sorry I haven't post anything.

Like the title, I would like to say sorry because I haven't post anything again, since last week maybe.
I haven't post anything because I don't have time. Sorry.

Need more time please!!!

me, MJ

continuance from 31st December 2010

So, this post I will post about Quantum of Solace. When I started to watch it, I feel that it's not very great as Casino Royale, and it is true, because I don't even understand the story. Casino Royale have a, how to say I don't know, but it's great at romance and the poker, also the action. Love it!!
This is about Quantum of Solace.

Quantum of Solace is the 22nd James Bond film, and also the second film as Bond for Daniel Craig. This is the direct sequel to Casino Royale. In the film, Bond battles wealthy businessman Dominic Green, a member of the Quantum organization, posing as an environmentalist who intends to stage a coup d'état in Bolivia to seize control of the nation's water supply. Bond seeks revenge for the death of his lover, Vesper Lynd, and is assisted by Camille Montes, who is also seeking revenge.

The plot I copied from Wikipedia. Thanks.

James Bond (Daniel Craig) is driving from Lake Como to Siena, Italy, with the captured Mr. White (Jesper Christensen). After evading pursuers, Bond and M (Judi Dench) interrogate White regarding his organization, Quantum. M's bodyguard, Mitchell, a double agent, attacks M, enabling White to escape; Bond chases Mitchell across Siena and kills him.

Bond and M search Mitchell's flat and discover he had a contact in Haiti. Bond heads to Haiti to investigate Mitchell's contact, Edmund Slate, and learns that Slate was sent to kill Camille Montes (Olga Kurylenko) at the behest of her lover, Dominic Greene (Mathieu Amalric), the chairman of an ecological organization called Greene Planet. While observing her meeting with Greene, Bond learns that Greene is helping the Bolivian general Medrano (Joaquin Cosio)—who murdered Camille's family—overthrow his government in exchange for a seemingly barren piece of desert.

After rescuing Camille from Medrano, Bond follows Greene to a performance of Tosca in Austria; en route, the CIA head of the South American section, Gregg Beam (David Harbour), strikes a non-interference deal with Greene to maintain access to Bolivian oil, overruling the objections of Felix Leiter (Jeffrey Wright). Bond infiltrates Quantum's meeting at the opera, and a gunfight ensues in the adjoining restaurant. A Special Branch bodyguard of Quantum member Guy Haines, an advisor to the British Prime Minister, is killed; and M, assuming Bond is the killer, has his passports and credit cards revoked. Bond convinces his old ally René Mathis (Giancarlo Giannini) to accompany him to Bolivia. At the La Paz airport, they are greeted by Strawberry Fields (Gemma Arterton), an MI6 officer from the British Consulate, who demands that Bond return to the UK on the next available flight; nonetheless, Bond soon seduces her before they attend a party Greene holds that night.

At the party, Bond rescues Camille again from Greene. Leaving, Bond and Camille are pulled over by Bolivian police working for Medrano. They had earlier attacked Mathis and put him in the trunk of Bond's car to frame him; and, in the ensuing struggle, Mathis is killed. Bond and Camille survey Quantum's intended land acquisition by air but their plane is shot down after a brief air battle; but they skydive out of the burning plane into a sinkhole. In the cave, Bond and Camille discover Quantum is not after oil but is damming Bolivia's supply of fresh water, to create a monopoly. Back in La Paz, Bond meets M and learns that Quantum murdered Fields by drowning her naked in crude oil. M orders Bond arrested for disobeying orders; after a brief scuffle with guards in the elevator, he escapes.

Bond meets with Leiter, who discloses Greene and Medrano will meet at an eco hotel in the Bolivian desert to finalize the coup. Warned by Leiter, he evades American special forces attempting to kill him. At the hotel, Greene and Medrano negotiate their terms. Greene then finally reveals his true plans. By gaining control of the majority of Bolivia's water supply, Greene badgers Medrano into accepting a new contract that makes Greene Planet Bolivia's sole water utility company at significantly higher rates. Bond infiltrates the hotel and executes the Chief of Police for betraying Mathis and confronts Greene. The hotel is destroyed during the spectacular battle; Camille kills Medrano, and Bond captures Greene. After interrogating him about Quantum, Bond leaves Greene stranded in the middle of the desert with only a can of motor oil, claiming that Greene would make twenty miles before considering drinking it. Bond and Camille kiss before they part.

