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Christoph Waltz to return as Blofeld for "Bond 25"
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It didnt just ruin Spectre, it ruined every Daniel Craig Bond film having every villain and plot orchestrated by him.
Absolute stupidity. I dont know how that got past the writers table.
It's a fucking crime that they wasted Craig's Bond run with endless shit films after how good Casino Royale was
Casino Royale was 13 years ago
Fuck
Craig has been Bond for half of my life.
Casino Royale was 13 years ago
Fuck
Craig has been Bond for half of my life.
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I enjoyed Spectre because I love all Bond films but there's no denying that there were problems with Spectre, including the poor writing for Blofeld/Waltz. I have faith in Fukunaga though, just hope the writing is up to snuff.
This was already the case between Casino Royale and Quantum, they just took it a step further adding Silva into that too.
Seems like they are trying to end Craig's run with a nostalgia fest. Bringing back Felix and Blofeld again. Just need a fight scene on a train and we'll have Bond BINGO.
That'll be on the train when Bond and Bond Girl think they are safe, travelling to the next location.
I just hope this Bond is about Bond taking a mission. The last 3 Bond films was about him going rogue and doing his own thing.
I hope he's just in a flashback sequence of some sort. Shoehorning him in as the main villain again would be idiotic.
Good God, it's been 13 years? I still think of Craig as "that new Bond".
Quantum is much better than Spectre, it's a punchy coda to Casino Royale and it doesn't try to be anything more (mainly due to the writers strike). Spectre is a totally mediocre movie where the director is literally just ticking things off a Best Of Bond checklist. Sam Mendes didn't give a shit and it shows.
Anyway, I imagine Blofeld will have a small role either being killed off (along with Madeleine) during the title sequence or used as a source of information in a brief prison cameo.
Can't say I'm too surprised. The original draft the current writers are building the final script on was by the veteran screenwriters (Purvis/Wade); who penned (sometimes with other people) not only Spectre but nearly every Bond movie released since Tomorrow Never Dies. A change in director and writers (even very talented ones) can only do so much if the veterans are still responsible for the skeleton of the plot.
That said. Putting aside the hamfisted plot twist they gave to the character in Spectre, I found Waltz's performance as Blofeld as actually one of the better things from the movie. If the new writers can bring the character back and completely ignore the nonsense set up from the last movie (if not just rewrite canon to trash it outright) and let Waltz turn in a better performance, we could actually have something that's good here. Which shouldn't be impossible to do, given Purvis/Wade aren't responsible for the shooting script this time.
That said. Putting aside the hamfisted plot twist they gave to the character in Spectre, I found Waltz's performance as Blofeld as actually one of the better things from the movie. If the new writers can bring the character back and completely ignore the nonsense set up from the last movie (if not just rewrite canon to trash it outright) and let Waltz turn in a better performance, we could actually have something that's good here. Which shouldn't be impossible to do, given Purvis/Wade aren't responsible for the shooting script this time.
You can't complete Bond BINGO without a skiing scene.
Like 80% of the old movies have skiing in them.
No way. It's the second worst Craig film. Quantum of Solace is without a doubt the worst Craig bond film.
Hoping this one is Skyfall/Casino Royale standard. Fingers crossed
And millions of dollars and tons of work went into that stunt. It blows my mind sometimes when I look at the work that went into that chase scene
HE is fine.
The movie though, particularly the script, is some nonsense.
I quite like Quantum when viewed as the second half of the story which began in Casino. It's not a great Bond film by any means but like you say, it's wrapping up his grief arc concerning Vesper, after which he forms his cold exterior which is basically his persona from then on. But I think it only really works as a direct continuation. It's not so hot as a standalone Bond film like most of the others can be.
I have no idea why every writer and executive on Specter thought Blofeld being Bond's brother was a good idea. Even if you wanna link all the previous films to this main villain, how does him being Bond's step brother CHANGE ANYTHING AT ALL? It's just weird for the sake of being weird, and that shit denoument in London at the end was so fucking dumb with all the photos and grafitti.
Literally, you just have to make him an evil criminal mastermind and have MI6 go to take him out after realizing the extent of his network and machinations, and he's just an asshole who's great at psychological warfare and forcing Bond to make the hard choices.
I hope the reveal in this film is that Remi Malek is the real Blofeld, and that he hired/brainwashed Bond's degenerate brother to be his front just as a smoke screen to allow his plans to come to fruition while everyone thinks they've captured Blofeld.
Literally, you just have to make him an evil criminal mastermind and have MI6 go to take him out after realizing the extent of his network and machinations, and he's just an asshole who's great at psychological warfare and forcing Bond to make the hard choices.
I hope the reveal in this film is that Remi Malek is the real Blofeld, and that he hired/brainwashed Bond's degenerate brother to be his front just as a smoke screen to allow his plans to come to fruition while everyone thinks they've captured Blofeld.
Exactly
This is basically trying to show why he uses women the way he does.
I don't know if this was a coordinated effort or not but I got a good laugh out of it
Craig's Bond feels like he has a short career when you realize QOS is CR part 2, and then he's too old for this shit in Skyfall, and then Spectre is like bwaha, the past two stories were all cause of me!
I so hope Bond 25 can somehow retcon all this into being good
I so hope Bond 25 can somehow retcon all this into being good
Opera scene in Quantum justifies that movie's existence, the shaky cam and frantic editing really worked there
