comment #1

lawnorder says ...

I thought that was a damn good trailer. Not a huge fan of Forster, but a big fan of Bond. Looking forward to another gritty outing.

comment #2

Movie fan09 says ...

am I the only one who hated the first one?

comment #3

Movie fan09 says ...

if anyone is wondering why...

It felt like when your older out of touch relative tries to be hip and ends up embarrassing themselves.

comment #4

Jake says ...

More of the same from the producers who gave us Die Another Day and Tomorrow Never Dies.

They reportedly spent a LOT of time trying to rip off The Bourne Ultimatum when creating this one. So now we can expect things like Judi Dench running around in the Joan Allen role.

It appears they have no clue why Casino Royale was successful. The film was praised for scaling things down...yet they follow it with their highest budget ever? The same thing happened in the 90s, when they followed Goldeneye with Tomorrow Never Dies.

I'm afraid one Talkbacker at Aint It Cool may have summed it up with their headline: "Quantum Is Soulless".

comment #5

Leonardcoenbrothers says ...

yeah, let's all just decide here and now before anyone has seen it that it sucks. In fact, let's just say that all the rest of the films that will come out the rest of the year also suck. Good, now I can stay home.

comment #6

bfm says ...

Well it pushed my buttons.

comment #7

BurmaShave says ...

Wells are you serious? I don't even remember how you felt about CASINO ROYALE, and maybe I don't want to remember.

comment #8

Aris P says ...

waaa waa waaaaaaa.... god you're such a bitter curmudgeon.

comment #9

fattyhadaparty says ...

Jeff,

Any other films you'd like to review after only seeing the trailer?

Yes, Yeltsin, you are the only one that hated the first one. If you can't tell when you're seeing some of the best acting, directing and writing in the entire series, then nothing is going to satisfy you

I'd go so far as to say that CASINO ROYALE is the second-best Bond film of all, right after FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE. With all due respect to GOLDFINGER (which gets quite silly), CASINO ROYALE and FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE are the only Bond outings that don't have to be qualified as great Bond films; they're great films, period.

And Jake, these may be same from the producers who gave us DIE ANOTHER DAY and TOMORROW NEVER DIES, but from watching the trailer, it appears as though they've learned their lesson. SOLACE looks like a logical extension of what was begun in CASINO ROYALE. First you introduce the new Bond, then you introduce the new Spectre.

comment #10

soap-and-water says ...

what le fuque?
anyone who watches that trailer and doesn't spot that QoS will be a series highpoint is frankly missing a piece.

Look at the pallette: steel greys, tans, creams. This is comfortably the most chic 007 ever.

bourne stole a march on bond, right? grit, verite and a more grounded style of bullshit action.

QoS is Bond hitting rght back: take your grubby fight scenes and railway stations... we're cool.

Our character's cool, he dresses cool, he goes to cool places (not fucking Moscow! urgh!).

we get an Oscar-winner to say 'cold bastard' in our trailer!

QoS will be nuts. no problems. lock it right in.

comment #11

Pertwillaby says ...

Long time reader, first time writer. I registred just for this comment: I adore you, Jeff, but why are you writing this shit? You LIKED Casino Royale! Even if you hated it, you haven't seen Quantum of Solace yet!

If someone trashes The Curious Case of Benjamin Button after a 20 minutes footage he must be an idiot. On the other hand after a 2 minutes(!) long trailer you know exactly taht Quantum of Solace will be bad...

comment #12

dinovelvet says ...

Well said Fatty, though I personally have ON HER MAJESTY'S SECRET SERVICE as my No.2. Classic Fleming all the way through, and Lazenby is surprisingly effective, given his/the film's reputation.

And if you don't get a hardon watching this new QOS trailer, you officially need viagra. Even if the action isn't doing it for you, its clear that Forster has made this one of the most visually exciting Bond films. Then again, some people just like to hate just for the hell of it.

comment #13

Craptastic says ...

After watching that trailer, I'll be giving it the glad hand on opening day.

Put that trailer up against any other Bond trailer and see if it sticks. Visually exciting, engaging leading man, sexy chicks, top notch actors (including the Polanski look-alike from 'Munich')... count me shaken.

comment #14

MattyC says ...

Around the 1:55 mark, Craig says "Right now, I think you're the only person I can trust.", and they show a graying, bearded man. At full speed, I thought for a split second, George Lucas?

comment #15

Marty Melville says ...

Trailers are mostly terrible these days... and this one is certainly the same old, same old: all quick quts and no memorable theme emerging from the chaos... its worst sin being that done-to-death sound effect, a mega-SLAM to emphasize certain cuts (it's the thudding crash a refrigerator would make if dropped from the roof of a tall building).