We next see Bond in Russia, where he finds Vesper Lynd's former lover, Yusef Kabira (Simon Kassianides), with a new target, a Canadian agent named Corrine (Stana Katic). Yusef is a member of Quantum who seduces women with valuable connections, such as Vesper. In an act of restraint, Bond decides not to kill Yusef and allows MI6 to arrest him. Outside, M tells Bond that Greene was found in the middle of the desert dead, with two bullets in the back of his skull and motor oil in his stomach; but Bond denies knowing anything. M also reveals that Felix has been promoted and has taken Beam's place. She reinstates Bond as an agent; he tells M that he never left. As he leaves, he drops the necklace Yusef had given Vesper in the snow.

The cast also, I copied from Wikipedia. Thanks again.

• Daniel Craig as James Bond. Craig's physical training for his reprise of the role placed extra effort into running and boxing, to spare him the injuries he sustained on his stunts in the first film. Craig felt he was fitter, being less bulky than in the first film. He also practiced speedboating and stunt driving. Craig felt Casino Royale was [physically] "a walk in the park" compared to Quantum of Solace, and required a different performance from him because Quantum of Solace is a revenge film, not a love story like Casino Royale. While filming in Pinewood, he suffered a gash when kicked in his face, which required eight stitches, and a fingertip was sliced off. He laughed these off, noting they did not delay filming, and joked his finger wound would enable him to have a criminal career (though it had grown back when he made this comment). He also had minor plastic surgery on his face. The actor advised Paul Haggis on the script and helped choose Marc Forster as the director.
• Olga Kurylenko as Camille Montes, a Russian-Bolivian agent with her own vendetta regarding Greene and Medrano. Forster chose her because out of the 400 women who auditioned, she seemed the least nervous. When she read the script, she was glad she had no love scene with Craig because it would have distracted viewers from her performance. Kurylenko spent three weeks training to fight with weapons, and she learned a form of indoor skydiving known as body flying. Kurylenko dislikes stunts, but overcame her fears because she found Craig helpful. She was given a DVD box set of the films since the Bond franchise was not easily available to watch where she grew up in Ukraine. Kurylenko found Michelle Yeoh in Tomorrow Never Dies inspiring "because she did the fight scenes by herself." The producers had intended to cast a South American actress in the role. Kurylenko trained with a dialect coach to perform with a Spanish accent, which was easy as "I have a good ear, so I can imitate people," and because her accent was not made heavy. When reflecting on her experience as a Bond girl, she stated she was most proud of overcoming her fears in performing stunts.
• Mathieu Amalric as Dominic Greene, Main villain. A leading member of Quantum posing as a businessman working in reforestation and charity funding for environmental science. Amalric acknowledged taking the role was an easy decision because, "It's impossible to say to your kids that 'I could have been in a Bond film but I refused.'" Amalric wanted to wear make-up for the role, but Forster explained that he wanted Greene not to look grotesque, but to symbolise the hidden evils in society. Nonethtless, Greene is depicted with particularly yellow teeth, in contrast to the sparkly white teeth of the movie's heroes. Amalric modelled his performance on "the smile of Tony Blair [and] the craziness of Sarkozy," the latter of whom he called "the worst villain we [the French] have ever had [...] he walks around thinking he's in a Bond film." He later claimed this was not criticism of either politician, but rather an example of how a politician relies on performance instead of a genuine policy to win power. "Sarkozy, is just a better actor than [his presidential opponent] Ségolène Royal – that's all," he explained. Amalric and Forster reconceived the character, who was supposed to have a "special skill" in the script, to someone who uses pure animal instinct when fighting Bond in the climax. Bruno Ganz was also considered for the part, but Forster decided Amalric gave a pitiful quality.
