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Very good. Very good indeed.
Good for you to see it on opening night !
Going to see it at the IMAX tonight
It's ace. Long though - make sure you nip to the loo before!
Currently trying to negotiate an evening off childcare with my dear spouse so I can go see it, loved casino royale and skyfall and quite enjoyed quantum, really looking forward to it.
Didn't like the Octopron titles and the god awful Sam Smith track
Does he get the girl?
Does he drive an Aston?
It's all we really want to know innit? Innit? 😕
Did the baddie make anyone else think of Rob Bryden? Found it hard to take him seriously after that.
Excellent, but bloody hell they had the volume turned up to max in the Vue I went to!
M looked like Reggie Perrin
[url= http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/arts-entertainment/bond-film-breaks-new-ground-with-tits-cars-and-punching-200809261283 ]This really ruined Bond for me[/url].
I find it very hard to take the Daniel Craig films as seriously as they seem to take themselves. 🙂
I struggle with Sam Smith's wining voice, but thankfully I already had a suitable alternative theme tune in my head for that bit. [url= https://m.soundcloud.com/adam-buxton/i-am-james-bond ]Adam Buxton's Bond Song[/url]
When I go to watch this at the cinema, what time should I go in (after it's proposed/advertised start time) to miss all the guff advertising before the actual film comes on?
1/2hr?
3/4'shr?
1hr?
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Adam Buxton's Bond Song
Amazing! "I'M GOING TO GET YOU, PHIL SPECTOR!!!"
I thought it was OK - not great but not rubbish... And this is coming from a massive Bond fan...
Opening pre-credits scene was great, but it went downhill after that (starting with the awful awful theme song)... Too many moody shots of him posing in his ray bans (guess they have to earn the corporate sponsorship money somehow!) , too many arty scenery shots that made the middle a bit slow and overly long, then it warmed up a bit for the ending.. It almost seemed to me that they made a list of the set pieces that make a bond film (troubled girl, car chase, maniacal baddie with backstory and secret lair etc) and put them together without it working that well as a film overall... It just didn't seem to have the 'sparkle' that some of the earlier films had... They got the humour level about right this time though - some great little gags / one liners / witty retorts 🙂
Just IMHO 🙂
When I go to watch this at the cinema, what time should I go in (after it's proposed/advertised start time) to miss all the guff advertising before the actual film comes on?
In our local vue, it seems to be about 20 mins of adverts...a bit annoying, and I've usually finished all my popcorn before the film starts.
I'm not one for ballads but I quite like the Sam Smith song.
Daniel Craig is a good Bond but his films are lacking in substance.
I can't decide if I liked it or not. Ticked all the Bond movie boxes but there was something missing that I just couldn't quite put my finger on.
something missing that I just couldn't quite put my finger on.
Pussy Galore?
The Beard
I can't decide if I liked it or not. Ticked all the Bond movie boxes but there was something missing that I just couldn't quite put my finger on.
That's pretty much what the missus said as we walked out of the Cinema... Hang on - you aren't my missus are you? 😉
I agree with that. It was like a Greatest Hits that ended up being a bit less than the sum of its parts. I didn't feel short changed, but I didn't leave the cinema buzzing either.
Not seen it myself but chuckling a bit at the slightly ho hum reviews
felt a bit familiar, really?
the same story rehashed 20 times, is a bit samey, well I never! 😆
Too many not-very-subtle nods to the old Connery films for my liking. It's been done, move on - it's smug, not clever. Where Casino Royale was fresh, Spectre just isn't.
It is absolutely beautifully shot though, I'll give them that.
Does he get the girl?
Does he drive an Aston?
No spoilers here!
the same story rehashed 20 times, is a bit samey, well I never!
Where Casino Royale was fresh, Spectre just isn't.
Pretty much. A bit underwhelmed really. Time for a Bond reboot.
1/2hr?
3/4'shr?
1hr?
30 mins of crap at our local Vue. I was bored before the film started.
It was about 40 minutes before film started at my local Vue - just back from seeing it. Enjoyed it, thought it was good. Would watch it again, but I'm not itching to sit and watch it again immediately.
