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Fully agree with both @shamanimal and @Getafix. By the way, welcome to the forums @shamanimal
I'm sorry but the current state of the franchise to me doesn't display much of stability. Quite the opposite in fact. Also - and despite many guarantees ( and even more insults )from "experts" on this forum - I'm still not in the very least convinced that EON really signed Craig for 25.
That 7 year duration in the past pretty much gave us all of Brosnan's, Dalton's and Laz's eras and most of Connery's (it certainly gave us DN, FRWL, GF, TB & YOLT which are the best of his era). It's a duration even under this iteration that pretty much gave us CR, QoS, and SF. Two of those films are highly regarded by the general public and one appears to be highly regarded by the fanbase on this forum.
So ultimately I think they have to work on getting these films released more often. Even if there is a dud among them, folks can at least look forward to the next one in a few years, which they may like more. I think there will be far less moaning if they went down this path. Time to get the 'sausage factory' back online imho.
This is the tragedy.
In so many aspects it comes so close and after we were sold an epic to rival OHMSS in the trailer it's the disappointment of the 'Dog ate my homework' hastily cobbled together script that kills us.
Objectively it's a much clsssier affair than half the entries but it just couldn't live up to its own billing so it's seem as a crushing disappointment when in reality it's merely average.
Would be probably just as believable as the 10 year older A. Hopkins playing a younger Hanibal Lecter in the prequel of the silence of the lamb's.
Although let's be unequivocal: stepbrothergate is a war crime of an idea and the people who thought this could fly should be rounded up and face justice.
Be great to have some sort of Nuremburg scenario where the extras and crew are paraded in front of the eyes of the world to testify 'I heard Sam Mendes say 'wouldn't this be a good idea' to Babs and she nodded.'
I'd happily lead the prosecution to make sure none of them were allowed on a Bond set again: Simon Wizenthal if you will.
I can't see it happening but I like it. That way they can go stand alone while not undermining SP. Best of both worlds.
Great post. I agree.
Craig is too old to be put into a film between QOS & SF,both made 5 and 9 years ago.
Clearly an act of provocation.
Spectre is a huge insult to Bond fans.
Stylistically spot on? You mean the sudden shifts between silly and campy, to sombre; from a Simpsons couch gag, to a scene of someone begging to die of radiation poisoning who lost everything, who commits suicide on screen, and Bond so used it to that he doesn't react? Then we have scenes of Blofeld being mad cause daddy like Bond better, to Blofeld begging Bond to kill him (extremely out of character, might I add). Supposedly this is his childhood step brother, meh he doesn't care, might as well been Joe Blow for all we care. Then we have an obnoxious Bond fan service at the end, which makes me roll my eyes everytime.
No action scene in Spectre had any danger. Maybe the helicopter scene, where Bond was trying to land a helicopter safely by punching and killing the pilots.
- Bond blows up a whole building and lands on a sofa, no biggie. No police alert, must happen often.
- Bond has some baddie on his back rudely interrupting putting pressure on his phone call to Moneypenny while they do some cool turns in Rome.
- Snowplane fight, no steaks at all except saving the daughter of someone we don't care about yet. So we have Bond flying around doing... something? Trying to land on the cars I guess? Then he does by utter convenience and unconvincing timing. It's 90% hype 10% payoff.
- The train scene is the only good fight scene and it also ends on coincidence. Also where the hell are the people on the train while this was happening? Makes absolutely no sense, and it takes me out of the action everytime. There are no steaks again, because the only steak is Bond dying, which we know he won't. Then Blofeld sends a car out for Bond, on purpose, after Hinx tried to kill him, so he tried to kill him but planned the car meeting in the middle of nowhere. Makes sense!
- Fight scene at the Lair might as well have been a video game, no steaks, no tension, and the explosion was extremely lackluster; shot on one camera so we don't get any spectacle of the explosion.
- London is a joke. The scene with Bond walking through MI6 is insulting. Blofeld putting pictures of people on a wall? What the f**k? Then Blofeld tells him you must escape! Cue "action scene" aka Bond running around, who then hears a screaming (and gagged, because that makes sense) Madeleine, whom he saves, for the final "action scene" where Bond fires a few bullets and takes down the Blofeld helicopter........................... yay? Exciting?
Spectre is amazing.
Dont forget the countdown to 9 Eyes going live which packs in all the tension of the average episode of The One Show.
Oh no! If the arbitrary Nine Eyes countdown strikes zero then the bad guys are going to have surveillance of literally nothing useful! Truly on the edge of my seat!
Shut it down before zero or 5 minutes after zero who cares as the bad guys will have been able to watch stuff for 5 mins. Unless the President and Prime Minister are going to tell each other the nuclear codes over the phone bang on zero then, given its gone midnight, all you're likely to see is footage of Teresa May having a cup of Horlicks in bed and reading an Agatha Christie.
Which means it's under 2 years until it's released in the UK!
The tone of the film was fine by me. It was only the guy with the airbag fainting that made me wince. One wince per Bond film is pretty mild, I think. I remember Tarzan Yells and pigeons, y'know.
I'm sorry to hear you didn't enjoy SPECTRE, and felt insulted. I enjoyed it very much.
Hahaha I noticed that Pat,and had the same reaction...I'm bloody starving now.