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Well, ALL of those are better than SP, that's for sure.
His first four are great in my opinion.
Then the 80s hit
MR is ranked behind SP because I can't stand the last 30 minutes in space. Nevertheless, MR (and all Roger movies) is/are more entertaining than SP.
You nailed it. I would also add Q and my top five moments are all included. The first half of SP is at least solid, the second half is disappointing apart from the intense train fight.
Good find, slide.
MR with some nips and tucks (particularly if Jaws is kept out of the film until after Chang dies, and if you take out the boat chase entirely--just have Moore parachute into the pyramids) would play a lot better. TMWTGG and AVTAK have much bigger issues that editing can't fix.
Craig with three hits (CR, QOS, SF), one miss (SP), and one that is on both ends (NTTD). 3-1-1
I do wonder how his tenure would be viewed if that was his only bunch of films.
Craig has 3 masterpieces CR - QOS - SF.
NTTD is solid upper middle ground.
SP is right in the middle for me.
It's so odd to me that we agree on TMWTGG yet disagree on SF> I'm perplexed....
Dalton's first two were excellent, every film he made after that it didn't even seem like a Bond movie at all.
I'm not even talking about personal angles. I enjoy that stuff when its done right, but I just feel Spectre messed up on what Skyfall seemed to promise.
After my absolutely dismal experience with SF, SP was a welcome relief. That said, it's still not a great Bond. IMO, of course.
There's one brief flash of the Blofeld that Waltz could've been - when he looks at the henchman as a signal to knock Bond unconscious. Just in that one quick shot, Waltz is completely dead-eyed and there's a blankness to his face that really gives an idea of the cold menace that Blofeld should possess. It's quicker than any QOS edit, though, so it's easily missed!
I like that whole scene a lot, honestly. "The things that bring people together. Out of horror... beauty."
Okay, that was nice. SP had a bunch of nice touches.
And yes, there's a goofiness to Bond going alone (or nearly alone) to the villain's base armed with only a gun and not much of a plan or element of surprise, but on the other hand, he did more or less this very thing in every film from the 1970s. I know it's a little farfetched that shooting the right gas line could cause a whole base to explode, but in the past you could get the same effect by dumping a body in the wrong vat of liquid, or turning a dial up to "danger level". It's nothing new, honestly.
These throwbacks to under-recognized Bond tropes, combined with that "benign bizarre" that had long been absent from the series, really does it for me with this movie.
Well, but never before does a villain's lair got destroyed so easily .... In the earlier films you mentioned Bond was usually supported by a big army... or Bond only had to fight against the main villain and maybe a few henchmen. Furthermore, there have been better explanations why the lair is destroyed.... In Spectre it rather happens incidently.
The torture recovery, blowing up the base and other things that people didn't like, I had no problem with.
No, I had in mind DN and TMWTGG. No armies. Just turn a dial for one and dump a body in a vat in the other.