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I think many people forget that the scale does not matter as much as the involvement. That overgrown baby of a tyran Kim Jong Un may have a finger near the red button, but if I learned that my next door neighbour is a serial killer about to run out of med, I will find him far more threatening.
For SPECTRE, I find them most menacing in Thunderball. The giant set piece for the SPECTRE meeting room. The shocking chair. No. 1 through the blinds. I think SPECTRE was more cunning in FRWL as the plan was plotted so carefully. But in Thunderball, they are at their most menacing.
Agree, they appear to be more ruthless and cold bloodied in this encounter! Love it! This is what i want from Quantum in Bond 24 if they are in it?
That's an excellent observation. It reminded me of the PTS. Col. Bouvar faking his own death clearly suggests that he is desperate to get Bond off his trail. Right from the beginning of the film it seems that SPECTRE is on the run from 007. Compare that to the FRWL PTS where Grant brutally murders Bond's lookalike.
That's true, @Ludovico, however I do feel like SPECTRE restores some of its menace by the way Largo deep-sixes the guy. Has him thrown in a pool of bloodthirsty sharks and while walking away kisses his SPECTRE ring at the sound of a man being devoured. :D
Yes, it does. Don't get me wrong, I love TB. But FRWL shows SPECTRE as its most menacing, no doubt. And I never felt that Bond was so much in danger as in FRWL.
In TB the group is still pretty menacing. There is not much mention of the word SPECTRE in OHMSS which leads me to believe that due to the losses in personnel and near financial ruin as a result of TB (and YOLT), that Ernst just wants to retire to private life and stop dodging the law.
Oh yes. One because he was not infallible, the other just for sports.
<font color=blue size=7><b>Calling Bautista's character Hinx will not sit well with some Bond fans.</b></font>
Agreed. It's a daft name & sounds fart oo much like Jinx. Hope they here is some reasoning to it.
Indeed agree! It does not sit well with me at all. Stupid, stupid, stupid, lazy, not funny, not menacing, (did I say stupid enough times?), annoying name. Rhymes with Jinx; it stinks. It is truly the only thing that bugs me about this film so far.
If that is all I have to complain about in the end, I will be a very happy Bond fan indeed. I know it is a minor thing, but yeah it is a ridiculous name and I hate it.
;-)
Hinx is curious and interesting. I suspect if we were told of henchmen named Oddjob or Jaws for the first time now we would be rolling our eyes too.
@Tokoloshe, Oddjob was the name of Goldfinger's Korean assistant in the Fleming novel. As for Jaws, you're right.
Yes I know that, of course. My point is that if the character was announced for the first time in 2014 and we'd never heard the name "Oddjob" before, the forum would be melting with all the flaming posts.
I think we'll all be fuming if Bautista screws up his performance, & that will be more unforgiveable than the choice of name...
Bond villains have a tendency to be iconic (Jaws/Oddjob/Kaufman/Tee Hee) or predictable/forgettable (Stamper from TND/Hans from YOLT/Elvis from QoS).
He's the one up on that stage last week that I have the most concern about, despite some saying he did a great job in GotG (I have not seen that film yet).
There's nothing to debate as we know some Bond fans hate it. I don't, but I know many do hate it.
What I like about his casting is that he does not look like a Grant clone on steroids.
Indeed. :D
Anything within a 3 mile radius of the name 'Jinx' is caustic. :-)
But "Mr. Hinx" sounds great and really fits the face of Bautista. Actually, just calling him Mr. makes him somehow more menacing, like "don't tell me my name will not sit well with some Bond fans or I'll deal with them".