Saw Skyfall last night.
First off, a half hour of previews is bullshit. Tom Cruise and Arnold are so old that they are caricatures of themselves at this point. The Hobbit looks cool for what it is.
As for Skyfall, it wasn't that great, but it wasn't necessarily bad. It's everything you've already seen and I mean literally the movie was a pastiche of things I've seen in other films, but it did them well at least. I'd rate it a 5/10 no qualms about it. Neither good nor bad. There are worst ways to spend two hours, but there is a long list of other things you could probably be doing instead.
Critically, the Bardem being dressed up like a cop bit was basically the Joker's ploy in Dark Knight, right? And as for the siege ending, how many times do I need to see shotgun shells turned into mines? Like seriously, Burn Notice does it every episode. They did it in an episode of Highlander. It was seriously uninspired. I also think Judi Dench put the shotgun shells upside down, which irked the hell out of me. She put the primer up, so the shot was directed back towards the socket and hence wouldn't shoot down I don't think. As for the chase scene over Turkey's bazaar (I already saw that in Taken 2) and the Shanghai scenes (seemed right out of Dark Knight as well), I just am tired of seeing films made in these places. The whole time I was thinking of how the tax breaks lead Hollywood companies to film elsewhere to avoid the movie workers' union costs. My own personal issue obv. And the repetitive trope of "Bond is old" got old real fast. Plus, do we really need a film that implicitly argues for the continuing of the series? People would keep going to see Bond whether he is obsolete or not, assholes. And the sequencing of him meeting Moneypenny at the end made no sense to me but I'm also not a Bond afficionado. As for Bardem, he was cool, but how much was riding on him being weird because he was gay?
