mertz109

I was worried about seeing this based on the weak reviews. Once again, I'm glad I didn't listen to Metacritic (the same site that said "Steve Jobs" was a great movie when in fact it was terrible)... This Bond movie was among the best Daniel Craig Bond movies... maybe the best. I didn't like Skyfall, but this one was great. Honestly, I used to really like Metacritic but I'm starting to think it stinks just like Rotten Tomatoes stinks now. To illustrate my point: This site gave Spring Breakers a Green (good) rating at 63 (higher than Spectre). It gave Steve Jobs a jaw-dropping 82 when the movie was terrible (I encourage people to see it because they don't believe a movie this highly rated could be awful... then they agree I was right after they come out... they're shocked at how bad it is) This site gave Inherent Vice an 81... and that's another movie that makes you embarrassed to be alive by being so bad. Anyway... if you came to see a great Bond film, you're going to get what you came for. It's a shame this site **** so much (or maybe it's not so much the site as it is the critics themselves, who are totally out of touch with what a good movie is...)

When I started watching the movie, it looked promising... but after the first half hour, my stomach started to turn and I realized I was watching a really, really bad movie. The relationships that this character has with other characters aren't well-developed (or developed at all), so you spend most of the movie watch the main character having wacky interactions with other characters, with no understanding of what's at stake, why their dynamic is what it is and why it seems that the emotions/behavior of the characters has no connection to what's happening in the story. Another thing is that behavior of these characters... I have no idea why, but at a certain point, the movie devolves into a wacky cartoon... it's as if someone realized the movie was a steaming pile of crap and thought that acting wacky would somehow entertain the audience.

Disappointing and unrewarding. I was looking forward to this movie... I figured how could you go wrong when an epic story of failure-to-triumph already happened in real life. When the movie ended in the theatre, instead of cheers or satisfaction, I heard several people say out loud, "Wait... what?" or "Wait... that's not the end, is it?" Not a good sign. I went to dinner afterwards and I was trying to figure out what was wrong with the movie... a movie that had ZERO impact on me whatsoever. Nobody is going to say that it was poorly acted - they had an A+ cast and they all did a great job with what they were given. There wasn't any bad dialogue or moments where you groan at how something is presented... It wasn't poor execution of anything... it was the complete lack of story telling and character development... The movie was just one scene after another of intense dialogue and no story elements whatsoever. I know everyone hates the idea of a formula, but every great TV show or movie follows the following pattern: You get a glimpse into the current life of the main character. You see them somehow unfairly wronged (so you feel sympathy for them and bond with them). An opportunity presents itself and the main character pursues that... and then, about 10% into the movie, the real quest begins... Through the course of the movie, we watch the main character pursue their main goal and deal with the challenges that come up in the meantime -- challenges that force the main character to push past his inner and outer challenges more than he/she ever has before. At the 50% point in the movie, you reach a "point of no return", where the character can't go back to their old life / old way of being, even if they wanted to... The rest of the movie winds up at an ultimate test where the main character has to fully and irrevocably step into their new self and overcome their most challenging inner block. EVERY good movie and TV show has this. Star Wars. Breaking Bad. Dead Poet Society. Fight Club. The 40 Year Old Virgin. (I'm not saying those are all the best movies/TV shows ever, I'm just illustrating the breadth of content that all follows this format.) This movie did none of the key storytelling milestones, so you end up watching two hours of characters who you couldn't give a flying f*** about arguing with each other about subject matter you have zero investment in as an audience member. One of my tests as to whether it's a good movie or not is if one of the main characters got shot dead in a scene, would I care? In this movie, a bomb could have dropped on every product launch and I couldn't have cared less. If you haven't seen the movie, please do... I'm tired of seeing movies like this that lack any satisfying substance get high rating on Metacritic and Rotten Tomatoes... You think movie studios with 9 figure budgets don't know how to fudge ratings on these things? Of course they do!!! So please, watch the movie and rate it accordingly...