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  • ShardlakeShardlake Leeds, West Yorkshire, England
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    Still preaching to the choir.
  • dramaticscenesofQOSdramaticscenesofQOS
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    Shardlake wrote: »
    Still preaching to the choir.

    dramaticscenesofQoS: Oops!

    Shardlake: "Hahahaha, looks like you just lost another one!"
  • dramaticscenesofQOSdramaticscenesofQOS
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    In my opinion, Bond did in fact pull the trigger on Camille just before finding a way to escape from the burning hotel. That explains why he confronted Greene alone, drove off to the train station with a cemetery next to it and delivered Camille's remains as he drove off and said goodbye to her in his mind as she vanished like a ghost towards the train station with old couple.
  • RC7RC7
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    dramaticscenesofQOS wrote: »
    Best Henchman: To the guy whose name sounds similar to the Bond girl from DAD

    vs

    Elvis

    Elvis 1, Hinx 0

    Four days work here, guys. Well worth the wait.
  • CommanderRossCommanderRoss The bottom of a pitch lake in Eastern Trinidad, place called La Brea
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    Walecs wrote: »
    Remington wrote: »
    Walecs wrote: »
    I, to this day, still don't get the Skyfall-Home Alone connection. If anything it references Straw Dogs. Oh, well.

    It's because of the scene where Bond and M set up traps. It's kind of a cheap comparison but I understand it.

    Yeah, I know, but they're not even setting traps, they're just arming themselves with weapons.
    RC7 wrote: »
    Walecs wrote: »
    I, to this day, still don't get the Skyfall-Home Alone connection. If anything it references Straw Dogs. Oh, well.

    You mean you don’t remember Macaulay Culkin pursuing a European hitman across Istanbul, or Joe Pesci slipping on a Komodo Dragon.

    The resemblance is so evident it makes you wonder why EON were not sued for ripping off Home Alone :))

    They misled them by playing the A-tean theme...
  • dramaticscenesofQOSdramaticscenesofQOS
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    CommanderRoss wrote: »
    Walecs wrote: »
    Remington wrote: »
    Walecs wrote: »
    I, to this day, still don't get the Skyfall-Home Alone connection. If anything it references Straw Dogs. Oh, well.

    It's because of the scene where Bond and M set up traps. It's kind of a cheap comparison but I understand it.

    Yeah, I know, but they're not even setting traps, they're just arming themselves with weapons.
    RC7 wrote: »
    Walecs wrote: »
    I, to this day, still don't get the Skyfall-Home Alone connection. If anything it references Straw Dogs. Oh, well.

    You mean you don’t remember Macaulay Culkin pursuing a European hitman across Istanbul, or Joe Pesci slipping on a Komodo Dragon.

    The resemblance is so evident it makes you wonder why EON were not sued for ripping off Home Alone :))

    They misled them by playing the A-tean theme...

    Didn't they bring the production design team from Home Alone to consult on the SF set?

    Oh wait, I think they gained inspiration from the deleted scenes of Home Alone!
  • ResurrectionResurrection Kolkata, India
    edited April 2019 Posts: 2,541
    Sometimes I wonder is this QOS appreciation thread or SF bashing thread?
  • ShardlakeShardlake Leeds, West Yorkshire, England
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    Resurrection wrote: »
    Sometimes I wonder is this QOS appreciation thread or SF bashing thread?

    My thoughts exactly, it's champion has taken flogging a dead horse to new lengths.

    All this home alone bollocks is getting rather tiring.

    You'd think Kubrick directed QOS to hear @desperateattemptstojustifyqos wax lyrical about it.
  • WalecsWalecs On Her Majesty's Secret Service
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    TIL you can't like QoS if you like Skyfall and you can't enjoy Skyfall if you enjoy QoS. Oh well.

    The "home alone" comparison got tiring in November 2012, since, as I pointed out, they're completely different things. You may as well say that SPECTRE ripped off The Bourne Ultimatum because both have action scenes taking place in London.
  • RC7RC7
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    Walecs wrote: »
    TIL you can't like QoS if you like Skyfall and you can't enjoy Skyfall if you enjoy QoS. Oh well.

