Oh, thank heavens, someone else who didn't like Skyfall. I saw it Thanksgiving Friday, and had heard a lot of good things and been spoiled a bit...and I came out of it going "Did any of these people see the same movie I did?" I mean, the circles of the internet I hang out with are not usually shy about calling out this sort of fail.
It was very very pretty (very. very.), and in-the-moment most of the plot issues didn't bother me (although in retrospect with my critical judgement back online a lot of it fell apart like tissue paper), and one of the two most problematic moments...I feel like if you have managed to get me to muppit-flail with squee and call out major FAIL with the same moment that I have to give it at lest a partial pass.
And then the last ten minutes or so were so full of massive, complete fail that they poisoned the rest of the movie and the rest of the series for me.
My father was inclined to blame the upcoming 50th anniversary for a lot of the things that bothered us both. (Was there a Bond trope that they didn't hit in this? Casino! Creepy animal! All The Settings Ever! etc. Most of them totally unnecessary to the story...)
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Oh, thank heavens, someone else who didn't like Skyfall. I saw it Thanksgiving Friday, and had heard a lot of good things and been spoiled a bit...and I came out of it going "Did any of these people see the same movie I did?" I mean, the circles of the internet I hang out with are not usually shy about calling out this sort of fail.
It was very very pretty (very. very.), and in-the-moment most of the plot issues didn't bother me (although in retrospect with my critical judgement back online a lot of it fell apart like tissue paper), and one of the two most problematic moments...I feel like if you have managed to get me to muppit-flail with squee and call out major FAIL with the same moment that I have to give it at lest a partial pass.
And then the last ten minutes or so were so full of massive, complete fail that they poisoned the rest of the movie and the rest of the series for me.
My father was inclined to blame the upcoming 50th anniversary for a lot of the things that bothered us both. (Was there a Bond trope that they didn't hit in this? Casino! Creepy animal! All The Settings Ever! etc. Most of them totally unnecessary to the story...)