Half in the Bag: Skyfall |

Joseph Ott

fuck movies

Joseph Ott

Also, this is the best piece of satire on internet reviewers ever.
- TheAsterite
  
  Many reviewers like this movie though. The internet forums? Very mixed.
  - http://www.facebook.com/sed1er Seid Pepic
    
    Because the movie was truly an abomination.
    - Jay Kay
      
      I grew up on bond, could name em all in order and the like. Let me tell you this one, compared to Quantum or DAD, is far from an abomination. Tons of fan service, well made, and other tha the many little things you could pick at is a really good Bond movie.
    - http://www.facebook.com/sed1er Seid Pepic
      
      It was more like reference the movie it had nothing of its own, it took from other bond movies, it felt like an anniversary special and it was full of plotholes.
Leo Ladenson

I just figured it out: I bet the next Plinkett review drops on Turkey Day or Black Friday. Some of the other Plinkett reviews were timed to holidays as well.
- Smarter than Leo Ladenson
  
  How’s it feel to be wrong, jackass?
  - Leo Ladenson
    
    It hurts. It hurts bad. Real bad. I’m sorry that I’ve failed you.
    
    I heartily resolve to do better in future. To improve my predictions. And to be as smart as you. If that’s possible.
Pigeon

CooCOOcooCOO!

SuperToad

Jay and Mike do My Little Pony please

http://twitter.com/OliverSchning Oliver Schöning

!!! Fuck Movies was used before whawhwharawrawraw !
http://www.facebook.com/deejaytaufiq Mohamad Taufiq Morshidi

No no no.

They should do Boku no pico, Madoka Magica and Evangelion.
JMTH

Wait, you want them to “do” My Little Pony, like to fuck it? You sick bastard.
- CorbeauNoir
  
  Are you surprised? Bronies are a half-step removed from pedophiles
  - Joe Gray
    
    Stupid boy.
    - CorbeauNoir
      
      Uh oh, here comes the unsubstantiated damage control for your creepy-as-fuck ‘lifestyle’
- Kidakor
  
  What else do you expect from furries?

thomas

i loved skyfall

David Bean

Brilliant, can’t wait to see this!

campofapproval

that verizon 4glte commercial can go fuck itself

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=655701905 Corey Schaff

It’s less insulting than the previous one where they show two people laughing at you if you click anything other than Verizon; I purposely click the lowest option because I hate these commercials so much.
- http://www.facebook.com/msarafin Mark Sarafin
  
  Just get AdBlock.
  - http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=655701905 Corey Schaff
    
    Nah, I have to watch the commercials or else RLM doesn’t get money for me watching. Doesn’t mean I can’t complain about particularly horrible ads though.
    - Innocentbystander
      
      That’s not necessarily true. Different sites use different data gathering tools and metrics, not all of them track adblock. They might, but I cant find that info for Blip. Can you verify that? Also we don’t know what Blip’s revenue sharing model is. It might not resemble the YouTube partner program at all. And finally, adblock has a variety of settings to adjust what kinds of ads come through, so you can still contribute to those who do have a model that requires ad views for revenue.

Lucas

Half in the Bag Episode 41 is the 65th entry in the … aw fuck it

Pizzarollguy

Seriously, give me a pizzaroll.

Bourgeoisie

YouTube link? You’re killing me smalls!

http://twitter.com/orbsonb Ben Robson

i’m 5 minutes in and I love it. reminds me a lot of the “missing the point” angle you gave on Dark Knight Rises.

Rossco

Zardoz rules!

Sean Connery

Fuckin’ rights it does.
Christopher Kulik

Never seen it; everyone told me its cool but weird.

Evan Tsilimidos

I’ve always loved their sarcasm! This one’s great! It’s almost as if they’re mocking the people that didn’t like TDKR cause of its plotholes by acting like they hate Skyfall because of its plotholes… wait…WHAT THE FUCK!?
“You see, it’s like poetry. It rhymes.”

JoeJoe

TDKR was big, loud, and dumb. Skyfall was small, loud, and dumb. Yeah, that’s a big difference there. If the movie has to continually tell you “this villain is a genius”, it’s because he doesn’t do anything in the movie that supports that. The dumb writer doesn’t know how to write something smart to show his intellect. (See Silence of the Lamb’s for a HOW_TO example, and to see where Javier stole his performance from)

TDKR’s saving grace is that it was a visual spectacle, much like Prometheus.
Palpatine

Christopher Nolan…psshhhh. What an overrated hack – *I* could make a better film.

See that’s the thing. Dark Knight does NOT get a pass on its plot holes BECAUSE the point of the Nolan Batman movies is to present a modern realistic Batman with a believable plot, and they fail miserably.

Jorge Lucas.

Its gonna be great. “All James Bond Films”

http://twitter.com/Ganonmaster Hidde Jansen

Those first 6 minutes are amazing.

http://twitter.com/upsettingshorts Gary Alexander

I felt like by the end all the old Bond tropes were new again. As in… made new by the film. If Casino Royale began the Bond reboot, Skyfall finished it, and the next movie can have say… Harris as Moneypenny and Fiennes as M and really hit all the old steps and not feel like it is in the same canon as Connery and Moore because we know a history we never did before.

Jack 72

Mr. Wint and Mr. Kidd were actually the first gay James Bond villains, from Diamonds are Forever…but man were they terrible

Dr. Mario

Mr. Wint and Mr. Kidd were awesome villains. Stop being wrong.
http://www.facebook.com/deejaytaufiq Mohamad Taufiq Morshidi

A lot of things in Diamonds are Forever are pretty bad,

but that Shirley Bassey song is great.
- Christopher Kulik
  
  True, but Jill St. John was nice too, particularly if you love redheads.

Dave V

You guys HAVE to review “The walking dead” Tv series, so many characters make illogical decisions about everything they do, I can’t imagine all the laughs my friends and I would have. (btw, its a good watch too!)

Baron Von Dishwasher

That was incredimail.

Guest

As God is my witness, The Spy Who Loved Me is still the best Bond film ever!!

Leo Ladenson

It was the first one I saw in the theater. Oh, no, being overcome by nostalgia. Help, I feel a song coming on:

Memories, like the corners of my mind. Misty water-colored memories . . . .

Men’s Asses

One nerd objection: Silva was not gay, it’s part of the whole act. I think it adds depth to his character as well as Bond’s because they both went with the whole thing. It made the AUDIENCE uncomfortable, but the characters stayed cool. It’s part of their whole identity to seduce people in order to gain an upper hand, I think it’s saying they even seduce men if they have to. When Silva does it, he’s just trying to get into Bond’s head, but he knows the game and plays along.

Larmo

me and my Cousin agreed that was the best game of gay chicken we’ve ever seen and were laughing so hard the whole time.
Joseph Ott

I thought it was a sly wink to the ‘laser’ scene in Goldfinger. Served the same purpose as it did back then, in regards to the audiences viewpoint.
AHaynes

Or both.
http://www.facebook.com/floyd.rock.5 Floyd Rock

Well I think he’s clearly attracted to Bond but he’s at least bisexual since I thought the movie made it plain that he’d has sex with Severine, she basically being his sex property or whatever.

randomshane

Oh. sarcasm!

woodch

Plinkett sitting down in agony had me howling out loud. Bravo, Rich Evans!

(However, I was fully expecting him to just stand up without any problems as the punchline.)

KnobCobbler

Funniest RLM moment ever!
- Leo Ladenson
  
  Yes, great Foley.

searanox

I love you, Mike, Rich and Jay. You just get better with every video.

Grayson

I got sad when y’all talked about how the Bond villain is gay and that they did it tastefully and not humorously.. Because I live in Nashville, Tennessee… And everyone in my theater laughed at him… :/

Pizza Roll

I wouldn’t get too upset, because there was humour in the scene, but it was because of the character’s reactions and quips, and not just ending the gag at “HA HA HE’S GAY HAHA”.
JarJarEarlJones

Well.. you live in Tennessee

http://twitter.com/TehCod3r Яәïgη Мāċk

the motorbike scene wasnt green screened they did put their faces on professional riders though.

http://twitter.com/theladybrain Martha Mott

Incorrect. This is the third gay Bond villain. The first and second respectively were Mr. Kidd and Mr. Went from Diamonds Are Forever.

The film is basically perfect, although I’m surprised Jay and Mike didn’t make more of the kimodo dragon scene. It was a little too campy for my taste, but if you think of it as a wink to the goofiness of the Roger Moore films it makes a little more sense.

Ian Flaming

Jaymes Bond movies should never be taken seriously because from the very beginning they were intended to be spoofs of the novels authored by me, Ian Flaming. True story.

zero_miles_per_hour

You’re not Ian Fleming, creator of the James Bond series, you’re Ian Flaming, creator of the James Bondage series.
- 1234
  
  I would watch that

playdude92

The most important point about the new bond movies, particularly Skyfall, is that they´re trying to be dramas as much as thrillers and action movies.

