Let's just be clear here, it's impossible for this discussion to be spoiler-free. It's just that kind of movie. But, for maximum security, I'm putting the spoiler tags on anyway, but I still feel like I can talk about some things without them. If anything, this movie inspired me to review movies again. What fun.
Anyway, there are a lot of people divided on this movie, but what confuses me the most is when people say that this is a sort of decentish, midlevel Bond action movie. If it had even that to it, I probably would have been sort of okay with the movie. But save for one okayish accent scene in a train, every other action scene is boring as hell. There's no intent behind the staging or the editing. The car chase in the movie just involves Bond getting followed for about ten minutes until he finally decides to crash his car in the river. Another one involves a car and a plane and it ends roughly about the same way. And that intro sequence is just not as fun as it should be. I mean, it involves a god damn helicopter flying around in hectic ways while there's a fistfight going on. How is that not exciting? And, also, why are some people calling this the best intro sequence in the series? We already just came away from Skyfall which actually had an outstanding one, but there have been just as exciting ones in the past that include (my favorites) Goldeneye, The Living Daylights, Casino Royale, The Spy Who Loved Me, and The World is Not Enough. And a couple of these aren't even movies I like all that much, but they had that intro though.
Nobody seems to be talking about this, but the editing and staging is terrible in this movie. I felt like I was watching Attack of the Clones through a lot of the dialogue scenes and the action scenes are so void of tension and purpose that I really can't believe that these are the same guys behind Skyfall. You would think that someone who could make the scene in underground London where Bond and the bad guy sliding down the escalator to be exciting would be able to make anything exciting, especially one involving shootouts while flying an plane chasing down a car, but that just falls flat on its face.
Okay, spoiler time
Yeah, this is really ranty. I had one damned nice thing to say about it, so there you go.
Disagree? I know a lot of people who really liked this movie and I'm opening up to find out why. I'm genuinely curious. Let your voices be heard! I'm getting tired of hearing "I disagree, I thought it was fantastic," and they just leave it at that. So, really, what do you guys think?
Anyway, there are a lot of people divided on this movie, but what confuses me the most is when people say that this is a sort of decentish, midlevel Bond action movie. If it had even that to it, I probably would have been sort of okay with the movie. But save for one okayish accent scene in a train, every other action scene is boring as hell. There's no intent behind the staging or the editing. The car chase in the movie just involves Bond getting followed for about ten minutes until he finally decides to crash his car in the river. Another one involves a car and a plane and it ends roughly about the same way. And that intro sequence is just not as fun as it should be. I mean, it involves a god damn helicopter flying around in hectic ways while there's a fistfight going on. How is that not exciting? And, also, why are some people calling this the best intro sequence in the series? We already just came away from Skyfall which actually had an outstanding one, but there have been just as exciting ones in the past that include (my favorites) Goldeneye, The Living Daylights, Casino Royale, The Spy Who Loved Me, and The World is Not Enough. And a couple of these aren't even movies I like all that much, but they had that intro though.
Nobody seems to be talking about this, but the editing and staging is terrible in this movie. I felt like I was watching Attack of the Clones through a lot of the dialogue scenes and the action scenes are so void of tension and purpose that I really can't believe that these are the same guys behind Skyfall. You would think that someone who could make the scene in underground London where Bond and the bad guy sliding down the escalator to be exciting would be able to make anything exciting, especially one involving shootouts while flying an plane chasing down a car, but that just falls flat on its face.
Okay, spoiler time
Blofeld is Bond's half-brother and was the guy behind the bad guys in the last three Daniel Craig bond films. This is accomplished by Blofeld telling Bond that he was behind everything this entire time without even bothering to explain how or why. This is goddamned worse than the Star Wars prequels, because at least the original movies hinted at Vader's past and it sort of gets assembled in the prequels. I mean, yeah, we could talk about how bad those movies were until were blue in the face, but Spectre just takes it to a whole new level. How am I going to watch Casino Royale or Skyfall again without thinking "How is Blofeld behind all of this? Why did they have to take it this far?" Why does Blofeld created a goddamned secret evil headquarters just for the purpose of messing with James Bond. Fucking Gah!!!!
Yeah, this is really ranty. I had one damned nice thing to say about it, so there you go.
Disagree? I know a lot of people who really liked this movie and I'm opening up to find out why. I'm genuinely curious. Let your voices be heard! I'm getting tired of hearing "I disagree, I thought it was fantastic," and they just leave it at that. So, really, what do you guys think?
