AJB live commentary on SPECTRE

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  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 36,356Chief of Staff
    Higgins wrote:
    Higgins wrote:
    The butterfly dress though is absolutely gorgeous on her!

    Be careful your wife doesn't see it!

    Actually I‘ve offered to get it for her.
    But now it‘s long sold out.

    Your wallet will be grateful!
  • The Spy Who Never DiesThe Spy Who Never Dies UKPosts: 644MI6 Agent
    Bet he wished he'd turned the camera off now.
  • Number24Number24 NorwayPosts: 21,804MI6 Agent
    Gymkata wrote:
    These high tech, well designed evil lairs. I mean, who do you farm out this work to? Do you hire an architecture firm and then kill them all when the work is completed? What about the dry-wall installers who are just trying to make a buck?

    And who are you building all of this for? Why overly design everything when it's not for show anyways...wouldn't it all be functional rather than overly designed?

    you would have fired Ken Adam :))
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 36,356Chief of Staff
    Gymkata wrote:
    These high tech, well designed evil lairs. I mean, who do you farm out this work to? Do you hire an architecture firm and then kill them all when the work is completed? What about the dry-wall installers who are just trying to make a buck?

    https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=mitchell+and+webb+bond+villain&&view=detail&mid=927A4D5D049892665D73927A4D5D049892665D73&&FORM=VRDGAR&ru=%2Fvideos%2Fsearch%3Fq%3Dmitchell%2Band%2Bwebb%2Bbond%2Bvillain%26FORM%3DHDRSC3
  • The Spy Who Never DiesThe Spy Who Never Dies UKPosts: 644MI6 Agent
    Ah the glorified dentist chair!
  • Number24Number24 NorwayPosts: 21,804MI6 Agent
    edited June 2020
    Craig over-acting ("Turn it off!") :#
  • Shady TreeShady Tree London, UKPosts: 2,969MI6 Agent
    Waltz underplays the villain - not in a good way. But his main problem is that he's been handed a fanwank script, and one which fans don't actually like!
    Critics and material I don't need. I haven't changed my act in 53 years.
  • HigginsHiggins GermanyPosts: 16,618MI6 Agent
    Timestamp: Video of Mr. White‘s death
    President of the 'Misty Eyes Club'.

    Dalton - the weak and weepy Bond!
  • HigginsHiggins GermanyPosts: 16,618MI6 Agent
    Number24 wrote:
    Craig over-acting ("Turn it off!") :#

    Agreed „Look at me“
    President of the 'Misty Eyes Club'.

    Dalton - the weak and weepy Bond!
  • Number24Number24 NorwayPosts: 21,804MI6 Agent
    The cat is underacting
  • Shady TreeShady Tree London, UKPosts: 2,969MI6 Agent
    Number24 wrote:
    Craig over-acting :#

    Yes, he already levelled with Madeleine about what passed between himself and her father. I know he wants to protect her from the trauma of actually having to see it, but he does go OTT.
    Critics and material I don't need. I haven't changed my act in 53 years.
  • HigginsHiggins GermanyPosts: 16,618MI6 Agent
    edited June 2020
    But Madeleine cracking is well played!

    Dentist Chair now
    President of the 'Misty Eyes Club'.

    Dalton - the weak and weepy Bond!
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 36,356Chief of Staff
    The torture scene is adapted from "Colonel Sun". Amis gets a credit.
  • Shady TreeShady Tree London, UKPosts: 2,969MI6 Agent
    Number24 wrote:
    The cat is underacting

    They really needed that YOLT cat back...
    Critics and material I don't need. I haven't changed my act in 53 years.
  • HigginsHiggins GermanyPosts: 16,618MI6 Agent
    Blofeld making a fool of himself by talking and talking.
    President of the 'Misty Eyes Club'.

    Dalton - the weak and weepy Bond!
  • Number24Number24 NorwayPosts: 21,804MI6 Agent
    Shady Tree wrote:
    Number24 wrote:
    Craig over-acting :#

    Yes, he already levelled with Madeleine about what passed between himself and her father. I know he wants to protect her from the trauma of actually having to see it, but he does go OTT.

    He should have just have held her hand.

    Oh no, Brothergate again! :o :o :o
  • The Spy Who Never DiesThe Spy Who Never Dies UKPosts: 644MI6 Agent
    Higgins wrote:
    But Madeline cracking is well played!

    Dentist Chair now

    Yeah, I can't help thinking of this scene whenever I'm at the dentist. I am on high alert!
  • Number24Number24 NorwayPosts: 21,804MI6 Agent
    Higgins wrote:
    Blofeld making a fool of himself by talking and talking.

    No other Bond villan has ever made that mistake before :v
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 36,356Chief of Staff
    Gymkata wrote:
    Barbel wrote:
    The torture scene is adapted from "Colonel Sun". Amis gets a credit.

    Does the scene play out the same way in the book?

    Not quite, but he does recover unreasonably quickly just like here then run around killing the bad guys.
  • Shady TreeShady Tree London, UKPosts: 2,969MI6 Agent
    I don't understand why the effect on Bond's memory that Blofeld claims his incision will make doesn't actually have that effect. It feels like a cheat. Bond isn't superhuman. Or are we supposed to believe that it's the power of love that helps him to overcome brain damage?
    Critics and material I don't need. I haven't changed my act in 53 years.
  • The Spy Who Never DiesThe Spy Who Never Dies UKPosts: 644MI6 Agent
    Gymkata wrote:
    Higgins wrote:
    But Madeline cracking is well played!

    Dentist Chair now

    Yeah, I can't help thinking of this scene whenever I'm at the dentist. I am on high alert!

    Is it safe?

    Is what safe?
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 36,356Chief of Staff
    Shady Tree wrote:
    I don't understand why the effect on Bond's memory that Blofeld claims his incision will make doesn't actually have that effect. It feels like a cheat. Bond isn't superhuman.

    Yes, agreed.
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 36,356Chief of Staff
    Gymkata wrote:

    Yeah, I can't help thinking of this scene whenever I'm at the dentist. I am on high alert!

    Is it safe?

    Is what safe?

    You've never seen "Marathon Man"?
  • Number24Number24 NorwayPosts: 21,804MI6 Agent
    Gamer level: Easy
  • Number24Number24 NorwayPosts: 21,804MI6 Agent
    Such a huge explosion, so little impact
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 36,356Chief of Staff
    Number24 wrote:
    Gamer level: Easy

    :# True
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 36,356Chief of Staff
    Back to London- M, Q, Moneypenny, Tanner, Daphne, Velma, Shaggy....
  • Shady TreeShady Tree London, UKPosts: 2,969MI6 Agent
    Bond shooting the smattering of SPECTRE guys in the distance...very much a video game aesthetic.

    Superb explosion, with Bond and Madeleine in the foreground.

    Bond's "It's not over yet" has the same function as "Don't go away!" before the coda to FRWL.
    Critics and material I don't need. I haven't changed my act in 53 years.
  • The Spy Who Never DiesThe Spy Who Never Dies UKPosts: 644MI6 Agent
    Gymkata wrote:
    Shady Tree wrote:
    I don't understand why the effect on Bond's memory that Blofeld claims his incision will make doesn't actually have that effect. It feels like a cheat. Bond isn't superhuman. Or are we supposed to believe that it's the power of love that helps him to overcome brain damage?

    to be fair, he does say 'if we hit the right spot...'. As such, I took it that he was just off enough not to ruin his memory.

    I took it like he was toying with Bond until he decided to get the right spot.
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 36,356Chief of Staff
    Nod to "The Hildebrand Rarity"
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