• Gemma Arterton as MI6 Agent Strawberry Fields, who works at the British consulate in Bolivia. Fields, who is merely an office worker as described by M, takes herself seriously and tries to over-power Bond when the pair meet. She is later seduced by Bond, infiltrates Greene's fund raiser party with him and ends up paying the ultimate price. Forster found Arterton a witty actress and selected her from a reported 1,500 candidates. One of the casting directors asked her to audition for the role, having seen her portray Rosaline in Love's Labour's Lost at the Globe Theatre. Arterton said Fields was "not so frolicsome" as other Bond girls, but is instead "fresh and young, not [...] a femme fatale." Arterton described Fields as a homage to the 1960s Bond girls, comparing her red wig to Diana Rigg, who played Tracy Bond in On Her Majesty's Secret Service. Rigg, alongside Honor Blackman, is one of her favourite Bond girls. Arterton had to film her character's death scene first day on the set. Although she found the experience unpleasant, she believes the scene will be an iconic part of the film. The character's first name, which is a reference to the Beatles song Strawberry Fields Forever, is never actually uttered on screen; when Bond asks her for her name, she replies, "Just Fields."
• Giancarlo Giannini as René Mathis, Bond's ally who was mistakenly believed to be a traitor in Casino Royale. Having been acquitted, he chooses to aid Bond again and watches as Bond is under the strict authority of Fields.
• Jeffrey Wright as Felix Leiter, Bond's ally at the CIA. This marked the first time the same actor played Leiter twice in a row. Only David Hedison had previously played the character twice, in Live and Let Die (1973) and Licence to Kill (1989), but these performances were not consecutive. Early script drafts gave Leiter a larger role, but his screentime was restricted by on-set rewrites.
• Judi Dench as M. Forster felt Dench was underused in the previous films and wanted to make her part bigger, having her interact with Bond more because she is "the only woman Bond doesn’t see in a sexual context," which Forster finds interesting.
• Anatole Taubman as Elvis, Greene's second-in-command. His name was chosen by Paul Haggis, while Taubman chose the bowl cut. Amalric and Taubman improvised a backstory for Elvis: he is Dominic's cousin and once lived on the streets before being inducted into Quantum. He called Elvis "a bit of a goofball. He thinks he's all that but he's not really. [...] He's not a comic guy. He definitely takes himself very serious, but maybe by his taking himself too serious he may become friendly."
• David Harbour as Gregg Beam, the CIA Section Chief for South America and a contact of Felix Leiter.
• Joaquín Cosío as General Medrano, the exiled general whom Greene is helping to get back into power, in return for support of his organisation. He is responsible for the murder of Camille's entire family when she was a young girl.
• Jesper Christensen as Mr. White, whom Bond captured after he stole the money won at Casino Royale in Montenegro.
• Rory Kinnear as Bill Tanner, M's aide.
• Tim Pigott-Smith as the British Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs.
• Neil Jackson as Edmund Slate, a henchman who fights Bond in Haiti.
• Simon Kassianides as Yusef, who has a confrontation with Bond in Kazan towards the end of the film.
• Stana Katic as Corrine Veneau, a Canadian agent.
• Glenn Foster as Craig Mitchell, M's bodyguard and a double agent.
• Oona Castilla Chaplin as 'damsel in distress' - girl saved by Kurylenko in one of last sequences.