In the old days, people in Bond movies were constantly giving “wink wink” performances because it´s fun. Now they´ll throw in a sarcastic or funny line to endure their life and mask their pain.
Fun times are over, it´s all serious and dramatic now.

zero_miles_per_hour

Did you see a lot of the old Bond films?
http://www.facebook.com/deejaytaufiq Mohamad Taufiq Morshidi

You obviously haven’t seen From Russia With Love and Her Majesty’s Secret Service.

Honestly, i like my spy movies serious and romantic. I am not into the ridiculous gadgets and cheesy villains.

But then again, i’m a fan of the Bond novels.
CorbeauNoir

The first few Connery Bond movies – made in those very same proverbial ‘old days’ you speak of – really aren’t that much different from the Craig movies. The action has gotten more sophisticated but tone-wise they do have more of a scaled-down dramatic feel to them.

If anything one of the things I really liked about Skyfall was how it brings the whole thing full-circle. The action gets a little bit more outlandish, the gadgets and staple characters enter into the equation, and by the end we’ve basically linked back up with Dr. No.
playdude92

I´ll agree, that there was drama in the old bond movies. But honestly: You couldn´t take it nearly as seriously. They were comparable to action movies in that regard. Sure the basic drama has you engaged, as in “What a bastard!” or “Kick his ass James!” But you know, that they´re not realistic in any way. They´re more entertainment than art.
Now they´re going for a balance of entertainment and art.
- CorbeauNoir
  
  What about the Craig movies is ‘art’, exactly? If anything they’re far more into action movie territory than the early Connery movies were so I still don’t really understand what you’re getting at.

8th Level

Bullet fragments in the chest?
Man-Eating CGI Kimono Dragons?
He chokes a guy underwater (let that sink in).

This movie blows.

Pizza Roll

For anyone who wants to down-vote this but can’t sign in, just like this instead
JoeJoe

I have to agree the tone of the movie is anything but consistent. You forgot about the horrid introduction of the new Q and the terrible use of ‘computers in movies’: It’s a virus that displays a GIF animation on your screen! Encrypted files are shown as 3D models that changes colors and morphs!

As they talked about the movie “shifting gears”, I found the movie becoming more and more dull and less and less inventive. The entire movie seemed like a longer version of an episode of Spooks (that’s MI5, for those that watched on BBCA), but done worse.

If you introduce a “brilliant villain plan”, and that consists of nothing more that opening a few doors and walking underground, you are a fucking terrible and lazy writer. The whole ‘brilliant escape plan’ cliche was fail – and done way, way better in a movies like The Dark Knight, Mission Impossible 3, or even The Incredibles.
- Slack41
  
  I agree — first time that I feel substantially different about a film than RLM. I appreciate that the film was competently put together, but I just didn’t feel anything. The tone was a strange mix of injoke wink-wink moments and joyless, depressing runs of personal failure and lots of fairly mean-spirited and ruthless killings. People are disposed with in a callous way so many times,
  
  I didn’t really see what I was supposed to be excited about. It’s interesting that this was Jay’s first James Bond film; it was mine, too, and it surely doesn’t make me want to see any more of those, even though I might be missing out.
  - GinGuilt
    
    I felt the same way you did. Advice: watch Casino Royale.
    - Slack41
      
      Yeah, people say that — OK, I’ll give it a try. I’m not enthusiastic about the franchise at the moment, but I should probably not dismiss it entirely because of one underwhelming experience.
  - justsayin
    
    My pussy hurts too…. smh
- alfred
  
  ”consistent tone is for pussys”-hitchcock
- CorbeauNoir
  
  You’re seriously going to whine about the way they handled computers in the movie? You might as well whine about every single example of contemporary film or television that uses computers too. Yes, we get it, it takes hours/days to actually do that kind of stuff, A) who cares, it’s a movie, there’s a need to efficiently streamline the drive of the story that isn’t compatible with hardcore realism, B) who cares, it’s a BOND movie, nitpicking over crap like this is absurd in the first place.
- http://www.facebook.com/anthony.d.stokes.3 Anthony Donovan Stokes
  
  I agree I’m not one of those people who hated Skyfall it still ended up in my top 10, but I didn’t fall in love with Casino Royale either so i figured it was just me
Jigsaw

About the choking: that guy was holding his breath, but in order to stay alive the oxygen still needed to be transported from the lungs to his brain via the blood. Unfortunately Bond had him in a stranglehold and was compressing the arteries in the neck, cutting off his brain from the blood supply in his lungs. He passed out and subsequently drowned. Perhaps you should acquire some basic knowledge about how the human body works, or at least use the oxygen in your brain a little longer, before you knock a movie for something like that.
Skyfail

I agree with this dude. I love Bond films (the good ones anyway) and I really liked the first two Craig films (Quantum was not awful) but Skyfall had so many moments that dropped the ball. And I am not one to pick apart movies on plot holes either. Visually, a good movie really! Everything else was dogshit. Maybe the worst Bond movie in a long long time. Die Another Day was awful but at least it wasn’t trying to be serious.

So many choking a guy underwater moments in this film. Big disappointment.
Entertaining review by RLM though.
- NotSeanConnery’sDrink
  
  you defend quantum and die another day – then rip this ?
  fuck off.
Leo Ladenson

“He chokes a guy underwater (let that sink in).”

ISWYDT.
CorbeauNoir

You do realize the entire first third of the review is mocking exactly the sort of inconsistency-nitpicking you’re doing right now, right?
George Superman

Yeah they should be comopletely realistic and serious in James Bond movie. Thats what the review was about – a statement that movies about a martini drinking, woman-loving, gadget-using superspy from england with a licence to kill should be as realistic and serious as possible becauce thats what they are about.

How about that Naked Gun movies ? Seen any ? Boy were they unrealistic! You should write how bad that is immediatly.

Cyvaris

My only problem is how they handled Eve there at the end. Finally a badass woman, who has good sexual chemistry with Bond….and she gets put behind a desk.

anon

the motor cycle part wasnt green screened, most bond movies dont use cgi and that stuff to keep it more realistic

Craig Johnson

James Bond is still my second favourite Time Lord

Disgruntled Fan

WHERE IS IT

WHERE’S THE NEW PLINKETT REVIEW

JMTH

I believe Mr. Plinkett can’t afford a VHS tape to his camera now, as he’s deposited all of his money to these two frauds.
- George Superman
  
  Thats Fake Plinkett.
  
  True Plinkett probbably blew off his cash on whores and cocaine while mumbling about upcoming Baby Genusues 2 review

NOWAY

Skyfall is a generic Action movie that doesn’t deserve to be called “James Bond” at all. They sucked out all the fun of James Bond by just ignoring the most important elements of the Bond Series. You could name this movie “Daniel Craig is chilling in a pool, is depressed and there are some action sequences”. If you guys dealt a bit more with Bond and knew more about it than just youtube scenes and the latest ( maye 9 ) movies, I’m a 100% positive you would make Plinkett reviews for the Craig Bond movies, because they equally suck and are shocking on the same level as the prequal trilogy were. I go as far and say they are even worse.

http://twitter.com/Rockybalboa211 Louis Gonzales

Casino Royale and Skyfall were fantastic and bold films. Quantum of Solace was just a cliched action film though.
Christopher Kulik

Daniel Craig > Pierce Brosnan
- zero_miles_per_hour
  
  Goldeneye was cool, but sadly it seems that this is true.
Einster

Funny you say that, since the Pierce Brosnan films are a lot more like generic action movies than the Daniel Craig films. Tomorrow Never Dies being the worst, as it feels like an American action film by Jerry Bruckheimer. And to compare Craig’s films to the prequel trilogy? Please. Daniel Craig’s Bond films have done for the Bond franchise what Nolan’s Batman films did for that franchise.
GinGuilt

the prequels are bad for two reasons: First, they shit all over the previous movies; Second, each movie alone DOESN’T WORK ON IT’S OWN. It’s bad filmaking, they are bad movies, if they were released before the original trilogy Star Wars wouldn’t be successful and people would fucking hate the whole franchise.

The Craig movies may not be good Bond movies, I DON’T KNOW. You may be bitching because there’s not enough ridiculous shit on the screen, because he’s blonde or because the movie doesn’t open with the barrel gun, or you may have actual good reasons to bitch. I haven’t seen enough Bond movies to know. But they are good movies. Casino Royale and Skyfall are, at least. They are well directed, they have good actors, they have a nice script, they have high production values. Casino Royale is in my top 5 of action movies. It can’t be that insulting to you that these movies are about James Bond, because by the end of the they, they are good fucking movies. So make an effort and try to enjoy them.

http://twitter.com/b8zs Oculist Witness

You guys are so stupid. This movie sucked. I was so bored.

