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Spectre keeps breaking the cardinal rule of action movies by having action sequences where nothing of interest or consequence happens. The entire car chase through a bizarrely empty Rome is a case in point: Bond is in exactly the same position at the end as at the beginning in story terms (he got away from the Spectre meeting), except that he's now destroyed an incredibly expensive spy car for no reason. So why did we need that scene again? There's no sense of threat or tension, nothing at stake; Bond couldn't give a poo poo that someone's trying to kill him. Same with the sequence where he ambles through Blofeld's secret base disinterestedly one-shotting goons as if he's used an invincibility cheat. It's not cool, it's just dull. As for the contortions the writers have to go through to justify the whole "Bond's previously-unmentioned foster brother was actually the mastermind behind everything that happened in the previous three movies and did it all to gently caress with him personally!" revelation... it's utter horseshit. The whole thing is a joyless, boring pile of shite where everyone involved is half-assedly going through the motions for the money. In some ways it's actually worse than Diamonds Are Forever in that respect because at least DAF didn't vanish up its own arse into a black hole of pretension.
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Andorra posted:I think it's weird how they turned a one-movie origin story into a tetralogy origin story. Preferably with new writers.
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I didn't particularly like Skyfall, but I thought it was interesting in that it portrayed Bond as a man who utterly failed at every task he was assigned and was reduced to an emotionally broken husk, yet still 'won' by being alive when the series reset button got hit at the end. It's a complete inversion of the "men want to be him" ideal of 007 - who would want to be this hosed-up loser? Yet it was the most financially successful Bond film to date. Go figure.
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Ali Alkali posted:Thunderball is still fine compared to most films that came after it
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