13:05 AM
And naturally you'd prefer a ridiculously simplistic title like Casino Royale 2..? The title is excellent but you're not quite cultured enough to recognize that. In terms of the short story it is based on and the theme of the movie having Bond hell bent on systematically destroying the organization that killed his love; "Quantum of Solace" is perfect. It's because of the likes of you who simply can't understand the English Language beyond Phat, Dope, Bitches and Ho's, that they consider most Americans to be too stupid to understand titles of movies they've had to market under simplified new name like: Harry Potter and the "Sorcerers" Stone instead of "Philosophers" (yes they reckoned not enough of you Yanks understand what that means! Or License "To Kill" instead of License "Revoked" which was the original Bond film title and got changed to the complete opposite just because they didn't think anyone in the US knew what "Revoked" ment! Thus so many US films have unimaginative, basic titles with a number stuffed at the end just to make counting the series easy for them like being in kindergarten. Hopefully this excellent title will not go through that route and remain as it is despite the simpletons and halfwits of the world with popcorn for brains.
Pants!.. by CeejayNightwing	Mar 20th, 2008 04:15:44 AM
Oh and "Pants" is northern English slang for something that's not very good i.e Crap or Rubbish!
No pants, by DC Films	Mar 20th, 2008 04:39:32 AM
James Bond goes Commando.
Gemma Arterton = by Motoko Kusanagi	Mar 20th, 2008 04:43:35 AM
instantly boinkable
Quantum of Solace is a cool Bond title by kwisatzhaderach	Mar 20th, 2008 05:00:54 AM
Classy and sophisticated. What do you want? Tomorrow Never Dies? Die Another Day? Jeez.
Frijole & CeejayNightwing by batmans_pants	Mar 20th, 2008 05:03:22 AM
Brilliant posts. Seriously.
Pants by Pandas-R-Us	Mar 20th, 2008 05:53:27 AM
Adding to the "Pants" discussion, and therefore throwing this Bond talkback off on even more of a tangent, as well as the North of England I think it's been a term for something that's not very good all over the UK (certainly here in Wales) since I was a kid, so at least 15 years. So "Daniel Craig's Face is Pants!" is an insult, not a compliment.
Pants by xwoof	Mar 20th, 2008 05:56:11 AM
In British English pants only ever means 'underpants'. In recent years it's often been used as a term of mild abuse, eg 'National Treasure: Book of Secrets is pants'. Clearly, Daniel Craig's face isn't pants. Tom Cruise's acting is.
Damn, i want this out now by filmcoyote	Mar 20th, 2008 06:11:44 AM
along with Iron Man, Dark Knight, Wall-E, Pineapple Express and Tropic Thunder. Oh, for a Delorean!
Something TV will never have: legit location shooting. by CreasyBear	Mar 20th, 2008 06:26:13 AM
Yet another reason why I'd rather put in a DVD than watch a TV drama. Alias would show "Cairo", then a stock-footage establishing shot, then suddenly you're in a temporarily de-touristed EPCOT showcase. Or when X-Files showed what was ostensibly a forest in the FL panhandle, and we had a curious number of evergreen trees everywhere that screamed ACTUALLY VANCOUVER. Shoot on site! Money is no object to me!
I really liked the vibe I'm getting from this by just pillow talk	Mar 20th, 2008 06:40:32 AM
I'm hoping that the new Bond is 2 for 2. And that was pretty fucking cool how low that plane flew to the ground. Oh, and count me in the "Gemma boinkable club".
Looks awesome by Gungan Slayer	Mar 20th, 2008 06:42:08 AM
can't wait
Bond sucking on Vesper's fingers was "creepy"? by Osmosis Jones	Mar 20th, 2008 07:02:33 AM
I thought that was one of the film's more moving moments, myself. Bond showing a vulerable side he hasn't displayed since OHMSS. But I guess real Bond fans just want him delivering smirking "I have to keep the old t TIP up...you know, I have the THRUST of things..." innuendoes.
nice logo at the end.. by couP	Mar 20th, 2008 07:03:22 AM
olga looked a little like zeta-jones when she smiled at first
Gemma? ehh... by Mr. Osato	Mar 20th, 2008 07:51:40 AM
I'd rather give a cum shower to Olga myself...
NotFunny... by DC Films	Mar 20th, 2008 08:07:37 AM
...are you the baby from Family Gut? And shame on you Mr Osato, you naughty!
Take Your Matt Damon by JAGUART	Mar 20th, 2008 08:15:21 AM
And stick him up your ass you tweens.
