Quantum Solace Trailer Is Up!
Posted by Dirty Harry on Monday, June 30th, 2008
- Revenge theme? - check.
- Bond as rogue agent? - check.
- Bond girls? - cha-eck.
- Must see vibe? - double cha-eck.
- Awesome use of iconic Bond theme? - triple cha-eck.
- DH still red-faced with embarrassment over criticizing choice of Craig as Bond? - oh, yeah.
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Gideon7on 30 Jun 2008 at 11:14 am 1This looks dark, similar to License Revoked with Timothy Dalton. I dunno..
Gideon7on 30 Jun 2008 at 11:16 am 2Oops that was the working title, I meant License to Kill.
amzarakon 30 Jun 2008 at 11:24 am 3Is it ok, as a man, to admit that I got goosebumps watching that trailer?
JohnFNWayneon 30 Jun 2008 at 11:24 am 4Don’t know about this one. I wasn’t exactly “blown away” by Casino Royale, in fact I was emphatically bored once it got to the card game. Outside of the quip when he returns to the table after his near death, I felt the general Bond irreverence in the face of death and danger was missing, something the other Bonds managed to convey to varying degrees of success.
I’ll still give it another shot.
Spacebasson 30 Jun 2008 at 11:38 am 5I’m a life long fan of 007. This trailer looks even better than CASINO ROYALE. I LOVE a good revenge flick!
Tommy Von 30 Jun 2008 at 11:40 am 6Adults? Genuine masculinity? And where are the CGI effects?
No, thank you.
Carolynon 30 Jun 2008 at 11:43 am 7OT - but is anyone else having problems logging on to Harry’s site? I am taking forever to access the ‘Comments’ section and sometimes it freezes.
Hope it’s just me. Then again - it could be that Harry is WAY more popular than he thinks he is and his bandwidth needs to be upped.
hailstateon 30 Jun 2008 at 12:10 pm 8The Bond Ultimatum? I’m in!
As a big fan of both the Bourne series and the Casino Royale franchise-reboot, I’m very excited to see this film. It looks like it has all of Bourne’s grittiness and the typical Bond scope without Greengrass’s steadycam.
JohnFNWayneon 30 Jun 2008 at 12:14 pm 9Even Peter Sellers’ James Bond would kick the shit out of Damon’s Jason Bourne.
hailstateon 30 Jun 2008 at 12:25 pm 10Bourne is a robot. Only Craig and Connery would stand a chance. Bourne would mop the floor with Moore, Dalton and Brosan’s versions.
billypaintbrushon 30 Jun 2008 at 12:25 pm 11that music, just a taste to bait the hook
daniel craig has been an inspired choice, his quiet, focused anger is truly menacing
dark knight and this in the same year? like you say, oh yeah
Plissken79on 30 Jun 2008 at 12:38 pm 12Craig and Connery would have simply shot the sniviling Bourne the moment he tried to take them on (something none of Bourne’s opponents seem to do)
Casino Royale is going to be a very hard act to follow, it is probably the third or fourth best film in the series (after Goldfinger and From Russia With Love, perhaps tied with OHMSS), but this trailer looks great, with more of Fleming’s Bond rather than the SuperBond of Brosnan and Moore (FYEO excepted, of course)
NeoConJedion 30 Jun 2008 at 12:41 pm 13Wow … this is gonna rock.
In one year, we get to see:
Rambo
Indiana Jones
Batman
Iron Man
Star Wars Clone Wars
Prince Caspian
007
Brian Burridgeon 30 Jun 2008 at 12:49 pm 14Long time Bond junky. Seen every movie; read every book. Casino Royale was so good I was concerned there was no way the next Craig Bond film could match it, but this trailer looks like they just might have. Counting the days.
rrpjron 30 Jun 2008 at 12:56 pm 15How funny. I occasionally think of that day in 1952 in Jamaica when Ian Fleming, sitting in his den, stared at a book of ornithology by a Dr. James Bond. A good, solid name for a literary hero, he thought. In two months he finished his first novel, Casino Royale. Good sometimes to remember the individual roots of cultural phenomena.
Mr Stay Pufton 30 Jun 2008 at 1:02 pm 16I wasn’t thrilled with “Casino Royale” (I can watch Texas Hold’em on ESPN2 every night) and I’m not yet convinced Craig was a good choice.
The director, Marc Forster, has “The Kite Runner” and “Monster’s Ball” on his resume so I guess he was a natural for Bond?
