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Saw it last night and enjoyed it.
Speaking of tight fitting clothing - have you noticed that in every post-apocalyptic movie/TV show all the women wear the tightest clothes?
Not that there’s anything wrong with it...!
This chickified review of the film has given me enough basis to skip it.
http://www.houstonpress.com/film/spectre-is-gorgeous-but-may-be-too-much-of-a-good-thing-7899164
By Stephanie Zacharek
Tuesday, November 3, 2015 | 5 days ago
Because women are particularly beguiling when viewed from behind, the camera loves to follow them: Anyone who’s watched James Stewart’s lovesick detective trailing Kim Novak, a platinum dream poured into a pale gray flannel hourglass, understands the voyeurism at the heart of Vertigo. With Spectre — the 24th James Bond picture and the fourth and probably final one to feature Daniel Craig as 007 — director Sam Mendes takes a tip, perhaps unwittingly, from Hitchcock, as well as from Orson Welles’s Touch of Evil: The picture opens in Mexico City with a regal, ambitious, Wellesian tracking shot that begins in the midst of a Day of the Dead parade and eventually finds its way to Craig’s Bond, standing in the crowd.
He’s wearing a holiday-appropriate costume, a sexy-threatening skull mask and a black topcoat with a silkscreened skeleton’s spine winding up the back. There’s a masked beauty on his arm, but who’s looking at her? The camera trails the couple as they trek through the reveling masses, and it’s impossible to take your eyes off that spine, a sensuous, rippling, imaginary x-ray of the man beneath. Why, oh why, don’t real 3-D glasses — the ones advertised in the backs of comic books and sold to young boys hoping to see through women’s clothes — actually exist?
We don’t really need to see through Daniel Craig’s clothes, because eventually he does take at least some of them off. But dressed or un-, he’s the chief pleasure to be had in Spectre, along with the joys of gazing at the feral-flower beauty of Léa Seydoux (as Madeleine Swann, the headstrong psychologist Bond falls for), Monica Bellucci (who appears only briefly, as an Italian widow in a merry widow) and the radiant charmer Naomie Harris (who again plays MI6 administrative assistant Miss Moneypenny, although like most administrative assistants, she’s sorely underappreciated and given only unimportant things to do)...
with lead in paragraphs like that, why continue?
“M” was disastrous in SPECTRE. Too “political”...
I wish we’d seen more of Q’s gadgets and less of Q himself. I also wish Max (”C”) would’ve been more developed (and perhaps they could have shown us moviegoers the relationship between Max and Franz from the start rather than 3/4ths of the way down. This would have been more interesting — kind of giving us a Hitchcock feeling from the start.)
The one liners were so cheesey, it reminded my of the Roger Moore era. The love interests seemed thrown together without any real connection other than being in the right place at the right time. And did Bond really hit on someone’s daughter???
But the lack of “sinisterness” of Christoph’s villain character was a complete waste of the man’s talent. Action scenes were about a 7/10.
I’ll probably still get it when it comes out on DVD for my son’s collection.