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>:D< you need a hug
Can I agree a second time? :)
Spectre is the best Bond movie ever, closely followed by Goldeneye, tee-hee <:-P
Ludovico I could have gone to a bookmaker and put money on anyone on this forum coming back with arguing black was white it would be you.
Berry and Richards were your typical cast Bond girls, they have always been prominent in the movies. My point is that the whole case now is made up of people and when scripting they are trying to share screen time to keep them all happy. In this Waltz and Seydoux give them loads of screen time absolutely but not have Mallory, Q and MP out in the field and anything more than a few minutes in the film. Because of this it has developed in to a TEAM MI6 thing. That's not really Bond, Bond is a lone wolf.
You ditch the need to keep a high profile supporting cast, you limit their time on screen it gives you more creative space to focus on Bond, the mission, the villain the over all plot. Rather than "we better make him go back to London again, so that we give Fiennes, Wishaw and Harris some more screen time.
Old formula
PTS
Bond doing something at his leisure before being summoned to HQ
MP - A few minutes flirting
M - 5 to 10 minutes tops "here is your mission report to Q branch in the morning/now"
Q - 5 minutes - "Here is what I have for you 007"
Bond arriving in some far off location, investigating
Bond Meets the main Bond girl of the movie, likely using her to get to someone else
Car chase
A twist
Second Exotic Location
A second girl
A showdown and gun fight
Bond 1 on 1 with the villain
MP - final flirt a few minutes
M - Congratulation - a few minutes
I don't mind it cutting back to London showing M in meeting with ministers or official is it is pertinent to the story. Those aspects have been around from Connery films. Just not central to the action or helping Bond do his job in the field.
We have gone from the UK supporting cast being in the film for 20 minutes to them featuring in most of the films. It started with Dame Judi - "Oh we have Dame Judi, we better use her more than we did any previous M and it has just grown arms and legs it didn't matter where he went she would show up, right through Brosnan and now Craig, I thought when they did away with her in Skyfall all of it would stop, but it was worse in Spectre.
Bond 25 give me William Boyd - Solo, just so I can see Bond solo again without it before we start renaming the films "The M Team".
Involuntarily but yes.
Blofeld was Envy when you think about it. But no surprise as the trigger for a mad man will always be something sinful.
A lot of people have mentioned to me recently how awful the Brosnan era was. A friend of mine who grew up with Brosnan as Bond could only muster 'GE was pretty good, but that's because of Sean Bean'.
Look at the Brosnan and Dalton movies on IMDB, Rotten Tomatoes or wherever, and apart from GE all the Brosnan films rank lower than the Dalton films. Even GE ties with LTK on Rotten Tomatoes.
There's an outdated assumption that people don't like Dalton, but times have changed. As with Lazenby and OHMSS (once dismissed as a second rate irrelevance) fans and critics have come to appreciate Dalton a lot more. Infact, if you read the reviews, Dalton was getting a lot of positive press even at the time.
Dalton was the basis for Craig Bond, Dalton did Gritty Bond first, without a doubt a greater appreciation for Dalton since the Craig films. People have gone back and said "I can see what Tim was trying to do there".
To reiterate, my only problems with the movie stem from the script, it's a beautifully shot, well directed, excellently acted film othwerwise. It's hard to know who to really blame here, Purvis and Wade can certainly be a part of the problem, but I feel the whole "Blofeld is Bond's brother" came from Logan as did the love story.
You preach to the choir.
No argument about Dalton here, he's still criminally underrated in rankings :)
Interesting indeed.
I always feel there's a plodding dead-weight to the films almost whenever P+W are involved.
During the film, in the scenes in the compound in the meteor crater, I never ONCE though about YOLT's volcano lair. In fact, NO OTHER Bond film came to mind at all during my viewing. I was just so in the moment with the movie.
I thought, as with a lot of the film, there were allusions to the mythos but done in a brilliant way. If you'd told me on paper they were riffing on the volcano lair I'd have hated it, but in reality it's bloody perfect and I love the theatricality of the meteor exposition. Straight out of a Fleming novel.
Which is why it's so good imo. It combines ingredients that feel Bondian, but it isn't a straight rip off.
Exactly, SP just nails it!
But also Lawrence of Arabia, Casablanca, Touch of Evil, etc. So many, a separate thread might serve better.
But a couple of quibbles, as there always seems to be in a Bond film. Not sure how much time passed between blowing up ESB's fortress and Bond arriving at the bombed out
MI6 building. I assume very little, since Blofeld wasn't even wearing a bandage over that nasty wound. It's the red strings in the MI6 building that bother me. Who rigged them up and when? How long did it take? Also, what was the purpose of the net inside the building? I realize one should never think too hard about a Bond, but sometimes the little things rankle.
The building was prepared by the city to be blown up controlled.
Those are the many red cables.
The net was there for safety reasons.