Quantum of Solace première this Friday night

[tmhazen]

Hey Guys,

I’m getting a group together to see the première of the new Bond film this Friday night, Nov 14th at the Rosedale AMC in Roseville. The film starts at 7:30 but we should get there early because it'll be packed. I ordered five tickets online and will give them to the first four friends who show up at Rosedale with $10 cash. We will meet starting at 6pm at Granite City Brewery (Mapquest: 851 Rosedale Center, Roseville, MN) Then we'll get in line by 6:45 at the latest to grab good seats.

It should be noted that several beautiful Aston Martin DBS V12 automobiles were totally destroyed during the making of this film. They sacrificed their mechanical lives for cinematic beauty. We will have a moment of silence before the screening to honor their memory. <cry>

Post up if you'll be joining us!

[914 Dave]

Bit of a drive for me, so I'll just watch it in Rice Lake at 7:30.

[shane86]

Sorry Grandpa...
a me and a bunch of my whippersnapper friends are going to see it midnight thursday.

I'll be sure to swing by here and post the ending.

[stoooo]

I'll be sure to swing by here and post the ending.

Hmmm, let me gaze into my crystal ball... the mist is lifting... all is becoming clearer... Bond kills the bad guys with some sort of spectacular explosion after an awesome (if a little improbable) car chase and then beds the hot foreign chick before M calls him up for his next mission, inadvertently catching him "on the job".

Stuart "The first Bond movie *I* saw in the cinema was The Spy Who Loved Me when it first came out" P.

[Eric42]

Hmmm, let me gaze into my crystal ball... the mist is lifting... all is becoming clearer... Bond kills the bad guys with some sort of spectacular explosion after an awesome (if a little improbable) car chase and then beds the hot foreign chick before M calls him up for his next mission, inadvertently catching him "on the job".

Stuart "The first Bond movie *I* saw in the cinema was The Spy Who Loved Me when it first came out" P.


Is that Bond plot 1A or 1B? I always keep forgetting which is which.

Eric

[tmhazen]

Sorry Grandpa...
a me and a bunch of my whippersnapper friends are going to see it midnight thursday.

Listen here Sonny Boy, I could easily make the midnight show. Why just last night I was up till 2am "completing the mission" with my latest "Bond girl" (Viagra is a wonderful thing) and still managed to clean my dentures, change my Depends, and get to the office at 7:45 this morning thanks to my walker with the little-bitty snow tires on it.

I just thought the classic drinks-and-a-movie event at a more reasonable hour would have a better chance of attracting a larger group of friends on a weeknight.

You kids have fun, and if you're going to the AMC in Rosedale, please use your sippy cups so you don't spill your Kool-Aid on the seats. ;o)

[MNBubba]

Listen here Sonny Boy, I could easily make the midnight show. Why just last night I was up till 2am "completing the mission" with my latest "Bond girl" (Viagra is a wonderful thing) and still managed to clean my dentures, change my Depends, and get to the office at 7:45 this morning thanks to my walker with the little-bitty snow tires on it.

I just thought the classic drinks-and-a-movie event at a more reasonable hour would have a better chance of attracting a larger group of friends on a weeknight.

You kids have fun, and if you're going to the AMC in Rosedale, please use your sippy cups so you don't spill your Kool-Aid on the seats. ;o)

No trash talk on this board, I see...:lol:

[shane86]

Listen here Sonny Boy, I could easily make the midnight show. Why just last night I was up till 2am "completing the mission" with my latest "Bond girl" (Viagra is a wonderful thing) and still managed to clean my dentures, change my Depends, and get to the office at 7:45 this morning thanks to my walker with the little-bitty snow tires on it.

I just thought the classic drinks-and-a-movie event at a more reasonable hour would have a better chance of attracting a larger group of friends on a weeknight.

You kids have fun, and if you're going to the AMC in Rosedale, please use your sippy cups so you don't spill your Kool-Aid on the seats. ;o)

Well tom,
i'm glad that modern science can help "keep you up" late into the night...

but, i do enjoy the drinks and a movie format, but ensure just doesn't do it for me. i tend to prefer a good beer and perhaps a little well aged scotch.

my group has decided to go further south, opting for Southdale's AMC. $5 to see it thursday night, and knowing that I'd only have to deal with spilled kool-aid and not the spilled contents of your group's depends.

:D

[914 Dave]

Is that Bond plot 1A or 1B? I always keep forgetting which is which.

Eric

So????????? Was it 1A or 1B? Wait, don't tell me, I'm going to see it tonight. Rice Lake did not have the 12:01 thursday-technically-friday-early a/m option.

[shane86]

Bond Dies.
Shot in the head.
Very sad.

[SmokingTires]

Bond Dies.
Shot in the head.
Very sad.

