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I don't mind at all! If anything it's great to see this film is going to be another mega-hit for the franchise!
Didn't realise that your French, hello neighbour :-h
your English is accent free I'd never have guessed your French!
I'm sorry you couldn't see it.
The evening screenings of Spectre are all more or less sold out (except seats in the front rows) for all of this week!
Switzerland is in state of emergency cinema wise.
Fun fact: Switzerland:
Tickets sold Thursday to Sunday:
Spectre 220.000 tickets
the second most successful movie of those 4 days:
The Martian, 5.500 tickets
Good man :-bd
When you consider that Switzerland has a total population of around 8.2 million, then it goes to show what a large percentage of the country is going to see SP, and its actually more impressive than that, as we are only talking about the German speaking region of Switzerland at the moment....if i'am correct?
Yes, it only opens in the French part of Switzerland this Thursday! and that's worth a quarter in cinema ticket sales.
I was thinking exactly the same thing DC! :-bd
Good written review.
But you lost me by: "he’s not uttering an appallingly written Brosnan-one-liner".
For a movie (Spectre) that pays so many homages to the Brosnan-era you show little respect for it.
All Bond actors had one-liners, many of them great, some good, a few not that good. That applies to all actors, Connery being maybe the only exception, although the Beatles without Earmuffs line could be debated.
I disagree about London.
London can't be seen enough in a Bond movie. And quite frankly the London end-game on the river Thames, the bridge, the former MI6 building is riveting and beautifully shot.
After Spectre I immediately checked out EasyJet for flights to London and not Tangiers, Rome or Austria.
Contrived my ass. Watch Skyfall, there you have contrived plots galore.
The Scooby-Gang (not my idea to call it that, but it fits) is a good thing.
If you have capable actors like Whishaw and Fiennes who are simply brilliant in Spectre it would be a crying shame not to use them as much as you can.
It never felt too much, on the contrary, one of the reasons Spectre feels so complete is seeing M and Q at their strongest.
Q in the field isn't new and compared to "backseat driver Queen" Judi Dench, Fiennes screen time seems almost small.
In the film it really does look like its filmed for real on a bridge in London!
Strangely I'm over it now, I can wait for the Blu ray, this is not how I felt after SF, I could have easily made it a 4th and when I watched ir only a few weekends back was still agreed it was my no.2.
I think now I'm just waiting for SW TFA, I have to say I'm hoping that delivers more. While I very much enjoyed SP I think I built it up too much. I'll certainly try to keep my enthusiasm in check for Bond 25.
Actually........'Spectre' is available online now for viewing, free.......but i'am not posting the link, as you should all pay to see the film first at the cinema.......like i did! :)
I've only seen it once so far!! :((
My fourth viewing is already 6 hours ago :((
What to do...
...my GoldenEye steelbook screamed at me to be used...
...then the CR steelbook, then the OHMSS steelbook...
but I can't... :( I'm in love with Spectre, it would feel like betraying it...
make sure, you'll see it again, soon!
..........i'am watching it now.........at home.
;)
The funny thing is, in Switzerland it is even not illegal to download movies or TV shows without paying as long as we don't share the files with anyone else.
But I'm old-school and probably too old :)) at 41 to do such things.
I like to pay for stuff, silly me :))
Well.....i'am even older than that.........and yes i like to pay for stuff as well.
Anyway.......the film online, is not top quality..........but is watchable! :)
Better make that 3. I don't really care what anyone says, I love this film. Going to see it a fourth time today.
SP is one of those films that just gets better with repeated viewings.
I think those who saw the film once, but didn't dig the movie first time around, due to tiredness, or just not having the attention span at the time.........will grow to embrace this film with further viewing.
I agree. I've seen it twice (2nd time today) and I much prefer it this time (particularly the nuanced performances of all the actors).
Unfortunately, I don't think many outside us rabid fans will do such a thing (see it twice that is) because it doesn't seem to emotionally resonate outside the Bond fanbase (due to the obvious callback/throwbacks to the past) unlike SF, and therefore some will likely have an unfairly one-sided first perspective view of it until they get to see it again on blu ray.
The fanbase for SPECTRE is growing.
I like to say QOS is a film where its parts are greater than its whole. I think that now applies to SP as well. Overall, it felt sloppy. Hinx, Oberhauser, and Madeleine Swann all had potential to be great, but were all good at best. The action was pretty good but not particularly gripping. The fight with Hinx was great though, I found myself cringing as Bond was being smashed through tables and walls. I'm disappointed in the Rome chase. I didn't expect to see an expository phone call with Moneypenny in the middle of it.
As far as continuity goes, its nice to see EON embracing it, however much of it felt heavy handed. I appreciate some retconning here and there but just taping photos of previous characters to the wall isn't a very subtle way of going about it.
In the end, SP takes the Craig era even further away from what I hoped it would be.
CR A+
SF B+
SP C+
QOS C+
I mostly agree with this
For Non Spoiler review here it goes...
it's a good film. Not great not bad. I felt the humor was vaguely annoying and distracting at times but there is some great stuff there to. For a one sentance capsule There is too Much I love to say it's horrible but there is too much I dislike to say it's top 10 worthy.
Perfect 10/10 score. I even eat my hat on any bad things I said about Thomas Newman - fantastic score, fantastic Craig, locations, action, humour, badassery, and the PTS is beyond imagination.
I almost stood up and applauded when