I have now seen Spectre. I liked it lots, and while I have a bit of sympathy with one of ant’s two main gripes; I agree - it really doesn’t need to be as interconnected as it is, I’d probably disagree with the points about Blofeld. He’s a mentally vicious bastard that toys with his prey for sport. I also like his reveal, his disfigurement, and the fact that he’s still alive at the end of the movie. It’s Blofeld; he’s a several movie villain. I like that they kept him around, much as I loved how the villains in the Nolan Batman films generally survived to the end credits.
I’ve read some reviews online that moan about this being like a load of other Bond films, and it is, but I really can’t see where the criticism comes from after the way the last film ended. Bond leaving a wood-panelled room, new Q, new M and Moneypenny all in place. A traditional Bond film was exactly what I expected; that’s what Spectre is.
Hidden villains, secret organisations, uncharted lairs, fast cars, lovely ladies (although Monica Belucci is once again underused), large explosions, sense defying stunts and a cocky bollocks cracking wise after plugging a bad guy.
The modernity came from the plot, which sees the 00 branch about to be dissolved in favour of the sort of mass surveillance uncovered by Edward Snowden. The movie sticks firm to its conviction that an armed psychopath operating with near total autonomy is better than monitoring everyone’s porn habits and sharing that information with eight other countries
There’s talk of Craig being tired of the role. I hope he does at least one more. The best Bond since Connery, appearing in a Connery-like Bond movie. What’s not to like?
He’s a great Bond - good news for anyone who likes to see men jumping off buildings into helicopters while maintaining a vague love interest during a hunt for a bloke who wants to destroy everything - with Aston Martins as eye candy.
Agree with that, especially when Tom Hardy’s best role (imho) involved us not seeing anything of him apart from some eyebrows. And eyebrows have already been done to death in the franchise
Pah, it is time for a post feminist female Bond where a ‘fit bird’ shags lots of male eye candy before they met a grisley end at the hands of a psychotic Lesbian or Gay archvillain and saves the World despite being on her period.
Am I the only person in the world that thinks James Bond movies suck and both the character and most* of the actors who’ve played him are cads and chancers who are fortunate enough to look passable in a pair of budgie smugglers.
*Connery was ‘ok’ but his non Bond films were far better
Bond went downhill big time after Connery. With Moore it was just silly and it never really picked up, for me, until Craig came on board. The movies work better when they arent played for laughs.
