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nausicaa83) wrote2015-11-29 07:53 pm
nausicaa83) wrote2015-11-29 07:53 pm
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"A million shards of glass that haunt me from my past as the stars begin to gather."
Guess what? It's movie review time! Yesterday I was feeling so much better my uncle decided to take us all to the local cinema to watch Spectre. Two weeks ago, before chemio, my back hurt too much to even consider staying in a sitting position for more than ten minutes at a time. Yesterday I managed to watch the whole movie, and today I even went out shopping with my aunt and bought a new pair of shoes! The second appointment is on friday, and I have to say I can't wait: if this is how I feel after 1/8 of this cure, I'm excited to see what the second dose will do!
Sorry, back to the movie. As some of you may recall, I'm not a Bond fan. I watched most of the classics, but I didn't like them. Not my kind of humour, I guess. Then I watched Casino Royale, and I loved it. And when I watched Skyfall, I fell head-over-heels madly in love with that movie, watched it four times in the cinema, and countless times at home. Needless to say, I was very excited about a sequel from the same team. As it turns out, I found Spectre to be deeply disappointing.
Spoilers to follow because I want to rant a bit, and I'm the last one to see this movie anyway.
Sure, there are things that I liked, like the locations, the London team, the cast. But the plot was all over the place. Daniel Craig and Léa Seydoux have zero chemistry, and the villain's motivations were ridicolous. We're supposed to believe that James Bond leaves his job for a woman he met two days before, had almost no dialogues with, but for one rushed sex scene because they were high on endorphins from a recent brush with death. I get it that they wanted to retire this incarnation of 007, but this was a very messy way to do it. There are a lot of movie couples who fall in love in the span of a few hours and are perfectly believable (Sarah Connor and Kyle Reese, anyone?), but by god this was not the case.
Waltz's character was so petty and ridicolous I was shocked it was written by the same guys who gave us Silva. Apparently "for a couple of years when we were kids my dad liked spending time with you more than with me" is a villain origin story now. And this is supposed to be the guy who controlled all the previous villains - and cursed Bond's dick too. His words, not mine. :D Plus the only thing that was fascinating about him was his Terminator ability to survive death in the most absurd ways. Not really what I was expecting from the boss of Spectre.
The whole villains' plan was rushed and messy, and the way the good guys won made zero sense. By killing the guy who proposed the law, it would seem that law would be automatically made null and void. They crashed a chopper into downtown London, and yet the double-O program is supposed to be safe by the end of the movie? Shouldn't their actions convince the public even more that they need that surveillance program? I know it's a spy movie and everything, but things need to make a bit of sense, or the whole thing crumbles down like a house of cards.
I loved seeing more scenes with Q, but I was so sad they wasted the character of Moneypenny: she followed M around and googled things for Bond when he was busy. They could have done so much more with her.
I'm so going to watch Skyfall again in the next few days, and remind myself of how much I love these characters.
Sorry, back to the movie. As some of you may recall, I'm not a Bond fan. I watched most of the classics, but I didn't like them. Not my kind of humour, I guess. Then I watched Casino Royale, and I loved it. And when I watched Skyfall, I fell head-over-heels madly in love with that movie, watched it four times in the cinema, and countless times at home. Needless to say, I was very excited about a sequel from the same team. As it turns out, I found Spectre to be deeply disappointing.
Spoilers to follow because I want to rant a bit, and I'm the last one to see this movie anyway.
Sure, there are things that I liked, like the locations, the London team, the cast. But the plot was all over the place. Daniel Craig and Léa Seydoux have zero chemistry, and the villain's motivations were ridicolous. We're supposed to believe that James Bond leaves his job for a woman he met two days before, had almost no dialogues with, but for one rushed sex scene because they were high on endorphins from a recent brush with death. I get it that they wanted to retire this incarnation of 007, but this was a very messy way to do it. There are a lot of movie couples who fall in love in the span of a few hours and are perfectly believable (Sarah Connor and Kyle Reese, anyone?), but by god this was not the case.
Waltz's character was so petty and ridicolous I was shocked it was written by the same guys who gave us Silva. Apparently "for a couple of years when we were kids my dad liked spending time with you more than with me" is a villain origin story now. And this is supposed to be the guy who controlled all the previous villains - and cursed Bond's dick too. His words, not mine. :D Plus the only thing that was fascinating about him was his Terminator ability to survive death in the most absurd ways. Not really what I was expecting from the boss of Spectre.
The whole villains' plan was rushed and messy, and the way the good guys won made zero sense. By killing the guy who proposed the law, it would seem that law would be automatically made null and void. They crashed a chopper into downtown London, and yet the double-O program is supposed to be safe by the end of the movie? Shouldn't their actions convince the public even more that they need that surveillance program? I know it's a spy movie and everything, but things need to make a bit of sense, or the whole thing crumbles down like a house of cards.
I loved seeing more scenes with Q, but I was so sad they wasted the character of Moneypenny: she followed M around and googled things for Bond when he was busy. They could have done so much more with her.
I'm so going to watch Skyfall again in the next few days, and remind myself of how much I love these characters.