Christopher Kulik

Nancy should have said “Computer Says No” and coughed.

Pat

Clips from James Bond vs Dracula!

Sparkles Peterson

I enjoyed Skyfall, but I had a sinking feeling that got worse with every nod to the classic Bond movies that we are about three years away from Daniel Craig being poorly green-screened skiing away from ninjas. I just don’t see a place for the schlocky Bond movies today. Bond doesn’t have to become a morally ambiguous Le Carre spy (Though I’m anxious to see a Tinker Tailor sequel), but why can’t we stick with the Casino Royale James Bond who bloodies his knuckles, runs through walls, and gets his balls crushed by the villain?

Pizza Roll

This movie was so bad that I almost threw up my soul.

CorbeauNoir

Am I being edgy enough yet?!

sheeshguys

FYI: This review is loaded with spoilers. I had to turn it off in the first few minutes… fuck guys. Love the show but give a little warning, though it would have been hard to do with the sarcastic review…

GinGuilt

I thought the movie was pretty good, but I didn’t enjoyed it all that much. Maybe it was my fault but I felt that the whole “Bond is old” was way too much metalinguistic and it was way too much on my face, it took me out of the movie. Especially when the car came up…
Plus, I think it laked tone and that the movie took too much time before introducing the awesome villain (the movie became way better after his arc was introduced, thanks to Barden brilliant acting).
Overall it was a good movie but it didn’t engaged me too much. Casino Royale remains as the best Bond movie I’ve seen.

stolliosis

I agree with you a lot. And, although I enjoyed the movie, I didn’t really dig them taking Bond into the Nolan/TDKR, gritty, hero coming out of retirement territory with Bond. Bond should be a fun action movie.
James Dolt

I too thought the movie was metalinguistic.

Also, shallow and pedantic.
- Name
  
  I’m gonna learn what those words mean… someday. but for now, up voted.

Toady

are you guys going to review Wreck-It Ralph?

CP

How the fuck can Jay not have seen a bond movie before???

JMT

Is this your first HITB review? One of them is almost always saying, that he hadn’t seen previous movies of the series they are reviewing. It’s part of their theme.
- CP
  
  I can understand not having seen Lost or the Scream series, but saying you’ve never seen a Bond flick strikes me as strange as someone who’s never seen a Disney movie – they’re just hard to avoid. How many 30+ year old cinephiles do you know who’ve managed to not see a Bond flick ever JMT? I love HITB but that struck me as just weird…
  - localvagrant
    
    Jay just said he wasn’t familiar with it…
    - Maraselah
      
      No he said he’d never seen one.
  - http://www.facebook.com/tim.viper.recordings Tim Viperreli
    
    Seriously bizarre an ultra-film nerd like Jay who’s probably watched 5,000 films in his life hasn’t seen any Bond films. The other people posting “well they review other sequels they haven’t seen before” are seriously challenged. It’s fucking BOND you crackface’s, not Jeepers Creepers 2.
- allystoria
  
  Neither of them saw the Resident Evil movies either but they reviewed the newest one anyway hahah!
  - scream
    
    And Scream 4 was the first Scream movie for I believe Mike
    - CP
      
      Right but those are both b-grade franchises. Are you telling me no one else sees the difference here…
    - http://twitter.com/madhi19 John G
      
      Yep it kind of hard to believe. With so many movie in the franchise every time you watch TV you got good odds that some channel got a Bond movie playing, Not to mention the video store age, any half decent video store had a large Bond section.
  - Christopher Kulik
    
    Actually Jay did say he saw the first one when it came out, but had forgotten about it entirely. Watching the review made me glad I never subjected myself to that schlock.
http://profiles.google.com/charlesp2009 Charles Petrosky

I had never seen a Bond movie up to 2007 when I decided to sit down and watch Dr. No, From Russia With Love, and all the Brosnan films.

Gotta say I don’t see why so many people think From Russia With Love is so great. It did pretty nothing for me. Dr. No is a classic of course and setup a lot of what carried through many of the other films. Goldeneye was good fun but I could sense the pandering to Bond cliches. Tomorrow Never Dies started great but fell flat onboard the stealth boat. The World Is Not was pretty forgettable to me, save for the most unbelievable film portrayal of a nuclear physicist. And Die Another Day. Oh boy how stupid that film was. Lose any one bad element and I suppose it’d have been a decent film but combining the copious crappy CGI with stupid dialog and seriously over-the-top comic book action and you must reboot your Bond.

Months back Netflix had several films for a time. That’s when I saw License To Kill. I appreciate some of the cinematography and I really like the theme song but that Bond was so bland and flat IMO. Also saw Moonraker which was pretty fun albeit silly.
- Christopher Brown
  
  I hated From Russia With Love on first watch (except for the Bond girl and that adorable kitty cat) because it was so. Slow. Then a year later, when I re-watched it, a miracle happened: I really liked it! It’s slow to be sure, but that’s because the plot is a bit more complex than most of the era’s and it took me the second viewing to pick up on the purpose of much of what I had assumed was filler. Also that film has the best fight scene of the entire series IMO. GoldenEye was great *because* it addressed the Bond cliches; we hadn’t really had an examination of what made Bond tick before that point.

zero_miles_per_hour

That clip of the fake-looking guy who pops like an overinflated balloon, that’s from the greatest Bond film ever, Live And Let Die. It’s Roger Moore’s debut, and it’s the reason why he’s the Bond with the most movies under his belt. The one where Bond goes to the moon was one of his, and it wasn’t even close to his last. They didn’t retire him until he’d gotten so old that his Bond films were kind of unsettling to watch.

Christopher Kulik

Actually Roger Moore ties with Sean Connery when you include NEVER SAY NEVER AGAIN. Both have seven movies under belts playing Bond. Oh, by the way, MOONRAKER was cool compared to the boring atrocity that was A VIEW TO A KILL.

http://www.facebook.com/matthew.r.barry1 Mongo

You covered up the number for Wok-to-Go. How will I be able to call them and ask when they’ll have pizza rolls?

http://www.facebook.com/Spike.Ghost Jean-François Martel

Well you are lucky Jay, my first James Bond movie was “Die Another Day” … And it is still the only one i have seen so far.

Cookies So Yummy

During the first half of the review, they don’t like it, then in the second half, they do. PLOT HOLE!!! What the hell!?!

Jesus

Please Father tell me this is a joke! Please tell me people have not fallen so far!
555film

besides, why must they go on and on about the lucas star wars disney thing. treated it as WAY too important. totally ruined the review for me.geez get a grip guys

Grytpype

Where do they go next? They need to bring back the Quantum organization. You can’t go setting up this big evil organization a la S.P.E.C.T.R.E. and not pursue it further.

Meester Smeeth

I don’t care what you guys do, Half In The Bag, Plinkett, whatever.
You have a fan for life in me so keep it up.
Whatever it is, keep it up.
If I win the lottery any time soon you are guaranteed a donation of a few hundred thousand, maybe even a million depending on how much I win, should I win, on the condition that you keep it up.
If you don’t I will find you. And you will die.
Love you eternally, me.

http://deltaassault.blogspot.com Delta_Assault

I’m surprised you guys didn’t bring up the whole Home Alone influence.

Christopher Kulik

Even ICE CASTLES was better than DIE ANOTHER DAY. Aside from the sword-fight Mike loves, the movie is complete shit. Anyone else upset they didn’t make the Jinx spinoff?

Leo Ladenson

It all comes back to Star Trek 2: The Wrath of Khan.

http://www.facebook.com/robynavich Robyn Boynton Muth

I love you, but you don’t know what you’re talking about………this time

bluntdragon

Was the point of this video to make me stop watching it part way, like I did with Skyfall?

very clever guys.

solidsamurai

It’d be funny if they changed the tune at the end and said ‘here we go again!’.

Peetza Roals

I do not hold it against you two since you really do not know much about Bond movies, but Skyfall has basically the exact same problem Crystal Skull has, which was pointed in your Plinkett review on it. Those of us that love Bond movies love them because of the idea of being Bond. No one cares about the character himself, but we all want to be him. He is a badass playboy that we would all love to be. When you make him some washed-up has-been like he is in Skyfall, we now no longer want to be like him and the movie suffers. It is no different from having an old Indiana Jones that relies on green screens and Shia Labeouf for all the action because he is too old to do anything himself. We do not want to be old Indiana Jones, and we do not want to be a second rate James Bond.

