Spectre

[lex!]

Would seem I am not alone in knowing the beginning and end of every film but not a lot about what happens in between...

Luckily [if I don't get to see film at work] I get in for 'free' these days...


BTW... Lad saw SPECTRE yesterday and was fairly underwhelmed....

Last film I had a really good kip through was Les Miserables. Got HID elbow in the ribs a couple of times to stop the snoring. Was in the days of Orange half price Wednesdays and we used to go to Pizza Express first, doing 2-4-1 on the same ticket. Spent the saving on a bottle of Chardonnay of which I would consume the greater percentage.

 

[Duckster]

Last film I had a really good kip through was Les Miserables. Got HID elbow in the ribs a couple of times to stop the snoring. Was in the days of Orange half price Wednesdays and we used to go to Pizza Express first, doing 2-4-1 on the same ticket. Spent the saving on a bottle of Chardonnay of which I would consume the greater percentage.

Me and the Mrs were both nodding off at Les Mis. Oh lordy that thing was boring.

 

[Lord Tyrion]

Les Mis didn't appeal and when I saw clips of Russel Crowe singing I knew I would never agree to see it. My wife went with a friend in the end, life's too short to life through that sort of horror.

 

[Robster59]

We went to see this last night. I was really hoping for more. I thought Skyfall was great with Javier Bardem as Silva being a real villain. Lots of underlying menace and darkness about it. This one just turned into an archetypal Bond film which is a shame as they are now going more for effects (the aircraft chase was just silly) over content. Individually I still like the central characters but they need to weave a better story around them.

The worst film I've ever seen at the pictures was "Meet the Spartans" with my two kids. The only reason we didn't walk out was we were just fascinated to see if it could get any worse. It did! Thank God it didn't last long.

The worst of the big budget films? "2012". I walked out of there and said to my other half that was 3 hours of my life I won't get back. I'll never watch anything directed by Roland Emmerich again. I finished up giggling through most of the film (punctuated by elbows from HID) at the "scary", and "last minute close call" moments.

 

[Stuey01]

I saw it last night, loved it.
Not as good as Casino Royale but better than QoS and Skyfall for my money.

 

[Chisteve]

We watched it last nigHt thought it was great Craig is very good and much darker an menacing than previous bonds

I thought it was much more for adults than children

 

[PhilTheFragger]

Saw it last night, with my 3 daughters 21,19,17
We all thoroughly enjoyed it, great action film, loved the nods to previous films but thought that Blofelt was too nice to be a real baddie.

Also all the fuss about a mature Bond girl and she was only in it for 3 minutes

Great film though , classic modern Bond

 

[Billythefish]

We watched it last nigHt thought it was great Craig is very good and much darker an menacing than previous bonds

I thought it was much more for adults than children

He is much darker because of a certain Jason Bourne. Bond needed to up their game after the Bourne films, they needed to let you know that 007 is a killer. If you compare some of the close quarter combat scenes there are real similarities with Craigs Bond and Damons Bourne.

We saw it opening night at the Mailbox brum. Tuxedo cocktails champagne and all that. Was a great night (what i can remember!). But i was really dissapointed with the film. Need to watch it again without the Martinis!

 

[Snelly]

I thought it was on a par with all the other Daniel Craig bond films - all pretty rubbish.

Monica being the one highlight. A shame that when Mr Craig snogged her, he, according to Camilla Long, looked "like a camel trying to retrieve dates from a hanging basket."

 

[Tiger]

I thought it was on a par with all the other Daniel Craig bond films - all pretty rubbish.

Monica being the one highlight. A shame that when Mr Craig snogged her, he, according to Camilla Long, looked "like a camel trying to retrieve dates from a hanging basket."

Finally been to see it and like many came out underwhelmed. I did really like Skyfall and Casino Royale but think that by aiming for a 12 certificate to broaden audience figures killed the best elements of the past films - menace. Overhyped.

Roll on December 17th but in the meantime I will try and see a Michael Fassbender double (Macbeth & Steve Jobs)

 

[Piece]

I'm not a big Bond fan but having seen it on Sat, I thought it was good fun. Certainly better than walking on the pier in the peeing rain and 50mph winds.

 

[larmen]

SPOILER - don't read it you don't want to

I thought it was totally predictable. Everything what I expected to happen happened. And I was worried about it because it turned the whole of the previous Bond movies containing Sprectre or Bloefeld into a vendetta against Bond. The greatest villain of all time does it just to spite a guy who turned out to become a MI6 agent?

 

[richy]

Saw it through the week. Pretty poor I thought. Daniel Craig is looking old now and can't really pull off the role anymore.

I wonder if it's because they aren't Flemings stories that they're becoming so poor?

 

[Doon frae Troon]

I kept on thinking the MI5 baddy was George Osborne.:lol:

Craig getting too old now time for an update.

Good but not a great film. Action scenes were fabulous though.

 

[Blue in Munich]

POTENTIALLY A FURTHER SPOILER

SPOILER - don't read it you don't want to

I thought it was totally predictable. Everything what I expected to happen happened. And I was worried about it because it turned the whole of the previous Bond movies containing Sprectre or Bloefeld into a vendetta against Bond. The greatest villain of all time does it just to spite a guy who turned out to become a MI6 agent?

Succeeded in missing the main point about why Blofeld hated Bond then……..

 

[larmen]

POTENTIALLY A FURTHER SPOILER
Succeeded in missing the main point about why Blofeld hated Bond then……..

I get that, but it makes the whole of the Bond movies, all 20ish of them,seem like it's just a vendetta. In my opinion it diminishes the story line 'a little'.

 

[Backache]

Saw it through the week. Pretty poor I thought. Daniel Craig is looking old now and can't really pull off the role anymore.

I wonder if it's because they aren't Flemings stories that they're becoming so poor?

Thought the action was OK with a slightly weak plot but I enjoyed the film.
One thing is though that though many of the earlier Bond films used titles from the books, virtually none used the stories.

 

[sandmagnet]

Was not over impressed with this bond one. Had a lot to live up to after skyfall,but was still better then quantum of solace.

 

[GB72]

I finally got to see it yesterday afternoon and I too am in the bit disappointed camp. There was next to no plot over and above what was needed to tie together what were, admittedly, impressive action set pieces. The whole ‘super organisation of criminals’ thing seems far more suited to the Moore or Brosnan Bond films rather than the more gritty image being portrayed in the Craig era. Seems like an effort to transition towards a different style of film that does not really work and does not suit Daniel Craig at all.
The desert secret base must have been a health and safety nightmare. One valve goes and the whole place blows up. I blame shoddy builders myself.
Overall, it is a real pity as it could have included some decent thoughts on Government spying and data collection plus the use of drones etc but this all fell away with the introduction of the global super fiend. A wasted opportunity that had a great start with the Mexico set piece but then neither followed that with any plot or character development nor followed it with any better action.

 

[pendodave]

One thing is though that though many of the earlier Bond films used titles from the books, virtually none used the stories.

Can't let this pass, the first five were as close to the books as practicable for a film adaptation (up to OHMSS), the next 5 were 'loosely based'. The rest have certainly not used the source material except for odd little vignettes.

To return to the subject of the current offering, I wasn't particularly impressed, though the production was good enough to keep things ticking along throughout.

I can't really see where it can go now. The 'reinvention/origin' cycle of big film franchises seems to be getting to TM/Callaway timescales.

Perhaps they could go back to the original timeframe and redo some of them with a nice 1950s vibe with some post war/early cold war themes? Current 'real' events render their attempts to construct 'villains' a bit irrelevant. After all, TV series like MadMen show that there is some mileage in re-examining our recent past to interesting effect.