The Weekly Planet - Quantum Of Solace - Caravan Of Garbage

Episode Date: September 23, 2021

Off the back of Casino Royal James Bond was very much back. And then immediately hit a speedbump with Quantum Of Solace in 2008 when the writers strike hit. Despite the return of Daniel Craig and act...ion/espionage a plenty it failed to hit the heights of it's predecessor BUT is it without it's quality moments? Let's all find out in our Caravan Of Garbage review. Thanks for the support! SUBSCRIBE HERE ►► http://goo.gl/pQ39jNVideo Edition ► https://youtu.be/wpTesSs1TtUHelp support the show and get early episodes ► https://bigsandwich.co/Patreon ► https://patreon.com/mrsundaymoviesJames' Twitter ► http://twitter.com/mrsundaymoviesMaso's Twitter ► http://twitter.com/wikipediabrownPatreon ► https://patreon.com/mrsundaymoviesT-Shirts/Merch ► https://www.teepublic.com/stores/mr-sunday-movies The Weekly Planet iTunes ► https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-weekly-planet/id718158767?mt=2&ign-mpt=uo%3D4 The Weekly Planet Direct Download ► https://play.acast.com/s/theweeklyplanetAmazon Affiliate Link ► https://amzn.to/2nc12P4 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Starting point is 00:00:49 Network. Visit planetbroadcasting.com for more podcasts from our great mates. Welcome back everybody to another episode of Caravan of Garbage, where this week, and previous weeks, and weeks to come, we've been going through the Daniel Craig, James Bond filmology.
Starting point is 00:01:06 Go on, I see no problems with that sentence. If you could leave it like that, that would be great, because this week, we're hitting up big time the movie Quantum of Solace. That's right. The much anticipated but somewhat much maligned follow-up, two years after, to Casano Rao.
Starting point is 00:01:21 When are you going to stop saying that? When are you going to make me stop saying it? Right now, I'll flip this table. Now, look. I'll drain you in oil, bitch. Before I get into, like, what this movie was originally supposed to be and the very publicly troubled production and the reason why it is the way it is.
Starting point is 00:01:41 Thank God troubling James Bond productions are a thing of the past. I know, right? You can say the thing. The thing that you've always hated about this movie, the opening thing. James. Here he goes. You cannot talk about this movie without him bringing it up. James, upon seeing this movie in cinemas, I was immediately offside
Starting point is 00:02:00 because obviously this movie is supposed to take place immediately after Casanova Royal Isle. Yes. The first James Bond movie to ever pick up immediately after. Okay. But here's the thing, James. In between that last one and this one, the costume designer changed from Lindy Hemming to Louise Frogley and the supplier of James Bond suits changed from Brioni to Tom Ford.
Starting point is 00:02:25 It's true. Obviously, James. And they were like, well, let's change his three-piece navy suit that has sort of a white track stripe. We'll change it to a two-piece navy suit with a blue pinstripe and nobody will notice. Nobody will notice, James, that it's a different suit with slightly different colours and fabrics.
Starting point is 00:02:47 And he's taken his vest off, apparently. I think you could have got away with it if you left a vest in it. So what you're telling me, director of this movie, who I think is Mark Forster, that James Bond got in his car and he took his jacket off and then he took his waistcoat off. Yes. And then he put his jacket back on. But it was a different jacket. Why would you do that?
Starting point is 00:03:10 Who does that? A psychopath. A psychopath would. But also, if that happened, show me that scene. I want to see him do it in the car in the middle of a chase. I mean, that being said, it is a better suit. It's a nice suit. Oh, well, fair enough. It fits him better a better suit it's a nice suit fits him better yeah
Starting point is 00:03:26 it is it's a good looking suit he's a good looking man yeah and we're not here to argue that he isn't no yeah but apart from that um i actually quite like this movie yeah look let's talk a bit about how it started because except obviously there's a scene where he wears a black belt and a pair of brown suede shoes what do you think excuse, Vaughn? Excuse me? Yeah. Everybody knows belt shoes, they match. If you've got a snakeskin belt. Snakeskin shoes and hats. That's what you must do. That's the rules.
Starting point is 00:03:53 So this script was originally not intended to be as much of a sequel to Casino Royale. However, because of the writer's strike, which affected a bunch of movies at the time, including Transformers 2. How much? Probably not that much. So they only had the bare bones of a script.
