Like the mafia funeral in Last Action Hero?
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Haven’t seen that one yet. But if the result is a bizarre and creepy effect then yes.
That’s only because they changed one little thing about the Bond movies: SPECTRE doesn’t play “five minutes into the future” like they did in the days of old, but actually “five years”. The car chase is happening during the Corona lockdown in Rome (with Bond being so kind as to help an elderly person to get back home and be safe a lot quicker than usual).
On the train, as soon as the fight starts, the other passengers realize that social distancing will become difficult, so they all head back to their compartments as quick as possible.
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The rewrite I’m working on - keeps Christoph Waltz as the villain and Lea Seydoux as the Bond girl and SPEQTRE - and that’s it. Everything else is stripped away and very different haha 
My wife and I found a whole bunch of these, but this one is germane to this discussion. Probably not far off the mark… 
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Sadly, that’s probably exactly how it went.
Needless to say, but that 7:02 video was more entertaining than the entirety of Spectre.
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Definitely something Moore’s Bond would say.
That is not very difficult as SPECTRE feels like an unfinished movie were a shedload had to be tweeked to improve it.
The good thing is that NTTD can hardly be worse.
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It couldn’t help but be.
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A lot of my humour comes from watching the Moore films repeatedly as a kid. I can’t help it!
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I agree that this part bothered me. Especially with Bond doing it singlehandedly and showing no aftereffects from the torture. Not only that, but Madeleine showed she was clearly proficient with a handgun. Why did she have to hide behind Bond? Why not throw her a bone … er, gun, and let her help him? I realize she’d already helped him quite a bit, but it’s not like there’s a quota (or maybe there is). One more time couldn’t hurt.
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This part I would have preferred differently, with Bond being brainwashed to facilitate Blofeld’s plans in London and Madeleine showing she’s been Blofeld’s girl all along.
The torture element doesn’t suit the plot, all the more since it’s completely ineffective. By needing Bond (for whatever) we avoid the weak escape and get the action back to London. And by having Madeleine in cahoots with Blofeld she’s in the best position to betray him and ‘wake’ Bond from his trance. A hypnosis element would even be a nod to Blofeld’s scheme from ON HER MAJESTY’S SECRET SERVICE.
The London part would then only need some minor fixes - cut out Moriarity, avoid the Walther-flak - to have at once more suspense and less ridiculousness.
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Just have M dial in the SAS and have a full on crater battle with Madeline leading Bond out and then straight to the happily ever after… or, even better, have Hinx not be dead after the train fight and pull a Guy Hamilton come back for one last attempt to take Bond out.
Even so, Blofeld’s return, SPECTRE, a seriously threatening henchman, a snow chase, helicopter stunts and imo Craig’s best Bond performance yet gives plenty to appreciate here.
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Having M call in the SAS would have at least given some relevance to the smart blood. As the current iteration of the script has it, the smart blood serves no purpose (other than I guess to show us Q’s lab?), which is made all the more frustrating by the fact that the scene where it is injected into Bond is nothing more than a repeat of the chip being injected into Bond in CR (which was relevant to the plot of CR in that it enabled M to keep an eye on Bond, and created tension when Le Chiffre destroyed it and seemingly credited Mathis with his knowing about it).
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Definitely a lot to appreciate. I wouldn’t make big changes with SPECTRE, merely put more emphasis on the bizarre, surreal aspects of it. I’d want to include the motto ‘The dead are alive’ more and better (have Bond in a DAF-style fire and actually survive it maybe?) and perhaps also use the SIS ruin more.
I’m a bit sceptical about big battle scenes. The more memorable ones - from THUNDERBALL, YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE and THE SPY WHO LOVED ME - tend to be exceptional because of their setting, diver armies underwater, ninjas overhead in a hollow volcano, mariners in a supertanker-turned-submarine-base. SPECTRE’s base is not terribly interesting and I’m not sure it would profit from a more or less ‘seen before’ shootout, even if it’s a large scale one.
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Absolutely. It seems they had built too few sets for the interior. Then again, it was never meant to be the finale.
I still wonder why SONY, for the first Bond after the biggest earner in Bond history, decided to say: strike that, we have to shrink down the budget.
Okay, the film still made boffo business. But how much more money could it have made if filmed according to the previous script version?
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I think Spectre (a film I do love) suffered from Sony’s internal politics…as I am aware Marvel ended up benefiting…
…from Sony’s internal problems.
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