Showing posts with label Watches in Movies. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Watches in Movies. Show all posts

18.12.09

Watches in Movies: Anthony Zimmer, Body of Lies, I Am Legend, Get Smart and Iron Man.


Anthony Zimmer (2005)



(Chiara, Sophie Marceau, is wearing an IWC Portugese Wristwatch)

In Paris, the international police force and the Russian mafia are chasing Anthony Zimmer, who had an extensive plastic surgery, making not only his face, but also his voice, completely unknown. The means of reaching Zimmer is through his beloved mistress Chiara. While travelling François Taillandier is select by Chiara as if he were Zimmer and used as a bait to lure those that are pursuing her.

 



Body of Lies (2008)




(Ed Hoffman, Russell Crowe, is wearing a Breitling Emergency Wristwatch)

United State's Central Intelligence Agency's Middle East Representative, Roger Ferris, is based in Amman, Jordan, keeping a watch on a 'safe house' and believes it to be frequented by young Muslim males. He has information that Al Saleem may be behind terrorist attacks, but lacks any evidence to apprehend him or any of his associates.

I Am Legend (2007)


(Robert Neville, Will Smith, is wearing a Hamilton Khaki X-Wind Wristwatch)



It is the year 2012. In the ruins of New York city. Robert Neville, who is a military scientist lone survivor of a biochemical disease -which was supposed to cure cancer 3 years previous-. Robert is trying to discover a cure for this disease and to find out any other people who might have also survived.




Get Smart (2008)


(Maxwell Smart, Steve Carell, is wearing Hamilton Field Multi-Touch Wristwatch)



American Maxwell Smart works for a Government spy agency in an administrative capacity. The Chief decides to assign Maxwell as a spy and partners him with sexy Agent 99, much to her chagrin. The duo, handicapped by Maxwell's antics, will eventually have their identities compromised, and may be chalked up as casualties while back in America their attackers have already planted a bomb that is set-up to explode in a concert.






Iron Man (2008)


 



Tony Stark, Robert Downey Jr., is wearing a Bvlgari Diagono Chronograph Wristwatch.

Tony Stark is a playboy and also an engineering genius. While in Afghanistan demonstrating a new missile he's captured and wounded in order to assemble a missile, but instead, he creates an armoured suit and a means to prevent his death from the shrapnel left in his chest by the attack. 



















2.11.09

Watches in Movies: The World is not Enough, Into the Blue, Bad Company, The Brothers Bloom and Ocean’s Thirteen

The World is not Enough

An oil tycoon is murdered in MI6 and Bond is sent to protect his daughter. Renard, who has a bullet lodged in his brain from a previous agent, is secretly planning the destruction of a pipeline. Bond must work quickly to prevent Renard from destroying Europe.



James Bond (Pierce Brosnan) Wears Omega Seamaster Wristwatch.







Into the Blue (2005)

Sam and Jared are a diver and aspiring treasure hunter couple who found a historic wreck, but nearby is a wrecked airplane with a large quantity of cocaine. Jared and Sam want the treasure; their diving partners also want the drugs. Dangerous criminals realize the plane and cocaine are submerged somewhere in the area. When the bad guys learn that the couple has located the drugs, Jared and Sam find themselves in mortal peril.


 Jared (Paul Walker) Wears Hamilton Khaki Navy Wristwatch






Bad Company (2002)

 When a CIA agent is killed during a nuclear arms purchase, his partner Oakes, recruits his twin brother, Jake Hayes who has no idea about having a twin brother. Michael Turner has nine days to fill his brother's place.


Jake Hayes / Kevin Pope / Michael Turner (Chris Rock) Wears Hamilton Khaki Chronograph Wristwatch.




The Brothers Bloom (2008)
Brothers Stephen and Bloom have been surrounded by artists since they were kids. Stephen is the mastermind and Bloom is the main character of Stephen's stories, the character he considers the anti-hero. As Bloom hits his mid-thirties, he wants to quit the business as he is losing his own identity to that of the characters he portrays; he doesn't know anymore what is real and what is make-believe.


Bloom (Adrien Brody) Wears Tag Heuer Carrera Chronograph Wristwatch








Ocean’s Thirteen (2007)

Danny Ocean's team of criminals are back and are composing a plan more personal than ever. When ruthless casino owner Willy Bank double-crosses Reuben Tishkoff, causing a heart attack, Danny Ocean vows that him and his team will do anything to bring Willy Bank and everything he's got down. Even if it includes hiring help from one of their own enemies, Terry Benedict.



