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I think QOS may be in need of a re-watch, think it may feel rather fresh after watching Spectre.
What sets Hinx apart--and above virtually all the rest--is the believability factor. Hinx actually seems like a bona fide menace--unlike cartoon characters Oddjob and Jaws--and a certifiable threat to Bond's existence. He is the most frightening Bond henchman of them all.
I think they should have excluded that car chase (or had someone else chase Bond rather than Hinx) and have him kill a few more people in a row, before getting to the fight which I admit was top notch (if derivative in terms of location on a train).
Who? Elvis?
The purpose of the chase appeared to be to showcase some nice locations in Rome, act as a Jag/Aston car ad (beauties undoubtedly, both of them) and provide some exposition on plot via MP (the legendary: "Of course! Mr. White!!).
It really didn't need a menacing, murdering henchman in the car.
It could have been Michael G. Wilson for all I care. Still a great scene.
What would have prevented the removal of menace in the car chase and plane chase? Him killing Bond? Brilliant idea.
Mickey Mouse.
You're quite right. When Hinx pulled alongside of Bond he should have thrown a bowler at him or stuck his head out the window and bit a roof strut in two. That's what I call menace.
Didn't we already get him in this film? Twice, if you count the CGI mouse.
Again, not quite what I would have done, but to each their own. Carry on. You're on a roll here.
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Is this line Craig's equivalent of Brozza's 'Knew all about my shoulder'?
Agreed that they might as well have had Clarkson driving but I don't have a major problem with Hinx driving the car as it doesn't really matter who drives.
The problem with him is he doesn't really do anything. In the meeting scene we are shown a man mountain and a ruthless killer so we know when him and Bond finally go at it it will be epic. And it is.
The trouble is inbetween those two scenes he just drives around harmlessly and does absolutely nothing.
Finally, as I said at the start, we had the great train fight, but by then some of that 'fear' that was introduced at the very start had been lost (for me) due to the intervening scenes.
At least with Jaws in TSWLM, we start with Fekkish at the pyramids, then Kalba in the phone booth, then the tense Luxor Temple scene with Anya/Bond (all chilling scenes imho) and only after all of that do we get the comedic dropping of stone on foot. So the buildup helps to establish him for some time as a worthy, credible and deadly adversary before the other shoe drops
You're joking right?
I thought Naomi Harris's 'It's some sort of sadistic game' would be the worst delivered line of the Craig era but I think Dan might just have sneaked it with that.
Mommy....was....verybad.
THAT'S the worst delivered line of the Craig era if not the franchise itself. Probably a homage to Dr. Evil or mini-me.
The Mr. White line makes annoys me a little but that's it. I have no problem with the sadistic game line. I have a much bigger problem with Q's 'one piece' joke in SP. That was just juvenile.
Dick.
The worst line in the franchise is "It was me James, the author of all your pain". It makes me feel secondhand embarrassment.