In which I discuss the latest movie trailers.
With
Spectre already in the news and still getting through its primary shooting, my expectations were astoundingly low for the newly released teaser trailer. After all, if they're still shooting the damned thing, how much footage can they really have to string together into a cohesive - if admittedly shortened - trailer? What could it possibly be but a few hurriedly edited together - and ultimately unfinished - action scenes. And then I saw
this:
If they released that a month from now and called it a full trailer, I wouldn't have had any issues with that, its brevity aside. It's essentially a methodically paced short film with a real sense of drama, intrigue and surprisingly very little action, and it was awesome!
It appears now that
Spectre is the functional successor to the underrated
Quantum of Solace. I don't mean that it's going to be another so-called "bad Bond movie," nor that it will have narrative ties to that film more than any other Craig-based Bond film has to by virtue of continuity. It's position as a latter-day
Quantum of Solace is owed to being a direct narrative continuation of its immediate predecessor (in this case
Skyfall), dealing first-hand with the personal fallout from that previous film's denouement.
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| You are a kite dancing in a hurricane, Mr. Bond. |
It appears that some of Bond's family effects that were recovered from Skyfall point to a conspiratorial agency known only as Spectre, the implication being that Bond's father - and possibly Bond himself - have ties to this organization. And, like
Skyfall, this is a much more personal mission for Bond than what we've been used to seeing: turning over the stones of his guarded past rather than reading a mission profile and jetting off to face some nameless criminal.
We of course will get Daniel Craig as Bond, and his new supporting cast of Ralph Fiennes as M and Naomie Harris as Moneypenny. Cristoph Waltz appears to be the Blowfeld stand-in within Spectre: the likely head of the organization and are chief bad guy. We even get our first look at Dave Bautista in a movie since Guardians of the Galaxy, which I'm increasingly excited about the more that I think about it.
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| Welcome, James. It's been a long time. And finally, here we are. |
This trailer pretty much abates any lingering fears that I had about the film's protracted production, inflated budget or twelfth hour rewrites. The cast looks fantastic in their briefly-glimpsed roles, the cinematography is brilliant and the story is fraught with dramatic potential. It is, in short, as fine a looking Bond movie as either Casino Royale or Skyfall. I think that I'm more excited for Spectre at this point than I am even for The Force Awakens, which is an astounding feet when you stop to think about it.
So what was your favorite part of the Spectre teaser trailer? Share your thoughts in the comment section below.
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