Rusty Ryan (Brad Pitt) Wears Rolex GMT Master II Wristwatch.
















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19.10.09

Watches in Movies: Undercover Brother, Collateral Damage, In the Electric Mist, Traitor and The Thomas Crown Affair

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Undercover Brother (2002)

Even though Anton Jackson, an African-American man, seems to be harmless he is a secret agent working in the all-black Brotherhood (the entity that levels the playing field against the all-white establishment).

(Anton Jackson -Eddie Griffin- wears a Breitling Counterfeit)



Collateral Damage (2002)

Firefighter Gordon Brewer is plunged into the complex world of international terrorism after he loses his wife and child in a bombing credited to Claudio "The Wolf" Perrini. Frustrated with the official investigation and desiring justice, he takes this matter into his own hands and tracks his quarry ultimately to Colombia.


(Gordy Brewer -Arnold Schwarzenegger- wears a Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Offshore)




In the Electric Mist (2009)

New Iberia Lt. Dave Robicheaux is trying to link the murder of a local hooker to New Orleans mobster Julie (Baby Feet) Balboni-back in his home parish as co-producer of Hollywood director Michael Goldman's Civil War film.

(Dave Robicheaux -Tommy Lee Jones- wears a Breitling wristwatch)




Traitor (2008)

Samir Horn (Don Cheadle), a devout American Muslim, and a former U.S. Army Special Forces expert in explosives, has been mysteriously showing up on the FBI's radar for being in the area of terrorist bombings. FBI agent Roy Clayton (Guy Pearce) heads up the force investigation to link Horn to these bombings. Clayton is able to question Horn after he was arrested in Yemen for attempting to sell explosives to an Islamic terrorist group. Clayton must capture Horn (after he run away from prision) before he strikes his next target.

(Omar -Said Taghmaoui- wears a Breitling wristwatch)





(Iqbal -Elias Zarou- wears a Rolex President wristwatch)






The Thomas Crown Affair (1999)

A bored multi-millionaire struggling to find new challenges arranges for the theft of a Monet painting from a museum. This sets a sexy insurance investigator after him, but unexpectedly the two fall in love.

(Thomas Crown -Pierce Brosnan- wears a Jaeger-LeCoultre Reverso Duo)













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5.10.09

Watches in Movies: Live and Let Die, Land of the Dead, Knocked Up, Wild Hogs and Kill Bill Vol. 2

Live and Let Die (1973)


Several British agents have been murdered and James Bond is sent to New York in order to investigate their mysterious deaths. Mr. Big, who is self producing heroin, comes to his knowledge. During his journeys, he meets Tee Hee, Baron Samedi and Solitaire.


(James Bond (Roger Moore) wears a Rolex Submariner)


Land of the Dead (2005)

In a world full of zombies and survivors who barricaded themselves inside a walled city in order to keep out the living dead, a group of survivors must find a way to stop the evolving zombies from breaking into the city.

(Cholo, John Leguizamo, wears a TAG Heuer wristwatch)


Knocked Up (2007)

A one night stand turns into the unexpected for Ben, when Alison announces to him that she is now pregnant with his child. Ben decides that the best thing to do is to get his life sorted so he can care for Alison and his new child, job not easy for him.


(Ben's dad, Harold Ramis, wears a Panerai wristwatch)


Wild Hogs (2007)

Four middle-aged men decide to take a road trip from Cincinnati to the Pacific in order to get away from their lives which are leading them nowhere. Taking their motorcycles, these "Wild Hogs" tear up the road and eventually stop in New Mexico for a drink not knowing that the bar belongs to the "Del Fuegos", a mena gang.


(Woody Stevens, John Travolta, wears a Breitling watch)


Kill Bill Vol. 2 (2004)

The murderous Bride is back and she is still continuing her vengeance quest against her ex-boss, Bill, and taking aim at Bill's younger brother Budd and Elle Driver, the only survivor from the squad that betrayed her four years earlier.

(The Bride, Uma Thurman, wears a Counterfeit Rolex Daytona)



















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21.9.09

Watches in Movies: Daylight, Win a Date with Tad Hamilton, Superman Returns, Pulp Fiction and Ronin.


