There Are 24 Mistakes In Quantum Of Solace, You Know
You know what ruined Quantum Of Solace for us? The way it was so rubbish that it made us want to shatter our cheekbone with a brick.
But you know what ruined Quantum Of Solace for other people? All the technical and factual mistakes that were littered throughout the film. In fact, movie mistake spotter Jon Sandys has listed all the mistakes in Quantum Of Solace and emailed them to us. So, after the jump, our favourite of the 24 Quantum Of Solace mistakes.
By which we were obviously referring to the 24 individual mistakes that can be found in Quantum Of Solace. Not the one big mistake where everyone working on Quantum Of Solace seemed to think they were making an episode of 24. Although that should be one of them. OK, there are 25 mistakes.
It doesn’t matter that Quantum Of Solace was so pointlessly action-packed that it was a giant urinating robot away from being Transformers. It doesn’t matter that the Bond baddie was just a bloke with a pond. It doesn’t even matter that halfway through it we started to bewilderingly get nostalgic about invisible cars, because Quantum Of Solace is a box office sensation.
And, never ones to muddle with a successful formula, that means that producers will continue making James Bond more and more thuggishly aggressive while the movie titles get more and more pretentious until, in 2013, we’ll be presented with a 007 movie called Polyodontidae Of Thalassography that consists of nothing but two hours of Daniel Craig kicking a burning toddler in the testicles.
So, as you may have guessed, Quantum Of Solace isn’t a perfect movie. But we hadn’t realised how imperfect it was. Luckily Jon Sandys of Moviemistakes.com has gone through Quantum Of Solace in forensic detail and has picked out all 24 mistakes found in the film. These mistakes include:
*At the end of “Casino Royale,” Bond is wearing a three-piece suit. Although “Quantum of Solace” begins just minutes later, Bond is wearing a completely different, two-piece, suit.
*When Bond is changing his clothes in the bathroom, he puts them in the sink where there is a movement sensor, which should have made the water turn on and soak all the clothes in the sink.
*In the opening car chase, Bond’s Aston Martin switches from silver to black.
*When Agent Fields meets Bond & Mathis at the airport in La Paz, Bolivia, she claims to be from the Consulate. As a capital city La Paz actually has an Embassy, whereas Consulates are generally found in secondary cities.
*In the opening car chase, the Aston Martin and Alfa Romeo go round a pack of cars stuck in traffic. When the policeman uses his radio, you can see a blue Vauxhall Corsa in the background. You can see the badge on it and it is actually a Vauxhall Corsa with Italian number-plates, which is incorrect as Vauxhall cars are branded as Opel in continental Europe.
*During the airborne chase, to escape certain demise in the canyon, Bond applied full power to both engines using the prop control levers (blue) and not the throttle set on the left of central quadrant.
In retrospect, we can see that Sandys has a point – the real reason we didn’t like Quantum Of Solace is because there aren’t even any Vauxhall Corsas in Italy. Stupid film.
Although a majestically pedantic and entertaining read, the Quantum Of Solace list isn’t exhaustive by any means. Here are a few that were omitted from the big Moviemistakes list:
*In one scene, James Bond can be seen wearing a cardigan. This is a mistake for about a million reason.
*The bit where the baddie lived in a hollowed-out volcano, killed people by dropping them into a shark tank or was actually genuinely menacing had been completely edited out, rendering the movie largely unintelligible.
*There was a slight factual error at the start of the movie. The title of the film was displayed as Quantum Of Solace, instead of the more factually-correct title – The Bourne Ultimatum.
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Please, please, please people- I’m begging you: get a life.
It’s escapism. I thought it was great!
Another grevious error: Bond never says”Bond. James Bond”
Blah blah blah, who cares.
Big deal, please, get a life, nothing is perfect, only people with TOO much time and envy will actually spots mistakes like the ones described here.
When I go to the cinema, I pay for entertaiment, not for detail accounts, nor for facts.
Every one of you need to remember, this is a movie. Just get lost in the film itself and stop nit picking their work. After all, you can’t do any better.
Really good movie, not great. Really great Bond as opposed to some previous iterations. I don’t care if there are no vauxhal corsas in Italy. I’ll take some minor breaks in continuity over the previously pedantic Bond of the last 20 years.
to the guy who spots all those mistakes. How many times a day do you say “10 minutes till wapner, 10 minutes till wapner” ????
what happened to all the cool gadgets?
I really enjoyed the movie and that is what that matters. Graving on mistakes would be plain pessimism
The part about the clothes in the sink not causing the water to turn on is correct. The faucets are only activated by the motion of warm objects, like hands. They are only sensitive to the infrared part of the EM spectrum. So throwing clothes under them would not turn them on unless the clothes were unusually hot.
what!? no meeting with Q?
Bond is a insomniac alcoholic?
This Bond film will rank amongst the lowest.
The mistake about Ms. Fields saying that she’s from the Consulate even though La Paz (being a capital) would rate an Embassy is easily explained: who said that she was in La Paz originally when instructed to meet Bond at the airport? She could have come straight to the airport from any one of the Consulates in South America that the UK has.
worst movie I’ve ever seen– total crap. What was the villian doing anyway? Changing oil into water?
The movie was unintelligble, had pointless action scenes, and completely sucked. I want my money back. This is the last bond film I’ll ever see. The Director had so much camera movement, not only did i not understand any of the action scenes, I was treated to a headache about 10 minutes into the movie.
My favourite Bond error is the helicopter chase in “You Only Live Twice”.
The helicopters behave like aeroplanes – they make passes at the swimming fugitives, giving them plenty of time to dive and dodge. The scriptwriters were unaware that a helicopter can hover in place.
Oh lay off Quantum of Solace it was a bloody good Bond movie. Please get a life and if you are going to do a review do it properly!!
Yeah, get a life, Stuart. Like, I dunno, writing a really funny satirical blog that sets out to amuse people and get others to tell you you need to get a life.
Desmond Llewelyn saw which way the wind was blowing. Now he laughs from beyond the grave at Cleese. No Q? F*ck you QoS!
To those who actually LIKE this new Bond. Don’t forget that just because it’s new, that doesn’t mean it’s any good. Remember asbestos? Quantum of Solace is the mesothelioma growing in all our chests. Five Bond films from now you’re all going to be begging for underwater cars to make a return. No, make that three. No, two.
The movie was crap.
Fuck anybody who thinks otherwise.
Stupid assholes.
Where is Q????
that wreked the movie?
He’s fucking dead you imbecile. He has been for the past three movies.
*In the opening car chase, the Aston Martin and Alfa Romeo go round a pack of cars stuck in traffic. When the policeman uses his radio, you can see a blue Vauxhall Corsa in the background. You can see the badge on it and it is actually a Vauxhall Corsa with Italian number-plates, which is incorrect as Vauxhall cars are branded as Opel in continental Europe.
Dont Be fucking Daft you can get both brand names in continental Europe even though its the same car with a different badge.