Honest Trailers: SKYFALL

I don't know why I keep watching these, they are quite bad, I guess it is too see what they "pick out" even though half the stuff they pick out is either because they haven't watched the movie probably, or just completely missed the point.

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Yeah, what's CNN doing in Hawaii?

...and they've thrown those "long shots" on a loop, because they weren't that long in the movie.

...Judi Dench's character doesn't smile. That's not new. She's played it that way since '95.

This one was really, really bad.

They put their foot in it this time. Skyfall is good and it is popular.

Oh, and they're seriously going to play on Roger Deakins' cinematography? Come on, now. Show some credibility.

Say what you want about Skyfall, it's far and away the most visually stunning Bond film.

I am officially done with these videos.

That's not Hawaii. That's Turkey actually.
What's CNN doing in Turkey? That's just nitpicking. And that's the only thing these guys doing from the beginning. It's getting stupid.

To those who can not watch it, trust me, you are not missing out on anything

MMmhhh..........

No.

@Yayyam Doesn't matter, finding an English speaking news station in another country is very common, in fact I am to visit a country where at least one bar doesn't have English news channels.

So, knowing Bond he probably visits this bar knowing it has CNN on as despite being in hiding he'll want to know what is happening in the world, as he is never able to fully separate himself no matter how low he tries to sink

It's fun reading a bunch of comments from people who miss the point of these.

Yes, it is nit-picking. That's the whole theme of their humor. Taking critically or financially successful movies (generally) and finding the silliest parts in them.

If you just relax, enjoy the humor, and don't act like somebody is stabbing your grandmother with a shank made from your wife's femur, you can enjoy them...

okay the judi dentch frowning the whole time was funny

This video was a pretty poor show all round. The last few just haven't been funny, and come on, criticizing the cinematography?! Its the best I've been for a while, and the dude is up for an Oscar. As I said, poor show.

Guess we forgot the link at the bottom again.

It would have been better with My Cocaine in it!

'Sexy voldemort' lol

Although this one did feel a little stretched...wasn't so much a pi$$ take like other ones...probably cause Skyfall is actually that good they found it hard to find any faults to pick on...

The hard drive is like a car driven by a suspect. They get the data, and now the hard drive is no longer sought after.

The information had the identities of every deep cover agent out in the field. Silva put it on YouTube, so now what exactly can they do about it?

This video was a waste of time. The movie IS overrated, but it doesn't mean it was in any way bad.

@Tainted87, Um, get the video pulled and get the damn hard drive?

So you're saying MI6 just throws it's hands up and says [frick] it?

You think they were nitpicking? Skyfall was an awful, boring, overrated movie. No exaggeration on this one. I thought almost all of the same things while watching the movie, and there was PLENTY of time during the movie while nothing was happening on screen for me to realize how awful it was. The only thing they didn't mention is Daniel Craig's awful portrayal of Bond. The man has zero class. #FassbenderForBond

@xcan28 @LoudNoises - thank you for being voices of reason on the board.

I thought Skyfall was pretty incredible (and not b/c Solace was so awful but b/c it brilliantly gave us an origin story of the movie James Bond right down to explaining his sense of humor)...that doesn't mean I don't agree with nearly everything in the 2nd half of this Honest Trailer.

@fettastic
I'm saying that's all they CAN do. Consider what you're saying... what does a hard drive contain? FILES. Files are copied and sent every which way. Sure, they're encrypted, but this is Silva - he's a hacker genius. There's really nothing Mi6 can do except pull their agents, which is what they start doing.

I agree with Battlin, it was a great movie on it's own, and for all of its flaws, the good more than made up for it. The only thing that bugged me was how freaking long the climax dragged on... and on. That and Q lacking any and all charisma.

Good movie, not that funny.

"A hero so sexually aggressive...isn't he sort of raping that former child prostitute?"

Actually, this characteristic is truer to the James Bond depicted in the series written by Ian Flemming. Anyone who's actually read the books (and I have) would know that James Bond thinks of rape as more of a sexual kink than an act of violence against another human being. Because, as all members of the rape culture believe, it's simply a woman's way of playing hard to get and, eventually, they'll give in, if not enjoy themselves entirely.

That's my biggest problem with James Bond. Not so much the iconic figure of badassery that us Americans have assumed as one of our own iconic Badasses (which is ironic, considering he's British), but the character himself. James Bond is a misogynistic, egocentric, narcissistic, bordering-sociopathic would-be rapist. That's how he comes off in the books.

But it's alright because he cool and suave and Alpha-male. He's, presumably (in the mindset of similar men or men who believe themselves to be similar)what every woman wants and what every man wants to be.

I feel like James Bond is what Ian Flemming wish he'd been in the secret service, to the point that Bond comes off as a "Good ol' Boy" "Can do nothing wrong" Gary Stu.

I feel it only fitting that, in these recent Bond films, M, originally a male character, is played by a woman. I'm not saying it makes up for the blatant misgivings and degradation done to the female gender in all of Bond's creations and adaptations. But it is a pleasant irony that a character once so rooted in sexist behavior is now working beneath the very gender he thinks so little of...

As an aside, the variation is also why I didn't understand why some people were so up-in-arms over Eve Moneypenny being black. So? M was a man, Q doesn't exist in the original novels, and James Bond's hair isn't golden blonde.

Anyway...yeah, there were a lot of plotholes and WTFMakes No Sense moments in Skyfall, but it was a helluva lot better than Solace and, I felt, way more enjoyable than TDKR.

Tainted87
An old lady Bond girl. How sexy.
"and was a field agent." Read the rest of my comment before posting.