Saw the Bond movie, Quantum of Solace, this weekend. It was okay. It wasn't quite as good as the excellent Casino Royale, but I wasn't expecting it to be, especially considering the fact that I think Casino Royale is the best action movie of the decade after The Dark Knight. But Quantum of Solace wasn't a bad way to spend part of my Saturday night.
As is the tradition with James Bond movies, the title sequence was a major part of the experience. You can't assign the responsibility of naked dancing woman silhouettes and bodies falling through 3D space to just anybody, and the opening for Bond part twenty-two was put into the more than able hands and minds of MK12, a motion graphics design juggernaut based humbly out of Kansas City, Missouri. Every time you see some incredibly cool graphics on TV or in a movie, there's a ridiculously high chance that these guys were responsible for it, and I'm not even exaggerating when I say that. Here's what they did for Quantum, with Jack White and Alicia Keys handling the soundtrack:
Well, you've probably noticed by now how crap the video quality is. For some reason, MGM has yet to put an official version of the opening sequence online, so we're stuck with this pirated version (which serves them right I would say...if they were actually losing money from it). But hopefully the impressive work that MK12 has done is obvious.
Links:
MK12
Quantum of Solace
Posts
No comments:
Post a Comment