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Birds is among the best of the Hitchcocks, for me.
Not to be redundant, but Hinx really should have survived to the end of the story.
As long as he doesn t turn good that is fine by me.
The SP fight is probably as good as it will get, so I don't know what else they can do, because he's already gouged someone's eyes out too.
The SP fight was great, don't get me wrong, definitely one of my favorites, but we're aiming pretty low if we're saying that's as good as it will get. There are plenty of other scenarios or instances Bond could go up against someone like Hinx to make for something really exciting or memorable. If that's as good as it gets, then they set the bar very low, seeing as it's not even close to being the first time Bond squares off against someone of equal skill/increased size on a train (Red Grant, Jaws, Tee-Hee, Mischka, Patrice). They can do even better, as far as I'm concerned.
Big time.
If he succeeds in gouging Bond s eyes out, that would be something new.
I agree on Moore's fights, whatever it was that Moore was best at, it certainly wasn't fighting. The Bond vs Hinx fight had an energy that was lacking in the Moore fights.
Is there anyone on here more scientifically minded than me who can make sense of these calculations and lay to rest this tiresome notion of Hinx surviving?
http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/01/16/the-not-so-fine-art-of-hanging/
Hinx is easily over 200lbs so that would equate to a 5'4 rope for a conventional hanging.
The thing that needs calculating is the force from acceleration due to gravity of his body weight versus the force from the weight of approx 6 barrels falling out of a moving train on the end of about a 10-12 foot rope (estimates - I need to check the DVD to be sure on these two points).
I'm far from an expert but I'm pretty sure there was more than enough force to break his neck. And that's before you factor in any other injuries from falling out of a train and the fact he is then stuck in the middle of the desert alone and miles from a hospital.
Jaws could possibly have survived but I thought the Craig era was supposed to be realistic?
Except for Jaws it has never been done.
Sylvia Trench being the only other exception, but then she was initially planned to be a recurring character.
I believe that's Tchaikovsky I hear in the background. And could that be a field of rippling, golden wheat up ahead?
I believe Q has fashioned a set of spare Bond eyes for just that eventuality. He's very talented.
I don't see them bringing him back to have another one on one with Bond as visceral as the one in SP in the next consecutive film. It will seem like too much and reduce the impact of the SP fight, because they will be trying to top it. So he will have to be put into some other interesting scenarios with Bond. Perhaps a foot chase in an interesting pretitles location, where Bond escapes from him before they connect again. I'm not sure.
Or perhaps it's not a fight, but rather a hunt (like the end sequence in TMWTGG) and Bond shoots him first.
I just don't see them doing a fight scene with him and Bond again in the next film.
I believe they 'got that' with Jaws in MR and that's why they had to switch his character around, because otherwise it would just seem too repetitive of TSWLM.
Of course. Or he could just wear glasses.
Bond battered and bruised with Madeline. It could have forged their relationship somewhat and made his desire to leave (after almost being killed) more believable. Of course that would have meant switching up a lot of other elements, but that's what I would have done, eg. built it up into one massive encounter that starts with Hinx chasing the two of them and finishes with the fight.
I somehow feel that its placement in the film is odd as it stands. Massive violence followed by passionate sex.... and slow pacing on either end of it.
You got a point, it's unusual, that an "end-fight" with the henchman occurs in the middle of the movie.
But after 12 viewings that never entered my mind to be honest, so I guess, hope, it's not really an issue.
If I want look negatively on this, I'd say, Hinx was a bit wasted in Spectre. There could have been more of him I guess. But then the movie is long enough as it is and I can't think of any scene I would cut to have more Hinx in it.
I concur with you guys!
True, but it is destroyed by epileptic editing.