    The "home alone" comparison got tiring in November 2012, since, as I pointed out, they're completely different things. You may as well say that SPECTRE ripped off The Bourne Ultimatum because both have action scenes taking place in London.

    Well, the irony is, QoS is derivative of Bourne. It’s whole approach trades on the style implemented in Supremacy. They even hired Dan Bradley as second unit director.
  • RemingtonRemington I'll do anything for a woman with a knife.
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    RC7 wrote: »
    Walecs wrote: »
    TIL you can't like QoS if you like Skyfall and you can't enjoy Skyfall if you enjoy QoS. Oh well.

    The "home alone" comparison got tiring in November 2012, since, as I pointed out, they're completely different things. You may as well say that SPECTRE ripped off The Bourne Ultimatum because both have action scenes taking place in London.

    Well, the irony is, QoS is derivative of Bourne. It’s whole approach trades on the style implemented in Supremacy. They even hired Dan Bradley as second unit director.

    And yet it feels nothing like a Bourne film. At least to me.
  • RichardTheBruceRichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.
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    To me it's distilled Bond, I outright love it.
  • dramaticscenesofQOSdramaticscenesofQOS
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    The Bond films that try to be Bond films come off as imitations that don't get better with time.

    QoS didn't try anything except for being a good spy movie much like CR but in its own way. That streak defined Craig's Bond and ushered in a new Golden Age before SF.
  • RC7RC7
    edited April 2019 Posts: 10,512
    dramaticscenesofQOS wrote: »
    The Bond films that try to be Bond films come off as imitations that don't get better with time.

    QoS didn't try anything except for being a good spy movie much like CR but in its own way. That streak defined Craig's Bond and ushered in a new Golden Age before SF.

    QoS is as far from ‘Golden Age’ as it’s possible to get. It booted everything CR did to the wall and SF had to start over.
    Remington wrote: »
    RC7 wrote: »
    Walecs wrote: »
    TIL you can't like QoS if you like Skyfall and you can't enjoy Skyfall if you enjoy QoS. Oh well.

    The "home alone" comparison got tiring in November 2012, since, as I pointed out, they're completely different things. You may as well say that SPECTRE ripped off The Bourne Ultimatum because both have action scenes taking place in London.

    Well, the irony is, QoS is derivative of Bourne. It’s whole approach trades on the style implemented in Supremacy. They even hired Dan Bradley as second unit director.

    And yet it feels nothing like a Bourne film. At least to me.

    It’s certainly not a Bourne film, but it trades on its aesthetic, while dressing the lead better.
  • RichardTheBruceRichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.
    edited April 2019 Posts: 13,790
    To me Quantum of Solace was fresh but also didn't forget the past. It had a nice balance from Fleming (the regrets/unprofessional dialog exchange) to call-backs that celebrate classic Bond film moments at the right times.

    It also openly mocks the detractors of the day--opening the film by showing Craig Bond can drive a stick shift. Having Mathis offer Bond pills that can make him taller.

    So much to enjoy in all four of Craig's Bond films.

    Goldfinger, Ian Fleming, 1959.
    Part One: Happenstance
    Chapter One: Reflections in a Double Bourbon
    JAMES BOND, with two double bourbons inside him, sat in the final departure lounge of Miami Airport and thought about life and death.

    It was part of his profession to kill people. He had never liked doing it and when he had to kill he did it as well as he knew how and forgot about it. As a secret agent who held the rare double-O prefix - the licence to kill in the Secret Service - it was his duty to be as cool about death as a surgeon. If it happened, it happened. Regret was unprofessional - worse, it was death-watch beetle in the soul.

    quantum-of-solace1.jpg?w=381&h=156

    crude-oil.jpg
  • QBranchQBranch Always have an escape plan. Mine is watching James Bond films.
    edited April 2019 Posts: 14,571
    RichardTheBruce wrote: »
    It also openly mocks the detractors of the day--opening the film by showing Craig Bond can drive a stick shift. Having Mathis offer Bond pills that can make him taller.
    Very good. Add to that Craig in a boat without a life jacket on.
  • RichardTheBruceRichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.
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    Gosh yes, @QBranch.
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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    QBranch wrote: »
    RichardTheBruce wrote: »
    It also openly mocks the detractors of the day--opening the film by showing Craig Bond can drive a stick shift. Having Mathis offer Bond pills that can make him taller.
    Very good. Add to that Craig in a boat without a life jacket on.