I can't decide if I liked it or not. Ticked all the Bond movie boxes but there was something missing that I just couldn't quite put my finger on.
Just back from watching it and have the same feeling. It is very much by the book recipe on how to make a Bond film.
Daniel Craig is a good Bond but his films are lacking in substance.
Compared to which other Bond films?
Hmmm, just home and a little disappointed
Really enjoyed the 1st three Daniel Craig films but this has slipped into a 'late Pierce Brosnan bond film' type of slide
As someone above said - great locations and filming
Christopher Waltz is wasted
The Bond girl isn't that hot
Bond just isn't gritty enough
I'm troubled, after Casino Royale it's been downhill for Craig. I think he's done as Bond for me.
I preferred Quantum of Solace - favorite Bond film
Might be unintentional spoilers...
Poor plotting
Too many London touristy scenes
Snow yet no skiing
Belluci sexier than the main girl
Interesting callbacks to other films, but he doesn't recognise that someone he knew from 12-14 is Blofeld, when he's met Blofeld a few times before and investigated his genealogy in OHMSS
No humour
And the second baddy was the main baddy in Sherlock... Rather recently.
Against that, best precredit sequence and titles for years and Sam Smith less annoying at the cinema than on the radio, and the best Q ever.
After Skyfall and Finney with Dench, it was never going to be as good, but this was Timothy Daltonesque in its averageness.
but he doesn't recognise that someone he knew from 12-14 is Blofeld, when he's met Blofeld a few times before and investigated his genealogy in OHMSS
Casino Royale reset the bond timeline didn't it?
Timothy Daltonesque in its averageness.
Dalton was the second best bond IMO
Would watch it again, but I'm not itching to sit and watch it again immediately.
Christmas 2017, after lunch on ITV probably.
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The Bond girl isn't that hot
I suggest you watch Blue Is The Warmest Colour and reconsider 🙂
I'll do that DrJ 🙂
I was just about to say that too, DrJ!
Meh....
That's what I thought. Saw it two nights ago and am struggling to remember much about it (apart from the hideous advert barrage)
thought the product placement was far better than previous recent Bond films.
Opening scene although a good bit of flying was ultimately a little bland/boring.
The biggest disappointment though was Waltz as Blomfelt, after being such a menacing ruthless cold hearted bastard in erm Inglorious Bastards (that opening farmhouse scene still sends shivers down me). Here was the opportunity to be the worlds largest baddie bastard and he fell a bit short. Really two small drill things and a head restraint you could do an owl impression in?
'C' was good except you knew straight away he was going to be a 'baddie'
Overall okay but brilliant.
Great first scene with the helicopter, the rest was pretty poor. Large times of nothing, car chase was meh and sadly came away pretty well like I had seen a cheap film, which it wasn't.
Very disappointed with the ending, just kind of fizzled out for me, but does leave things set up for the next Bond.
Some of the product placement was too obvious, especially the watch. They may as well had logos on the screen and a jingle at that point.
Overall enjoyed it, but it's not the best Bond
took the whole family and the SIL ( thanks tesco clubcard for the free tickets) worse ways to spend an evening with them all, the volume is loud that song isnt too bad in context opening sequence was fab until the helicopter overkill that went on too long.. craig gets more menacing as he gets older.. why was moriarty there.. obvious he was up to no good from first sight.. very 80/90s plot and chase sequences..no realism.. a plane that crashes and chases and catches 2 defenders and a range rover and kills everyone bar the pilot,, cmon...cliched? not as much as the secret island haven in the middle of the desert that noone has ever seen or heard of ..except in bond films
gives us bourne plus homeland a mix of game of thrones viloence and we d all be happy cookies
wouldnt rush back to the cinema to see it but boxing day stuffed full of turkey a
not as much as the secret island haven in the middle of the desert that noone has ever seen or heard of ..except in bond films
That's 'cos they are secret!
I took my 13 yo son to see it on Saturday evening. He enjoyed it, and I caught up on some sleep. Win,win.