Directors Guillermo del Toro and Alfonso Cuarón are friends of Marc Forster and while filming he asked them to cameo, providing voices in the Spanish language. Cuarón appears as a Bolivian helicopter pilot, while del Toro provides several other voices.

Maybe after I watched it for the second time, I will like it, must watch it again.

me, MJ

31st December 2010

On 31st December 2010, it was the last day of 2010. In television, there were too many great movies. And now, I will give one of the movies. It was Quantum of Solace, even if it had been on 2008 released. I don't very like it. And on 30th December 2010, Casino Royale was shown on television. This movie is such a great movie, and I want to watch it again.
First of all, I will give the preview of Casino Royale, and I will post about Quantum of Solace in new post.

Casino Royale(2006) is the 21st film in the James Bond film series and the first to Daniel Craig as MI6 agent James Bond. Casino Royale is set at the beginning of Bond's career as Agent 007, just as he is earning his license to kill. After preventing a terrorist attack at Miami International Airport, Bond falls for Vesper Lynd, the treasury agent assigned to provide the money he needs to foil Le Chiffre's plans by beating him in a high-stakes poker game.

The plot I copied from Wikipedia. Thanks.
In the opening sequence, James Bond is on a mission that, if successful, will qualify him for double-0 status. He goes to Prague and kills an MI6 section chief, Dryden, who has leaked classified information, and his ally, Fisher. Elsewhere, a man named Mr. White serves as a middleman introducing a banker, Le Chiffre, to a guerrilla group seeking a haven for its funds. Le Chiffre assures them that there is "no risk in the portfolio," but his investments actually involve considerable risk: he short-sells stock in successful companies and then engineers terrorist attacks to sink their share prices.
M, the head of MI6, sends Bond on his first mission as 007 to Madagascar in pursuit of an international bomb-maker named Mollaka. After a free running chase to the Nambutu embassy, Bond kills his target and blows up a part of the building in order to escape. He obtains Mollaka's mobile phone and discovers that it has received calls from Alex Dimitrios, an associate of Le Chiffre in the Bahamas. Bond travels there and seduces Dimitros' wife, Solange. While answering a phone call, Solange reveals that her husband is flying to Miami. Bond leaves to pursue him. In Miami, 007 kills Dimitrios and then follows Le Chiffre's henchman, Carlos, to Miami International Airport. There, Bond foils Le Chiffre's plan to destroy the prototype Skyfleet airliner and thus leaves the banker with a major loss.
Now under pressure to recoup his clients' money, Le Chiffre sets up a high-stakes Texas hold 'em tournament at the Casino Royale in Montenegro. Hoping that a defeat would force Le Chiffre to aid the British government in exchange for protection from his creditors, MI6 enters Bond into the tournament. He meets up with Mathis, his ally in Montenegro, and Vesper Lynd, a Treasury agent, who is assigned to look after his handling of the $10 million buy-in. After the tournament is underway for some time, Bond loses his initial stake. Vesper says that it would be a waste of money to continue to stake Bond and refuses to give him the $5 million he needs for a re-buy so he can continue playing.
Distraught over his failure, Bond resolves to assassinate Le Chiffre. Before he can, CIA agent Felix Leiter, who is also playing in the tournament, intervenes and offers to stake Bond in exchange for custody of Le Chiffre. Back in the game, Bond begins to amass chips. Le Chiffre and his associates attempt to kill Bond by poisoning his drink, but he survives and wins the tournament. Soon afterward, Le Chiffre abducts Vesper and uses her to lure Bond into a near-fatal car chase, which results in his capture as well. Le Chiffre tortures Bond for the access code to the game's winnings. When it becomes clear that Bond will not give in, Le Chiffre advances to castrate him, but Mr. White enters and kills Le Chiffre and his associates for their failure. Bond and Vesper are left alive.
Bond awakens in a hospital on Lake Como and orders Mathis, whom Le Chiffre identified as a double agent, arrested. Bond admits his love for Vesper and vows to quit the service before it strips him of his humanity. Accordingly, he posts his resignation to M and goes on a romantic holiday in Venice with Vesper. However, Bond soon learns that his poker winnings were never deposited in the Treasury's account. Realizing that Vesper has stolen them, he pursues her and members of the organization she is working for into a building under renovation. After killing the enemy guards outside and inside the building, Bond finds Vesper imprisoned in an elevator. Apologizing to him tearfully, she locks the inside door and the elevator plunges underwater. Bond attempts to rescue her, but she drowns before he can reach her. Mr. White, watching from a balcony, walks away with the money.
Bond, feeling betrayed, learns from M that Vesper had a French-Algerian boyfriend who was kidnapped by the organization behind Le Chiffre and Mr. White and that she agreed to deliver the money only if they would consent to leave Bond alive. He then discovers White's name and number in Vesper's mobile phone. White, arriving at a palatial estate near Lake Como, receives a phone call and asks for the caller to identify himself. As soon as he answers, he is shot in the leg. As he painfully crawls towards the villa, Bond appears, gun in hand, and responds, "The name's Bond. James Bond."




The Cast also I copied from Wikipedia. Thanks again.

