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Of course, they naturally use the good reviews and there are enough of them for marketing. They should and I'm glad it didn't take them long to do it.
You imply again that some dwell on lesser ones. Why? Just because some people here point out that there are indeed quite a few mixed reviews??
That really looks like fanboys at work, not able to accept the facts, which would be a crying shame.
Metascore is at 69% and RT at 85% with 7.1 average critic rating. If that is not what you or others were expecting that's too bad. Learn to live with it. I do.
There is still a majority of good reviews!
Tomorrow the German newspapers (and the Swiss) will post their reviews. I'm looking forward to them. I'm sure you too.
The reaction I believe is good enough to generate enough business so Bond doesn't die.
And also not good enough not to illicitly change ...either in direction or writing or whatever.
This is Craig's DAD. ...OTT albeit Craig style and proud of it.
If it is just a OTT Bond that is fine by me. What I am a little bit worried by is Bond's personnel
Story. I still don't know what it is, but it could weight down the fun mood.
I still can't stand Smith, and I noticed even the most enthusiastic reviewers bashed the heck out of the song. He's just given an interview stating that he hopes Craig is replaced with a more "clean cut" actor. Geez, buddy, have you looked in a mirror lately. I know he is young, but he is also a twit.
I would be too but I don't think it does ..I get the jest it's there but it doesn't upset the thrill.
Be careful with such comments around here :))
I believe SP will be Craig's YOLT and I have said so since weeks.
That would be amazing :D
except SPECTRE has a better henchman :))
Let me explain... it's Craig's DAD in that what they want to achieve ie a traditional Bond with all the trappings is the same thing they wanted to achieve with DAD. I'm not referring or inferring anything to the final product. I liked DAD but I am sure SP will be a far better film.
But both followed films that delved into deeper drama ...again SF succeeded but TWINE not so much.
A better comparison might be TSWLM and YOLT, but if you consider that DAD was the Brosnan era's attempt to go into the Gilbert-style excess then maybe, sure. It's (hopefully) a kinda grandiose attempt - I'd say that with Gilbert you really felt the scale though, whereas Tamahori's film feels tinny and almost aggressively inauthentic.
It's good though if this is indeed what the film winds up being, if there's a stronger embrace of the cornball aspects to cinematic Bond, because that kind of Bond film arguably hasn't been satisfied for quite a while. You could make the argument that GoldenEye is the closest we've been since Moonraker.
Thank you. That saves me the trouble of ever contemplating listening to his Bond theme again. When he can come up with a half decent Bond theme THEN he can comment about casting Bond
I'd have thought that accolade would have gone to TND?
Ah yeah, perhaps so what with the Navy and all involved. I kinda think of GE as being the last time we had a great big whopping villain's lair at the end and biiiig brassy sequences throughout... and it being entertaining.
But yes, TND obviously has a lot more DNA in that field. Funnily enough its storytelling is ripped straight from Thunderball insofar as we know the entire villain's gambit before Bond does, up to the point that we see everything he has to discover. If this film doesn't make that horrendous error then it's a tick.
I saw the new @007 film 'SPECTRE' tonight. Sam Mendes & Daniel Craig have delivered another masterpiece, richer & darker than the last.
Sorry, yes I get your point on the villain's lair last seen in GE. Haven't seen much of the one in SP yet. Wonder if the interior will look like a modern office block like Trevelyans?!!
He says richer and darker and others say sparser and lighter! I suspect this film is going to be debated for years then as to which camp it resides in!
The "lair" would seemingly be that building inside the volcano (is it actually a volcano) in the desert. Hopefully it'll be suitably baddie-lair-ish. And remember baddies, colour coded uniforms please for when Bond and his gang attack!
TND is a film that I always have mixed feelings on because the first half is great, but the 2nd half is awful.
I'm very excited for SPECTRE. It'll be tough for it to top CR for me, but every review I've read seems like they went the route with this film that I was hoping they'd go.
Yawn. Jinx. Bautista-Berry. Same thing
As usual the most important newspaper in Switzerland "Tages-Anzeiger" has a review that doesn't compare the new film to others and looks at it quite objectively.
Summary: Spectre is a classic James Bond film with all the beloved iconic things that we haven't seen in ages in a Bond movie, over-the-top action and still it has the melancholic, brooding James Bond in the midst of all this.
It's a great review! Maybe the best I have read so far because it doesn't sound like a commercial or like a sour trade of hate like so many of the english written ones sound that I have read!
Here is the link as this forum has a couple of German members or people who master German.
tagesanzeiger.ch/kultur/kino/bond-und-die-lebenden-toten/story/19316709
I haven't read any of the reviews but have been perusing this thread from time to time.
That is very refreshing to hear, because there is an excess (understandable) of fanboy enthusiasm both here and among many of the UK reviews (again, to be expected. This is Bond after all). At the end of it all, some tempered objectivity is much appreciated. I really do feel like I'm reading a 'commercial' sometimes, or alternatively 'unwarranted hate'.
This^
So much agreement,
mind you, it's a tiny little spoiler of one particular short scene so I hide it in the spoiler.
"And once (Bond) speaks to a little mouse. Yes, a tiny playful mousie with black little eyes looks at the best spy of the world, as if he was a big cheese. (Bond) promptly lowers his gun with which he actually wanted to blow the pet away."[/spoiler]
http://www.heatworld.com/2015/10/spectre-review-james-bonds-007-is-back-watch-trailer-and-see-release-date