God Craig's run needs to be over, wanna know who will follow by donwillymo	Mar 20th, 2008 08:35:08 AM

RIP James Bond by Sithdan	Mar 20th, 2008 08:43:41 AM
 We haven't seen James Bond since 2002's Die Another Day. I wonder when 007 will return, if ever. No more over-the-top plots involving megalomaniacs bent on world domination, no more outrageous gadgets, no Q, no Moneypenny...I miss you, Mr. Bond. Please come back soon!
how you know your director is a pompous ass by ArcadianDS	Mar 20th, 2008 08:44:27 AM
he thinks his choice of locations are just as important as the work of the movie's actors.
gemma + olga by Shigeru	Mar 20th, 2008 09:04:44 AM
wowzers
CeejayNightwing by Bill Brasky	Mar 20th, 2008 09:32:08 AM
...and you 'my friend' are too stupid and lacking in basic grammar skills to finish with the other end of your parenthesis. Maybe movie companies and publishing houses need to rethink the titles of movies and books for you Limeys who like to use run-on sentences and who can't fathom how to use a pair of brackets, especially round brackets, ( and ), used to enclose parenthetical material in a text.
I didn't realize we saw Bond in Die Another Day.. by just pillow talk	Mar 20th, 2008 09:35:23 AM
I thought that was just a utter shit movie. Don't worry Sithdan, you have plenty of your over-the-top Bond movies to watch over and over again. Hey, I enjoyed most of those movies too, but I really like Casino Royale and am very hopeful this one will follow in the same vain.
These Bond movies are so fucking good by dr sauch	Mar 20th, 2008 09:41:01 AM
Seriously, Casino Royale was like the perfect movie. I'm sure this won't disappoint. And so what if Forster looks/sounds gay? If there were no gay (or effeminate) guys in hollywood, kiss goodbye to many, many of the movies you've loved. My PCR reaction is done, I need to stop typing. New Bond rules, talkbackers suck.
Where is the taxi! by WatertownSurfer	Mar 20th, 2008 09:43:41 AM
I hope its in the trailer!
Rise above it Harry! by Automaton Overlord	Mar 20th, 2008 09:43:49 AM
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CeejayNightwing pt. 2 by Bill Brasky	Mar 20th, 2008 09:53:16 AM
Yeah, and I guess that "No Country for Old Men" was one of those stupid 'Yank' movies that you hated because it was just so amateurish and moronic. The simpletons and halfwits of the world with popcorn for brains have spoken and here's what they say: REVOKE: (Revoked) as in, Great Britain's status as a world power has been REVOKED. Now, they must resort to squabbling over a few rocky islands half a world away just to ensure themselves that 'the sun never sets on the British Empire,' and following an American preisdent around the world like a little lost puppy. Gosh Ceejay, for a country full of idiots who can't seem to fathom any films unless they have numbers at the end, your nation sure does emulate us! The sad thing is, I actually started to agree with what you were talking about until you started to flame my nation of origin. Who the fuck cares, really? Stay over there in your little cesspool of an island, with your bad teeth and your high taxes. Enjoy your self-described high-brow nature and continue to write long and completely uninteresting titles for books and movies. I'm glad that I was born where I was born. Are you?
by Bill Brasky	Mar 20th, 2008 09:55:01 AM
Here's to Bill Brasky!!!
Us queers have been producing Bond for years what's the problem? by Smashing	Mar 20th, 2008 10:15:17 AM
If you want Bond made by straight people go rent XXX and then come and tell me you don't want us making your movies better. We could be doing the Oz sequels you know instead of wasting our time with a one trick character.
Out 10/31 in the UK! by Zardoz	Mar 20th, 2008 10:35:53 AM
Might be a good time for a trip to jolly old England! I loved Casino Royale and this looks like it's in good hands so far, so, fingers crossed! (and the title's growing on me, more and more!)
The girls = HT by performingmonkey	Mar 20th, 2008 11:54:31 AM

The girls this time = HOT!! by performingmonkey	Mar 20th, 2008 11:56:01 AM
The British girl is excellently hot, and in a young Moneypenny sort of way.
Gemma boinkable club by Wacky Noodle	Mar 20th, 2008 12:23:38 PM
where do I sign up? This movie looks great. Casino Royale was the best Bond film ever, and I can't wait for this one.
Is Arterton taller than Craig? by Christopher3	Mar 20th, 2008 01:19:14 PM
Or is she standing on the curb?
by the way	Mar 20th, 2008 01:44:25 PM
First!
Bill Brasky... by DC Films	Mar 20th, 2008 01:54:53 PM
Wow, some of you are very sensitive about this. To be honest i thought that CeejayNightwing wasn't implying that Americans are dumb, but that Hollywood studios assume that Americans are dumb. He's saying that the Studios underestimate their countrymen incredibly with these patronizing dumbed-down name changes. I agree with him - you should be pissed at the studios, rather than someone for pointing this out! And it ain't just you guys that are getting the 'nanny-treatment' - i was annoyed at 'Live Free Or Die Hard' being released here as Die Hard 4.0, as though the studio thinks we Brits are too dumb to work out that LFODH is a Die Hard movie. As it turned out DH4 was pretty dumb, so i guess the Brit title was a better fit after all.
