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[122] Cry for the children!
So, I saw Skyfall and I had feelings and I am going to write about them now. This is probably not the best time to do so, since I only just got back and have not organized my thoughts and so one long keysmash would probably say the exact thing with a lot less effort, but I need to get my squee out somewhere, so.
I was really, really worried going in that I'd overhyped myself. I didn't go in knowing much more than 'people liked it' but I've been marathoning Bond films since the beginning of the month in anticipation and I hyped myself to high heaven and even if it was great, which I was expecting it to be, there would still have to be at least a bit of a comedown because holy shit, was I amped. And then it FUCKIN' BLEW ME AWAY, YOU GUYS.
Spoilers, gosh.
UGH.
UGH I LOVED IT SO MUCH I LAUGHED I GASPED I CRIED AND MY TEARS WERE ALSO BLOOD.
Okay, I didn't actually cry, but mostly because I knew M was going to bite it as soon as Mallory started winning me over (circa the courtroom scene, it was). But this is a big deal for me! Dench has been the one constant in this series since I was a kid, yo. They say your first Bond is always your favourite, that you never get over the one you grew up with, but I grew up with Commander Bland Brosnan, so that's never really held for me, Craig's my guy and M is where my loyalties lie. GoldenEye came out in what, 1995? No, scratch that, GoldenEye 007 for N64 came out in 1997, and that's really where this all started for me and I didn't get around to seeing the movie for a couple of years after that, so putting that all together, Judi Dench as M has been a part of my James Bond experience since I was ten years years old. So yeah, you know, feelings and stuff, but I loved the execution of it, so I have no complaints about it. I knew it was coming for most of the movie, but they just kept putting it off and putting it off, so that by the time she finally croaked, it just felt right. And there was no way that old broad was just going to retire.
And how good was Javier Bardem? HOW FUCKING GOOD WAS HE? Gah, his whole first scene, and then his two big one-on-ones with M were just hypnotic.
Dear All Other Explosions In Every Other Movie Ever: HAHAHAHAHA FUCK YOU.
The opening sequence was adequately ridiculous (THE FUCKING BULLDOZER, LMFAO), I was more than satisfied with it. God damn was that title sequence out there, though.
Don't think I breathed at all during the Shanghai glass-walls stalk/fight scene.
Baby Q won me over, but I expected him to, this was much less of a surprise than Fiennes managing it. To wit, I will even stop calling him Baby Q now. He is simply q.
Sévérine felt really tacked in, I thought that Marlohe chick was going to play a way bigger role, so her stuff kind of feels like a waste in retrospect, but whatever. Gotta have a Bond girl, and Moneypenny doesn't count.
SPEAKING OF, lolololol that last scene. So ridiculous and masturbatory and I DON'T GIVE A FUCK, I GRINNED LIKE A FOOL. NEW M AND NEW Q AND NEW MONEYPENNY, 50 YEARS, FUCK YEAH. All that was missing was Felix, but there's always a next time. JAMES BOND WILL RETURN.
I was really, really worried going in that I'd overhyped myself. I didn't go in knowing much more than 'people liked it' but I've been marathoning Bond films since the beginning of the month in anticipation and I hyped myself to high heaven and even if it was great, which I was expecting it to be, there would still have to be at least a bit of a comedown because holy shit, was I amped. And then it FUCKIN' BLEW ME AWAY, YOU GUYS.
Spoilers, gosh.
UGH.
UGH I LOVED IT SO MUCH I LAUGHED I GASPED I CRIED AND MY TEARS WERE ALSO BLOOD.
Okay, I didn't actually cry, but mostly because I knew M was going to bite it as soon as Mallory started winning me over (circa the courtroom scene, it was). But this is a big deal for me! Dench has been the one constant in this series since I was a kid, yo. They say your first Bond is always your favourite, that you never get over the one you grew up with, but I grew up with Commander Bland Brosnan, so that's never really held for me, Craig's my guy and M is where my loyalties lie. GoldenEye came out in what, 1995? No, scratch that, GoldenEye 007 for N64 came out in 1997, and that's really where this all started for me and I didn't get around to seeing the movie for a couple of years after that, so putting that all together, Judi Dench as M has been a part of my James Bond experience since I was ten years years old. So yeah, you know, feelings and stuff, but I loved the execution of it, so I have no complaints about it. I knew it was coming for most of the movie, but they just kept putting it off and putting it off, so that by the time she finally croaked, it just felt right. And there was no way that old broad was just going to retire.
