Quantum of Solace

[Siam_Sam]

@Cat_Fight

Found the gratuitous crotch shot… odd. Is there something I’m missing? Have posted a thread about it.

In that thread, the consensus seems to be that she was wearing panties.

[Bryan_Ekers]

I was wondering what the hydrogen fuel-cell people thought. There was a prominent product placement in the vehicle Bond and Bond-girl drove away in, but the destruction of the hotel made hydrogen look somewhat more hopped-up than TNT.

[Raguleader]

@Bryan_Ekers

I was wondering what the hydrogen fuel-cell people thought. There was a prominent product placement in the vehicle Bond and Bond-girl drove away in, but the destruction of the hotel made hydrogen look somewhat more hopped-up than TNT.

You know that the possibility that hydrogen fuel cells might explode violently is only going to increase the marketability of it to many Bond fans.

Perfect! I’ll use it to power my basement lair AND the self-destruct device!

[WormTheRed]

@carnivorousplant

I was just amused at “according to me”. It was classy.
I’m a Wagner guy myself.

Well, you do know one has to propagate ones own ideas.

(and my general knowledge of Opera is Zit - it’s just that I’ve played in Tosca that brings it to the top in my mind)

[Elendil_s_Heir]

I’ve never heard Zit. Was that by Puccini?

[carnivorousplant]

@Elendil_s_Heir

I’ve never heard Zit. Was that by Puccini?

Zit is by PDQ Bach. It is about an itinerant camel driver in Bohemia who improbably falls in love with an Inn Keeper’s Heiress, Consuela Holiday Inn.
The lovers are discovered in a tryst at a Motel Six in Buda Pest by her Nanny, and declare a suicide pact in three-four time including the haunting aria, “Stab Me First, Then I’ll Stab You…Wait a Minute.”

[Elendil_s_Heir]

@carnivorousplant

Zit is by PDQ Bach. It is about an itinerant camel driver in Bohemia who improbably falls in love with an Inn Keeper’s Heiress, Consuela Holiday Inn.
The lovers are discovered in a tryst at a Motel Six in Buda Pest by her Nanny, and declare a suicide pact in three-four time including the haunting aria, “Stab Me First, Then I’ll Stab You…Wait a Minute.”

:: sniff ::

It sounds… wonderful.

:: blows nose ::

[carnivorousplant]

How the hell did I hijack…Oh, yeah. Would’ve been a lot funnier if she were named Budapest Holiday Inn. Dammit.

[mlees]

@The Scrivener

(Bond doesn’t do, or receive, oral, let alone anything else)

I don’t know about that…

In From Russia with Love, the Tatiana character (in bed with Bond) is trying to drag some easy flattery out of Bond when she says something along the lines of her mouth being to big, and Bond replies that it is just the right size for him.

In Moonraker, Dr. Goodhead asks Bond take “Take me around the world again.” If I recall correctly, going “around the world” is a euphemism for Oral, Anal, and vaginal all in the same session.

[Peter_Morris]

You also missed the significance of the name “Goodhead”

[Bryan_Ekers]

@The_Scrivener

Bond doesn’t do, or receive, oral, let alone anything else

He is, however, a cunning linguist.

[Raguleader]

@Peter_Morris

You also missed the significance of the name “Goodhead”

Nah, that just means she’s smart

[Weirddave]

@lawoot

One scene that could have done with LESS action:

M has Bond removed after the death of Fields, they take his gun and gadgets, then gets he into the elevator with two (three? don’t remember) others. He then takes out the others, and gets their guns from them. Door opens, he steps out and kicks the leg of one of them back in the elevator so the door would shut. I think it would have been more in the spirit of Bond if we see the doors shut, and then cut IMMEDIATELY to the scene where he walks out of the elevator and kicks the guy’s leg back in.

I just saw the movie and was going to post this. Bond gets into the elevator with 4 guards, doors close, cut, doors open, Bond calmly walks out alone. It would have been perfect.

[The_Scrivener]

@mlees

I don’t know about that…

In From Russia with Love, the Tatiana character (in bed with Bond) is trying to drag some easy flattery out of Bond when she says something along the lines of her mouth being to big, and Bond replies that it is just the right size for him.

…Bond said, as he was lowering his lips to meet hers. Liplock ensued.

@mlees

In Moonraker, Dr. Goodhead asks Bond take “Take me around the world again.” If I recall correctly, going “around the world” is a euphemism for Oral, Anal, and vaginal all in the same session.

Also contextually explained innocently enough; making love for an hour would take you around the earth again. Any kinkier explanations are merely propaganda by the KGB, SMERSH, or SPECTRE.

@Peter_Morris

You also missed the significance of the name “Goodhead”

That’s “*Dr. *Goodhead” to you, Mister…?

[The_Scrivener]

@Weirddave

I just saw the movie and was going to post this. Bond gets into the elevator with 4 guards, doors close, cut, doors open, Bond calmly walks out alone. It would have been perfect.

Naw, that would’ve been decried by us fanboys and -girls as a big cheat. I enjoy the OTT stunts like ski/parachuting off of Mt. Asgaard, hurling oneself over a cliff to catch up with a plane going down, and leaping from one construction crane arm to another, but that’s not the kind of audience-identifiable action that convincingly sells Bond as an agent/assassin who’s willing to get his hands dirty. Killing/disabling another assassin in a kitchen in improvised hand-to-hand combat (with some kitchen implements), or within the tight confines of an elevator with no weapons, does.

Any one of us could press a red button that makes things go “boom”; it takes someone with skills and ruthlessness to prevail with no vehicles, weapons or gadgets whatsoever.