Starting point is 00:04:09 Very early drafts. So it was up to Daniel Craig and director Mark Forster to rewrite scenes on the fly. Day of. As they were filming. Just hunkering down in that gas-filled hotel. Just plunking away on their Sony Vios, probably. Exactly. Those fumes getting in there, getting in your brains.
Starting point is 00:04:29 So even though a lot of the action sequences in this were all mapped out, and again, only two years after, so it's a quick turnaround regardless of the writer's strike, they had to fill in a lot of the gaps. And that's why so much of this leans into Casino Royale. And on top of that, normally the director liked a 14-week edit. It's got a five-week edit. It ended up being the shortest James Bond ever at an hour 46.
Starting point is 00:04:50 Thank God. But I think knowing all that, and if you watch these two back-to-back, they work well together. This doesn't work outside of Casino Royale. At the end of Casino Royale, James, his sleeves have four buttons on them. And at the start of this one, they have five buttons. Maybe put an extra button on it. As if I wouldn't notice.
Starting point is 00:05:11 Mark Forster. But you're absolutely right. I think if you are watching them back to back, it sort of has a, you know. It's not as good. No. It's not close. No. But as a good. No. It's not close. No. But as a unit.
Starting point is 00:05:25 Yeah. But I mean, it's not, again, it's not even close to being the worst. It's not even in the lowest echelon of Bond movies, I think. I don't think it's the worst Daniel Craig Bond movie. There we go, right? Which we will get to. I mean, there's a lot of stuff that is kind of nonsensical to it. Sure.
Starting point is 00:05:43 We'll get to it. Yeah, definitely. Stuff that is kind of nonsensical to it. We'll get to it. Yeah, definitely. You know, it's pretty, and it borrows pretty heavily from, again, some hot, hot cinematic stuff of the time. Definitely.
Starting point is 00:05:53 Well, the other thing that it does borrow, the idea of a price hike with water, that was a real thing that happened in Bolivia, except the price hike that happened in real life was three times. That's right. Yeah, and in this it's twice. So was much. And in this, it's twice. So, you know, I think, again, because, you know, the Bourne movies were quite popular at the time. They should call this bloody James Bourne.
Starting point is 00:06:13 Very nice. I should have added that into last week's episode. Every time we say James Bourne, I say James Bourne. Anyway, sorry, go on. I think they were like, well, we shouldn't do, you know, death lasers and underwater bases and all that sort of stuff. We'll make it a little more realistic.
Starting point is 00:06:28 But they didn't even go hard enough to be like, we'll make this water crisis as, we won't even make it as sinister as the real life one. It's an odd choice because in a fictional scenario, which turned out to be a real scenario, you could say any number. It could be any number of times as much as it would have cost, you know? It doesn't really change the narrative that much, you know? I mean, it does if Dominic Green were to be like, I'm going to make water one jillion times more expensive. You'd be like, there's something wrong with this guy.
Starting point is 00:07:01 I mean, there's clearly something wrong with this guy. He's not an imposing villain. I think that is probably the number one problem with this particular movie. He's not an imposing villain. Because he's a little frog man? Yes. They had to give him a crowbar and a fire axe in the final battle between him and Bond for him to even stand a moment's chance
Starting point is 00:07:18 against the hulking gorilla that is James Bond. He ends up putting it into his own foot or whatever happens. But his henchmen aren't impressive. He doesn't have a jaws like. No. He's got that dude with a wig who gets tripped by strawberry fields forever. Yeah. Tripsy Wigsy.
Starting point is 00:07:37 It's interesting because. So the idea behind the character of Dominic Green is that he has no distinguishing features. Amazing. Yeah. And I think they nailed it because every other Bonneville and they've got a scar or a hook hand or a set of big steel feet or something. Sure, yeah.
Starting point is 00:07:54 Steelsy feetsy. Steelsy feetsy. I kind of like that idea that he's anybody, but I don't think- Wait, iron balls. But they're referring to the balls of his feet. Oh, okay. He has to explain that at dinner parties. Hi, I'm iron balls they're referring to the balls of his feet. Oh, okay. He has to explain that at dinner parties. Hi, I'm iron balls.
Starting point is 00:08:07 Excuse me? The balls of my feet. Oh, how elegant. I bet you can really turn on those heels, you know what I mean? Yeah. You really pivot at a moment's notice. So the story of this is because they couldn't do Spectre and because one of the James Bond stories is called Quantum of Solace,
Starting point is 00:08:24 they went, why not? Let's do this story, I guess. Name only. But it bears no relevance to the original short story. I'm not even sure Bond's in the original short story. I think it might just be some dude telling a story to another dude. Well, that sounds terrific.
