Did movies other than Star Trek Into Darkness and Spectre do the very ill-advised "we're withholding the main villain's real identity for no discernible reason in order to have a reveal that doesn't matter to the characters in the movie" thing?
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Why isn’t donold trying to fire him like Lisa Clark?
aug 28, 2025, 5:58 pm • 0 0 • view
Five Nights at Freddy’s just did this in 2023. And not the villain, but JGL in Dark Knight Rises.
aug 28, 2025, 5:46 pm • 3 0 • view
Just trying to see if they accidentally backed into a dumb idea or were trend-chasing a bad idea
aug 28, 2025, 5:15 pm • 3 0 • view
It's so funny to cast Christoph Waltz as a one-dimensional villain when the whole reason people liked him in Inglorious Basterds were his tonal variations
aug 28, 2025, 5:18 pm • 4 0 • view
He honestly is better in Green Hornet than he is in Spectre
aug 28, 2025, 5:18 pm • 4 0 • view
Just checked the timestamp for when I feel like Spectre goes from good-to-bad and it's an hour 50 minutes in, which is like...you guys should have just made a shorter movie instead of leaving us with 38 minutes of bad movie
aug 28, 2025, 5:20 pm • 2 0 • view
I really think Spectre would leapfrog into being one of my favorite Bonds if they had just brought Hinx back to chase James Bond through the spooky haunted house MI6 at the end.
aug 28, 2025, 5:40 pm • 1 0 • view
The Sony leaks revealed they had 3rd act problems, and tried to solve them by cutting out the action (which ????) But Bautista is everyone's fave part of the movie and he's even killed in a way that suggests he's not actually dead. So why not have him toss ol' JB around in the final bit.
aug 28, 2025, 5:42 pm • 1 0 • view
Giving M his own dark double he has to fight and kill is very funny. Also I think the biggest laugh I have in any of these movies is this exchange. "Is that what M stands for? Moronic?" "No, but I guess we know what C stands for...(long pregnant pause) careless."
aug 28, 2025, 5:44 pm • 1 0 • view
Genuinely love that Spectre ends with James Bond renouncing violence and country to go off with the daughter of the man who did him the most evil. Honestly kind of a more satisfying send-off to me than NTTD even if the back third of the movie is a little dull
aug 28, 2025, 5:54 pm • 1 0 • view
Gonna revisit No Time To Die next but my main impression of it is "a lot of fun good stuff that's unfortunately completely sank by Rami Malek's terrible performance and a nonsense evil plot that's nigh-impenetrable"
aug 28, 2025, 5:56 pm • 0 0 • view