Comments on: Skyfall

By: Drea

Drea — Sun, 23 Dec 2012 06:56:39 +0000

Just saw this, and a) Javier Bardem was a little like a campy Anton Chigurh (sp?)! and b) it was he who shot the random terrified yacht lady/Bond lovah, not Bond. (Also, c) it was dull as hell.)

By: Yours Truly

Yours Truly — Sun, 09 Dec 2012 17:01:46 +0000

Yes! Ha ha. Totally true that the script felt like “what old people think is scary about computers.” And you’re so right about how JB just does normal baddie stuff. Even in that scene when he’s pitching ideas to Bond, like, join up with me and with computer magic we can do literally anything we want, but then his examples are like, “manipulate the stock market and make a lot of money.” Oh you mean like MITT ROMNEY. Boring crimes!

By: Jae

Jae — Sun, 09 Dec 2012 16:50:48 +0000

I might be in the minority of the minority of the majority (wait, or probably just in the majority), but I enjoyed my Skyfall experience so much! But I love thoughtless action flicks. Got real excited by the opening fighting sequence except for the distraction of Eve Monypenny’s uninspired driving and have a real cliche boner for DC myself (in which I imagine my fingers trailing along his forearm, gross!). But I also absolutely recognize that Skyfall IS boring, and that it’s a movie that fears its own dullness. Watching Judi Dench smash light bulbs and throw a couple of homemade explosives (then somehow die) was totally weird and boring. Didn’t you think the script, too, seemed like it was written by someone who has an old person’s understanding and fears of what the internet is with the least imaginative capacity of what a bad guy would do if he really knew his shit like JB? Oh, he’d take a lot of money, evacuate an island, and blow up a british building, like all other average talent bad guys.

By: Eileen

Eileen — Sat, 08 Dec 2012 21:08:19 +0000

Is this what it’s come to? This James Bond is relevant to our culture because he/the movie reflects powerful aging white men’s fears that they are actually powerless and irrelevant? So now here’s a long-ass and also seriously boring fantasy action sequence in which it’s ok, aging white men actually mean something after all! Because of rape and guns and cars and blowing shit up! SOUNDS AWESOME SIGN ME UP