Checked this out with the missus last night. I thought it was absolutely awesome, probably better than Casino Royale. It felt like a great blend of all of the grittiness they got right with Casino Royale, and the fun of classic the Bond films. Much better than Quantum of Solace (which I barely even remember anything about).

Anyone else see it yet?

Yeah Skyfall is pretty bloody awesome.
It feels like with Daniel Craig they've gone back to the classic Bond style and pulled back a lot on the over the top stupidity that started in the later Roger Moore years. Judi Dench is in this one more than previous outings and she also gave a great performance. Javier Bardem was revelling in the role as Bond villian. Craig is contracted for another two movies after this one - here begins another long wait!

I thought it felt very sean connery era, really enjoyed it.

QOS was a revenge film and it was a bit out of place compared to some of the other bond films

great action, the car chase at the start was fuck off bullshit.

story was a bit . .. .. . .

cos didn't MGM almost go bankrupt and had to be bailed out in the middle of it all?

Hearing nothing but good things for all. Can't wait to go see this tomorrow night.

I would have like a more out of Javier's character.

Dame Judi Dench was great as M as usual and Daniel Craig was good as well.

Weren't these new ones meant to be set before the first bond film or have I mixed myself up a bit?

The one liners make the movie.

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Midda thanks, that's exactly how I see it all.

^ the best endorsement yet

was great loved all call outs to the old bond movies

especially loved the radio..

how shit was the young punk that gave him a gun with fingerprint recognition... like wtf, where is the flame thrower pen or something

^ the best endorsement yet

it actually is, that typical shit that you said they changed is what makes the older bonds films lame



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action scenes were good, story line was fucking shit.

i thought it was an awesome flick - some great nostalgia in it too.

Hmmm....What if Bond was a woman. That means hot girl on girl action with fighting and gadgets. More slutty action.

I saw it yesterday and have a mixed opinion of it. Mr. Silver's plot was basically ludicrous. It was downright stupid frankly.

Still, the rest of the film was good.

the poker scenes where terrible. bunch of slow rollers.

I did not like it either.

went and saw it the other nite with petal.

FORTY FUCKING DOLLARS TO GO TO THE FUCKING MOOFIES.

moofie went too long, 1.5 hours is the correct length for a moofie, so skyfall was disqualified.

its ok to watch moofies, when they come in two cd parts.

nowadays only romances and comedies run for 1.5hrs.

And horrors. Any movie that struggles with enough story.

felt like it dragged on a bit, Needed a few scenes cut

Wasn't a bad movie. Were they implying that old lady M was Bonds mum with the cut to the grave stone and his mums name being Monique?

movie was bad. preferred the last two. would like a new bond already, not really a fan of the current one

Isn't is also an unofficial high respect for a lady in authority to be called mom?

Isn't is also an unofficial high respect for a lady in authority to be called mom?

It's "marm" as in ma'am. Short for Madam.

I thought it had a real sean connery feeling to it, just needed a couple of the scenes in the middle to be enhanced action wise.

I like the peirce brosnan ones.

GoldenEye maybe, but the other ones too?

In Casino Royale Bond cheekily tells M that he has found out her real name. If she was actually his mother this wouldn't have been mentioned.

Gadgets are and always have been lame plot devices used to get Bond out of impossible situations in lieu of good writing and actual tension. I think Mendes was aggressively pointing this out by the blatant lack of gadgets in the film. Instead of Bond getting in to an impossible situation and hey-ho saving himself with some nature-defying gadget he creates actual tension and has the characters using their ingenuity to get out of situations like they did in the climax. That final scene reminded me a lot of the the final scene in Saving Private Ryan. The characters had very little to work with against a very equipped enemy and managed to come through while maintaining suspension of disbelief. Spoiler:
well except for M of course


It would have been super-mega lame if instead of that final scene which I thought was brilliant we got Bond saving the day with some sort of sonic helicopter destroyer. There is no cleverness behind that and was a major trope of the pre-Casino Royale Bond era which is why I pretty much hated all of them. Goldeneye was okay I guess.

Did everyone complaining about the lack of gadgets not see Casino Royale and Quantum of Solace or something? Its not like the more back-to-basics, grounded Bond is a new concept for this movie or something. Everyones pointing it out like its something this movie decided to do to be different from all the others, but its been like that since they rebooted it with Daniel Craig, hardly a new thing. If anything, this movie had more gadgets (with the old Aston with machine guns and ejector seats) than the previous ones did.

But yeah, I agree with fpot, the over-reliance on gadgets was always the lamest part of Bond. Some of them were ok in a goofy 80's kind of way and worked for the era they were in (but having said, Roger Moore bond movies are by far my least favourite cos of all the camp and stupid gadgets), but I think this new Bond is by far the best iteration.

I didn't mind some of the Pierce Brosnan ones, but to me they always just felt like stupid popcorn action movies (not that theres anything wrong with a stupid popcorn action movie every now and then), and didn't feel much like Bond movies.

Looking back on the Pierce Brosnan era it's a little embarrassing. Nowhere near as bad as the later Moore efforts or Dalton of course, but I'd credit Brosnan only with reviving a great series and allowing it to slowly evolve away from the cold war plots and over the top gadgetry silliness.

+1 for lame gadgets.

I still think that the early Connery Bonds are the best because they are light on gadgets.

Dr No, From Russia with Love and Thunderball are very low by comparison to the Moore or Brosnan films, and have pretty compelling stories by comparison. Well Thunderball to a lessor degree.

But yeah I think without Russia Bond is a hard one pin down, because the threats just don't stack up. Oh Noes a terrorist has 150 million dollars. Oh Noes a disaffected old agent has a personal vendetta against a member of staff.

Hardly world shattering shit. They are still enjoyable films but just seems in Connery's era there genuinely high stakes. Still I guess that is also a reflection of how the world has changed.