History Awesome / Spectre

** The boat chase. Bond manages to ''[[ImprobableAimingSkills shoot down Blofeld's chopper from a few miles away on his boat]]'', ''[[ImprobableAimingSkills with a pistol]]'', causing it to crash. ([[ThemeMusicPowerUp And a bit of the James Bond theme plays while he does this]]!) He later [[NotWorthKilling throws his gun away and leaves Blofeld to be arrested by M]], since he's "out of bullets".

!!Film
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---->'''Max:''' [[StrawNihilist Take a look at the world; chaos.]] Because people like you, paper-pushers and politicians, [[KnightTemplar are too spineless to do what needs to be done]]. So I made an alliance to put the power where it should be, and [[TheEvilsOfFreeWill now you want to throw it away for the sake of democracy, whatever the hell that is?]] How predictably moronic. (''takes out his handgun and points it at M'') But then isn't that what 'M' stands for; "Moron"? (''pulls trigger, realises the gun is unloaded'')
---->'''M:''' (''[[ItWorksBetterWithBullets opens his hand to reveal he'd already removed the magazine]]'') And now we know what 'C' stands for. ''[[ShutUpHannibal Careless.]]''

** Hinx manages to dominate the fight against Bond. in his previous films, Bond has persevered in his unarmed combat fights with his enemies. That's not the case here, with Mr Hinx surviving a candle setting his dinner jacket on fire, dodging Bond's swipe with a corkscrew and taking it out of play by ramming it into the bar and generally tossing around 007 like a ragdoll.

-->'''Bond''': [[TheDeterminator She wasn't going to let death get in the way of her job.]]

---->'''Max''': [[StrawNihilist Take a look at the world; chaos.]] Because people like you, paper-pushers and politicians, [[KnightTemplar are too spineless to do what needs to be done]]. So I made an alliance to put the power where it should be, and [[TheEvilsOfFreeWill now you want to throw it away for the sake of democracy, whatever the hell that is?]] How predictably moronic. (''takes out his handgun and points it at M'') But then isn't that what 'M' stands for; "Moron"? (''pulls trigger, realises the gun is unloaded'')
---->'''M''': (''[[ItWorksBetterWithBullets opens his hand to reveal he'd already removed the magazine]]'') And now we know what 'C' stands for. ''[[ShutUpHannibal Careless.]]''

*** The build-up to the scene itself makes it all the more satisfying, as M is constantly being told by Max how obsolete he -- as well as the 00 program in general -- are becoming as well as his own agents going behind his back. Once the restraints are loose, M with full control with his agents quickly shows Max just how pissing him off is very much a bad idea, starting with taking the bullets from Max's gun. If anything, the final act reminds us that [[AuthorityEqualsAsskicking this M got his position for a damn good reason]].

!!Meta

* After so many years of [[ScrewedByTheLawyers legal red tape]] and ping-pong with the late Kevin [=McClory=]'s estate over the rights, Creator/EonProductions ''finally'' got the rights back to use Blofeld and Spectre in the franchise in 2013. And they wasted no time building ''Spectre'' around them.
* Despite the Sony leak of 2014 that wreaked havoc on the film's early promotion[[note]]mainly because the film's gigantic budget and script were revealed, and Idris Elba's name as a suggestion to succeed Daniel Craig was dropped in a leaked email written by Sony producer Amy Pascal, leading to endless talks and speculations that drew media attention away from the actual film for quite some time[[/note]] and a more lukewarm critical reception compared to ''Film/{{Skyfall}}'', ''Spectre'' still did solid business. It ended up being the second highest-grossing film of the franchise unadjusted for inflation, and the fourth when adjusted.
** The film broke opening day records in UK with over $63 million (almost doubling the opening day of ''Skyfall'' there).
** ''Spectre'' also broke the opening day record in France, with 850,000 attendants, beating ''Film/SpiderMan3''.
* Music/SamSmith's "Writing's On the Wall" managed to win a Golden Globe and Oscar for Best Original Song.
* The opening sequence of Bond chasing after an assassin through a crowded and elaborate Day of the Dead parade inspired Mexico City [[http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-37813562 to stage its first ''real'' Day of the Dead parade]] in hopes of it [[{{Defictionalization}} becoming an annual tradition]]. As of 2021, the Day of the Dead parade and festivities are still happening (with the 2020 parade being cancelled due to the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic), and has been embraced by Mexicans as a cultural event surpassing the US-imported Halloween.
* The explosion of the Morocco facility? It was real. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAg_jqthRY4 And the largest movie explosion in the history of cinema]] at that. No model, no CGI. ShootTheMoney, indeed.

