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Spectre (contains spoilers...)



Leyton Gull

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Sep 14, 2015
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I can't ! Its one of my FAVOURITIST films of the last 10 years. But I've been intending to revisit a few of the older ones so I might give that one another sniff.



Not many places in town centres outside of a Spoons where you can get a pint for £3.50 (it was Becks). I don't consider £3.50 to be poor value, and was particularly surprised to see that price in a small bar at an entertainment venue. Usually you pay through the nose in those places for anything.
Who said it was poor value.
 








Nibble

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Jan 3, 2007
19,238
Beer should be £1.50 a pint except for shit beers like Fosters which should be a quid. End of.
 






Leyton Gull

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Sep 14, 2015
411
At the risk of completely derailing the thread, what would you consider a nil-inflation pint of beer in 2015 to reasonably cost ?

It seemed we were paying £3 and sometimes less till very recently and now it's about £4.50 upwards. I don't have a problem with £3.50 but, given low inflation over the last 2 years or so I question whether it should be looked at as such a fantastic bargain as a general point. OK you got a good deal but I was talking generally.
 




Puppet Master

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Aug 14, 2012
4,055
Not just me then.
And hasn't Casino Royale just got the COOLEST opening titles too ? Proper decent Bond theme too.

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"Stop touching your EAR..."

love it.
Have you seen the extended CR intro? With the cricket scene?
 




Uncle Spielberg

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Jul 6, 2003
42,829
Lancing
It was Bond by numbers
Seen it all before many times and Waltz was in it for about 10 minutes so a very poor villain bar his drill. 6.8 out of 10
 


Shropshire Seagull

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Nov 5, 2004
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Telford
Thunderball was my first 007 cinema experience back in the '60's at the Astoria? near St Peters church - my dad took me and I remember being thrilled by the underwater fight scenes. Spectre was the enemy then too.

Last Thursday and many, many Bond movies in between I watched Spectre and have to say I too was thoroughly underwhelmed. The opening scene where he carefully places a silencer on his gun, and then when he fires, very loud BANG !! Maybe I missed something [I did briefly fall asleep at one point] but how did him shooting through a glass window cause the entire building to collapse?

Some of those helicopter stunts were great flying by Chuck Aaron but seriously, having a punch up with the pilot ain't gonna make a chopper fly anything like that. I just think some of the stunts have now become "gasp - WTF?".

The plot - weak and uninspiring ...

Final moan - the "bond girls" were more like plain old MILF - jeez, we had bikini-clad Ursula way back in the day [over 50 years ago] and now we were barely titillated.

Yup, disappointed, but the Odeon here is a fiver so that was good ....
 


Uncle Spielberg

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Thunderball was my first 007 cinema experience back in the '60's at the Astoria? near St Peters church - my dad took me and I remember being thrilled by the underwater fight scenes. Spectre was the enemy then too.

Last Thursday and many, many Bond movies in between I watched Spectre and have to say I too was thoroughly underwhelmed. The opening scene where he carefully places a silencer on his gun, and then when he fires, very loud BANG !! Maybe I missed something [I did briefly fall asleep at one point] but how did him shooting through a glass window cause the entire building to collapse?

Some of those helicopter stunts were great flying by Chuck Aaron but seriously, having a punch up with the pilot ain't gonna make a chopper fly anything like that. I just think some of the stunts have now become "gasp - WTF?".

The plot - weak and uninspiring ...

Final moan - the "bond girls" were more like plain old MILF - jeez, we had bikini-clad Ursula way back in the day [over 50 years ago] and now we were barely titillated.

Yup, disappointed, but the Odeon here is a fiver so that was good ....
I totally agree. It was a tick box Bond and the storyline weak. MI Rogue Nation was better in every way
 






Tooting Gull

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Jul 5, 2003
11,033
Saw it last night, and have to agree with the 'Greatest Hits' summary. Plenty of nods to previous films throughout. Good but not great, definitely behind Skyfall and Casino Royale for me - and probably others like From Russia With Love. Emerged thinking that is definitely it for Daniel Craig and Mendes too, but who knows if they get enough money chucked at them.

The new team of M, Q and Moneypenny are very good though, so hope they'll be sticking around.
 


Uncle Spielberg

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Jul 6, 2003
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Saw it last night, and have to agree with the 'Greatest Hits' summary. Plenty of nods to previous films throughout. Good but not great, definitely behind Skyfall and Casino Royale for me - and probably others like From Russia With Love. Emerged thinking that is definitely it for Daniel Craig and Mendes too, but who knows if they get enough money chucked at them.

The new team of M, Q and Moneypenny are very good though, so hope they'll be sticking around.
Agreed. Fiennes was the best thing in it. That guy has real Gravitas
 






Acker79

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Nov 15, 2008
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Brighton
The opening scene where he carefully places a silencer on his gun, and then when he fires, very loud BANG !! Maybe I missed something [I did briefly fall asleep at one point] but how did him shooting through a glass window cause the entire building to collapse?

I don't think it was a silencer he was putting on it. The gun was a dual function thing - it worked as a long distance mic to allow him to eaves drop on the conversation in the hotel (there was also a laser sight on it - I think it was a sight, that may have been part of the mic function) I think that was what he attached (he also puts an earpiece in his ear to listen).

The whole building collapsed because he shot a bomb. The two men in there were discussing using the bomb to blow up a stadium full of people, but shooting it, he thwarts their plan (albeit at the cost of a small neighbourhood, where there were hopefully not too many people as they were mostly at the parade a short distance away.
 










clapham_gull

Legacy Fan
Aug 20, 2003
25,346
Loved it, even with its nods to the Roger Moore era. My favourite was seeing an 88 bus on Vauxhall Bridge as M16 blew up.
 


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