Which one were you? Were you driving the train?
I wouldn’t flirt with James Bond if I were you. Most of the women who go near him end up dead, and in Skyfall he didn’t even give a toss (unlike in previous films).
My thoughts: It was a massive improvement on Quantum of Bollocks, and the new Q was nowhere near as annoying as I thought he would be. He was fucking stupid though - when you have a master hacker’s laptop the last thing you do is plug it into the office network to enable it to wreak havoc.
In terms of cultural programming there was the obvious, i.e. the ex-agent cyberterrorist that is quite a common bad guy role in these sorts of films and TV shows, and the slightly more obtuse, i.e. the portrayal of the Intelligence and Security Committee as a bureaucratic waste of time. Now, it is a waste of time, not to mention hugely corrupt and incompetent, but not for the reasons portrayed in the film. I was highly amused by the ascent of the chairman of the Committee to replacing M at the end of the film, mirroring John Scarlett - the man who put his name to the fake Iraq war intelligence.
The climax up in Scotland was pretty good, but there wasn’t enough shots of the mountains. Those mountains are great, like a 19 year old woman’s breasts. There was a distinct lack of cleavage in the film and I felt some more lingering shots of the mountains would have made up for it. The token comedy Celt was a bit run of the mill, and the expositional dialogue rather ham-fisted and lazy. Still, the amusing booby traps and the return of the Aston Martin were nice, imaginative little
ideas. In general the movie did make me laugh a lot. I don’t know if that was what they intended.