GuestNose

these paragraphs came across cunty.
CorbeauNoir

Except he rises above second-rate Bond, that’s the entire point of the movie.
- Bananaman
  
  But he never does, Bond is not just about being able to shoot people and seduce women. He’s supposed to be one step ahead of everyone else, making the most of every situation and he’s supposed to be a great detective. In skyfall he acts like a fucking retard just going with the flow, why they made him a double 0 I do not know, anyone else would have done a better job. His detective work in skyfall is basically just going from one place to the next hoping to bump in to the same person.
  - guber
    
    I agree with Peetza and Banana man. I thought this bond movie was lame and they used almost strictly recycled ideas. Hard drive with the list of secret agents? See NOC list from mission impossible, estranged ex agent out for revenge? See Alec from Goldeneye or 100 other villain characters. And like the other two said, Bond is supposed to be a universal badass, not a geriatric failure. Like HITB said, he doesnt stop the assassin, doesnt get the information, and the whole point of him taking M out to Skyfall was that he was trying to get a leg up on Bardem and she fucking gets clipped by a ricochet or some shit and dies later. Lame… Bond totally failed. There wasnt even a sweet 1 on 1 knife fight like i thought was coming, he just throws that shit and Bardem says “Damnit” and then he dies. I can’t think of any bond movie where he completely fails at his main objective, and they just move on like “Hey, youre old, slow, failed as a double 0, but its all good, we got more work for ya.” As a standalone action movie it plays well, if not very well, but for us Bond fans out there, this was a disappointment.
    - Tristan
      
      Honestly, what bugged me most about the Bond aging subplot was that he just ‘gets over it’ when the plot needs him to. It really plays into my ‘pissy baby boomer’ theory about the movie. The subtext ends up being that all those people saying you can’t do the stuff you did when you were younger are just WRONG, damn it! I don’t care what the tests say!
  - CorbeauNoir
    
    The extent of Bond’s ‘detective work’ usually boils down to sleeping with the first Bond girl to get closer to the villain and/or somehow going undercover as a hired assassin or a henchman. He does both in Skyfall so how is it any different, exactly?
    - Bananaman
      
      That’s… just wrong, do you really remember the good ones correctly? Watch dr. No for example, he’s basically just doing detective work the entire movie.
    - http://twitter.com/madhi19 John G
      
      Dr No date back to 1962 the bar got a lot lower since. If anything it the exception not the rule.
Oakstave

It’s definitely a change in tone. However, Mike addressed his bias in this matter. He mentioned the thematic difference between the ‘Bourne Identity’ type of Bond and the more tradtional, and mentioned he liked both.

I agree this movie is does not fit the traditional Bond image. However, they took this same approach with Wrath of Kahn, and it worked. Kirk had a few more movies left in him and the character endures.
If it’s purposeful, it’s an interesting statement to make on the 50th Anniversary of Bond.
http://twitter.com/BeanheadMcGinty Russell Cope

And this is why Roger Moore will always be the best Bond. He knows he’s indestructible so treats it all like a big game. No one ever agrees with me about this though.
- Guest
  
  I agree with you.
corte

That’s cute, you actually think this movie was aimed at Bond fans.
http://twitter.com/gabegx GabeyMcBaby

Also, why is he old and washed up already? The whole point of the Craig reboot in Casino Royale was that he is new and inexperienced. They completely crapped on the whole “trilogy origin story” with this movie by having him be washed up. This movie is just a wholesale ripoff of Nolans Batmovies, and at the point I realized that while watching it, it just completely took me out of the movie. skyFAIL.
- ygoraphobic
  
  Yes, because the physical and psychological trauma of getting shot by your own agency and nearly drowned is so easy to come back from when you’re well past your 20′s, I’m sure. Maybe you forgot WHY he was supposed to be scrubbed and had “lost his edge”? Had nothing to do with ripping off Nolan, it had everything to do with giving tension to the plot by making MI6 vulnerable on every level, including their star agent.
hrwilliams

Here’s the thing, though. I hated the old Bond movies. I don’t even consider myself a feminist, but I am when I watch the old Bond movies. This is just an opinion, obviously, but I hold that the old Bond movies are stupid. I only stopped saying in general “I hate James Bond” because the reboots had depth and insight. So maybe Skyfall has alienated some of the oldschool fans, but it’s also brought in new fans. And in the end, isn’t that what Christmas is all about?
http://www.facebook.com/davidrvetter David Vee

Absolutely spot on.

Sam

Man with the golden gun car flip was actually done, as was most of the Skyfall motorbike scene was real too.

Herrerasaurus

Skyfall lacked a good long casino scene most of all.

Robby

The opening of the review was like a huge sigh of relief for me. Awesome review, and thank you.

Brook

For guys who review movies, you guys sure haven’t seen a lot, haha

gala4711

If Skyfall was really a good James Bond movie your review had actually looked like this:

a) you had big laughs and chuckles on some schlocky, ridiculous and hillarious typical James Bond action scenes. Never happened.

b) you wouldn’t have had to do a 7 minute sarcams-intro to shrugg of the haters. Instead there would have been more than a handful (and insight) arguments and reasons why this movie is actually good (other than “good actors, good director, good photography). Never happened.

c) you would have actually recommended the movie instead of just “giving it a pass”.

jigsawbeggar

i really loved skyfall. was hell lot of better, than the last bond movies except goldeneye. just my opinion but loved that bond is back in UK

Skanker

Amazing episode!

debaser

oh mr plinkett, you silly old fart.

by the way i love the way how daniel craig is running. pure awesomeness. it reminded me a little of the T-1000 from T2.
the movie was all right, boring here or there, but entertaining overall. it looks great, has a pretty strong visual style, the stunts are real (well, except the fucking CGI lizards – why, why, why), the jokes are mostly funny, the characters are likeable. i only hated Q, he’s too much of a stereotype – sure, everyone else is, but this “i’m a HACKER, so i wear glasses and i’m a geek” shit is really getting old. the whole hacking part is boring and stupid, but whatever. the ending sequence is brilliant with all the sets and oldschool fighting.

Zack Blastoff

Aren’t American audiences confused by an English character that is not a villain?

AnimistPrimal

Yeah this was one of the first times where I significantly disagreed with them. I hated this movie and was literally falling asleep during it, one of the few times I have ever done that. I will give a Bond film some leeway in terms of plotholes and things that do not make sense but this really pushed it for me. But to say that this was better than Casino Royale, are you fucking kidding me?!

Sean C

Skyfall was aight. It’s better than Quantum of Solace, so I think that explains the big pendulum swing to “OMG SKYFALL IS AWESOME” when really… eh. Casino Royale forever.

Bourgeoisie

Any chance of a youtube link?

poohbahII

Fucking hell, Mike and Jay, if you’ve never seen Bond films before, you’re in a for a treat. May I recommend, in order of watching:

Goldfinger (this one isn’t just a great Bond fil, it’s a great movie)
From Russia With Love
On Her Majesty’s Sceret Service
Live & let Die
The Man With the Golden Gun
The Living Daylights

No seriously, get some beers and some fat-bottomed hoors and watch these films over a weekend.

eliza

As somebody who works in IT, I’m actually cool with the ridiculousness of how computer hacking and decryption is in movies like this. It makes sense. You need that to tell the story. Film is a visual medium. Computer programming is not a visual process, or at least, not one that can be easily understood by the popcorn-eating masses. It has to be a challenge for filmmakers to come up with an entertaining way to visually convey the information that’s being revealed in those kind of sequences. I like the way they did it here.

JarJarEarlJones

thanks nerd

tobi

I am the only one, who cannot start the episode?

your humble narrator

How can you call yourself movie fans/reviewers and never watched the previous Bond movies? Maybe I’m getting old, but it just seems bizarre.

your humble narrator

The opening car chase of Quantum of Solace was awesome. I don’t care what you think.

Some guy

The Plinkett chair segment with Mike and Jay filling up their coffee cups with candy made me laugh to tears. I literally spilled some coffee on my board in that scene because I couldn’t control myself!

Assassinador

They might have gone too far in a few places.

http://www.facebook.com/people/Nicolas-Esposito/100003480244968 Nicolas Esposito

Exactly, review Zardoz and The Room together, then you can go to rehab

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1116892654 David Wellman

I, for one, did not like Skyfall all that much for pretty much for the opening train scene: just run away! And the pointless assassination scene. What was that for? It was good filler, but not worth paying full price in a theater.

http://twitter.com/bbhaver2 bbhaver

Thanks guys, great episode.

Chicken n Waffles

Diamonds are Forever had gay hitmen.

http://twitter.com/MoonfleetMusic Moonfleet Music

Hey Jay, who is Daniel Cregg?

Manuel

Can you fix the Half In The Bag Ep. 6? Thank you!

