I went and saw a Bond movie in the ACTUAL CINEMA what
So I went into that intending to ship Bond/Q (BECAUSE WHO DOESN'T LOVE ADORABLE NERDS?) and, well, I don't not ship Bond/Q, but mostly now I just want ALL OF THE BOND/M FIC FOREVER.
Seriously I keep shipping het at the moment, I don't know what's up with me. Just. Het ships. Het ships everywhere. And naturally I have picked an age inappropriate het ship with a older woman, so I'm basically expecting, uh, no one else to ship this with me? I went looking for fic, but I just found gen fic that had been labelled Bond/M. LOOK, JUST BECAUSE THE WOMAN IN THIS SHIP IS 77 DOES NOT MEAN THERE CAN'T BE PORN, OKAY.
Speaking of agism, the subversion of it was one of my favourite things about Skyfall. OH HELLO OLD WOMAN IN CHARGE OF MI6, WE THINK YOU SHOULD RETIRE NOW PLSKTHNX. Haha, FUCK THAT. Oh M, you BAMF. <333 And then there was Kincade, so there were basically just older people running around being badasses and giving zero fucks everywhere. Although M making nail bombs was more exciting to me than Kincade, because older men get the opportunity to be badass in fiction waaaay more often that older women. So, y'know, I AM ALL FOR COMBATTING THE INTERSECTION OF AGISM AND SEXISM.
The film was actually pretty sexist TBQH, but I'm giving it a cookie for trying. I mean. Women got to save Bond a couple of times. Most of them were pretty badass. I was a little miffed at Naomie Harris's character being kind of love interest-y and then quitting fieldwork, until we found out she was Moneypenny, and then I was like "...well I guess giving her a background in fieldwork and having half her flirting with Bond being about the time she shot him is an improvement" even though I would kind of like some MI6 female spies who stayed in fieldwork and were badass everywhere and had zero interest in getting in James Bond's pants. SERIOUSLY I JUST WANT TO WATCH WOMEN BEING ALL "LOL, NO, I AM NOT ACTUALLY PARTICIPATING IN YOUR WOMANIZING THNX" TO BOND. I just. Pls. There need to be people around to be unimpressed with him.
I guess to conclude my social justice run down of the film, I felt SUPER INCREDIBLY AWKWARD about the bad guy doing the 'Depraved Homosexul' trope (or depraved bisexual, I guess? But there really wasn't much focus on his interest in women). Seriously? Seriously? ARE WE STILL DOING THIS? SERIOUSLY? WE ARE NOT OVER IT? The only redeeming thing about that was Bond's "What makes you think it's my first time?". Which would be more redeeming if Bond would actually make the moves on a dude from time to time.
Moving on from the social justice, here are some bullet points:
Seriously I keep shipping het at the moment, I don't know what's up with me. Just. Het ships. Het ships everywhere. And naturally I have picked an age inappropriate het ship with a older woman, so I'm basically expecting, uh, no one else to ship this with me? I went looking for fic, but I just found gen fic that had been labelled Bond/M. LOOK, JUST BECAUSE THE WOMAN IN THIS SHIP IS 77 DOES NOT MEAN THERE CAN'T BE PORN, OKAY.
Speaking of agism, the subversion of it was one of my favourite things about Skyfall. OH HELLO OLD WOMAN IN CHARGE OF MI6, WE THINK YOU SHOULD RETIRE NOW PLSKTHNX. Haha, FUCK THAT. Oh M, you BAMF. <333 And then there was Kincade, so there were basically just older people running around being badasses and giving zero fucks everywhere. Although M making nail bombs was more exciting to me than Kincade, because older men get the opportunity to be badass in fiction waaaay more often that older women. So, y'know, I AM ALL FOR COMBATTING THE INTERSECTION OF AGISM AND SEXISM.
The film was actually pretty sexist TBQH, but I'm giving it a cookie for trying. I mean. Women got to save Bond a couple of times. Most of them were pretty badass. I was a little miffed at Naomie Harris's character being kind of love interest-y and then quitting fieldwork, until we found out she was Moneypenny, and then I was like "...well I guess giving her a background in fieldwork and having half her flirting with Bond being about the time she shot him is an improvement" even though I would kind of like some MI6 female spies who stayed in fieldwork and were badass everywhere and had zero interest in getting in James Bond's pants. SERIOUSLY I JUST WANT TO WATCH WOMEN BEING ALL "LOL, NO, I AM NOT ACTUALLY PARTICIPATING IN YOUR WOMANIZING THNX" TO BOND. I just. Pls. There need to be people around to be unimpressed with him.
I guess to conclude my social justice run down of the film, I felt SUPER INCREDIBLY AWKWARD about the bad guy doing the 'Depraved Homosexul' trope (or depraved bisexual, I guess? But there really wasn't much focus on his interest in women). Seriously? Seriously? ARE WE STILL DOING THIS? SERIOUSLY? WE ARE NOT OVER IT? The only redeeming thing about that was Bond's "What makes you think it's my first time?". Which would be more redeeming if Bond would actually make the moves on a dude from time to time.
Moving on from the social justice, here are some bullet points:
- I REALLY ENJOYED THE CINEMATOGRAPHY
- SRSLY CAN I JUST MARRY THE LIGHTING?
- Colouuurrsss.
- Also, I would like a pet CGI komodo dragon, pls. Those things were ADORABLE. Adorable. ♥__♥
- Y U DIE, M? ;____; I really wanted / was kind of expecting that to be a fake out. Sadness.
- A+++ London Underground, would chase scene again.
- SLIDING DOWN THE ESCALTORRR.
- IRL they have barriers to stop you doing that. I'm a little disappointed they didn't have them in the film and then have Bond and Silva attempting to hop them while sliding down.
- I enjoyed how cracky the film was. Delighted giggling everywhere! I thought they balanced the SRS DRAMA with the LULZY RIDICULOUSNESS pretty well. There were lots of times the whole cinema cracked up.
- Although I'm pretty sure I was the only one desperately trying to stifle laughter during the 'decoding Silva's encrption' scene. WHAT. WHAT WAS EVEN HAPPENING THERE. LOLOLOL SO RIDICULOUS I DON'T.
- P.S. Dear MI6, please learn what a closed network is and where it is appropriate to use one. (For you gas supply, for example. Or when trying to crack a hostile machine.)
- I liked how a helicopter crashed into a stone building and then THE WHOLE THING EXPLODED. With no explanation whatsover! Because stone is so flammable. PERFECTION. PERFECTION I TELL YOU.
- (Although it did kind of make my brother sad, because he was shipping Kincade/Skyfall)
- BONDDDD. Being an orphan. Having mummy issues everywhere with M. I CANNOT. NOW DEAL WITH YOUR FEELINGS THROUGH SEX
WITH M.