So, saw Skyfall

Nov 24, 2012 18:05

Went with my dad & step-mom as part of my birthday gift.

It was, like all James Bond movies, fun but problematic.

First, the problematic bits:

Okay, so you have three major female characters. Two die and one ends up behind a desk. Okay then. Of the two deaths, one of them does get a lot of grief and importance from the narrative... and the other death is basically a footnote where a tragic character gets insulted by the protagonist after she's killed by the antagonist.

Bond cares absolutely not at all about collateral damage. Even though it seemed like he could have done earlier what he did after Sévérine was killed, he waited until she died to make his move. Earlier in the movie, he also waited until after the assassin killed his target to move in on him.

As for the villain, it seemed a little like they were using the Depraved Bisexual trope but, apart from that, I thought his motivation and story were complex and intriguing and well-done. The M backstory I liked.

The action sequences were all tremendous fun. I enjoyed them a lot. Eve Moneypenny, as a character, I liked. Not super-thrilled at her ending up benched at the end. I didn't feel like we got an actual on-screen reason for her to decide that field work wasn't for her.

I also saw the Iron Man 3 trailer (I saw other trailers as well, all of them forgettable) and I do get the vibe that the movie would be more emotionally impactful to me if I cared at all about Tony/Pepper as a relationship. It does look like there will be plenty of Tony-solo angst and potentially Pepper-solo angst, both of which I do care about, so there's that. And I saw a shot of a woman that I dearly hope is Dr. Maya Hansen, because I really want her to be movie-canon.

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