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It's not really obvious in the film.
Yeah, I thought that was the scene we were talking about.
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Hiss off!
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I agree and speaking of SPECTRE (the organisation), I am not quite sure if I really like the way they went with them. I appreciate the ideas of competing villains and it is nice to see some double crossing going on, there. I just don't think it was right to kill off all the SPECTRE agents so easily. Safin's revenge plan on SPECTRE was interesting but at the same time it felt pretty simple to tear down this super villain organisation. In Spectre (the film), we were made to believe that SPECTRE is everywhere, infiltrates every organisation and no secret service does even know who's on SPECTRE's pay roll. Safin does not only seem to know every SPECTRE agent he also has all their DNA. It just minimises SPECTRE to a bunch of gangsters that is easily tricked by yet another villain. The same applies to Bloefeld. Isn't he supposed to be a super villain. His death, however, appears to be something small that just happens in between other more important scenes.
Agreed 1000%
My main gripe with NTTD is how they treated SPECTRE and more importantly Blofeld.
Yeah I didn't like how some nobody was able to come in and trump Spectre as if he was actually the main villain behind the organization.
Yeah, you'd think having every member of your international crime organisation in one place at the same time would be kind of foolish...🤔
What egos!
Agree. And I thought NTTD could have been a good ooportunity to make SPECTRE take revenge for what they had to suffer in the previous film. The first twenty minutes of the film felt as if the producers wanted to go in that direction but then again SPECTRE was just simply destroyed by Safin, a random villain we have never heard of before. I really wonder why they brought SPECTRE and Bloefeld back when they actually don't want to make use of them. It is such a wasted potential.
Maybe arrogance is the wrong word... confidence.
They did make use of them. They used them to set up the threat that was Safin.
I don't mind that SPECTRE was destroyed by someone they had wronged in their past. I just didn't love that Blofeld went down with them in the way that he did.
For me it doesn't work when evilness is just pretended but not really seen on screen . SPECTRE was always told to be the main villain organisation that ties it all together that infiltrates every other organisation but on screen we hardly ever see them doing anything. If you want to create a great villain, give him or her enough screen time, and a consistant plan and some memorable lines. It all is missing in SPECTRE and NTTD.
Exactly! I've said this all along. In recent years there's been too much telling us the villains are villains, rather than showing us.
Also, when Maddy did the big reveal of the Spectre name, they really should have spelled out what Spectre stood for. The whole Craig era came and went without any explanation of where the name came from, (Special Executive.. etc)
I don’t think it was a problem with all the villains personally, just SPECTRE. And I’m glad they didn’t spell out Special Executive of Counterintelligence etc.
Conceptually the same, but brought into the modern era with a few tweaks here and there.