@DC Films by Baron Karza	Mar 20th, 2008 02:06:13 PM
The film industry believes most people ARE dumb, and the ones who arent dumb are ripping them off by downloading movies. Another example is Harry Potter & the Philosophers Stone (book & movie) being renamed 'Sorcerer' because we Americans have no fucking idea what a Philosopher is. s'My take.
By the way, when does Torque 2 come out? by Baron Karza	Mar 20th, 2008 02:08:39 PM
I like to see motorcycles explode. AWESOME!!!
Gemma is not taller than Craig....she's standing on a curb.. by Forestal	Mar 20th, 2008 02:35:24 PM
I'm pretty sure he's a few inches taller at least.
This Bond will kick ass by Utamoh	Mar 20th, 2008 03:06:37 PM
They've got an incredible crew - the best of the best bond film guys are working on this, plus some great locations - and airplanes. I look forward to seeing an old-fashioned dogfight with a DC-3. And to you naysayers, you're so pants.
RIP JAMES BOND by stamper	Mar 20th, 2008 03:18:07 PM
We haven't seen James Bond since 2002's Die Another Day. ARE YOU SERIOUS ? WE HAVEN'T SEEN HIM SINCE OHMSS AND NOW HE IS BACK !
Gemma is the new Carey Lowell. by riskebiz	Mar 20th, 2008 03:36:35 PM
Something lackluster about the females in this. They seem very pedestrian as actresses. I know, there isn't much to see her other than a line or reaction or two ... but they seem very Carey Lowell/Talisa Soto'esque. A bit of step down from Eva Green's on screen presence.
Stamper by Sithdan	Mar 20th, 2008 03:58:57 PM
Yes, I AM serious. I LOVED Die Another Day. I saw it four times in the theaters. I've only seen Casino Royale once...As I sauntered out of the theater, I was trying to digest what I had seen. It was another damn Jason Bourne flick. Too realistic. James Bond is NOT supposed to realistic. We need villains like Blofeld attempting to take over the world, wacky gadgets and TONS of special effects. BTW, I enjoyed OHMSS, too.
Casino Royale was better than any Bourne movie by skywalkerfamily	Mar 20th, 2008 04:48:29 PM
Typical Bourne Movie scene - Hello, it's Bourne. I'm in the next room!
Back To Pants by FlyinHawaiian30	Mar 20th, 2008 06:39:42 PM
When I asked yesterday what the slang "pants" meant in that context, I asked only because I was unfamiliar with the colloquialism, not that I don't understand English, or at least American English. Of course, I wouldn't expect all English-speaking peoples to understand every bit of slang used in this area of the country and I certainly wouldn't accuse any of you of being ignorant for not knowing. So therefore, sheesh and suck haole-boy!
*suck it by FlyinHawaiian30	Mar 20th, 2008 06:40:04 PM
damn my luck!
Gemma Arterton as whack fodder by snappy	Mar 20th, 2008 07:26:59 PM
Can be seen in a short-skirted school uniform in the recent pale remake of the classic St. Trinian's film. Haven't seen the film, but it did prompt me to buy the originals on DVD, but I expect she'll be wearing stockings too.
Let's go Belmont Bruins! by just pillow talk	Mar 20th, 2008 08:04:38 PM
Fuck Duke. snappy, we can only hope she appears in another short-skirted school uniform in this one. I don't care how, just work it into the script.
Gee, kind of a bland cast aside from Daniel. by skywalkerfamily	Mar 20th, 2008 10:12:38 PM
Casino Royale had an awesome cast compared to this.
Amen, Stamper! by deathbird	Mar 20th, 2008 10:31:59 PM
OHMSS was released in what, '68? And it took them almost 40 YEARS to make another great Bond film. And I thought the 25 year gulf between Empire and Sith was bad...
This is looking fucking good... by poeticwarriorII	Mar 20th, 2008 10:32:28 PM
I just wonder how many times Bond had to whack it to a copy of Hitman before he could go on set without pitching a tent in his suit pants?
RIP Bond jerkoffs : take your martinis and shove it by quantize	Mar 20th, 2008 10:52:11 PM
you tards...they reinvented Bond perfectly with Craig grow the fuck up
Prossor by Sithdan	Mar 21st, 2008 09:00:59 AM
Man, you said it perfectly.
pants by LegoKenobi	Mar 21st, 2008 09:54:54 AM
i want daniel craig in mine. that's right, you heard me.
Fun Thread This by peter skellen	Mar 21st, 2008 05:04:32 PM
Is there some sort of mod who can tidy up when people start insulting/making generalisations about entire countries? I hate that crap. Regarding Quantum Of Solace, I bow to no man in my complete nerd appreciation for all things James Bond...but Eon are so far up their own arse now it's almost vomit inducing. You'd think casino Royale was Chinatown or something. The fun of Bond has been lost.

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