New Bond Film - "Spectre" - October / November 2015
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Argh, I have to wait another two weeks!
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Weirdly enough, a lot of fans seem to hate it. But then, some of them hate all of the new films. They seem to think that it compromises their integrity as Bond fans to like anything that isn't Fleming.
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That has been a trend in Daniel Craig's Bond era. James Bond should always have an Aston Martin, but there are now deals with Land Rover and Jaguar, plus I'm not sure whether the Ford deal is still in use?
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Yeah there seemed to be a lot more Land Rovers & Jags in this film over Astons. Only 2 Astons I remember seeing were the DB5 and DB10
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They can't have the DB10 in every single scene.
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I know, but it would've been nice to see a little more of it.
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I think audiences want a little bit more than a two-hour advertisement for Aston Martin.
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Is the DB5 considered as a tiny spoiler ? I know about it since i saw a glimpse of the leaked script
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Yeah it's not a spoiler. It's irrelevant to the plot anyway.
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To put that into perspective, Heineken paid something to the tune of £18.3m just so the cameras have a glimpse at a bottle during the film.
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...So, the film's not even released worldwide, yet the behind-the-scenes activity goes into over drive:
http://deadline.com/2015/10/daniel-craig-james-bond-sony-warner-bros-mgm-daniel-craig-1201528241/
The rumors of Disney wanting to acquire the distribution rights concerns me for some reason. Then again, maybe I'm just worried over nothing...
http://deadline.com/2015/10/daniel-craig-james-bond-sony-warner-bros-mgm-daniel-craig-1201528241/
The rumors of Disney wanting to acquire the distribution rights concerns me for some reason. Then again, maybe I'm just worried over nothing...
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They get a lot more than a glimpse - the character is licenced to appear in promotional materials outside the film (although he is never referred to as Bond). There's an ad being broadcast that sees Craig fleeing from a bunch of goons via speedboat and unwittingly take a water skier for a ride.
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I hope that Warners gets the rights, if for nothing else for the games. With EA basically treating the Star Wars franchise like a cash cow, any perspective deal with Disney will run the risk of EA getting the Bond franchise back (even though their Connery effort was actually pretty good.) At least Warners deals with their games in house.
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The last run of Bond games have been extremely poor - lazy Call of Duty clones and unnecessary attempts to remake previous successes. The handful of original titles they have gone in for, like Everything or Nothing and Blood Stone, have been pretty linear and behin the times.
If only they could get their hands on Konami's Fox Engine and do something along the lines of The Phantom Pain. Maybe not recreate massive open environments, but rather a series of smaller ones. A lot of the individual locations in the game would make for a good-sized "level", and it would open up gameplay options. I have had quite a few moments in the game that have felt very James Bond; sneaking around the Afghanistan Central Base Camp feels a lot like the escape from the air base in The Living Daylights, the mission "Pitch Dark" feels exactly like the GoldenEye pre-title sequence, and rescuing Malak feels a lot like the raid on Kristatos' drug warehouse in For Your Eyes Only. Bond should be - and to be blunt, is - about more than shooting everybody in a room to trigger a cut-scene.
If only they could get their hands on Konami's Fox Engine and do something along the lines of The Phantom Pain. Maybe not recreate massive open environments, but rather a series of smaller ones. A lot of the individual locations in the game would make for a good-sized "level", and it would open up gameplay options. I have had quite a few moments in the game that have felt very James Bond; sneaking around the Afghanistan Central Base Camp feels a lot like the escape from the air base in The Living Daylights, the mission "Pitch Dark" feels exactly like the GoldenEye pre-title sequence, and rescuing Malak feels a lot like the raid on Kristatos' drug warehouse in For Your Eyes Only. Bond should be - and to be blunt, is - about more than shooting everybody in a room to trigger a cut-scene.
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...Hey, don't knock Everything or Nothing down, it's not that bad!! 
While the distribution rights were residing in Sony's care, I don't remember hearing about a Bond game made by Sony. That Blood Stone thing, wasn't that a EA job too?
