It looks like you're new here. If you want to get involved, click one of these buttons!
^ Back to Top
The MI6 Community is unofficial and in no way associated or linked with EON Productions, MGM, Sony Pictures, Activision or Ian Fleming Publications. Any views expressed on this website are of the individual members and do not necessarily reflect those of the Community owners. Any video or images displayed in topics on MI6 Community are embedded by users from third party sites and as such MI6 Community and its owners take no responsibility for this material.
James Bond News • James Bond Articles • James Bond Magazine
Comments
1.They didn't have the rights until and once they had them they could.not.resist. Not to mention they haven't had a fully fleshed-out script well in advance in who knows how long, so they may have felt the larder was empty so let's use that thing we finally can use again.
2.Today's SPECTRE does not seem to use it as an acronym. Let's face it, even as of the date when Fleming first wrote it, it was awfully corny. Darn near the camp in the Batman TV show which came a few years later.
3.As for the org being poorly explained, it is not in SPECTRE's interest to do so. Of course, we are used to villains not simply killing Bond right off - to the degree of self-parody - and saying far too much to him, but it's up to Bond to figure it out.
4.How does Quantum roll into SPECTRE ? It struck me as one of SPECTRE's enterprises. I thought that was pretty clear, no ?
5.How is Silva connected to Q/SP ? I understood that, whether Silva realized it or not, he was serving Q/SP's interests and goals, and they helped him, even if from the shadows. That sort of activity occurs in the present day. Not to get political on here, but bad people have been and are influencing other people, whether those other people know it or believe it or not.
SPECTRE in the Craig films seems to prefer a low profile, wreaking havoc, certainly, but avoiding notice and certain not sending Ransom Notes. The Austin Powers films quite effectively skewered (ahem, one sympathises) that with satire....which suggests the Bond producers would not want to use something the Powers (or Kingsman) films parodied. The problem with this suggestion is that the Bond producers most certainly DID use plot points from films which came into existence and thrived based on parodying Bond - from Powers' "I used to think you were crazy but now I can see your / you're nuts !" having the evil multi-film villain turn out to be the hero's brother (SP and NTTD), and from Kingsman having the villain ready to reduce the population of the planet by turning on devices he managed to disseminate among the populace widely and deeply (NTTD). And THIS is part of something we've sadly seen in Bond films since LALD - a series which formerly SET trends starts borrowing from OTHER film trends. Ok, so you can't reasonably expect to be on top forever, but their blatant borrowing was downright embarassing.
At any rate, to return to your points, I think SPECTRE makes more sense now than it did before.
Yeah, sure. It's a party. But from the trailers, it felt as if SPECTRE were going to be twice as nefarious than they previously were.
I suppose, if that's what you got from the trailers, that's what you got.
Yeah, Maybe it's just me. Because from the trailers, I never imagined that SPECTRE party to be that lightweight. From the trailers, there were even several shots of Paloma looking very concerned, that made me think Bond really is in perilous waters in Cuba....which he will of course, find a unique way to escape and will lead him to doing something very Bondian like he always does when we think it's all over for him.
Imagine if Spectre had been called something else, have Bond go on what appears to be a routine mission, defeat the villain 2/3's of the way through and then discover Spectre was behind it. Have Bond infiltrate that brilliant boardroom scene, see that Spectre are a massive organisation and have the reveal be Waltz was Blofeld. Which would have set up Bond 25
Rushing into using SPECTRE midway through Craig's run was a clear mistake. They had a perfectly good nefarious organization going already and only would have had to wait another two films to thoughtfully use SPECTRE for the full run of Bond #7. I actually hope they'll wait until Bond #8 to use SPECTRE again, but I suspect now that they have the rights they'll try to make SPECTRE a part of everything.
Not feasible. There's a law somewhere that Martin Campbell directs the first film for a new Bond actor, and that's it. It's part of the law that already was in place much longer that Bond films do not visit Canada, Australia or New Zealand.
Oh, Yeah...true. Just my wish though.
I've heard of that law.
I found this turn of phrase amusing and it made me laugh.
Well, they did! :))
Perfectly good nefarious organizations don't just grow on trees.
Indeed, they don't ! (Members have been known to hide, or lurk behind trees) Furthermore, the Quantum stylistic Q was reminiscent a bit of the SPECTRE octopus (can you just see their recruitment ads for minions ? "At SPECTRE, we've got our tentacles into everything ! So there's sure to be a job with us that is right for your skills, experience and goals !")