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It's the exact same for anybody who owns residential property for speculative purposes.
Better for me every time I watch it. I don't really mind either the song or the Mathis plot tbh, I think the scene at Mathis' villa is so good and so powerful with the foreshadowing, I think it would have lost something if Mathis survived and was able to go back.
The song, eh, I prefer Bassey's song but it would have needed a different set of visuals.
The Mathis conversations were very meaningful to the film. Each, well shot well.
What do you think of the song "Still Holding On" by Conjure One if it were used instead?
Knowing that this song was originally penned for Bond's psyche still blows my mind.
Agreed. I've always loved the "I don't think he smoked." line. The humor was executed perfectly in this one.
Yep.
"There is something horribly efficient about you.."
"Is that a compliment..?" 😁
"My friends call me Dominic"
"I'm sure they do"
The line "maybe you should get a priest" was alluded to in a subsequent Craig film. Apparently the Craig story arc could not move one way or another without QoS. SF was all about Bond and M's relationship. QoS established that, not CR.
The meanest most insensitive lines by almost any villain in the series were said by Dominic Greene, "damaged goods" and "hahahaha, looks like you just lost another one" when referring to Camille and Bond....it had emotional impact rather than some scarred guy shaking and mumbling stuff. Plus this Greene guy was a philanthropist much like the folks in real life which made him more scary.
No other Bond villain has gotten as raw and realistic with his fight in the climax. This was an actual fight and you could FEEL how much Bond wanted to stay professional and not kill this guy. The whole climax of GE involved a fight but there was a whole satellite and world domination battle going on. There just wasn't as much studio interference. Studio interference is how Timothy Dalton got his contract manipulated so he would say no to doing GE.
Seems like the studio had far LESS leverage in QoS due to the writer's strike and Daniel Craig along with Marc Forster were able to keep things real regarding the script and presentation of the characters including Greene.
In my opinion, I believe to be a small lift from the Moonraker novel. At the end of the film when the hotel is on fire and Bond finds Camile, she starts whispering "no, not like this" Bond looks at her as if he thinks about shooting her, so she doesn't die in the fire the same way as her mother and sister.
There's a similar passage in Moonraker, when Bond considers killing himself to stop the Moonraker, he doesn't want Gala to get burnt to death by the rocket igniting, when they are placed in the exhaust pit of the Moonraker.
This added with Camille walking away the end makes it the best spiritual adaption of Moonraker, even if DAD had more of the plot elements, I'm still gonna be grateful for Quantum for giving us that on screen and done so well imo.
I recently heard it on some new Techniqs headphones and I just love that thumping bass line!
Its not my favourite theme by a long shot, mate, but it works really well for the movie, and for the excellent title sequence!
Yeah. It does work well with the title sequence, which I have also grown fond of.
Damn I love this film!
I remember jamming to it hundreds of times on the way to high school in the buildup to the film's release. I couldn't get enough of it, I've always loved it. I'd be really happy with another rocking song entry in the series.
The scene was so intensive. I really thought Bond was going to shoot her. And the parallel to the Vesper shower scene was so sad. The music was so well crafted between Forster and David Arnold.
The way Bond never sleeps with Camille and yet there is such an understandingly good chemistry between them and their care for one another speaks volumes. Bond drops her off at a cemetery by railroad tracks.....it's very metaphorical in many ways. You see the old couple of what kind of life Bond could never have. The way Camille seems to vanish with editing walking to the train station with that BADASS guitar riff of a 007 theme that could easily have become Daniel Craig's own Bond theme for the rest of his movies......
Then from the dead of a dry desert, we find Bond in the coldest of climates in Kazaan, waiting to find Yusef. While the woman he loves like family, M, awaits him outside the apartment in a world so cold. He has people to love or people who love him.
Bond did have Strawberry Fields to dally with in QoS and it wasn't a necessary inclusion, but didn't affect the outcome, because the creators were firm in not having to conform to the happy ending, which is what they clung to in TWINE.
It definitely would have actually been interesting if TWINE hadn't had Christmas Jones and Elektra was both the secondary villain and only Bond girl. Would have felt more like SF in a way. That said I don't the series was ready to break fully with the formula at the time.
Have you listened to Still Holding On by Conjure One yet?