Suantum of Quolace? Something of Boris?

[cleolinda]

Just got back this red hot second from Quantum of Solace. Can't talk now. Still trying to figure out what the hell happened through most of it ("I have a suitcase? Do you want it? Make me an offer? I'm a geologist? I'm not a geologist? Was I supposed to kill you? Are you going to kill me? Who's that guy? Why hasn't he killed you yet? Look, whatever, call me. \m/ "). Will discuss later.

(Also, we got every trailer in the world EXCEPT Watchmen. *shakes fist at sky*)

Hey, polls are fun! Why don't y'all play with one that I wrote before I left while I go figure out what the hell Quantum of Solace was about, other than "My vengeful manpain, let me show you it it's pretty hot, I think you'll like it"? Let me give you a little background on each question first, though:

1) Quantum of Solace made $70 million this weekend ($70,000,036, now that we've seen it), a record for a Bond movie. By comparison, The Dark Knight made something like $158 million its first weekend, but keep in mind that they were showing it around the damn clock--I saw it at 9 am that Saturday--and also, it was the summer. And the economy hadn't completely tanked yet. (ETA: Take the Dark Knight number as "money that Twilight could not possibly make." So we have "really really good for a November weekend" and "no way in hell," those are the numbers I'm giving you.)

(As a side note, a Twilight/Robert Pattinson feature ran in the A&E supplement of our Sunday paper this morning. The title? "The dark knight." I SEE WHAT YOU DID THERE.)

2) There's a premiere in LA tomorrow. Apparently they'll be handing out fan wristbands (oh God) at noon, but I'm unclear on when the movie actually starts. And the wristbands may be just for people to stand next to the red carpet and scream. Regardless of who actually is sitting in that theater when the movie runs, even if it's just industry types, I think there is a certain eventuality we can definitely count on.

Remember: place your bets realistically. E-cookies and bragging rights are at stake here.

[Poll #1298650]

Comments

[orangeaide.livejournal.com]

The Twi cast needs the Pope-mobile stat.

[madelrocio7.livejournal.com]

LMAO! Sad, cuz it's true.

[elizardbits.livejournal.com]

OH YAY just in time for True Blood!

[lalumena.livejournal.com]

I truly have no idea how much money it will make because I'm no good at that sort of estimating! But I definitely wouldn't be surprised if it made a packet. Especially if fans go to see it several times.

I CANNOT WAIT TO SEE THE SPARKLE. I am going to have to hunt down my sparkle eyeshadow, aren't I?

[vampychick.livejournal.com]

I understood the movie, but I think it was trying to give me motion sickness. But it was okay because every now and then there would be a shot that reminded me that yes, Daniel Craig's eyes really are that blue, and all was right with the world again.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I understood the overall storyline. I just had a hard time following why we were doing this or that particular thing at that particular moment. Although I laughed really hard as "We are teachers on sabbatical who just won the lottery."

[worldforawhile.livejournal.com]

I am feeling some sweetly embarrassing nostalgia right now, because the Twilight premiere theater is EXACTLY where I camped out with friends for the Interview With A Vampire fourteen years ago, after desperately trying (and failing) to win tickets through a radio station all weekend. It was right about this time of year, too.

And somehow, even with the Anne Rice, the Tom Cruise, the Brad Pitt playing a sad sack character with EXTRA ADDED sad sackitude, I feel like my crazed teenage vampire period had a lot more authenticity and a lot less TMI creepiness than this latter era.

Which is my story, and I am sticking to it.

(They gave out numbered t-shirts for your spot in line, and I still have mine.)

[loony-moony.livejournal.com]

Aw, IwaV. Such a fabulous fest of pretty, gory and angst. That movie was so much fun to watch. It still is. I doubt Twilight will be the same.

[odontomachus.livejournal.com]

Quantum made a hell of a lot more sense the second time through, I found.

[graydown.livejournal.com]

Quantum of Solace was about explosions and chase scenes. I thought it was also going to be about Shirtless Daniel Craig, but I was mistaken. :(

[metonymy.livejournal.com]

WAIT. There was no shirtlessness in this one? Now I'm not sure I want to go at all. :(

[mmaresca.livejournal.com]

I'm kind of praying for a total bombing. Frankly, the trailers look breathtakingly stupid to me. BREATHTAKINGLY. I know there are rabid fangirls, but I'm kind of hoping there's them, and there's the rest of the world who thinks it looks dumb, and it does very, very poorly. Very. Please, if there's a god.

