Quantum Of Solace - 007

Devinda_Z · November 30, 2008

HelRazor said:
maybe the new bond is a shitty driver..remember he rolled the car in the last flick...i know i know the girl was in the way but the brosnon bond would have jumped over her using hyper boost or nano boost or summin....

i heard that he didn't know how to drive a manual until he got on the set of Casino Royale!

Devinda_Z · November 30, 2008

Pericles said:
Most of the chase was on twisty bits. Where the Alfa pulls alongside the Aston, the road was straight.
I was laughing at you when those cops in the Landy decided to crash tho

i had a feeling someone or another might make the connection!

Devinda_Z · November 30, 2008

Pericles said:
Overall, I'm disappointed in the Daniel Craig version. He spends far too much time chasing people around on foot. Where are the car chases?! For all the hype about the car chase scene, its damn short. Even the boat chase was better. Remember Brosnan chasing a car around in a Tank? No gadgets except for that computer system from Minority Report that everyone is ripping off. And the cellphone. But where are the laser watches and grappling hooks? Of course, it is an early Bond, so his tech can develop. Leaves a large plot hole about the affinity for the DB5, but ... And he keeps getting beaten up. Brosnan would have come out of those fights without a smear on his Tux.
He's just not smooth. That was the essence of it. Gotta be smooth.

i think its safe to say that all of us are missing the gadgets and Brosnan's suave charm & finess!

MasterDon · November 30, 2008

Devinda_Z said:
i think its safe to say that all of us are missing the gadgets and Brosnan's suave charm & finess!

hear hear....as peri said this guy is just not smooth enough....

GTAm · November 30, 2008

Pericles said:
Overall, I'm disappointed in the Daniel Craig version. He spends far too much time chasing people around on foot. Where are the car chases?! For all the hype about the car chase scene, its damn short. Even the boat chase was better. Remember Brosnan chasing a car around in a Tank? No gadgets except for that computer system from Minority Report that everyone is ripping off. And the cellphone. But where are the laser watches and grappling hooks? Of course, it is an early Bond, so his tech can develop. Leaves a large plot hole about the affinity for the DB5, but ... And he keeps getting beaten up. Brosnan would have come out of those fights without a smear on his Tux.
He's just not smooth. That was the essence of it. Gotta be smooth.

Anyone here that Puff Daddy wants to be the next James Bond? Like an African American James Bond?! Why can't these Americans come up with their own super-spy story. Maybe the Felix Leiter chronicles or summin?

I watched Casino Royale on Friday for the 3rd time and I have to say that I think Dani Craig is super. I think it's a sign of the times. He's more masculine, Tough etc. Appeals to the modern audience.

I never liked Brosnan - the image of Remington Steel never left me. And he's extremely poor in Golden Eye, the Z3 doesn't help the cause either.

Of course he improved with time and his best performance was Die Another Day.

Didn't get beaten up Peri?? How about in the North Korean camp in Die Another Day where he came out looking like John Lennon in his Love guru days!?

And c'mon Peri there have been so many Bond's with hardly what you could call a car chase.....

But I'm all for P Diddy as the new Pheelyx Lyter !!

GTAm · November 30, 2008

Devinda_Z said:
couldn't wait till it hit the big screen so watched a decent camera copy, but was rather disappointed with the movie as a whole..
no gadgets worth of mention and Bond doesn't..... i'll not say it n spoil things..

yes the chase was up on some twisty bits...

Why is it that one hardly sees anything other than the usual diet of Evo's & Sti's on the track thesedays?!

must have been quite a sight to see RX's and Legacy RS's!

were these RS's the 1st gen Single turbo's or the 2ng get TT's?

How clear was the dvd Dev? Worth breaking my anxiety?

Good question about the races. I guess it could be the easiest route to power and the 4wd cars require the least skill as well.

Yes it was an awesome site. There was an MR2 as well that came in last! Can't recall all the other cars as we were on the edge the way the Mini kept taking one car per lap and over took the leading Lagacy on the last corner of the last lap. The crowd went bersek as you can imagine! This small odd looking Mini taking on and beating such newer cars!

Ist Gen RS Legacys driven by ######## Weerasinghe and Cassim Wahab. One of the RX 7s were driven by Manapperuma snr if I remember right!

