Now Over 5500 Reviews and (near) Daily Updates!

WELCOME! Use the search engines on this site (or your own off-site engine of choice) to gain easy access to the complete MAKSQUIBS Archive; more than 5500 posts and counting. (New posts added every day or so.)

You can check on all our titles by typing the Title, Director, Actor or 'Keyword' you're looking for in the Search Engine of your choice (include the phrase MAKSQUIBS) or just use the BLOGSPOT.com Search Box at the top left corner of the page.

Feel free to place comments directly on any of the film posts and to test your film knowledge with the CONTESTS scattered here & there. (Hey! No Googling allowed. They're pretty easy.)

Send E-mails to MAKSQUIBS@yahoo.com . (Let us know if the TRANSLATE WIDGET works!) Or use the Profile Page or Comments link for contact.

Thanks for stopping by.

Saturday, May 14, 2016

SPECTRE (2015)

Making this James Bond film must have been one long, exhausting slog. And the result looks it. The payoff to this joyless bit of grey matter? Just about the limpest climax in Bond history. (And it’s not even the real climax!) With a consistently drab tonal scale holding tight to a forlorn, if unearned seriousness, it’s not only the color that’s been drained out of this one.

CONTEST: Even as Bond pics go, there’s an unusually heavy load of self-referential stunts, gags, dialogue & weaponized ‘toys.’ (It's less screenplay than eulogy.) Same for Thomas Newman’s score; endless variations on classic Bond themes when he’s not mindlessly tom-tomming up tension. So why lift a major story point straight out of classic Alfred Hitchcock? Name the steal to win a MAKSQUIBS Write-Up of your choosing. HINT: Think ‘50s Paramount.

ATTENTION MUST BE PAID: You know a change in the Bondian guard is coming when 007 keeps his shirt on even in bed. Daniel Craig established his Bond bona fides a decade ago, striding out of the water in nothing but a groin hugging ‘Speedo.’ No more. Four films and out.

No comments: