SPECTRE Disapointed me a bit. (Page 3 of 4)

Found it better recently. I watched CR the other night - Craig doesn't have the same way about him in Spectre. I think it's time for him to move on. Craig Wars? 

What I like about the Eva Green casting is that she comes across as a royal pain in the arse, stubborn, argumentative and no push over etc which is perfect for the script / film.

I find she can look very different in the film per scene.    I find her most attractive on the train when she first sits down and in the bathroom with less slap on 

My opinions is Eva Green is gorgeous. She is one of my favorite Bond girls to date.

This is something I've noticed about Craig over the years. There's usually a few shots in each of his Bond films where he looks awful. One that springs to mind immediately is the balcony scene with Mathis from CR.

The scene in QoS? Well he had just had six Vespers...  

No in casino royale.  He is sweating like a pig and looks terrible lol

For the sake of balance here are some scenes where he looks great: The scene where he wins the Aston, the rooftop in Spectre, getting off the plane in CR, most of QOS  (the hair was better, less thug like and the clothes worked) on the motor bike in QOS) A couple of things just struck me, sunglasses really work on him, and I have nothing from Skyfall.

There are quite a few gripes I have with SPECTRE now in hindsight after watching it again recently, and I think a big problem is Mendes vision for Bond.

To start with, I'm not keen on some of the dialogue, which is very un-Fleming -
“That all sounds marvellous,”......“That all sounds lovely.” This doesn't sound like Bond to me. It's not the kind of things he would say, particularly in the books. Very unimaginative. It doesn't bode well for Bond 25 if P&W are responsible for lines like these.

The film now feels like it drags in parts, the same way SF does now for me too. CR is of similar length, yet it flows at a decent pace. Campbell is far better at directing Bond than Mendes.

The car chase now feels more like an episode of Top Gear, showcasing a race between the shiny new Jaguar v the shiny new Aston Martin. This doesn't have a gritty realistic feel to it at all. The QoS Aston car chase is far superior, and Bourne do car chases much better too.

The ending feels tacked on, and as much as I like seeing London in a Bond film, too much of a good thing can leave you wanting less, and I definitely feel like this by the end of SP. Mendes has exhausted the London locations to death, making it look more like they had ran out of travelling budget to film abroad.

The personal touch. Bond's past. I really don't want to know or care about Bond's past, and I certainly don't want to see something that has nothing to do with Fleming - Bond and Blofeld being brothers. This is borderline unforgivable.

The Aston Martin DB5, and other homages to the past. Drop them. There is no need for them. Again, Mendes has flogged this to death.

Bond doesn't bleed anymore. In SF and SP, where is the sight of Bond bloodied and dirty, like we saw in CR (and to a lesser extent QoS)? Bond suffers traumatic torture in SP and is right as rain again 2 seconds later. The realism angle that Campbell so boldly started in CR is now completely vanished by the time Bond is freed from his Colonel Sun dentist chair in SP.

The one redeeming moment for me now in SP is the train fight scene with Hinx, which pretty much harks back to the harder edged Bond of CR and QoS. Unfortunately these scenes are few and far between in the Mendes films, preferring artistic light and pretentious angles over sheer blood and brutality.

That's Austin fricken Powers and should have been left there.

That was James Bond doing an Austin Powers who was doing a James Bond    But seriously, the cat worked very well, it was a short moment but a really good moment. And the scar made Oberhauser really look like a psychopathic Blofeld. I liked it!