* The opening sequence of Bond chasing after an assassin through a crowded and elaborate Day of the Dead parade inspired Mexico City [[http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-37813562 to stage its first ''real'' Day of the Dead parade]] in hopes of it [[{{Defictionalization}} becoming an annual tradition]]. As of 2017, the Day of the Dead parade and festivities are still happening, and has been embraced by Mexicans as a cultural event surpassing the US-imported Halloween.

* A posthumous example from [[spoiler: Judi Dench's M]]. Sometime off-screen during the events of ''Film/{{Skyfall}}'', [[spoiler: she recorded a tape for Bond, requesting that he hunt down and kill Sciarra. As she had likely already discovered Spectre's existence, she made it her ultimate mission to undo the organization's global influence by having all of its members eliminated, even if she wasn't going to be around to see it.]] James even lampshades this in his conversation with Moneypenny.

** Points for Hinx in particular. Through sheer persistence and the use of a car that's faster than Bond's, he manages to keep up with 007 and isn't too fazed by the [[spoiler: rear mounted flamethrower which Bond roasts his front end with.]]

** Bond gets one for managing to gradually pick off the Land Rovers one by one with his unarmed turboprop plane and thinking quickly when its wings get torn off. [[spoiler: He uses it as a makeshift bobsled and after crashing through a barn, uses it to interdict Hinx's Ranger Rover.]]

* The [[spoiler: train fight between Bond and Hinx. Madeleine manages to wound Hinx, and Bond hangs Hinx and throws him out of the train to his death.]]
** Hinx manages to dominate the fight against Bond. [[spoiler: in his previous films, Bond has persevered in his unarmed combat fights with his enemies.]] That's not the case here, with [[spoiler: Mr Hinx surviving a candle setting his dinner jacket on fire, dodging Bond's swipe with a corkscrew and taking it out of play by ramming it into the bar and generally tossing around 007 like a ragdoll]].
* Hinx in general is a walking villainous CMOA. He's the first henchman in the Craig continuity to give Bond a genuine run for his money and give as good as he gets. He also comes seconds away from killing 007 and would have succeeded had it not been for Swann's timely intervention. [[spoiler:It's even possible that he might have survived, as [[UncertainDoom we don't actually see him die onscreen]], and Dave Bautista has implied he'd be willing to return to the role again.]]
* At Oberhauser's SupervillainLair in Morocco, [[spoiler: Bond manages to escape from his ColdBloodedTorture with help from Madeleine, then blows up the entire facility by shooting one of the gas lines, all the while shooting {{Mooks}} left, right and center.]]
** One for Madeline for managing to [[spoiler: catch on to what the Omega Seamaster 300 really was and tossing it at Blofeld, who gets blown clean out of his chair by the bomb and knocked unconscious; he gets his iconic scar later in the movie.]]
* And lastly, we have the entire final battle in [[spoiler: London.]] To clarify:
** M [[TookALevelInBadass takes a level in badass]] and fights [[spoiler: Max, who he sends [[DisneyVillainDeath falling from the top floor of the building to his death]]]]. At the same time, [[spoiler: Q manages to disable the Nine Eyes program.]]

*** The build-up to the scene itself makes it all the more satisfying, as M is constantly being told by Max how obsolete he -- as well as the 00 program in general -- are becoming as well as his own agents going behind his back. Once the restraints are loose, M with full control with his agents [[spoiler:quickly shows Max just how pissing him off is very much a bad idea, starting with taking the bullets from Max's gun. If anything, the final act reminds us that [[AuthorityEqualsAsskicking this M got his position for a damn good reason]].]]

*** And just how does he rescue her from several stories up with less than a minute before the building explodes? He ''[[spoiler: picks her up and jumps down a huge hole through the center of the building from the fourth or fifth floor all the way to a net in the basement.]].''
** The boat chase. Bond manages to [[spoiler: ''[[ImprobableAimingSkills shoot down Blofeld's chopper from a few miles away on his boat]]'', ''[[ImprobableAimingSkills with a pistol]]'', causing it to crash. ([[ThemeMusicPowerUp And a bit of the James Bond theme plays while he does this]]!) He later [[NotWorthKilling throws his gun away and leaves Blofeld to be arrested by M]], since he's "out of bullets".]]