Nick

Wanna watch but havent seen Skyfall yet. Any spoilers?

http://www.facebook.com/vampirewatermelon Casey Anderson

I think what would be a clever Bond villain would be to go the Unabomber route, and have a villain who thinks the proliferation of technology is evil and the world needs to be purged of it.

Chipset

Actually the motorbikes on the rooftops bit was real stuntmen on real bikes on real rooftops/sets. Watch the top gear james bond special, they talk to one of the stuntmen.

Dzonis

great serie

Johnay

I love you guys more than my wife! Because she has cancer….

Robert Chen

you guys didnt go see cloud atlas?

http://twitter.com/RevDrEBuzz Rev. Dr. E Buzz

How in the hell can you guys not have seen these movies? I understand about the young guy, but these were PG movies, and the old dude could have seen the Roger Moore movies in the theatre.

But…how the hell could you not have seen these movies???

http://www.facebook.com/tiffy.jones.908 Tiffy Jones

Thanks for the spoilers.

A little warning next time, assholes.

playdude92

Request: An HitB James Bomd retrospective on:

Goldfinger, You Only Live Twice, Live and Let Die, Moonraker, Licence To Kill, Goldeneye and Casino Royale.

These movies are my picks, but you should consider a James Bond catch-up in general and might as well do a HitB on it. You like? Good idea? Yes?

Christopher Kulik

When is the next Plinkett review?

allystoria

Wonderful work guys. Solid critique as always, funny, and enjoyable.

CatMolester

What I didn’t like is how the main villain showed a lot of similarities to the Joker from the Dark Knight – he even had his story about the rats to match the scars stories. I always thought that Bond was better than plagiarism, which is why I don’t like Skyfall so much.

Stolliosis

Not to mentioned Skyfall jacked the whole old hero coming out of retirement thing from TDKR. Or the whole mother/father complex with M and Alferd.
- debaser
  
  ” Skyfall jacked the whole old hero coming out of retirement thing from TDKR” there’s only a few months between the two movies. how could they rip off tdkr? i mean really.
ClubberBane

didn’t dark knight rip off Rocky 3 thou?

Davicide

wtf? can’t this play on Mac’s? fascists…

JarJarEarlJones

I get what you guys were going for – but this movie’s biggest shortcoming was that it was a bland action flick – not that it had unrealistic plot points.

Also, comparing it to older Bond films, and their cheeky humor scenes, is invalid as well. The Craig films have tried so hard to be gritty and serious – why are you doing throwbacks to stuffing Tattoo in a suitcase?

Bob

Trying too hard, guys

Bananaman

Haven’t disagreed with half in Half in the Bag this much before. I knew they wouldn’t hate it since they seem to have grown soft or something (see: prometheus) but I really thought that Mike, who had already made the point that Crystal skull sucks because you don’t want to be Indy, would agree that this movie sucks because you don’t want to be bond. Not only is he a total wimp who can’t aim but he also acts like a retard and makes stupid desicions over and over again.

Victor

I really liked this Bond movie, though sometimes I felt the plausible and implausible aspects of the plot and characters clashed a bit, the universe was made out to be a bit more down to earth than some things that happened in it, if that makes sense. I was particularly pleased that the action wasn’t shot and edited by the same ADHD people who made Quantum of Solace. You can follow everything really well, and this means you can properly appreciate the work done on stunts and action scenes. I felt at times there were more than subtle winks at The Dark Knight, even going so far as to have almost identical scenes in some cases.
Overall, I almost liked it as much as Casino Royale (a movie that to me does almost nothing wrong in terms of action scene editing, characters, and plot), and a lot more than Quantum of Solace.
Thanks for another HitB, love you guys.

oakstave

7:30 to avoid the snark.

Guest

Why would you ever want to avoid snark? That’s why we’re here!

oakstave

Another Great Review! I was puzzled at first… These just keep getting better. Thank you.

Simon Beefheart

The next Bond should be smaller-scale, shorter and cheaper. We suggest an adaptation ‘The Harpies’ or a 21st century version of ‘Colonel Sun’. Not only would it most likely still be great, it would make any big-budget Bond movie that comes after it more interesting, too, due to the contrast.

Obrighm

Watching Rich sit down and get up made me choke on my fucking tacos

Ted

for schlocky, campy bond Tomorrow Never Dies, it’s totally one of those so bad it’s good films

Mister_Misinformed

We get it. You’re guys who became famous for nitpick bitching about movies who are sarcastically above other people who nitpick bitch about movies. You’ve run your sarcastic superiority into the ground defending mediocre movies with high promotional budgets that don’t need your help swatting down people who expect a little more from their entertainment.

stagpool

They’re not famous for nitpicking. They’re famous for pointing out major storytelling flaws, and then making fun of people like you that don’t understand the difference between that and nitpicking.
CorbeauNoir

Nobody’s got a gun to your head forcing you to watch it. If anything I give them props for apparently striking a nerve in uptight assholes like yourself.
- Mister_Misinformed
  
  Nobody put a gun to Mike’s head and made him watch the Star Wars prequels either… what an “uptight asshole!” But from a quick scan up and down the posts in this thread, it does seem someone has a gun to your head forcing you to jump on anyone who posts a negative opinion and offer catty fanboy insults. I’m praying for your safe delivery from this deadly conundrum.

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=753345456 Octo Seven

Love half int he bag but this was a chore to get through.Smarmy sarcasm can only go so far,

stagpool

Yeah! Why do these guys that are famous for being sarcastic and smartass have to be so sarcastic and smartass???
guest

Had to turn the sound off on Rich Evans screaming, that guy is definitely not as amusing as Mike and Jay think he is.
- guest
  
  ” that guy is definitely not as amusing as I THINK HE IS.”
  
  See, that’s how opinions work.
- guest
  
  HAHAHA DISREGARD THAT I SUCK COCKS

Francisco Arreola

i love you

Appallededed

Jay hasn’t seen a single Bond film? Wow, I always thought he was the doofus of the pair and really not needed, but that confirmed it.

Colby

I didn’t like this one. I thought the action was boring as hell

Mark Bisone

Javier Boredom wasn’t the first gay Bond villain. You forgot about Mr. Wint and Mr. Kidd: “I must say Miss Case seems quite attractive… for a lady.”

http://www.facebook.com/people/Jason-Yungbluth/100000492345495 Jason Yungbluth

Well done, sirs. Quite a few chuckles.

http://www.facebook.com/andy.ladewski Andy Ladewski

I’ve never seen a James Bond film either!

james

Grrr I’m angry that your rational take of this film doesn’t validate my negative opinion! Skyfall is the worst James Bond film ever even though it has great cinematography, great performances, well executed action, and a surprising amount of characterization that the Bond films aren’t generally known for. But other than all those positive attributes, it was terrible…for some reason.

Elisha

Can you guys put it on YouTube? please please

AW8

I loved the movie, it could’ve been better but it was thrilling and the ending was really suspenseful. The nighttime flaming camera shots in the ending were beautiful.

I also absolutely loved this review. When Rich Evans tried sitting down I almost spit out water all over my keyboard. The sarcastic beginning with the insertions of Moore-era clips also had me laughing out loud several times.

The whole plot with Plinkett’s almost sleepwalky behaviour was hilarious. It bugged me how unrealistic it was though, Half in the Bag has always been very grounded in reality after all. You could also clearly make out the greenscreen when you toss out your coffee on the wall.

http://www.facebook.com/johnctibbetts John Tibbetts

Mike, if you enjoy schlocky James Bond movies you would probably enjoy all the Roger Moore ones on that level. They are pretty silly for the most part. There’s some fun/funny stuff in the Connery ones (Diamonds are Forever definitely comes to mind, it’s ridiculous), but the Roger Moore ones take it to a new level. The Timothy Dalton ones are a little over serious, and the Brosnan ones are kind of in the middle, with Die Another Day being pretty Roger Moore-like.

JarJarEarlJones

One of my favorite scenes was the drinking with a scorpion on your hand scene.

Ooh. Look at the white man who is able to preform a feat no other can. All the nebulous/South American ‘natives’ are in awe

Guest

They were obviously Greek. You’re not likely to wash up ashore in South America after falling into the sea near Istanbul.

no you pick a name

this fuckin guy did a full on review of “baby’s day out” being a horrible movie, when it was merely a cartoon ported over into live action. its a childs film! yet, the bond franchise has always had a goofy, unrealistic side that made is STAND THE FUCK OUT from all the other movies. They were slick, silly and Bond always won. They were episodes about everyones favorite british spy. However, now he likes the more “realistic” bond movies because… THEY ARE LIKE ALL THE OTHER FUCKING MOVIES. Are you mentally retarded? go watch bourne identity, dont support the people fucking up the bond franchise. if you were a james bond fan you would realize why a blonde haired, blue eyed muscular jock james bond with mental issues ISN’T FUCKING ENTERTAINING and why goofy stuff that they did by pushing the envelope every single film was what made the film series a classic. “I like both bonds” good for you. you get to have your cake and eat it too!

ps. daniel craig sucks dick at acting. i cannot name a worse actor, him and his non emoting mutant face is the worst.

whoosh

Wow.

