Just back and also thoroughly enjoyed it! Popcorntastic stuff.

Car porn? Yep
Boat porn? Yep
Pretty ladies? Yep
Hunky chaps? Yep
Exotic locations to kill people in? Yep
Pit of biting things? Yep
Endless missed opportunities to kill the bad/good guy? Yep
Genuinely bonkers bad guy? Yep. Brilliantly loony!
One liners and wisecracking? Yep
Absurd stunts? Yep
Obligatory tie/cuff straightening? Yep
Nice references to the past? Yep. Nice references to the history of both the books and films.
A few twists along the way? Yep. Hadn’t spotted Moneypenny until I saw the hatstand in the scene!
Surprises? Yep. Had avoided any major reviews/spoilers. Really wasn’t expecting M to die.

Very good entertainment!

How many people watching even considered for one moment that Bond was dead after having a brutal fight on the roof of a moving train before taking a bullet and falling a great distance into a fast moving river in the opening sequence? It hardly built much in the way of tension.

If he had have been, it would have been a VERY short film. 🙄 WGAS?

I find it difficult to enjoy films blah blah blah

So why go and watch it then? 😐

I know that I won’t enjoy any of seemingly never ending stream of misery-lit, you know the sort of thing, “Stop touching me, Father Seamus. A memoir of a rain sodden childhood”. So, guess what? I don’t read them!

Apart from the Beetles which didn’t bother me, i didn’t notice any product placement at all.

Some of you guys think WAY too much.

I enjoyed it..

I have a crush on Moneypenny now… i liked her in 28 days.. but in this she’s just HOT beyond words.

Aristotle – Member

Films like Skyfall are just clichéd nonsense which require the audiences to do little more than gawp at the action, advertising, CGI and pyrothechnics, suspending any sort of thinking or questioning.

i do enough thinking in the real world, sometimes i like to go to the films, take my brain out, forget about things, suspend disbelief and lap up what’s placed in front of me. it’s called entertainment

i haven’t seen Skyfall yet but that’s exactly what i expect to do, because it’s a Bond film, i may get annoyed at some trifling continuity detail though

Thought it was pretty decent as action films go, and on a par with Casino Royale for me.

Mendes did a pretty good directorial job, with a couple of brilliant (IMHO) sequences – the fight with Patrice in front of the neon signs was visually stunning (best visual fight scene for me since the strobe lit one in Kick Ass even if it was bizarrely similar in terms of colour and the silhouette stuff to the start of the Luke/Vader duel at the end of Empire this afternoon).

I really enjoyed it, quite silly but thoroughly entertaining. Mr Toast was a bit put off by the bad guy (“I’ll leave him in the water with one inept henchman!”) and the computer stuff (he actually had his face in his hands and was bodily cringing when they were talking about obsfucated code…)

“I’ll leave him in the water with one inept henchman!”

That’s in Evil Villain 101, as any fule kno. Standard operating procedures.

The poor Aston, glad they used some of the gadgets on it

He didn’t exactly do much with the original – crashed it into a wall, I recall.

Thought Skyfall was OK. Interesting that Bond turns bad guy to help depose M 😉

And one liners…? “Welcome to Scotland”, “Actually, I wrote it”. And I’m struggling for the others.

I like Daniel Craig’s portrayal, however I would like to see bond take it’s self more seriously. Bourne identity is far more sophisticated and I think a better film IMO.
Good to see the good old Scottish midge get in on the act though.

The shot of Rannoch Moor and the Buachaille was cool.

My local was, until a few months ago, owned by Daniel Craig’s stepmum. FACT 🙂

Saw it and enjoyed it tonight especially seeing Skyfall (house) on Hankley Common. Saw the house being built when riding there and just thought initially it’s was for the army to blow off. That driveway us never smooth enough for a DB5!!!!

Saw it yesterday and thought it was just OK and I think of myself as a big Bond fan.
I preferred QoS as at least it had villians trying to do something nefarious, a great car chase at the beginning and hints at a sinister organisation at play (ala Mr White).
Otherwise, it was an enjoyable romp that ticks all the Bond boxes but maybe a little Meh.

I really enjoyed it, it’s the kind of film I like to see in the cinema – girls, cars, explosions. If they’d managed to squeeze in a couple of star destroying spaceships it would have been perfect.

Although I’m with Mr. Toast when it came to the computer bit. “Self-deleting files”? Cunning, except the first thing any forensic analyst would do is make a bit-for-bit backup…

As CFH says, all the ingredients needed for a classic Bond movie – I really enjoyed it.

Questioning the validity of the plot/dialogue/acting/kit/locations etc is like analysing the technical merits of Ghostbusters IMHO.

the fight with Patrice in front of the neon signs was visually stunning

Agreed. Breathtaking. 🙂

I really enjoyed it. There was only one part i didn’t understand:

Ralph Fiennes’ character was Chairman of the Intelligence and Security Committee. After the death of M, he then somehow takes up the role of Head of MI6…? Surely, the Committee would be charged with appointing a new head?

Surely, the Committee would be charged with appointing a new head?

It’s a film. 😆
I didn’t understand why Bond couldn’t be bothered getting changed before flying back to London. 😕
Really enjoyed the film, opening sequence was spectacular and I only noted one clear point of this product placement that people are crying about. Drinking beer in the ops room with Q. Really?

We were debating over bacon this morning whether Bonds wound was consistently on the same side.

Going for a wet walk on Hankley now to revisit the Skyfall house scene!!

Saw it last night. Well, that’s 3 hours of my life I’ll never get back. New Q conforms to an already worn out cliche of young geeky computer expert. Would have been better if it really had been the character Morris Moss from the IT crowd. In fact, using Reynholm Industries as the bad guy/organisation would have given it a whole new dimension. Not that it had any in the first place. At least I remembered to record Star Gate Universe whilst I was out so all is not lost.

Shameless product placement in Madagascar 3 this afternoon. The bear stole a Motorbike from the Ducati shop and there was a mention of HP printers. What is the world coming too ?

I can’t believe people complain about cliche, the whole Bond fanchise is built on a foundation of cliche, it is what makes Bond, Bond!

Adjusting cufflinks after Roger Moore shaming digger scene

..this was the highlight of the film for me.

Shame there was no car chase, the shootout in the committee meeting was fantastic though. Loved Q, Judy Dench was fantastic and the filming locations were breathtaking

I did take issue with one thing though. He goes to the komodo dragon casino place, meets a woman who is very upset as he realises that she was basically sold as a child to be a sex slave to the casino owner. He then shoots his way out, meets her on the boat 1 hour later as agreed then helps her by duffing her in the shower. Seemed a pretty poor way to treat a rescued sex slave.

Always difficult watching a film when expectations are so high, feels a bit like you are setting yourself up to be disappointed.

Top film though.

At least I remembered to record Star Gate Universe whilst I was out so all is not lost.

Star Gate Universe? What’s that, a documentary? 😉

(Ps. I agree with your Skyfall “review”)

a fella in our office went last night. He knows I’d seen it so the first thing he said this morning was
“skyfall, excellent film – but no more judi dench eh?”

Cue much irritation in the office. When I pointed out he might not want to reveal too much he goes “yeah ok. I was gutted they destroyed the db5 though. And you know Q, was he that bloke from Batman?”