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Love or hate the PTS, I do hope you love Barry's work in it. One of my favorite bits of score in the entire series.
Oh don't worry I do. Barry's whole score in AVTAK is one of my favorites. I don't even really hate the PTS; I just think it's one of, it not the weakest of the series.
Happy to hear that, at least! I really enjoy it, but there are easily better PTS' out there that have me ranking it below many others.
All this Bond talk recently gave me a craving for something exceptional. There could only be one choice. This viewing solidified the film as my #1 Bond outing. The atmosphere, simple suspense driven espionage plot, locations, humour, dialogue, chilling Barry score, characters and acting are all first class. The only elements that I am not all that keen on are the lengthy gypsy village shootout, the helicopter sequence & the boat chase, but I'm nitpicking. Connery is perfection. What's remarkable about him is his demeanour and natural ability to be credibly lethal while still being roguishly charming and suave. It's a privilege to see him in his prime & at the top of his game.
Got to watch all 4 Craig films today. CR remains my all-time favorite Bond film, SF is still one of my favorites, and both SP and QoS remain around the middle. Basically, I love CR and SF, and like QoS and SP. Great era of Bond overall, and I'm hyped for Bond 25.
I heard there was a scene cut where Bond has a meal with Blofeld at the crater base. I wonder if we'll ever get to see it? I'd love them to do a Spectre DVD set like they did with Casino Royale.
Agree watched the film several times this year, it's become a easy watch over time.
But they still did.
If the elements were from the book they were safe it's complicated I'll have to rewatch what Kershner said.
The special edition I bought has a few short documentarys and a commentary by Kershner and a Bond historian it's a good listen
I don't know the history of the legal mess surrounding NSNA, but I imagine it was the headache of headaches.
I've never liked the assassination attempt scene. It's too neat and a bit poncey. I blame Mendes for that.
Unfortunately, had to lower SP a couple spots on my ranking from last night's watch, but it's still a decent Bond film I think. I think it's a little too long, and certain plot elements I'm not too keen on, but overall it's a fun, more lighthearted Bond adventure. #15 currently for me.
I similarly enjoyed that scene. Apart from the bizarre out of focus shot of Bond speaking.
A perfect double-bill, @FoxRox. The linkage and recalls in TLD of FRWL and its spirit are part of what makes it a good watch.
They each have a lot to like about them. I'll probably have rewatched all 24 within the next week at the rate I am going with these!! This series is so rewatchable and fun. The wait for Bond 25 will be quite painful.
I don't mind the wait, since we now know what we're getting. Simply the confirmation is enough for me, as that can end the questions. In the meantime I've got a whole pack of films to enjoy and celebrate until then.
Spectre
I think this must be my 4th viewing of the film, and my feeling haven't changed... much. More than anything, the film infuriates me. There are brief flashes of a proper Bond film, and then the film goes and does something that winds me up. It's one step forward, followed by 4 steps backwards. We get an opening gun barrel, finally. But it fades out before the stagger effect, just to allow "The dead are alive" to appear on screen. What was it last time? No opening gun barrel, because it would have clashed with Mendes opening shot. What was so special about that anyway? It looked like a 1st year film school attempt at the gun barrel, by someone who has never seen the bloody thing. This is why I am so against the likes of Mendes, Nolan or any of the other names being thrown around as director. They won't make a Bond film, they'll make an *insert directors name* film.
I stand by what I have said of Fiennes, Harris and Wishaw. I genuinely do like all three in their respective roles, and hope that they will stick around for more films, especially if a new actor is likely to happen with Bond #26. Best Craig:Bond? Yes, but there is plenty of room for improvement.
I also wasn't all that sold on the romance. Lea Seydoux did an okay job, but to suggest Bond's character would settle for her after losing Vesper is a stretch. I think Bond 25 will make it clear though that Bond can't live a quiet life.
I think Blofeld taking so much credit is really part of his egotistical character. He seems to think that actions of men like White (Vesper) and Silva (M) fall under his domain, and that he is the master of all. In reality other men have hurt Bond more than he has, and Bond seems to react quite understandingly when the man tries to take such credit, calling him a nutcase. He's never as great as his own legend purports and his fall from egotistical grace via the helicopter is great symbolism for the moment when he must kneel to Bond's might as all other Blofelds have to their heroic counterparts in the past.
As for Madeleine, folks should quit viewing it as a Rick and Ilsa situation. Bond likes the girl, and is seeing what that kind of life could be like, but she's not Vesper and he doesn't view her that way from what I can tell. The woman brought to his mind the same discussions and advice Vesper tried to impart to him, and with so much of his past coming back in the film's story it's only inevitable that when Madeleine tells him he always has a choice and can do something else (the same things Vesper said to him in CR), he would really think on them hard. He's constantly changing his view of life very much in touch with how Fleming wrote him, and in this case he's seeing if a life outside his own is for him. Madeleine is his gateway to that, but they aren't true loves. She's a woman who understands him and who he doesn't need to explain himself to, and that's enough for him, but this isn't the greatest love story of all time and isn't meant to be.