BOX OFFICE: Sam Mendes' SKYFALL Hits $100 Million In North America After Just 5 Days

I liked it, but I had a few problems with it.

1)Javier WAY too much like Joker
2)Bond [frick]s up everything he tries to do
3)Dench's character was an idiot
4)Bond stepping in to protect M from a call she made in her past has been done before

@IM53 apparently Finney's character was written with Connery in mind to play the part, but they changed their mind about it because it might confuse the audience if they brought him back into the series as another character (and that he'd also steal the spotlight from the rest of the film).

Interesting behind-the-scenes about Connery written into that part. Kind of explains why that character was there. Otherwise it was kind of a "Wait...wha?" thing for me. He's a caretaker I guess....in the middle of nowhere....and the house is a shambles......okaaaay.

GoldenEye>Skyfall>Casino Royale

maybe casino royale above skyfall though

If I had never heard of The Dark Knight Returns (Rises), The World is Not Enough or The Dark Knight and Batman Begins, I would have liked it a lot better considering Skyfall is a mish-mash of them all.

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It begins with Batman...er, I mean James Bond, faking his own death and living in retirement, but can't fill the hole inside him left by beign Batman, er...I mean a secret agent. A new, menacing threat occurs that he simply cannot ignore, so he rushes back into action.

Then M is attacked by someone she had to make a decision about many years ago. Sophie Marceau, er...I mean Raul Julia, I mean Javier Bardem plays the person who lived with the aftermath of that decision and wants revenge.

Bardem plays a guy with a deformed smile who dyes his hair and wears flamboyant clothes. He tells Batman, er I mean James Bond, that they are really the same. Carved out of the same stone by the authorities. He also says they are lying to him.

He then forms a plan to be captured. He escapes using a cell phone triggered explosive. He dresses like a police officer and along with his thugs, makes a public assassination attempt on a senior member of government.

This culminates in a showdown in Batman's, er, I mean James Bond's ancestral home which Ras's Al Ghul, er, I mean Javier Bardem burns down around him. Luckily Batman, er..I mean James Bond, had a hidden passageway to escape through.

I mean COME ON GUYS! This is not subtle stuff!

Cool

@ fettastic let me know when you get past your "NOlan" love fest and comparing everything to it..then I'll take your posts seriously....but till then....yawn.

@SteveRogerSon, who says I'm in love with Nolan? The first hour of Batman Begins is fantastic, then it gets crappy. The Dark Knight Rises has more holes than swiss cheese and craps on the Batman legacy.

See what happens when you assume?

Hey if any of the comparisons I made are not accurate, please correct me.