Comments on: For James Bond, things get personal in Skyfall https://cliqueclack.com/p/skyfall-movie-review/ Big voices. Little censors. Fri, 10 Apr 2015 14:43:24 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.1 By: Bob-M https://cliqueclack.com/p/skyfall-movie-review/#comment-4015 Mon, 12 Nov 2012 23:04:56 +0000 https://cliqueclack.com/p/?p=3516#comment-4015 I am starting to get used to Craig as Bond, and am looking forward to seeing this new release. Of course, there will never be another Connery for Bond. Still, I get a little upset when people try to put Brosnan down as Bond–if not for him, there would be no franchise to be talking about and he is head and shoulders above any of the others to date. For those of you to young to remember, two points. (1) Brosnan would have been Bond much earlier, except for a studio not willing to release him from a TV contract he had. (2) ” Doctor NO”, the first Bond movie, was one where the good guy killed a bad guy, with no excuse–no self defense, or some other excuse. Dialog was something like, “you had your six, it is now my turn”. The gasp in the theater was awesome. ” From Russia, with Love.” is probably still the best of the movies in the series. It was word of mouth, that led to “Goldfinger” being the hit it was. That “Godfinger” is the movie where action and gimmicks became such a big part of the production were necessities required when the premise is so weak that movie magic has to be created, and it was–again, without (1) and (2) and some very clever work by a creative team in three–we would not be discussing 50 years of Bond today.

]]> By: Chuck Duncan https://cliqueclack.com/p/skyfall-movie-review/#comment-3721 Sun, 11 Nov 2012 18:39:14 +0000 https://cliqueclack.com/p/?p=3516#comment-3721 Okay. Well, I didn’t notice the gloves, but I’ll have to look again when the Blu-ray comes out. As for the bad cameo, I’m assuming you were expecting a former Bond to pop up? I’m guessing the whole thing about Bond being from Scotland is maybe a hint that the next Bond will be more of a throwback to Connery’s style which is fine with me. As long as they don’t go full-blown, Roger Moore camp (and this coming from someone who went to the movies 14 times to see Moonraker!). And the ending to the movie also suggests that as well. I think they have to go back to the more fantastical Bond stories with real crazy villains, because while Silva was a personal adversary for Bond and M, he didn’t really come off as a threat to anyone else (even though he had all that power at the touch of a key. I wouldn’t mind if Bond’s next bad guy lived in a volcano.

About the shooting … I did wonder about the wound sustained by Eve’s shot. Maybe hers went clean through and the broken ribs were a result of the impact with the water. We know that Patrice’s shot left shrapnel that Bond dug out himself, but the lack of attention to the shot from Eve was really the only thing that distracted me. But I agree, Casino Royale is the best of the Craig film so far.

]]> By: Ivey West https://cliqueclack.com/p/skyfall-movie-review/#comment-3717 Sun, 11 Nov 2012 18:14:32 +0000 https://cliqueclack.com/p/?p=3516#comment-3717 I kinda liked it.

Didn’t love it.

Wasn’t as good as Casino Royale, wasn’t as bad as QoS.

]]> By: Chuck Duncan https://cliqueclack.com/p/skyfall-movie-review/#comment-3714 Sun, 11 Nov 2012 18:01:06 +0000 https://cliqueclack.com/p/?p=3516#comment-3714 So … you didn’t like it?

]]> By: Ivey West https://cliqueclack.com/p/skyfall-movie-review/#comment-3662 Sun, 11 Nov 2012 13:00:30 +0000 https://cliqueclack.com/p/?p=3516#comment-3662 I don’t often get wrapped up in things like this, but I was brought out of the movie several times:

– Bond is already shot (probably a ricochet) by Patrice when Eve eventually shoots him in the teaser, except for one throw away mention of broken ribs, we never see that injury.
– Bond must have stopped mid-fight with Patrice and put his gloves back on (They were off at the beginning, and on in the end).
– I was really, REALLY afraid that when Kincaid walked in (Specifically how the camera was focused on the other two people in the room watching him walk in) that we were about to see a very, VERY bad cameo.
– That same feeling of dread accompanied the Bond’s final discussion with someone about field work not being for them, but my dread was confirmed in that case.

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