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There's a difference between favourite and greatest.
You might be interpreting our criticisms a bit too literally. They were essentially brothers for a time, is the way I understood it - not blood brothers, not officially foster brothers, but due to Bond's parents' death, Oberhauser Sr. took him in. They had a "brotherly situation" I suppose would be exactly how I would put it. I was just throwing those labels out there essentially as shorthand.
What I'm really getting at is your first sentence - I think it is an awful creative decision to have them connected like that. For me it is contrived as hell, and as juvenile and preposterous as anything in the oft-maligned latter half of DAD.
Yes it is but it can get a little confussing and its not the same thing saying greatest as a statement and as an opinion.
As for Dr No its also my favorite Connery entry along with Thunderball, actually from the first 4 connery entries From Russia with love is my least favorite
It is contrived, but no more no less than other common tropes in genre fiction. In the novels, Bond meets Goldfinger at complete random, he also stumbles on SPECTRE's scheme in Shrublands. Nemesis are bound to meet, sooner or later. I do agree that it was not necessary: Blofeld's position and role of leader would have been enough to create an antagonism with Bond that is more personal. But the way it was developed, I am ok with it.
I'm with @Birdleson here.
Although the way they went about it in the finished film wasn't too bad (you have to question what the point was at all as Bond seems utterly nonplussed by it) the fact that it's there at all is objectionable.
As if it's not enough to convolutedly tie all the Craig films together they have to shoehorn in this extra unconvincing layer of personal connection between Bond and the villain.
Either dump the brother idea altogether (my personal preference) or if you must use it have Oberhauser be a standalone villain a la Largo and Blofeld just appears in shadowy form in the board room and in a final shot at the end.
I could probably live with the brother thing if it was just Franz Oberhauser, a character created for the film, but don't use this plot device to piss all over the character of Blofeld and his relationship with Bond.
Another controversial opinion: Grant is the main antagonist in FRWL.
Wouldn't say that's particularly controversial.
Depends how you want to define 'main'?
In terms of screen time, interaction with Bond etc then clearly he is.
But if you mean in terms of instigating the plan then no he is merely a blunt instrument working for SPECTRE.
I would agree he is the main antagonist as if you say Blofeld is then you also have to say he is the main antagonist in TB and DN also as Grant, Largo and Doctor No himself are all just carrying out Blofeld's orders.
I'm well aware, but I've seen a lot of people who feel FRWL is both the greatest and their favorite.
Five times is a lot of times for someone ranking Specter 24th out of 24 Bond movies.
Has Specter climbed some steps on your list?
"I've really put you through a lot, haven't I? Well, that's brothers for you: they always know which buttons to press. "
So anyone thinking this is a 'brotherly' situation is not off the mark, unless they are supposed to ignore the entire premise and the above statement, which I think is asking too much by the writers.
I hope that, when Daniel Craig leaves (not anytime soon mind you), his successor will pick up where he left and not go through another reboot.
In fact, it even appears on several blaxplotation movie sites and databases, and they tend to like it, especially for its casting, and, over all, praise George Martin for at least trying to do a decent funky score without having actually a funk background beyond Billy Preston's works at Apple.
This is a brief review of the soundtrack on a blaxplotation site: blaxploitationpride.org/2008/01/george-martin-live-and-let-die-1973.html
I have the score in my car at the moment, and it's one of my favourites - better than GF which follows it on my cd rotation imho.
The funk is just out of this world. A fantastic blend of Bond and classic Kool and the Gang meets the Gap Band.
Atta boy! That's how it's done.
Last sentence basically sums up my thoughts on it. Also, I'm joining the LALD love party.
Makes me wonder if this piece of trivia is real: Saltzman and Broccoli tried to convince Macca to write the song and leave it to a female black performer. Presumably they had contacted Miss Aretha Franklin. Paul told them that he wanted to do it himself, and it went as good as it gets. But, still, I can't help but wonder what could have been with Franklin.
[I always put 'Miss' before Aretha Franklin as a tribute to my admired George Clinton and his song Chocolate City]
I'm reading the novel right now, I'm all into LALD lately. I feel like rewatching it.
Say what you will about whether it was done better or worse but Goldeneye really tried to make Alec Trevelyan essentially Bond's Brother and a lot of the dialogue goes to my theory, the way bond is so hurt at the betrayal the fact that M warns Bond about going rogue even the end climax with Trevelyan saying what most brothers would in the situation "I was always Better" (of Course Skyfall followed the same format)
So no I don't find the twist in spectre bad if anything I find lazy because it been done in bond films twice now.
It was Saltzman who insisted McCartney should get someone else to perform after hearing the demo. George Martin had to persuade him that McCartney was a good enough choice, and no disaster.
Kinda agree with @Risico007 above, and while Sean Bean was terrific and hammy as Trevelyan, I can help but wonder what should have happened with the original idea of making Alec a veteran MI6 agent who was a mentor to Bond. Kind of a reversed SF storyline?
I haven't really been interested in James Bond ever since my second viewing of Spectre. I don't find Spectre to be an insulting film or anything, but rather, a painfully middling one. Perhaps the most middling of all of them. I have no desire to watch it again, though I suppose I will to give it one final attempt at a passing grade.
I don't mean to be a basher, but even when the Blu-ray was announced I had no reaction. I remember eagerly awaiting all three Daniel Craig Bond films to come out on home video, but when this one was announced...well...it was just another piece of news.
I hate feeling this way, but I can't shake it.