{"id":183783,"date":"2012-11-21T23:40:00","date_gmt":"2012-11-22T04:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/11\/21\/i-saw-skyfall-tonight\/"},"modified":"2012-11-21T23:40:00","modified_gmt":"2012-11-22T04:40:00","slug":"i-saw-skyfall-tonight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/11\/21\/i-saw-skyfall-tonight\/","title":{"rendered":"I Saw Skyfall Tonight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Family was in town for Thanksgiving, so we all went to see the new Bond film, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1074638\/\"><i>Skyfall<\/i><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Daniel Craig &#8230; James Bond<br \/>Judi Dench Judi Dench &#8230; M<br \/>Javier Bardem &#8230; Silva<br \/>Ralph Fiennes &#8230; Gareth Mallory<br \/>Naomie Harris &#8230; Eve<br \/>B\u00e9r\u00e9nice Marlohe &#8230; S\u00e9v\u00e9rine<br \/>Albert Finney &#8230; Kincade<br \/>Ben Whishaw &#8230; Q<\/p>\n<p><i>Skyfall<\/i> is a very good movie, though I&#8217;m not sure that it&#8217;s good Bond per se.<\/p>\n<p>It does not feel like a Bond movie.  It feels more like a police procedural, with a bit of John Le Carre and the Bourne movies.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s very well done though, and much more character driven than any other Bond movie that I&#8217;ve seen.  We do get a much more complete picture of James Bond, who he is, and <b>why<\/b> he is who he is than we have ever gotten before.<\/p>\n<p>My initial impressions:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Daniel Craig is magnetic.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>Javier Bardem was wonderful to watch, but I wasn&#8217;t impressed by the character.  As a Bond villain, he was a bit &#8220;meh&#8221;, and the attempt to graft in some sexual kinks seemed forced.<\/li>\n<li>Albert Finney had a relatively small role, but it was important all the same, it provides a lot of the insight into Bond&#8217;s character, and he&#8217;s just plain fun to watch. (He is also <b>clearly<\/b> enjoying himself while on camera)<\/li>\n<li>Ben Whishaw was good as a very geeky &#8220;Q&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li>Ralph Finnes was a complex and watchable character. <\/li>\n<li>Judy Dench was kind of playing Judy Dench more than she was playing &#8220;M&#8221;.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Recommended.  I&#8217;d call it 8 out of 10.<\/p>\n<p>No other blogging today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Family was in town for Thanksgiving, so we all went to see the new Bond film, Skyfall Daniel Craig &#8230; James BondJudi Dench Judi Dench &#8230; MJavier Bardem &#8230; SilvaRalph Fiennes &#8230; Gareth MalloryNaomie Harris &#8230; EveB\u00e9r\u00e9nice Marlohe &#8230; S\u00e9v\u00e9rineAlbert Finney &#8230; KincadeBen Whishaw &#8230; Q Skyfall is a very good movie, though I&#8217;m not &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[993,1065,1064,1189],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cinema","category-entertainment","category-media","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183783"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183783\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}