Bond is NOT bisexual

Rating: 2/10 (5 November 2012)

Skyfall is really an entertaining movie, and it clears out a lot of mistakes that have reduced Bond lately, paving the way for a renewed Bond.
It would in fact be a ten-star movie if it - sadly - wasn't for a couple of unforgivable flaws.
Two to be exact: 1) In a real Bond movie the logo appears just after the opening scene ends. Anything else is a stupid postmodern "change-for-the-sake-of-change-ain't-we-smart" thing, to which the answer is NO, and three stars off.
2) In ONE scene there is ONE sentence which suggests that Bond MIGHT be bisexual.
He.Is.NOT.
Let's put that in perspective, shall we? If anyone is bisexual it's his or her own business. I'm neither a puritan, religious, or against movie heroes that are not heterosexual. (I really like the cop in Boondock Saints, for example).
So the reason that this one sentence pisses offends me is simple: Craig may be as bisexual as he pleases. It was his idea (already suggested a couple of years ago) that Bond "should be" "modernized" by letting him show sexual interest in other men.
But bisexuality is not modern, in fact it's as old as mankind. So I don't mind if Craig is bisexual, that's his business. But: Bond.Is.Not.
Daniel Craig has tried to explain this nonsense away with further nonsense about the remark "just being a part of the game between the two men in question". But the scene cannot be mistaken, and the idea that "Bond should be modernized by making him bisexual" was suggested explicitly by Craig years ago - at the time when "Quantum of Solace" came out. His excuses now are lame, and he also adds bisexual anecdotes from his own life to rub it in that he really doesn't mean them.
Skyfall is excellent entertainment, but borrows heavily from other movies, especially in the "Batman origin story" it presents. My big problem with Skyfall is, that the main character is NOT a person named James Bond. It's a sexually confused man named Daniel Craig who apparently also has a personality disorder that makes him think he is a fictional character by the name of James Bond. The people who say that with this movie "Bond is back" are sadly mistaken. This is the only movie allegedly in the franchise where the real James Bond is not present at all.
Bond is a notorious womanizer. I don't praise that either, but that's a part of what defines Bond. Tampering with that - well, lets see where further modernizations might lead us ... (YIKES!).
If this "modernization" is "acceptable" to the wide public, then I suggest that Bond be further "modernized" by adding sexual interest in sheep and kindergarten kids in the course of the next two movies.
If not, then kick Craig and the producers etc. that allowed this breakdown of the established character, and let's get a lot of new movies with a REAL Bond again in the near future.
The bisexual disaster means ten stars off. We are now at minus three. Then add eight stars for having made a movie that CAN lead to REAL Bond again IF - and only IF - these errors (bisexuality, Craig, logo displacement) are permanently removed once and for all going from the next movie.
Then subtract three stars again thinking of the risk of actually seeing Bond in bed and kissing with another man next time.
And then you have two stars, where there could and should have been ten. A pair of scissors could have made the necessary changes (except removing Craig) in less than two minutes.
It's high time for a new Bond. It has been, ever since Craig made his stupid proposal around the time of "Quantum of Solace".
I posted this review before stressing why I think it is a good thing that some people will call this review unhelpful. I am refraining from doing so in this version of review, and I have actually stated clearly (as well as in the original) that peoples sexual inclination are their own business.
I just think Craig's personal idea that - quote - "sexual divisions don't mean the world" is his personal opinion. James Bond would strongly disagree. Anyone knowing Bond knows that.
Anyone accepting even the slightest hint of bisexuality in James Bond - or thus accepting Craig as "Bond" are completely unaware of what Bond has been about for fifty years, and they should just stay away from James Bond.
Bond is not bisexual, and people who mistake the main character in this movie for Bond are therefore rather confused themselves. At least in the Bond department.
This movie is just an action movie falsely posing as a Bond movie.
But "Skyfall" is NOT at Bond movie at all, and cannot truly count as such, at least until the bisexual remark is removed. Not just by private editing, but officially removed and withdrawn.
So go on and vote unhelpful. Really. It just serves as a counter for people who don't know what they are talking about.