skyfall!
Movie Review Time! Will probably contain vague spoilers, but I'll try not to give too much away. And I'm just writing things down in the order in which they occur to me, not chronologically at all. Also, if you want to watch a Bond movie made up of five minutes of each and every previous Bond movie compiled in order, which actually makes a pretty
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Q was just precious! I loved them in the museum, bantering about devastation and pajamas. He actually reminded me rather a lot of Charles. The hair, the sweaters, the slightly arrogant but charming genius...
Something along the lines of James/Q being the one that Michael/Bond must protect from the super-villain by taking him to his remote childhood home
Well, you know Q probably has inadvertently discovered some Supervillain Secret Plot, while on the laptop in his pajamas...and therefore he requires protection...and bedrooms're the most secure places ever, right? :-p
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(I have fallen head over heels for this ship, shut up. My tabs right now... well. I've been making a valiant effort to read everything that's been written so far in the fandom. It's... going. What is homework? Ahaha. Ha.)
oh dear, was it telegraphed? I wasn't expecting it at all, though I suppose on reflection it wasn't as shocking as it could have been.
I don't know how I feel about the Bond/Silva scene. On the one hand, yay, gay people exist! On the other, as someone pointed out, it's sort of uncomfortably associating gay sex with torture. Plus, The Evil Bisexual? Really? That's what you're going with? WHATEVER I'M GOING TO JUST THINK ABOUT BEN WHISHAW'S IMPOSSIBLE HAIR INSTEAD. social justice can wait.
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It was, I thought...pretty much as soon as we met Mallory. I mean...hi there, replacement. But I liked him--he wasn't just Stereotypical New Bad Boss, he had some depth and held his own intellectually.
On the one hand, yay, gay people exist! On the other, as someone pointed out, it's sort of uncomfortably associating gay sex with torture. Plus, The Evil Bisexual? Really?
Yeah...I kind of had that reaction, too. It's nice that gay people exist in the Bond universe, but...it's not like it added anything to the plot for the villain to be gay, and the associations...it's just awkwardly done all around. As it were.
I'M GOING TO JUST THINK ABOUT BEN WHISHAW'S IMPOSSIBLE HAIR INSTEAD
YES. ALL THE YES. ALL THE HAIR.
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I feel like I have to convert you now, aaaaahhhh, this is so much responsibility!
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The hair deserves its own credit! *g*
Yeah, pretty much from the second they introduced him. It wasn't handled badly, though.
Oh, I don't think it was handled badly, either. It was just kind of obvious. If for no other reason that you're not going to get Ralph Fiennes in to play a bit-part that does in fact turn out to only be a bit-part...
YES. They've got a couple of years, now, right? So Michael won't be quite as busy?
Seriously, I don't think my fangirly brain could actually handle this if it ever happened. I might actually explode... ;)
He's creepy, yeah...he's just never really threatening, other than in a slimy personal way.I imagine it's harder to put together a Bond villain nowadays, actually. The kind of overblown, Dr Evil style of villain wouldn't work any more, really - people won't buy into it, I suspect. Therefore, you have to try and do something a bit more real, which can make the villains look a bit meh and ineffectual, really. I mean, Silva revealing ( ... )
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If for no other reason that you're not going to get Ralph Fiennes in to play a bit-part that does in fact turn out to only be a bit-part...
Yeah, that too. Though it'd've been a fantastic joke if that turned out to not be the case, and they killed him off at the last second...but, no. I will say, though, I liked him more than I expected; he's someone who obviously wants to do things differently from Previous M, and has different priorities, but he's not a bad guy, and he genuinely supports the office.
No exploding, over there! I shall have to glue you back together. With tea and coconut shells, or something. (No, I have no idea. Though I did just write coconut into my secret mutant story.)
and a villain whose secret base is a room full of computer servers isn't that sexy, really...Agreed. The real threats aren't showy and melodramatic; they're the quiet nondescript people with laptops, in unmapped rooms. But it's hard to balance that with the action- ( ... )
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