John Wick 2: From Russia Wick Love

Seems like they went through a lot of cool-ish ideas before settling with what we finally got. A "parkour ski chase", Blofeld as a British woman or African warlord, Tanner as a traitor, a completely different villain dressed in bandages, a Felix Leiter shoot-out teamup…
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I thought the torture scene as a whole along with the escape from the desert lair very much looked and felt like re-shoots, and I'd place Bond speaking to "Oberhauser" behind the glass at old MI6 and the ending at the bridge in the same category. It wasn't so much a feeling of inconsistency as a huge disappointing…

Quantum is such a missed opportunity. It's probably the best looking Bond film to date (sorry, Rog!), has Craig firing on all cylinders, all that sweet momentum from Casino Royale, and then it gets fucked over by a writers' strike. Had Paul Haggis been able to deliver more than a first draft to that movie, we might…

The gun in that picture is really, really stupid.

I know where you're coming from, somehow the real challenge is always to regularly get your ass to the thing rather than actually doing it.

I'm guessing you've already considered this, but is there some sort of exercise that you think you might end up enjoy doing? Stuff like playing badminton, racquetball or squash with someone once a week? Get a bit of regularity into it, and you have yourself a great start. Best of luck in whatever you decide to do!

Fleetwood Mac - Dreams
Scott Walker - Amsterdam
Röyksopp & Robyn - Do It Again
My Bloody Valentine - Loomer
Niki & The Dove - Love To The Test
Kanye West - Diamonds From Sierra Leone
Depeche Mode - Surrender
Weeping Willows - Sunny Days
The Smiths - That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore
Peter Gabriel - Slowburn

#notallsquids

Thanks, I suspected as much. I'm sure this is hardly a uniquely messy development cycle for such a huge studio movie, but they really didn't manage to salvage this one. Still, it's interesting to see how it was going to run even closer to On Her Majesty's Secret Service, and that the Christophe Waltz reveal was…

I mean, all the talk of Bond having a secret, him fretting over Franz Oberhauser being dead or not, how everything that happened from Casino Royale to Skyfall was supposed to be connected, and then for it all to end with a few re-shot throwaway lines that simply confirmed what we already knew… If it was a deliberate…

They share some of the same problems, but at least Skyfall doesn't start to fall apart until after it's mid point. Spectre is pretty much fucked from the credits sequence.

Casino Royale's story is pretty solid as well.

The ending of it almost ruins it for me, though. Who thought it was a good idea to end it on an awful joke?

They do tend to sound a lot like something someone wrote in a car on a the way to a recording studio… The best you can hope for are probably some non-groan inducing imagery.

******SPOLIERS, again*********

I'm genuinely surprised by the civil reception this movie has been getting. I thought it came dangerously close to trainwreck-territory on several occasions, and only saved itself by it's cinematography and (some of) the action scenes. A lot of the subplots (and there are many) go absolutely nowhere, make no sense or…

Eyeballsh.

He sure took you for a Ride.

I don't think "popcorn fun" has to be mindless, or at least exclude things like logic and tightness. I thought Skyfall had a fair bit of both, but started to fall apart after Silva let himself get caught. Spectre, on the other hand, misses both badly, which to me seems like a result of extensive late re-writes and…