Even from the advertisements, I knew I would like the newest James Bond film Skyfall. From IMDB, “The action thriller grossed a truly massive $87.8 million in its first three days (and an additional $2.2 million during Thursday night previews), making its debut the very best in the Bond series’ 23-film history — by a huge margin.”
The opening chase scene activated the usual thrill that comes with Bond. For the scene, Daniel Craig needed a suit that could do every move 007 had to make. That actually meant 40 of the same suit, since one needed longer sleeves as he rode a motorcycle, another one needed reinforces knees and there were the ones that could be splattered with blood and those that couldn’t.
Skyfall was a back story for Bond and M involving a most excellent villain played by the current celebrated villain actor Javier Bardem. I don’t think the Bond girls got enough screen time, but they looked good when they were around.
The ending explosions were spectacular, the story was solid and interesting.
Daughter had never seen a Bond film so I asked her what she knew about them as we drove to the theater. Umm: “spy, action, villain, explosions.” Good start. I gave her the basic characters of M, Q, villians, girls.
She enjoyed the movie and we discussed it the whole way home, mostly about how wrong the technology was: “that’s not what obfuscate means in programming”. She liked Q because this is the most similar character to her.
She said that there was entirely too much giggling on my part throughout the movie. The giggling was completely involuntary.