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Like I said, not the actors fault, poor writing and storytelling.
Either that, or maybe this "one picture deal" is quietly a handover to the intended buyer.
Please EON give us a good old fashioned Bond film.
If they wanted no twist, then why didn't they announce that Waltz played Blofeld? Clearly, they wanted us to be surprised.
I completely agree. That's one of SPECTRE's main issues.
You mean the way Fleming did with Blofeld back in the '60s?
Mendes really crippled the Craig era creatively. After CR this era was full of so much promise, heck even SF is largely forgivable and what it offered should have been left there as well as Mendes' contribution to the series. What were EoN thinking? They've been doing this long enough now and they know who the draw is and as great as Craig is l'm sorry but it's NOT him. Never has and never was. If Bond can survive Connery, Moore and Brosnan then Craig's overstated value placed upon by EoN just perplexes me.
I love Craig in the role but given what's transpired I'm ambivalent about his return and quite frankly I'm indifferent towards Bond's future until I see a Bond film that finally delivers on the hype after so long and makes the character and his world enticingly great again. I'm so bored with the disappointment and not just that but the disappointment after frequent lengthy gaps.
EON has also shown it's inability to hide a twist when there actually is one. The '006 is the villain' twist in GE, the 'Elektra is the villain' twist in TWINE and the 'Vesper dies at the end' of CR were all blatantly spoiled in the trailers for the respective films.
This last one is just a laughable premise in itself. It was a 'headshake' moment to me and perhaps even more so to the average movie goer for whom the name means nothing. I can just see someone saying the following to their buddy:
'So this guy who hates James so much due to some childhood spat has a secret name he took from his mother's side? Who cares? Did I miss something?'
Perhaps Craig's four films aren't a perfect quadrilogy. But to me his films are more fun by watching all of them altogether. You can even see small references from CR in SF. When it comes to colors, production techniques, the acting, the more intense drama, the deeper themes of the films.......CR, QOS, SF and SP to me are actually a pretty good quadrilogy. And most likely...I have to update below collages again in 2019 ;-). In any case, Ian Fleming would have been proud of these four films, as they represent the same amount of continuity/chronology that his novels had:
Let's not forget the cunning subterfuge of 'Naomie Harris is just playing a character called Eve. Definitely not Moneypenny'
I imagine every time EON pull out one of these genius twists they dance around the office shouting 'Hahaha I fooled you' like Nick Nack in the fun house.
Youve hired double Oscar winner Christoph Waltz so clearly he is the main villain and in a film called SPECTRE, unless you've got an uncredited cameo by Daniel Day Lewis or Brando up your sleeve, then he's obviously going to be playing Blofeld so why treat everyone like children by pretending he isn't?
A new low for EON. When people are comparing the quality of your writing to the monumentally appalling Devil May Care it's time to realise you really would have been better off hiring a pair of the proverbial infinite monkeys who are trying to write the complete works of Shakespeare and let them have a prod at a typewriter for a few months. Couldn't have been a lot worse really.
Well, with your criticism the Bond franchise would certainly sail into better territories no?
That, hands down, is one of the most idiotic PR interview ever made by any cast/crew member involved in a Bond movie. Eve being Moneypenny or not was totally not important, but whatever ounce of surprise a few of us Bond fans could have had when she reveals her name in the last scene of SF was gone the moment Harris said 'I am not Moneypenny', as it was now obvious to everyone that Eve really was Moneypenny.
Or they could have just watched Austin Powers in Goldmember, cleaned up the chocolate milk that shot out of their noses from shock, then jumped on the phone to cuss Logan out for defamation of Fleming's legacy, silly plagiarism, and gross incompetence.
But Craig already got rid of his PPK a few times. I recall he also used the P99
http://www.imfdb.org/images/thumb/c/cc/Cr-w99a.jpg/601px-Cr-w99a.jpg
I did enjoy that. And people say Carry On humour is dead.
I was all for Mendes coming back after Skyfall, but looking back it was a mistake.
Spectre was probably the best film on paper since CR, the problem is the action is misdirected, & it has clunky subpar moments.
I think EON has seen where they misfired & will right the ship in 2019.
EON moved faster than we thought though, they had a first draft last year & hired a director probably earlier this year,
First Bond selected by BB and MGW, rather than Albert R. Broccoli.
Difficult to cut that cord but eventually it must be done.
While Bond is certainly bigger than any one actor, there's a lot weighing on the selection of each new Bond actor. They scored with Craig. Perhaps there's some worry about striking gold twice.
If only they hadn't tied themselves down with this silly connected storyline I wouldn't be so inclined to want a change.
Anyway it's probably moot, because if reports are to be believed he's back.