Thirteen Things I Think About Skyfall
Beware. Spoilers and snark ahead.
Clearly, the best way to survive a gunshot wound is to swim through a credits sequence.
Dame Judi Dench is wonderful. At the same time, as M she left her most valuable piece of intel on a laptop in Istanbul, she got a bunch of agents killed and her building blown up, she failed to mention that armed men were coming to kill her during her government hearing (which the security staff might have had interest in learning so they could have avoided all getting shot), and then she dropped off the grid at a moment of crisis only to die of getting shot in the ass (and not bandaging it). One begins to see why they wanted to fire her.
Would it have been too much to put Ralph Fiennes in a bowler hat just once? Yeah, probably. Forget I said anything.
Odds that Bond’s gun ends up in the hands of the PLA, once the komodo dragon finishes with it? Pretty high.
Glad to see that Richard Ayoade’s character from The IT Crowd is the new Q. Sorry to see that he’s not being played by Richard Ayoade
Loved the visuals of the movie - the cathedral of server racks in Silva’s HQ was particularly striking.
I do think the script could have used a little more heavy-handed speechifying about old school vs. new school.
Seriously? Just make a phone call and say “stop the train”. You have that power.
The day the good guys stop plugging the bad guys’ computers into their main networks is the day I die happy at the movies.
Best Bond theme in ages, without a doubt. It felt very Shirley Bassey, in all the right ways.
Sad to see how a movie that started exploring the power of information warfare sort of fell back into the usual Hollywood “computers are magic that can do everything until they suddenly can’t do anything”
On the whole, I enjoyed it, but it was really a case of enjoying individual sequences rather than the film as a whole
Clearly, the best way to survive a gunshot wound is to swim through a credits sequence.
Dame Judi Dench is wonderful. At the same time, as M she left her most valuable piece of intel on a laptop in Istanbul, she got a bunch of agents killed and her building blown up, she failed to mention that armed men were coming to kill her during her government hearing (which the security staff might have had interest in learning so they could have avoided all getting shot), and then she dropped off the grid at a moment of crisis only to die of getting shot in the ass (and not bandaging it). One begins to see why they wanted to fire her.
Would it have been too much to put Ralph Fiennes in a bowler hat just once? Yeah, probably. Forget I said anything.
Odds that Bond’s gun ends up in the hands of the PLA, once the komodo dragon finishes with it? Pretty high.
Glad to see that Richard Ayoade’s character from The IT Crowd is the new Q. Sorry to see that he’s not being played by Richard Ayoade
Loved the visuals of the movie - the cathedral of server racks in Silva’s HQ was particularly striking.
I do think the script could have used a little more heavy-handed speechifying about old school vs. new school.
Seriously? Just make a phone call and say “stop the train”. You have that power.
The day the good guys stop plugging the bad guys’ computers into their main networks is the day I die happy at the movies.
Best Bond theme in ages, without a doubt. It felt very Shirley Bassey, in all the right ways.
Sad to see how a movie that started exploring the power of information warfare sort of fell back into the usual Hollywood “computers are magic that can do everything until they suddenly can’t do anything”
On the whole, I enjoyed it, but it was really a case of enjoying individual sequences rather than the film as a whole
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