AJB live commentary on QUANTUM OF SOLACE

Shady Tree

The Bond/Felix dialogue worked well in the film's trailer.

Number24

"You should really just answer CIA, Felix. The taxi driver told me where your office was"

There's some good, cynical dialogue in QoS.

Shady Tree

Charlie Chaplain's granddaughter as the hotel waitress. Just as Buster Keaton's granddaughter played a rape victim in 1978's 'I Spit On Your Grave', so Chaplain's granddaughter's character becomes a victim of sexual assault in this movie.

Barbel

Now it starts to feel like a James Bond movie.

Number24

I like the dialogue in the correct languages and the subtitles. One of the advantages of a director whos first language isn't English.

Good sountrack as the me confrontation nears.

Shady Tree

I think the scene between Greene and Medrano is excellent... one villain duping another. The dialogue is cracking and it's very well played.

Thunderbird 2

It’s an action sequence? Fire, bloodbath, revenge and a hatchet job?

Modrano’s killing feels suitably vengeful though.

Did the waitress get out?!

Barbel

Music “Perla De Las Dunas”

Number24

Great dialogue. " ..... and your willing replacement standing above you."

Barbel

Elvis leaves the building

Golrush007

Shady Tree wrote:

Charlie Chaplain's granddaughter as the hotel waitress. Just as Buster Keaton's granddaughter played a rape victim in 1978's 'I Spit On Your Grave', so Chaplain's granddaughter's character becomes a victim of sexual assault in this movie.

Really uncomfortable upskirt shot as she climbs off the bed

The Spy Who Never Dies

I love how Bond shields Camille in the fire.

Shady Tree

Camille is so consumed with her desire for revenge she seems cruelly indifferent about Medrano's other woman victim... who presumably may not survive?

Number24

It's great seeing some interesting architecture in a Bond film again.

Shady Tree

For a man of unprepossessing physical build, Almaric makes a good show of physical confrontation with Bond... showing his true mania when he goes crazy with the axe.

Thunderbird 2

Camille and Bond’s goodbye scene is nice... the fact it’s short adds to it.

Number24

They should have edited so we didn't know it was Camile shooting when Greene says "Sounds like you just lost another one!"

Golrush007

Would you drink the motor oil, really?!? ?:)

Shady Tree

The pyrotechnics are scary... I think the only time in a Bond that they've seemed so (except perhaps in AVTAK).

Number24

Thunderbird 2 wrote:

Camille and Bond’s goodbye scene is nice... the fact it’s short adds to it.

As far as I know the only time in a Bond film where he considers suicide?

Shady Tree

Number24 wrote:

They should have edited so we didn't know it was Camile shooting when Greene says "Sounds like you just lost another one!"

Interesting. Except this way we have the dramatic irony of knowing Greene's wrong about it.

Number24

Golrush007 wrote:

Would you drink the motor oil, really?!? ?:)

People stuck on life boats for weeks drink sea water, so ....

Barbel

The end scene- promising.

Thunderbird 2

I do love that final scene in the snow.... the final payoff of CR-06 - M WAS right. And 007 knew it.

What’s the gun barrel doing down here?

Shady Tree

'The Dead Don't Care About Vengeance' is possibly my favourite Arnold cue.

Golrush007

Like the opening scene of Casino Royale, this Russia sequence reminds me of classic old school espionage films.

Number24

They should have left out the kiss or gone all the way and have Bond and Camile have sexual relationship.

Barbel

"Wish I could help"- great line

Shady Tree

Corrine is too flat. She needs to react more.

Barbel

Music “I Never Left” Vesper’s theme