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But I don't hear anything about Spectre anymore. I honestly haven't really heard anything since the third weekend of release here in the States. I don't give it too much thought myself. Eh.
Let's put it this way: if the Craig era ends tomorrow, people will only likely be talking about Casino Royale 30 years from now. Maybe Skyfall a bit, but the other two will only be remembered by us fans. Just my thoughts.
Yes you're right there. And the way Bond shrugged it off despite Blofeld always bringing it up is kinda cool. Makes Blofeld come off as more of an overblown whiner though.
Infuriating how they tried to make Blofeld so awesome by riding on the backs of every other villain. Lame.
Agreed. What hurt SPECTRE the most were the expectations it had to contend with. Is it the best Bond film out there? No, it's certainly not, but I do think it's better than a large number of them, some of which are themselves very much celebrated.
Then they were like step-brothers. Anyway, too much of a coincidence that Bond's arch-enemy just happens to have that close personal connection.
MI6 would have to have the worst background checks on its employees to miss that, especially after the former agent who became a terrorist on the scale of Bin Laden in Skyfall, although that has been dne before with Sean Bean.
I would say fire the human resources manager of MI6 and start recruiting people who don't have terrorist baggage or won't become terrorists.
Blofeld's father was Bond's legal guardian. They were therefore step-brothers. It doesn't matter if they are the same age or not, or even if they were children at the same time. They were closely connected. That is laughable in a movie that was otherwise very good.
Legal guardian, not adoptive family member. If I'm taken in by my friend's family, does that automatically make me brothers with him? No.
Is it stupid and contrived? Sure. But it also gives Blofeld a quick and convenient personal angle with which to attack Bond and be angry with him over, which is why some people love the Blofeld character so much, because it's personal for Bond. That was the old timeline. I would have been much more incensed if all of a sudden Blofeld brought up the events of OHMSS or Bond killing Dr. No or something like that. Does this derail SP and put it in the likes of DAF, MR, and DAD? A thousand times no. If the third act had been improved slightly SP would be top 10 material.
It doesn't make any difference if Blofeld father is Bond's legal guardian, or if he is a brother or step-brother. It is ridiculous to discover Bond just happens to be that closely connected to his arch-enemy.
Considering there are several billion people on this planet, it is a bit of a stretch of the imagination, for Bond to of grown up with his nemesis.
However, this is the film world, anything can be.
The only problem for the writers of future Bond stories, is that they are now stuck with this as fact.
It should build up with a series of climaxes (Bond escapes attempts on his life) building up to the main climax (Bond learns of and destroys the evil plan), and then there should be one more final climax (either a henchman or the main villain returns to fight with Bond).
This orgasm was ruined seconds from reaching the main climax in a way that was like finding out that your lover is really your father's child through another marriage.
Miss what? That the son of Bond's mentor Hannes Oberhauser had also died in the accident?
But didn't they drive the nails through the wrist as the tissue in the hand is not strong enough to bear the body weight and they would just rip off?
Another ahem nail in the coffin for those who take the bible literally.
I always think it's hard to assume on behalf of millions of people. I once made the mistake of assuming QoS hadn't really registered only to overhear an 8 year old in the queue for a football match talking to his Dad about Mr. White at the opera. We like to project an all encompassing rhetoric on films, when actually I don't think it's ever that simple. I imagine SP means a lot to many and nothing to just as many.
That said though, on the other hand, audiences may less appreciate SP in the future, due to the flaws mentioned in many other threads, if they are not exposed to a big event of sorts that changes their perspective, which Bond 25 has great capacity to do so.