Spectre Teaser Trailer Thoughts

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Bond... James Bond. Hooray! We get a Bond movie this year! I grew up playing Goldeneye. Then renting the early Bond movies and at the time going to the new Pierce Brosnan Bond movies in theaters. Then Die Another Die happened. I own it on DVD for some reason. The series needed to shift and it took a couple of years to do that. Enter Daniel Craig...

Daniel Craig's Bond run has a been pretty good so far (I would say great but Quantum of Solace happened) and Spectre hopes to continue that trend. Today we have our first trailer!

Here is the trailer. 

Very few characters in the trailer, but we can see that Spectre takes place almost right after Skyfall (which is interesting, see below). Bond looks very focused, which plays to Craig's strengths. Christoph Waltz makes an appearance at the end and no surprise it looks like he is going to deliver as the villain.

One thing that I am excited for in this movie, but we did not see in the trailer is Mr. Hinx, which is Dave Bautista's character. From what I heard, he is going to be like Jaws and Oddjob, but for our generation. I am all for this. I loved Jaws when I was growing up. Super campy character, but scary, power, and memorable. I doubt Mr. Hinx will be campy based on tone in Craig's Bond, but he should be going for memorable. Bond needs memorable villains and they don't have to be the main villain. I hope this means multiple movies for Mr. Hinx otherwise I do not consider him a memorable villain like Jaws. When you will have 24 Bond movies, to be a memorable villain you almost need to be in multiple movies just to stand out (yes there are exceptions). So I am excited for what Mr. Hinx will be!

Back to the fact this will all take place right after Skyfall. Let me paint you a picture. Imagine a great Bond film that rejuvenates the franchise. The next installment is announced, which is going be a direct follow up to that great Bond movie. This is different because Bonds are usually not direct sequels or tie too many events together. The film before was great so this story and continuation will be great, right? Sound familiar? We did this before with Casino Royale and Quantum of Solace. Casino Royale was amazing. Quantum of Solace not so much. It just seems interesting to me that based on what happened so recently with a directly connected follow-up (with the same Bond actor no less) they would try this again. This is just a teaser trailer and we could find out this is going to be completely different, but I am a little bit worried.

I have a lot of faith in this movie, but this teaser made me curious though. We know Craig will kick ass and Waltz will be great, I hope the story does not disappoint!