Movie SPECTRE (Bond 24)

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QoS was shot during the writers strike and Daniel Craig was coming up 'cool scenes' on the fly. It wasn't as good as the other 2 he made because it lacked the polish of professional writers.

http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplayl...of-solace-he-rewrote-scenes-with-marc-forster

http://collider.com/daniel-craig-quantum-of-solace-script-problems/
There were other problems as well.. such as the Paul Greengrass style of editing for the fight scenes. You know the style - dress the protagonists in similar clothing (usually a black leather jacket) and shoot the scene using a hand-held camera, using a cameraman who is in the middle of an epileptic fit after having 30 strong coffees in the space of 2 hours, then edit the scene such that no single camera shot lasts for more than 0.5 seconds. This ensures that nobody in the audience have a clue as to what is happening, or who is winning the fight, and half of them are close to having their own strobe-induced epileptic fit.

** No insult intended to epilepsy sufferers.
 

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There were other problems as well.. such as the Paul Greengrass style of editing for the fight scenes. You know the style - dress the protagonists in similar clothing (usually a black leather jacket) and shoot the scene using a hand-held camera, using a cameraman who is in the middle of an epileptic fit after having 30 strong coffees in the space of 2 hours, then edit the scene such that no single camera shot lasts for more than 0.5 seconds. This ensures that nobody in the audience have a clue as to what is happening, or who is winning the fight, and half of them are close to having their own strobe-induced epileptic fit.

** No insult intended to epilepsy sufferers.
I find your lack of faith in Paul Greengrass disturbing.
 
I find your lack of faith in Paul Greengrass disturbing.
Captain Phillips was brilliant, but the Bourne movies were awful. Had no idea what was going on half the time, such was the camerawork.
 

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Captain Phillips was brilliant, but the Bourne movies were awful. Had no idea what was going on half the time, such was the camerawork.

Greengrass is one of my all-time favs, has never made a bad film. I would've given my left nut to see his version of Watchmen.

I do like Greengrass but my comment was more the fact that I've always wanted to say that to Darth Vader.
 
Sooooo freaking pumped for this! Surely that is blofeld? Who else in spectre could it be?
My thinking is Waltz will turn out to be Number Two and Andrew Scott, or someone unannounced, will be Blofeld.
 
You wouldn't put Waltz in a film and not have him as the main villain though, surely? (whoever he may turn out to be)
Oh he'll be the main villain in this one I have no doubt. Remember Blofeld wasn't really the main villain until You Only Live Twice.

I think Blofeld won't be revealed until the end, and it'll be Scott or someone unannounced.
 
Haven't watched the trailer yet but in the leaked Sony documents I thought despite the movie being called SPECTRE, that weird Quantum group from Casino Royale and Quantum of Solace were the big bads?
Well Mr White's in the trailer.

Maybe it'll turn out Quantum was working for SPECTRE.
 
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I really enjoyed Skyfall.
I liked it too, but enjoyed Casino Royale more, because it was the first time that Bond had been portrayed as being close to the cold assassin that Ian Fleming had written Bond to be in his books, and I thought Craig nailed it. At the time I really wanted Clive Owen to be the next Bond, but Craig did an excellent job.
 
I liked it too, but enjoyed Casino Royale more, because it was the first time that Bond had been portrayed as being close to the cold assassin that Ian Fleming had written Bond to be in his books
May want to watch Licence to Kill. Hell, even Roger Moore got badass in The Spy Who Loved Me when he knocked Sandor off his tie in Egypt. Or him kicking Locke's car in For Your Eyes Only.
 
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I liked it too, but enjoyed Casino Royale more, because it was the first time that Bond had been portrayed as being close to the cold assassin that Ian Fleming had written Bond to be in his books, and I thought Craig nailed it. At the time I really wanted Clive Owen to be the next Bond, but Craig did an excellent job.
Bond was brutal in that movie. The opening two kills, when he stabbed that guy in the gallery, and when he choked that LRA guy in the stairwell. I actually felt a bit uncomfortable watching some scenes. I hope that was what I was supposed to feel lol. :D
 
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May want to watch Licence to Kill. Hell, even Roger Moore got badass in The Spy Who Loved Me when he knocked Sandor off his tie in Egypt. Or him kicking Locke's car in For Your Eyes Only.
I've seen them all. I still think Casino Royale best encapsulates the Bond feel that Fleming was going for. In too many of the Bond films, 007 comes across as too cliched and cartoony, which isn't really how he was written.
 
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