Daylight (1996)

A runaway car hits a truck full of toxic waste causing an explosion that seals both exit of an underground tunnel between Manhattan and New Jersey. It's up to Kit Latura (Sylvester Stallone), disgraced ex-chief of the city's Emergency Medical Services, to find a way in and bring out the survivors before air runs out or the Hudson River runs in.



Kit Latura (Sylvester Stallone) wears a Panerai Luminor Marina.






Win a Date with Tad Hamilton (2004)

This is a story about a young girl who lives in west Virginia named Rosalie Futch. She is a huge fan of Hollywood’s bad-boy Tad Hamilton. When a contest called "win a date with tad hamilton!" is set up, Rosalie enters and wins. When Tad meets her, he falls in love with her. At the same time, her best guy friend, Pete Monash (who is in love with Rosalie and confesses his love for her). Poor Rosalie finds herself in the middle of a love triangle having to choose between her best friend and the Hollywood hunk whose pictures and posters are hanging from the walls of all American girls bedrooms?



Tad Hamilton (Josh Duhamel) wears a TAG Heuer Monaco Chronograph.






Superman Returns (2006)

After a long period in the space looking for the remains of planet Krypton, Superman returns to Earth. He misses Lois Lane, who lives with Richard White and has a son. Meanwhile, Lex Luthor has plotted an evil plan, using crystals he stole from the Fortress of Solitude, to create a new land and submerge the USA.



Lex Luthor (Kevin Spacey) wears a TAG Heuer Autavia





Pulp Fiction (1994)

Jules Winnfield and Vincent Vega are two hitmen who are out to retrieve a suitcase stolen from their employer, mob boss Marsellus Wallace. Wallace has also asked Vincent to take his wife Mia out a few days later when Wallace himself will be out of town. The lives of these seemingly unrelated people are woven together comprising of a series of humorous, bizarre and unprovoked incidents.



Winston Wolfe (Harvey Keitel) sports an 18k gold plated Gucci '3000' with integrated bracelet in Pulp Fiction.




















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7.9.09

Watches in Movies: The Recruit, S.W.A.T., Men in Black, Die Another Day and Die Hard: With a Vengeance

The Recruit

James Clayton is one of the top prospects in the new crop of CIA recruits. His intelligence and unconventional attitude attract the attention of veteran Walter Burke who squires him through the Agency's difficult training courses and helps him to quickly rise through the ranks. Clayton is then given a special assignment, to root out a suspected mole that has infiltrated the Agency.



TAG Heuer Kirium F1

James Douglas Clayton (Colin Farrell) wears a TAG Heuer in The Recruit.





S.W.A.T.

Jim Street is a former S.W.A.T. team member, who along with Brian Gamble, is thrown off the team. Gamble quits the force in disgust, but for Street, being a policeman is his life and he agrees to a demotion, hoping to someday have the chance to redeem himself and once again wear the privileged S.W.A.T. uniform.


Hamilton Khaki Field Multi-Touch (S.W.A.T. Edition)

Sgt. Dan 'Hondo' Harrelson (Samuel L. Jackson) wears a SWAT Edition Khaki Field Multi-Touch.




The adventures of two federal agent men Agent Kay and Agent Jay also known as "The Men in Black," who keep an eye on aliens in New York City must try to save the world after the aliens threaten to blow it up.


Breitling Chronograph

Before becoming Agent J, James Edwards (Will Smith) wore a Breitling chronograph.




Die Another Day

After being imprisoned and tormented while on a mission in North Korea, Bond is traded for a psychotic terrorist and released back to M16, only to be accused of giving information. Bond escapes and goes after Zao, a deranged terrorist who knows who betrayed Bond to the North Koreans


Omega Seamaster Professional James Bond (Pierce Brosnan) wears an Omega Seamaster Professional.







Breitling Chronograph

John McClane (Bruce Willis) looks to be wearing a Breitling Chronograph on the under side of his wrist in this third Die Hard instalment.













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27.7.09

Watches in Movies: Apollo 13, The Bone Collector, Casino Royale, Constantine and Elizabethtown.

Apollo 13 (1995)

The film Apollo 13 was based on the real events of the worst NASA’s tragedy. Back in 1971 when NASA planed to send out people to the Moon for a lunar mission, they had chosen astronauts Jim Lovell, Frad Haise and Jack Swigert. Even they launched into outer space successfully; a slight fault from inside space module caused an explosion that turned the exploration into a survival test the whole crew of Apollo 13. While Loveel, Haise, and Swigert were trying to survive in space, the workers at NASA were trying to figure out a way of getting the astronauts home safely.

