{"id":7595,"date":"2015-12-06T20:43:31","date_gmt":"2015-12-07T01:43:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=7595"},"modified":"2016-10-06T16:04:51","modified_gmt":"2016-10-06T20:04:51","slug":"spectre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/spectre\/","title":{"rendered":"Spectre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{4\/5} &#8220;You are a kite dancing in a hurricane, Mr. Bond.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Spectre<\/strong>, released in 2015<\/p>\n<p>When Bond is in the middle of an international incident in Mexico, M grounds him. Meanwhile, M is in the midst of a shake-up of his own &#8212; MI5 and MI6 are merging and the double-oh program may be eliminated. Bond is on the hunt for a shadowy organization that has an octopus as its logo. He eventually discovers a shocking revelation about many of his previous adventures &#8212; and about his childhood.<\/p>\n<p>This is the 24th official James Bond movie, and the 4th for star Daniel Craig.<\/p>\n<p>It didn&#8217;t quite grab me as much as I wanted it to, but there are lots of terrific parts. I had high expectations &#8212; due to the brilliance of the previous movie, <strong>Skyfall<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>There were a couple of aspects that didn&#8217;t quite work for me. Since they&#8217;re surprises, I&#8217;ll talk about them after the &#8220;Spoiler alert.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The characters of M, Moneypenny, and Q are more interesting than they were in the old days.<\/p>\n<p>The movie was filmed in England, Italy, Austria, Morocco, and Mexico.<\/p>\n<p>Stars Christoph Waltz and L\u00e9a Seydoux. Directed by Sam Mendes (<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2012\/12\/skyfall\/\">Skyfall<\/a><\/strong>). The music by Thomas Newman is great but some is reused from <strong>Skyfall<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Spoiler alert<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The idea that Bond&#8217;s foes from previous movies were retroactively made Spectre agents didn&#8217;t work for me. The idea that Blofeld was someone from Bond&#8217;s childhood also didn&#8217;t quite work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{4\/5} &#8220;You are a kite dancing in a hurricane, Mr. Bond.&#8221; Spectre, released in 2015 When Bond is in the middle of an international incident in Mexico, M grounds him. Meanwhile, M is in the midst of a shake-up of his own &#8212; MI5 and MI6 are merging and the double-oh program may be eliminated. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[15,6,5],"class_list":["post-7595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","tag-drama","tag-movie","tag-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7595"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9341,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7595\/revisions\/9341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}