Quantum of Solace poster arrives

Golrush007

The final one-sheet poster for Quantum of Solace has emerged on ComingSoon.net. As expected this artwork is the same as that which appears on the soundtrack album, which also surfaced recently.

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=49117

blueman

For some reason the link to the bigger scan is down, but IMP has it here.

Napoleon Plural

Nice, good. Craig looks a lot better than in the teaser print, his hair is better. I would consider putting this up on my wall. Wonder if they do lifesized ones?

Barbel

Looks like they've just come out of the pub and can't find a taxi.

(Obviously one driven by Cabby Broccoli)

Dan Same

I like it. I do think it's a little too busy (I could do without the 'Albert R Broccoli Productions and Eon Productions present ...' in the middle of the poster) but, really, I do think it is a very nice poster.

zaphod

Looks cheap, shoddy and dull to me

darenhat

I suppose it matches the title - vague and non-compelling. The poster doesn't really try to tell (or sell) you anything.

Youknowthename

darenhat wrote:

The poster doesn't really try to tell (or sell) you anything.

Totally agree. This couldn't (shouldn't?) have taken too much time to put together, and it looks like that every inch.

Golrush007

I'm not particularly impressed by the poster, but it has grown on me a little since I saw it on the cover of the soundtrack album.

Perhaps they will have different posters for America and Europe as per CR??

zaphod

Barbel wrote:

Looks like they've just come out of the pub and can't find a taxi.

(Obviously one driven by Cabby Broccoli)

Couldn't agree more. It's really lacklustre. It also seems to keep the fact that it's a Bond film pretty much low key. I have real concerns recently about the 'muck & Bullets' approach that QOS seems to be taking, and certainly 'muck' is very heavily featured here. A casual observer could almost miss the Bond brand. I really feel that they are in danger of snatching defeat from the Jaws of victory after the succsess of CR.
It looks cheap, rushed and nasty, so very like the title song ?:)

Newsman

Reminds me of the cheap job they did for License to Kill. Lacks the real style of the Casino Royale poster.

blueman

Very much in line with the CR main poster, only more so: Camille as big as Bond and not just there for eye candy, an obvious story behind their twin looks. Like the CR one-sheet, the female lead is shown as the emotional focus of Bond. Again, EON targeting women with the ad campaign more than men. At least that's how I read it. Worked the last time around, they realize the appeal of Craig (ie depth) and are using it. Very savvy IMO.

Moonraker 5

As I've said elsewhere, I really like it. They've survived - both the emotional and physical journies. A glamourous world gone wrong, yet relief that it's over.

Alex

I love it. Simplistic, attractive and meaningful.

Spot on with the, "trip through hell is now over" vibe. Quite a good description and my reason for liking it as well.

I'm framing this on my door.

Barbel

At the risk of seeming a Traditionalist (who, me? ), there's very little about this poster that says "James Bond" to me. It's just too drab and non-specific for my taste, and as said above could be easily overlooked among other film posters.

Ok, Bond has to move with the times and some of the classic elements needed to be shaken (not stirred) up, but the bathwater still has to have a baby in there or the series runs the risk of losing its identity.

Sir Miles

It's the weakest of the three by far.....I've just framed the 2nd teaser poster and put it in the kitchen - it looks stunning !

Loeffelholz

I think it's a very effective poster, as I said in the previous thread on this (the one that ties this artwork in with the sountrack cover). There's more going on here than immediately meets the eye. Their faces really tell the story (for me).

As I also said before, I believe this alludes to what could be near the final shot of the film, although I might well be wrong.

It's unconventional, but I think it works.

blueman

Barbel wrote:

At the risk of seeming a Traditionalist (who, me? ), there's very little about this poster that says "James Bond" to me. It's just too drab and non-specific for my taste, and as said above could be easily overlooked among other film posters.

Ok, Bond has to move with the times and some of the classic elements needed to be shaken (not stirred) up, but the bathwater still has to have a baby in there or the series runs the risk of losing its identity.

I think the CR and QOS one-sheets create a very distinct Bond identity... it's not typical "Bond" but IMO it is exactly what EON is going for. Very successful in that regard too IMO.

Barbel

True, blue, but can I add just one word to what you said- it's exactly what EON are currently going for.

Gazing into my crystal ball, here's a prediction or two: QoS will make a lot of money, though perhaps not quite as much as CR. The next film (The Property Of A Lady?) will perform about the same or less. Depending on exactly how much less, either one more film with the existing set-up will be made or not. There will then be changes- Craig will be replaced by (picking ny words carefully here to avoid side debates) a more traditional-looking :007) Bond actor; those of the PCF elements that haven't crept back by that point (Q, Moneypenny, Bond... James Bond, etc) will return with a vengeance. A massive publicity push will ensure that film a big launch, and another 007 cycle will begin.

