What am I doing going to a Bond movie anyway? In the opening scenes Bond is shot in the shoulder, yet functions as if not even wounded. A bullet to that part of the body is disabling and recovery will take months. Later he is shot again, falls several hundred feet and lands on water, surviving. In movies, you see, water is soft. In real life, it is like landing on concrete.
It is Bond, I know. I was only there because I had time to kill before catching a flight and didn’t want to be at an airport.
Javier Bardem reprises his Anton Chigurh role (No Country for Old Men, a villain done right), this time as a blond. He overacts, or is over-directed. He works too hard at being bad rather than just letting it come out naturally. As Coren mentions, (link above) a young woman is first molested by Bond after showing no interest in him, and then is murdered after a terrifying ordeal in which men are shooting at a whiskey shot glass on her head, the name of the whiskey featured prominently. She is gut shot! It is a horrible, slow and agonizing way to die, and you have to wonder if Bond is sad that he can’t bang her again.
If only it stopped there … there are public hearings about secret intelligence, a subway disaster where not one victim is shown, and at least six security guards murdered like so many pawns … cars drive through crowded markets as if people did not matter. Do you ever wonder, like me, how long it takes the poor vegetable stand owner to recover his losses after Bond rolls over him in his Aston Martin? What about wrecked and stolen cars and cycles? It’s a police report/insurance claim nightmare.
And then the come final scenes at Skyfall. I can’t tell you much about that, however, as watching planes take off and land had more appeal at that point. What is it about movie critics? Journalists can’t do journalism in this country. That’s understood. Have critics gone down that road? Are they afraid to tell us when a movie is bad? Will they too lose their jobs if they do their jobs?
Maybe they are perception managers. If 94% of them say they liked it, will people imagine they liked it when they really didn’t?
Piece of Mindful 
Sam Smith has an interesting take on your Bond nightmare.
http://prorevnews.blogspot.com/2012/11/when-fantasy-becomes-reality.html
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“Barely concealed Julian Assange” – interesting. Hollywood and the government are usually in sync on the villain du jour. I wonder if Smith is right.
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Capital invests wherever it sees net profit. It would be really silly if no “sync” existed. Brits especially seem to prefer a linear “on-time” approach to such intrigue.
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