Starting point is 00:08:39 That's storytelling, isn't it? Just one dude talking to another dude? That's right, in a way. Yeah. So Quantum is everywhere and I like that idea. An organisation so secret that they could have somebody who's been working for M for 18 years. In theory, it is good.
Starting point is 00:08:56 But? But in practice, I don't believe anybody involved in Quantum in this movie would be capable of maintaining that secret or being really competent in any way because they had an opera talking over your pieces it's just an assortment of like well-to-do billionaires and and and these incompetent henchmen yeah with no distinguishing features yes i'm like i don't buy this all of you would have slipped up by now you'll notice you would have tried to impress somebody at a cocktail party yeah i go by the way i'm part of a little
Starting point is 00:09:24 thing called, we call it quantum. What do you think about that? What does it stand for? What do you think about iron balls over here? We like him. But what does it stand for? Nothing, apparently. It's not an acronym.
Starting point is 00:09:33 But, of course, it is worked in later that quantum is part of Spectre. Yeah. When the rights to Spectre got returned to MGM. Here's something that I thought was weird. Remember when M gets shot at and she just does a little run out of the i thought was weird remember when uh m gets shot at and she just does a little run out of the room like it looks like she gets shot she does get shot and then she just is that that's a weird edit right that's like something they a story point that they dropped maybe because it feels like a reshoot where she definitely does get shot that's
Starting point is 00:10:00 what i thought and i guess they were like she didn't no i think they're probably just like oh she probably had a bulletproof vest what about the other guy who got shot wasn't wearing a That's what I thought. And I guess they were like... She didn't. No, I think they're probably just like, oh, she probably had a bulletproof vest. What about the other guy who got shot? Wasn't wearing a bulletproof vest. Yeah, well, that's why he got shot more. What about this guy who had apparently been Em's personal bodyguard for five years? You gonna shoot Bond or anything?
Starting point is 00:10:17 Yeah. Just shoot a random guy. Just shoot a random guy. Shoot anyone. Yeah. One thing I do like about this movie, though, is the relationship between Bond and Camille. And I think what's interesting is that they're both
Starting point is 00:10:28 so bent on revenge. They have no interest in each other. Like they share a kiss at the end but it's not really anything. They're just so laser focused on killing the person or people that have wronged them. And that's, so that's why they're aligned. There is no other reason
Starting point is 00:10:43 like they don't need to have that kind of chemistry. It's just like, we're just going to walk through the desert until we find the people that we need to kill. And I think that's very interesting. Then they share a kiss at the end and they're like, it's not as thrilling if you've already murdered all the people you need to murder. We do get a couple of returning characters, which again is unusual for a James Bond movie.
Starting point is 00:11:03 Felix Leiter. Yeah, who I don't think we mentioned at all last week. No, but terrific. And I'm glad he's in these. He's just fun. And he's also competent, but not that competent. No, he's fairly competent. He's the most sane man in the CIA.
Starting point is 00:11:18 He's very competent, but he's clearly been worn down by the drama of it all. Yeah. He's just like, ah, let David Harbour do his thing. Oh, my God, what a surprise. 33-year-old David Harbour looking just fresh-faced and ready to go. When they said his name, I thought they said Mr. Bean. It's Mr. Bean. It is Mr. Bean.
Starting point is 00:11:35 That's correct, yes. And then of course- But can you imagine? I think it'd be a little something like this. He's silent, obviously. Mr. Bean doesn't really talk. This is a still image of Mr. B. Just imagine he's doing some spite.
Starting point is 00:11:48 Oh, Johnny English. I forgot. We don't have the footage. We can't afford it. No, sorry. And which movie do we use? You know what I mean? There's so much footage to choose from.
Starting point is 00:11:55 We'd be paralyzed by choice from the Johnny English trilogy. No, we're never going to talk about it. Johnny English. Johnny English goes bananas. Yep. Johnny English. Even more English. Even more English goes bananas. Yep. Johnny English, even more English.
Starting point is 00:12:07 Even more English. The full English. It's when he gets his dick out. What I also liked was Mathis Returns. Oh, yes. And holds no ill will, even though Bond got him captured and tortured. Because if you remember at the end of Casino Royale, at the end when he's cleared, Bond goes, yeah, maybe not. Just keep some more torture on him.