Movie and game rights are obviously a separate thing, then. And may I remind you that WB also don't have much form when it comes to in-house games, other than Rocksteady-developed Arkham titles?
No guarantee WB won't churn out turkeys, see.
While the distribution rights were residing in Sony's care, I don't remember hearing about a Bond game made by Sony. That Blood Stone thing, wasn't that a EA job too?
Movie and game rights are obviously a separate thing, then. And may I remind you that WB also don't have much form when it comes to in-house games, other than Rocksteady-developed Arkham titles?
No guarantee WB won't churn out turkeys, see.
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Part of the problem is that making a video game is a pretty expensive project, so you want to be assured of a return on investment. When you're dealing with film rights, you're not working with an industry juggernaut - unless we're talking Star Wars - so investing in something from the ground up isn't really feasible. The only way forward is to get your hands on an established engine and minimise cost.
Saw this on Tuesday, I enjoyed it as I did pretty much every Bond but it seemed too predictable in many ways. Of course all Bond films are predictable to a degree, but with this one.....
First of all obviously the worst kept secret, Oberhauser being Blofeld. I mean it wasn't really given away in his mannerisms initially but I was always just waiting for the moment for him to say who he really was.
The first hour or so of the film felt very slow and then everything happens very quickly in the last 40 minutes. As soon as 'C' had been introduced it was obvious he was going to be a villain and likely to buy it at the end. There was no twist or surprise when it was revealed he was working with Blofeld.
Once Blofeld was fully unveiled you knew he wasn't going to die, because they weren't going to bring him back for just one movie. This was pretty much cemented when it showed him with the trademark scar after the first incident, no way he was going to be killed off straight away then. So that made the climax lacking tension, Bond wasn't going to shoot him. Mind you that has a good side, in that of course we have more films to look forward to with the classic Bond master villain, played by a great actor.
Same with Madelaine, after all the deaths for Bond in the previous films it was kinda obvious he wasn't going to lose another one. Of course Bond himself wasn't going to die, and the rest of MI6 had only just been established, so there was very little tension in that regard either.
About the only unpredictable thing was Blofeld and Bond being brought up by the same parents but it doesn't really change much for this movie, it sets up for a great war between the two in future films thought.
Bautista's character was disappointing, had one fight and uneventful car chase with Bond and that was that, with no lines.
It was still fun, and I'd put it well above the awful QoS, but the predictability just kills it quite a bit.
The first hour or so of the film felt very slow and then everything happens very quickly in the last 40 minutes. As soon as 'C' had been introduced it was obvious he was going to be a villain and likely to buy it at the end. There was no twist or surprise when it was revealed he was working with Blofeld.
Once Blofeld was fully unveiled you knew he wasn't going to die, because they weren't going to bring him back for just one movie. This was pretty much cemented when it showed him with the trademark scar after the first incident, no way he was going to be killed off straight away then. So that made the climax lacking tension, Bond wasn't going to shoot him. Mind you that has a good side, in that of course we have more films to look forward to with the classic Bond master villain, played by a great actor.
Same with Madelaine, after all the deaths for Bond in the previous films it was kinda obvious he wasn't going to lose another one. Of course Bond himself wasn't going to die, and the rest of MI6 had only just been established, so there was very little tension in that regard either.
About the only unpredictable thing was Blofeld and Bond being brought up by the same parents but it doesn't really change much for this movie, it sets up for a great war between the two in future films thought.
Bautista's character was disappointing, had one fight and uneventful car chase with Bond and that was that, with no lines.
It was still fun, and I'd put it well above the awful QoS, but the predictability just kills it quite a bit.
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Anybody else notice the 007 logos on the FW37 in Mexico?
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Only after Martin Brundle pointed them out in the race commentary. They had stickers for the rear wing end plates as well, only the thickness of them interfered with the aerodynamics and so they had to be taken off!
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With any luck, we'll get a Grand Prix in a future film. Anthony Horowitz's Trigger Mortis featured the Nürburgring, but it wasn't very good. Since so many Bond villains are billionaire industrialists, throwing money at a Formula One team sounds like a good pastime for a villain. McLaren needs a sponsor or two; they should rebadge the team for a race.
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