Spectre

[strong_latte]

il wait til it comes to dvd by the sounds of it.

oh well, only another 3-4 years until the next and it will probably be craigs last.

It depends on what you want from a Bond film. If you want the over the top dark and serious stuff they've been dishing out lately this may not be your go, but if you miss the golden era Bond films you'll get a real kick out of this I reckon.

I put it up there with Casino Royale - which is probably the only one of the Craig films I rate as a proper Bond film outside of this.

 

[some11]

Sounds like I'll only ever like (love) Casino Royale.

QoS is only worth watching for the opera set piece, the bond girl has the personality of a plank of wood.

Skyfall is only worth watching for Deakins' cinematography, the villain plot completely killed the film for me.

 

[Aragorn]

One other thing, but am I the only one who thinks that if a biopic is ever made of Vladamir Putin that Daniel Craig would be the perfect actor to play him? Dude looks like he could be Putin's son!

Putin's son? they look the same age, and I'm not sure who that is complimenting.

 

[vvvrulz]

In what sense exactly?

I mean, from a technical standpoint its kinda pretty to look at, but the story was one of the dumbest f**king things of the Craig films yet.

*SPOILERS*

Bond does nothing but get his arse handed to him, fail to prevent any attacks or murders and ultimately gets his boss killed. To add to that, there's this f**king creepy sex scene with a chick who's basically just admitted to being a sex slave and who is then just killed off with as much thought as your average storm trooper death, and Bardem's revenge plan was the most geniused "get myself caught on purpose" thing I've seen and his motives (given he was a f**king spy) were moronic in the extreme.

When you think about the movie, Bardem achieves all of his goals (wanted to kill M and basically wanted to die himself) and Bond basically fails at every level... I mean he can't even pass his f**king basic skills test in the movie :lol:

Yet somehow after all that he's still got a job. It's seriously the dumbest shit since the Brosnan era, but at least with his movies you knew they weren't taking themselves too seriously.



Agreed. By and large you could have called this era's character "James Bourne" as it feels desperately like it's trying to ape the action and intensity of those movies (just without the story).

Completely agree with this.

While Skyfall was entertaining esp Bardem hamming it up, it's was so lazily written that every plot point fell apart.

Too many stupid coincidences, characters acting like idiots, plot holes you could drive a truck through and Craig himself was 10 years too old and as charismatic as a brick.

It was indeed James Bourne, what happened to the notion of actual missions and espionage?

Casino Royale was by far the only quality Craig movie, as was Goldeneye for Brosnan.

 

[strong_latte]

Putin's son? they look the same age, and I'm not sure who that is complimenting.

Yeah fair call. Maybe his brother lol

 

[Wizardman]

People are getting way too critical of the Bond movies. I loved the hammy ones like "Live and Let Die"

 

[Walt Flanigan]

Saw Spectre today and really enjoyed it. I had no idea about the plot before I saw it so the reveal about the villain was pretty cool.

 

[Timbo]

The reveal was ripped straight from Star Trek Into Darkness. Cast an actor as a generic villain and make the 'surprise' announcement half way through he's actually your nemesis.

 

[Walt Flanigan]

Either way.....didn't see it coming.

 

[mongoose]

These Daniel Craig ones are strange with personal relationships getting a lot more attention than the plot and missions. It worked in Casino Royal but in Skyfall and Spectre it seems awkward...

 

[Game_Breaker]

Did no one notice the plot was very similar to MI: Rogue Nation? Spectre is just a poor version of that film

 

[Someone]

Did no one notice the plot was very similar to MI: Rogue Nation? Spectre is just a poor version of that film

well theres that many spy movies that storylines are going to be comparable.

 

[Game_Breaker]

well theres that many spy movies that storylines are going to be comparable.

yeah, but both released in the same year

 

[Evil_Mush]

Saw this last week, having only seen Casino Royale previously of the Daniel Craig Bond films (and that was when it was a new release so barely remember the plot anyway).

It was OK, probably should've watched the last two though as there were a lot of 'reveal' moments that I presume should have been shocking or exciting, but I didn't feel as such cos I didn't know whether I should know what was actually going on or not, watching in isolation from the other movies.

Anyway, enjoyed Batista as the thug, a little disappointed he wasn't sighted again after his last scene (the way he was dispatched made it feel like a "I'll be back" kinda moment, maybe the next film?), the French chick was hot, Monica Bellucci while still hot is now showing her age (nothing wrong with it though), some of the action setpieces were quite exciting but in a classic 'how could that ever happen' action movie kinda way, the little bits of humour here and there were quite funny in a 'snicker under your breath' kinda way.

Main villain didn't feel menacing as he could be, though again I don't know whether not seeing the last couple of movies meant impact wasn't felt for me as much?

All up, it was fine. Not amazing, just fine.