Bond should have never been blonde. The light colored hair makes his head easy to pick out. Although Bond seems to have thinning hair. Maybe at his advantage :D

[SmokingTires]

"Well Bond was in Africa, he cought a rare form of VD from one of his mystresses. While in treatment, we descoved Bond is allergic to penacilin... Ooops..."



Wish I could be there Tom. Working all night tonight. Have fun!
-Mike

[tmhazen]

Okay a few of us will be at Granite City in Rosedale by 6pm tonight. Look for the Quantum of Solace movie poster (small version) at our table.

[SaturnRaycer]

Quantum of Solace"... for a minute I thought it was a movie about Pontiac's new all-wheel drive sportscar until I realized it was 'solace' not 'Solstice' ...:lol:

[phile]

Bond should have never been blonde.

You never saw James Blonde (Danny Kaye).

"How did you know that James Blonde was back in town?"
"All the ladies are carrying bakery numbers."

[914 Dave]

Bond Dies.
Shot in the head.
Very sad.

Great movie, except for: 1) the two hot chicks that got there later than we did, crossed in front of me, and distracted me from the opening car bit, and: 2) as we got there late, seating was limited, and we ended up with Lurch sitting in front of us- Nancy had to lean left, I had to lean right to see around him, and finally: 3) Shane was right about the plot. Shame about it all really. Wonder how they'll bring him back for the next movie.

[shane86]

Lol... more perks to going to the midnight showing...
as we were walking out of the theater, a film crew was there, grabbing people and asking if they can do an interview, you know, reaction to the movie.

So they interivewed me, and asked a few questions and said it would be on reelz (cable network) tonight.


Flipped on the tv tonight, and 2 min into the show, there's the interview segment, and there's me and one of the guys i went to the movie with! :rockon

Here's the segment from the show:
http://www.reelzchannel.com/trailer-clips/37462/first-fans-quantum-of-solace

[Tunie]

Lol... more perks to going to the midnight showing...
as we were walking out of the theater, a film crew was there, grabbing people and asking if they can do an interview, you know, reaction to the movie.


My answers would have been a little different.

"I wish the subtitles during the Spanish-speaking dialogue would have been in English so I would have had a hope in Hell of following the plot."

"More of Daniel Craig's naked bottom wouldn't have gone amiss."

"I wish that they hadn't edited the movie at the theater to make sure that all three movies showing in that wing didn't end within a minute of each other. I suspect the plot may have suffered as a result."

"At least people put their cigarettes out before they sat down. It was a little hard to breathe in the lobby."

"The peanut m&ms are divine. European chocolate. Yummity-yum-yum."

"Beer at a cinema? Really?"

Stoooo: "Our car is in that parking lot."
Me: "You mean that gravel mound where there are about 20 feral cats?"
Stoooo: "It's not that bad."
Me: "Could anything but a SUV park there?"
Stoooo: "Well, no."
Me: "Hardly a parking lot, then."
Stoooo: "Abandoned lot, parking lot... it's all the same."

"The Pizza Hut run afterward was interesting, but good. Haloumi and Lountza pizza. My new favorite!"

I enjoyed the movie, as did Stuart, but I think we'll need to watch it again at home. I'm trying to talk Stuart into getting a full-sized movie theatre as a tax write-off, but he says we need to make enough money to actually want a write-off first...

Speak of the devil. I just felt his Subaru park underneath me (I have headphones on, but I know it's him by the way the floor shakes.) Better go help the boys out of their uniforms.

--Trish

[EWAustin]

<snip>I just felt his Subaru park underneath me (I have headphones on, but I know it's him by the way the floor shakes.)<snip>

Fantastic! :D

[914 Dave]

Speak of the devil. I just felt his Subaru park underneath me (I have headphones on, but I know it's him by the way the floor shakes.) Better go help the boys out of their uniforms.

--Trish

I suspect a good subie shop could fix that car thing so the floor doesn't shake so much.

[Tunie]

I suspect a good subie shop could fix that car thing so the floor doesn't shake so much.

Well, yes, if you mean make it into a weenie old lady commuter car, but then it would make Stuart into a very sad panda. :(

I suspect that you cannot imagine how much sound travels through cement buildings, or how much it echoes with marble everywhere. Nothing seems to absorb the sound, and people here tune it out, or pretend to tune it out.

I can hear conversations at the curb when I'm in my bedroom. Now insert 3 more bedrooms, 4 bathrooms, a kitchen, a living room, and an entryway in between me and the curb. It is strange to live so close together. Sometimes I'd swear that conversations are actually taking place in the house, and I'm sure my neighbors know what goes on in our house. It is what it is.

