Continuing the tour of 2008, Quantum of Solace; let's learn who this James Bond guy is! 🕙⚛️🇸🇧

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Hi, I'm Hervey, and I'll be commenting; I hope I enjoy this more than the first two in the 2008 tour #qos21

Hi, I'm Alan, and I'll be commenting. I have fond memories and high hopes with regard to 2008's Quantum of Solace. #qos21

I've never seen it #qos21

The menu screen is nicely minimalist. #qos21

We were debugging some twitter API technical issues, finally starting the film #qos21

This is a really omnious Columbia opening screen #qos21

Opening car chase! Love it. #qos21

Driving looks dangerous, don't recommend it #qos21

Unrealistic level of Aston Martin off-roading competence, but I'm here for it. #qos21

I like that we entered a quarry, or an archaeological site or something

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I feel like 2008 was peak "film an action scene by rapidly cutting at close proximity, so you can't really can't track what's happening"; let's see if that happens here #qos21

Beautiful opening sequence shot inside the United Continental logo. #qos21

Opening credits, I like how Judi Dench's credit pops up at the exact same moment as the mostly-nude sexy sphinx lady pops out of the sand; makes it look like that's her character #qos21

Bond dipping into some nice whiskey neat in a rocks glass. #BondDrinks #qos21

James Bond is drinking on the job and stealing photos, don't trust this guy #qos21

If I were the mole in MI6, I would have first sucker-shot either Bond or M instead of the unnamed, unimportant other agent #qos21

Maybe MI6 mole is a triple agent. #qos21

Balconies and buses saving Bond's life; imagine how helpless he'd be in a world of large suburban setbacks #qos21

Gotta start the movie off strong with 15 minutes of action sequences to get people invested in the characters. #qos21

We're now in London; we've apparently learned this from seeing "London" etched into asphalt

Seems useful #qos21

Good walk-and-talks in MI6 HQ. Love it. #qos21

This smart-desk has incredible currency integration #qos21

Bond has entered a run-down Haitian hotel, with outdoor typography of a trendy late-aughts style #qos21

Another action sequence #qos21

"I don't have any friends." #ClassicBondQuotes #qos21

For a guy who's constantly being assaulted by strangers, Bond is also very trusting; all it takes to get him to enter your car is to demand "Get in" #qos21

I can't really track anything here, but it's pretty great; it's a version of our world in which literally everybody is randomly murdering everybody at all times #qos21

You should use a cool portable Sony Vaio portable monitor to better keep track of Bond's antics. #MI6ProTips #qos21

If this woman had just properly booby-trapped the passenger seat of her car, she could have very easily killed James Bond #qos21

Universal Exports is such a great shell company. #qos21

I can't really understand anything that's happening, it's not helping that I can only understand 40% of what's being said through all the various accents #qos21

Damn, a coup in Bolivia, hard to believe anything so far-fetched #qos21

Motorcycle -> fishing boat -> motor boat. Bond always finds a way. #qos21

That's what I call multi-modal mobility #qos21

These inflatable boats are no match for a nice wooden boat. #qos21

Is there a story occurring? Feels more like a tech demo than anything

I'm not complaining, keeping antic nonsense going at a constant rate is a pretty good basis for a movie #qos21

The important thing to understand about this movie is not the story of this movie. #qos21

This Greene guy (villain) is buying up land

I knew it, another georgist parable #qos21

America making a smashing entrance into the world of the film. #qos21

America's national interests are the world's interests; after all, we can't have "some marxist giving natural resources to its peoples" #qos21

I love how we're seeing the *sleekest*, most *elegant* flip phone being thrown around #qos21

A performance of Puccini's Tosca! #qos21

I hope Bond refrains some killing too many people, so as to allow people to enjoy this performance #qos21 #bravo

Yesssss Bond is jacked into EvilNet. He can hear everything. #qos21

I'm somewhat baffled by this staging of Tosca; "gigantic tilting blue circle" doesn't really match my mental image of its setting #qos21

Also, him noticing the special bag, stealing it, and assuming their identity is the most HITMAN thing. Love it. #qos21

Incredible resolution on this smartphone camera. #qos21

Tosca is about eyeballs #qos21

M is such a micro-manager, she's chewing out Bond for every little thing he does #qos21

Quantum of Solace is completely baffling except for all the georgist/American imperialism stuff; outside of this, it's essentially a big music video in which Bond slaughters many dozens of people #qos21