[poppingummies.livejournal.com]

This would be hilarious.

However not only do we have the Twihards, but also the lulseekers. And the Twihards who see it multiple times.
And their parents.

[particle-person.livejournal.com]

Quantum of Solace was about revenge? Or something?

[emeryboard.livejournal.com]

I fully intend to go and see it with two friends so we can spork it on our journals and laff at the PHAIL.

On another note, I now love Robert Pattinson for his lack of mouth-to-brain communication. If only my own slip-ups where this hilarious.

[dhaunea.livejournal.com]

The Twilight trailers thus far have been horrendous and I can only guess that they've been carefully edited to show special parts of the book to appeal to people who are already fans. At least, I hope that's the reason. Otherwise, it just looks like a really terrible job.

[word-herder.livejournal.com]

I picked 5 minutes because we live in the age of the iPhone.

Also, you weren't supposed to look THAT closely at the plot. I just said it had a plot, not that it was an airtight Agatha Christie plot. And it was fun, yes? It will be good for m15m someday, perhaps?

[kitsune17.livejournal.com]

Realistically? It takes a little time to upload a video to YouTube. I'm not sure if it can actually be done via cellphone yet. So, adding in time for getting home, uploading to the computer, and then uploading to the internets...I'm putting my money on an hour after.

[sabra-n.livejournal.com]

Unless the whole movie leaks before the release date.

[belldandy100.livejournal.com]

I'm with you on the WTF plot of Quantum of Solace. Daniel Craig looks mighty fine in those suits - that was worth at least half of my 10.50, the fight and chase scenes make up the other half.

[vampychick.livejournal.com]

As long as Daniel Craig continues to look like that in those suits, the Bond franchise will have my money, guaranteed.

[mercat.livejournal.com]

Yeah, Quantum of Solace was kind of hard to follow (I'm still not sure what comment of M's Bond was referring to at the end), but there was an interview with...er... the writers or the cast, I don't remember which, discussing Bond. And apparently he isn't out for revenge, he's just out to figure out what's going on because now he's kind of lost between Vesper and MI6, and whats-her-face-out-for-revenge-on-General is the foil in that she's actually out for revenge. And in the end it turns out that Bond really figures out his place in MI6 and keeps the guy he was out to kill alive, and apparently he was not out for revenge the whole time he's just... vicious in interrogation. Or something.


...I need to go see it again though, barring the idea that I will have a weird Greene-induced semi-nightmare-chase again.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

I think the statement he was referring to was "Vesper really loved you." I mean, I'm not sure, but I think that's what it was.

[tabbyclaw.livejournal.com]

Aww, no SPARKLY TICKY BOX option?

[silamai.livejournal.com]

I'm actually sort of behind the mindset of "The people who are going to see it only for the lulz are part of the reason why this movie will be successful." I mean I get that we want to mock the shit out of this movie but that's what waiting for the bootlegs to come online are for. You know someone will be in there with a video camera. That way you don't have to give money to the company or to Smeyer. :/

[viorica8957.livejournal.com]

We don't even need to wait for bootlegs. Just buy a ticket to a different movie and go into the Twilight theatre. The people working there don't care so long as you pay for a ticket.

[loony-moony.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure about overall public reaction to the movie, but if the new Bond made $70M in its first weekend (and let's face it, awesome or no awesome, Bond movies are losing audience), then Twilight will definitely cross the $100M line. RPattz is going to be crying like a little girl when he sees the numbers.

[missteddy16.livejournal.com]

Tears of joy at the clout of being a blockbuster leading man, or tears of sorrow at being tethered semi-indefinitely to this monstrosity?

...

Ha. You know who's gonna "cream his pants," as RPattz would say? Taylor Lautner. You can just tell. That little tyke is going to be bouncing off the walls, knowing he gets to claim all the sexy in the sequel.

[nanet.livejournal.com]

So. I just finished Breaking Dawn. After reading all four of the books in about a five day period.

I...may or may not have teared up when Alice came back and I knew everything was going to be alright. Despite the fact that I already know how the book ends and was well aware of the fact that everything was going to be alright. I suck.