Starting point is 00:12:29 Just heaps more torture. We'll just see how that goes. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And then when Bond pulls him out of the boot of his car, I thought he was dead. He's not dead. And then he uses him as a human shield. Yes, but then he regains his dignity when Bond chucks him in a bin.
Starting point is 00:12:45 Chucks his body in a bin and he's like, I think Mathis would have wanted it this way. Would he? I don't know if he did. And he's like, we forgive each other, don't we? I don't think you both need to forgive each other. I think there's one more than the other. FX's The Veil
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Starting point is 00:14:00 because I'm like, this guy will leave me in the street if I don't say that. So yeah, well, he does regardless. I think there's some pretty decent action stuff in this. There's a hotel room fight, which is very Jason Bourne-esque. There's a car chase. There's a plane. And they jump out of plane. There's ropes. Remember ropes? Boy, do I. Yeah. But of course, the thing that everybody remembers from this. Why did it have to be ropes, he says. His famous line. No, wouldn't he be ropes, he says, his famous line. No, wouldn't he be like, I'm glad it's ropes.
Starting point is 00:14:28 I know he hates ropes. He hates ropes. Because the rope for the- In his balls, yeah. Swatted him. Yeah, in his balls. But I think the thing that- The only really thing- The only thing that I really remember from this,
Starting point is 00:14:38 action scene wise, is the exploding hotel. Sure, yeah. Look, I think the opening chase scene is actually really... Oh, it's all good. Now that some of my rage has subsided over the changing of the suit, I can see it with more objective eyes and I think that initial car chase is really good.
Starting point is 00:14:57 There's trucks tumbling all over the place. Apparently it was the most locations ever for filming a Bond movie at the time. I don't know how much that has changed. What I also like about the hotel, the exploding hotel at the end, where every room has a thing you can shoot and it will explode because it cools the rooms. That's in the brochure.
Starting point is 00:15:17 Everybody in that hotel, as it's exploding, is just going ham on each other. Do you know what I mean? Sure, yeah. It's just, you know, Camille and the General having a fisty cuff. Bond is fighting a tiny little frog man. He's like, may as well. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:15:30 Good as Eddie. General's sewn up. May as well fight this guy, sure. Here's something interesting about the character of Dominic Green. He was described as not knowing how to fight, so James Bond would be more surprised. Sometimes anger can be more dangerous. I'm going to fight like in school. Yeah, because that's what would surprise James Bond would be more surprised. Sometimes anger can be more dangerous. I'm going to fight like in school.
Starting point is 00:15:47 Yeah, because that's what would surprise James Bond, a man who can't fight. You wouldn't know how to come at him, you know? There's a moment in this movie where James Bond has, he's at the opera, he's taken a bunch of photographs of the backs of people's heads with his Sony Ericsson phone and has therefore been able to determine what their faces look like due his Sony Ericsson phone and has therefore been able to determine what their faces look like
Starting point is 00:16:06 due to Sony Ericsson biotechnology. That's right. And then Dominic Green and his henchmen, they've been made so they all leave like in a big gang and they get into the lobby and James Bond is there and just the bug-eyed fear on Dominic Green's face as he sees Bond there. And I was like, Dominic Green, calm down.
Starting point is 00:16:22 You've got all your boys here, you know? But he's like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. He does's like i mean he doesn't really have all these boys there does he he says it's not a competent one in the no that's true bunch if they panned danny would have been paying himself but absolutely just settle down i gotta say also i really enjoy his death how bonds like his can oil let's see how far you get before you drink it i can can't believe he carried it. I can't believe he took it with him. Right? You wouldn't carry it, right? Not pointless, you would have thought.
Starting point is 00:16:50 Anyway, that's all I'm saying. Did you find, though? I would have said, Bond, give me a bottle of water. You've clearly thrown me the wrong container. I don't have a can opener for this. I'm going to have to chew through the top like a rat. One thing that i didn't find satisfying in this though was the reveal of vespa's boyfriend and the revenge that
Starting point is 00:17:13 bond gets or doesn't get yeah right in uh discovering what he's up to i just found it was a bit like oh it's just this guy is it all right All right. Oh, yeah, he's doing the thing again. He's doing the catfishing thing again to Canada. Just didn't really. And like Bond doesn't kill him. Why not? Kill everyone else. Kill Mathis. A man that you liked.
Starting point is 00:17:36 Yeah. How did you feel about that, though, as a conclusion? Yeah, I mean, I wasn't really. I mean, we don't really say anything about that guy. Like he's not built up as a villain in any real sense. So I never really... I didn't really feel like any kind of... At least have him, like, pop up a bit during the movie.
