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Oh, nevermind, SF is obviously infinitely better because they added some quotes from a poet in it. Of course! #1 Bond of all time for me, then.
Ha!
Silva wanted to personally kill M???
But let's a small army make a Swiss cheese out of the Skyfall mansion?
Makes perfect sense. Like the rest of the movie.
We may as well just call it Skyfall Disappreciation Thread.
I think this thread is living proof of that.
Nah, 'flourishes in small circles' thread is apropos.
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SPECTRE is hugely flawed devisve one and will likely stay that way, it's only a faction of the hard core fans that seem to worship it and think it's so good
SPECTRE might have a more coherent plot but boy is it dull, after the PTS it never really recovers, as for TWINE being like SF, I can see an argument to a degree it's just SF is not a wildly jarring film with it's tone all over the place and huge waste of Robert Carlyle.
Is it possible to make a car chase so un suspenseful well Mendes manages it even with all the toys he has at his beck and call. I orginally tried to make excuses for the uneventful execution of that much touted scene when I first saw it but the second time round it just feels like they are going through the motions.
Bond & Whites scene is great but could have been better, Bond and Swann but boy that plane chase is utter rubbish and about as exciting as watching paint dry. Train fight yeah that is good but it's all down hill from there.
Skyfall has one of the best PTS of the series, Bond in Shanghai fighting Patrice hugely tense and also the hugely enjoyable Macau sequence. I sometimes wonder if the same team made SPECTRE considering it's tenseless, uneventful auto pilot like execution.
Some clearly really don't like Bardem as Silva and while I wouldn't put him up with Le Chiffre, Dr No or Telly's Blofeld I certainly think he makes more of an impact than Waltz does.
As for the likes of Jonathan Pryce (utterly attrocious), Carlyle & Marceu (decidely dull) and of course Toby Stephens well Bardem is in another class all together.
Bardem was larger than life and utterly absurd like all the best Bond villains. Mads was so good but his more realistic caged animal like reading was right for CR but Skyfall needed an unhnged loon and Bardem fit that perfectly, Waltz was just uttely disappointing and given some right awful dialogue to spout.
I agree with a lot of this.
I seem to recall quite a lot of praise for Bardem's Silva when SF came out. He was one of the reasons a lot of the critics liked that film. There were lots of comparisons to Ledger's Joker, but they also said that he was a throwback to the larger than life, somewhat camp villains of yore, and I agree.
I prefer SF, too, but I watch SP a lot more right now: it's still got a novelty thing going for it.
That's the same fraction that likes GE.
Very small indeed :))
I say it's a small fraction that has difficulty accepting the reality that the general public welcomed James Bond back in SP with open arms and didn't mind getting a more traditional Bond back.