But, yes. Wow. That is...that...the books. Goodness me. I don't know what I can say beyond that.

[crackedwraith.livejournal.com]

Dark Knight may not be the best comparison, being the second or first biggest opening ever, but still, it's a good score for a Bond film. I think Craig has rekindled the interest in Bond.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I wasn't trying to say that it was bad compared to that, but I had a feeling people would ask for the number. Like, that was a really crazy good weekend and at a way different time of year. But, you know, that's the far end of the spectrum of possibility.

[mercat.livejournal.com]

Holy crap, so I am reading wiki to try to figure out all the stuff I missed in Quantum of Solace, which now that I am seeing it, is more than I initially thought.

But I did miss this critical piece of evidence that they still want to make it a quote-unquote "Bond Movie": Field's first name is Strawberry.

Good times.

[vampychick.livejournal.com]

I knew, I just knew that had to be her name when she wouldn't tell him. And I was like, "That's refreshing, someone not going, 'My name is Christmas Jones, what do you mean that's not a perfectly ordinary name?'" I was sure there would be some big reveal punchline, though, instead of having to wait 'til the credits.

[scornedsaint.livejournal.com]

I understood Quantum better than Casino Royale as the plot did not involve the stock market and poker (aka, the Two Things I Will Never Understand)

At the end of the movie, my friends and I kind of looked at each other in silence until I said "That man can wear a pair of khakis like none other", to which they all orgasmically responded "YES"

[maisontv.livejournal.com]

O HOLY GOD YES. I looked at my girlfriends and I was like, "Excuse me, I have a date with my vibrator."

Sometimes I wished Roger Moore would come back.

[gabsy.livejournal.com]

The world will implode next weekend. EPIC.

Edit:

I don't think Twilight will make that much next weekend, if only because as rabid as the fangirls are, apart from the Internet, I have seriously heard no one talk about it. Granted, I am not a high-school student anymore, so maybe that's part of the reason, but I still haven't felt like it crossed over into the overall public.

I may be wrong, though.

Re: Sometimes I wished Roger Moore would come back.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

See, I think the Twihards will see it multiple times--I wouldn't put it past them to organize multiple viewings for the sole purpose of driving the box office up. I'm not saying it will necessarily catch on in the mainstream, but I do think they could inflate it past what it might have been otherwise.

On the other hand, the scope of the publicity for this movie has been insane. And I think people in the mainstream are now hearing just enough about it to be intrigued, but not so much that they realize it's ridiculous.

[maisontv.livejournal.com]

Re: Quantum of Solace. The middle act of a three-part play always seems to drag. With Casino Royale crossing over to Quantum, it really seemed to me that they're trying to set this up as a trilogy-long arc. So I honestly don't think I can judge this accurately until Bond 23 is out.

That said.....YAY FOR THE SHOOTING AND THE CHASING (seriously, I think we had a chase scene for every vehicle known to man) AND THE PUNCHING OF PEOPLE IN THE HEAD. And the funny, that was good too.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I figured Quantum was more of a bridge kind of thing. I wasn't expecting it to be as good as Casino Royale. Although--the set up of the building at the end (lots of unstable fuel cells! I bet that won't go wrong at all!) was silly, but visually it was amazing.

[grass-stained.livejournal.com]

Yeah, there was the vengeful manpain (which was really hot, oh my), there was also the "look, eco-friendlyism is a good thing until people corrupt it and then it's a bad thing;" also, Bond writers have decided that since the Cold War is over, they're just going to make terrorism at large the Big Bad; oh, and also, Bond is smoking hot, yes, but he doesn't actually have to nail every girl in a movie in order to feel like a man; and in conclusion, we saved all our explosives money from Casino Royale so we're going to blow it all here (pun intended).

I loved it. I'm going to see it again in a few weeks with my dad (aka, the man who passed down his love of all things Bond to me).

I was torn as to how to answer the Twilight poll. Because I think that it could totally pass $70 million, but it depends on how many fans a) get their parents to advance their allowance so they can have multiple viewings or b) can convince their husbands to go golfing a whole lot so they don't feel guilty dragging the kids to multiple viewings. As for myself, I do plan on seeing it opening weekend, but at the $4 early bird show. :D