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I too wish they'd used the lair in Morocco to greater effect.
Craig is so brilliant in these scenes, so grounded, confident, and sauve. I actually get quite a bit of Moore from him in these moments, especially when he's watching Paloma down her martini. Moore with a darker edge.
Those three goons carrying around the eye for Blofeld are so awesome as well, so Bondian. I imagine the two on either side have the little speaker and the microphone, and they are "The Eye of Blofeld", "The Ear of Blofeld", and "The Mouth of Blofeld". I don't think there's anything really in the film to indicate any of this is the case, but it's true in my mind. ;)
It could have been quite nice for Zorin to mock his advancing years, perhaps -as he knew he was 007, after all-, only for Rog (or his stuntman) to karate kick him in the face :D
I don't mind the attempts at drama in Spectre, but Craig definitely works well in the lighter bits for me.
Not to try and stir the pot, but I always rankle at folks who say 'Dalton did it first' - Dalton's Bond never handled any of the lighter stuff that Craig's Bond has in Spectre, and he didn't do any of the cool swagger of CraigBond either. There's nothing comparable to the pure celebratory cool of Bond walking across those Mexican rooftops in Dalton's films. Connery, yes.
And he did it with a broken leg! Craig was the complete Bond, Dalton could do the angry bits.
(apologies, I meant to combine those into one post but pressed 'post' without thinking :) )
We can tell that the film and its third act were hastily thrown together. I can't fault Mendes too much, because he was not happy with the script and wanted more time. Babs and Michael basically told him they were going to start filming, early December, 2014, whether he liked it or not.
That's the bad news.
The good news is that it taught them to never rush a film. When CJF wasn't pleased with the script for NTTD, Babs and Michael gave him the time/space to get it figured out. This was what delayed filming.
Madeleine fighting Irma Bunt in the ruins of MI6, Bond and Moneypenny chasing Blofeld, a collapsing bridge and an ambulance in the Thames, Blofeld going 'But we're family!', Bond hoisting Blofeld above his head or shooting him in the face, there were all kinds of dodgy ideas thrown in at various times. The version we did get in the final film was better than any of the alternatives, tbh.
This might be considered controversial for a Bond movie. I like the ideas of a Bond Girl fighting Irma Bunt and Bond and Moneypenny chasing a main villain down together. Even the bridge and ambulance sound like decent ideas. For a future movie, of course. It would all depend on how it’s directed and edited.
Yeah. But what surprises me more is, a meticulous director like Mendes knew what he was filming wasn't making sense, but he went ahead with it. One would expect a director like him to insist on a better script before filming.
In one script Q shoots someone and in another one Bond shoots Blofeld in the head. That solar furnace idea sounded interesting
It's probably easy to wrap a rough shoot on a project you know isn't anywhere near as great as your last one was when you're pocketing a cool few million for it.
Yeah. True.
The film had awesome moments and scenes and an excellent cast. But many other things just did not work (for me). To me this film is just one HUGE missed opportunity. I spare the film completely when I rewatch the Craig films. All others I like very much and rank among my favourites besides the golden Connery ones.
When I cut the movie to about 40 minutes and keep all I like it's quite good. I loved the train fight, the Mr. White sequence, Q in the alps and other things. But the whole third act is a joke and to me all those talents involved are terribly wasted in this movie. Craig foremost but all others as well. I was happy to see Madeleine or other elements got their second chance to shine way more in NTTD ... would have loved to see Hinx back because he was a really cool henchman.
I could go on and on - kudos to Daniel Craig to have delivered still all he could even under so much pain during the shoot. It was really surprising how much more agile and younger came across in NTTD in comparison to SP - but considering those circumstances it makes sense these days.
It's funny because I basically agree with 100% of what you're saying, but I come out of Spectre enjoying it more than it seems like you do, which 100% makes sense, just a funny observation! I'd also pretty much throw out the London bit/third act, but I do really like Bond and Blofeld talking in Vauxhall Cross before things kick off.
The only scene in the film that I *really* hate is the Q hotel room scene. "I owe you an apology... Oberhauser is alive, and the ring proves it." No, no, no.
Yeah I don't blame Mendes too much for it: he's said the last act fell apart while he was making the film and we know there were an awful lot of cooks involved. Short of getting Chris Macquarrie onboard to do some of his magical last minute scripts fixes I'm not sure what they could have done. I don't even know now how you'd fix it.
It still feels more like a Bond film to me than others like NTTD do, and I think it might even be Craig's best performance as Bond (although I probably feel that way after watching each of his films!). There's a lot of good bits in it too, even if it doesn't become a pleasing whole as SF did. I don't hate it.