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It has the Universal (non-US) opening.
Yeah it's really something, the quality is so fantastic here. It's the only Bond title I own on 4K, I wasn't impressed with the other set where it matters (though SF did look brilliant), so I'm glad they managed to deliver here.
Is it because the dots go the wrong way at the beginning?
Yes, and it just looks weird to me.
It is something quite different. I don't mind it but the hallmark of the whole Craig Bond era has been experimentation with the gunbarrel sequence. I think Spectre was the closest we came to a traditional gunbarrel sequence.
I have the uk version on blu-ray and watched MTTD I the scene where Paloma says “someone likes the spotlight” (avoiding spoilers here) is missing!!!!
Did they remove it or cut it from the uk blu ray version? Can someone please check for me next time they watch it??? It’s sending me west (was I dreaming the scene) hahahaha.
Happy holidays!!
I always thought she said “you’re popular tonight” when the spotlights come down on Bond during the cuba party.
It is that, but she also says something before that that I can’t quite make out.
Just watched it again and I must have been wrong……
I think I was passing out in the cinema 😂😂
When Safin says to bond “I have something of yours [Mathilde] and you have something of mine[?] “ to what is he referring?
I feel this film could be improved by two or three lines of expository dialogue.
1. To further explain safins desire to have Madeleine
2. To further explain what safins motivation is
3. To understand where the ships are coming from to collect Heracles and why they can’t intercept of destro the ships rather than blow the island and bond to pieces
1. Because he's obsessed with her. The scene in the psychiatry office, how much he focuses on her eyes. Or even simply just when he flat out says he is "in love" with her. That's it. He wants to control her, to posses her.
2. Revenge on Spectre/having Madeleine
3. Because Safin doesn't actually care about Heracles beyond a means to an end, he's just selling it to terrorists or other folk. If they blew up the ships, well then more ships would come and buy it. You have to destroy Heracles itself.
1. It is never explained, it is just there, whatever contortions we might make as fans to try and understand it. Instead, the inspiration for Safin's character probably derives through any number of degrees of separation from Gaston Leroux's The Phantom of the Opera: the mask-wearing disfigured villain obsessed with the heroine whom he later kidnaps. It has become generic villainy and something we grasp subconsciously having absorbed it through so many previous movies and works of fiction. Safin even has the mask that reveals the bottom portion of his face that reminds me, at least, of the mask worn by the Phantom in Brian De Palma's retelling of the story, The Phantom of the Paradise.
2. After destroying SPECTRE there is no motivation explained beyond Safin wanting, "to make the world a little tidier" after having said something incomprehensible about "people" supposedly wanting the "oblivion" that a "god" like him is born to deliver. What? Huh? Come again? That's it? Are you sure? Nothing about destroying the world and repopulating it with beautiful people? Perhaps beginning civilization again under the sea? How about starting World War Three, that's always a good one? Nope.
3. Not explained, they're just on their way to pick-up the first consignment of Heracles, clearly no more than a plot device to necessitate the urgency of calling in the missile strike on Poison Island in order to bring about the preordained death of Craig Bond.
Silva was done much better, wasn't he? He's the best villain of the Craig era I reckon.
I do concur about Silva. I instantly knew he was Craig's most compelling villain, and has remained so two films later.
Madeleine. Soon after he proposes he wants Bond to leave with Mathilde, and leave Madeleine to him.
I think Davi is brilliant in the role. There's real chemistry with him and Dalton. I remember seeing the scene where they shook hands for the first time at the cinema, and there was such tension there.
The last nine Bond films have been a bit hit and miss when it comes to truly memorable villains. I'd go with Carver, Le Chifre and Silva as the most successful for my money.
Just my view, other opinions are available, of course ....
Nice, thanks!
Also, it took me until I got the bluray and was able to watch with subtitles to hear Nomi say "I'm into old wrecks" when she's giving Bond a ride back to his place in Jamaica. Great line, now that I understand it.
It’s kind of a big leap to go from wanting revenge on spectre in act 1 and 2, to killing potentially every man woman and child on Earth in act three, explained with one line of dialogue