I’d like to be proven wrong.
John Miltonon 30 Jun 2008 at 1:33 pm 17Anybody read the bit on Cinematical (http://www.cinematical.com/2008/06/30/bond-is-back-quantum-of-solace-gets-a-trailer/ about how the bad guy in this film is an environmentalist?
To good to be true I imagine.
a. acaciaon 30 Jun 2008 at 1:51 pm 18Big fan of this Bond, so I’ll be there (despite the chunk-blowing title).
Carolyn: I have the same problem to varying degrees, even with a high-speed cable connection the hang times can take up to a minute. No problems at Libertas, though.
Mike18xxon 30 Jun 2008 at 2:36 pm 19“Casino Royale”’s poker-game was ludicrous (has there ever been a game in history which featured a set, straight, a full-house, a flush, and a straight-flush ALL IN THE SAME HAND?).
But I digress.
Important questions about the new film which the trailer doesn’t hint at:
* Is the villain a charismatic psychopath with world ambitions, or just a low-rent drug-lord or crime-syndicate?
* Is the Bond Girl both intelligent *and* have tits up to her chin?
* Is the plot full of holes so huge you could drive an Aston Martin though them?
* Are there any laughs to be had anywhere?
* How much longer will I have to tolerate Judy Dench?
* Will cocktails be stirred and cigarettes smoked, or is Bond a granola-eater now?
PerfectTommyon 30 Jun 2008 at 2:58 pm 20* Is the plot full of holes so huge you could drive an Aston Martin though them?
To be fair, that is a relatively small car.
Mike18xxon 30 Jun 2008 at 3:06 pm 21Do you remember the scene in the last Bros Bond film where he runs a powerboat through a crowded restaurant in a short-cut between canals, and by sheer stroke of deus-ex-mechina manages to avoid mashing any little pizza-eating kids into greasy paste, or slamming head-on into a concrete pillar?
Think about it:
* Powerboat (i.e., vehicle which cannot steer on land).
* Going really, really fast.
* Plow into a building, not knowing what’s on the other side of the wall.
* Plow out other side of building after miraculously not hitting anything, not knowing what’s in the canal on the other side.
* Scene is not “played for comedy” (i.e., post-Dalton Bond film).
— It is arguably the least believable scene in Bond history, and there’s a lot of competition for that slot.
Outlaw 13on 30 Jun 2008 at 4:18 pm 22David Niven’s James Bond would…hell, Woody Allen’s James Bond would kick the shit out of Damon’s Bourne.
Mighty Skipon 30 Jun 2008 at 4:34 pm 23Going to change my shorts now, I just wet myself after watching the trailer.
I hope the movie is as good
ArchiCrashon 30 Jun 2008 at 6:25 pm 24Eh, it could work. Never quite saw the appeal of Casino Royale. The opening was nice a brutal, the theme song was cool, but by the time the big footchase scene was over I was already zoning out.
JohnFNWayneon 30 Jun 2008 at 6:27 pm 25How does the freakin’ quote function work?
monkeyon 30 Jun 2008 at 6:43 pm 26this looks awesome, what a year we are having.
we have the dark knight for summer and this for the winter i really am looking forward to another dark bond.
hmmmm thats got me thinking
who would win in a fight between batman and bond??
Keetson 30 Jun 2008 at 6:55 pm 27“Adults? Genuine masculinity? And where are the CGI effects?
No, thank you.”
Hilarious.
Daniel Crandallon 30 Jun 2008 at 9:31 pm 28Looks like fun. But I’m still wondering … what the hell is a “Quantum of Solace”?!? Where did that come from?
Troyon 30 Jun 2008 at 9:38 pm 29a. Total amount or quantity
Straight from the OED. A measure of solace.
David Marcoeon 01 Jul 2008 at 12:53 am 30“Quantum of Solace” is the title of Ian Flemming’s short story, that the movie is based on.
Mike18xxon 01 Jul 2008 at 8:57 am 31Bourne-bashers really should be honest with themselves and pay the Devil his due: Matt Damon has “hulked out” quite a bit for those roles.
And look at his arms (wearing short-sleeve shirt) in “The Italian Job” when he punches the other guy in the restaurant scene. Man is hitting the McGuire juice.
He’s a cretin, of course, and a “tool” of Hollywood Marxists….but don’t say it to his face.
Daniel Crandallon 01 Jul 2008 at 11:34 am 32Thank you, David. I was afraid that the filmmakers were getting all metaphysical on us.