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Agreed. Just seemed to be quite basic errors. Great film though can't wait for the next one
-Why does Bond take M to Scotland and want to face Silva and his men by himself there?
-Don´t you think Bond fails and Silva actually wins? M dies and he wanted to die too. Anyway, Silva dies first and he is not a threat anymore.
- Maybe I missed this (I only saw the movie once), but how did Silva know that Bond and M were in Scotland, especially when Q and Tanner created this false trail for him?
- How did Silva know where Bond would be when that rogue train fell through the hole in the roof?
- Why did Kincade bring a flashlight when he escorted M to the chapel? Just so that Silva would spot him? ;-) I mean, he knew the place better than anyone else and it wasn't that dark, especially with all that fire.
1. At the time he believed Skyfall had a fully stocked gun room.
2. Q and Tanner created the trail specifically so that Silva would find it and follow it to Scotland. That was the plan.
3. Luck. I believe Silva planned to crash the train anyway, distracting the police and emergency services so he could attack M in Whitehall without opposition.
4. True, but he doesn't have night vision, and it's quite a rocky, ravenous place, the moors.
Re 1 though, I'm still don't understand why Bond didn't bring his own small army with him to Scotland. After all, he wanted to protect M the best he could, right? Plus, it would have made for a classic Bond shooutout, only this time in the hero's lair. ;-)
I'm pretty sure M said that they sold his flat and put all his stuff in storage. Just assume that the Aston is part of the stuff she was talking about. Loads of other boxes around the aston as well.
The car with the "extras" is just a homage. A nice wink at the audience because its such an integral part of Bond's history. I dont think its meant to be anymore than that.
Of course I may be wrong
A possible explantion would be that he doesn´t trust anyone or that another men could be fallowed easily?
I don´t have any concern about the DB5, there has been a gap since CR, so the car could be adapted by Q section.
I also think Silva was going to attack the metro anyway.
I don't think that Q Branch necessarily fitted out the gadgets on the DB5. I think that Dimitrios, the original owner in CR, is slimy and tacky enough to fit a classic car with weapons of death. Sure, it's kinda a stretch. And if that sort of thing was revealed in CR it would have stuck out like a sore thumb. But I like the idea of Bond retrieving the DB5 after the events of CR/QoS only to find it kitted out with all this amazing stuff (and telling M about it when he gets back to the office)!
Still, I think everyone can agree that the ACTUAL reason the gadgets feature in SF is because it's a nod to the 50th anniversary, and gets a pass because they were used brilliantly!
Also, I got the impression Bond with have kept his DB5 'off the books' so it would not have been sold after he'd died.
I loved Skyfall and have seen it twice - I can't wait to see it again!
I can't really picture Ben Whishaw's character serving as a Major in the British Army.
The point was to show mommy who is still the best. This enters the phychological thriller movies as Sylva is a megalomaniac paranoid obssesed with M and must have his revenge through salvation. He doesn't hurt Kinkaid or M. He just has to die with her.
I thought that they sold off the flat and put all of his belongings into storage.
Also, doesn't Kincade state that he sold the property when they thought Bond was dead.
They have been putting CGI faces on stunbt doubles for years. Terminator 2 was one of the earlier ones and any scene with Christopher Lee moving in his 2 Star Wars films was also CGI (watch it in HD and you can see it more clearly).
As for Bond, they added DC's face in QOS pre-credits when he was supposed to be driving the Aston and they also did it in the Pre-credits of Skyfall. Check out the motorbike over the roofs and also when he gets shot on the train.
I think that after the whitehall sequence when Bond picked M up in the car to take her to SkyFall and explained to her that he wanted to draw Silva out, M said something along the lines of too many people were dying because of her and she only wanted the two of them to draw him out.
The latest UK edition of The Economist magazine has a gentle poke at that point.
They may have a point in there somewhere too. Methinks it's fair to say Bond's definitely a Unionist, as would Fleming (with his mixed ancestry) have been... ;)