Also, if anybody is gonna be walking around in some kind of low-key body armor, it’s gonna be M, so that’s a possibility. There was a quick shot of Bond watching M run up the stairs to get the hell out of Dodge before he proceeded to go after Mitchell.
I didn’t notice M running upstairs at all. Mitchell blazed away, people fell in every direction, Mitchell beat feet out of there, and Bond got up and chased him. Damn that choppy editing!
Oh, and my favorite lines:
Bond (offhandedly): “He was a dead end.”
M (pissed): “Bond killed him!”
Nice that someone finally saw through Bond’s lethal double entendres…
Beam: “Yes, sorry for having you wait. Mr. Greene is of no interest whatsoever to the CIA.”
M: “Thank you very much, Mr Beam. hangs up Mr. Greene is of extreme interest to the CIA.” I was actually mildly annoyed that Mister Penny #2 needed that explained to him further.
Reading this thread, I think I’m glad that I was sick the day the workplace went en masse to see the movie, because I get motion sick pretty easily and that sounds like I’d have had to run out after the first 15-20 minutes. 
(I’ve had to leave the theater like that a few times)
I guess I’ll have to console myself with watching Casino Royale at home or wait for QoS to show up on DVD.
When did she take on this role?
Goldeneye
On the contrary! The best thing about LeChiffre, Quantum, and Greene as villains was that they didn’t have any grandiose satellite-swallowing spacecraft or sharks with friggin’ lasers on their heads. While those kinds of things are very entertaining, the plausibility of the villains’ plots in Casino and Quantum made them more chilling. It’s just like the fights. Sure they were confusing, but they were exciting because they captured the real thing.
Incidentally, I couldn’t place Mathieu Amalric until after I got home and looked him up. I actually ended up confusing him with Brad Dourif because of…
…how well he played crazy when he went after Bond with the fire axe at the end.
Yet I had forgotten Brad Dourif would be a bit older than Mathieu Amalric.:smack:
How’d they get away with the beaver shot in a PG-13 movie? I thought it counldn’t have been what it looked like until I read this thread.
It was a decent action spy flick. Except for the Bond girls, it didn’t really seem like a Bond flick. There weren’t even any gadgets!
The plot was a little confusing. I mean, I understood the basic plot of the overall movie, but I didn’t remember Casino Royale well enough to get all of the references to it.
What do you expect from someone with a license to kill?
I thought Mathieu Amalric looked kind of like Roman Polanski if he were imitating Peter Lorre.
A kicense to kill isn’t a mandate to kill. Those are even harder to get.
No gadgets? What about the one that he had which used a spring and a set of gears to make a hammer strike a pin to ignite the primer in a bullet, propelling it through a rifled barrel to impale an enemy? He used that one a LOT. 
Same here. I thought I saw her get shot, but then she reappeared none the worse for wear a short time later, so I figured I’d been mistaken. Never saw her running.
Just got back from seeing it. Worst Bond flick ever. Incomprehensible plot, and boring as hell.
Why put the gunbarrel sequence at the end? What was the point of it?
Starting in the middle of a car chase made it hard to fathom what was happening. Oh, I knew it was Mr White’s boys chasing him, but who was who?Was that big lorry trying to run him down, or was it just an innocent bvystander, or what? Same thing throughout the film.
The villains plot left me thinking “so what?” Usually bond villains actually do something villainous. They actually try to murder hundreds or millions of innocent people. Stockpile gold, then blow up Fort Knox. Stockpile microchips, then blow up silicon Valley. Set up an oil supply line, then blow up your competitors supply line. Here the plot seems to be: legally acquire the land with the water sources, then legally exploit the resources on your own land. Charge double the old price for water. That makes him a nasty businessman, bur is it actually illegal?
What does the title even mean? If they wanted to use the title from such an obscure story, then they should have either used it in the original sense of a minuscule bit of comfort, or else have a villain called “Quantum” working for an organization called “Solace.”
So, after Mr White and Mr Greene, will the next villain be called Mr Braun?
I actually fell asleep in the middle, about where he met Fields. I woke up in time to see the Goldfinger tribute, but I missed the omage to my state mascot.
What is your State mascot?
One more plot hole, which I don’t remember anyone mentioning (but if I missed it, I apologize): Quantum was able to buy up the aquifer because everyone knew that the land was largely worthless, because it had been explored and prodded by the requisite experts (geologists or petroleum engineers or such) and they concluded it had no oil (or, presumably, natural gas, which IRL Bolivia has a lot of). Yet these scientists somehow managed to completely miss the huge honkin’ aquifer – really, an open subterranean lake; I’d be surprised if it didn’t have tidal waves – sitting just below the surface. In a huge system of caverns.
Um, yeah, whatever.
Really don’t think the spoiler box is needed at this point, so I’m disregarding it.
The gunbarrel extro bugged me too. Really shoulda been in the beginning before the credits or the teaser.
While purchasing the land may have been legal, using dynamite to covertly dam up the water into secret underground resivoirs likely was not, making the contract itself questionable.
My interpretation of “Quantum of Solace” was that Bond is out to get the guys who he feels are responsible for Vesper’s death. He knows it can’t possibly bring him much Solace, but it might bring him a little. And of course, Quantums are very little.
Also, though I don’t think they’ve hit on it yet in the movies themselves, Quantum is the name of this iteration of SMERSH/Spectre/Cobra. In QoS, you briefly see Q lapel pins in the grab bag Bond gets from the guy in the men’s room, and you see Greene wearing them a couple of times too.
Oh, and my room mate and I are holding out for a Mr. Peach 
Hah, what if the main guy turns out to be named Gold? We’ve had Goldfinger, The Man With the Golden Gun, and Goldeneye, we could use another Gold title.
There was something showing the aquifer had formed from being dammed up. Presumably when the other experts did their study, it had not been dammed up yet. Bond tripped over something and made a remark about it. Something like that.
They usually contract it out to La Feme Nikita.