Can we appreciate what an absolutely massive showing of Tosca that was? #qos21

Bond's private jet card got cut off. It's all up to him and his wily charm from here on out. #qos21

White wine in Italy. #BondDrinks #qos21

Possibly Spain. #PossibleSpain #qos21

This movie really demands that you recognize characters and storylines from "Casino Royale"; really straining to remember these people from my screening 15 years ago #qos21

The Virgin Atlantic airplane bar! So well-stocked. 6x Vespers. #BondDrinks #qos21

Drinking six Vespers sounds like absolute hell. I can barely drink one without feeling terrible. #qos21

This jet seems really luxurious and wasteful, but if MI6 prevents the privatization of natural resources, it will more than pay for itself #qos21

Yesssss, Bond goes for the hotel upgrade. #qos21

I thought Daniel Craig was supposed to be a gritter, tougher Bond; don't really get his "I must be pampered" hotel snob side #qos21

Wow, DJ spinning vinyl at the Greene Planet party. #qos21

Bond's new co-worker only has one name #mononame #qos21

Damn, this Greene guy has good, common sense ideas about water reform #qos21

Mathieu Amalric is so good at playing a businessman, just kinda awkwardly hanging his head and having his eyes always bugging out; he'd do really well in Silicon Valley #qos21

I don't think there's any cause for a cop to pull out his gun on a routine traffic stop, just because there's a body in the trunk, this is needless escalation #qos21

I get the impression that we're really supposed to care about Giancarlo Giannini's character; I probably would have had more of an emotional reaction to his death if I remembered who he is #qos21

Bond acquired an airplane from a guy who appears to be a fat Bolivian Indiana Jones #qos21

Bond is well on his way to commandeering at least one of each type of transportation method. #BringOnTheTrain #TrainIsNextUp #qos21

Action sequence #qos21

Damn, close call #qos21

Beautiful action sequence. It did what it had to in order to move the plot along and nothing more. #qos21

All these action sequences are difficult to follow, incoherently edited, and have absolutely no stakes... but they're still pretty pleasant; just zone out and watch planes go around for a while #qos21

Bond the amateur geologist. #qos21

I'm learning so much about hydrology #qos21

The magic of film is letting us see two Bonds and two Camilles on screen at the same time, it's remarkable #qos21

Bond is just misunderstood. #LetBondBeBond #qos21

There was an oil spill, localized entirely to James Bond's hotel room bed; damn #qos21

A low-stakes stunt like Bond hopping over a railing and balancing on the edge of an atrium plays so much better than a big, intricate fight sequence #qos21

Cervecita de Bond. #BondDrinks #qos21

Beautiful monitor lizard, hope to see more of this guy #qos21

Perla de las Dunas. My favorite eco-resort. #qos21

The Pearl of the Dunes hotel has a strong prison vibe #qos21

This looks like a scene from Dune #qos21

The dollar isn't what it once was. So true. #qos21

Enjoying the stylish neck brace on Dominic's lackie. #qos21

Dominic's goon's haircut takes me back to 2008, when everybody had weird monk-inspired bowl cuts #qos21

Fuel cells, baby! #qos21

I like Bond yelling "you and I have a mutual friend" at a guy at the exact moment he shoots him in the head; he's not going to hear you, dude #qos21

Fuel cell explosions constantly adding some very unnecessarily raised stakes. #qos21

The ventilation system must be remarkable in this hotel, for everybody not to have gotten smoke inhalation by now #qos21

When escaping from a burning/exploding building, it's important to balance the bad explosions with good explosions #qos21

Just hours ago Dominic was on top of the world. How did it all come crumbling down so quickly? #qos21

We got freight rail #qos21

Bond has uncovered the *real* global villains: Canadians #qos21

Bond has left someone alive! #qos21

So was most of this movie Bond getting distracted from his central revenge fantasy, to do a side quest? (helping a woman avenge her father's death)

It helped Bond stop killing everybody, what a story of growth #qos21

Really confusing movie, but not unpleasant #qos21

It's a pleasantly confusing movie. #qos21

I really feel that it checks a lot of boxes for an Earful movie (kinda stupid, chaotic, constantly doing different stuff), but the main problem is that there's way too much Bond mythos, that's not Earful at all #notearful #qos21

It could be more 'of the time' and less 'of the Bond' but it sure would be fun to dissect all the little details, and spend a good amount of time analyzing that Tosca performance. #semiearful #qos21