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I see people have already pointed out some silly bits in Skyfall. I enjoyed it while it was on, but after I started to think about it a lot of it made no sense, and was actually inferior to Quantum of Solace.
A drive from London to the Scottish Highlands isn’t that big of a deal to do. Holy sh*t. That henchman who just ignores the many deadly lizards circling around him was like something out of Austin Powers, and did Bond’s extremely short-lived gadget gun really have to glow green or red like some kids toy? Did Q really need to put lights on the gun, or is Bond and ourselves deemed so thick that lights are needed to hammer the idea home? WE GET IT! (and on that note, it was pretty handy that the dumb henchman just happened to take THAT one gun from Bond (has that ever happened before?), and then wasn’t even suspicious when it blinked frickin’ red lights at the back of it. What a moron!!
Scotland is not just a barren wasteland with a giant mansion in the middle of nowhere. Scotland is portrayed as a depressing sh*t hole where Bond grew up, hence why he’s depressing and cynical. Albert Finney – what, did he live there for the last 30 years holding a shotgun just waiting for Bond to return? What did he eat and drink in that time for 3 meals a day? Did he live there? How did he entertain himself? He seemed pretty fat, what was his deal? Why did Javier play loud music in the huge fantastical helicopter alerting Bond that he was outside? And why were all these evil henchmen willing to risk death for him? What was he offering them? All he wanted to do was kill M. Wouldn’t it have been better to fire some missiles at the mansion instead of the dumb fu**ing way he went about it?
And clichés – this movie is FULL of them. The Straw Dogs, Assault on Precinct 13, Dog Soldiers etc trapped in a building with a secret tunnel exit while a bunch of faceless bad guys try and break in, with some Home Alone booby traps for good measure (seriously, during the preparation scene try playing the Home Alone music). Q talking to Bond on the earpiece while watching a little ‘Bond’ icon on a map on the computer - Mission Impossible, or Matrix, or countless other movies anyone?
The story was pretty mince too. Bond dies then survives somehow (apparently even when he’s a filthy homeless looking drunk he can still get laid extremely easily, unless he paid for it with some money he must have found at the bottom of the river where he clearly drowned) and some bad guy wants to kill M, and Bond has to protect her, which he fails to do. He has sex in a boat’s shower while some evil henchmen are up on deck minding their own business apparently and Bond isn’t wondering why they’re being so relaxed. For a super-spy on the boat he clicked his radio frequency ‘on’ pretty openly (and why doesn’t he just have another GPS capsule in his arm again like in Casino? - speaking of Casino Royale, when Bond breaks into M’s house AGAIN in this film, she should have said “I thought I told you never to…”). Bad guys with guns that just refuse to shoot Bond in the head, instead waiting politely for Bond to make his move. The Bond girls in this film are sh*t and there isn’t really a proper Bond girl here as it happens (apart from Judi Dench).
I could probably go on all day about more stupid parts, but the last part I will mention is the dig at Goldeneye. Q says “What were you expecting, an exploding pen?”. Don’t bite the hand that feeds you. All that line did was make me reminisce fondly of the other film. Goldeneye brought Bond back to the masses and reinvigorated people’s interest in the franchise. What Q should have said here is, “What did you expect, keys to an invisible car?”. That would have been fairer and funnier, because Die Another Day was, just awful.
Like I say I enjoyed the movie when it was on though, and particularly the VERY end when (SPOILER) Q, Moneypenny, and the male M are all in place. We as the audience are meant to think “oh, this is where we came in!”. And it’s great that the Bond franchise is still going strong, as I LOVED Casino Royale and really liked Quantum of Solace.
So . . . you weren't bothered by the gun barrel being at the end then?
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RE: Skyfall - 
RE: Poor Plot - 
that's my new favourite quote 
it's a shame Craig feels the way he does.. 
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