    And on a bike without a helmet.
  • dramaticscenesofQOSdramaticscenesofQOS
    edited April 2019 Posts: 1,282
    QBranch wrote: »
    RichardTheBruce wrote: »
    It also openly mocks the detractors of the day--opening the film by showing Craig Bond can drive a stick shift. Having Mathis offer Bond pills that can make him taller.
    Very good. Add to that Craig in a boat without a life jacket on.
    QBranch wrote: »
    RichardTheBruce wrote: »
    It also openly mocks the detractors of the day--opening the film by showing Craig Bond can drive a stick shift. Having Mathis offer Bond pills that can make him taller.
    Very good. Add to that Craig in a boat without a life jacket on.

    Oh yes very spot-on catches, guys!

  • dramaticscenesofQOSdramaticscenesofQOS
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    Hey guys, I was on a plane recently and someone next to me said "hold the fruit" when the steward wanted to put a lime in the guy's cranberry juice. As strange as it sounds, the guy put a pepper in his juice drink...Felix's QoS spirit was present!
  • ShardlakeShardlake Leeds, West Yorkshire, England
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    dramaticscenesofQOS wrote: »
    Hey guys, I was on a plane recently and someone next to me said "hold the fruit" when the steward wanted to put a lime in the guy's cranberry juice. As strange as it sounds, the guy put a pepper in his juice drink...Felix's QoS spirit was present!

    That line is from Casino Royale.
  • RC7RC7
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    Shardlake wrote: »
    dramaticscenesofQOS wrote: »
    Hey guys, I was on a plane recently and someone next to me said "hold the fruit" when the steward wanted to put a lime in the guy's cranberry juice. As strange as it sounds, the guy put a pepper in his juice drink...Felix's QoS spirit was present!

    That line is from Casino Royale.

    Quite. He also says, “Keep the fruit”. Not to be pedantic.
  • RichardTheBruceRichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.
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    @dramaticscenesofQOS was talkin' about the pepper!
  • dramaticscenesofQOSdramaticscenesofQOS
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    RichardTheBruce wrote: »
    @dramaticscenesofQOS was talkin' about the pepper!

    @RichardTheBruce, Is that why you drank the water and didn't get diarrhea?
  • mattjoesmattjoes Julie T. and the M.G.'s
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    RichardTheBruce wrote: »
    @dramaticscenesofQOS was talkin' about the pepper!

    (insert obligatory J.W. Pepper joke)
  • RichardTheBruceRichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.
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    dramaticscenesofQOS wrote: »
    @RichardTheBruce, Is that why you drank the water and didn't get diarrhea?
    Even you, brother @dramaticscenesofQOS. Even you.

  • dramaticscenesofQOSdramaticscenesofQOS
    edited April 2019 Posts: 1,282
    @RichardTheBruce We can do a documentary on traveling the world to taste test the peppers......that's what Jeffrey Wright did after QoS....it could have been a whole tv series on its own.

    You could call it "QoS' Kitchen" or "Felix and Friends' Search for Spice"

    Sienna at First Fight....that would have been a nice QoS Menu Scene title for the first few minutes of the film.
  • QBranchQBranch Always have an escape plan. Mine is watching James Bond films.
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    Chilli Masterson
    Mrs. Bell Pepper
    A nose, not a Banana Pepper, Q
    Bird'sEye (I found his weakness)
    Jalapeño Royale
    David Harbournero
  • dramaticscenesofQOSdramaticscenesofQOS
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    @QBranch ....Jalapeno Royale!

    If the new writer for Bond 25 wants to strengthen the female leads for her script, she could view Camille for inspiration.
  • SeanCraigSeanCraig Germany
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    dramaticscenesofQOS wrote: »
    If the new writer for Bond 25 wants to strengthen the female leads for her script, she could view Camille for inspiration.

    I agree. She may not have been Vesper but her character was well written.
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