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The only person who would look good in a pink tie is Sean Connery.
That's how I feel as well. I would have rather the gunbarrel open up on the skull, but I was glad to see the gunbarrel back where it belongs. Spectre, on the whole, is a big step in the right direction, I have faith that EON will get the gunbarrel right next time.
Why are you grateful? Because they finally realised that putting it at the end was bullshit? Cheers EON. We've only been telling you to put it at the beginning for 7 years now.
Why do you have faith? Because the GB has been all over the shop for the last 14 years.
Much as I didn't like the DAD one for the bullet it goes down as a work of art compared to how steeply we've fallen off a cliff since. I can let them off CR as it just worked but now they've had 3 films and they still can't get it right. They are incrementally getting better but still I have more faith that they will cock it up again in some way than nail it next time round.
Why do they find it so hard to get right?
I guess grateful was the wrong word. Relieved I guess? I know it's a bad attitude to take but while there were still huge problems with the gunbarrel, I wasn't as bothered as I would have been because I had a sort of "could have been worse" attitude after the last two films. If the QoS and SF had normal classic style gunbarrels then the SP one would have pissed me off to no end but they've been gradually lowering my expectations over the last few films. I should admit though that I think I'm a bit biased because I enjoyed Spectre so much.
Anyway I think SF is the worst offender for me. Because the reason was the opening shot but I, like many other fans, was too distracted by the lack of a gunbarrel for the 50th anniversary film to at all appreciate the opening shot. But I guess we make up a tiny fraction of the viewing audience at the end of the day.
I think this is pretty common stuff. When you deprive people of something they are used to (gunbarrel at the start), and when, after ten years of waiting they finally get it, most of them tend to overlook the faults, and are happy to just have it at last.
It's a linen suit: http://i57.tinypic.com/2928o3p.jpg
http://thesuitsofjamesbond.com/navy-linen-suit/
Regular suit with a tie would be better for the gunbarrel sequence, but I think a casual linen suit is more appropriate for the bathroom scene.
I also think that Bond is overdressed in SF and SP PTS. Especially in SF, with that ear piece, his look screams "secret service security agent". I guess it's because Mendes wants Bond to look absolutely Bondian the very moment he appears on the screen.
It was at the beginning, looked like Binder's design and Blared the Bond theme. I couldn't be happier. Each Bond movie from here on out could start with some random quote and I'd be fine. I just don't have a problem with it. If it looked like the one from CR, QoS or SF I would have hated it. But it was more familiar to me than those other 3.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQOkweeWARQ&feature=youtu.be
This is better, so much better in fact that it embarrasses EON and Mendes, really. Very nice.
Well I'm sure Fritzl's daughter was happy to taste fresh air again after 20 years but I don't think anyone would say she should be grateful to her old man for finally letting her out.
One thing I will give SP credit for is having the blood flow at a speed more akin to what you might expect due to the force of gravity rather than this magic CGI blood that travels at mach 3 we have been stuck with for the rest of the Craig era.
See what you have reduced us to EON? Commenting on the speed of a fluid flowing downwards. But that's because you haven't even been able to get this basic thing right for 10 years.
Ah, this. I remember seeing this in cinema. Previously, I had only seen Live and Let Die, so the blue circles came as a surprise and I thought each movie's gunbarrel had different coloured dots.
That would've been cool actually, if each of them had different coloured dots.
:)
When I saw LALD in 1973, I laughed a bit at this. On the big screen it was much more obvious.
The perfect gunbarrel
LTK
Near perfect gunbarrels
YOLT, TLD, GE, TND, TWINE
Good, but flawed gunbarrels
TB, OP, CR
Alright gunbarrels
AVTAK, DAF
Clearly flawed gunbarrels
LALD, TMWTGG, TSWLM, MR, FYEO
Bob Simmons
DN, FRWL, GF
Bad gunbarrels
OHMSS, DAD, QOS, SF, SP
There is just too much technical stuff wrong with it, IMO.
-only gunbarrel where the gun is visible as Bond walks (major issue)
-no shaking of the iris
-no segue into next scene
-'the dead are alive' yuck
I'm at a loss as to why everyone rates the LTK one highly. The first half of the music until he shoots simply isn't recognisable as the James Bond theme.
I would say TLD is the last one where everything was present and correct which will, by B25, mean 31 years, 10 films and 3/5 of my life have all passed since they got it right. And it's far from a given they will nail it for B25.
TLD's is the last good traditional one yes. LTK succeeds because of how dramatic it is. It also lets you know that you will be watching a comparatively darker film.