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Not that he would get involved in politics, but I tend to agree with you!
Boum!
If Bond and M were holed up in Skyfall Lodge with an Army surrounding them Silva wouldn't come anywhere near them. They wanted to draw him out, so they made themselves look very open to an easy attack.
The scene when Bond finds himself on the Underground track and the train is approaching. Clearly, the recess of the closed door was deep enough to press himself against the door and wait for the train to pass instead of shooting the door. I found that scene completely undramatic because of that. Having travelled on the London Underground before I know that there is ample space left and right of the cars.
Patrice shooting at the link between the train cars to separate them. Can a pistol make that much damage? This is solid steel, even his special bullets should be inadequate. If they stop 2 centimeters inside Bonds chest, how can they uncouple a train?
Seconded. I didn't get this either.
1. How could Silva have planned the attack on Westminster in advance, how did he know M would be called before an enquiry at the exact time Q started to plug in the laptop? What if Q has worked from home in his Pjs that day?
2. Why was Silva so annoyed when he saw M was injured? I get that he said "leave her to me" or whatever, but he then bombed the house and shot at it with a helicopter thinking she was inside it.
Maybe he was a big fan of Goldfinger
Wasn't Skyfall's plot a bit too similar to the Dark Knight with similarities between Silva and the Joker?
Could they have incorporated Quantum into the storyline, if not in a subtle way (Silva says they sell elections to the highest bidder, just like quantum do in QOS almost)
Does Kincaid know what Bond does for a living really?
Well he claimed to be a "lover" of Severine, so he should be bi. Anyway he seems to be as ambiguous sexually as he is both mentally and emotionally (by that I don't mean that his sexual orientation is unhealthy but that he's unhealthy on the whole, the sexuality predicates on that).
Besides being wanted to be caught, I don't see any other. Joker's wish was to create caos, Silva's was to kill M.
He states that in his island he picks his missions and he doesn't have a boss. I think he won't wanted Mr White or any highier of Quantum telling him what to do.
He should know -as the general people- that Bond did the military service and then work as a "Civil Servant" in the Ministry of Defense.
Haha, right? I can get along with this reasoning
1. Why was there no scene explaining how Bond survived? A dialogue mentioning how the wound was non-fatal, how he got rescued and "died" etc. would've been better. Suspension of disbelief can only carry you so far.
2. Why didn't M just pull out all the agents from the list in the first place when their position was already jeopardized by the stolen hard drive, then simply reassign all of them with their current assignments? Could've avoided a whole lot trouble with the minister...
3. Did no one besides M and Tanner check the results of Bond's tests? She would've been terminated immediately if she sent a agent into the field that did not pass...
4. What exactly were the roles of Patrice and Severine, and their connections to Silva?
5. How did Silva escape? Again, suspension of disbelief, but I would've love to see how his inner network controlled Mi6 from the inside and let him free...
6. If Q and Bond knew that Silva was on the train then why couldn't they stop the specific train immediately? They definitely have the personnel and tools to do so, and the scene before showed that the train was ran by real people.
7. If Skyfall manor did not have enough weapons then why couldn't Mi6 just send them a care package, or even a squad? Q could've easily diverted the trail for just a few more days while Bond and Kincade had more time to prepare.
Why did they show a CGI Patrice falling from the Shanghai building, when the same shot we've seen over and over again in the trailers is someone actually falling? I loved that shot, and was very upset to see it was changed.
Well after Bond's parents death we know he moved to his Aunt's house in Kent. He was only in Skyfall for his childhood, from his teens onwards he was brought up in Kent. This is according to Fleming anyway. This would explain why Bond sees himself as English despite having Swiss and Scottish roots.
2. It was a hard decision to make, but she had to do it that way. They could continue investigating while looking for the hard drive.
3. I think Mallory and Q knew it, but said nothing... Plus it's top-secret no one can talk about it.
4. Patrice was the henchman, the one doing the killing. Severine was the face of the organization. (No one knew Silva was there, he was hidden in the shadows)
5. Again, we know that his computer had a bug, and that it opened all the doors in the place, it's enough. They do not have to tell us everything, it's more interesting to see everyone have its own ideas.
6. Panic. There would've been loads of panic in the train and with all the shouts and so on and the potential hostages it would have been more difficult to get Silva (IMO, I'm not so sure though)
7. He thought that he had an entire armory there. So he didn't need more. Plus Silva could've known it was a trap following the guns... I suppose.
Your second point is overlooking her professionalism and responsibility to her agents. As soon as they had been compromised she should have recalled them immediately wherever possible, therefore sparing them and their missions from being laid bare as well as preventing their torture and final executions. I agree with some here that Mallory should of promptly taken over her post and not waited for the inquest, which turned out to be more about the relevancy of MI6 rather than her inadequacies. After all, she did seem to be incompetent in her job. In no way did she have to do it that way, as you pointed out, other than to create the cause and effect for the next situation.
I do think you cover the other points quite well, other than Silva's escape, which did seem to rely heavily on foreknowledge bordering on second sight. It did seem to defeat the purpose of putting Silva in a secure holding cell that was anything but secure and was linked to a centralized computer system rather than a more reliable lock and key, plus the fact that his henchmen were wandering the Tube with a spare police uniform at exactly the right moment and place in which he escaped. If Silva was so good and had a solution for every eventuality that arose how come he didn't have a more complete plan in getting to M before she and Bond cut loose for Skyfall?
Maybe there are no real answers and we'll only end up in tying ourselves in knots trying to unravel the complexities of the storyline?
Thank you sir. That does clear things up a little bit.
I think at the bridge the policeman pretty much stopped all cars at the time, and M just had to come out to explain who she is in person. It could very much be known that the policeman did not know who M was, which is pretty reasonable.
It's an Mercedes E-Class.
I was just asking if anyone remembers what M said to Bond at the very end in reply to his question of whether she fancied another run? It might've been the terrible audio in the theater I was in or that I was caught up in the moment, so for some reason, I keep thinking she said something like "If you don't mind, I think I'll just stay here" which I know I'm way off on.
I really didn't get that impression watching the film. He goes to unbutton her dress but she stops him and then tell him the looks the part; 'old dog, new tricks'.
I really didn't get the vibe that they spelt together, unless I'm missing something.
I think it is deliberately vague, so that you can draw either conclusion.
I think they don't, however.
I actually thought of Nightmare on Elm Street. :))
As for the Bond/Eve thing, there was the line about the "extra set of hands" and then she says something like, "tell me about it". But I still doubt anything actually happened just because of the way the scene cut to the next one.