I don't think Bond being a double agent and secretly working for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police is that big a spoiler. It was hinted at in all of the Craig films if you were paying attention.
I almost view the villains as the McGuffin of this movie, really. I don't mean that in a negative way either. Using the antagonist as a vehicle to carry a characters story arc to it's conclusion is not the worst idea in the world, and I think it worked here.
Of course, there will be more Bonds. Amazon wouldn't have wallet slammed if Bond wasn't a lock for generating more revenue for them. It would be like someone buying up the entire McDonalds empire but only being allowed to sell pop tarts.
Not to oversell Amazon's perceived value of Bond, the...
After having seen the film, this version of Billie's music video with lots of cuts from the movie hits a little bit harder. The lyrics have a much deeper than generic meaning.
My only real issue with Skyfall in the third act for me is M's transition from being alert and walking around after her injury, to being suddenly dead. I know she was losing blood, but it just seemed very abrupt.
The other issue was how they couldn't take M anywhere safe, in spite of having...
Well, that's fine. But I really didn't mind Spectre at all. I only saw it for the first time recently and was puzzled as to why it got so much hate. To each their own.
Didn't look at my watch at all. Rolled right by for me. I could certainly identify a scene or two that could be trimmed, but I had no complaints about the time at all.
It looks like the reviews are starting to appear online on RT as the embargo was 12:01 on the 29th, which was a short while ago in London. If that was indeed the time zone that the embargo referred to.
So here we go.
I hadn't yet seen Spectre, and decided to correct that today since I am seeing NTTD on Tuesday.
Not sure why it got the flack that it did, I found it entertaining enough. But anyway, I am glad I saw it because I have a feeling that my viewing of NTTD will benefit greatly from that.
Two days...