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As for the ending, I'm trying very hard to find a deus ex machina, but I can't. I don't think there's any moment where anything implausible happens that makes Bond get out of it in the last second in an improbable fashion; nothing feels convenient about the ending for me. Blofeld gives him mere minutes, he goes mad trying to find Madeleine and eventually finds her, tactically using the net to save them both as the time winds down (I thought that was clever, personally). The boat isn't a deus ex machina in my mind either, as we saw it earlier and its location at the Thames entrance to the building is where we'd expect it to be. It all feels plausible, or at least as plausible as a situation can be where you're escaping a bomb that's set to implode your old place of employment. Of course, haven't we all been there once or twice?
I don't know why, but I've never seen a satisfying finale in London. The Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation finale felt the same way as SP this year for me: 50/50; okay, but not as great as what came before.
We know from some leaks that the third act was the one that was in constant flux during the scripting process. The first two acts were very much in place for a long while, and the lead up to the finale and the finale itself were the sections that were really difficult to settle down, for whatever reason. That certainly didn't help.
2. Skyfall
Liked them both, but I like the references to the older films in Spectre since I'm an old man.
Q says that the watch has a very loud alarm
2.Spectre
What I thought in that scene was that Q was subtly telling Bond that the Aston had a loud alarm if he was thinking of stealing it, not that the watch could explode.
I don't see how that was so obvious to some people right from the start. It's just not a well constructed scene.
Honestly, if I was in that situation and Q told me the same thing, I'd look at him and say, "hmm, I'll have to try that out later." Only if he gave me a wide eyed look would I know that the actual alarm wasn't what he was referring to.
And of course the dialogue Bond and Q share just moments before had Q saying that all it did was tell time, which in my mind made me think he was actually being truthful. People have acted like it's some clear, neon-flashing indicator but when the scene downplays this so-called reveal of the watch bomb with comments about how it does nothing beyond what any normal wristwatch does, I quite understandably get confused. I like my interpretation of the scene much better, where Q is subtly helping Bond steal the Aston and go rogue.
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- Skyfail
If I want a childhood-trauma ensemble piece I'll watch a Tim Burton film, thank you very much.
So what is the thing with the minute setting?
RE: the watch - it was clear to me that the mention of the alarm suggested the watch had an explosive in it. Bond sarcastically asks if it does anything. Q says it tells the time in response to his sarcasm, but then fills him in on the alarm to reassure him that it's more than just a timepiece, and Bond knowingly smiles - "the alarm is rather loud if you know what i mean" is what gives it away to me that it's not actually an alarm, but rather, something more potent. English subtlety. That's all that is required here. Bond is Bond. He gets it and he doesn't need instructions.
However, as I said elsewhere, knowing this fact took all the tension out of the torture scene, despite Bond's screams of pain, because they flashed the Omega early in that scene and I was just waiting for him to find a way to arm it, which Madeline conveniently gave him when she happened to walk up to him to declare her love...rather surprisingly at the time given they'd just met. Just give him a Rolex next time and let's be done with this product placement nonsense please - I don't care how much Omega is paying.
That's the great appeal of the Fleming novels to me. Bond all on his own (without a cavalry) and overcoming the odds through brute strength and ingenuity. That's the hero I look up to.
2. SF
2. SF
Reckon its SP!
2 or 3 years from now, we can ask the question again, and then we'll get a more balanced answer.
TB is one of the movies that some either love or hate. But this SP-SF thing is also interesting.
I for one am baffled at home some people can prefer SP over SF, but yet here we are.
It's really interesting to see how people have different opinions, and yet we're all Bond fans and like the same thing, and yet we have different expectations/opinions for the thing we like
Yes ..we're pretty much all psychotic know-it-alls too. Jk
I prefer SP to SF.
I prefer MR and DAF to FYEO and LTK.
Different strokes for different folks. :)
And that's all the better :).
Why did he think MI6's resident computer expert would plug his laptop into their own system?