Nanobots. REALLY? At least it is not Moonraker right???
Right, but the implication was that it needed direct skin contact. So as far as infectious diseases go, pretty manageable, especially for somebody who had become a hermit anyway. Maybe it’s a risk you don’t want to take, but it at least seems worth considering for more than two minutes.
Actually, I now wonder about the repeated delays and no streaming. Maybe it wasn’t just about getting the the theaters open, but about avoiding PR issues with releasing a movie about a deadly infectious disease while the pandemic was still on. And they couldn’t fix it with a reshoot of edits since the exact details of the scheme were so integral to the character plot.
Certainly not. It’s taking everything, including the nanobots, very, very seriously.
I did wonder about it too. I actually wonder, since the present day stuff opens with references to smallpox and Ebola, if the agent wasn’t supposed to be a genetically engineered virus and was changed to nanobots in post.
I think you’re right. Some other parts of the setup would make a lot more sense like that, such as the island. Manufacturing nanobots in a rusty WW2 facility by having a bunch of people standing in a pool and stirring the water with poles did seems quite odd…
God that’s good.
Ok, I apologize for going in blind here - haven’t read the thread (or seen the trailer) as I want to avoid spoilers before watching the movie.
However I WOULD appreciate just a quick heads up if its beneficial to rewatch Spectre before going to see this film? Basically I only have extremely vague memories of that one, so if this movie connects / builds on Spectre, I guess I should reacquaint myself. I gather Blofeld and his girlfriend show up again, thus knowledge of those two figures seems to be relevant…
I don’t think it’s a requirement (I didn’t) but may be beneficial.
ok, thanks!
The train fight is worth re-watching. :)
I recommend rewatching Spectre. It would have helped me figure out what some of the character connections are.
There are also references to Vesper Lynd who appeared in Casino Royale.
Wow! I really enjoyed the movie up until the absolute end. Craig’s 2nd best Bond outing. Action felt gritty in a good way. Liked the bridge of classic and more realistic bonds. Great score and use of old and new music. A little too Hans Zimmer am I watching Batman or Bond? Ana de Armas was awesome, wish she had, had more screentime Rest of the cast was good. Rami Malek is such an interesting actor. I can’t tell if he’s amazing or awful, but I enjoy watching him. Things I’m confused by Rami’s not Dr. No except he’s totally Dr. No… and Jason Vorhees. How do you survive so many bullets to the chest?. Q being gay, don’t care other than it just seemed like a forced choice that did absolutely nothing for the character or story other than to say he we’re woke and hip (see Sulu in Star Trek Beyond I’m confused by the nanobots. You’ve got a watch that emits an emp for gods sake and they can’t disrupt the nanobots. Seemed silly. Finally, you don’t kill James Bond. I know. Bond will be back, but just kind of dumb. All in still very enjoyable. Jsnell, I agree with your thinking on the bond delays.
Saw it tonight. I didn’t really care for it.
Daniel Craig does need to leave the role. He looked old in this movie.
Agreed.
Saw it at the drive-ins tonight. Opening scenes were what I want out of a Bond movie, but then it just spiraled down. Terrible villain, terrible last 1/3. Even the very last line in the movie made me groan.
Bulletproof vest? He gets taken out by the fall, not the bullets.
One thing I thought was really dumb was the 40 or so henchman in hazmat suits milling about manually stirring the water in the industrial pool. With all that high tech the only way to stir the water was by hand?
I get it that they wanted to convey that the water had something deadly in it, but it looked so stupid.
The movie has not fared well in my memory overnight. I like it even less today than right after seeing it. It had some good moments and some good action scenes (despite Daniel Craig’s magical markmenship where he can vaguely point a gun in the general direction of multiple enemies and always manage to shoot them).
Why can’t they come up with better scripts for these blockbuster movies? They seem to have all the money in the world to throw at them.
They scrapped their script in February 2018, and started from scratch. Then they scrapped the replacement script in September 2018, and started from scratch again. Then they appear to have gone through a revolving door of writers being hired on to try to fix the script, until they could no longer continue pushing back the start of production one more time from April 2019.
We saw it yesterday at the local cinema. First movie I have seen in a year and a half in the theater. We enjoyed it very much.
It was such a nostalgia trip and the scene with the minigun Aston Martin reminded me of a Christmas present I received when I think I was seven. Though I don’t think Madeline would have appreciated being ejected.
The thing is, they already had that very same Aston Martin brought back in Casino Royale (where Bond wins the car in a poker game) and Skyfall. The latter included a gag with Bond thumbing over the eject button while M was in the passenger seat, shooting down goons with the miniguns, and the car being destroyed with extreme prejudice.
So it’s a bit lazy to return to that same well again so soon, and just introduces a continuity error to boot.
I had this toy, or a different version of it when I was a tyke in the '60’s.
I remember the plastic knife that slid out of the secret compartment and you could load capgun caps in it that would pop if you opened it without putting right code in, but I either ran out of caps fast or it didn’t work that well. It was cool. It was modelled after the briefcase in From Russia with Love, one of the best of the early Bond films.
I had something very like that, or maybe that one. Mine had a red plastic bullet that shot out from the side of the attache