Comments on: Skyfall: Spoiler Edition!

By: Antlerboy

Antlerboy — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 00:43:38 +0000

Spot on – hilarious review, especially Albert Finney and ‘Bond Has Sex’- note they didn’t even bother to attempt the trope of ‘good, pure sex wipes away all the abusive evil sex’ – good thing because it seems pretty clear (like the assassination victim) that he waited until Badem killed her in order to get the element of surprise. If in the next movie, a henchman stands within grabbing distance of Bond, he’d better look out, that’s all I can say.
I particularly loved the heavy-duty placement of Sony Vaio laptops, which the whole of MI6 use – presumably if, after their massive security breach with the gas and that, they’d swapped them all out with a bunch of Macs, then Javier’s evil computering would just have bounced?
And what a shame miss Moneypenny still can’t act! Since she’s been the token sassy black woman since at least Eight Days Later, you’d think she’d have some licks by now, wouldn’t you?

By: Zachary Pumpkin

Zachary Pumpkin — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 22:02:24 +0000

In reply to Christopher. That's what I gathered as well. But she chose an odd movie in which to reveal that.

By: Christopher

Christopher — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 15:26:05 +0000

In reply to Cpt.Average. Heh, that would have been funny. "Uh, thanks, Bond! We couldn't have done it without you!" Lab guys exchange a look, slowly push a big bag of bullets into a drawer so Bond doesn't see they already had all the evidence they needed.

By: Christopher

Christopher — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 15:24:00 +0000

In reply to Sam. Yeah, that's a good point, the super secret new SPECTRE or whatever the organization from the first two new Bond films is never even mentioned, even though they were shown to have a whole bunch of members in QoS. Kinda glad they didn't drag them back in, though.

By: Christopher

Christopher — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 15:21:50 +0000

In reply to Denise. I assume she meant she did a good job making Bond into an awesome super agent. I guess?

By: Denise

Denise — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 10:58:36 +0000

I haven’t seen other Bond movies, so I may have missed something, but a moment before M dies, she says something like, well, there’s something I did do well… But what did she mean?

By: Zachary Pumpkin

Zachary Pumpkin — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 06:47:21 +0000

I was actually very disappointed in this one. I loved the first two, but this seemed very.. lame. Not only was the “banter” between bond and everyone else so.. lame, but everyone in the movie was too. For half of the movie bond wasn’t even good at being bond, as exemplified, he had Silva on the ladder near the end and chose NOT to shoot at him anymore once he’d stopped moving. M couldn’t do anything right at any point. The constant old referencing was worn out by the second instance and it carried through out the movie continually. I understand the dynamic of showing a hero fall and pick him/herself back up, but it was more like they showed an old guy get pushed off a moving train and fall to a crippling impact and watch 100 more minutes of him be an old crippled guy.

By: Sam

Sam — Sun, 25 Nov 2012 20:59:42 +0000

â€œWell, too bad, you just failed two fucking missions! You let the hard drive get into terrorist hands and a bunch of agents died, and then you abducted M and took her to your shitty house and you let HER die. You are the WORST! Fired! But, then, I did get promoted to M, soâ€¦ good work!â€

That’s kinda what I was thinking at the end, he literally failed his main task and it he barely killed the villain in time, all in all a bit of a failure.

Still, awesome film!

I quite like to think it’s taken place many many years after Quantum of Solace, since at no point does any suggest that the people screwing up their day might well be that super effective organisation “Quantum” that was meant to be some real bad news.

By: Cpt.Average

Cpt.Average — Fri, 23 Nov 2012 02:37:59 +0000

When Bond digs the shrapnel out of his shoulder and hands it to the guy for analysis, I fully expected the next scene to be a de-breifing where they tell him they matched the shell to the 20’000 other shells that the guy fired in the middle of a public space and that they’d tracked that shit down like 3 months ago.

By: Shadowflame66

Shadowflame66 — Sun, 18 Nov 2012 21:18:53 +0000

In reply to Christopher. In the end, I guess we just have to believe whichever one makes the world seem cooler, so I'm going with "computers blow things up".