Skyfall (aka Bond 23)

[GodzillaSpawn]

So I finally got around to watching this after picking up the bluray this past week, and my God, was it excellent. I'm quite late to the party, and all the praise has been sung by now, but I suspect I'll be gushing over this film for a while to come.
Brilliant performances, stunning cinematography, a haunting score, a simple, yet compelling plot, and overall the emotional highpoint of the entire series. Road To Perdition is one of my absolute favorite films, and Skyfall definitely shines from having been crafted by the same brilliant filmmaker. This may be my top pick for 2012.

Oh snap, I didn't know it was the same guy who did "Road to Perdition"! Definitely a personal favorite film for me as well. Wow! Good call...that just adds to the film that much more to me since I can now connect those two fine films.

 

[nemesisenforcer]

Thanks guys for your responses. Especially, to DarthNeil and Godzilla Spawn.

 

[DiFabio]

That's because the movie came out in 2006... Just like Brosnan's Bond interacted with M in 1995 and the bad guys involved defunct generals from the former Soviet Union because that's what was happening in 1995... I lived through Moore as Bond--- thankfully Connery was available on the electric television-- and then dour Dalton to the daper Brosnan. They are all Bond and I can't say this enough. Bond is Bond. Once that simple statement is accepted each and every Bond movie can be enjoyed for what it is. This isn't Star Trek that needs a whole new universe. It's Bond. Insert theme music here.

I can't wait for the six or seven years to pass when a younger actor walks into Ralph Fiennes' M's office and we can all enjoy another "is this a reboot?" conversation once more.

It's Bond. And in their own unique way they are all awesome.

Yup, agreed.


Bond is Bond, he changes with the times. All 20+ films are of the same franchise that's 50 years in the making. Canon, different eras, change in actors, be damned.


My blu-ray set with all the discs (now the empty slot for Skyfall is filled) says so.

 

[CelticPredator]

Cept it aint!

There's a very clear cut off point. Although, I suppose, I can mix these two arguments in agreement...

You could take Casino and QoS and push them to the side, and have them be there own thing, and Skyfall can just be a normal Bond movie.

Yey. Every one is happy.

 

[DiFabio]

Nobody cares about Quantum of Solace, well except it's few actions scenes and driving sequences.

 

[CelticPredator]

............

 

[Enthus]

Yup, agreed.


Bond is Bond, he changes with the times. All 20+ films are of the same franchise that's 50 years in the making. Canon, different eras, change in actors, be damned.


My blu-ray set with all the discs (now the empty slot for Skyfall is filled) says so.

Bond is Bond for me as well. No need for timelines or trying to separate them. They are what they are.

 

[Platty]

I prefer to take it as, he's the new 007, Bond is the name assigned to 007. He's James Bond. 007.













Bond.










007.

 

[Dark_Knight_89]

Is anybody else slightly disappointed that they didn't match the Skyfall disc label art to the label art on all the discs in the BOND 50 Blu Ray set?

 

[mfoga]

Bond can't just be a name, especially after Skyfall.

 

[DiFabio]

Maybe the Bond MI6 found just happened to really be named Bond by coincidence.

 

[Deckard]

I like to imagine they've just been recycling Sean Connery's brain in differant bodies over the years. Q branch and whathaveyou.

 

[DiFabio]

That's it. Bingo.

Same brains, new bodies.

 

[CelticPredator]

Bond is actually Doctor Whooooooo Cares.

 

[a-dev]

Its just about impossible to take old Bond films seriously, they are too of their time. Thats not to say that they can't still be enjoyed, but the way they were made and all sorts of factors make it impossible to place them alongside Skyfall and say 'this is portraying the exact same reality as the other'.

Moonraker did not happen in Skyfall's universe.

Thusly I choose to believe that each actor's films are their own continuity seperate from the other.

 

[DiFabio]

It happened. IT HAPPENED.

 

[CelticPredator]

BOND WENT TO SPACCCCEEEE. He's the man!

 

[a-dev]

It happened. IT HAPPENED.

 

[Platty]

Just watched it again! Holy hell dc looks old. The hair does him no favours at all. Immense film though.

 

[CelticPredator]

^ That was the point.