xhonzi said:
DominicCobb said:
Well M and Kincade were with him so the connection isn't that good.
I don't think the comparison is the bit that he was the only one home, but that he rigged his house with what was in it, just like Kevin did.
But here's the stupid thing- Kevin's just a kid without access to anything other than paint cans, string, and micro machines. (and the other stuff he rigged his house with). He does the best he can... because he's a kid. Now, I can't remember- is there a reason he doesn't call the cops?
Skyfall- Bond can lead Silva and his thugs anywhere, and he has (apparently) some amount of time to plan it out and get the suplies he needs. I'm sure whatever guns, bombs, tanks, exploding pens he wanted he could get... he's James Bond. Q is helping him. And he doesn't even show up to the house with guns? Or ammo? WHAT?!? They have half a box of shotgun shells and one shotgun. Because Bond, who apparently doesn't want to or deserve to live, didn't think to bring guns to a gunfight.
Most Bond movies end with Bond having to improvise on the spot with what he's got (including at least one gadget that Q gave him 2 hours ago whose use now becomes apparent). The odds are often against him, and he always wins, but he'd be an idiot to intentionally create an impossible odds scenario. He usually has an hour or less to save the world, so he doesn't really have time to get whatever resources he wants...
But in Skyfall, he has EVERY opportunity to get whatever resources he wants. He stops to get the car (which was beautiful and fun, despite the fact it makes little sense) but he didn't bother to get anything else?
And why was M actually in the house when this happened? Couldn't she have retreated to the church as soon as the baddies showed up? Couldn't she have been in New Hampshire? Silva didn't so much as track M to the house as follow Q's bread crumbs there, so she didn't have to actually be there, right?
That is true. I got the whole "must do it myself to hide you from villain so that I can then lead him to you and kill him." But to go out in an open area with no resources whatsoever is extremely foolhardy and only something the real Bond would do as a last resort when stranded and alone without any hope of support. This was extremely stupid and could have gone badly in any number of ways, and in the end he fails anyway.
And no, SHE DIDN'T HAVE TO BE THERE! It was merely to save time, plot and kill her off as was their intention. (Thank God!)
I expected it to be a far more plausible scenario of drawing Silva out and then picking off the team alone from behind in a more Bondian fashion with some resources culled from either private sources of MI6 or anything. Or even do what was done without support when Bond was down to his last card, bruised battered and bleeding in desperation as Fleming wrote many times. But no, this guy is just an idiot.
It's an empty lumbering partially asleep beast of a movie. What exactly was the point again?
And why does Bond observe the assassination in the way he does? "Ok, just let you finish up there...and ok tell me...ok fight you for a bit...ok whoops dead...ok...oh hi random bimbo...ok yeah don't mind me I just killed that other guy..."
