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I think it is. It's not a coincidence and many have picked up on it in various locales.
This is a good point. Did they spunk their entire extras budget in Mexico? Because Rome, London and Austria are all deserted. As is that train - why are Bond and Madeline the only people in the restaurant car? Even the waiter disappears when Hinx comes in.
If it is deliberate to have two of Europe's capital cities deserted (apart from an Italian cliche in a Fiat 500) can someone tell me why?
There was lots of blatant exposition. "We need to do this, so this happens, otherwise this happens..."
And lots of one liners put down by a subsequent one. Some of the dialogue didn't flow in the way say, the train scene in CR did.
that PTS though. Just wow.
I'd considered whether it's for artistic reasons. The notion of Spectres (ghosts), death etc and you only ever really see people for whom death may be just around the corner. The only populated scene being that where everyone is 'dead'.
I must admit to finding the YOLT\TSWLM army shoot ups a little boring and repetitive with less focus on Bond himself.
I think FYEO and TWINE would take some beating with regards to the anti-climatic finale stakes!
Overall though, I don't have too much to complain about with SP. I thought it was decent enough entry. I plan to see it again and look forward to doing so.
Weasel is the right word. Blofeld has to be Satan and Waltz played him perfectly.
I was surprised on how well it turned out too. I never doubted for a moment he was Blofeld, but was wondering how it would work. They had to take liberties with the character, given the cinematic/rebooted and literary Blofelds belong to, respectively.
That said:
1)They took far less liberties than its previous incarnations.
2)They took far, far, far less liberties than some fans have suggested here (making him younger, making him British, etc.) and far less than say Khan in the rebooted Star Trek.
3)They surprisingly took a good deal from the novels' Blofeld: his scheme in SP is basically how he started out as a criminal as explained in TB, gathering intelligence, his appearance is close to the one in OHMSS, his whole mannerism and megalomania is pure novel Blofeld.
4)The way they twisted it, although far fetched, sort of made sense.
The restaurant car on the train could've been empty because it was 3:00 am - that's why the kitchen was empty: the waiter (wisely) kept his head down when sh!t started kicking off and gunshots were whizzing about the place? How were they to know in the morning which guests were kicking lumps out of the train? Adjacent passengers would attest all they heard were the Bond couple up all night romping away like rabbits and the blonde girl screaming "I love you James" and "...again? You're insatiable...!" :D
...as you would do really although the only direction they had to run in was down the carriage to the kitchen. Maybe they all jumped off the train!
You've pretty much convinced me.
Except wasn't the CNS thing counting down to go live at midnight? Still plenty of people would be milling around before the last tube. I suppose it could have been a Sunday when the last tube is 23.30?
Any ideas on why that Austrian village was deserted? I guess it was just a very cold day and everyone was indoors? Ok that's everything sorted then.
Time to move onto a new nitpicking topic.
Thanks for reminding me about that helicopter ride in OHMSS. So epic.
Also Bunt's 'not ground, ice' line delivery never fails to make me laugh.
Although I have not watched it: In Craig's Bond timeline, there was no "Spectre" prior to this movie, the only criminal organisation we got there so far, was "Quantum".
They are not the only people in the restaurant car. There are two other couples eating and drinking. You can see them, when Bond is waiting for Madeleine and when she walks up to him.
I've once walked through the night time Rome at about 3 am.
And yes, most streets in that city are empty at that time.
I think it's quiet realistic, that there are almost no other cars during the car chase.
But if you look closer, there are actually other cars. Not only the Fiat.
And in Austria, there are people in the clinic.
And then thera a lots of ski extras entering the lift with Q and the two henchmen.
But yeah: this movie feels empty. But not empty of people, but it lacks soul.
I don't feel Spectre. It has no emotional core. That's the problem of the movie.
So that doesn't make them any kind of brothers then, half or step. My point is that they are just two boys brought up together without any familial ties.
Well that was mentioned several days ago - but dont worry I dont think intellectual property theft applies on internet forums so I wont sue you ;)
To be honest I dont see where else they can go from here. By the rather disappointing ending of not having Blofeld escape (how about if as the chopper is going down Ernst had pressed a button labelled 'Bathosub' and a little capsule had dropped into the Thames and he's away? Too much for the Craig era? Maybe but I think I might have preferred it as Blofeld should be too clever just to have his chopper shot down without a back up plan) they are stuck with yet another Joker/Silva contrived escape from prison arent they?
They really need to come up with something more novel along the lines of Moriarty being found not guilty in Sherlock or something. We have seen villains escaping from inescapable prisons way too often. For it to happen 2 films out of 3 would see MI6 closed down surely for gross ineptitude?
But however they contrive to get Blofeld back into the field does it mean Madeline must come back as well? In older Bond films Bond has always ended up with the girl and then dumped her by the next film. But with the soul searching Craig era and the fact that because of the Blofeld thing the next film really has to be a continuation are we not stuck with a return for Madeline too? Arent people going to ask what happened to her?
Just off the top of my head the PTS would be a rehash of LTK's with Bond (having quit the service to find happiness) along with a tearful MI6 team preparing for Bond and Madeline's wedding when a signal comes through that theres trouble at Blofeld's prison. Cue jumping into choppers and a big action sequence where Blofeld escapes and Bond leaves Madeline standing at the altar (the obvious thing is to kill her in the PTS but thats just too obvious IMO).
Then we have Bond putting the wedding on hold while he goes back one last time to hunt down Blofeld and at the end, thinking he's finally dead we get the wedding and Madeline murdered. Perhaps he would actually kill Blofeld before the wedding to keep us guessing but Tilda Swinton's Irma Bunt would come back to kill Madeline and become the main villain in Bond 26.
It all seems a bit too obvious to me but if EON want to use this then fine but, my previous comment notwithstanding, I will sue if I dont get a credit in the final film!
I got the impression that she had delivered it in the post? She knew that she was having to 'retire' and wouldn't be Bond's boss anymore. Seems plausible to me.
This guy's review kind of sums up my feeling.
http://www.theoohtray.com/2015/10/27/film-review-spectre/
Time for Blowers to use his one phonecall on the other loose end from QoS:
Genius Sir.
Except they are noticeably trying to pretend QOS never happened. Multiple mentions of Le Chiffre, Vesper, Skyfall and Silva but the Quantum organisation only mentioned once and very quickly in passing.
Quantum are mentioned twice and Green is also name checked.
connection. ;)
Come on It's Bond & Blofield! should have been awsome but wasn't.
Why is CR the best of the Craig era, 2 reasons it was base on original Flemming material & they did a contrasting & new feeling Bond.
No, she says something about "if anything happens to me", the DVD was made as she was worried something would happen to her (I think death is the obvious reference plus Bond says, "in my mail box just after she died", implying death was the motivator for receiving the DVD) not retirement. So there is a guy who needs to be killed and his contacts at the funeral investigated (a serious international threat, not a bit part). Rather than tell someone whilst you are head of dept and alive, you dont tell anyone (including Bond) and arrange a third party to store the DVD and pass it to Bond following her death.