Rewatched a couple of Bond films, Quantum and Spectre. Not Casino, cause I have seen it many times and I still consider it the best of the DC ones, and not Skyfall because I still say it's overrated. It's not bad, but hardly the shiny beacon that many claim.
Quantum is an odd movie, it's kind of like an old Bond film with Bourne editing. Many of the action scenes are dead impressive but ruined by fast cuts. Dialogue is daft but that makes sense as it was made during a writers strike. The airplane chase near the end almost makes up for the whole movie as it just looks real. The maneuvers of the airplanes might be made up, I don't know, but it looks incredible. I don't mind Quantum, honestly. Third place in the DC run, for me, after Casino and Skyfall.
Then, there is bloody Spectre. If Quantum is odd, Spectre is almost farcical. I don't mind the relaxed way this movie is shot, it is pretty much on the other side of the spectrum(!) to Quantum of Solace. There are impressive scenes and the fist fight between bond and not green Drax is outstanding. The problem is, this movie makes absolutely no sense. It's a Bond movie after all but the dumb scale has literally been broken here due to the amount of sillyness.
This is where QoS comes back in. It was a good end to the Casino Royale storyline, and even with one of the main villains escaping capture, Skyfall was pretty much a new thing altogether. But Spectre just had to go and try to tie the whole thing together. And tie Bond to Blofeld. In the most far-fetched bullshit garbage storyline imaginable. Actually, I might be wrong about that, maybe it is a neat twist, but the thing was, both in the cinema and now I was tearing hair over this tangled mess I was witnessing, so I probably missed the sheer brilliance of it all.
Nah I am pretty sure it's just daft. Goes on for way too long as well, Blofeld barely escapes with his life from his hideout but goes straight back to London to hang up pictures of every character of the last 3 bond films just to f*ck with Bond. Like that will somehow be worse than literally drilling holes into his skull. Ties his lady friend up at M's office with a bomb, and procedes to watch from a helicopter. Bond is smart and knows there is a safety net at the bottom floor so he just jumps with her down a hole. This makes sense in a way, these things are set up for safety. But they would have been set up at higher floors as well.
I'm going on for way to long about this. Most Bond movies are pretty dumb after all. But they are usually entertaining enough to make you look past it. Spectre, dead last for me on the Daniel Craig list. The fact that they seem to be still hanging on to the same plot threads in No Time to Die is... not great.