Of course, all that's years away right now.

Virgil

I like their expressions, and general look, but the background should be used more...I mean, what´s that way, way back in the distance? explosions? a train? The characters are like in the CR poster, but that one had more elements, setting the background of the movie; the Casino was perfectly framed. Not here. And if they wanted to go for an understated poster, they should have kept out everything. Just both of them in the desert would have worked better for me.

blueman

Barbel wrote:

True, blue, but can I add just one word to what you said- it's exactly what EON are currently going for.

Gazing into my crystal ball, here's a prediction or two: QoS will make a lot of money, though perhaps not quite as much as CR. The next film (The Property Of A Lady?) will perform about the same or less. Depending on exactly how much less, either one more film with the existing set-up will be made or not. There will then be changes- Craig will be replaced by (picking ny words carefully here to avoid side debates) a more traditional-looking :007) Bond actor; those of the PCF elements that haven't crept back by that point (Q, Moneypenny, Bond... James Bond, etc) will return with a vengeance. A massive publicity push will ensure that film a big launch, and another 007 cycle will begin.

Of course, all that's years away right now.

Some are predicting QOS does more business than CR... could make for a rather interesting future for Bond. Either way, not sure the series ever goes back like you say, maybe, but I'd guess not. Unless the 70s return with a vengeance.

Back to the poster: awesome!

Monique

Barbel wrote:

At the risk of seeming a Traditionalist (who, me? ), there's very little about this poster that says "James Bond" to me. It's just too drab and non-specific for my taste, and as said above could be easily overlooked among other film posters.

Ok, Bond has to move with the times and some of the classic elements needed to be shaken (not stirred) up, but the bathwater still has to have a baby in there or the series runs the risk of losing its identity.

I agree with you Barbel! I don't think any character in the film should be on equal footing with Bond, and I don't like that they put her side by side with him. He doesn't stand out, my attention went to her instead.

blueman

That's rather odd for a Bond poster, yeah. I don't dislike it, but it also places the expectation in my mind, that Camille's journey will rival Bond's (no idea if it does as I'm doing my darndest to avoid spoilers). Interesting and seems to be in sync with CR-Bond in some way I can't quite put my finder on... hopefully it makes sense in the viewing. But like the CR one-sheet, it's a new thing for Bond (IMO).

The Bond Experience

I am looking forward to the Japanese poster...they always have such great visuals and design versus what I see from the states.

sharpshooter

I prefer the second poster. Bond with the machine gun is the image of this film. This third poster is not bad, though.

Loeffelholz

Virgil wrote:

I like their expressions, and general look, but the background should be used more...I mean, what´s that way, way back in the distance? explosions? a train?

I believe it's the burning remnants of the villain's lair B-)

darenhat

Virgil wrote:

And if they wanted to go for an understated poster, they should have kept out everything. Just both of them in the desert would have worked better for me.

I have to agree with that, Virgil. The element in the background is strange-looking and seems to cause more distraction than edification. I'm all for things in Bond movies going up in smoke, but the message is better communicated when we know what it is.

This poster could easily support the tagline (in a Don LaFontaine stentorian voice): "This November, see this guy...and this gal...get their clothes dirty while something unrecognizable burns in the desert! Action like you've never seen before!"

Gassy Man

Craig looks good, but that's a terrible image of the girl . . . she's really quite beautiful, but here her face looks distorted, like someone lengthened it and enlarged her nose, and her expression makes her eyes look more puffy and bloated than cool and resolute; perhaps that's just how the scan shows up on my monitor. I certainly hope so because she's one of the nicer-looking Bond girls of late.

Alex

She looks great to me ..

emtiem

Monique wrote:

I don't think any character in the film should be on equal footing with Bond, and I don't like that they put her side by side with him. He doesn't stand out, my attention went to her instead.

But then having them side by side does make more sense of the title: they have (or maybe not) a quantum of solace between them. Literally, in fact: that's where the words are!
Plus The Spy Who Loved Me had Bond and girl on equal footing: it never struck me as odd or wrong.

This poster's fine- doesn't excite me, doesn't disappoint me.
I'd prefer the image they used on the cover to Total Film


Now that's a classy Bond image. I would seriously just use that photo as it is- none of this over photoshopping business to try and make it look painterly: it's a photo- just show it as one. It's what made the CR teaser so successful.

darenhat

sharpshooter wrote:

I prefer the second poster. Bond with the machine gun is the image of this film. This third poster is not bad, though.

The fact that Bond isn't holding a machine gun is one of the things I like about the poster, I never cared for the publicity shots of Bond in CR or QoS wielding a bulky weapon...it seems very 'un-secret-agent-like'.