Casino Royale was so good, I refuse to be swayed by its sequel's trailer, no matter how much it tries to convince us that what its selling is totally forgettable.

comment #16

BurmaShave says ...

Matty I'm sure Giancarlo Giannini is thrilled at your comparison.

comment #17

PastePotPete says ...

I thought Casino Royale was overhyped but still enjoyed it. My main problem was changing the card game to texas hold 'em in an ill-advised attempt to make it accessible to idiots who watch late night syndicated poker shows(like me).

comment #18

Craptastic says ...

Marty, judging by your comment, you must've seen it. Obviously you have, o' great foreseer of the future. Enlighten us as to how forgettable it is and why.

comment #19

guylodge says ...

Craptastic: don't you think that after "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly" sealed the fact that that he's pretty much the best French actor (hell, one of the best actors, period) at work today, Mathieu Amalric deserves better than being called "the Polanski look-alike from 'Munich'"?

comment #20

Pertwillaby says ...

I forgot something: Jeff, I just saw a 20 minutes long footage from The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. It's crap. You'll be looking at the Blu-ray DVD of this film seven months from now, and you'll not even think about renting or buying it. ;)

comment #21

actionman says ...

The action looks great, Olga is smoking hot, Craig is perfect. Wells -- what don't you like about this?

And something tells me that Button isn't crap...

comment #22

MDOC says ...

I wasn't sure what to make of Casino Royale a few months before it opened but I ended up loving it. Solace looks good, how about that shot midway through the trailer where the camera follows Bond as he falls through the window? They got my $8.50 right there.

comment #23

Josh Massey says ...

"how about that shot midway through the trailer where the camera follows Bond as he falls through the window?"

Amen. The trailer is fairly bland - at least compared to the first one - but that shot made me sit up and actually say, "Well, that was cool."

Other than Benjamin Button, this is the only fall movie I'm really, really, really looking forward to. Hopefully it's a step forward from Casino Royale, and not a step back into the Brosnan days.

comment #24

Catman says ...

And you wonder why the studios are reluctant to let you into screenings these days...

comment #25

atticusrex says ...

As a Bond fan from the get go (though my first Bond in the theaters was Thunderball) I have seen every Bond in a Theater even the first few later on. That said Bond for me suffered throughout the Moore years. But I stuck with it. I was happy with Dalton until the second one. It seemed the Producers hearts were not in it. I welcomed Goldeneye then felt the next 3 were sliding back into the Moore era. Then came Casino Royale. Is it perfect? No. Is it the Best Bond ever? No. Is it better than almost every Bond ever? Yes.

I am not sure what you were expecting Jeff, this movie is a continuation of CR. The main diff? Bond is now 007. For me the first two trailers for Quantum seem great. They look and feel like the Producers are moving forward and remember Jeff, this movie introduces us to Spectre.

While I agree that the Bourne movies might have played a hand in forcing Bond to this higher level it's still Bond. His world is not supposed to be as 'real' as Bourne's.

I see this trailer and based on CR, I am psyched!

comment #26

Rich S. says ...

Remember L.A. Story, when Steve Martin used to tape his weather segments for the entire week on Monday, and then take the rest of the week off? Jeffrey could free up a lot of time by just writing his reviews for every film now (Soderbergh? LOVED IT! Spielberg? GARBAGE!) and then having an assistant post them when the movie actually comes out.

Because even when a movie surprises him on initial viewing (King Kong, Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, Casino Royale), he eventually comes back to his preconceived ideas about it anyway.

comment #27

btwnproductions says ...

Looks terrific. I like that it's a direct followup to CASINO ROYALE, something the series has never really done (the "Blofeld trilogy" of 1967-1971 never really clicked on that level).

comment #28

JapAdapters says ...

Yes, because no one here ever judged a movie without seeing it. Never in your lifetimes did you see a trailer, or a director credit, or the writers name and think "Nah!" No one here EVER made any assumption about a movie until they had seen it. Bullshit,

That said, Wells is tripping. This isn't my favorite trailer for this but CR bought them at least one more shot from me, and I never saw a Brosnan Bond movie in the theater. I guess I was just lucky that I was right to assume they were garbage.

comment #29

VictorLazlo says ...

If QUANTUM OF SOLACE lives up to that trailer, Daniel Craig will become the definitive James Bond.

comment #30

AuggieBenDoggie says ...

I think we saw two different things, Jeff. What a great trailer! I have not had such a feeling of anticipation for a Bond film since maybe '77.

comment #31

atticusrex says ...