Starting point is 00:17:53 You know what I mean? Yeah, sure. I mean, there was a moment there where, like, his new lover is informed by Bond that, you know, that he's also got that sort of Algerian love knot. And I think there's a moment where she's like, did he do that to you as well? Is that... that he's also got that sort of Algerian love knot. And I think there's a moment where she's like, did he do that to you as well?
Starting point is 00:18:10 He goes that way though, doesn't he? Apparently. We'll talk about it next week. But right now we're going to talk about Cue the Music, whatever that is, licensed to trivia. Okay, great. Don't know what the music is. Is it a MIDI version of the James Bond theme? Up to Ben.
Starting point is 00:18:24 He has full creative control a midi version of the 1960s casino royale thing whatever it is okay so an early draft of the script involved james bond discovering that vespa lind had a child by a previous relationship uh who had been kidnapped by quantum oh there you. Just did someone else for him to kill, I guess. Or accidentally. Here's a fun fact, James. Sure. Bond's shoes from the end of Casino Royale,
Starting point is 00:18:52 they changed from a Derby and they become an Oxford. Really? At the start of Quantum of Solace, yeah. Must have kicked them off for driving. I bet if you looked next to the pedals, there's a loose pair of shoes down there. He's got two pairs of shoes. That's what I think he's up to.
Starting point is 00:19:08 Galgado very nearly got the role of Camille. After missing out, though, it did inspire her to quit law school and pursue acting as a career. The only James Bond film also where James Bond isn't captured or taken prisoner by one of the villains. He is, of course, briefly captured by MI6, very briefly. But he, you know. Goes rogue.
Starting point is 00:19:30 Kills some people. Gets out of that scenario. There's also a deleted ending. I don't know if you know about this. Where James Bond dispatches Mr. White in a gun barrel sequence, which then sets up the next movie. Oh. This was, though, removed so the film wasn't compelled to continue this story. I see. I mean, which it sets up the next movie. This was though removed so the film wasn't compelled to continue this story.
Starting point is 00:19:47 I mean, which it did anyway, Inspector. But for the next movie, they don't tie in. So of course, Mr. White does return down the line. In the scene where Bond discovers Agent Strawberryfield's oil-covered body, the corpse is positioned the same way as Jill Masterson's
Starting point is 00:20:04 body, remember with the gold and the gold finger? The gold finger, yeah. Gold finger. That was Jim Rathodon's first day on set. Was it really? Yeah, they were like, well, you got the job, here we go. How did she enjoy it? Loved it.
Starting point is 00:20:15 I bet she did. Just covered in black paint. It's brilliant. Una Chaplin you might be familiar with. I'm not. She's popped up in, I think, Black Mirror episodes. I see. She's also, she married Robb Stark.
Starting point is 00:20:29 She got Red Weddings. Oh, yep, yep. Okay, I'm on board now. She's the granddaughter of Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin, who you might be familiar with. I'm not. He's Charlie Chaplin. Oh, I see.
Starting point is 00:20:41 Right, right, right. Okay. She works in the Exploding Hotel. Ah. Yeah. Be pretty anxiety-ind. Right, right, right. Okay. She works in the Exploding Hotel. Ah. Yeah. And... Be pretty anxiety-inducing, I would imagine. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:20:49 Those things would be rattling. Just like an old water heater, you know? Yeah, yeah, yeah. No good. Yeah. And people would always be checking in. They'd be like, can I smoke in my room? No.
Starting point is 00:20:57 You could use solar power. Why are you using explosions? I don't know. Don't know either. Maybe it's under a volcano. Maybe there's no sunlight in the desert. Yeah, maybe. Who's visiting that hotel? He's like, I've got to go to the desert to this exploding hotel. Also, why'd they call it the exploding hotel? The desert's famous exploding hotel. This isn't so much trivia as just something I found in trivia, which is cruel.
Starting point is 00:21:24 This isn't so much trivia as just something I found in trivia, which is cruel. Villains in the James Bond movies often have some kind of physiological dysfunction or trait that makes them distinguishable. We've talked about it. Iron Balls, for example. For this movie, some may have thought that there was none for Dominic Green, but arguably critics noted his distinguishable and menacing bug eyes, which do set him in the company of Bond villains of old. So just this man, just how he looks every day is odd enough
Starting point is 00:21:54 for some people to be like, what a freak. He looks like all the freaks that came before him. No makeup required. Remember Jaws with his horrific mechanical teeth? Well, you're just as ugly. And of course, we do need to talk about, as we do every week, whether or not James Bond has gone rogue this time around. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:22:12 And if he retires. Okay, let me think. Okay, so he definitely goes rogue. Yeah. Again, almost immediately. Yeah, what I liked about when he goes rogue, like he takes, M's like, you can't be trusted. I can't be trusting you.