And how good was Javier Bardem? HOW FUCKING GOOD WAS HE? Gah, his whole first scene, and then his two big one-on-ones with M were just hypnotic.
Dear All Other Explosions In Every Other Movie Ever: HAHAHAHAHA FUCK YOU.
The opening sequence was adequately ridiculous (THE FUCKING BULLDOZER, LMFAO), I was more than satisfied with it. God damn was that title sequence out there, though.
Don't think I breathed at all during the Shanghai glass-walls stalk/fight scene.
Baby Q won me over, but I expected him to, this was much less of a surprise than Fiennes managing it. To wit, I will even stop calling him Baby Q now. He is simply q.
Sévérine felt really tacked in, I thought that Marlohe chick was going to play a way bigger role, so her stuff kind of feels like a waste in retrospect, but whatever. Gotta have a Bond girl, and Moneypenny doesn't count.
SPEAKING OF, lolololol that last scene. So ridiculous and masturbatory and I DON'T GIVE A FUCK, I GRINNED LIKE A FOOL. NEW M AND NEW Q AND NEW MONEYPENNY, 50 YEARS, FUCK YEAH. All that was missing was Felix, but there's always a next time. JAMES BOND WILL RETURN.
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Christ, Silva was creepy as fuck, in the best possible way. His entire first scene was amazing. Every scene he was in was amazing.
I'm not a huge bond fan. I've seen most of them, I liked Daniel Craig's Bond (a helluva lot more than Brosnan's, ugh), but this was the first time that I really felt emotionally invested. I really loved James in this one. I loved that he was out of shape and off his game, but still did his job because it's all he can do.
I just... yeah. I wanna see it again. I want someone to app Bond at Darrow so all of my pups can fangirl/fanboy him.
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Imperfect Bond is always the best Bond, because like they keep saying, when he's on his game, he's really just a trigger, a precision tool to be deployed. It's when the tool's not quite working right that things get interesting instead of just the action-packed par for the course.
And I love that for once it wasn't some grand scheme to fuck up the world! Dude had the potential to do horrible, horrible things, but all he really wanted to do was kill one old lady, and yet this one threat still felt super grand in scope just because of how it was focused on and how elaborate all the machinations were and just yes. Yes, yes, yes, Silva you are the best villain.
Bond movies are my JAM. I freaking love them, just the whole ridiculous secret agent spectacle of it all (and with all the 50th anniversary crap going on this year, I've just been in BOND OVERLOAD mode for the last couple of months, god), but on the few occasions where they actually manage to go beyond thrilling heroics and throw genuine emotion into the mix (Casino Royale, OHMSS, now Skyfall), they just become some of my absolute favourite fucking movies. My eyes hurt by the end of it because I'd barely been blinking, that only happens once or twice a year on a good year for movies. I don't know if I can justify spending the cash to go see it again in theatre, but I am jumping on the first R5 cam version I see while I wait for the Blu-Ray because I really do need to see it again.
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I was very sad that M died, but I kind of expected it. With the low body count of "main" characters at the end I figured she was done for. Very, very fitting end for her too to have her go out like that instead of just... retire or whatever.
Brosnan was my first bond and I will always love Goldeneye with a passion for so many reasons, but Craig Bond is my favorite. After seeing part of License to Kill when I was younger I just devoured the books and was excited to find that the Bond character in the books is so different than in the movies. I always liked his character in the books best and Craig is much closer to that character than any of the others. Most Bonds look like they're having too much fun doing everything. Craig's Bond sees it as a job. A very, very important job.
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Book James Bond and Felix Leiter are pretty much one of my favourite bromances ever. XD
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I loved Skyfall too, though I'm pretty gutted that M died. Sure, it was a good death, but it means she won't be in any more and she's awesome.
New Q is kind of adorable.
I definitely like imperfect!Bond, and I was both sad and intrigued by how this made so clear that he's getting not only a bit older and off his game, but that the game itself is moving past him.
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