You’re a fucking idiot, dude.
- JarJarEarlJones
  
  Good rebuttal
Meester Smeeth

Daniel Craig is the best actual actor to actually play Bond, actually, with Timothy Dalton close second. I’m not saying they’re the 2 best Bonds but they’re definitely the 2 best actors who have ever donned the Bond-cape and Bond-cowl.
- JarJarEarlJones
  
  what makes Craig a good actor?? Every role he plays, he walks around with a frown/semi-angry look on his face. Ashton Kutcher – who yells all his lines – has more range than Craig
  - Meester Smeeth
    
    He’s much more versatile than you give him credit for, although Ashton Kutcher is pretty good too.
    - JarJarEarlJones
      
      Yeah, you’re saying so doesn’t make it true. Name some examples. He
      was the same in Layer Cake, Dragon Tattoo, and Bond. ‘The guy who looks serious’
      
      Looking serious on camera and being a serious actor are 2 different things
    - Meester Smeeth
      
      I could understand Bond and whoever he plays in Cowboys and Aliens (serious guys who look seriously serious), but how the hell is he the same in Layer Cake, Dragon Tattoo and Bond? He may be serious-looking sometimes (super serial at certain points and in certain things), but it’s not like he’s emotionally concrete as far as performance goes. How about Road To Perdition? The Jacket? Even The Invasion. Not all great movies but great examples of Craig’s versatility. He isn’t always a face of solid stone.

Guest

Not the first gay villain. Mr. Kidd and Mr. Wint from Diamonds Are Forever were a gay couple.

Nielsen700

Not the first gay villain. Mr. Kidd and Mr. Wint from Diamonds Are Forever was a gay couple.

http://twitter.com/Tea557 Tea557

You need to do an epic review of he twilight series, bring Rich Evans and his laugh. It will be put to good use.

velvetjones

Rich Evans will always be Spacecop to me.

The Mager

You didn’t even mention the awesome cinematography and how it was so stylishly shot! some of those settings were definetly worth a mention!

Mynock

We going to get a new review as a Thanksgiving treat or what? Each new post you guys throw up that isn’t the new review makes me feel like you’re all Lucy pulling away the football. So cut the shit… Do appreciate HitB though.

Manny

I think the movie review you are giving Skyfall is an ordinary, watch the movie, analyze it scene by scene sort of approach, which I know is how all movie reviews should be conducted; however, with a bond movie I find it necessary to have seen the other bond films in order to give it a fair review. Like at 10:32, Ray says he understands the staples of a bond film, and says it opens like a bond movie. There was no gun barrel scene, it happened at the end, and it happened so quickly no one probably saw it. The gun barrel scene is what sparks the beginning of the film because it’s so fucking awesome. I’m sorry, but this was not a traditional bond film. Much like the original star trek movies and the most recent one, I think Skyfall was a much more modern version of a classic Bond film in that it went over the top with the action. Like when Bond got into the CAT on the train and started to claw away at the train, I thought Optimus Prime was going to start fighting in the background. Although it maybe time consuming, I think you guys should watch the bond films and then review Skyfall. Kind of like with the paranormal activity 4 review, you guys were able to realize it was complete shit because it was basically the same crap from the other three movies. Now if you guys hadn’t seen the other paranormal activity movies, I think you guys would have taken a different approach to it. Much like the paranormal activity movies, the same goes for Bond films, but hell that’s just me. My opinion of the movie is if someone who has never seen a bond film and has no knowledge of James Bond previous to seeing the film decided to watch this movie, they would find this movie good because it has action and a good story line. but for someone like me who has seen the other bond films, it seems liked Neal Purvis and Robert Wade just pulled this movie out of their asses much like what they did with Quantum of Solace, the only difference being Quantum of Solace put me to sleep the first time I saw it.

Mynock

This post put me to sleep the first time I read it…
- Mark Bisone
  
  How many fucking times did you read it?

Tom Servo

I’m 1 of 3 people who didn’t like Skyfall. I went in thinking it was going to be the best Bond ever. Between the insane amount of nodes to the old films and going to the trouble of saying that Silva (and was to assume all 00 agents) had a spy name but then reveal that James Bond is the dude’s actual name. there was a lot that was just bad to me about it. I love the shlock from the older Bond movies and the crazy gadgets that Q gave Bond, but this movie was just really bizarre to me.

. . . Also another thing that bothered me was when Q says “Security through obscurity,” without spoilers, that is totally not what that means. It’s like someone through out a hacking term and no one bothered to look it up.

I didn’t hate this movie, but I didn’t like it.

http://www.facebook.com/JAGUART Ted Vackerics

Quantum of Salace.

7superdaimajin

Quantum of Salad.

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=651820555 Vincent Emanuel D’Amico

i watched the first 10 minutes of this review, glad to know it sucked before i wasted money on this flop.

Bilbo Biggins

I will only see the next Bond movie if agent “M” has a nude yodeling scene. No exceptions.

Nips McGiggins

God, please let there be a Paranormal Activity 5: Activity Reloaded.

Jeff

Where the hell is your promised Plinkett review you assholes. Stop dicking around with our emotions!

Spike

Loved the ridiculous, tongue-in-cheek opening to this review. Skyfall is without a doubt, the best Bond film I’ve seen since… Goldeneye I guess. The ending is great; Bond fans will find it very satisfying.

But what the fuck do I know.

paul

fuck all, apparently.

emmawatson

Yet another juke from the shifty Mike and Jay! This hitb episode and not some 2 min shit in your face preview has bought you 1 more week of time to release that plinkett review. You have been warned!

http://www.facebook.com/emil.pesic Emil Pesic

Your review sucks. In fact I am beginning to wonder if you are getting paid to give Skyfall a positive review.

Joe

Yes, because clearly the studio behind Skyfall need all the help they can get when it comes to spreading positive word on this film, you fucking idiot.

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/skyfall/
- http://www.facebook.com/emil.pesic Emil Pesic
  
  If you hadn’t used that foul language I might have given you a proper answer. Instead I’ll just say go fuck yourself.
  - joe
    
    If you’re honestly so stupid that you believe RLM is getting paid to give movies good reviews, nothing about your answer would be “proper.”

toaster

wasn’t the general from golden eye gay?

Pat

The Sarcasm in this episode goes three levels deep!
This much Sarcasm within Sarcasm is too unstable!

Erica S

I didn’t see you guys touch on it but I was completely caught up in the filmography. The intro to the Casino, the shots in Shanghai, the orange-glow of the field scenes, so many other scenes included were just shot so beautifully.l

DeuceKathrynBigelow

Cinematography. Unless you mean you really liked the things Daniel Craig has been in before.

http://www.facebook.com/lee.karpel.7 Lee Karpel

i just had to mention, the scene where they are on motorcycles on the roof was not green screened. that was shot with stunt actors riding at up to 70mph on the roof tops. saw interviews and behind the scenes showing it.

http://www.facebook.com/floyd.rock.5 Floyd Rock

You guys should familiarize yourself with the Bond series outside the Brosnan and Craig movies. I’ll give you a little rundown.

Connery movies for the most part are rather good, Diamonds are Forever is kind of a dud though but the rest are worth the time, From Russia with Love especially. I would say it’s the best of the franchise, Connery was never smoother and it’s just part a great Bond movie and part great spy set up. I say Dr. No and Thunderball are the other main ones though a lot will say Goldfinger is, but I’d disagree. Still a better Bond film of course.

Lazenby’s one outing in On Her Majesty’s Secret Service is kind of divisive but I say it’s one of the best as well.

Roger Moore’s movies are mostly silly schlock but Spy Who Loved Me and For Your Eyes Only are worth seeing.

And last there’s Dalton who I think is pretty underrated. His first movie isn’t that great but he still makes for a great Bond and License to Kill is pretty solid (Not to mention one of the rougher ones).

LQ

Seriously RLM, the bell has got to go.

Jon Khores

No Cloud Atlas review?

Adam Freeman

Mike also left out the court scene. I thought it could end there too.

Power Dude

You guys are fuckin AWESOME! Your always welcome to come and get a free tattoo from me anytime! I almost passed out laughing on this one! Lmfao …

BlackLotus

How the hell do you want to review a Bond movie if you don’t know any?

This was the worst Bond movie ever and all you said was that the movie would have sucked if it wasn’t a Bond movie….WHAT?

Ed

The word you are looking for is “back hoe” as opposed to “Crack ho.”

