I love the character angle since the reboot. Glorious!
That said, this script was deeply flawed. I felt like the director didn't have the heart to say, "Look, this script, we've worked on it a lot. A lot. But it sucks. We're starting over." A villain who is first in everything? Bzzt. The gorgeous woman who shows up to suffer a trope's death? Please. I was all excited that, during the interrogation/psychologist scene, maybe "Skyfall" was an internal codeword: it means that we have such a high-placed and/or widespread leak in MI6, we can't even openly talk about it, and that we're implementing some sort of armageddon we-hope-to-never-use-this contingency plan. But no.
And then the whole MacGyver thing... no.
But after all is said and done, I figured: well, you can either have a character Bond who develops... or you can have a plot that makes sense with lots of action. And really, I'd rather have the former. So it was a good movie, and I rather like the direction the franchise is going in (you have to pay attention to what M says versus the old GUNS TITS BOMBS TITS EXPLOSIONS TITS CARS TITS TITS). But it could've been great.
And I want Quantum back. The Bond franchise really needs a recurring SWORD/Warlock villain, and Quantum was nicely filling that hole. :)
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Date: 2012-11-26 09:06 pm (UTC)I love the character angle since the reboot. Glorious!
That said, this script was deeply flawed. I felt like the director didn't have the heart to say, "Look, this script, we've worked on it a lot. A lot. But it sucks. We're starting over." A villain who is first in everything? Bzzt. The gorgeous woman who shows up to suffer a trope's death? Please. I was all excited that, during the interrogation/psychologist scene, maybe "Skyfall" was an internal codeword: it means that we have such a high-placed and/or widespread leak in MI6, we can't even openly talk about it, and that we're implementing some sort of armageddon we-hope-to-never-use-this contingency plan. But no.
And then the whole MacGyver thing... no.
But after all is said and done, I figured: well, you can either have a character Bond who develops... or you can have a plot that makes sense with lots of action. And really, I'd rather have the former. So it was a good movie, and I rather like the direction the franchise is going in (you have to pay attention to what M says versus the old GUNS TITS BOMBS TITS EXPLOSIONS TITS CARS TITS TITS). But it could've been great.
And I want Quantum back. The Bond franchise really needs a recurring SWORD/Warlock villain, and Quantum was nicely filling that hole. :)