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Sounds like Austin Powers, old chap.
I'm more of a Bentley kind of toff!
Quite. I'd have done a much better job. For less money too.
Nope, but your question is. :D
Anyway, unfortunately, that scene never really worked.
Both are horrendous, which bad should i choose? well at least DAD was exciting and ridiculous . SP was plain boring and ridiculous.
Me too. The torture scene is intense and well acted. The escape is utterly ridiculous.
At least in DAD, even with its below par CGI, the action isn't entirely bad & the Bond theme is played triumphantly.
Bad CGI.
Agree with all of this. They should have extended the escape with an inventive action sequence and made it the end of the film, with a short epilogue (a la QoS).
Exactly, something of this ilk.
Imagine if the epilogue was just showing Blofeld, freshly scarred in London, maybe regrouping with some Spectre agents, and then he hits the button, and the last shot of the film is Vauxhall Cross being destroyed? No music, then cut to black. Would have been very symbolic and cool.
Cool, sounds Stylishly Sinister. It seems everytime we review SP, it further reveals how much of a missed opportunity it is. I know film directing isn't easy....but, each time we suggest ideas that would have improved SP in this forum, we sound like acclaimed Film Directors LOL.
Lol for sure :P
I think a wide shot of MI6 falling to the ground to end the film would have been a great way to set up the threat of Blofeld and Spectre for future films, had they not made SP to be a send off to Craig. Would have mirrored the explosion of Blofeld’s base as well.
Yeah, I can imagine this.
I agree that the torture scene (in which I can accept Blofeld having scientific reason for what he's doing, somehow) should have been followed by an extensive action scene. It shouldn't have ended there though without a great ending. I think SP needs both Morocco and London for a somewhat satisfyingly spectacular Bond film ending.
Nice idea with the MI6 explosion :--) but I prefer happy endings.
Very much fair enough! And they definitely wanted a happy ending for this one as well, what with it being (what they thought at the time, I'm sure, as) Craig's sendoff.
I did like the moment, though, where the lair explodes, and you see Bond and Swann fly off in one direction, and Blofeld & Friends drive off in the other. Like the destruction of the lair was just one chess move in their broader game, and both teams move forward to regroup and battle again.
This (to me) further illustrates that the huge explosion was caused by someone hitting the 'self destruct' on the lair; in the grand scheme of things this lair was just one of Spectre's many pieces on the board.
Nice aspect with the two teams. But they should have shown the bad guys more in this scene, if that concept is correct at that moment (or did they, a bit later? can't remember). I've also never heard of this interesting self destruct theory.
Anyhow, I like the crater, Waltz, the explosion (although everything is too easy before) and the music score.
I think it's important to pay close attention to those little lines, like "this isn't over", which carry a lot of weight in communicating what's going on. Similarly to "too easy", which Bond utters in GoldenEye when he and Alec break into the gas tanks room, indicating Alec and Ourumov were working together at that point, and their idea was to get Bond and Alec into that room to stage Alec's death. Nothing is random.
The plotting done by Trevelyan and Ourumov is really great. 😄
My thought was that Blofeld was incapacitated and needed his men to get him out, and one of these henchmen hit the switch, maybe on an order to do so “if the facility was ever compromised” or something to that effect?
Could be. There are massive gas tanks everywhere, aren't there? Is it mentioned why they're there?
:D
The gas tanks were there because the Spectre organisation craved the Guinness record for the biggest film stunt explosion ever, but they couldn't mention that. 😊
I think the debate is whether or not they activated a self destruct on the Lair.
I think Bond and Swann both assume Blofeld to be dead in the lair, hence the line “the deceased head of Spectre, Ernst Stavro Blofeld” in London. Showing the cars driving away from the exploding lair is just for us. Bond doesn’t see it.