I don't get all the hate for Skyfall. I loved the locales, music was great, Javier was OK as the villian and it had a hot asian chick.
reasons i hated skyfall:
- M's decision to abandon Bond at the start is dumb, movie wise. We all know Bond isn't going to die, so the scene has no tension for the audience. Its just setup to make Bardem be able to say "see, you are like me! but more handsome!"
- the "magic hard drive that contains the name of all the agents" is directly ripped off Mission Impossible, and they did a poor job of it
- a former 00 agent who wants to bring down MI6: Goldeneye did it better with Eddard Stark
- Barden's performance was more Jim Carrey than Carey Grant
- Bond gets captured by Silva, but it was intended as MI6 sweep down and capture Silva. Who intended to be captured by MI6, as he wanted to find MI6 HQ. Which he escapes from, accomplishing nothing during his captivity. And drops a train on Bond using preplanted explosives, but where would he have known to put the bombs if he didn't know where the new MI6 HQ was? WHAT WAS THE POINT OF THAT ENTIRE 45 MIN SEQ except to show these two guys are so smart they predicted the future like the Kwisach Haderach.
- the entire plot of the first half of the movie (the NOC drive) is now abandoned so we can chase down Bond's orphan issues at his Scottish house where M plays Home Alone with rando henchmen. Just changing the characterization of Bond from guy who chases bad guys to guy who plays defense with an old lady is the ultimate anti-Bond move.
- Casino Royale set up a great premise for Bond: he is a brooding, dark character because the women he loves (Vesper) is murdered. That is entirely abandoned because of Skyfall, he is a heartless spy because he was an orphan. It gets even worse because of Spectre.