* The ending. [[spoiler: For the first time in the Daniel Craig movies, the Bond girl stays with Bond alive and doesn't depart.]]
* Q gets into an ActionSurvivor mode when in Austria, successfully outmaneuvering henchmen on his own. And then [[spoiler:he manages to single-handedly take down Nine Eyes and Spectre's intelligence system.]]

-->'''Oberhauser:''' [[ThatManIsDead Franz Oberhauser died twenty years ago]], James, in an avalanche alongside his father. The man you are talking to now, the man inside your head, [[spoiler: is [[CanonCharacterAllAlong Ernst Stavro Blofeld]]]].
* Oberhauser's plan in general. No [[spoiler: inefficient and ridiculous [=WMDs=] like his previous incarnations in this film.]] Instead, he [[spoiler: comes seconds away from stealing the collective intel gathered by the world's intelligence services through cultivating an asset and helping him get into a position where a global surveillance system that has been compromised with a back door could be implemented.]] As a bonus for a [[spoiler: short period, he manages to put [=MI6=] and Bond out of business and cause more damage to them than the previous versions of Blofeld ever did.]]

* The opening scene has Bond tracking an assassin during a Día de Muertos parade in Mexico. In the process, he struggles to hijack a helicopter and the helicopter does several ''barrel rolls'' (which were done for real) as Bond kicks the assassin as well as the pilot out of the chopper to their deaths. It also rises straight up while tilted 90 degrees (which is literally impossible for helicopters to do, but when you accept the laws of action movie physics, it's an awesome scene).

** And let's not forget that the first five minutes of the movie (up until Bond sets up the scope for his rifle) was one long, glorified ''[[TheOner tracking shot]]'' during the Day of the Dead in Mexico. From the streets, to the hotel room, going outside, and seeing 007 walk on rooftops like it was yesterday's business. All one shot.

* The opening scene has Bond trying to track an assassin during a Día de Muertos parade in Mexico. In the process, he struggles to hijack a helicopter and the helicopter does several ''barrel rolls'' (which were done for real) as Bond kicks the assassin as well as the pilot out of the chopper to their deaths. It also rises straight up while tilted 90 degrees (which is literally impossible for helicopters to do, but when you accept the laws of action movie physics, it's an awesome scene).

* The opening scene has Bond trying to track an assassin during the Day of the Dead parade. In the process, he struggles to hijack a helicopter and the helicopter does several ''barrel rolls'' (which were done for real) as Bond kicks the assassin as well as the pilot out of the chopper to their deaths. It also rises straight up while tilted 90 degrees (which is literally impossible for helicopters to do, but when you accept the laws of action movie physics, it's an awesome scene).

-->'''M:''' Not a good feeling being watched, is it? \\

-->'''Max''': Take a look at the world; chaos. Because people like you, paper-pushers and politicians, [[KnightTemplar are too spineless to do what needs to be done]]. So I made an alliance to put the power where it should be, and [[TheEvilsOfFreeWill now you want to throw it away for the sake of democracy, whatever the hell that is?]] How predictably moronic. (''takes out his handgun and points it at M'') But then isn't that what 'M' stands for; "Moron"? (''pulls trigger, realises the gun is unloaded'')
-->'''M''': (''[[ItWorksBetterWithBullets opens his hand to reveal he'd already removed the magazine]]'') And now we know what 'C' stands for. ''[[ShutUpHannibal Careless.]]''

** By the way about Blofeld; [[GracefulLoser he seems to admit his arrest]].

* A posthumous example from [[spoiler: Judi Dench's M]]. Sometime off-screen during the events of ''Film/{{Skyfall}}'', [[spoiler: she recorded a tape for Bond, requesting that he hunt down and kill Sciarra. As she had likely already discovered SPECTRE's existence, she made it her ultimate mission to undo the organization's global influence by having all of its members eliminated, even if she wasn't going to be around to see it.]] James even lampshades this in his conversation with Moneypenny.

* Q gets into an ActionSurvivor mode when in Austria, successfully outmaneuvering henchmen on his own. And then [[spoiler:he manages to single-handedly take down Nine Eyes and SPECTRE's intelligence system.]]

* After so many years of [[ScrewedByTheLawyers legal red tape]] and ping-pong with the late Kevin [=McClory=]'s estate over the rights, Creator/EonProductions ''finally'' got the rights back to use Blofeld and SPECTRE in the franchise in 2013. And they wasted no time building ''Spectre'' around them.