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009's playlist. Good grief.
If the editor was epilleptic, it would never look like that.
I mostly agree with you on this. One or two action scenes I wasntva fan of, the boat chase for example but I thought the Slate fight was one of the easier action scenes to follow, it still could have been edited better but it was satisfyingly brutal.
The Rome car chase isn't as bad after a few viewings but it's still a wasted opportunity. The 009 playlist was cringe and there just wasn't any real tension.
I wasn't too keen on the Slate/Bond fight. For me this is where it strayed into Bourne territory, and was also too brief. But the end, where Bond waits for Slate to die, was chilling and showed Bond to be the cold blooded killer he is!
Aye.
Quantum of Squalor could have used a bit of "silliness." Or at the very least, an ineffectual stab at humor.
"Come help me...find the stationary."
Gawd, that's awful.
The Rome car chase was a work of art. A 500-horsepower ballet burnished by fire and concluded by air and water.
The only good action scenes are Tosca--which is exalted by the score and sets--the aerial chase (sans Bond and Camille surviving an unsurvivable parachute drop), and the concluding sequence in Perla de las Dunas. In other words, the action begins atrociously and improves to mediocrity or high-mediocrity.
Ironically that being said there just wasn't any real substance to it.
I respect your opinion on this.
But it's a fact (I can't prove of course) that in my eleven viewings of Spectre at the cinema, that car chase sequence got the most laughter from the audience every time.
Be it the different buttons that didn't work like Bond wanted, be it his landing on the street after he was jettisoned from the car, be it Bond "chasing" the Fiat scene. Etc.
The humour worked big time.
As for the sense of pace. I agree, there isn't any, almost. But that is not the purpose of the sequence. I think most people still haven't understood that.
Fair enough. But I feel that it comes down to SP's problematic attempt to balance a playful tone and a Craig tone. It doesn't work for me.
And the humour might have worked publicly but it didn't for me, it was very, very predictable and very slapstick, I want smart humour in my Bond movies. For example, when Madeleine screams in the car "can none of you SPEAK!" after being kidnapped. I thought that was hilarious. The 'who are you working for' moment was nice as well.
Because that kind of campy humor is passe now. The Moore stuff just undercuts the story.
Bond as the cold-blooded killer is right. I think this is an imperfect but underrated story. There's some weak shots in the parachuting sequence, but man there's cool stuff here.
And that ending!
Lots to enjoy, for me.
And how would you define "substance" in the context of a cinematic car chase?
I don't get why some people suddenly don't like this kind of humour anymore when it is omnipresent throughout almost the whole franchise.
Just because Spectre isn't the dreary affair Skyfall is, humour isn't evil.
Fot starters, calling it a car chase is a stretch and i'd define it not as Bond nonchalantly cruising through the streets with utter disregard and disinterest in the huge muther****** following him with an increasing lack of intimidation factor as Bond sits back for a chit chat, showing a more concentrated and invested interest in who MP is spreading her legs for. Waste.
https://amp.twimg.com/v/b422ef98-094c-4f42-b3c7-daa05c3d0f0f
Not that I saw, watched that BTS look online yesterday and wondered the same thing.
Like the QoS alternate ending: why not release it online? Shell out and do a proper QoS edition and add it on there? The fact that they're sitting on a lot of good material from this era is a real shame, but from here on out, I'm not expecting to be showered in proper special features again.
As for deleted scenes or even alternative endings, bring them on.
Ah. I see. Now it's all clear as mud. Thank you.
This time and space just won't accept the campy stuff of the Moore era.
so far.