Many Omega Speedmaster watches are seen during this movie as many of the characters wore one, including Jim Lovell (Tom Hanks), Fred Haise (Bill Paxton) and Jack Swigert (Kevin Bacon).




The Bone Collector (1999)

Quadriplegic ex-cop Lincoln Rhyme was looking forward to his assisted suicide when he got the news: some psycho was kidnapping people in a taxi and leaving them to die in particularly atrocious ways.

The chosen brand this time was TAG Heuer, the Kirium model. Detective Paulie Sellitto (Ed O’Neil) wore a TAG Heuer Kirium quartz watch.





Casino Royale (2006)

James Bond goes on his first ever mission as a 00. Le Chiffre is a banker to the world's terrorists that is participating in a poker game at Montenegro, where he must win back his money, in order to stay safe among the terrorist market. The boss of MI6, known simply as M sends Bond, along with Vesper Lynd to attend this game and prevent Le Chiffre from winning. Bond, using help from Felix Leiter, Mathis and having Vesper pose as his wife, enters the most important poker game in his already dangerous career.

James Bond wears an Omega Seamaster Professional Watch and, after achieving "00" status, Bond switched to the blue-dialled Seamaster Professional.




Constantine (2005)

John Constantine is the exorcist who has been to Hell and back and whose soul was sentenced to hell. After the mysterious suicide of her twin sister, detective Angela Dodson goes out in search of the truth. Together, Constantine and Angela battle the demons on Earth.

Constantine wore an Oris Modern Classic Watch















Elizabethtown (2005)

After causing a loss of almost one billion dollars in his company, the shoe designer Drew Baylor decides to commit suicide. However, he receives a phone call from his sister telling him that his beloved father had just died in Elizabethtown, and he should bring him back since his mother had problem with the relatives of his father. He travels in an empty red eye flight and meets the attendant Claire Colburn, who changes his view and perspective of life. Drew Baylor (Orlando Bloom) wears a Panerai 1950.













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6.7.09

Watches in Movies: After the Sunset (2004), You, Me and Dupree (2006), War of the Worlds (2005), Thunderbirds (2004) and Thunderball (1965)

Thunderball (1965)


Thunderball (1965) is the fourth of the James Bond series and also the fourth to star Sean Connery as agent James Adapted to the novel by Ian Fleming (based on an original screenplay by Jack Whittingham). Directed by Terence Young with screenplay by Richard Maibaum and John Hopkins.


Breitling Top Time

Sean Connery wearing a Breitling Top Time






Breitling Top Time

James Bond (Sean Connery) a Breitling Top Time.







Rolex Submariner

James Bond (Sean Connery) wearing his Rolex.









Thunderbirds (2004)

Thunderbirds a film based on television series, also named Thunderbirds, directed by Jonathan Frakes. The film was written by William Osborne and Michael McCullers. The

film features live action actors playing the Tracy brothers not as in the television seres, where they used the Supermarionation marionettes.

"Steve McQueen" TAG Heuer Monaco

The TAG Heuer worn by Jeff Tracy (Bill Paxton) in the film Thunderbirds.











War of the Worlds (2005)

War of the Worlds is a film based on H. G. Wells' original novel. With a sensational starring including Tom Cruise, Dakota Fanning, Miranda Otto and Justin Chatwin it was directed by Steven Spielberg and written by Josh Friedman and David Koepp.

Omega Chronograph

Tom Cruise is wearing a vintage Omega Chronograph.








Omega Chronograph

Ray Ferrier (Tom Cruise) is wearing a vintage Omega Chronograph









You, Me and Dupree (2006)

You, Me and Dupree is a comedy film directed by Anthony Russo and Joe Russo, written by Mike LeSieur and produced by

Mary Parent, Scott Stuber, and Owen Wilson. The film is based on Carl and Molly Peterson (Matt Dillon and Kate Hudson), inviting the best man of their wedding, Randolph Dupree (Owen Wilson) to move in with them after he has lost his job and apartment.

Jaeger LeCoultre (JLC) Master Compressor

Carl (Matt Dillon) is wearing a Jaeger LeCoultre (JLC) Master Compressor.

Panerai PAM 70

Max Burdett (Pierce Brosnan) is wearing a Panerai.



















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