MasterDon · November 30, 2008

GTAm said:
How clear was the dvd Dev? Worth breaking my anxiety?

go to this link & choose a working link(blue) http://www.watch-movies.net/movies/quantum_of_solace/

watch for about 1 minute then decide for yourself...the one in the cd shops is likely to be the same quality.

MasterDon · December 1, 2008

GTAm said:
I think it's a sign of the times. He's more masculine, Tough etc. Appeals to the modern audience.

yeah ..i know what you mean...look at the batman..ne longer the cartoonish character from the 90's is he....and even the joker is a dark character....

btw ledger(RIP) did an awesome job but i still prefer Jack Nicholsons version of the joker

Devinda_Z · December 1, 2008

HelRazor said:
yeah ..i know what you mean...look at the batman..ne longer the cartoonish character from the 90's is he....and even the joker is a dark character....
btw ledger(RIP) did an awesome job but i still prefer Jack Nicholsons version of the joker

the dark night was one of the better films of late - quite gripping for a mass mkt flick

Devinda_Z · December 1, 2008

GTAm said:
Yes it was an awesome site. There was an MR2 as well that came in last! Can't recall all the other cars as we were on the edge the way the Mini kept taking one car per lap and over took the leading Lagacy on the last corner of the last lap. The crowd went bersek as you can imagine! This small odd looking Mini taking on and beating such newer cars!
Ist Gen RS Legacys driven by ######## Weerasinghe and Cassim Wahab. One of the RX 7s were driven by Manapperuma snr if I remember right!

i think i may have stumbled onto one of those 2 cars - currently lying in a very sorry state in a well known garage on the road which connects the Kotte - Hokandara junctions..

Devinda_Z · December 1, 2008

GTAm said:
Didn't get beaten up Peri?? How about in the North Korean camp in Die Another Day where he came out looking like John Lennon in his Love guru days!?

LMAO!

but even then he cleaned up real good in but a jiffy!

Devinda_Z · December 1, 2008

GTAm said:
I watched Casino Royale on Friday for the 3rd time and I have to say that I think Dani Craig is super. I think it's a sign of the times. He's more masculine, Tough etc. Appeals to the modern audience.

i prefer the good ole days when it comes to most things so i'm not quite for it, even though, as tough guy , Craig is good - and its not something Brosnan would have been able to pull off even if his life depended on it!

Devinda_Z · December 1, 2008

GTAm said:
the image of Remington Steel never left me. And he's extremely poor in Golden Eye, the Z3 doesn't help the cause either.

enjoyed that, so that in itself explains my allegiance to Brosnan!

but i'll conceed the Z3 point!

Pericles · December 1, 2008

GTAm said:
I watched Casino Royale on Friday for the 3rd time and I have to say that I think Dani Craig is super. I think it's a sign of the times. He's more masculine, Tough etc. Appeals to the modern audience.
I never liked Brosnan - the image of Remington Steel never left me. And he's extremely poor in Golden Eye, the Z3 doesn't help the cause either.

Of course he improved with time and his best performance was Die Another Day.

Didn't get beaten up Peri?? How about in the North Korean camp in Die Another Day where he came out looking like John Lennon in his Love guru days!?

And c'mon Peri there have been so many Bond's with hardly what you could call a car chase.....

But I'm all for P Diddy as the new Pheelyx Lyter !!

Well, your right in the cars early cars for Brosnan being a bit of a gripe. But I did like Remington Steele too, so that English personna was ok for me.

And he didn't come out of the Korean camp looking beat up, he just came out like a Hippe. Craig spends half the movie running around all cut up and bloody.

And to be honest I haven't watched them all, so I can't remember if all had car chases. But if there are gonna be car chases, it should be better than the ones in the last two. Casino Royale lasted barely a minute, after all the hype about the DBS being the new Bond car, and this one didn't really make up for it. I dunno, maybe its a budget thing. Cheaper to film him running after blokes on foot than filming car chases. Besides, Ford probably didn't like other brands getting any face time. I swear he drives that Ford SUV more than the Aston in Quantum.

