By now everyone's seen Skyfall, so spoilers are welcome and used. In the meantime, the critics are pretty stoked about the film. Best Bond in years they say. Do you agree? Do we agree? And what does that have to do with Jonny Lee Miller in Hackers?
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Tuesday, November 20, 2012
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Skyfall is pretty great, however the best Bond film is still Goldfinger.
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ReplyDeletei loved the movie. 8.5! Casino Royal was better though, 9.5. I cant even remember the name of the one that came in between the two so i give it a 5 i guess. i cant really compare it to other Bond films cause like Zo i fell that they all run together.
i loved the part in the scene where James is talking to the whore bond girl at the bar and the tender is seen shaking his drink. when the tender pours the drink Bond tells her that that is perfect. Bond fans know that James likes his martinis shaken and not stirred. clever way to get the traditional mention of Bonds fav drink in there.
i thought the movie was a commentary on the war on terror. The last 3 Batmans were dripping with symbolism from the Bush administration to terrorists. First of all the roles seemed to swap. Bardem was tech savvy as he was a hacker and he showed up to destroy Bond in a state of the art helicopter and an arsenal of handheld firepower. Bond had a pistol and a radio. Bond ended up having to fight the defected MI6 agent (see Adam Gadahn) with IEDs, booby traps and a sawed off. Not his usual equipment. there was even a point to include a subway train being bombed (well the tunnel being bombed to allow a train to crash through it to smash James) which is a terrorists favorite way to kill. for a while there was a train or subway bombing in the news almost monthly. Also Dench kept saying that we are fighting enemys in the shadows these days. no longer do know who our enemys are. they wear no uniform and fly no flag. She also said that we need to fight them in the shadows where they are, meaning we need to adopt their tacticts to be able to survive which is what Bond did in Ireland or Scotland or wherever he was. Those holding political power dont like waterboarding and Gitmo but they dont get it cause they are monday morning quarterbacking just like the female government official heading that panel to indict Dench and MI6.
whether this is the message the creators were trying to get across or not i dont know but i like the movies better when there is a conservative lean to them.
_Clint