Brodoyouevenscout?

I have some question like,

When is the next Plinkett review?
and
When is the next Plinkett review?

Craigilicious

This movie is a great argument for giving action films to real filmmakers. Take them away from hacks like McG or whatever his stupid name is.

Tristan

It’s always weird for me when Mike and Jay’s take is so far off from my own, because usually I’m sitting here laughing and shouting ‘spot on’ and so forth to compensate for spending my saturday alone on a computer. The only other time I was on such a different wavelength was the Captain America review.

All the callbacks and the Bond feeling his age stuff just took me right out of it for a few reasons. It jars with the very deliberate ‘reboot’ in Casino Royale. Granted, you should probably ignore continuity between Bond films, but the audience can only be expected to do that if the film makers don’t go out of their way to bring it up. Why does the Craig Bond care about the old Aston Martin (complete with machine guns and ejector seat)? How can he possibly be getting past his prime when he just became a double-O two movies back? How weird is it that they’re doing this ‘maybe he’s too old’ plot in Craig’s third movie when he’s currently something like two or three years older than Brosnan was in Goldeneye?

All this meta-textual 50th anniversary stuff was also plays a part in the thing that really put me off it, the ending’s weird subtext that they’re going to get back to proper old-fashioned Bond stuff, complete with a Q, a male M, and a flirty secretary named Moneypenny (why is that line not getting the same universal mockery as the ‘Robin’ line in Dark Knight Rises?). It felt like the franchise was apologizing for ever trying to do anything original and promising not to do so again, which isn’t exactly exciting me for future installments, and ends up having some vaguely sexist and pro-security state implications to boot.

TLDR version: This is the most acutely aware I’ve ever been that a film was aimed at my Dad’s worst pissy baby-boomer inclinations.

Tristan

You know what I really should have put a SPOILER WARNING on my post down there. Sorry for anyone I may piss off.

http://www.facebook.com/aaron.rabinowitz.14 Aaron Rabinowitz

All of these little nitpicks actually lowered my opinion of the movie quite a bit.

7superdaimajin

So, by the standards of this review, The Phantom Menace is now a great movie?

guest

Only if you totally lack any comprehension skills.

j

I like half in the bag but you guys should consider going a little lighter on the sarcasm and spend a little more time actually reviewing the movie. I like hearing you guys actually talk about the movies but the extra fluff you put into your reviews can get out of hand sometimes.

Frank the NOOB

It felt like a reboot of a reboot

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=730430121 Rob Thomas

Yeah – Spoilers –

I friggin’ hated it.

Awesome set up, awesome bad guy all the way until they drove north and the film turned into a remake of Precinct 13 (or a really violent Home Alone). Set in the most improbably named Scottish estate of Skyfall (it’s like they came up with a cool name and then wondered where they could stick in the film).

The first a middle part of the film sets the stakes, the bad guy has the names of undercover spies, he’s releasing them on youtube, he’s bombed MI6, he has an island filled with computers and he can do anything. He’s two steps ahead all the way – and what’s his master plan?

He wants to shot Judi Dench.

All the stakes established in the first 2 hours of the film – forget about that, not important, here’s a shoot out in a castle.

For me this shift in direction did not tie sufficiently to what was established earlier in the film and was massive disappointment.

http://www.facebook.com/anthony.d.stokes.3 Anthony Donovan Stokes

I’ve learned not to watch reviews these guys make of movies I like lol they’re a little bit snobbish, I HATE HATE HATE when people do this , but when they gave Xmen First Class a negative review because of the way the crew in the warship was filmed i stopped watching

guest

Yeah, because the way a scene is filmed doesn’t have any affect on its quality or how the audience perceives it.

Also, did you watch this entire review? I’m assuming not because there’s no way you would have missed the point so badly.
- http://www.facebook.com/anthony.d.stokes.3 Anthony Donovan Stokes
  
  I didn’t watch the review. That’s why I said “i’ve learned not to watch reviews” I didn’t mention this review I mentioned the First Class review.
  
  And they where talking about a specific shot. as in if they had picked a different shot it would’ve been fine or at least better, that just seems like nitpicking to me which is fine it’s their review I’m not complaining

http://twitter.com/DanielBurke1 daniel burke

Skyfall, QoS, Casino Royale are not Bond Movies. Even before that Bond Movies had been going down hill. The action scenes are getting faster and faster but the thought and effort being put into them and the plot and the dialogue is getting dumber and dumber.

Mrclydefrog

Umm…major plot hole in your review: You assclowns didn’t talk about the literal plot hole in the beginning when Bond has a bullet hole in his shoulder from when he got shot in the construction digger, yet he can still fight and punch no problem. WTF? How can he do that? PLOT HOLE!!!!

http://www.facebook.com/haberman Joshua Haberman

I kept waiting for the part where you hilariously explain how nothing the characters do makes ANY SENSE (you did this so brilliantly for Qui-Gon “Gin” — this movie could have used the same loving treatment!)

Warning: SPOILER ALERT!

- Bond switches cars to keep Silva from tracking him, but then has Q lead Silva right to them.

- Bond picks as his fortress his childhood house, where his only assets are an old gamekeeper and some guns that aren’t there. What about involving the government and military resources to which M undoubtedly has access?

- When Silva shows up, he tells his men something like “I want M alive, she’s mine,” and then immediately starts lobbing grenades into the house with no reason to believe she’s not in there.

- When Bond wires up the house to explode, he hangs around in the tunnel for no apparent reason waiting for it to detonate, forcing him to narrowly jump out of the way when it does blow.

- During their covert getaway, M and the gatekeeper stupidly shine their flashlight around like they’re a casino in Las Vegas, allowing Silva to easily see them in the dark night. The head of British Intelligence who makes calls about when agents should shoot in the field apparently has less field competence than a third grader playing hide and seek.

The extreme nonsense of all the characters’ actions made the last action sequence so boring. This doesn’t even cover the gaping plot holes, which you said you said you’d give a pass (like: where is the bullet wound from the shot so powerful it knocked Bond off a train?)

http://twitter.com/thistle_seed Candice

My VCR actually needs repairing. Too bad Lightning Fast doesn’t exist. I love you guys.

dsb001

Guys you started so well on this movie! I’ve been dying to hear your review!!!

And then you ended up liking this Rubbish movie!!!! Gutted!!!

I’ve been a real bond fan except for Pierce Brosnan!!! I’ve just seen Skyfall and Sam Mendes has done a rubbish job!! Is this really the best they can do for the 50th anniversary!! So last time they copied the The Bourne Identity!! Which was ok and i agree with your points on that! But this time they copied The Dark Knight!!

Love Craig as Bond he does a great job. But this new bond again falls short! Thought we where moving on from the cheese of Pierce Brosnan and the over the top plots and going more realistic!!!

We’re supposed to believe one guy can Basically cripple MI6 and the whole country and his only reason for doing this is that he has a bone to pick with M!!!! With the world climate, being what it is today!!!

REALLY IS THIS THE BEST STORY THEY COULD COME UP WITH???!!!!

Then there is the home alone ending!!! I could go on!! RUBBISH!!!

Mizz Broccoli why don’t you cough up and get a proper director next time!!

Guy Ritchie, Christopher Nolan or Danny Boyle far better directors if you what to stay British!

Rant over!!!

http://www.facebook.com/james.dreger James Dreger

I feel like you guys are completely forgetting that this is supposed to be a “prequel” to the other bond movies. Bardem was pre-metalmouth Jaws, the black chick was Moneypenny, and M’s replacement was the guy in charge in the old movies. I think they did this really well, except Moneypenny’s name should’ve just been on a namplate or something instead of being said aloud,

Spence

The villains were gay in Diamonds Are Forever

Chopper

8 minutes of sarcasm? Really?

The_truth

You guys really missed the point of the movie. You’re dumb and your opinions are dumb.

The_truth

JUST KIDDING!

Hahaha you see how funny that is? When I said something that I didn’t really believe?

Or did you maybe think it was pointless and not funny at all? Because I can definitely see how you might think that.

Luke

Nothing beats Sean Connery’s Bond movies.

Go to the store and rent Goldfinger or From Russia With Love, if you want to see a REAL James Bond movie.

willy

good review

http://www.facebook.com/sed1er Seid Pepic

I thought skyfall was the worst movie let alone bond movie ever made. My friend suggested i not watch your review because it would make me hate you guys and I really don’t want to hate you.

Bames Jond

You forgot the awful action sequence with the cartoon lizards though

Just another guy

I love your deadpan humor.

pigsass

just in case you didn’t realize, you CAN, in fact, walk onto damn near any construction site and almost every piece of machinery(CATs, etc.) will have their keys in the ignition. used to do it all the time, go play with them a bit when i was young! hahaha

http://twitter.com/SuperSunshine21 ダニ　ダール

nice skit and finish to it

Kalle

I think you should review at least one old james bond movie, The Spy Who Loved Me is the one with the best amount of kitch and laughs….

coffeefor007

Oh guys, where to start? This bond movie sucked.

