Bond #24: SPECTRE

and i will give you $10

jk

$10K why thank you. That is what you meant to type, yes?

yes ned 10,000 will be wired to the account of your choosing just key in your 6 digit password on the keypad here but fyi VESPER as a password is not allowed due to a previous incident

"what do you mean I can't reuse previous passwords? It's my bloody password!"

Sir please stop choking me. SIR.

seriously everyone who has seen No Time To Die should rewatch Spectre and be pleasantly surprised at how it hold up and/or improves

imo

I rewatched it after seeing No Time To Die and all the bits I thought sucked still sucked (ie not Bautista)

:/

tbf I tuned out completely and started internetting before the end of the desert hideout torture scene stuff, maybe everything after “Bond and Blofeld are brothers” is rly good

btw if anyone’s in this thread bcz they’re working up to NTTD, the best parts are totally the imax scenes so it’s worth catching in that format if you have the choice

Thanks, Ned.

QoS is a mess but … underrated, even by me sometimes.

Tomorrow: NTTD!

huh just checked and it looks like craig is the longest-running bond thus far? (time-wise, not in total number of movies). fifteen years!

dude has definitely done his time
i wondered to mr veg if he’ll throw a party when his official post-release duties are completed.
i mean as we know from prev bonds, money-truck aside, it’s one hell of a gulag

He filmed TWO Benoit Blanc flicks in between making No Time To Die and having to promote it on release

Damn.

More later, but best since CR.

I would very much like a post-apocalyptic HBO show set in the, uh, island lair

yes plz

#onethread?

we are only allowed to talk about spectre in this thread, #spectrethoughtsonly

Radiohead got robbed

fukunaga did an amazing job, whole thing looked amazing and was super varied in terms of color lighting

rami malek was terrible. not remotely scary, idiotic accent, everything he said was so groanworthy pretentious and vacuous (even by Bond villain standards), also for some reason his skin condition improved throughout the movie? by the end it just looked like mild acne scars

léa seydoux is insanely beautiful and every moment she was on screen i was jaw agog. however daniel craig and ana de armas have the best chemistry, wish she was in it more. havana scene was so fun

plot was so dumb. when ralph fiennes is like “we didn’t mean for this bio chemical weapon capable of exterminating entire races of people to become a WMD” lol

overall i loved it. i think italy was my favourite action setpiece (i was hooting and hollering in the movie theatre when he started motorcycling up stairs and flying over bridges) but they were all very entertaining

Lol at his name being Lyutsifer Safin

i haven’t seen it since it was in theatres and was really high when i saw it so this might be totally inaccurate but i remember the action in quAntum being peak shaky cam era disorienting blurry close combat. and i am grateful of how far we are from that now. loved the scene at the end on the stairwell (the shadow!). felt kinda like a first person shooter

I just watched it and yes, it was def like that

quantum’s lone flaw for me is the action directing

everything else about that movie rules tho

fyi flopson there is a No Time To Die thread, you'll find more discussion there! which also, some of us are consciously avoiding until we've gotten to the film.

oh sorry i looked through SNA but didn’t see it so i figured ppl were just talking here. if a mod wants to delete it that’s ok. sorry for spoilers

you're all good! i pulled my eyes away once I registered the type of information the post contained, but before any of it actually reached my brain lol