Originally posted by Patient_LeechI was expecting him to die from the knife the moment it was shown to Bond.
I actually meant that as sarcasm. Of course he didn't die. That's not the point, the point is he arrives andSpoiler:Seen that a million times in movies/tv. Oldest trick in the book. It's usually done by more minor characters, but still.
puts the knife in his back.
Plot hole anyone?
Spoiler:
Well, not a plot hole, but just idiocy. Why the eff did they plug the damn PC into their mainframe that's attached to their entire system in order to analyze it? The freaking Geek Squad at Best Buy probably wouldn't do something so stupid. Give us a little credit and dream up something like the unit cracking their WiFi or something else, I don't know, but seriously that made no sense at all.
That said while I thought the opening wasn't quite up to snuff, I loved the rest of the film, especially once Bond was back on the hunt. Bardem made a great villain, and it was nice to have one with motive and means. Tomorrow Never Dies and Die Another Day were such a disgrace after Goldeneye and Quantum of Solace was a letdown as well in that department. This one definitely brought back the feeling of someone who could give Bond a run, and in a much darker way than is usual for Bond films of the past.
Worth seeing.
Originally posted by Ascendancy
Plot hole anyone?Spoiler:
Well, not a plot hole, but just idiocy. Why the eff did they plug the damn PC into their mainframe that's attached to their entire system in order to analyze it? The freaking Geek Squad at Best Buy probably wouldn't do something so stupid. Give us a little credit and dream up something like the unit cracking their WiFi or something else, I don't know, but seriously that made no sense at all.
Spoiler:
The data would have been analyzed in an ultra-clean environment with a bit-locker on an isolated computer not connected to the network. If mass number crunching needed to be done, it would have been done in virtual machine governed by a strict hypervisor to prevent "leakage" outside of the VM sandbox. In other words, any digital forensics specialist would know better...especially an ultra secret government agency run by one of the world's greatest military powers (and in the history of the world, for that matter). Summary: bad writing just to have a plot.
But, hey, 90% of the population are not going to know better. But pretty much anyone in this thread will know better. Go figure?
Originally posted by dadudemonYou're correct on both points.Spoiler:
The data would have been analyzed in an ultra-clean environment with a bit-locker on an isolated computer not connected to the network. If mass number crunching needed to be done, it would have been done in virtual machine governed by a strict hypervisor to prevent "leakage" outside of the VM sandbox. In other words, any digital forensics specialist would know better...especially an ultra secret government agency run by one of the world's greatest military powers (and in the history of the world, for that matter). Summary: bad writing just to have a plot.But, hey, 90% of the population are not going to know better. But pretty much anyone in this thread will know better. Go figure?
We are nerds though.
Well, not me, I'm just smart.
Originally posted by steverules_2
When I saw Q do that I was questioning his smarts, even I wouldn't have done that...plus Bond noticed the little code/password whatever you wanna call it pretty easily and Q didn't really seem to notice anything until Bond pointed it out
Skyfall is the 23rd James Bond film going back 50 years. All the Bond films pit Agent 007 against an archenemy of mother England. They have increasingly become a string of action and violent scenes marking the decline of the British Empire. How long can western civilization sustain $200 million movies? The movie gets its title because Skyfall is the name of the orphanage in which James Bond grew up. I think Daniel Craig makes the best Bond. He has an edge and a vulnerability the others do not.
Finally saw this lastnight on blu-ray.
Sam Mendes was a good choice of director but I kinda still felt that Bond movies seem to be outdated these days...
The stunts/action scenes were ok...until you notice the deliberate flat-track on the roof for the bikes to race across OR the grilled platform welded to the bull-dozer's swing arm for Bond to run across.
And it seems harder each movie to come up with a villain that doesn't have a cliched reason to be the antagonist. He had the potential to cause havoc on a worldwide level (like every Bond villain) but then his reason became obscured & convoluted with his vendetta on M. In the end, the bad guy did a half arsed job with all the computer tech he had at his fingers.