Is it really plausible that a laptop, one, is going to have the information of all operatives in the world? Can we not move past the laptop harddrive plot crap I mean really?

The characters came accross as arrogant and full of themselves, save for A.Finney but can we please have no more cliche arrogant hot wisecrack black women quasi love interests in these movies please?

When bond was fighting that other guy on the train and she shot bond, eh, did that not occur to anyone that will now leave a 100% chance NOW to shoot the villain? The way bond fell off the train, including motion means the train was far from the tunnel so she easily had the time. She had a clear shot after bond got shot for christs sake! Dan C is like watching a scripted robot, egads what relationship did he have with M? That has to be the coldest acting gig for mom “affection” ever. A note on that, what is with the cold lifeless acting we see today, I mean who gives a shit if that old bag M gets shot, this womans a bitch! Seriously why is acting today so frikken cold and scripted today, do we really have any connection to the characters, where’s the “charisma”? This is bond…right?

Lets go to the part where he chased after the assassin in the building, NO gloves to hide fingerprints, NO mask, nothing? Just kill gaurds merrily on your way? Are these people that devoid of modern technology to at least do the bare minimum to conceal themselves? Have you ever, I mean EVER seen an elevator where you can jump from the lobby to grab underneath? What was the point of that whole sequence to begin with?

In the Macao casino do you realize if you had a fight in a casino, a Macao casino there would be a swarm of security on your ass practically immideately?

What about the fact that Q, who is barely 22, designs the security systems for entire MI6, the British intelligence agency, gets hacked and cannot figure it out only for bond solving the hack when he is portrayed as a luddite aged spy? Creme dela Crap

By the way, Bond was supposed to be an orphan (said in movie), last I checked an orphan lost their parents somehow but he was old enough to, according to the movie, hide under the house and come out a man. Yes I know that’s a metaphore but he would have at least been 10 to 12 years old for that scene to happen. Also, what about the caretaker not seeing bond in over 35+ or – years (assuming 12 years old orphaned bond) and immidiately recognizing him, I imagine you look abit different from 12 to 45. And did that caretaker spend 45 years in that house which looked like an abandoned castle? Really? 45 years paying the upkeep etc?

The plot was lame, the action scenes implausible, the typical smart yet dumb villain who couldn’t kill a clearly easy target but everything else around it, the stereotypical sarcast hot black counterpart, the cold scripted acting, no original content.
Garbage, 1/2 star out of 5

Robby

Sounds like someone’s got a case of the MONDAY’S.

loch tide

This film wasn’t very good at all, sure some OK fights, some minor boring technology, horrible ending, it was pretty bad all around

Braggart

Drinking 312. Nice.

Jay Kay

In response to your question on villains Mike, and I hate to use this as an example, but the Joker is probably the best example of a villain who has no need to be a technological genius. He has a gadget or two yes, but their often very crude and merely serve an explosive purpose. That’s a strong point though for Bond, it’s been quite awhile since the Glory days of Blowfeld and Goldfinger. No need for computers so much as nuclear weapons and lazers aimed at Sean connery’s crotch.

Wihuh

The bike chase through Istanbul was actually not green screen. They actually drove a couple of motorcycles over rooftops like madmen.

Rev

I was with you for the first 3 minutes of the review (before you went overly sarcastic with the fake criticism). Movie was a let down (even more so than QoS).

Oh, and the motorcycles weren’t greenscreen backgrounds. The actors faces were green screen onto stunt performers.

Lapan

Q was the only thing i hated about this movie. He is introducing himself as this IT genius who invented hacking, but he only gives James Bond2 gadgets that each get used once and fails horribly at cybersecurity. He lets M keep her infected laptop and connects another infected laptop directly to the MI6 network. You don’t even have to be an IT expert to know that those are bad ideas.

stryker1121

With the first 8 minutes Jay and Mike are mocking all of you and everything you stand for. And your families as well I’d wager.

Someguy

Why is there a hobbit advertisement? I thought this site gave the movie a bad review.

woodie

I didn’t hate or love the film but it definetly didn’t resonate with my view of Bond aesthetics as much as CR did. I really totally forgot the whole quantum of soullace or whatever was ever even a part of the reboot trilogy.

The real problems of the film aren’t the massive plot holes (how did the bad guy know where to plant the bomb on the subway, and how did he know he and bond would be there EXATLY at that time) or the lack of a general tone (is he old, young, amazing or are we just doing a character study on him…), the jarring inconsistency of the bond physical attributes… I said that already.

In anycase. It’s all these together that make for a less than stellar movie. Didn’t hate it but it surely wasn’t the best bond ever. There are omissions I’m willing to make for a movie like suspending disbelief when a guy attacks a train with a diggirydig-machine, AND the train still doesn’t stop OR that the passengers all just sit there quietly. I am willing to let these go. But if there are just too damn many moments that take you out of the film magic pixie whatever. It’s just not going to make for a good movie.

Furthermore. I was really confused as to what was the point of the ride of the valkyries? TOTALLY different movie and theme… or was the bad guy just a fan of Apocallolypse now? Was he trying to be funny and crazy? Shit, I don’t know.

And why did he feel the need to total the aston? Again, that was a staple of the older bond movies. Go figure.

What I kinda did like were the gentle and not so gentle nods to the older bonds. But again. That was more of a fan service than actually doing something original.

I’m conflicted… I need my meds—

Why am i writing this to an old forum…. fuck!

Aarrgh!

btw. love the RLM. Never laughed so hard when watching the Phantom menace analsys.– -

http://www.facebook.com/darby.cat.73 Darby Cat

The first “gay” villain since Mr. Wint and Mr. Kidd from Diamonds are Forever (1971).

Marvin Falz

I love On Her Majesty’s Secret Service (the one with the violet wallpapers in the hotel’s casino) for the fist fights between Bond and Drago’s men. Sean Connery always looks stiff during fight scenes and all fights I remember from other movies of the franchise are way over the top so I instantly understand they’re ridiculous. Like in the one in which Roger Moore wrestles with Jaws on the top of a plane and then Jaws lands on a the roof a circus or something else not funny in a Bond movie. OHMSS also contains one of my most favorite soundtrack ever. OHMSS is the only movie of the series which made me wonder how Connery would have played this more sensible Bond who’s willing to leave the Service along with his adventurous lifestyle in order to get married to the only woman he really loved.

fballdt16

Shut up Hakeem!

JJtoob

LOL that was funny, but at the end I expected they’d try to fool Mr. Plinkett by giving him some random papers instead of money. As far as skyfail goes, it was entertaining, but I wonder why they had to unnecessarily shove in the sex bit after his “death”, I mean, I know it was just to show what a manly man he is, but it bothers me how he’s shown to be a man who does not care about women, other than M for some reason. Later when they end up killing that other girl in the red dress, he kills them all but Silver after she dies, why didn’t he do that before? Then after she gets shot, Bond only makes a comment about what a shame it was the whiskey was wasted by falling from her head. That made him look like an asshole.

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=707535202 Chris Pendlebury

I know this is old, but the guys opened this review with exactly the same kind of garbage spouted by neckbeards who seem to think every movie has to be ultra realistic and everything in a movie needs a reason and resolution. And STILL the comments thread is filled with this stuff! I honestly think it often boils down to this: “I should like this, but it is popular with the masses, so I do not like it anymore.” ie Dark Knight, Inception, Star Trek etc etc. The reasons are worthless, they are required only to conclude.

Marvin Falz

I want to believe that Mike and Jay made fun of such openings in the opening of the Oz – HitB when Mike sings gleefully and Jay stops him and Mike remembers his supposed usual role, answering: “Oh, what I meant was:” and the whole screen turns grey, a tremoring sound plays and his good mood and his body collapses into a state of depression.
jsmith0552

With you on the point about ultra realism, especially when applied to certain genre films (like super heroes), but I’m rather tired of films that don’t have reasons and resolutions, and they take 2 plus hours to not have a reason or resolution. Films at one time could tell a complete story in 85 minutes.

delany

You really should watch Sean Connery films. There’s a reason that everyone went crazy about Bond franchise back then, and Connery is that reason. He’s absolutely awesome.

Patrick

As far as Silva being the first gay Bond villain (though technically I think he was bi), I was really worried when he first started caressing Bond. It almost felt like the writers were making the first “gay” villain a sexual predator, but I was relieved when Bond said this wouldn’t be his first time. It instantly relieved the tension, and it became about witty banter. Nicely done, if nothing else.