I bet the neighbors like Stuart parking below the building more than at the curb. It has a proximity alarm, and you don't actually park at the curb, but rather on the curb, so that only about a foot of the car and 2 of the tires are actually in the street. Then the roads are so narrow that cars must pass within inches of each other, so the alarm went off for about... 8 hours, at least as often as someone drove east on our road. Pedestrians set it off as well. At least it keeps those cats away from the car. I know lots of people with cats getting in soft-topped cars to find a place to sleep. Flea-bitten, mangy rodents. And every time Stuart lets the kids pet the little ******s, I immediately mark X BATHE CHILDREN TONIGHT on our to do list.

Back to the cars. At least it's not another used merc. They're as common as a feral cat. You can't go anywhere without tripping over one.

Tomorrow is Thanksgiving, and although I'm having Stu's parents and some new family friends (the kids go to school with the boys), it seems weird. No-one else is shopping like mad, and trying to get a turkey was trying to find rocking horse poop.

At least I found one cool thing -- these people are serious about their fasting, so the bread shop does quite a line in vegan food. We are not vegans, of course, but both boys are allergic to eggs now, and the older one (Quinn) is also allergic to milk, so most desserts are out. But because there is some fasting pre-Christmas, there is a vegan apple pie that the boys can eat. Sweet!

There a million different funny things that happen here and I hope I'll get to write some of them down soon, but I'll end on what happened today. To shorten what would otherwise be an epic tale, let's pretend that you need 100 pieces of paper, but you only get told about them in lots of 7, and every time you attempt to turn them in to the government, you find out about the next 7, and find out you didn't need at least 2 of the ones you just got.

Today found us at a butcher's shop after 4 trips to other little holes in the wall. We needed a Mukhtar (sp?). What's a mukthar? A butcher with a stamp, I guess. Through broken English, I believe he swore he knew us, knew that we were married, that we lived in his district, and would vouch for us via a special stamp, without actually seeing paperwork to that effect.

But that is one of the nice things here. You have to see a specialist? Okay, show up at his office later that day. No receptionist, no insurance forms, no paperwork of any kind. He says come in, and you tell him about your health and your problem. And here is the really strange part. He listens, and he believes you, and you don't have to show him the foot tall medical file you brought with you to substantiate what you are saying, because... wait for it... wait for it... because you are his patient, and why would you need papers to show him what you've already told him. He does any tests you need (yes, they all seem to have the rubber hammer squirreled in their coats), and if you need further tests, you go to a strange silver building that is kind of what I imagine a small county lock up to be. They take your cash and do the test, though none of it involves any English.

It's kind of freeing, not dealing with the crazy bureaucracy of medical stuff, and the immigration stuff should hopefully be sorted out on Monday. That or I'll be deported. At least Stu and the boys are good to stay here. Uffda.

Time to make supper. Miss you guys and gals.

--Trish

[the tick]

It's kind of freeing, not dealing with the crazy bureaucracy of medical stuff, and the immigration stuff should hopefully be sorted out on Monday. That or I'll be deported. At least Stu and the boys are good to stay here. Uffda.

Time to make supper. Miss you guys and gals.

--Trish

We miss you Guys (and gal) too, and the stories too... Keep 'em coming when you can. And if you do get the boot and need a place to stay... you know our number :D

[G. Jay]

I liked the movie. It is hard to follow as usual but the action was rapid and intense. Not as good as Casino but without the rather slow periods of Casino either. I also like the new rebooted Bond as Craig plays him.

[murph]

I liked it a lot. It was more subtle, and had more emotional tension than in previous bond films. I thought the lack of gadgets was a bummer, but I also feel like in a real world full of gadgets, Bond getting it done a little old-school was also pretty badass.

[Andrew]

I still like the new bond, and I like that they are making his character more interesting. But the evil villain was a let down, not evil enough.

[Darryl]

I agree with Matt and Andrew... Good movie... Looks like he'll be back for another Bond movie...

[stoooo]

Looks like he'll be back for another Bond movie...

I believe he's on a contract for four movies. Rumour is the next one will make a trilogy out of his first two. That would make sense of an ending that was a tad weak in an Empire Strikes Back kind of way.

Yeah, we need badder bad guys again. If only Alan Rickman hadn't already done Die Hard.

Stuart.

[Darryl]

Alan Rickman

Stuart.

Good call... He would be perfect... I like the way the Bond series uses mostly unknown actors... Just need to find another Alan Rickman...

[SalahK]

Quantum was pretty good but definately not up to the incredibly high standards set by Casino...

[stoooo]

Good call... He would be perfect... I like the way the Bond series uses mostly unknown actors... Just need to find another Alan Rickman...

I think either of the bad guys from the recent Robin Hood series would work well.

Richard Armitage...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/nottingham/content/images/2006/10/06/robin_hood_07_300x400.jpg

Keith Allen...

http://www.contactmusic.com/pics/m/british_comedy_awards_2_061207/keith_allen_1689648.jpg

Stuart.

[MNBubba]

Wooden it be tray cool if Daniel Wazisname from Harry Potter or Paris Hilton was the next Bond Villain?

C'mon guys, a bit of imagination....