Devinda_Z · December 1, 2008

Pericles said:
I swear he drives that Ford SUV more than the Aston in Quantum.

the Range Rover Sport you mean

Devinda_Z · December 1, 2008

Pericles said:
But I did like Remington Steele too, so that English personna was ok for me.

great minds Peri!

Pericles · December 1, 2008

Devinda_Z said:
the Range Rover Sport you mean

That too, but I was talking of that black ford. The Escape? I dunno what it is actually.

Edit: Apparently, its the Ford Edge.

Edited December 1, 2008 by Pericles

GTAm · December 1, 2008

Oh yes agreed the chase in Casino Royale was a joke. And what's really annoying is how FoMoCo scatters their products as if there are no other cars in the world. Its way to obvious. So annoying - went OTT in Die another Day and then vcontinued in Casino Royale as well. And now you tell me about the Ford Edge

Not sure that budgets could be a problem as they crashed 12 DBS in Quantum!!!!

In Quantum the chick was to drive a Fiat Panda initially, but Ford bulldozed it out and put the Ka in instead. But getting the 159s is a better compromise I'm sure

But Brosnan did get tortured like crazy in Die Another day...... where they used scorpions wasn't it?

Yes Dani Craig is a bit hard to get used to with all that blood. And lacks the sauve Britishness, he's more football hooligan than SPY. But perhaps more realistic and what most people want to see. After all Sean Connery's given him a thumbs up! Maybe it's marketing.

For me though Dalton was the best. Cold, Very British, A bit mysterious, tougher than Brosnan, cooler than Craig, Funnier than Connery but not the comedian that Moore was! But there you have it. Many critics rate him as the best but I don't think Joe Public in the US and Asia really gelled with him. They want Craig bleeding every minute and running like a train.

Devinda_Z · December 2, 2008

GTAm said:
Oh yes agreed the chase in Casino Royale was a joke. And what's really annoying is how FoMoCo scatters their products as if there are no other cars in the world. Its way to obvious. So annoying - went OTT in Die another Day and then vcontinued in Casino Royale as well. And now you tell me about the Ford Edge

don't forget the car park full of Jags' LR's & Blue ovals in Casino Royale

which ever way i'm not complaining seeing as the Defender has made back to back appearences! (but the Casino Royale one was faaar more glam eh Peri? )

http://www.imcdb.org/ is well worth a look at

Devinda_Z · December 2, 2008

GTAm said:
After all Sean Connery's given him a thumbs up! Maybe it's marketing.

more than likely!

Devinda_Z · December 2, 2008

GTAm said:
They want Craig bleeding every minute and running like a train.

isn't that what they have Rambo , Comando , Random marines & not forgetting good ole Bruce Willis for??

Pericles · December 3, 2008

Devinda_Z said:
don't forget the car park full of Jags' LR's & Blue ovals in Casino Royale
which ever way i'm not complaining seeing as the Defender has made back to back appearences! (but the Casino Royale one was faaar more glam eh Peri? )

http://www.imcdb.org/ is well worth a look at

Bond drove to the Hotel in a Mondeo in that...

Devinda_Z · December 3, 2008

Pericles said:
Bond drove to the Hotel in a Mondeo in that...

served as a global premier of sorts for the new model

Devinda_Z · February 17, 2009

Devinda_Z said:
Bonhams to Offer 007's Lotus, With Photo Op

London, UK (November 4, 2008) -- With the global release of the new movie Quantum of Solace putting Ian Fleming’s legendary British secret agent James Bond firmly back in the public eye, Bonhams is delighted to announce that it has one of 007’s classic sports cars for sale.

The white 1976 Lotus Esprit from the 1977 film "The Spy Who Loved Me," starring Roger Moore and Barbara Bach, is expected to fetch $160,000-$190,000 when it is sold in London next month.

The vehicle is one of two Lotus cars driven in the film by Roger Moore’s James Bond character. It turns into an amphibious car for the movie, driven both on land and underwater.

For one day only, on November 13, from 10 am to 12 pm, at the company's New Bond Street location, Bonhams will the present the Lotus for press preview along with Bond girls in New Bond Street. Motoring specialists will be available for interview, too.

Source : http://www.sportscarmarket.com/articles/archives/1691