So I saw Spectre last night.
It was... eh.
Underwhelming, especially coming after Skyfall. Very by-the-numbers, almost lazy in terms of writing.
What if there’s no better word than just not saying anything?I was just watching it, feeling absolutely nothing. Nothing made me laugh, nothing got me excited. The whole thing just felt empty.
What if there’s no better word than just not saying anything?It was soulless and cliched in terms of plot.
They hardly explained much of anything.
You just roll along with the incredibly obvious "twists."
But it did piss me off a little at one point.
Yes, I know it's Bond, and I know he's a suave ladies man, but did he really have to sleep with the fucking grieving widow.
I mean, come on.
The grieving widow who contributed fuck all to the plot at all.
And then the guy who wants all intelligence to be combined into one global network that totally wasn't going to backfire or end up in the wrong hands no siree. I was basically daring the movie to have him not turn out to be the mole.
I'm not even spoiler tagging that because first thirty seconds of meeting him you cal tell.
What if there’s no better word than just not saying anything?Yeah I called it too when I first saw him.
They didn't even try to be interesting or subtle about it.
The whole thing about the global intelligence conglomerate is painful. Like, when they vote on it, who the fuck would design the room in such a way that some of the voters could look at how everyone else was voting?
And why is South Africa on that council of all countries?
grumble grumble
Just give us another movie like Casino Royale because Casino Royale is actually pretty good I think.
edited 9th Dec '15 3:29:10 PM by ramuf
I was actually hoping that Q would end up being the "Bond Girl", getting all the "needing to be rescued, dragged along in the adventures" deal while being a bloke. That would have been entertaining and original.
But nope. Yet another nondescript girl with zero surprises.
What if there’s no better word than just not saying anything?Well that's part of what I thought was the good, unafraid to be cheesy part of it.
Sure they didn't try to hide it. That's because it would have been bleedingly obvious even if they tried so they didn't bother trying. They just rolled with it. They never presented it as a twist.
The movie definitely had problems (in the latter half of the movie in particular, but running throughout it it just felt like a lot of the time characters were doing things with absolutely no reason to for one thing, the widow scene mentioned above is another) but I don't really think that's a fair criticism.
Also South Africa was on the council because it wasn't global. It was an international agreement between said countries. It was never implied to actually be global.
The design of the room was dumb though yeah. Just for the convenience of the audience and could have been done without making the countries seem braindead and not understanding the concept of anonymity in a very important secret voting poll.
edited 9th Dec '15 3:32:40 PM by ThanatoSeraph
And don't get me wrong, Pyro, I loved that it was trying to be cheesy. I have a lot of respect for big movies that aren't afraid to get outside the box. But this movie did it without any spark or flair. It was boring cheese.
Cheesy is not an excuse for a lazy script. Done badly, it just emphasises it.
edited 9th Dec '15 3:33:27 PM by SR3NORMANDY
What if there’s no better word than just not saying anything?I think it was actually implied to be global.
During the whole.
Literal big bad board room meeting of hell and doom and gloom.
You know.
The one where the guy's eyes get pushed into his brain.
That one lady says "we will have the capabilities to outmaneuver the world's intelligence agencies once the agreement is made."
Not the intelligence agencies of that specific group.
I mean, yes, you could argue that the group would be able to outdo everyone else, but still.
It had a global goal.
Eh, I won't argue with that. Although I would say more that the quality varied wildly from scene to scene, and sometimes even within the same scene.
A classic, creepy Evil Bond Villain machine scene that has you gripping the arms of your chair in sympathy pain: Good.
Said Evil Bond Villain really missing the mark and just looking ridiculous with his cuckoo noises: Really Bad.
Sure the ultimate goal was global
But the deal itself was just vastly increasing their information capacity in important countries
For example, the USA would have nothing to do with it, but they'd still learn more about the USA due to spying and whatnot
edited 9th Dec '15 3:37:59 PM by ThanatoSeraph
Man, next time my dad neglects me for another boy, I'm also going to form my own global and undetectable terrorist organisation and get revenge by killing people close to him, even though one of those girls committed suicide and the other died by a stray bullet but whatever that was totally my plan.
What if there’s no better word than just not saying anything?Also here's my creepy torture machine that does horrible things to your brain except it doesn't. Did anyone keep the receipt for this thing?
What if there’s no better word than just not saying anything?

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