Best Bond Films (If Story is job #1, IMHO)

OHMSS
From Russia With Love
Casino Royale
Dr. No
Goldfinger
Thunderball
You Only Live Twice
Goldeneye
License To Kill
Living Daylights
Man With The Golden Gun
Spy Who Loved Me
Diamonds Are Forever

Then all the rest of the fodder. I would have listed World Is Not Enough but it squandered to many things to be listed.

comment #32

Krazy Eyes says ...

I think the trailer looks great. It does look like they jazzed up the action a bit from Casino and it's still definitely in the Bourne mold, but Bond should be a little more over-the-top than Bourne. It look *nothing* to me like those godawful Brosnan Bonds so I'm not getting that comparison at all.

comment #33

JustThisGuy says ...

Tell you the truth, this movie looks like it encapsulates several of my favorite Bond tropes. Bond on a mission of personal revenge, a Bond girl who is out for revenge as well, Bond seems to spend at least a portion of the film in the company of the baddie, villains who or omnipresent and yet covert, etc etc. Looks like a good one to me.

comment #34

dixiedugan says ...

I'm in...after the excellence of Casino Royale I don't have to think about it.

comment #35

MovieBob says ...

My sole issue with Casino Royale was that, while I dug the hell out of a "real-world" Bond for an introductory ORIGIN STORY for the new 007, I had a constant sense of worry that it would set an ultimately-defeating "keep it grounded, don't go nuts" precedent for subsequent films. I feel the same way, to a lesser degree about Dark Knight - much as I like THAT one installment's "Heat' but with Batman and Joker" angle, I'd hate to see that level of potentially-stodgy realism strangle the franchise later on (basically, I hope the Nolans or Goyer or SOMEONE at the writing level is thinking "y'know who're fun? Man-Bat and Killer Croc.")

So, given that... whenever these QoS trailers pop up with the "who are you?" "we have people everywhere" secret-organization thing setting up the heavies, my ears perk right the hell up. I mean... could it be? Dare I dream that, when New Bond kicks open the door to the bad guy HQ reveal... it'll be the new SPECTER??

comment #36

Craptastic says ...

guylodge.... Sorry, man. Didn't mean any disrespect by it. Didn't know his name and wasn't into finding out at the moment.

But now I know! Thanks.

comment #37

Dan Revill says ...

Casino Royale is the only Bond film I've ever felt compelled to own. I'll definitely be seeing this one and if it's anything near the quality of CR, then we'll be in for a treat.
I may be mistaken, but aren't they using the same stunt coordinator on this as was on the past two Bourne films?

comment #38

nemo says ...

I agree with atticusrex, Dr. No deserves to be high on the list.

comment #39

guylodge says ...

You're a gentleman, Craptastic. (There's an odd-sounding sentence.)

Didn't mean for my first comment to sound accusatory -- it's just Amalric really deserves to be noticed. Check out "Heartbeat Detector" if you can -- best performance of the year so far in my humble opinion.

comment #40

Rich S. says ...

By the way, that falling through the skylight bit is exactly what a good special effect should do. It shows us something you can't see in the real world, but which is not so unreal that you yell, "Come on!" Simple as it is, that is the money shot.

comment #41

Richardson says ...

"If you can't tell when you're seeing some of the best acting, directing and writing in the entire series, then nothing is going to satisfy you"

I think it's well directed (trying to be Greengrass, but doing well at it) and pretty well acted, but the writing in that movie is crap. It has Paul Haggis's fingerprints all over it. The dialogue is pure shit. (Which, being fair, still puts it at at least par for a Bond script.)

comment #42

bmcintire says ...

Please take a look at the comment counts for Jeff's last twenty postings. Most of them are lingering around 10.
"Hmm, what can I do to up the page views? I know, I'll take a piss on the new Bond trailer!"

Well played, Jeff.

comment #43

Deathtongue_Groupie says ...

bmcintire - well, called, sir, well called.

I had seen the other trailer and being Bond I am legally required to check it out, but this is probably the best trailer I have seen all year for one simple reason: it made me truly want to see the film. I happily now have something to anticipate for this last quarter which I didn't before.

comment #44

renorambler says ...

How nice. A few months back I almost got banned for saying East of Eden was a bad movie without backing it up with my reasons. Fair enough. Of course, I had seen East of Eden and had good reasons for my opinion.

JW hasn't even seen this film and trashes it. Let's stage a coup! Can we ban him from his own blog? ;)

comment #45

D.Z. says ...

Boris: Didn't hate the first one, but it was friggin' slow at times. Though compared to TDK, it now seems like a Leterrier film, in terms of pacing.

fatty: If it's the best directing and writing, why did it have to rip off Bourne, Speed, *and* Titanic?

comment #46

Deathtongue_Groupie says ...

As always after reading D.Z., I am left wondering if somewhere a village is missing him...

comment #47

Richardson says ...

I wouldn't say they've been "missing" him, Bob...

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