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Rocky had a great first half, then it turned into one long fight scene.
Blade Runner had a fantastic start, then the hero had to be saved by the villain & it got all silly.
SPECTRE started out fine, then we had all that mind-games stuff, and Bond's character development and junk..
Hey- this is cool! You can apply it to ANY film that you personally had problems with!
SF did. And QoS' conclusion may have been its best part. In fact, I think the endings of TWINE, TND and GE were all quite good, not to mention LTK and TLD.
I'm not too keen on the QoS finale only because of the way the hotel explosion conveniently pushes everything forward. It was just a little too convenient that it went off like that. This is why I didn't like the 'homage' (if that's what it was) during the Blofeld lair escape in SP either. The epilogue confrontation with Yusef is first class though.
I wasn't too happy with the endings in TND (too machine gunnish for me), TWINE (the acting more than anything), and TLD (I found Afghanistan dull apart from the fight with Necros, although very ambitious in scale with a superb score, and the gunfight with Whittaker was a bit cartoonish).
I did like LTK's ending very much though. The personal angle gave it an edge. Same with GE.
Isn't that the case with a lot of movies, not just Bond? Story takes a back seat in the second half a lot of the time ever since action movies became blockbuster movies.
As if Home Alone invented that type of finale
I agree. I did not have the movie, but noticed its flaws.
It's a special film like CR or SF that can maintain that momentum, especially the same director, but I still enjoyed this. Just not as good as the two mentioned above, in my opinion.
To be honest, the first thing I thought when watching this sequence for the first time was "this is going a bit McCaulay Caulkin for my liking".
Yeah, the cinematography is stunning. I never had a problem with the finale, really. I had one minor quibble; the contrived callback to the psychoanalysis at MI6 and two major quibbles; the DB5's gadget show and Bond's 'deep water' line. The whole Home Alone thing never bothered me, it felt to me like a viewer afterthought that snowballed. Other than that, it's pretty original and I applaud it for that. It trumps the relatively generic QoS ending. I think CR, SF and SP have all offered up something visually interesting.
I'm aware some really loathe the SP ending, but I find it suitably bizarre and visually arresting. It takes the generic 'blowing up of the villain's base' and subverts it, making it a piece of piss and a precursor to the real ending. I like that, the same way I like SF's efforts to subvert the classic finale by having it take place on Bond's patch.
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Agreed. Silly, lazy criticism.
Upon rewatch (and revisiting a few other Bond films I was tossing up) there's something about SP that just doesn't feel strong enough to step up into the top ten, IMO. Or rather, there's nothing strong enough to propel the film into the upper echelons.
It's sort of like LALD where it's bizzare and has this strange form of dynamicism, but just about everything that's good is countered by something that's bad, so I'm can't bring myself to raise those two above the #14-#16 area, and I tend to rotate them around that area too.
I've only seen it once, hoping to get it on Blu when it's released here in the UK. But on that first viewing the film seemed to whizz by for me, I was gripped. Certainly more so than with TFA which felt slow as I could tell where it was going.
Each to their own,. I actually thought TFA went by pretty quickly even if didn't love the film. I usually don't have a problem with slow movies (for example Bridge of Spies & Sicario were my two favorite movies last year, both could be considered slow) if they manage to invest me in the story and characters. That is where I feel SP failed and what made it drag for me.