Starting point is 00:22:24 Then he gets in the elevator and he beats up everybody and then they betraying her trust exactly and then she's like and then he runs away and then she's like i trust him i think he's onto something yeah you're just saying that because he beat up all your dudes yeah yeah just got out of hand sure you know but he's got confidence that's true yeah so but does he retire he doesn't retire well at the end also she's like welcome back and he's like i never left so it makes me think that she thought he'd retired okay sure i think it counts maybe he's just doing his own thing you know yeah okay yeah maybe that's not retirement yeah it's more of a look i think i think currently we've got we've got two in the
Starting point is 00:23:01 going road column and one officially going retired. I agree. Now, the budget for this movie was actually the most expensive Bond movie ever. Is that because they changed his tie from Casino Royale to the start of Quantum of Solace? It would have definitely factored in. I think so. It blew out to $225 million, but it ended up making $591 million, which is only $3 million less than Casino Royale.
Starting point is 00:23:26 And I do also wonder if that's because you can squeeze in more sessions of this in a day as opposed to Casino Royale, which is like 40 minutes longer. Yeah, maybe. You get more butts in seats. This, even though, again, not received well, it's not anybody's favourite, it's still the fourth highest overall box office for a Bond movie ever. Very good. So, yeah, there you go.
Starting point is 00:23:48 Probably because of all those butts in seats you mentioned. Get them in there. Sit them down. Sit them down. Have a look. Have a look at this screen. Everybody have a look. All right, this has been Quantum of Solace.
Starting point is 00:23:58 And all things considered, Bond movie, it's fine. I don't mind it. Again, back to back. Sure. Yeah. Maybe his best overall look, the midnight blue tuxedo with the shawl lapel, James. That's a good point. That's an homage to Sean Connery's first appearance in Doctor No, I'm pretty sure.
Starting point is 00:24:16 You're pretty sure? What if it's not? Should we just leave this in anyway? Yeah. Okay. Someone will correct us. Sure. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:24:22 Guess what, though? We're coming back next week because we are talking about the biggest Bond movie of all time. Oh, my goodness. Skyfall. Some say it's the best. That's right. I think they're wrong. We'll talk about it.
Starting point is 00:24:32 No, let's do it now. Okay, settle in, everybody. We're doing another 20 minutes. No, let's do it next time. Yeah, so I look at people consider it having the best song. People hate the song from this one. Amy Winehouse was supposed to do this one. Didn't end up happening for various reasons.
Starting point is 00:24:46 The writer's strike. I don't think that was it. I think it was more personal problems that I'd rather not get into. Okay. But yeah, look, first of all, what are your thoughts on this movie? Second of all,
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Starting point is 00:25:15 If you go over to bigsandwich.co, right, they've got early videos. We do bonus podcasts. We do movie commentaries. Our podcast, The Weekly Planet, where we talk movies and comics and TV shows, that actually comes out there a day early on Sunday as opposed to Monday. And that's pretty much it. I'm at MrSundayMovies on Twitter. I'm at WikipediaBrown on Twitter. We love James Bond.
Starting point is 00:25:30 It's true, we do. We love them more than you. If you're the biggest James Bond fan, guess what? We are. If you think you know the most about James Bond, wrong. You're wrong. We'll beat you up. You didn't know the thing about the shoes.
Starting point is 00:25:39 We knew that. Change your shoes. That's right. I told Mason that. That's how he knows. Yeah, that's right. And now we both knew it. Yeah, I was fine.
Starting point is 00:25:46 I was very content in my life. He told me the thing about the switching of the shoes and now I'm mad about it. I didn't even notice the shoes. Do you even see his feet in any of those things? Yes. Okay, then. Goodbye.
Starting point is 00:25:54 Bye, everyone. Grab that chair. We'll see you next time. This podcast is part of the Planet Broadcasting Network. Visit planetbroadcasting.com for more podcasts from our great mates. I mean, if you want, it's up to you. As women, our life stages come with unique risk factors, like when our estrogen levels drop during menopause, causing the risk of heart disease to go up.
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