AJB live commentary on SPECTRE

Number24

Bond doing the only sensible thing with Monica

Barbel

Higgins wrote:

Which music, Barbel?
Is that also a falsetto?

Wasn't interested enough to check

Higgins

Where is Barbel?

Barbel

Felix gets a namecheck

Number24

Barbel wrote:

Higgins wrote:

Which music, Barbel?
Is that also a falsetto?

Wasn't interested enough to check

I think it's Vivaldi

Barbel

Higgins wrote:

Where is Barbel?

I'm right here

Shady Tree

I think it's silly how easily Bond is okayed by the SPECTRE security, just by flashing the ring.

Higgins

The movie is absolutely brilliant until the „cuckoo“

Barbel

Thank you, Gymkata!

Higgins

Shady Tree wrote:

I think it's silly how easily Bond is okayed by the SPECTRE security, just by flashing the ring.

Well he‘s not.
Blofeld obviously lets him in but his man are following Bond

Barbel

Gymkata wrote:

Here's where the movie starts to falter. This whole sequence here where he meets the organization is just...dull. It kinda gets some zing when Hinx does his thing but overall, this is just tedious.

It's too long; would have worked better if there was less of it.

Shady Tree

I like the board meeting and Blofeld's intro, especially his first line which seems to be delivered in homage both to Joseph Wiseman and Eric Pohlmann.

The Spy Who Never Dies

Shady Tree wrote:

I think it's silly how easily Bond is okayed by the SPECTRE security, just by flashing the ring.

maybe if you're Mickey Mouse you can get in anywhere!

Number24

The SPECTRE meeting scnene is perfect :007)

Barbel

The Spy Who Never Dies wrote:

Shady Tree wrote:

I think it's silly how easily Bond is okayed by the SPECTRE security, just by flashing the ring.

maybe if you're Mickey Mouse you can get in anywhere!

That would be goofy.

The Spy Who Never Dies

Barbel wrote:

The Spy Who Never Dies wrote:

Shady Tree wrote:

I think it's silly how easily Bond is okayed by the SPECTRE security, just by flashing the ring.

maybe if you're Mickey Mouse you can get in anywhere!

That would be goofy.

) ) very good!

Shady Tree

The arrogance of Guerra, who stands up to replace Sciarra, is well done... as is Blofeld's whispered exchanges with the chairman.

Barbel

Hinx is the best henchman for a long time

Number24

Brothergate ......

Higgins

The cuckoo is obviously a reference to Bond being a cuckoo child but it‘s not coming across and seems childish because we don‘t know that so early in the movie.

Shady Tree

"Welcome James!" is the let-down part for me. And "Cuckoo!" is in Donald Duck territory.

Number24

The Spy Who Never Dies wrote:

Barbel wrote:

The Spy Who Never Dies wrote:

maybe if you're Mickey Mouse you can get in anywhere!

That would be goofy.

) ) very good!

) ) )


Sadly the Covid-19 shutdown jokes are old now, because they are very apropriate

Higgins

The baddie has the cooler car than Bond

Barbel

Cover version of "New York, New York"- much like the cover of "California Girls" in AVTAK

Higgins

Roma without traffic takes Corona times ahead.
And the Fiat 500 thing is just a bad reference to the Moore age

Shady Tree

When the comms with Monepenny start, I honestly forget we're in the middle of a car chase.

The OO9 'New York New York' gag reminds me of a standing joke in the Matt Helm films when Dean Martin is always poo-pooing Old Blue Eyes...

The Spy Who Never Dies

the only other car on the road, the old guy.

Barbel

Shady Tree wrote:

The OO9 'New York New York' gag reminds me of a standing joke in the Matt Helm films when Dean Martin is always poo-pooing Old Blue Eyes...

That's life.

Higgins

Barbel wrote:

Cover version of "New York, New York"- much like the cover of "California Girls" in AVTAK

Barbel, you are just in a grumpey mood tonight

Number24

At least the sountrack and the use of the ejector seat is good .....