Puerile Pabulum

Rating: 3/10 (30 January 2013)

Not having the mentality of a 12 year old I wasn't of the demographic the filmmakers were aiming for.
Another formulaic Hollywood travesty of senseless violence.
Summed up briefly this movie is just like all the other James Bond movies. An eccentric evil genius gets Bond under his power at his secret lair and instead of killing Bond instantly he decides to have a casual chat with him long enough for Bond to wreak havoc. Seen that, and been there too many times. It is old, stale, and as ridiculous as ever. In spite of all the flames, explosions, gunfire and killing, it is boring.
Apart from the music and production values Skyfall was constantly eye-rolling stupid. With Daniel Craig's one-dimensional, Gloomy-Gus characterization the only women that could possibly ever be attracted to him would be obsessive necrophiliacs. The one tinge of sex happened when he snuck up on a woman and as much as raped her in the shower. How did he get there anyway? So many elements of this movie had the quality of deus ex machina. Things happen not because they could or were remotely possible but simply because it suited the idiot filmmakers. No one falls from such a height as Bond did into water and survives. Hitting water from that height is like hitting concrete. That combined with being shot with a high-powered rifle makes his survival questionable. Wasn't she aiming to take a head shot? The question of how on Earth he could have survived wasn't touched on in the slightest. Why? Because the idiot filmmakers couldn't offer a solution. No. Just have him appear suddenly later. Same as his being in M's apartment. But of course, considering her position there would be no security so it would be easy for him to break and enter. Ha! Even if they were lovers (ha!) and she gave him a key to her place it would not be a simple matter for him to surprise M. The truly simple things in this movie are the simple minds of the filmmakers.
The Komodo Dragons were obviously computer added. As believable as 50-year-old blue screen. Step on a Komodo Dragon's back and it will wheel about, leap, and seize in its poisonous jaws the fool trying that. Oh, but of course, the Komodo Dragons were on the same drugs as the idiot filmmakers. Oblivious to all and everything, and so it just ignored Bond's assault upon it and kept walking as if in a daze. Just like the makers of this film.
The puerile fist-and-grappling fight scenes make these top agents look like the only martial arts training and experience they had were gotten on the school yards of high schools (secondary schools).
How could the antagonists be so certain Gloomy Gus was at Skyfall? He was off the grid, whereabouts unknown even to Q. Q was not tracking him he was trying to set up a false trail. If 007 and M really wanted Silver to follow them why did they have to change cars to eliminate the possibility of being tracked?
Why would a woman, as in Singapore, betray her dangerous boss for the sake of some harsh Gloomy Gus because he grabbed her wrist forcefully and pointed out the possible provenance of her tattoo? Why wasn't she being listened to by Silver's people as Bond and Moneypenny were listening to each other? Haven't the filmmakers done they're homework? Traditionally in fantasy movie situations like this it is after she makes love to or at least falls in love with the protagonist that such a woman betrays the antagonist. Oh, but Bond snarlingly grabbed her wrist. That certainly would make any woman fall head-over-heals in love, or seek to use him instantly, and in public, to betray, in his own den of henchmen, a killer . A killer who held the power of life and death over her. And what was the problem with her bringing him to the island? Bond wasn't supposed to be with her? So where was she thinking she was going on a boat controlled by Silver's men?
The movie was misogynist. Moneypenny was shown to be dangerously incompetent. The other two strong female leads were killed. What was Bond's reaction to the vicious cold-blooded murder of Silver's female compatriot? "What a waste of good whiskey." M at the end gets replaced by a man. What do the filmmakers have against women?
I could have done without the "Home-Alone"-shenanigans, with gunpowder, at Skyfall.
Not only was the escape tunnel useless in that it exited into an open field visible from miles around, but the escapees needed a flashlight to see where they were going in spite of the intense firelight illuminating all from the burning mansion. They would need a flashlight for only one reason. To give the idiot filmmakers a way for Silver to spot them. Just continual eye-rolling stupidity.
I like Adele's song. But having to listen to it as part of this trash ruins it. It is much better listened to on its own.
My favorite part of the movie was seeing the Aston Martin DB5. I laughed when Bond flipped the cap up to the red eject button. And, yeah, I was in high school when I first saw the DB5. I'm not now.