Posted on 11/11/2012 7:02:59 PM PST by EinNYC
I promised myself that if I was able to find gasoline today in the fuel-starved NYC area, I would reward myself by seeing "Skyfall", the new James Bond movie. After getting in one gas line and being told immediately by an employee that they were out of gas, then sitting 50 minutes on another gas line only to be told they were now out of gas when I was getting close to the pumps, and then finally paying an exorbitant price for gas after a 10 minute wait on line, I had just enough time to make it to the bargain matinee at my local theater.
I, and other members of the audience found this to be the BEST James Bond film for a long while. It was very exciting, really. Javier Bardem seems to make malevolent weirdos his specialty. Seeing the film was rather an antidote for all the wasted time of the morning chasing gasoline, even WITH using the www.gasbuddy.com special Sandy gas-finding links.
Has anyone else seen the film, whether or not they had to wait in a gasoline line? What did YOU think?
Daniel Craig performs his part as aging 007 to perfection. The story dwells on the conflict between old school and new school. The old school has the bag of gadgets and the iconic Aston Martin DB5. The new school is GPS tracking, super smart computer software and photo surveillance. We saw glimpses of the old school throughout the movie to remind us of the glorious past, that is being buried by the new technology. Bond’s near death was symbolic of the death of the human contribution when technology has highteched out the human element. Bond is not just a number—007—he is that human element in its glory.
The movie is a celebration of the human element. It is that humanity that triumphs over all detriment because of that connection with the past which can do what no machine is capable.
Yes.
Heck, there are people think that buying vegetables to eat is feeding a monster of some kind, often called Monsanto, Dow or Dupont.
Not everyone is in a situation to successfully cut themselves off without cutting their own throat.
Yes, I liked the Aston Martin appearance as well.
All of us who post on here are directly supporting Intel, Apple or Microsoft, three of the most liberal companies there are.
And those of us who own and operate open source systems are accessing the Internet via providers who directly purchase Intel based equipment.
Intel today just announced it was discontinuing support for the Boy Scouts since they discriminate against homosexuals.
There is almost always something you have that supports something unsavory.
and what about the homo crap, yet again?
(the testicular beating he took in casino royale was homo-erotic, for the normals out there)
I love those old theaters.
unless something changed, Craig’s Bond is a prequel to the other Bond movies... so i see it as ok if he’s not quite as suave
Quantum of Obamanesia....
When I saw that cool old house Skyfall, it made me wonder what Bond’s “Before He Became 007” persona was like. Obviously he came from great wealth. I did not read the Ian Fleming novels. Do they describe his pre-007 childhood?
Not sure why FReepers are jumping down your throat for making a polite, rational and well-intentioned request.
Hoyyweird is called that for good reason...and the people who run it are no friends of God or the United States.
I agree Sean Connery was the best...but Daniel Craig brings more reality. I saw it today and enjoyed it...non stop action and I thought Javier Bardem(sp?) was a great villain. However, where were all the Bond Girls? He had a gal Friday thingie throughout, but he had only one romantic liason with one woman for a few minutes and that was it...being of the female persuasion, I like a bit more romance in my James Bond films.
It was decent, but like most Bonds since Roger Moore, is longer than the storyline merits, and it feels it.
Saw it a week ago. Gotta say, and this may be because I saw it in an Indian cinema so it may have been edited somewhat by the censors here, but it was only “meh” for me. There was very little actual “secret agent” material a la the Dalton movies, nor was there any substantial “gadget Bond” stuff a la the Brosnan/Moore films.
The villain was made out to be a terrifying, remorseless figure, but turned out to be nothing of the sort, just petty and a bit sociopathic. It was like a TV drama episode that had been stretched to fit a movie running time.
Not up to the standards of the previous Craig movies for me. I give it a 2 or 3 out of 5 stars; 2 out of 5 compared to other Bond films and 3 out of 5 for action films in general.
Yes, you have a point. So many great Bond women, even Moneypenny was attractive in the earlier versions.
I do like Craig as well, I must say Casino Royale has to be one of my favorites. Chris Cornells’ “You know my name” as an opening theme song is up there with Shirley Basseys’ “Goldfinger” or Nancy Sinatras’ “You only live twice.”
The guy with the pitchfork looks like Petreus...
Here is a good one in Halletsville Tx. The Cole Theater
And why wasn't an SAS squad flown into the Skyfall estate to help with defense? Again, silly stuff spoiled it for me.
This is hardly a Bond movie. No gadgets to speak of; it seemed more of a competition to the Bourne Identity movies.
They had to pull out old Bond gadgets to make it Bond-ish.
Chase scenes were all too long.
Villain was horribly underdeveloped and just too swishy.
It’s a good movie; but not a Bond movie, as they go.
Wrong. Everything today is political. The latest Bond movie has a message, and that message is without question the continued decline of Western values. M’s gift to Bond at the end of the movie is a clear message that The British Empire is a dead letter, and of course quickly following the Mother Country into the abyss... America.
The new 007 adventure "Skyfall" features a curious exchange between James Bond and the villain du jour.
Javier Bardem is Silva, a former agent gone bad, and he's trying to unnerve Bond (Daniel Craig) during an interrogation shortly after their initial meeting.
Silva feels Bond's leg in a seductive fashion, to which Craig's Bond eventually replies, "'What makes you think this is my first time?"
It's a battle of wills, plain and simple, and Bond isn't giving an inch (no pun intended whatsoever). If anything, the sequence shows Bond as being utterly comfortable with his own sexuality.
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"Skyfall" does some more tweaking to the legend, including some minor reveals about Bond's past. What it doesn't do by any measure is show 007 stepping so much as a toe out of the closet.
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