Everything Wrong With Skyfall In 4 Minutes Or Less

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Oh come Skyfall is better than Craigs first 2 films and all of his video games (alright it sits next to Casino Royale in the awesomeness rating)

Skyfail

BAIN123 wrote:

Also, Getafix at least points out instances in the film that don't work for him and has a constructive, well written arguement. Your statements don't go much beyond angry fan-boy ramblings.

Like I have mentioned earlier this post was not particularly made for this thread .

BAIN123 wrote:

Can you at least use proper spacing/spelling when you write.

I did my best and I believe I conveyed what I had to say.

Its funny you should mention angry fan-boy ramblings.

Matt_Helm

Skyfail wrote:

But I beg for youto take a second and listen to what I have to say ,
Of course this is a matter of opinion and its naturally subjective.

Mendes in my opinion is the worst director the Bond franchise has ever seen , not because he's a bad 'director',But because he's a bad 'Bond director'.

Let me give you a hypothetical example over here,
Just imagine you,
You want to be employed as a surgeon . Imagine during highschool you fantasised of being one of the best surgeons in the best hospital in your country ,you are commited ,you are willing to do everything to achieve your dream .You're the kind of person who spends years and years trying to acquire a degree. You're also the kind of person who would stay late at night cramming notes to make sure you attain your goal. Finally when the moment has come and you are done with you're studies, you approach the hospital to get the job , you find out that someone who has little experience and not a qualification gets the job. Because he had connections with important people of the hospital .

Despite all your efforts , despite all your hard work, you loose to someone who has not put in the time and who is not as talented as you. The person who you loose to just smirks at you astounded by his dumb luck,

That ,that person to me is Sam Mendes. You see if you take Marc Forster for example, he has never made movies which were actioned packed, he was acclaimed for his work on Kite Runner. But when he got the call to direct Bond he openly said that he may not be able to do it,he himself felt that he didn't want to damage the series or turn it into a drama based movie. He took it ,He did his level best. Inspite saying he couldn't he bumped up the level of action and maintained the level of class, and what did he get ?
all the critics butchering him . Fans cursing him . I hold a lot of respect for Mr. Forster and I am prowd to say I don't follow the herd when it comes to this

Now Sam Mendes, He took Bond because his career was not exactly in the best of shape,He knows that emotional work generally resonates well with the critics. So he did what was easiest to him turning it into another drama movie. Instead of taking the time and understaing as to why the franchise has lasted 50 years and making a movie for the fans he made a movie for the critics, so he could be lauded.He did not adopt his style to tailor Bond and he has treated elements of Bond's past as checkboxes. Ultimately his planned worked Despitehis laziness and his inability to adapt to Bond, The critics praised him,the media hyped it.Ticketsales went skyrocketing.I am very particular about fight scenes and Forster and Campbell captured the best ,I can see right through Sam Mendes web of deceit,The fight scenes of Skyfall is an insult to the franchise's good name. Because he is absolutly incapable of it.
If you watch as much action movies as I you will understand why his fight scenes are not up to standards.


Gentleman ,I said that with all my heart and soul
You may not agree with me right now since the hype of Skyfall,
I just hope years from now when people lookback at Skyfall you they will get what I am talking about

:)>-

You said it with Heart,you said it with Soul and you said it RIGHT !!!

Skyfail

Thank You @Matt_Helm , I appreciate it :)

Perdogg

M is not head of MI6 (movies only); M is Head of the 00 section.

NapoleonPlural

Okay Matt Helm, but to be fair I can't remember too many fight scenes in SF, only the one in the skyscraper though I admit that didn't really do it for me despite being stylised. Oh, okay, at the casino. Yeah, I agree, that was rubbish, sub Pierce Brosnan stuff.

It does seem hard to find a 'Bond' director, one who can do fights, action and only shows an intelligent, workmanlike approach to the drama. After all, how much else is needed for the drama anyway? Even SF didn't have much room for that, and I'm not altogether sure that Mendes didn't bungle the narrative, which is about M's failure: her attempts to buy herself more time like some ignominius bureacrat (that head of the NHS for example), her Colonel Blimp like tendencies (pontificating about new world threats and reading a bleedin' poem while her assassin is running down Whitehall to hunt her down, ignoring her subordinates), and Bond's redemption after going AWOL and his forgiveness. Instead it's all, oh isn't M great, she's played by national treasure Judi Dench, who are these horrible people out to get her?

Skyfail

NapoleonPlural wrote:

Okay Matt Helm, but to be fair I can't remember too many fight scenes in SF, only the one in the skyscraper though I admit that didn't really do it for me despite being stylised. Oh, okay, at the casino. Yeah, I agree, that was rubbish, sub Pierce Brosnan stuff.

It does seem hard to find a 'Bond' director, one who can do fights, action and only shows an intelligent, workmanlike approach to the drama. After all, how much else is needed for the drama anyway? Even SF didn't have much room for that, and I'm not altogether sure that Mendes didn't bungle the narrative, which is about M's failure: her attempts to buy herself more time like some ignominius bureacrat (that head of the NHS for example), her Colonel Blimp like tendencies (pontificating about new world threats and reading a bleedin' poem while her assassin is running down Whitehall to hunt her down, ignoring her subordinates), and Bond's redemption after going AWOL and his forgiveness. Instead it's all, oh isn't M great, she's played by national treasure Judi Dench, who are these horrible people out to get her?

haha :)
You have a clear more dry way of looking it at it.
True though!