Considering that the movie was meant to be a celebration of the history of Bond with the myriad references to old movies and books, perhaps the producers/writers intentionally added that bit of camp as a nod to earlier movies. The unusually cordial invitation into the villain’s lair and discussion like Dr. No; being…

Yeah, basically Blofeld’s plan just didn’t work. As he said, “If i hit the right spot” then X will happen. Clearly he didn’t hit the right spot. If he had some more time, he may have messed Bond up quite bad, but Bond managed to set his “alarm” in time to prevent that.

You may be misunderstanding the organization’s raison d’etre. I also disagree with the author’s interpretation, and thus some of the article. Spectre doesn’t exist to mess up Bond’s life; however, they do exist to gather intelligence for their criminal enterprise in order to more easily secure more power (and…

I saw Spectre last night: it was a good movie, and I was entertained, but I interpreted the story differently. From what I saw, Oberhauser didn’t orchestrate all of the events of the previous three Bond movies purely to mess with Bond. It was Bond who interfered in certain affairs (CR/QoS) that concerned Oberhauser,…