SPECTRE Oddities & Miscellaneous Discussion Thread (SPOILERS) (Page 2 of 6)

hopefully there will be extre features this time 
I miss the stuff the first 20 films had as extras

I can understand Bond and Madeleine getting off the train in the Moroccan desert, as that is where Mr White's map led them, but what did they expect to happen once they were there? They can't have known they were going to get a lift, surely? Or have I missed something?

That's how I saw it too 

Hinx was supposed to kill him...the rest was a back up plan - which was evidently needed 

Good of you to bring this train fight up: IMHO it was still, if not a particularly realistic fight scene, never the less one of the rarer ones: it really felt as if Bond was going to kick the bucket in the end. It gave an all too real flash back to me; it had that same desperate feeling of the last blink of an eye that you get when your punch-drunk in the ring or your oppo has gotten that choke down right on you and you know there is nothing in your power you can do. You are at his mercy.
It's a funny thing, I took a glance at my watch to see how far the movie had gone to make sure that: "naah they can't kill Bond now, can they?"
As suspenseful and intense moment as can be had in a movie!

The scene with the little mouse, just thought it was hiliarious.

Then, at Blofeld's lair, all those people working on the terminals. Do you think they get breaks at all? Or are they expected to work 8 hour days sitting on stools?

I loved this bit too. After he said "Who sent you?" I thought to myself what the next line would be, and I was right, and I cracked up laughing in the cinema.

The Mexican government paid $25 million to have input in SPECTRE, including making Mexico City look "nice", making the Mexican police at the parade not police but actually a "special unit", and having one of the Bond girls be a Mexican girl.

(This was revealed through the Sony leaked emails)

That money was well spent! Mexico City looks splendid in the film 

I'm sure the Mexican tourist board will be very happy with it.
I know I was.

Having seen the film first in german language and then in the original version:

Waltz's dubbing in german is much better! He inserts his Austrian Accent slightly which gives him an own twist.
And the sound effect when he first speaks to the board is much more intense than in the original version.

At the Spectre meeting - in the german version, the lady speaks french (     says my wife - I don't remember but tend to agree ) and I've just discovered that in the original version she speaks german 

I think it's her feeling that she's been brought back into the world of
" Killers and liars" of her father's world.  It may also be a poem, but I'm
Not well read enough to guess at which.