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Same here. Everything but the "stepbrother" stuff.
I like the folded back cuffs too.
Me too.
Glad someone else said it first!
Of the two Mendes entries SP is definitely my favourite, although I don't think it's particularly good either.
But people on here do seem to forget SP got rave reviews (in the UK at least) and did pretty well at the BO too. Yes not as well as SF but I am sure EON weren't complaining.
From a commercial perspective there seems every reason to follow hard on the heels of SP.
It was a bit bizarre the disparity between the UK and American press on Spectre. The UK press were glowing, the US average to outright hostile to the film - remember one reviewer saying it was the worst Bond film in 30 years.
This certainly could be plausible...
Yes very bizarre. The US often takes a different view to UK/ Europe though. Licence to Kill did poorly in the US but had a strong box office in Europe. That said, I think LTK actually got good reviews in the US as well.
Basically you can never really predict what is going to happen.
That pub reminds me of the scene at the end of Mission Impossible
I think Blofeld coming back is great, and it wouldn't surprise me if the film ends with evidence of his escape, just after Bond saves the world again.
BUT I doubt all that - so far everything we ready, heard and saw about B25 was promising, no - exciting! So I can‘t imagine them throwing all of this away (again) by telling a story as lame as last time.
My opinion as it was the biggest let down of the era and because of the potential squandered it remains bottom of the pile for me.
Although here is the difference between me and the SW butt hurt fan boys, I'm not pouring negativity on B25 and I'm not saying I'll boycott all of Mendes films going forward, also turning up to badmouth Knives Out.
Some SW fan boys had probably barely heard of Johnson before he appeared on their radar directing TLJ, now they feel the need to say KO will be terrible because they didn't get the film in their heads.
SPECTRE is and will always remain for me the low point of this era and because I couldn't care less for TND - DAD as I wasn't invested in them SP trumps them and a few of the other entries I don't have a great deal of time for.
Some can park the Blohauser/Brofeld business and enjoy the film but if it was only that and bar the PTS the action sequences were thrilling like the ones that were in the previous entries. Also we didn't get such a generic obvious character as Scott's Denbigh then maybe I could overlook it but I'm sorry the way some seem to think SF is the nadir of the series I feel the same about SP.
I won't get into my thoughts on the score and that theme, it really stacked up for me I'm afraid.
SF is night and day to SP to me and the crimes it commits are nowhere near the ones in my view that SP did.
So yes to some it's hyperbole and OTT but to some of us it's exactly what we interpreted it as.
That being said, I'm chomping at the bit for Bond 25 and really think the return of Waltz as ESB could go some to healing my wounds from my experience of Bond 24.
I'm hoping that EON are playing a shrewd game of misdirection and the theory they 've numbered the clapperboards up with not necessarily the real running order of the film.
Even if they aren't this is the most secretive and exciting film of the era due to all the speculation and possibilites out there.
Wise words, all of them. And I fell exactly the same way about the last three Bond films. That being said, I must also enfatize how I'm appreciating this production for its secrecy and all around insubmission. Can't wait to see the first images from the film.
Definitely agree, although I'm staying positive for now. I remember being close to leaving the theatre when watching SP. Hadn't I've gone to watch it with friends, I would have.
Ditto.
DAD is the ONLY Bond movie I have switched off more than once while watching it!
Am really intrigued by this new Bond movie, and having seen most of Fukunaga work, I still believe we are in a safe pair of hands!
I'm one of the biggest fan of SP inhere* but I have to say that my expectations are so high that I truly hope we're in for something more special.
*On a side note, I'm lucky enough that I can enjoy both "Mendes depressing take" and some Moore or Brosnan atrocious entries without feeling the need to leave the theatre or turning the TV off. Every Bond entry has ALWAYS something to enjoy or appreciate.
Exactly, even DUD has that bit in Cuba (Cadiz) with the "delectados" and Raoul.
For me Bond25 already excels in that department, with the sail boat and the harpoon gun scenes in Jamaica.