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<blockquote data-quote="Willie Oleson" data-source="post: 439748" data-attributes="member: 8">Skyfall (2012)[ATTACH=full]58995[/ATTACH]Definitely a big step up from the previous one, but not as much fun as Casino Royale.While Daniel Craig&#039;s Bond was established as a reboot from the beginning, Skyfall is the first film that actually looks like a prequel/origin story.It&#039;s just that I&#039;m not a fan of tampering with a fictional character&#039;s origins that never needed to be known in the first place.I feel the same when Doctor Who focuses too much on the Gallifrey stuff. He&#039;s an alien who travels in a police telephone box and that&#039;s all I need to know.This probing into a character&#039;s background (and this goes for both James Bond and &quot;M&quot;) also has the tendency to become overly dramatic and that kinda sucks the fun out of it.Luckily it&#039;s not all that bad in Skyfall but it does pave the way for a more extreme version like No Time To Die.I&#039;ve decided not to watch that film and Spectre will be my last one until James Bond returns with a new face.Sean Connery made the on-screen James Bond iconic and I won&#039;t allow Daniel Craig to destroy him.How very &quot;Annie Wilkes&quot; of me.The theme of questioning MI6&#039; relevance in modern-day national security is interesting, and M comes up with a satisfying answer.But there&#039;s an underlying meta-theme of questioning Bond&#039;s relevance in modern-day cinema and I find it a bit cynical and depressing.It&#039;s almost like saying &quot;the series hasn&#039;t aged well&quot; or &quot;that kind of fun is not acceptable anymore&quot;.NuQ - now played by the obligatory skinny nerd - even jokes about exploding pens being outdated (the one that killed Fatima Blush, but you probably don&#039;t remember that you stupid skinny nerd). But at least there&#039;s a joke on top of it when Bond is armed with an intentionally unimaginative little radio signal transmitter that is going to save the day.NuBond is a prequel and a sequel and a remake so I guess that requires a bit of self-awareness to get the film and the audience on the same wavelength.The main plot is actually a remake of GoldenEye: a 00villain who has an axe to grind with the institution that made him.Sean Bean&#039;s villain character wanted to destroy the entire UK but it&#039;s the same idea, really.Javier Bardem plays it both camp and understated, like a soft-spoken The Joker. I honestly couldn&#039;t picture him as a Secret Service agent and I&#039;ve seen too much of that computer hocus-pocus in other films, but he was good when it mattered.That gay moment certainly didn&#039;t go unnoticed.I had never made the connection between &quot;M&quot; and &quot;Mother&quot; and her first name is Emma (M.A.). Very funny.So, while I was watching this back-to-the-moors story (the Skyfall in the title) I found myself becoming increasingly annoyed with the glaring oversight of Ms. Moneypenny. Why is she not introduced in this Bond reboot saga?And that was the biggest surprise in this film, they didn&#039;t forget it. I saw it coming only split-second before it happened and it kinda feels as if it happened just because I wished her into existence.And this means that Sean Connery didn&#039;t remember that Moneypenny was black, that she almost killed him and that he had slept with her.Roll on, Spectre. Is it about Blofeld? Oh my god.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Willie Oleson, post: 439748, member: 8"] Skyfall (2012) [ATTACH type="full"]58995[/ATTACH] Definitely a big step up from the previous one, but not as much fun as Casino Royale. While Daniel Craig's Bond was established as a reboot from the beginning, Skyfall is the first film that actually looks like a prequel/origin story. It's just that I'm not a fan of tampering with a fictional character's origins that never needed to be known in the first place. I feel the same when Doctor Who focuses too much on the Gallifrey stuff. He's an alien who travels in a police telephone box and that's all I need to know. This probing into a character's background (and this goes for both James Bond and "M") also has the tendency to become overly dramatic and that kinda sucks the fun out of it. Luckily it's not all that bad in Skyfall but it does pave the way for a more extreme version like [I]No Time To Die[/I]. I've decided not to watch that film and [I]Spectre[/I] will be my last one until James Bond returns with a new face. Sean Connery made the on-screen James Bond iconic and I won't allow Daniel Craig to destroy him. How very "Annie Wilkes" of me. The theme of questioning MI6' relevance in modern-day national security is interesting, and M comes up with a satisfying answer. But there's an underlying meta-theme of questioning [I]Bond[/I]'s relevance in modern-day cinema and I find it a bit cynical and depressing. It's almost like saying "the series hasn't aged well" or "that kind of fun is not acceptable anymore". NuQ - now played by the obligatory skinny nerd - even jokes about exploding pens being outdated (the one that killed Fatima Blush, but you probably don't remember that you stupid skinny nerd). But at least there's a joke on top of it when Bond is armed with an intentionally unimaginative little radio signal transmitter that is going to save the day. NuBond is a prequel [I]and[/I] a sequel [I]and[/I] a remake so I guess that requires a bit of self-awareness to get the film and the audience on the same wavelength. The main plot is actually a remake of [I]GoldenEye[/I]: a 00villain who has an axe to grind with the institution that made him. Sean Bean's villain character wanted to destroy the entire UK but it's the same idea, really. Javier Bardem plays it both camp and understated, like a soft-spoken The Joker. I honestly couldn't picture him as a Secret Service agent and I've seen too much of that computer hocus-pocus in other films, but he was good when it mattered. That gay moment certainly didn't go unnoticed. I had never made the connection between "M" and "Mother" and her first name is Emma (M.A.). Very funny. So, while I was watching this back-to-the-moors story (the Skyfall in the title) I found myself becoming increasingly annoyed with the glaring oversight of Ms. Moneypenny. Why is she not introduced in this Bond reboot saga? And that was the biggest surprise in this film, they [I]didn't[/I] forget it. I saw it coming only split-second before it happened and it kinda feels as if it happened just because I [I]wished[/I] her into existence. And this means that Sean Connery didn't remember that Moneypenny was black, that she almost killed him and that he had slept with her. Roll on, [I]Spectre[/I]. Is it about Blofeld? Oh my god. [/QUOTE]

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