• Daniel Craig as James Bond: A British agent who, after being assigned 00-status, is sent on a mission to arrest a bomb maker in Madagascar, where he stumbles upon Le Chiffre's terrorist cell and is then sent to defeat him in a high-stakes poker game at Casino Royale.
• Eva Green as Vesper Lynd: An agent for HM Treasury assigned to supervise Bond and finance his poker table exploits.
• Mads Mikkelsen as Le Chiffre: Main villain. A banker who services many of the world's terrorists. He is a mathematical genius and chess expert, and uses these skills when playing poker.
• Judi Dench as M: The strict head of MI6. Though she feels she has promoted Bond too soon and expresses abhorrence of his rash actions, she acts as an important maternal figure in his life. Dench was the only cast member carried through from the Brosnan films.
• Jeffrey Wright as Felix Leiter: A quiet CIA operative participating in the poker tournament while assisting Bond. This is the first official Bond film in which Leiter is played by a black actor. (The only other black actor to portray Felix Leiter was Bernie Casey in Never Say Never Again, which was not produced by EON.)
• Giancarlo Giannini as René Mathis: Bond's contact in Montenegro.
• Simon Abkarian as Alex Dimitrios: Another contractor in the international terrorist underworld and associate of Le Chiffre, based in the Bahamas.
• Caterina Murino as Solange Dimitrios: Dimitrios's wife, whom Bond seduces. She is killed by Le Chiffre for unintentionally revealing one of his plans to Bond.
• Ivana Miličević as Valenka: Le Chiffre's girlfriend.
• Isaach De Bankolé as Steven Obanno: A feared leader of the Lord's Resistance Army, introduced to Le Chiffre by Mr. White to account his finances.
• Jesper Christensen as Mr. White: A mysterious liaison for an unnamed terrorist organisation.
• Sébastien Foucan as Mollaka: A bombmaker pursued by Bond through a construction site in Madagascar.
• Tobias Menzies as Villiers: M's young secretary at MI6 Headquarters.
• Ludger Pistor as Mendel: A Swiss banker responsible for all monetary transactions during and after the poker tournament.
• Claudio Santamaria as Carlos: A terrorist employed by Le Chiffre to blow up an aircraft.
• Clemens Schick as Kratt: Le Chiffre's bald bodyguard who often accompanies his boss wherever he travels
• Joseph Millson as Carter: An MI6 agent who accompanies Bond in Madagascar.
• Immanuel-Roger Abraham as Williams: An MI6 agent who debriefs Bond in London.
• Daud Shah as Fisher: Dryden's underground contact whom he is paying to find out and sell the secrets of MI6 and M sends 007 to kill him. He is shot by 007 after feigning his drowning death after a long fight in a men's washroom in Pakistan.

Casino Royale includes a cameo by British entrepreneur Richard Branson (seen being frisked at Miami airport). The cameo was cut out of the in-flight versions shown on all airlines' in-flight entertainment systems, as was a shot of the Virgin Atlantic aircraft Branson supplied.

From this movie, I become to favorite Daniel Craig and Eva Green. 

As you know, before I watch this movie on 9p.m. , I have been planned to go sleep, but I can't sleep, so that I switch on the television and started to watch it from middle. So that, if it shown again on television, I will watch it from the start.

me, MJ

The Dilemma

The Dilemma is an upcoming comedy film written by Allan Loeb and directed by Ron Howard. The film is Howard's first comedy film since 2000's How the Grinch Stole Christmas. It stars Vince Vaughn, Kevin James, Jennifer Connelly, Winona Ryder, Channing Tatum, and Queen Latifah. The film will be produced by Howard and Brian Grazer of Imagine Entertainment, and will be distributed by Universal Pictures.

Ronny Valentine (Vince Vaughn) is unsure if he should tell his best friend and business partner Nick Backman (Kevin James) that his wife Geneva (Winona Ryder) is cheating on him with another man, Zip (Channing Tatum), after catching them in the act.

CAST

• Vince Vaughn as Ronny Valentine
• Kevin James as Nick Backman
• Jennifer Connelly as Beth Backman
• Winona Ryder as Geneva Backman
• Channing Tatum as Zip Hanson
• Queen Latifah as Dana Coleman
• Chelcie Ross as Thomas Fern
• Amy Morton as Diane Tutin
• Clint Howard as Plant Specialist