Wednesday, February 15, 2012

Watches in Movies: Tomorrow Never Dies (1997), Stranger Than Fiction (2006), Pulp Fiction (1994), Rambo (2008) and Push (2009).

Anthony Zimmer (2005)

In Paris, the international police force together with the Russian mafia is trying to chase Anthony Zimmer, a man responsible for laundry of dirty money in France. The only means of reaching Zimmer is through his beloved mistress Chiara, who is under surveillance of the police and the mobsters.
Anthony Zimmer
IWC Limited Edition Portuguese Chronograph
Chiara (Sophie Marceau) is wearing a IWC Portuguese
Tomorrow Never Dies (1997)
Agent James Bond 007 is on a mission that includes a media magnate, his former lover and a Chinese agent. Bond gains the helping of Wai Lin on his quest to stop him, but how will Bond feel when he meets up with his former lover, who is know Carver’s wife.
Tomorrow never dies OMEGA SPEEDMASTER PORF
Omega Seamaster Professional
An x-ray of an Omega Seamaster from the opening credits.
Stranger Than Fiction (2006)
Harold Crick is your average IRS agent: monotonous, boring and repetitive. One day Harold begins to hear an author inside his head narrating his life.
Stranger Than Fiction timex ironman
Timex Ironman
Harold Crick (Will Ferrell) wears a Timex Ironman
Pulp Fiction (1994)
Jules Winnfield and Vincent Vega are two hit men up 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. Butch Coolidge is an aging boxer who is paid by Wallace to lose his next fight. The lives of these seemingly unrelated people are woven together comprising of a series of funny, bizarre and uncalled-for incidents.
Pulp Fiction Lancet wwi
Lancet WWI Trench Watch
A close-up shot of the watch worn
Rambo (2008)
In Thailand, John Rambo is living peacefully capturing snakes and transporting people and cargo in an old boat. But when he joins a group of mercenaries to venture into war-torn Burma and rescue a group of Christian aid workers who were kidnapped by the ruthless local infantry unit. Rambo refuses, but is convinced by another member, Sarah Miller, to take them up there. When the aid workers are captured by the Burmese army, Rambo decides to venture alone into the war zone to rescue them.
Rambo-Panerai

Panerai Marina Base PVD
Rambo (Sylvester Stalone) wears a Panerai Marina Base in PVD
Push (2009)
A group of young American ex-pats with telekinetic and clairvoyant abilities are hiding from a clandestine U.S. government agency. They must utilize their different talents and band together for a final job enabling them to escape the agency forever.